Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba It u focus buying time Shamir manages to take some pressure off Tempo student designers unique High school course provides kids for fashion world nation savings lost to new taxes Ontario residents lose medicare but gain a whole new Range of taxes in provincial budget sports even series third period rally gives canadians 42wln Over flames Clear tonight 8 sunny tomorrow 24 May 1989 i Sun rises sets Moon rises sets rnal25t Winnipeg hommfcwybsr0650 9862330 wm0 qty China watches on to As Bosses beg for pm gig top leaders Grovel at faster besides a Mikhail Gorbachev for Border and said evolution in China is part of a by process of socialist from the news services Beijing succumbing to Union trainable Public four of chivas top leaders visited hospitals before Dawn today and admitted to fasting students that they feared Mammoth protest now evolving into a general were beyond government the unannounced visit was the first major Concession to the students after More than a month of continuous demonstrations and revealed the govern ments More than one million jubilant people swarmed into Central Beijing to shout support for students who Are fasting for it was the largest show of Defiance in communist chivas 40year at the the leaders assured the All weak from the effects of six Days of that they supported their cause and pleaded for an end to the mass hunger in they promised to begin introducing the democratic changes demanded by the Demon though they cautioned this could not be done they also acknowledged one students heated Asser Tion that they must begin an investigation of official corruption by starting with their own the Brief but intensely dramatic which were shown on National television repeatedly throughout the were an obvious attempt to turn Back a tide of discontent that has swollen to proportions never before seen in communist chivas 40 years of the visits took place just a few hours before millions of Beijing workers swarmed into the streets for the second abandoning their jobs and classrooms in what amounted to an illegal general women and Young children raised powerful voices in overwhelming support of students on hunger strike at Tiana men in the heart of the the Power of the uprising has been so staggering that the government of China was forced repeatedly to re strict the movement of visiting soviet president Mikhail see leaders Page 4 free pass fatal crash ramp and firefighters examine the wreckage of a semitrailer truck was killed when one of the westbound on the Tran Canada that collided with another Grant Andrew crossed the median and hit an eastbound rain reprieves forests by Janet Mcfarland and Alexandra Paul scattered Rains yesterday put smiles on the faces of Manitoba Farmers and Forest fire if Only it certainly has bought us a reprieve and it did a lot of Good up department of natural resources spokesman Don Keith said of the effect the rain had on the prov inces Forest Bob general manager of Keystone agriculture producers said the rain was welcomed by Farmers who Are becoming increasingly concerned about the prospects of a repeat of last years its not a total salvation but any amount of rain be an environment Canada spokes Man said the Relief from dry weather May be r just about no precipitation Suzanne Damours nor is there any forecast for with the exception of widely scattered showers in Western see rain Page 4 porn promotion prompts problems at Post office by Allison Bray even schools and churches Haven been spared from a seedy junk mail Campaign that has flooded Winnipeg with steamy brochures advertising pornographic a Canada Post spokesman the listing among the Tamer titles such As lust in Young and naughty and sex Asylum triggered a barrage of complaints from disgusted Resi dents and Brian Garagan said it has offended Peoples he said of the 70 complaints the Post office has received since a couple of Church groups were especially Garagan said that while the bulk of the ads have been mailed to hundreds of Small Busin some churches and residents have also complained after receiving them in Blank envelopes this administrative assistant Carol Kalinski said she was shocked and offended monday when the letter Carrier delivered the brochure to disabled Peoples where she along with the morning she said three other businesses sharing the same floor were also insulted when they opened the smutty see offensive Page 4 police disconnect tireless Crank caller Tokyo a a Man upset Over failing to gain admission to a graduate school program 14 years ago has been arrested for making More than harassing phone Calls to a professor since police said Yoshikazu a forestry office employee in Western was arrested on charges of intimidation after he admitted making the a police official every night Between 8 and 2 he made about 10 Calls to Tsu Nahide a former professor at Kyoto the official in some Hayashi made such remarks As ill set fire to your or How could you stand my Calls for 14 years police finally asked police to investigate in in Tsuji failed to get into a graduate program at Kyoto University agriculture Filmon to take base fight top by Barbara Robson and John Douglas Premier Gary Filmon says he will take Manitoba fight to save two military bases from Ottawa budget axe to prime minister who returned yesterday from was commenting on a Manitoba delegations meeting tuesday with defence minister Bill Mcknight Over plans to close cab Portage la Prairie and move about 800 troops from the Kapyon bar Racks at cab Winnipeg to Edmon the Premier said the measures amount to a annual eco nomic blow to the Manitoba is being asked to absorb about 38 per cent of the Overall budget cuts in defence he Filmon said he was disappointed with Mcknight response and will request a meeting with Mulroney in Winnipeg or economic Impact i dont believe at this Point that weve had any encouragement from the minister of National he he said the delegation Learned the decision that led to the cuts failed to take into account any regional eco nomic he cited an agreement among first including reached in Regina in 1985 that National policy decisions would take into account the effect on regional from portages perspective and Manitoba we cant simply allow those decisions to Hap pen and do nothing in Filmon said the provinces Posi Tion is at Odds with Winnipeg South tory my Dorothy who told the Manitoba delegates tuesday see nip Page 4 k mum on development site governments blasted for Tough inaction on environment by Barbara Robson Ottawa chief representative to a Manitoba conference on sustainable development arrived empty handed external affairs minister Joe Clark told about 450 conference delegates in Winnipeg that Ottawa wants to apply the notion of sustainable development economic and environmental compatibility in Canadian poli but he shed no Light on Ottawa announced eight months to build an International Centre for sustainable develop ment in Winnipeg or unveil other new Intia Clark chastised reporters for Voic ing scepticism on whether Ottawa will go ahead with the promised by prime minister Mulroney in a speech to the United nations last As be launched into a min briefing on the need for cutting the governments Are just beginning to grow accustomed to the new idea of the relationship Between the environment and the he Clark said politicians Are beginning to listen to As much As i i want to encourage environmentalists to understand some of the political he Clarks keynote address made mention of the National round table on the environment and the National Parks created in the last four and International conferences organized by Ottawa in the last 20 but be bypassed any mention of the proposed Winnipeg there Are a number of other things i didst Clark told i didst men Tion acid he said Ottawa has committed More than million to get the Centre off the but bureaucrats Are still working out the de in environment minis Ter Lucieo Bouchard said he Doest know when the government win proceed with the promised the government also has no precise commitment to Complete the development of National no specific intentions to sign the Law of the sea convention and no intention of reconsidering Energy Meg projects that critics say will accelerate global Bouchard pollution probes Colin Issacs told Confer ence delegates in Winnipeg about half from government bodies recent polls have shown the Public has even less Confidence in governments willingness to Deal with the environment than it has in governments right across the country Are carrying on with business As usual ignoring the environmental imperative that is part of their Issacs said in an Index 52 60 53 pm Tel 49 91 46 7 jump Job Pujop 7q 99 15 lotto ;