Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 24, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Researchers Are inventing a Way to treat the body from Ever wonder How your spending stacks up against Clear tonight 4 sunny tomorrow 12 news watch Keith successful Vicki Keith swam the Cata Lina Channel becom ing the first person to Cross it using Only the Butterfly she began the 35kilometre swim at a deserted Beach Early in the morning and finished it More than 14 hours later to applause and shouts of Conga although she was not As tired As she expected to the swimmer said it still want i worked my butt off for she said after arriving at Cabrillo Summit planned president Bush and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev will hold their first sum Mit meeting next officials said the announcement came As the two countries completed six agreements and cleared a major Roadblock to a treaty on cutting Long Range nuclear soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze said the Summit would be held in Spring or Early ministers meet open ministers met yester Day to try to close ranks and agree on whether they can boost their production of crude Oil without upsetting the mar the officials of the 13coun try organization of Petroleum exporting countries held their talks in they met for nearly three hours behind closed doors to discuss a Range of including a Lon term tax War declared its a tax revolt with the Canadas major hamburger chains have declared War on finance minister Michael Wil sons proposed 9 per cent goods and services starting next Burger lovers visiting a is 360 Canadian outlets will be asked to fill out ballots condemning Wilsons plan to slap the tax on restaurant the ballots will be dumped on the doorsteps of Progress Ive conservative said Paul the chains director of revolt with the works Ann 26 14 26 6 18 9 19 Puzzle sports 25 13 17 to 15 lotto winning 32 null or 20 twp fam 163635 september info Fly a vow Dol Fwy Winnipeg outside Winnipeg Home delivery 957o55o classified 9562330 subsidy program sends pig Farmers hog i Byth Redekop the Filmon government has flunked its big test to protect the livestock outraged hog producers by excluding hog producers from a new subsidy Manitoba sector will be at a competitive disadvantage with Sas Katche officials and that will allow Saskatchewan producers to buy up Manitoba weanling a trend that now exists with calves in the beef they the province last week announced a million subsidy to beef and Lamb to counter a new subsidy starting 1 in but agriculture minister Glen Findlay left hog producers out of the program because a would add to the american countervailing duty on Canadian he Findlay also said the hog sector is in better shape than Manitoba beef Industry and therefore less in need of talk about the Price of said a photo tears for Tibet a tibetan woman tries to break through a police among those protesting the arrest of nine nuns for cordon in new the woman was a peaceful demonstration in Tibet doctors hide drug habits by Alexandra Paul addicted doctors score drugs on the Street and use prescriptions to try to elude detection by provincial licensing officials and Federal drug experts its not As rare As youd like to Bill a Winnipeg expert on drug abuse said about the subterfuge some doctors use to obtain there Are some doctors who enter into agreements with their own said coordinator of the Manitoba medical association addiction recovery physicians at they the doctors actually deliver the prescription and then split it up with As Many As 17 per cent of North americas doctors about 10 per cent in Manitoba either abuse drugs and alcohol or show part 2 entrusted with life and death doctors Are expected to be immune to lifes there and in this five part reporter Alexandra Paul talks to doctors who have shed the cloak of secrecy and admit they were hooked on drugs or signs of potential Jacyk up to three per cent of that number Are heavily addicted to controlled drugs or he doctors hesitant to expose their habits to addicted patients by sharing prescriptions have other ways to get in some they write prescriptions for patients who never receive the they keep it Jacyk a former Needle user and family doctor in Rural said he wrote prescriptions in his name for a mor Phin Elike you can get it from drug stores you sign a prescription and get it for the said Fred not his real who diverted a lot of demerol into his he rotated drug stores when that be see drug Page 4 Larry Manitoba pork est manag look at what our Industry done in the last 10 years compared to the beef look at who has kept the meatpacking Industry alive in this As far As the countervailing Sedgwick Manitoba producers will end up paying see countervailing Page 4 Canada urged to Cut deficit Wilson defends spending record the Canadian press Washington Canada must continue to Cut is budget deficit and curb finance officials of the seven biggest Western economies said in a communique the communique from the group of seven the United Brit West Italy and France applauded the United states for its Effort to Cut its deficit but encouraged further deficit reduction in which has a far higher per capita deficit than the Canadian finance minister Michael speaking to reporters after the closed said the communiques message on the budget deficit was no i dont feel in on the defensive at said far from weve got a Good record of bringing government spend ing under projection on track Wilson said that his projection in last Springs budget of a billion deficit is still on track and that group of seven coun tries Are encouraged by the governments plan to Cut the deficit in half by these Are Good and i think that recognized by the g7 Wilson i think our spending performance is As Good As the two Page communique touched on a variety of subjects ranging from the soaring Dollar to the need to coordinate eco nomic policy among the group had expressed similar concern about the Dollar at its last meeting in but the tone of the statement re leased yesterday was considerably the ministers and governors considered the Rise in recent months of the Dollar inconsistent with longer run economic fun the communique see rising Page 4 Here Are some facts and figures about the Quebe Cert who will be voting in monday provincial a total of Quebe cers Are eligible to vote out of a total population of of per cent have French As their Mother nine per cent have English As their Mother Tongue while six per cent say their first language is neither French nor of All per cent say both English and French is their first nodes wave o economic tide expected to carry liberals to Victory up photo Robert Burawa dons coat to Brave Chilly weather on the Campaign by John Douglas Winnipeg free press picture Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa in a Neon Green swimsuit and warpaint Riding a now imagine him hanging10 on a huge wave of economic expansion and Riding it to an election it sounds like something from a newspaper editorial but most economists predict that is exactly How Bourassa will win Tomor rows managing the Economy when Bourassa called the the Oxford trained economist told reporters that manag ing the Economy would be one of his main re election but most economists agree the Liberal Leader has not engineered the but rather Ridden a powerful wave of growth in Canada and the his skills As a political surfer Are so some say Bourassa has even made the most of smaller Waves in the provincial they has been astute enough to take credit for the maturity of Many of the economic initiatives developed by the parti quebecois before the provincial government is maybe the fourth or fifth most important influence on the Quebec said Pierre direct see Bourassa Page 4 ;