Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 25, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo buddy or Beau Romance can mean death to male female friendships business vat full of tax Hardt Swallow value added tax called Good Medicine the Gap widens Energy producers coopt the language of the greens Clear tonight 2 sunny tomorrow 17 second cuss mail registration number 0586 september vol117n0293 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets we Fly Itow do Rory in Wynn hmm out tide Winnipeg to very 95743650 clarified 9562330 Agenda of woe awaits tories Ottawa up conservative maps returned from their summer break yesterday with a message for finance minister Michael Wilson the National sales tax will be maybe to it is one of three opposition targets the others Are tory plans for unemployment insurance and via rail that Promise a rough ride for the conservatives when the 34th parliament resumes but while Wilson listed to his col leagues complaints yesterday at an Allday caucus he stood by his if people want a change in the its not just a question of snapping their Wilson told reporters during a break in the Turner says pm one after conservative maps conceded the tax is a Tough admitted sports min ister Jean our works Cut out for acknowledged Arnold my for the Alberta Riding of in Edmonton on tory Back Bencher David Kilgour was the most outspoken of the predicting the tories would be turfed out of office in 1992 if they proceed with the if that not forthcoming abortion legislation and the Crum bling Meech Lake Accord will cause conservative see liberals Page 4 two die in North sea ferry Blaze from the news services Denmark two Pas sengers died in a fire today aboard the North sea car passenger danish Rescue service workers the news was transmitted by the Captain of a West German research ship which went to help the stricken danish owned luxury vessel Tor sources in London said one person has been transported by helicopter to the danish sea Rescue Centre said there were no reports of injuries among the Crew and Esti mated 540 passengers aboard the see two Page 4 bed brigade University of Manitoba students push a bed along Portage Avenue As they Complete a weekend trek that started Friday in Brandon and ended at the legislative building the event raised Money for the firefighters Burn soviet Bill would allow rival parties reformists expect stiff fight from the news services Moscow an official working group of the soviet parliament has drafted a Law its members say would legalize the formation of opposition parties with the same rights As the communist the the first legislative Challenge to the communist party monopoly on political report edly has support from some High ranking officials in the including a close adviser to president Mikhail Sergei a Leader of the reformist bloc called the Interne Vional said he and others have written a already approved by a that would guarantee the right to form he said people could use this Legal Protection to form no communist political the Reform group is made up of 345 deputies in the soviet Stankevich warned that the proposal will face a Sharp discussion rather than sail easily through the elements of the Bill also Are included in the groups which was adopted overwhelmingly i dont think it will change our political conditions immediately or he a Moscow Deputy who chaired the legislative working said he believes that the draft will be approved by the parliamentary committee in charge of new legis but will face Strong Fly Sposi Tion when it comes up for debate in the full legislature later this if the legalization of political parties would be the most dramatic step toward democracy since the introduction of a competitively elected soviet Parlia the platform of the Reform Coli which includes populist Boris Yeltsin and human rights activist Andrei also Calls for eliminating a provision in the soviet Constitution that defines the communist party As the leading Force in the group suggests substituting a see Kremlin Page 4 Bourassa tops polls Quebec Premier seems poised to win another 9 hooked doctors put their patients first by Alexandra Paul patients Are the last 10 at the hands of doctors hooked on drugs or experts and Doc tors who were addicts patients rarely get Canadian medical association health services director Normanda Sylva said the phenomenon puzzles the strangely enough there is Little evidence that patients Are Hurt and i dont know Dasylva other including those parts entrusted with life and death doctors Are expected to be immune to lifes there and in this five part re Porter Alexandra Paul talks to Doc tors who have shed the cloak of secrecy and admit they were hooked on drugs or among the ranks of former also say patients rarely get injected a painkiller with a morphine like for five years at the end of medical school and the beginning of his Ca reer As a family doctor in Rural retaining technical expertise was not his real that comes with years of brutalization in medical you could do it in your you know that because often you not his real re called drinking himself to sleep after working 10to 14hour a Winnipeg said it never occurred to him to operate on a patient Richard and Fred be Lieve their patients suffered in directly because neither Man related emotionally to anything but his Fred described himself As cold and Distant Richard called himself a not All patients Are As charitable about doctors they suspect Are addicted to at least one Winnipeg Man claimed his parents family doctor had a drug addiction that contributed to the premature death of his our family was very upset with our doctor he was beaded out on the who did not want to be we concluded it was his drug see addiction Page 4 mayors office takes on new Powers Cabine style administration increases civic election stakes by Janet Mcfarland if the mayors Job was advertised after the 25 civic the help wanted and would look unfamiliar to Many wanted a mayor who is publicly accountable for the performance of City Hall must actively participate in Council debates must head a Cabine style executive and enter the political fray by handing out executive this unfamiliar role will be pos sible under changes to the City of Winnipeg act now before the Legisla but observers warn the personality of the mayor elected 25 will dictate their Chris a University of Winni Peg political science says the changes provide an Opportunity to resolve the Lack of leadership some say has persisted at City it certainly gives the mayor some leverage he Doest have it depends on the competence with which he uses the Leo this is intended to make the mayor More powerful and if it its nobody fault but the Bill 32 will allow the mayor to appoint his Deputy mayor and the chairmen of the four standing committees of jobs currently determined by a vote of Council a fifth standing the powerful 10member executive policy will be chaired by the mayor instead of an elected Campaign lineup criticized Norrie hand out plums the Cabine style committee will include his Deputy his four Comro Itee chairman and four other see mayor Page 4 by Janet Mcfarland it is ironic Winnipeg is head ing into an election Campaign with an unprecedented Opportunity to elect a mayor with new but with a weak lineup of opponents trying to defeat mayor Bill first elected in a Bielec Tion 10 years so far faces Only perennial candidate Nick Ternetti and unknown James a vacillating Al Golden who declared his intent to run in now says he has not decided yet whether he will let his name stand for i think youre going to see a Low voter Deputy mayor Don Mitchelson with no mayoral contest of any degree and no screaming in finding an awful lot of Mitchelson Henderson said in an interview he has found during door to door campaigning for councillor that people Are dissatisfied with the possibility of choosing Between nor Rie and he said Norrie is not dynamic and lacks while Golden is not credible to who is also Leader of councils ruling said he and several other councillors would have been More tempted to run against Norrie if the rules allowed Candi dates to run both for mayor and the system is stacked to keep the mayor in he he said Winni Eggers Seldom de feat incumbent mayors because the see opposition Page 4 Hatfield night Mckenna Lead glitzy Salute to former Premier Richard 8 16 17 14 88 ;