Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Clear tonight 7 sunny tomorrow 15 second class registration number 0286 october free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets or Tanto Winnipeg weekly Home it my in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg Home def wry 9570550 to Mifton 9562330 Pic seeks three percent Rise in aut Opac rates for most Drivers by Glen Mackenzie Auto insurance premiums will jump about three per cent for most Drivers next year while Stu dents face increases of about 10 per cent under proposals before the Public utilities Walter president of the Manitoba Public insurance said yesterday More than 80 per cent of Manitoba motorists will pay an extra three per cent for he added their Drivers licence fees will remain constant at whatever they have see students Page 4 fugitive held in cabbies slaying by Lisa priest a 22yearold parole violator from Millhaven Penitentiary was being questioned last night in connection with the slaying of cabbie Paramjit whose Hal naked body was found in a ditch on Satur Day ramp Wyman Sangster said Winnipeg police apprehended cab safety review ordered by province after the fugitive at yesterday and Are searching for a our investigation shows that it was strictly a Sangster adding the suspect has been detained at the Winnipeg remand Centre on a parole he surfaced very Early in the Sangster refused to say what tied the suspect to the slaying but a source said evidence in the car led police to the who was wanted on a Canad wide warrant from the maximum Security prison since Vio lating his parole on the source said he believed the who was listed on the War rant As being armed and very Dan was on mandatory supervision and violated his parole when he crossed into Manitoba Sangster refused to say How the woman ties into the slaying but police believe she travelled into Manitoba with him from the source said the woman voice was heard by a uni City dispatcher As see police Page 5 Dave free press rental seizure United Way Campaign gets rolling a Rickshaw race team of Manitoba Telephone system exec challenges a team of their opposite numbers from Manitoba the held at the Forks yesterday at lunch was a Kickoff for the 1989 United Way proposed Law hits slumlords by Catherine Mitchell the province will be Able to take temporary control of rental accommodations to carry out repairs under legislation detailed yesterday designed to shut Down landlords who ignore work under the proposed residential tenancies the province will have the Power to redirect rents from whole buildings not just from single units As allowed now pay for housing minister Gerry Ducharme said while repairs Are the buildings will be placed under the control of a court appointed receive a Lien is placed on the property and is not lifted until the province recovers its the heavy handed Power to redirect rents and take see Bill Page 4 police chief at loss to explain drop in City crime by Zena Olijnyk crime in Winnipeg has decreased by per cent during the first six months of this but police chief Herb Stephen said Hes at a loss to explain exactly id like to think it had something to do with our efforts to reduce but a lot of the time its just a reflection of the fact that crime rates Stephen said yes after presenting his Fig ures to the cites Parks and culture statistics show that from Jan uary to june of this there were crimes com pared to in the same period last As Calls for service de creased per cent in the first six months of this year from during the corresponding period last local policing Stephen said the lower crime rates could be attributed to a dramatic decrease in residential though there has also been a significant increase in commercial thefts and one reason for the decrease might be the changing habits of he if you Only have to break into one store to get the same value of goods As breaking into 10 that going to be reflected in the Stephen give specific statistics on the decrease in residential breaking or correspond ing increase in commercial break though he said the figures could be Stephen said another reason for the decrease in crime is the increasing Success of programs such As Community see Community Page 4 Index business Canada at a 12 classified 36 23 crossword deaths 36 e entertainment 32 31 Jumble Puzzle 40 33 people sports 52 stocks 18 to listings 28 City to lose regional immigration office by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Mulroney govern ment is planning to consolidate its regional immigration department Headquarters in scaling Down its offices in Winnipeg and Saskatoon in the sources in Ottawa and Winnipeg said yesterday that 15 officials responsible for processing business Public administration and enforcement in Manitoba will be transferred to Al seven other support staff Mem Bers will be Given Layoff the sources some immigration of including those who handle such items As will remain in the cuts were supposed to come last week but the government changed its said a worker in Winnipeg who asked not to be Iden a spokesman in immigration min ister Barbara Mcdougals office re fused Federal tory Cabi net ministers from Manitoba could not be reached for the report of the pending move see Mazankowski Page 4 czechs overwhelmed by flood of refugees East germans let nothing keep them from embassy a photo by Blaine Harden the Washington Post Prague a new surge of East germans seeking Refuge in West Germany embassy Here Over whelmed efforts yesterday by czech police to Block them from entering the diplomatic compound in the Hope of gaining passage to the As the number of East German refugees flooding on to the Zembas sys grounds again climbed into the the czech police last night erected steel barricades Cut Ting off Access to the but within an a crowd of More than 300 East most of them families with Gath ered in front of the they shoved and demanded to be let them they tossed East German coins into the air in an hour the police opened the the episode punctuated a Long Day of inconsistent and occasionally rough behaviour by the to new predicament Only two Days after More than refugees Here and in Warsaw were freed to travel to West Ger yet another political and humanitarian predicament arose in with More than other East germans taking shelter on embassy property seeking the same Avenue to the West Germany was welcoming any East German who could find the embassy front East Ger Many was complaining bitterly about Bonns blatant abuse of Trust in enticing away its police in Czechoslovakia were alternating Between bullying and Friendly and hordes of Young East with babies As Young As 15 Days were taking advantage of the Only ticket to the West they could but the West German government insisted again yesterday that there was no quid pro quo in saturdays agreement which allowed the embassy refugees to take a train to West it said there was nothing in the Deal requiring Bonn to see police Page 4 police officer tries to Puu refugee off protest in East Germany Leipzig a almost people marched through this East German City yesterday demanding legalization of opposition groups and adoption of demo cratic re fonts in the country largest such protest since witnesses said marchers chanted Gorby and were staying Here soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev is enormously popular among East who Hope his policies of economic and political reforms May some Day be adopted by their country Hartline Gorbachev is expected to visit East Berlin next weekend to take part in celebrations marking East Germany 40th the demonstrators yesterday also demanded legalization of opposition which have been suppressed by the fledgling opposition groups have rejected fleeing the country or emigration and said they want to work for change in this country of tens of thousands of East germans fled Over Hun Garys newly opened Border and thousands More were allowed to travel to West Germany this weekend after seeking Refuge in Bonns embassies in Czechoslovakia and witnesses said Security officials followed the Demon stration but did not try to break it about people took part in a similar March in Leipzig last ;