Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free january news Roundup inflation fears keep stores shut from the news services Buenos Aires supermarkets and stores remained shut yesterday even though the government announced economic measures to slow the second surge of hyperinflation in six months to cripple Argentina Daniel a store owner in Buenos said we lost Money on everything we sold saturday be cause prices have risen Between 100 and 200 per some of us prefer to wait till the dust settles instead of losing More late the government announced measures to Shore up the crumbling Austral currency and to hold Down Short term interest rates which soared to 300 per cent a month last bomb kills taxi Driver Belfast a taxi Driver who was taking his daughter to school was killed yesterday when a bomb exploded in his car in East Northern Ireland police the Irish Republican army claimed re the 16yearold girl was wounded in the the Royal Ulster constabulary militants injured Egypt five militants were injured in clashes yesterday with police after trying to take part in an unauthorized antigovernment a senior Security official Hassan Security chief of Assiut said the fracas began when about 130 Muslim fundamentalists tried to leave a mosque that was surrounded by lice and March tycoons wife Dies Hong Kong Amy i Chong wife of property tycoon i died monday of a heart her husbands flagship com Pany confirmed she was her husband captured headlines in Canada for being behind a residential and commercial development on the 1986 expo site in Seoul to open talks Seoul foreign minister Choi Hijoong said yesterday South Korea would Start talks soon with the soviet Union on establishing for Mal diplomatic state radio it also quoted Choi As saying he expected South Korea to forge Diplo Matic ties with bul Garia and other Eastern european countries soon and make Progress in enhancing no diplomatic relations with China this Uganda frees pos Kampala the ugandan government has freed 336 prisoners of including 10 who were held without charge since they were arrested in rebel fighting in thousands of prisoners have been held since president Yow Eri Muse veni seized Power in and their detention has been widely criticized by human rights rebels report Victory Kenya ethiopian rebels said yesterday they seized a third town in Central Ethiopia in their drive southward toward Addis the the ethiopian Peoples revolutionary democratic front said in a secret radio monitored in that its fighters captured the town of Pihur after beginning a fierce offensive emigration sets Mark Washington More than 000 jews were allowed to leave the soviet Union in More than the record emigration year of a leading jewish group said final figures for last year also show an increase in the number of soviet jews settling in the National conference on soviet jewry Nigeria starts plan Lagos Nigeria began a three year plan yesterday aimed at feed ing its 100 million people and provid ing a new focus on social pro budget and planning minister Al Haji Abubakar Alhaji said it would become part of a Lon term plan during the next 15 to 20 years to diversify the debt burdened econ omy away from dependence on imports paid for in Oil Interior minister fired Monrovia liberian president Samuel Doe sacked his Interior min ister yesterday for failing to heed a warning of an uprising by dissidents last Doe also imposed a curfew on the Nimba where his opponents attacked a customs Post in what the government called an abortive inva Sion from neighbouring Ivory Pilot spots Volcano plume rising to 13 pm Alaska a redoubt Volcano blew its top again yesterday and scientists said the eruption appeared to be larger than ones in december after the Volcano emerged from a 25year the eruption occurred Early last night and a Pilot reported a plume As High As said David a geophysicist with the Alaska Volcano Observatory in the Pilot reported seeing Light Ning and Stone monitoring equipment on the vol Cano and elsewhere indicated a Strong he these things go on for some a matter of hours or a Stone it was assumed there was Ash in the but there was no estimate of How he Christmas travellers and mail were delayed last month when redoubt hurled Ash that threatened to clog Jet Anchor age air traffic slowed to a trickle after a Kim Royal dutch air lines Boeing 747 flew through lost Power to All four engines and fell More than three the plane made a Safe Emer gency Landing after the engines were scientists have been Monitor ing the Volcano around the after resting for a Quarter of a the Peak erupted on 13 and spewed Ash metres into the air the next varying Levels of seismic activity continued through the the seismicity is High enough that if the thing blew a plume we be Robert a geologist with the Alaska Volcano said yesterday Mcgimsey said there was an increase in shallow earthquakes in the Volcano More tem blogs occurred seven to 10 kilo me ters beneath the 185 Kilometres Southwest of an he and there were a couple of energetic pulses monday eve Ning and Early Mcgimsey prosecutor kills one of two assailants during Chase Knight Ridder newspapers Camden county prosecutor Samuel Asbell yesterday described a harrowing new years Day Chase scene in which he finally killed one of two said he shot a Man in a Green Toyota station Wagon with a 12gauge sawed off Shotgun that he routinely carries in his i know i hit Asbell said during a noon news i saw his head Asbell said the second assailant then sped no body has been recovered and the car in always the Flam Boyant pros Fiji Asbell said he always1 of ivies a personal Side a far Asim theres nothing better than a sawed off were working under two Hypoth said Bob director of the division of criminal Justice of the state attorney generals one is that it was a robbery because there have been a number of bump Andros robberies in that Winter and whether it is possibly related to Strong drug enforcement efforts that have been made in the but the bizarre nature of the Inci the absence of a body and the Lack of other physical evidence apparently puzzled some Law enforce ment officials close to the i Vestiga there Are a lot of questions to be said one official private and it Doest look As if Sams answering in responding to questions from a Winter we do not at this Point believe that any of As is or that the prosecutor want shot his wife and his two teen age children Are now under 24hour Protection by the state Asbell said during his news Confer ence that there was no question that the incident was an attempt to kill him in retaliation for prosecuting drug quantities Are hurry in for Best selection Sale in effect at participating stores Sale ends february or while quantities not All items available in All Winnipeg North Dale Plaza 1375 Mcphillips Cavalier Square Dominion shopping Centre Lakewood Plaza 2211 pfc Bra Polo Park ;