Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Your Money Tempo assessing your assets is an easy Way to get your hands on a wealth of taught the ingredients of research at Winnipeg medical sports Cleveland Browns and san Francisco 49ers Advance in nil Clouds tonight8 Cloudy tomorrow 4 second cuss Mil Beds tooth number 0288 free press vol 118 no 37 sunday january or weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets skyrocketing propane Price hurts City cab owners news watch horse halts births from the news service Seoul Many pregnant South korean women Are seeking abortions because tradition holds women born in this lunar Calendar year the year of the horse will have a fiery temper and face a life of a report under the Oriental lunar Cal years Are named for the animals legend visited the dying Many other women Are try ing to avoid pregnancy this the South korean news Agency Yon Hap old style Bandit port Ohio a gunman wearing a Bandanna reminiscent of wild Westera bandits hopped aboard a stopped Conrail freight robbed the Crew and fled on foot before Dawn a sheriffs dispatcher the Man was reported to have worn a red or Blue hand kerchief tied around his head and partially concealing his said Gale a Dis Patcher for the Ottawa county sheriffs no one was she chief kills himself Prague a czechoslovakian police chief whose offi cers nearly clashed with demonstrators in november committed suicide and left a note saying he stand being blamed for the a news report said Josef chief of police in the City of was found dead Friday having shot the czechoslovakian news Agency ctr Iran rejects pact Tehran Iran rejected yesterday a new three Point peace proposal by iraqi presi Dent Saddam accusing him of launching a Campaign to deceive the Public and Block a final persian Gulf War Hussein announced on called for direct Iraq iranian talks United nations auspices and the immediate Exchange of disabled prisoners of troop pullout set new Delhi India and sri Lanka reached an agree ment yesterday on withdraw ing Indian troops from the Island country in an Effort to remove the major irritant be tween the two a joint issued at the end of sri lankan foreign minister Ranjan Wijeratne visit to new said the Indian peacekeeping Force would be completely with drawn by March and Possi Bly Index Ann Money Puzzle answers sports to 17 19 26 15 15 18 19 7 20 9 19 31 14 25 13 14 lotto winning numbers 33 Bonus number 46 the plus winning plus number is by David Roberts Winnipeg taxicab owners Are angry Over the Price of Automo bile propane which has risen by nearly 66 per cent in the past nine weve had quite a few taxi owners complaining about its getting to the Point where its no More efficient than said Wayne manager of uni City taxi last propane Cost cents a litre at City retail it is nearly 33 cents a but cab Industry officials and local propane retailers say they Arent sure Why prices have gone up so and they dont necessarily agree with producer claims that the Price increases Are caused by Short Ages in the United towns estimated 150 taxis in uni cites 240cab Fleet converted to pro pane in the last few years because High volume fuel users found pro pane almost 20percent cheaper than Canadian propane producers blame the most recent jump in local prices on an unusually cold Winter and propane transportation prob lems caused by a Sharp increase in Glenn free pbes5 ice fog blocks out the Sun and creates an eerie sight at the massive Limestone generating siberian scene generated awesome Limestone setting rumbles with workers discontent by Gerald flood Winnipeg free press Limestone at night it looks like a gulag ice fog glows under yellow arc lights fixed to Grey Concrete Walls 10 storeys there Are no red barbed wire fences or fur hatted soldiers carrying but the in towering Wall with its massive abutments could be a set for a movie about the abject de Spair of a soviet prison Camp in nothing but there is sound a steady hum like radial tires on hot Only taming the Nelson part 2 Manitoban Are investing a big piece of the future in a desolate Northern site that int on most maps Hydro next Meg project on the Nelson free press reporter Gerald flood looks at what is to be the biggest capital project in the provinces a Hundred times louder and a Low Bass you feel in your walk toward the across a Barren Concrete deck lined with steel rails encased in ice As thick As and the hum becomes a Roar broken by yet deeper rumbles that sock your eardrums with the kind of percussive Hump you feel when gasoline it is the sound of the Nelson River falling Over the spillway Gates at the Limestone generating station into a raging maelstrom 39 metres pictures cannot do Justice to this scene they Stop the action and reduce the awesome sight of a Wall of Green water 70 times More powerful than the red River to just another i wrote in my notebook at 40 below the cold freezes my the sight of the water freezes my it is the most feared of All visions certain Al Manitoba Hydro top Knock at laughs at see Limestone Page 4 tiny insect imported to help control nuisance Weed in Manitoba Farmland by Bill Redekop first came the accidentally imported from Eastern Europe into North now scientists Are importing an Eastern european Bug to get rid of Winnipeg researchers have made a breakthrough in biological control of a Greenyer Low flowered Weed called Leafy there unleashing a tiny Hungar Ian Beetle that eats the a major reason Why the Weed has flourished in North America the past Hundred years is insects Here begged off the european most insects have preferences for certain said Allan Stur a provincial agriculture depart ment Weed we had to go Back to the place of origin to find an insect to combat last two dozen agricultural scientists from around the continent descended on Winnipeg to watch the hungarian Beetle do its the from As far away As Maryland and travelled via Manitoba Agri culture department vans to a Small Hill in the Spruce Woods what they saw is Spurge from horizon to but on the one see history Page 4 Beetle Scourge of Spurge demand in the the Price went up because of the continent wide cold Ted Rolf of Amoco Canada said from during that period Supply was tight but but there were transportation the transport see Industry Page 4 communists Eye image from the news services Warsaw leaders of Poland who were humiliated at the polls last june and flushed out of Power last voted yesterday to dissolve Timeir party at a Congress later this month and re place it with a leftist party that will have a new in a move aimed at attracting voter support and retaining Mem the 230mernber Central committee of the polish United workers party approved an Agenda for the party Congress that includes a withering condemnation of the party 45year record in the party is responsible for crimes of the stalinist for violation of the principles of demo for forced for conflicts with the working for the pauper nation of the intelligent for the present economic crisis and for the present social said the draft the program was passed on today by the Central committee to the delegates expected to attend the party Congress scheduled to begin it suggests new democratic along with six new possible for a successor party that might prove More Palat Able to the polish if the Agenda is As seems the polish communist party would become the second in the Eastern after the hungarian communist to change its name and its rhetoric in an attempt to escape popular distrust and Dis taste for communist abuses of the idea of a new party is not the result of nostalgia for past importance it is a consequence of the assessment that the party cannot effectively meet the Challenge of the new politburo member Les zek Miller told the Central commit tee the draft which the Congress will vote rejects hoary communist slogans such As the dictatorship of the proletariat and says that stalinism was imposed on Warsaw from abroad and was with out any basis in the roots of the polish Young gis saw Noriega getaway partially Clad ruler fled from prostitute in As paratroopers report says from the news services military officials reconstruct ing the sequence of events during the invasion of Panama think that two Young army paratroopers unknowingly witnessed the late night get away of Manuel Antonio Noriega from a hotel next to their drop zone at Ocumen according to Pentagon and congressional military officials now think that Noriega spotted hundreds of troops parachuting on to the Panama City Airport fled from the hotel and escaped through the darkness by they saw the headlights of the car As it turned and went the other said a member of Congress who was briefed on the operation during a visit to dozens of intelligence officers and at least seven teams of special operations forces mounted a Mas High technology manhunt for Noriega that military officials assert was minutes behind the Panama Nian general when he sought Refuge Christmas eve at the Vatican pm Noriega stripped of witnesses to Noriegas getaway told military officials that the Pana Manian general raced out of the hotel partially dressed As airborne troops dropped out of a Midnight his Vicky said he had gone to the hotel to meet a officials forces May also have barely missed a Chance to capture Noriega minutes before he entered the Vati can according to military and congressional new details of the five Day Hunt for Noriega and intelligence operations in Panama emerged this weekend from congressional Brief Ings and military after action re ports assembled by the South Ern command in military officials say they lost track of Noriega the afternoon be fore the 20 invasion when he did not Board a return air plane flight As expected from Colon to Panama they had tabs on him until late said one pressing ahead with the invasion special forces using quiet stealth helicopters and night vision covered at least see panamanian Page 4 ;