Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rank poles reel under new prices harsh economic reforms draw complaints from experts Fawn tin mrs Poland although the polish people Are famous for making huge sacrifices for causes they be Lieve there has been grumbling aplenty this week in or train even the pro Gram to overhaul the store the crash program took effect on Many poles have complained that it has sent prices the program is intended to Intro Duce Competition and other Market forces and to make Poland the first european nation to move from communism to while the poles overwhelmingly support the idea of adopting a mar Ket oriented widespread and growing questioning has taken place in recent Days about whether a Les painful program might suffice to cure the country economic Trou in abolishing most Price controls and slashing subsidies to the Effort has doubled gasoline raised Coal prices sevenfold and increased train ticket prices by 250 per cent after buying a ticket i Warsaw huge Central train Jacek a said lets admit taking the train was Inex and raising the prices of train tickets by 100 per cent would probably have been Allim sympathetic with the but i dont like the idea of raising rail prices by 250 per Many people just wont be Able to afford Poland communist party and the labor federation that supports it have sought to throw the Solidarity led government on the defensive about the pain inflicted by the some members of the communist party Hope that if the program does not slash inflation or spas inn pegs biggest selection of colours j shapes All reduced 4 person acrylic spa comply with Santa special perfect i want a but will it fit ask about family i our 4 to 6 person 2 Piee split Christmas gift Price selection Quality service Kravco pools Sims 660 Century open saturdays 7866957 stimulate economic growth within they might be Able to topple the even Many economists sympathetic to the government Are questioning some of the programs Basic its based on a Shock orthodox theory that not everyone might agree said Ryszard a longtime Solidarity economist and chairman of the economic commit tee in the polish the which has been approved by the International Mone tary follows a common if but with More drastic doses liberalizing slashing balancing the de valuing the pushing up interest rates and controlling there May be a problem about whether the population will be Able to withstand the Bugaj westerners May find it hard to understand the severity of the the Price of Ham Rose by 55 per cent this to or a while that might be Low by West Ern it represents More than 10 per cent of the monthly salary of the average in an the finance minis Leszek said a severe plan was the Only Way to ease inflation that had been running at an annual rate of More than 500 per he predicted that the program would accelerate inflation this before slashing it by Grzegorz an economics professor and a senior economist i the finance one of the plans most outspoken said his first big worry is that raising interest rates and taking other anti inflation Steps will cause More than the Small recession that Balcerowicz it May drive the Economy to a very big which is not necessary and which is avoidable at this stage of Kolodko while Balcerowicz asserts that it is important to have a crash plan to establish a Market oriented econ omy As quickly As Kolodko contends that it will take perhaps a to set up such a smooth running he fears despite All the pain the poles will suffer from the they might still end up without a solid Market about 250 members of Poland armed forces demonstrated in the Baltic port of Gdansk against what they said is continued communist control of the military and the stationing of soviet troops in the the protest followed a roman Catholic mass attended by some including Solidarity Leader Lech at which the priest indirectly called for a withdrawal of the estimated soviet troops in about 40 officers and More than 200 soldiers from All Over Poland then marched through the City with a Banner Reading the polish army always with the and Laid wreaths at a Solidarity memorial to shipyard workers killed by troops in Winnipeg free january 11 Queen to allow loan of Royal easter eggs to soviet Union from the news services Queen has agreed i principle to allow Art treasures from her private collection to go on show to the soviet Union for the first Buckingham Palace said yes the sunday times said two Faberge easter eggs which once be longed to the Queens Czar Nicholas who was shot dead by the bolsheviks in would be shown in Moscow later this the jewel encrusted eggs carry portraits of the czars five who were killed with their parents by the Cheka political police at Ekaterinburg in the probe Powers expand Manila president Corazon Aquino yesterday substantially expanded the Powers of a presidential commission investigating a coup at tempt last Aquino said the Powers of the commission include the right to 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Driver was found shot dead apparently in revenge for the killing of a protestant cabby by Irish Republican army bombers last police Martin was found dead i his cab near the town of Southwest of Byrne had no connection with the Security forces or with any paramilitary friends West adopts children Bucharest abandoned romanian children flew to new Homes in the West this weekend after the new governments end to a freeze on overseas foreign embassies in Bucharest sorted through paperwork yesterday As the last of the adopted children still stuck in Romania waited to join families some children Are orphans but Many were handed Over to orphan Ages by destitute peruvian states terms Lima peruvian president Alan Garcia is willing to attend an anti drug Summit next month if presi Dent Bush withdraws All invading troops from a senior government official Garcia had said he could not meet Bush 15 because the Leader represents an invading state that is crushing latin police suspect love Triangle Boston a Charles Stuart bought a us brooch last week and was repeatedly called by a woman while he was in leading investigators to suspect a romantic for him to kill his preg Nant wound himself and blame the attack on a published reports said yester who received a countrywide outpouring of sym Pathy after his cries for help Over his car phone led police to his dying wife jumped to his death from a Boston Harbor Bridge thursday after becoming a suspect in her police have questioned a woman who worked with Stuart at Edward Kakas and a fur shop where Charles was the Boston Globe reported yester in a search of stuarts read ing police found Tele phone Bills that indicate she had been using his credit card to Call him at the said Reading police Dave the woman was a Brown University graduate now in graduate school and worked at Kakas for the last two sum the Globe quoting neighbors and police would not release the woman police also Are investigating stuarts actions on when he bought a new car and a 14carat Gold brooch at Marco jewellers in the newspaper police Are trying to determine if the jew Elry was a present for the the newspaper John the jewelry store said he was surprised by stuarts Demea nor while making the Pur he didst express any White none at that struck everyone As ;