Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo Wishful of viewing Choice of up to 285 channels lures Manitoban to satellite to 29 world secret scheme lawyer defends Charles stuarts siblings 28 focus Meech musings there Are other ways to Deal with the controversial Accord the Stuart Case Clear tonight 22 sunny tomorrow 12 second cuss Mai Rob Totton number mob january free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 25f outside Winnipeg weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957o55o classified 9562330 rubbed fees on daughters court told Crown attorney Rob Finlayson recount his had been living in the Home just six before being allowed to Wash it via rail cuts protested rail supporters take to courts to fight layoffs 10 blocks handed Over to Bank by Catherine Mitchell key players in the failing place promenade apartment Complex gave up properties Worth More than million yesterday to Settle a court Case stemming from a 1986 receivership Justice Theodore Glowacki of court of Queens Bench consented to an let hour agreement Between the directors of the defunct Imperial developments and the Bank of Nova which placed the com Pany into the Deal will see the five Imperial directors hand Over four apartment blocks two in vital and two in Vancouver the the directors had transferred the blocks from Imperial to numbered companies controlled by their debt the transfers were made in one year before Imperial went leaving about million in four of the five men at the Helm of Imperial developments also control the Village at Portage place hous ing the company which Deve loped place promenade for the North Portage development they Are Donald Gerald Gerald Raisen and Gerald the fifth Imperial director is Morley Village at Portage formed about a year after imperials de was subsidized by tax dollars see Deal Page 4 Index Rosr 17 26 34 f 3s fogs 7 Jomwe Puzzle 60 to 90 Capitol rat does Power lunch Washington a it must have been the most expensive congressional lunch in More than us for a Multi course feast that included banana com cots and a hostess twinkle for and not to mention a Side dish of electrical wiring that operated a copying machine that was both Home and restaurant to a Foo Long rat for much of the recent congressional the rat May or May not be gone but the machine definitely is the rodent roamed through the office of the House of representatives legislative counsel last making his Home in the Xerox where he feasted on computer by Terry Weber a former missionary subjected his adopted daughter to years of abuse once toilet training the child by smearing human fees on her a court was told the matter is fairly considering the length of time the assaults took Crown attorney Rob Finlayson recount ing How at least three separate incidents of dating Back More than 10 took Finlayson told provincial court judge Arnold Conner the assaults started after the one of three children adopted by the Man and his had been living in the Home just six in he the then was forced to stand in front of the bathroom Mirror while her adoptive father put fees on her the child was then ordered to look at herself in the Mirror for about two minutes a photo Gorbachev wades into huge crowd in Vilnius yesterday to argue his Case with dissident anticommunist demonstration thousands of opposition supporters formed a human Chain around the East German parliament yesterday while inside communist Premier Hans Modrow indicated the opposition could have a part in his government 23 before being allowed to Wash it Finlayson said further incidents of abuse surfaced in 1985 when the girl was taken to Hospital after being hit by the who pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing see fathers Page 4 soviets affirm right to secede lithuanians flood streets from the news services Vilnius More than lithuanians flooded into this ancient capital yester Day in a Windy and rain swept Groin dependence up staging the arrival of soviet Leader Mikhail who later offered surprising flexibility on the Issue of it was the largest rally Ever staged in Complete with an hour of inspirational a candlelit 15 minutes of and the singing of anthems and who has risked his personal prestige in travelling Here to try to defuse a growing nationalist did not attend the he later told a meeting of communist party activists and intellectuals that the soviet government was trying to work out a mechanism that would allow soviet republics to that right is enshrined in the soviet but since the Issue has never reached the stage it has no formal method of leaving the soviet Union has been the first soviet Leader to come to this Baltic sea told the meeting a draft Law was being prepared on secession and would be presented to the supreme the nations i am for self determination All the Way to secession from the soviet he see Gorbachev Page 4 businessmen offer Axworthy bailout by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa Lloyd Axworthy was to meet today with a group of Western businessmen in a Las ditch attempt to obtain the financing he needs to run a Campaign for the Federal Liberal the businessmen including a number who Arent liberals approached the Winnipeg South Centre grit my yesterday offering to help finance a Axworthy was expected to discuss a pack age estimated to be Worth at least with the group before announcing if he will let his name stand at the party june 23 Conven Tion in Morris a key Axworthy said earlier this week the leadership bid needed Between and by Mon Day or the former Cabinet minister would Likely not Kaufman said any Campaign by the Winni Peg my would be a modest Effort Worth less than other potential leadership can including Jean Chretien and Paul Martin Are expected to spend Between million and the party limit of the group asked for a Day to put together a package they hoped would top sources refused to say who was behind the move or exactly How much Money was of said he was contacted yesterday by a Winnipeg businessman who see key Page 4 drug business grows like Weed by Paul Wiecek a hydroponic marijuana operation Unco Vered in Andrews by the ramp last week is just the latest example of Moman pop operations police say Are sprouting up All Over Rural its become the thing to its its easy to set up and theres a High return on your said Selkirk Duane one of the officers on last weeks Rohne said which entails growing plants in nutrient offer numerous advantages to soil based something marijuana growers in Manitoba seem to have caught on to in recent you can produce More marijuana of a better Quality in a Small amount of Rohne adding the necessary equipment is readily available in stores that specialize in the weve been seeing a lot More of it in the last Little while and in sure theres plenty More of them we dont know its a problem and were Tow can smell the stuff growing in the City but you cant in a Rural i think that Why we see so Many of them out Here even though the major Market for the stuff is in ramp drug squad officer last Rural Selkirk detachment offi cers and members of the forces drug squad raided a House on Meadowdale Road in Andrews and found 23 marijuana plants grow ing in the aided by a Watt Light reflective foil and a timer that turned the lights on and off As a 29yearold Man and a 28yearold woman have been charged with cultivation of Mari Juana and simple Possession of the Rohne said the operation was smaller and less sophisticated than others ramp have uncovered in recent it was just a Moman pop he i doubt it took them More than a couple Hundred dollars to set it but while it was Rohne said it was just like More sophisticated hydroponic operations potentially very had it been operated to its maximum our people estimate it could have generated an annual yield Worth Between a a source within the ramps drug squad said police have raided two similar hydroponic operations in Rural Selkirk in the past three but he doubts the problem is confined to that were getting our information out of Sel Kirk right now but in sure its happening elsewhere the source noting Hydro Ponic operations Are difficult to detect because they Are usually run out of the basements of Ordinary the source said growers seem to be favouring Rural areas because the smell the operations give off is More difficult to detect in the see growers Page 4 ;