Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Your Money Tempo issues a foot and his Money Are soon bet on Manitoba gets a course for Rifle toting Manfor Deal is no Good for the Clear tonight19 sunny tomorrow 11 free press vol 118 no 44 second class Mai figs Tomlon number os86 sunday free press january Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg Home delivery 957055o classified 9562330 by Allison Bray elimination of a provincial court backlog top of an already heavy Case Load is making supervision of offenders on probation increasingly Manitoba director of Community and youth corrections with the workload increases and the Back it is making it More difficult to meet hearings key to Early standards of Ben Thiessen Thiessen said the elimination of the Provin Cial court backlog Over the past six months has added about 200 new supervised probation cases to his departments the new coupled with a steady Overall increase in probation cases in recent is straining the ability of probation officers to ensure offenders Are complying with the terms of their release he ensuring offenders Are complying with conditions Laid Down by the court becomes More in an average of offenders were out on probation each month in compared with last Glenn free press backlog shifts from courts to probation office Justice minister Jim Mccrae said last week the court backlog which had resulted in accused persons waiting up to 14 months to go to trial had been but corrections officials say it has shifted the Load to other areas of the Justice its very hard to say what the exact Impact has been on but there certainly see drop Page 4 military takes Over capital Romania closer to martial Law news watch disease revealed from the news services Denver twelve people who were exposed to the Metal beryllium while working at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons Plant have contracted a deadly lung said a Energy department study obtained by a eight current Rocky Flats workers and four retired employees tested positive for the Denver Post reported diagnostic tests have been Given to 391 of 750 workers at the Complex near soviet Jet crashes Moscow a soviet air liner with a flaming engine crashed yesterday during an emergency Landing bid on a Field in the ural mountains and 23 people were the soviet news Agency Tass thirty people were Tass the tupolev134 carry ing 64 passengers and six Crew was flying from the siberian Oil Centre of Tyumen to Volgograd via the ural Mountain City of Tass travel talks nixed Seoul North Korea pro posed talks with South Korea on allowing free travel be tween the rival countries yesterday but the South South korean officials quoted the letters saying in part if the Southern Side destroys the Concrete we will immediately remove a barbed wire Fence on our Side that Marks the Border they say North Korea is creating the false impress Ion there is a Berlin Wal like Barrier on the actress slashed new York swedish born actress Viveca Lindfors was slashed across the neck yesterday on a new York City Street by a gang suspected in a similar random attack minutes police needed 27 stitches after the attack at about est on a Greenwich Village said police spokesman Peter sundfors gang attack Index Ann Bridge Puzzle answers sports to 17 19 26 15 15 6 18 19 32 9 18 31 14 21 25 13 16 14 lotto winning Bonu 2 Tow tue winning number is 620731 Igloo Village More than a dozen Hardy souls paid to spend a night in an Igloo at the u of is Field station at Delta North of Portage la Rick Riew and Jill cakes supervise the program on Winter survival and deliver lectures on inuit Oakes above watches two students build their Snow Robert Wood right carefully places one of the last blocks of Snow in his Farmers raise stink Over proposal As if Farmers didst have enough to worry now they have to put up with complaints that farming is a dirty but a new rights farm proposal int Strong enough to shield producers from unwarranted complaints by Wrinkl nosed Mani Tobas largest farm group the province wants to set up a Board of Farmers and technical experts to Rule on farm practices and screen beefs against Farmers Over manure odor and noise and complaints from neighbors would first have to be filed with the environment department to see whether a Farmers methods Are in conflict with the environmental if the complaint would go to the new Board to determine if a producer is using Normal farm the government White paper if his methods Are found the Farmer could be sued or penalized under environmental or Public health the Board could also approve the dismiss the complaint and pre vent it from going to agriculture minister Glen Findlay agreed to draft rights farm legislation because of in creasing encroachment on Farmland by residential but Keystone agricultural producers says the plan Doest go far enough in protecting see nuisance Page 4 from the news services Bucharest Romania appeared to be edging closer to martial Law yesterday As the military took Over in the regional capital of Timisoara and the ruling National salvation front came under renewed attack for its past communist Gheorghe Popescu Drew cheers from crowds when he announced that he was replacing the communist led regional govern which resigned in the face of a mass protest the army is with shouted the the president of the Timisoara Lorin announced his resignation at Friday nights and the rest of the local leadership followed his Popescu said that the army had taken Over in what he called an administrative Mea sure until a new Council can be elected next the step does not mean martial but similar dissatisfaction with the National Sal vation front councils in scores of cities and towns across the country Points to an in creased role by the at least until some political stability is see president Page 4 derailment closes up rails main line Beausejour up up rails main line was closed for several hours yesterday after 17 cars from a westbound freight train jumped the tracks at a rail Bridge Over the broke head River near there was considerable damage to the up spokesman George Smellie the cars that left the tracks were not carrying dangerous he adding no one was injured in the one Boxcar was carrying but landed about 50 metres from the River and was not believed to be an environmental said the cause of the derailment is under invest passenger service along the line was delayed for about three hours before the track Accord pitch in offing tories Bank on pressure to approve Meech Lake by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa As the Meech Lake deadline supporters Are banking on a pressure cooker atmosphere to pique Public interest and open minds to the perils of failure to approve the constitutional Ottawa has deliberately backed off in its support of the Accord until Manitoban Are ready to Winnipeg South tory my Dorothy Dobbie As with the free Trade the govern ment remains confident under intense Manitoban will see the importance of the she its the old Story that you can bring a horse to water but you cant make him Dobbie with an you can bring the electorate As much information As you like you can Snow them with information but until they Are ready to stretch their minds to encompass a new concept you cannot make them coming Down to the Letb it is Only a sense of urgency that is going to open up minds enough to so we can have this rational and it is Only then that educational attempts will have any you have to have extraordinary pressure to make people want to Deal with an abstract Issue that does not affect their everyday she the closer to the the More people Are going to pay attention to what is actually being with less than six months before the constitutional amendment forces supporting Meech Lake Are gathering for one last pitch in the which designates Quebec As a distinct must be ratified by Manitoba and new Brunswick before june Federal sources say senator Lowell Murray is expected to meet with Premier Gary Filmon within two weeks to discuss Means to break the see Ottawa Page 4 video makers hit with live bullets a a Bullet that whizzed through a Kitchen Cabinet and put a Hole in the ceiling while a woman was at Home with her two Young apparently came from a nearby private weapons firing Range where a police training video was being authorities Kim Robinson and her neighbors were pinned Down for nearly two hours As automatic gunfire ripped through their Rural Community hitting several Mobile Homes in keys Vule several squad cars and a police helicopter responded to residents cries for As sheriffs Deputy Ron Cain walked around the Robinson several More rounds landed Robert Deluna said police linked the stray bullets to a Range where two out town business men said they were making a Law enforcement training Thomas Bailey and Steven Nelson said they were told there were no Homes ;