Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba In ii easing tensions Helsinki act gets enemy soldiers talking together sports hitters get nod san Francisco is favored to beat Denver in the super bowl 33 parental tools new equipment to ease Burden of raising kids 13 Clear tonight 18 sunny tomorrow 7 second class Mah registration number 0586 january Ouide i Nofle Dan Hwy i wlm Peg Mam 6un sete rises sets Home det tvs Clamp Tod 9562330 two men charged in Slaughter of by John Mcphee two men have been charged in the Slaughter of More than cormorants and pelicans on Lake Winnipegosis a killing police say is part of an ongoing Battle Between fishermen and fish eating ramp said its not unknown for fishermen to kill Birds at North Long i Landon Lake Winnipegosis since the fishermen claim the Birds eat valuable fish an ramp spokesman said cormorants and White virtually an entire Colony of were killed last july in every imaginable Dan Stice said the Birds were and beaten to death july two men from Basterville were recently charged tinder the wildlife Protection act and Are scheduled to appear in court it was rather a sick in disgusted by the whole Stice said from the grand rapids ramp he added that such killings Are common because commercial fish Ermen believe or Crow ducks As they Are known in the Are eating away the lucrative Walleye population in Lake Winnipeg a wildlife biologist at the depart ment of natural resources said fish Ermen regularly destroy nests in the Bird colonies on the i would say about nests Are destroyed said William he estimates that up to one half of the 37 colonies on Lake win see fishermen Page 4 soviet troops hasten South hateful neighbors on verge of civil War by Michael Dobbs the Washington Post Moscow the soviet unions warring Southern republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia mobilized thou Sands of armed volunteers yesterday As the official death toll after two Days of anti armenian rioting in Azerbaijan climbed to More than armenian political activists said that a virtual civil War was raging in areas of Azerbaijan inhabited by ethnic and the soviet news Agency Tass spoke of a night of atrocities in the azerbaijani in an attempt to Calm tension on both sides of the Border Between the two Transcaucasia the Kremlin dispatched members of the ruling communist party politburo to Baku and the armenian and Tass reported that several giant transport planes carrying troops had been sent to the latest violence Between the predominantly mos Lem azerbaijanis and their Christian armenian neigh Bors provides an acute illustration of the scale of the nationalist Challenge facing president Mikhail Gorba who returned to Moscow last night after spending three Days trying to soothe separatist passions in soviet together with the neighbouring Baltic republics of Latvia and Lithuania is press ing with a Campaign to secede from the soviet Union and proclaim Independent tension Between armenians and azerbaijanis had been building for Many weeks Over the continuing political deadlock in the Region of a predominantly Armenia inhabited enclave that is sur rounded and administered by but which both see axe Page 4 drinking suspected As two Drivers die in Headon collision of pickup trucks via rail employees protest cutbacks in passenger train service by picketing at Union station where More protests Are fatal Accident Mars final run staff up aboard the Canadian a fatal level crossing Accident in Petawawa township cast a pall of gloom yesterday Over the bitter Sweet final run of via rails historic transcontinental Richard of Petawawa and Jennifer of died when the passenger train collided with their Toyota Engineer on last final Call full of witnesses said some passengers on the train were shaken there was no sign of damage to the making its last historic Cross country run before the route is the which started its trip from Montreal earlier in the continued to Chalk after wreckage had been cleared from the tracks late in the Pembroke is about 170 Kilometres West of its said the trains conductor Don its times like this in glad in not an since its departure from the train had encountered groups of protesters who braved the frigid weather to show up at stations along see fatality Page 4 7 s it 27 w to of w 33 death j4 sports reword 39 utters 6 13 entertainment Jaq t4 by David Roberts a suspected drinking Driver killed the Driver of another Lehi and put four people in Hospital Selkirk ramp the two Winnipeg both Drivers of pickup were killed in the Headon collision on Highway 9 North of the perimeter Highway near Middle Church around 3 dead Are Daniel and Gary police said Macdonald South bound full size 82 Ford pickup crossed the Centre line at High Speed and smashed Headon into a smaller 84 Nissan pickup carrying his and their two of Lake Grove the Kohut children and 11 Are in serious but stable condition at the health sciences police said an autopsy will Likely be performed on the body of Mac of Sasaki to deter mine his blood alcohol police said witnesses described the Ford As travelling at an excess Ive Speed in the ramp Ken Beerman said there was a smell of alcohol in Macdonald truck and Beer bottles were found in the Macdonald Lyn is Feld the registered owner of the was kept in Hospital overnight with minor Beerman Kouts was released from the Impact must have been Ter said de of Minnehaha Avenue in West Miller said when he arrived on the the red Nissan was turned around from the Impact and the two tone Brown Ford was upside Down in the West ramp said the Road and visibility were Good at the unusual guarantees required of Developer Glenn free press by Aldo Santin and Ruth Teichroeb Federal and provincial lending officials were so worried about the financial woes of the private Deve Loper who built place promenade that they asked for a Cash Bond an unusual requirement before agreeing to fund the but the North Portage develop ment appears to have done Little to safeguard its multimillion Dollar investment in the ill fated Complex and bowed to lenders pressure to sign away Protection for future documents obtained by the free press show that Canada mortgage rival local Developer blamed for and housing demanded the Bond As Well As other Cash Guaran tees As conditions before providing a mortgage and insurance for the 376 suite Roy provincial director for confirmed the Agency took the unusual step when the Developer slated to build the Complex ran into financial problems before the Deal was made final in we took this unusual step be cause we didst have a Strong corporate Phichol that reduced our risk in the the Bond provided Security against the first Mort Gage Given to the Developer by the Manitoba housing and renewal and can Only be applied to that he Chc also insisted that the developers put million into an account that was funnelled Back to them As construction in the developers had to put up million that was returned to them when the Complex was com it was Only after these demands were met that Chc agreed to see receivership Page 4 office furniture collateral in loan North Portage gave a million loan to a Developer whose Only collateral was some office fur the loan was one of the financial incentives North Portage gave to Village at Portage place housing to build the place promenade documents obtained by the free press among other North Portage also agreed to d pay All costs associated with Clearing and servicing the d provide loan assistance to build the underground parking d provide Loans and Grants totalling to offset further construction a memorandum of mortgage Between North Portage and Village at Portage place reveals the developers were not required to put up any other Security except the furnishings found within the North Portage had Little Chance of recover ing the furniture if the company went into default developers say Complex is see government Page 4 ;