Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus people Power the will toward democracy is Strong in Eastern Europe sports Cooney didst have a prayer preacher George Foreman destroyed fellow relic Gerry Cooney in a bizarre tilt last 41 Tempo Vintage actors 1989 Banner year for older actors 25 Cloud tonight17 Cloud tomorrow 11 second cuss Mah registration number 0286 january free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets outside Winnipeg weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outs me Winnipeg main 9434331 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 shelter to Rescue project civil War rocks soviet Union by Michael Parks los Angeles times Moscow As fighting Between heavily armed armenians and azerbaijanis flared into open the soviet Union declared a state of emergency yesterday in the disputed Region of Magorno Karabash and adjacent areas and sent troops there to quell what it called efforts to overthrow the government by faced with the most violent ethnic conflict in soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev ordered combat troops from the the Navy and Kab to support the embattled Interior ministry forces already deployed in Azerbaijan and Armen with the fighting escalating rapidly yesterday after the weekend Mas Sacre of More than 30 armenians in the azerbaijani both sides were arming themselves not Only with pistols and rifles but with machine antiaircraft rockets and even a Mored vehicles and helicopters Sto Len from the in decreeing the state of emerged the presidium of the supreme the country said the violence had reached the Point of murders and banditry and attempts at the armed overthrow of soviet Power and at changing by Force the state and political system established in the Constitution of the soviet under the state of one of the most stringent actions taken by the soviet government since the 19181920 civil War officials in the Region will have sweeping including the authority to impose prohibit rallies and ban political censor the news Media and even to require people to either at their jobs or other authorities in Azerbaijan and a two neighbouring republics in Southern soviet had by All accounts lost control of the situation even in their own Baku and and nationalist move ments in both had begun recruiting and arming militia forces number ing in the horrified by the mounting car correspondents for the official soviet news Agency Tass and other soviet news Media sketched a con see scores Page a by Aldo Santin and Ruth Teichroeb a Winnipeg based multinational develop ment company is planning to bail out the financially troubled place promenade the free press has development Industry sources said the giant shelter of Canada will either join the original Developer As a partner with new funds or take Over the project size of private stake a mystery in heavily subsidized a bailout will require taxpayers to pay part of the estimated annual losses for several More years until the rental Market sources documents obtained by the free press re veal that the the Village at por Tage place housing has been negotiating with shelter since shelter president Arnie Thorsteinson confirmed that his company has been approached by Village at Portage but he refused to comment on a possible bailout of the troubled its a very complicated Thor Steinson senior officials with Village at Portage place refused shelter was ranked As the fastest growing apartment builder in the United states in founded in it manages and finances a variety of real estate and has become one of the major real estate managers and syndicator in North sources have said that shelter Wilt provide the million needed to cover Barb mortgage and lease payments that Village Al see losses Page 4 y be f v Aron Fehr sleeps in Union station last night while waiting for the last transcontinental train to late transcontinental avoids protest by Dan Lett under cover of Cana 1 Das last transcontinental train skulked into the City that owes its birth to the avoiding pro testers and mourners despite earlier emotional demonstrations in Winnipeg to protest via rail Union station was remarkably quiet last night As a handful of passengers and report ers boarded the train at the last Canadian As the Canadian travelled across the it was met with no original transcontinental radio and television report the Canadian is travelling but delays of More than seven ers going along for the last across the West this week for the hours pushed the trains arrival in trip by passing out cases of free final closing a chapter in Winnipeg into the Early soft juice and Canadian rail the free driving away Union represent placards protesting the cuts Lay press will feature reports from on politicians and curious by strewn throughout the Board the diesel train As it platters slanders who earlier gathered to while a table covered in petitions to toward see the last transcontinental be sent to prime minister Mulron through by sat Yea to placate Cranky the transcontinental is the High serous demonstrations and Dis travellers who were easily out est profile of 17 via trains that Are plays of emotion Over the loss of the numbered by the numerous news see delays Page 4 teacher at Church school charged in paddling by Catherine Mitchell a James religious schoolteacher has been charged with assault after an 11yearold girl complained she had been struck with a plywood paddle so hard she sit a Winnipeg police spokesman confirmed yesterday the charges were Laid after the girls Mother said her daughter had come Home from Sturgeon Creek Christian facade my with bruises on her police also seized a 60centimetre paddle from the school and photocopied sections of the Academy hand which sets out the rules of the school and rules for administering discipline to Stu the spokesman said Susan Jean Wen Laws was charged with assault with a weapon and possessing a dangerous weapon in connection with the 1 the Grade 4 student said she got two paddling 30 for walking Home the Day before from Church service with a Friend instead of waiting for her teacher As she was and for not doing her Home she told her Mother she was paddled once More again for not doing the spokesman released on her own recognizance and ordered to avoid Contact with the girl and her is to appear in court she could not be reached for comment last but her Don said his client remains employed with the Sturgeon Creek Christian Academy has so students in kindergarten to Grade 12 and operates in the basement of Kirkfield Park Baptist a police spokesman the Academy student handbook states the see prayer Page 4 entrepreneur humiliated Campeau corporation by John Burns times news service Toronto the financial and Legal troubles facing Campeau american retailing units Are undoubtedly a personal humiliation for Robert the French Canadian entrepreneur whose debt burdened dream was to own a National Chain of shopping malls hous ing prestigious but what remains unclear is How much the difficulties of the com pants american retailing business have affected or will affect Cam peas personal which just four months ago was estimated at More than much of the fifty Earold real estate developers wealth was in Campeau which is Worth about a tenth what it was a year the Fin Anft bind Campeau feels Campeau Stock is Worth about a tenth what it was a year earlier this month he was forced to surrender about million of it to the National Bank of Canada creditors these Days was underlined earlier this month when he was forced to surrender about million of his Stock to the National Bank of Cana he had to hand Over the shares on when he could not make payments on Loans made to a pair of see Bay Page 4 28 32 seniors 27 Ann 31 6 26 41 7 sports record 48 31 Jumble 36 to source tse elderly Man opens heart by Zena Olijnyk an 88yearold Man who walked into the free press building yester Day with a Cheque was one of Many who opened their hearts to if Cearold Cory when i read the Story in Satur Days my heart went out to the the retired Carpenter and House builder who has been in Winnipeg childrens Hospital since Christmas requires a double lung trans Plant operation in up my wife and i have no children Cory Connell soon travels to to Ronto for a double lung transplant operation that will give him a Chance for a Normal but he and his family need because Many expenses they face Arent co Vered by the free press has started the Cory Connell transplant fund to help the family through this and we have quite a bit of Money saved the who asked not see Mother ;