Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 17, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january soviet soldiers come under fire continued from Page 1 dispatch troops to say ing the conflict should be settled by political he also said the soviet Union could disintegrate within three months if More Radical reforms Are not but Gorbachev is Likely to come under even heavier fire on both the Baltic and Transcaucasia issues from conservatives at a plenum of the party Central committee scheduled for in the two years before the current trouble in the More than 300 civilians and 18 soldiers died in ethnically motivated but the current conflict is causing greater alarm than the spontaneous because the two sides Are organizing and arming themselves As if for a Long Large scale military preparations continued yesterday on both the azerbaijani and armenian according to soviet news Media re ports from the which is closed to foreign military officials estimated that guerrilla Many of them armed with mortars and anti aircraft were spread out across the Hilly districts East of the disputed territory of Nagor Novara officials managed to recapture yesterday four tanks seized by azerbaijani militants sunday in the City of but in an unmarked evidently flown by armenian strafed azerbaijanis gathered on the killing two people and wounding soviet radio report helicopter attacks were reported on two other azerbaijani one newspaper reported that Mili Tants were dressing in stolen Mili tary uniforms so that they could enter villages unhampered before opening soviet troops charged with Stop Ping the violence in the rough Ter rain around Magorno Karabash face the disadvantages of any outside army against a native guerrilla the azerbaijanis and armenians know the area much better and can find Refuge with the local most of the additional ministry of internal affairs troops and regular soviet army troops sent yesterday know neither the terrain nor the local soviet television showed soldiers coming under fire As they rolled into an azerbaijani town on armoured personnel apparently unable to find their they fired their automatic rifles into the we come under fire wherever we fro both azerbaijanis and a an officer told a television correspondent inside an a Mored in though authorities had two Days to organize Protection for the several thousand remaining a anti armenian riots recurred late monday night and Early yesterday soviet radio re calling the situation out of control in a number of the death toll in the City reached Many of them armenians beaten soldiers Lead an elderly woman to safety from fighting in downtown Baku to burned alive or thrown from High balconies by gangs of nearly apartments have been ransacked or about armenians had managed to escape by air or by boat across the Caspian sea by midday in the newspaper laves Tia there were 16 attacks on guarded mostly police with the aim of seizing from a single District police activists obtained 83 automatic weapons and nearly 500 four revolvers and three por table radio the news paper Western grits took Axworthy entry for Harvard says continued from Page 1 a Las ditch fundraising Campaign by a group of Western businessmen succeeded in gathering nearly in less than a but it was not enough to make Axworthy a the Money was but the political support apparently was Bill the founder of com chef payroll service and a contributor to the Axworthy and his closest advisers evaluated the Campaign last week and concluded support was soft and finances were after ing about in a sunup to a bid announce insiders said Axworthy faced a deficit by months even with the new sources close to Axworthy said it would have been a shoe string Campaign of about Axworthy told Loewen and several other prominent backers sunday that he would not be run i didst get any sense that he was he we said that we would give him a hand financially and he said that he was grateful for but that he would not need fellow Manitoba Liberal maps agreed that Axworthy departure would affect All people in Western not just Western alienation in disappointed As a in Dis appointed As a progressive said Liberal my John Harvard Winnipeg Lloyds a National but Hes also a Westerner and he could have spoken to the alienation we he could have brought Western issues to the fore better than anyone Harvard said the blame for Axworthy Deci Sion must rest with Western liberals who took for granted the Winnipeg my would be a candidate at the party june convention in the lagged in showing i dont think we aroused people in the West about How important it was to get Lloyd into the Harvard i think a lot us were asleep at the assuming that Lloyd would be Liberal my Ron Duhamel Boniface said the overwhelming attention paid to the campaigns front runners former my and Cabinet minister Chretien and Rookie Quebec my Paul Martin May have eclipsed interest in other candidates such As i think the focus has been on the two front runners and there has been very Little attention Given to the other Duhamel Harvard said Axworthy inability to raise funds could be tied to a number of not least of which was his opposition to the free Trade agreement with the United his opposition to free Trade May have Hurt his support among the business Harvard Axworthy not running Coop must Golden says continued from Page 1 ing while Canada mortgage and housing gave an additional the developers defaulted on their mortgage payments last blaming a High downtown vacancy rate for their financial Al Golden said yesterday an investigation should be launched into How North Portage and other government lenders spent taxpayers id like to know who has been minding the Golden Glen Lawn he also demanded an apology from Issie Coop the corporations chief executive officer blam ing Winnipeg Developer Martin Ber Gen for the projects this is the most unbelievable incident Ive seen in Golden How could Issie Coop blame Ber Gen for the failure of place promenade we have to have Issie Coop apologize resign for making these Coop had no right to criticize Ber Gen for using his own Money to build the 900unit fort Garry place after North Portage risked Public dollars on the financially troubled place he Coop said late last week that Ber Gen had destroyed the rental Market downtown by building the rival development at the same time As North Portage was planning place since the vacancy rate for downtown apartments has skyrocketed to at least 25 per Golden also said North Portage and other government lenders be trying to bail out the he the company should be allowed to go into bankruptcy so that the Public can get answers to How the Developer spent Public How much How Many millions the Developer take out of this project up front Golden asked we be rescuing this let this company go into bankruptcy so we can get a look at its the Public wants to falling falling behind continued from Page 1 the rails were barely Laid in 1885 when hundreds of Scarlet coated anglophone soldiers Rode into Saskatchewan to defeat Louis Kiel and solidify the two thousands of immigrants took a one Way ride on Macdonald coast to coast link to open up the West and transform a wilderness into a a when the Canadian reaches Van Couver some time its the end of the the reality of the Canadian is aging equipment falling Ever farther behind schedule since it left Montre Al and Toronto on sunday to link up in washroom doors toilets Lack the last Canadian paper and the dome cars with promises of panoramic vistas Are dirty and frosted with doors to electrical units swing open by Crews Hammer other doors Back into place As the train had the train been on time in via rail would have rewarded passengers for a Day of Bald Prairie with half an hour of the lure of fast Buck leaves woman in court told by Terry Weber the lure of High finances and easy Money left a Winnipeg woman with crushing debts after her investment counsellor turned out to be a longtime con a court was told i trusted Wanda Roy told court after describing for nearly three hours How Robert bilked nearly from herself and two other Roy said she first met Puckett in August 1988 at a Winnipeg restaurant and the accused told her that he could get her a dream car for next to nothing because he was a broker for a car dealer she said who has pleaded not guilty to three charges of fraud Over told her All she would need to Pur Chase a Buick Electra was a Cash coupled with the Trade in he said he could get on her 1987 would make up the Cost of the new she although she gave him the she never got the she told she she was persuaded to invest More Money with the Man in a Stock scheme that he claimed to have set handing Over another Over the next two Roy she continued to borrow More Money including at least three Lump sums from friends and relatives to invest in the anytime she asked about get Ting her Money out of the she was told to let it ride because she could make even More she she two of her friends were drawn into the Deal by the believing they too were going to make enormous sums of a Divorcee who had moved to Winnipeg from Pine fails Only months before meeting the a said when she asked once How her Stock was she was told she had already made Good Deal Puckett also promised several times to hand Over the Money when she began to press but never made she she said she was also led to believe Puckett had bought a number of condominiums in which she and her friends would be Able to live and operate a business Selling he said he could get us a Good she told Justice John Scollin of court of Queens adding Puckett claimed to have business links in Hong Kong and could get them materials to Start their business at a lower during her entire relationship with Roy she received Only one which was later torn up because the accused said she didst need Roy said she was finally persuaded by a Friend to go to police about the deals after being told of the accused Shady Rockies before darkness no Crew member seems to know How Long each stations Stop will two passengers who stretched their legs in Swift current were left behind and had to pay for a taxi that overtook the train by Maple Media from Calgary to As Well As a couple of Are greedily scouring the train for new angles to freshen the death watch stories some have Ixion writ ing since some Canadian and american train buffs Are eager to talk others have been More reluctant since a Toronto reporter wrote that the historic nameplates on the Pas Senger cars have been disappearing As via rail Public relations officer Beverly Smith is Riding the rails to ensure the Crown corporations rationale for massive service cuts and lost jobs is she ingratiate herself with re porters by handing out via rail pins in packaging labelled made in some via train Crew members who survived mondays Job Bloodbath Are making some extra Bucks on the Side by Selling shirts showing prime minister Mulroney driving the last Spike into via lawyer de Robinson was one of 23 passengers without tickets who hopped aboard in Regina for a Short Jaunt to Moose via rail re moved its computer ticket equip ment from the moribund Regina station on i just had to take that last said a lifelong tory who was barely in his seat before Bellow ing out a Saveth trains letter he had dispatched to Mulroney and a dozen other i have put Money into the tory slush i wont be any said but As much As he supported via Robinson admitted he has been on the railway Only eight times in the last decade own an Robinson the train is almost bereft of Calgary Alder Man Ron Lee told reporters he was throwing away his conservative Gerry Alberta provincial nip transport carried his party having handed Manitoba nip Leader Gary doer a petition to carry East from new Democrat my Ian Waddell Rode the last eastbound Canadian from Vancouver to Doyle while a Saskatchewan new Democrat Rode from Winnipeg to Regina in not very Good with ukrainian Winnipeg lowest Price guaranteed free next Day 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