Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo trashy treasures a video watchers guide to watchable Grade b flicks 29 business pares take off Ward airs gone and air fares Are soaring 17 focus great race the Liberal leadership contest will be Worth watching 7 Clear tonight 17 sunny tomorrow second cuss Mai registration number 0286 free press january out site Winn Frog weekly Home delivery i Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9434331 Home delivery Sun rises sets Moon rises sets classified 9562330 officials United in Calls for stricter gun control by Paul Wiecek gun dealers and the provinces two top police officers spoke As one yesterday in their Calls for stricter gun control the reaction follows free press reports that a depressed and suicidal murder suspect was issued a gun permit just three months at the opposition critics too much smoke As a colleague helps him Down a a firefighter who had been overcome by smoke inside leaves the House at 625 Green where an unattended pot of grease on a stove in a basement apartment caught resulting in More than in shortly before 1 the fire spread throughout the entire causing damage to the Structure and to the demanded tougher screening of gun per Mit applicants and sweeping Powers for police to probe into their mental his Paul Liberal Justice called for a system whereby a gun permit applicants would have to provide a certificate from their doctor stating they Are mentally fit to own a Edwards James said such a system might have saved the life of Carole Joan the 25yearold so Cial work student who was shot dead tuesday the suspect in this Case did have some history of mental disturbance and apparently certain people had noted he he called on Justice minister Jim Mccrae to pressure his Federal counter part to change the criminal code Section dealing with firearms acquisition certify Mccrae promised to raise the Issue when he meets Federal Justice minister Doug Lewis and the other nine provincial Justice ministers at a meeting in Ottawa later this asked if he was confident in the current monitoring system used in the Mccrae said ill never be see stricter Page 4 free press Bourassa pulls Rug from beneath Vander Palms bid to Rescue Meech stat top Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa appeared to pull the Rug out from under Premier Bill Vander Palms Meech Lake Accord Rescue efforts saying there is no time left to Amend the commenting on Vander Palms vague proposal for a revolutionary plan to end the deadlock Over the constitutional Bourassa said maybe Vander Zalm wishes it was possible to improve the but the Only Way to do that is to hold a second round of its not realistic to expect that we could Amend the Meech Lake Accord in the next five this is not practically Bourassaw response contrasted with that of prime minister who said he was willing to listen to what Vander Zalm has to apparently he has some ideas and Well have to see what they Mulroney said of the i expect there would be serious debate right up to the Manitoba politicians Are taking a Waitan see attitude toward Vander Palms As a we Are always encouraged that another provincial government sees that amendments Are needed on the Meech Lake said a spokesman for Premier Gary who was out of town and could not be reached for we will await with interest the propos als that Premier Vander Zalm will bring both opposition leaders also expressed some doubts about the sincerity of the see pm Page 4 Index Ann 37 36 17 38 37 38 33 7 37 Jumble Puzzle 21 30 sports 5q to 31 soviet troops bogged Down fran the news services Moscow soviet troops were apparently bogged Down yesterday by wide spread including Airfield and Railroad hostage and civil As they tried to control the violence in a Erbai the official news said the situation had deteriorated in the last 24 hours As azerbaijani militants ignored appeals for order from army and Interior ministry troops sent to enforce emergency youths Volunteer to defence minister Dmitri Yazoo said in a radio interview that army reserves had been mobilized for the and he hinted that Many of them were not enthusiastic about being sent to quell Domestic none of the governments sometimes contradictory accounts of events in the Region could be reliably for eign reporters Are banned from the re Gion and soviet journalists have also been militants blockade regions rail lines hampered in their meaning that soviet news reports have been income the government has reported that More than 60 people have been killed in the although that could not be the deployment of army and ulterior troops reportedly sent to Azer Baijan on tuesday remained something of a a senior official in the Headquarters of the Western azerbaijani territory covered by a government Emer gency said yesterday that few troops had arrived to supplement forces already stationed in the although the government has portrayed the zone As verging on civil we Nave just about As Many forces As we did before about said the Sergei who represents the Interior ministry on a special committee administering the disputed enclave of maybe so no More Are despite the sometimes alarming Bulle tins from the Southern there were no signs of panic in president Mikhail Gorbachev kept to a Busy Public schedule that included a Long meeting with workers in the Krem in remarks to the televised on last Gorbachev indicated that the government had used Force reluctantly against criminal Gorbachev attacked critics of his eco nomic and political program As rabble and scoffed at those impatient for results by invoking the name of a popular television Anatoly Kash Over medication blamed for death an epileptic patient at the Selkirk mental health Centre died because he had been Given toxic amounts of a the provinces chief medical examiner told an inquest in my Given the amount and intensity of the drug the patient either ceased to choked As a result of or see my Page 4 pcs Start election machine nominations freeze comes off tomorrow by Gerald flood Manitoba tories will lift a freeze on nominations tomorrow and Start campaigning for a Spring election they claim they dont about 150 tories will meet behind closed doors at the International inn tomorrow to lift the ban and de cide which party candidates will be first out of the Gate in a race that could Start As Early As next the tories have been trying to keep the meeting scheduling it during a convention of the progressive conservatives youth but Premier Gary Filmon confirmed the meeting is talking in a minority the two opposition parties ganging up can ensure that were in an election this year whether or not we want to he so it would be foolish not to be that Doest say in calling As Long As were Able to accomplish things we believe Are important for were not interested in an party president Roger Cathcart said the meeting was called in response to growing pressure from the see election Page 4 Ultra nationalist arrested As Nagasaki mayor shot new York times news service Japan a 40yearold Ultra nationalist was arrested Here last night As the prime suspect in the shooting of Nagasaki who broke one of the nations most sensitive taboos by saying a year ago that emperor Hirohito bore some responsibility for the second world the mayor Hitoshi was reported in critical condition but out of danger last night after two hours of who received numerous threats after he refused to retract his unusually Blunt comments about the was shot once in the Chest at close see shooting Page 5 die dithered Over Royal gift by Jim Coyle the Canadian press Ottawa John Diefenbaker Cabinet dithered Over a gift for Queen Elizabeth the prime minister agonized about the plight of a 14yearold Ontario boy sentenced to wanted Little to do with Fidel Castro and waged a losing Bat the to stifle Bis blabber mouthed released yesterday show some of Diefenbaker lesser triumphs and problems during a year in which the Lawrence Seaway opened and the Avro Arrow was summaries of Cabinet released by the National archives of Canada after the Obliga tory 30 suggest a Cabinet Tizzy Over the Queens visit that bordered on the see papers Page 4 ;