Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus defence Puzzle soviets say underestimates Moscow spending sports familiar style Bob Essensa says soviets play a lot like oilers 35 farm report bad image traded in computer cop cleans up image of commodity trading 23 Winnipeg free press 19 Cloudy today 0 Cloudy tonight second cuss Mai Bess traction number 0288 Winnipeg free press april 1990 volh8n0149 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets outside Winnipeg weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 Core ghost town5 feared soviet Economy critical by Michael Parks los Angeles times Moscow the soviet unions economic crisis is deepening so rapidly that senior economists Here Are now expressing alarm about the country ability to whatever strategy the govern ment decides assessing the decline in Industrial the drop in Gross National product and National an increase in inflation and the spread of the communist party newspaper pravda said yesterday that the soviet Economy is running virtually out of control As it deteriorates despite concerted efforts to restructure the soviet Economy this year and production declined in most strategic sectors of Industry in the first Quarter of this according to official statistics published Over the the growth of consumer which is the new see food Page 4 raising the curtain dreaming of Good life in Toronto by Gerald flood Winnipeg free press Warsaw Michal sat in his tiny apartment and dreamed of Canada and his brother Laws yacht All my Money i need for food in but he is in Canada buying a yacht for he i met on the train to like most East euro he went out of his Way to be guiding me through the vast Warsaw showing me where to change Call ing hotels until he found one that was in expensive and he Rode with me to the where the staff Speaks Only rudimentary saw to it i was registered and then went out and bought a map of the an information brochure and a fistful of 20zloty the Only ones that work in polish pay but so rare they sell for 200 zloty two cents on the All he asked was that i come to his Home for so he could practice his when i arrived i quickly Learned Why he studies English in his spare time and Why he so desperately wanted to talk to a Michal said his wife sister and her husband moved to Toronto six years ago As students and his who had studied to be a quit and started a Small contracting company with he showed me a photograph of his a see family Page 4 i love but i have Only one in Canada i could have a proper and a car Glenn free press lunch in the lineup piping hot pizza helps Cut the cold Breeze blowing Down main Street Jeff who desperately wants a summer Job this wrapped himself in layers of warm clothing to wait overnight for the employment Centre to open this closings Likely As time running out by Dan Lett the closing of the Amy Street steam Plant threatens to create a ghost town in downtown Winnipeg As owners close buildings rather than pay the High Cost of convert ing to another heat heating consultants and owners while the 65yearold Winnipeg Hydro steam Plant is slated to close june of the More than 100 build Ings still connected to the figures from several sources show Only 15 have a new system or Are now having one engineering Consul hired to assess con claim Many owners Are reluctant to Lay out the huge capital conversion not realizing there is not enough time to Complete work on All remaining structures by next there is going to be a Hue and cry next no vember when theres no said Bob an Engineer and owner of conversion engineering hired by a number of building a lot of the owners just dont have the Money to make the he said the biggest problem for the remaining steam customers is there Are Only so Many capable firms who can do the most major contractors Are working on Cit owned buildings including City the Centennial con Cert Hall and the Public safety he contractors Are also reluctant to get he because Many building owners will be stretch ing themselves to finance the the Cost of a new heating system for an average six Storey downtown building can run anywhere from to Morrison several of the largest buildings in the Exchange District have been estimated to need nearly million in with the smaller the contractors wont be willing to take the Morrison no with the City of Winnipeg projects you know youre going to get for some building its an extra insult knowing huge sums of Public Money Are financing conversion in Cit owned the City is spending a Fortune to put in whole new a Fortune of my Bud owner of Victor Fox foods and buildings at 130 and 132 James while some owners Are boarding up entire others Are merely closing off Susan owner of Birt saddlery on main said she has abandoned the two upper floors of her the saddlery repair shop occupied the two see exodus Page 5 Thompson steamed firms finances prompt questions ramp Aid police in probe of company director by Paul Samyn a company that promised to pump million into Winnipeg and Cre ate 125 jobs by 1994 has More dreams than dollars and a director whose track record has caught the Eye of ts2000 Mobile pipeline said in december it would build a manufacturing Plant for a natural Gas transportation system in Winnipeg As part of a joint venture with ts2000 de sign Canada Montrea based can Dev Energy and a Quebec Crown Randy then company presi told a news conference 1 that ts2000 had negotiated a licence to Market the technology throughout except in Quebec and and also held the International Mcmullin also announced the projects financing had been arranged through Montreal which secured venture capital from Hong Kong ts2000 is operating on a its phone number is not in service and it has not signed any agree ments with Canden or we were surprised to see that ts2000s december announcement be cause even now we dont have any formal said Pierre Boi Vic president of administration and Public affairs for which de signed the pressurized Gas transport sys tem which can truck Gas from the trans Canada see officials Page 4 a photo men in Swiss Canton deny women local voting rights men in Appenzell raise arms in vote against by Samantha Mcarthur Reuter Switzerland the men of the Swiss Canton of Appenzell inne Rhoden defied their country equal rights Law yesterday and voted to remain one of the few pockets of Europe where women Are denied voting some men bearing a sword or Dagger crowded into the Village Square in tiny raised their hands and voted by a Clear majority to reject a motion granting women the right to vote on local it was the third time inne Rhoden has voted not to adopt suffrage and the Canton could now face an order from Switzerland highest court to accept yet Many women present at yesterdays meeting an annual event which dates Back More than five centuries and combines colourful pageantry with Swiss direct democracy seemed pleased with the i think its said Marta what would be the Point of giving women the vote although inne Rhoden women have Long been Able to vote on National they remain excluded from Poi us at or level in a country where see court Page 5 Ann Landers 16 answers 14 Bridge 18 business 26 classified 28 Cleversey 7 comics 20 crossword 18 deaths 28 letters 6 entertainment 17 focus 7 Horoscope 18 Jumble Pyrle 32 Law you 15 legals 27 movies 18 relax 14 sports 35 sports record 41 Tempo 13 to listings 14 ;