Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 7, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo Stellar Success Star trek to series blasts doubtful careers into High popularity orbit 33 motoring car testers get around automakers do Field tests around the world to rate performance in All climes 25 focus croat Divide Diagonal line splits Manitoba politics in two pieces sunny today 28 Clear tonight second Cusmal waste tin number pm september free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets in a mum Man 9430331 Horn Momiy com Hood 9862330 nip tramples Ontario grits Peterson loses own resigns As party Leader Marion Boyd inset learns she has Defeated Peterson As Rae workers celebrate nip upset Meech Cavern deadly for Carstairs by Gerald flood Winnipeg free 1990 Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs moment came and went in a free Presecky poll after carrying her crusade to kill the Meech Lake Accord to the after galvanizing canadians with her after forcing Manitoba tories and new democrats to accept her constitutional she lost caved in and utterly lost the card she had played so Well for three d native Issue silence d Chretien in to press d pay equity lobby the poll of 800 Manitoban found 36 per cent of decided voters now believe the tories Are most Able to represent Manito Bas interests in constitutional Neotia compared to 24 per cent for the liberals and 14 per cent for the she could have said no in Ottawa and that is when the history books were writ ten on pollster Angus Reid said she sacrificed her political career in order to the poll found How thoroughly devastating that decision has been for the images see Filmon Page 4 Toronto up Bob Raes new democrats redrew Ontario political map yester Day to form a majority ousting Liberal Premier David Peterson from his own the liberals lost More than 50 seats to the new prompting Peterson to announce he would step Down As Liberal Lead Raes win also produced the first Ever nip government East of joining the party in the Yukon As the Only other new democratic government in the the new democrats won 74 seats to the liberals 35 seats and the conservatives one race was too close to Call with a few polls still left to going into the the liberals held a huge majority of 93 seats to the Dps giving them official opposition and the tories there were two maybe a summer election want such a bad idea after a grinning Rae told supporters at his Toronto Riding of York where he took the platform to chants of Premier ours is not a party that is exactly accustomed to winning elections in he told cheering Campaign workers As his wife Arlene Perty stood next to my heart is full of great love and great emotion i say to you that i will simply do the Best i he paid tribute to workers who had campaigned for the party 40 years ago and special homage to former Ontario Leader Stephen Lewis and Tommy the party first Federal new Democrat Marion who runs a women toppled Peterson in his own Riding of London Centre As her party Tore seats from southwestern Ontario bastions that had been Liberal for almost 20 the first Premier to lose his seat in a provincial election since Alberta conservative Don Getty fell from Grace in took the stage at his Campaign Headquarters announce he was resigning the Leader i will be tendering my resignation As the Leader of the Peterson told Campaign Many of whom were it was a great any shortcomings were mine and i accept that Respo Sibili who made part of his Victory see Toronto area Page 4 Ontario results popular 56315 nip Liberal pc other doer says Roe Victory really helps by George Nikides a delighted Gary doer credited the new democratic party Peoples Agenda for its stunning election Victory in Ontario yes but other observers labelled the re sult a symptom of a disgruntled most observers agreed Ontario election result will attract some voters to the Manitoba new its going to be very boasted were a grassroots its really going to help us in terms of the message were trying to the Manitoba nip Leader said Ontario who brought the province its first nip embraced a platform calling for stiffer corporate taxes and the elimination of the goods and services a platform doer has echoed throughout the Manitoba Manitoba Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs said ontarian voted against a government that called an election three years into a five year it was political opportunism for Peterson and the voters of Ontario have very clearly said they dont want to have an see Carstairs Page 4 Kuwait girl says canadians leave Gatwick from Preu Tersip it was very interesting and Boring and scary and 14yearold Farrah said about the Iraq occupied Kuwait she left earlier yesterday on a Canadia chartered Jet that evacuated 140 members of the Canadian Community she and her twin spoke to reporters by Telephone in the transit lounge of London Gatwick Airport during a refuelling the flight later continued on to where their Evelyn was waiting for their father remained in and the family has asked that his name be withheld for his the Sisters were among 135 people from Canada who boarded the chartered iraqi airways Boeing 707 in Kuwait Early soviets hint at in Relief arms it was the first Large scale Airlift of people from Canada since westerners became trapped after Iraq invasion of Kuwait on scores of other canadians have left in Small groups by air or Overland since about 60 Canadian citizens Are believed still in most of them the external affairs department in yesterdays departures left about 300 people in the Canadian Community in Kuwait and Iraq including landed immigrants and people with family ties or other close links with from the Canadia chartered plane flew to where it picked up another five people from Canada along with 12 americans and 10 and went on to the turkish most of them boarded a waiting chartered nation air Dofi and flew to London in route to a few got off in including three Canad Anborn children and their lebanese and Janice an officer with the Canadian embassy in said Paul the Canadian ambassador to from accompanied the flight to Ankara but plans to return to her duties in where her husband also works in the Lapointe i think she deserves a the ambassador see Iraq Page 4 Index Ann Landers answers autos business comics Jumble movies real sport record Tenpo warts Flat 37 34 25 37 43 17 61 38 17 38 21 4s 40 9 i7 60 44 33 34 White Shell wild Rice fails for second year running Maureen free press by Maureen Houston Winnipeg free press Shatford Lake almost Complete failure of the wild Rice Harvest in and around the White Shell has blown away profits for producers and native hand pickers for the second straight Mike head of the department of natural resources wild Rice management said flooding from heavy june Rains at the critical germination stage has caused a 90percent crop allure in Roost of Eastern re peat o last year when drought and heat destroyed the failure will mean financial problems for about 30 producers and a handful of traditional native hand pickers Are already hurting from the fail economically and Emo its a tradition and a chief Jerry Fontaine of the nearby fort Alexander Reserve peo ple get to visit each other and theres the added incentive of making extra he the Chance to pocket an extra or More for the Winter will not be that a lot of Money to some of our for hundreds of 500 to indians from reserves As far away As the Northern Interlake have made the annual pilgrimage to the White Shell to Harvest wild using Sticks and canoes to Knock the grains from their have exclusive rights to the Rice in the Park for the first few weeks of the which starts this because Only Small patches exist on three natural resources has declared the entire White Shell Park hand harvesting Randy a producer and see natives Page 5 Randy Rabat harvests his meagre wild Rice crop at Lake Statford to ;