Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 7, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Stellar Success Star trek to series blasts doubtful careers into High popularity orbit 33 w la i motoring car testers get around automakers do Field tests around the world to rate performance in All climes 25 focus great Divide Diagonal line splits Manitoba politics in two pieces sunny today 28 Clear tonight 9 second cuss number om6 september free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets emmy dry Hwy i outside we numb main switchboard Daftary 9s7os50 claimed 8568330 Mill nip tramples Peterson s gets snap Call to polls blows up in Ontario premiers face workers at nip leaders Bob Raes Campaign Headquarters celebrate the party Ontario 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 turned Ontario political map upside Down ousting Liberal Premier David Peterson from his own seat and form ing a majority the impressive win produced the first Ever nip government East of the Only other new democratic government currently in Power in Canada is in the late last the nip was elected or leading in 77 the liberals were elected or leading in 34 and the progressive conservatives were elected or leading in new Democrat Marion who runs a women toppled Peterson in his own Riding of London the Liberal vote collapsed As new democrats took Over South Western Ontario bastions that had been lib eral for almost 20 who watched results with his family in a Toronto scored an easy win in his Toronto Riding of York South to join his nip colleagues in a Romp Over the governing in beyond said former nip Leader Stephen who led the party to its previous High of 38 seats in i feel very emotional people have worked a lifetime for in a beaming Federal nip Leader Audrey Mclaughlin said the win would help the party in but this is a Victory for Premier Bob Rae and his she conservative Leader Mike Harris was elected in his Northern Ontario Riding of Nipissing As the tories gained some ground but remained a Distant Liberal Cabinet ministers from around the province went Down to including transport minister Bill Revenue min ister remo corrections minister Richard women minister Mavis tourism minister Ken Shirley minister for the disabled and culture minister Bob but some of Petersons former top Cabinet colleagues Hung on to their including Energy minister Lyn treasurer Robert financial institutions minis Ter Murray Elston and education minister Sean Conway blamed the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord for his party there is no question that there was a great Deal of frustration in the aftermath of see Toronto Page 4 Ontario y election today nip Liberal pc 34 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 Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs said Marians 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 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 dc8 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 about 20 of those on the plane were Lapointe other countries have also chartered iraqi planes to bring their women and children out of Iraq and but As hundreds of foreigners struggled to get Iraq imposed a Law mandating possible life imprisonment for those caught trying to leave without an exit visa is required for anyone to some of the canadians who left yesterday spent Days waiting for their exit while others had theirs processed quickly in a Batch once the charter was Iraq Justice minister Akram Abdulkader ordered Public prosecutors and police to revive a 1987 Law that a foreigner violating the entry and exit procedures see Iraq Page 4 Ann Landers 37 answers 34 autos 25 Bridge business 43 classified 17 comics 61 crossword 38 deaths Horoscope Jumble Puzzle 21 Legate movies 40 people 34 49 sports 67 sports record m stocks 44 Tempo 33 to listings 34 Warhaft weekend 36 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 Flo percent crop failure in most of Eastern Manitoba re peat of 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 Camp theres the added incentive of making extra he the Chance to pocket an extra f7qo or More for the Winter will not be that a Tot 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 has declared the entire White Shell Park hand harvesting Randy a producer and see natives Page 5 Randy Raban harvests Bis meagre wild Rice crop at Lake Shatford in ;