Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Winnipeg free january tourists die As gales lash British Isles London Reuter at least 28 people were killed As gales swept across the British Isles Over the including six Swiss tourists and 11 Crew members of two the maltese registered the 910tonne was sailing from Spain for the North Ern English port of Liverpool with a cargo of Sunflower Oil when it capsized off the British coast Early coast guards in Wales said 10 Crew were killed or presumed North Wales police later the 10 included six the norwegian one one portuguese and one Man from Cape two polish sailors were four bodies were recovered from the sea and an Al night search for six crewmen still missing was called off later a missing British registered the was found after a Daylong res Cue Mission off the West coast of the Irish Rescue coordination Centre said a Spanish Sailor who had worked on the ship was missing and presumed but the British Captain and Crew were authorities abandoned an air sea search for a British couple swept away while walk ing on the Beach at the South England resort of across the Irish 14 people including a group of Swiss when weekend Atlantic gales lashed the six on a Hunting trip in Western were killed saturday along with an Irish their Van was crushed by a falling tree near in two men sleeping in a Van were crushed to death when a Wall fell on another Man died in also in the and his sister was critically injured when a Chimney fire fanned by High winds swept through their one Man was electrocuted and three others were crushed to death by falling Trees in other accidents across Ireland caused by the with winds gusting to 160 in the storms also killed a 12year old boy saturday night after a Wall collapsed near his Home in m photos chilled to the Bone an Indian woman and her daughter try to warm themselves saturday beside a makeshift fuelled by a Sheet of on a Roadside in new the Mercury plunged to c in the coldest Day the Indian capital has seen in the last 23 a Kashmiri boy uses a paddle to test the ice on picturesque dal which has Frozen for the first time in four the recent bitter cold snap has claimed an estimated 52 Rushdie head demanded Nicosia a hundreds of iranian students rallied yesterday in front of the British embassy in calling for the execution of author Salman they also demanded the immedi ate release of an iranian student jailed in Britain for planting a bomb in a store Selling Rushdie the satanic said Iran official islamic Republic news the Agency said the students joined relatives of the detained Ira Mehrdad who have Jpn of embassy since a spokesman said the Sitrin will continue until Kokayi is was arrested 1989 for attempting to place an explosive device in a Bookstore Selling Rushdie which Many mus lims consider he is to go on trial in London Kotabis Case has become a cause celebre for iranian who have used it to try to undermine iranian president Hashemi Rassan Janis efforts to mend relations with the Ahmad son of the late on saturday reaction around the world if Kokayi is not explosion at Power station site fatal for at least 21 in Guatemala Rushdie renewed Call decomposing every we army fight in Monad Kenya a foreigners evacuated from Soma Lias capital told yesterday of a City in with Large sections blasted and burned in Street Battles Between rebel and government forces that left corpses decomposing every the rebels said yesterday they had started their final offensive to end president Mohamed Siad Barres 21year Rule in a Horn of Africa country of eight the rebels say More than people have died in eight Days of on italian and air Craft evacuated hundreds of but the heavy fighting prevented italian cargo planes from continuing the Rescue operation yes Italy it said it would attempt a sea Rescue tomorrow if its planes could not land by egyptian sources reported that a saudi Airliner managed to land yesterday in the on a separate Mission to Rescue arabs trapped by the scores of foreign mostly women and said yesterday that Somalia capital is being Des they arrived a Day earlier at this Indian Ocean port aboard ital Ian cargo they said that primarily residential areas in the Northwest Ern Section of Mogadishu had been turned to there Are corpses decomposing everywhere in those said one swedish who spoke on condition of people just step aside and nobody does any Many of the foreigners did not want to be saying they hesitated to speak openly until their relatives and friends were safely out of the foreigners accused Siad Barres troops of killing civilians and looting stores since the rebel offensive intensified on started one member of my staff went Home by bus and a military car came up behind and tried to the swedish woman the bus didst move Over quickly enough and they started two men on the bus were Siad who during his Long Rule has manoeuvred the country through shifting alliances with the soviets and the United has Long been accused of human rights j the main rebel United somali has repeatedly re fused to negotiate with the presi in the Congress said yester Day that its reinforced by armed vehicles and insurgents from the had started their final assault on the Airport where they say Siad Barre is holed diplomats and other How have denied that Siad Barre has taken Refuge in an Airport Bun they say he has been at the presidential in the italian foreign ministry said it had evacuated 189 mostly ital on it said other flights were aborted saturday eve Ning and yesterday after fighting erupted anew in the says it evacuated More than 200 americans and other foreigners on the 17 canadians who had been in Somalia left the country last week for the portuguese wife of an italian Diplomat said that saturday had been one of the calmest Days in the past she left her husband behind in it was so she All these deserted All this White dust from the bom and nobody on the from the news services Guatemala City a Well exploded at an unfinished geothermal Power station in Western Guate spewing rocks and Earth and killing at least 21 officials said another 30 people were reported missing under the debris of shanty Homes smashed by the Hail of hot stones from the geothermal station which occurred saturday night and exam resumes fight London former prime minis Ter Margaret Thatcher has agreed to become the first president of a bipartisan group of British maps opposed to a Federal press reports said the organization is known As the Bruges after the belgian City where in a speech on expressed her opposition to full political Union in mohawks protest about 20 mohawks gathered yesterday to protest what they say is an upcoming construction project in a Pine Forest that was the scene of last Summers armed standoff Between indians and Beverly of a Kahn Satake Community radio said the protesters had placed signs on Trees which they claim have been marked by a construction the signs said no trespassing and this is Mohawk food ship sets out Djibouti a United nations ship carrying food for Northern Ethi opia left Djibouti yesterday to re open the rebel held red sea port of Masawa in an attempt to save millions from Masawa has been closed since it was seized by rebels of the eritrean Peoples liberation front last feb its reopening is seen As Cru Cial in efforts to save the lives of about four million people hit by drought after Rains have failed in the news Roundup Horn of Africa for the second Crosbie shortens trip Hanoi International Trade minister John Crosbie has been forced to Cut Short an official visit to Vietnam and postpone the rest of his tour of Southeast Asia because of a death in his delegation Mem Bers said they said who arrived in Hanoi on would leave Vietnam today for reactor Deal in works Washington the United states is completing a Deal to buy an advanced Type of nuclear reactor built by the soviet Union to Power systems in Federal officials the transaction would be the first major Sale Between the former antagonists of a sensitive space technology with military Thatcher Back in fray students entering their first year of studies at the the engineering school affiliated with the University of mans suicide fiery guard Glay three i Ruble second class Quebec a 30yearold Man died after setting himself on fire in the Tunnel beside the Plains of Abraham in Quebec the who was not was discovered burning late Friday night by an army official about to walk through the 13 Bishops ordained Vatican City Pope John Paul has ordained 13 new Bish including the Vatican new Secretary for foreign affairs and the head of the secretive opus Dei Orga the in White Robes trimmed with co celebrated the mass of the Epiphany with the Pope in Peters Basilica yester fund honors victims Montreal a fund has been set up by Canadian engineering student associations in memory of the 14 women killed at Ecol poly technique on the Money will go to two female Islamabad three including a 10yearold were killed when Indian Border guards opened fire along the troubled Kash Mir according to news re ports at least 15 people were also injured in the three hour incident late Pakistan urd Ulanga Guage newspapers bomb explosion fatal Bogota a wave of violence sweeping Colombia killed three More people when a powerful bomb destroyed a bar in a Small town Northwest of officials said the 20kilogram bomb blew up outside the bar in the town of la 95 Kilometres from the Capi saturday West Hawk Marine 13492239 by Thorn Shanker Chicago Tribune soviet Union has become a place where people Are judged by the Pedigree of their it is an overt and insulting form of segregation if you have Only rubles in your you cant get into cant eat in cant hire a taxi and cant get no despite the Kremlin protestations to the of the soviet Economy has become and on Moscow there is no doubt that capitalism has triumphed Over there always has been a huge and often embarrassing chasm Between the lives of foreign residents with dollars and their Rubl carrying so Viet but now everybody wants portraits of washing Hamilton and if there really Lucky the Jackson in their gladly dumping those red 10ruble notes bearing lenins face at 20 to this has caused an unofficial but widespread devaluation of the which has an artificial Exchange rate set by the state that renders it worthless outside the soviet Union and increasingly worthless is 1 outside a operated by the Helsinki based Stockmann a non began beating his wooden Cane on a correspondents imported station v v if the Man sail it was because car was parked too near a bus but that want really the Issue it was anger that a hard earned Ruble salary cant buy anything that any Good the signs Ohhara currency apartheid Are at the pizza hut on Kutuzov sky a line of shivering people perpetually snakes around the Corner waiting for admission to the crowded half of the restaurant reserved for Ruble but those with dollars enter through a differ Jit door into the hard currency sit right Down and most of the better restaurants in Moscow now take Only hard known in russian As and dont even bother with Ruble custom ers their doors Are permanently barred to average and if you have a whole new world of shopping opens up at a Chain of hard currency stores the soviet Berlioz a shops and the joint venture soviet Swiss Sadko that import food stuffs Froit almost All taxi Drivers now insist on payment in most hotels and restaurants have dispensed altogether with Ruble and present their Bills already calculated in a foreign Curren the Only Exchange rate to be figured is if the customer has japanese yen or Deutsch Marks instead of its a bit Dicker for the popular new legions of Street on the arbat pedestrian mall and at the Izma Ilovsky Craft salespeople quote Ruble and hard currency with Dollar sales reflecting the 20tol Blac Market Moscow municipal court has tried to rectify the Legal fiction of a state monopoly on foreign currency by striking Down article which prohibits private soviet citizens from Selling goods and property for hard Moscow police already Are enforcing the court order but in their own an american businessman in Moscow tells of being stopped recently for a traffic violation not far from the Kazan railway the cop demanded illegally that the 10ruble Fine be paid in six to be figured at the new official commercial Exchange when the businessman saying he had Only a the militiaman volunteered to make the City of Winnipeg tax prepayment discount prepayment of 1991 taxes will be accepted during the month of 1991 at a discount rate of on realty tax and on business tax which is equivalent to a maximum annual discount rate approximating the prepaid amount will be credited directly to the tax account and will appear As a credit on the 1991 tax please note that the prepayment credit must not exceed the net amount of the 1990 some examples of the savings Are As follows realty credit amount tax prepayment of taxes can most easily be made by mailing your Cheque for the net amount payable to the City of Winnipeg tax 510 main r3b please include the property address and Roll number with your cheques or Money orders must be made payable to the City of Winnipeg and prepayments must be received in the tax office before closing hour of january for further information please Telephone a ;