Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1991 Page 3 Brian City editor 33 sailors feared lost in Atlantic a Sfirri my Ulf Warwin Little support Arab War viewed As foreign by Bruce Owen a Canadian tradition of leading the world in peacekeeping would be stained with the blood of this country soldiers if War Breaks out in the Middle that was the View of Many people shared As they gathered Over Coffee at Neil boyhood restaurants or in Smoky downtown Beer Halls to talk about Canadas role in the persian Gulf As the clock ticked closer to the 15 deadline for War against iraqi president Saddam Many people said Canada and other Western countries have no business becoming embroiled in a conflict Between Arab countries a conflict that has More to do with american gunboat diplomacy and cheap Oil than lasting peace in the Young people dont have to be killed just for one country said John owner of johnnys place food bar on Garry if they Start its going to be a the they should be talking they should be More flexible so there is no Anna Iwuc and her son Richard As they loaded up the weeks groceries into their both said the United states has no business calling the shots in what is essentially an Arab it would be Nice if they settled this through peace talks and not Anna everything should be done to avoid Richard a fair amount of it has to do with Brian Mulroney and his support of Ronald Reagan continuing Over to George Why should Canadian troops be especially under command were More of a peacekeeping Force and that what we should be i also think that if Kuwait was in Central we would have never heard of it and there be this threat of i dont see Why it be settled in a different said Colin a Veteran of the second world War and Over a few cold ones at the Garrick there should be a United nations not id really hate to see Young kids get sent Over there for no after two you dont feel too Good about seeing another but All this Guy is doing is making the world an unsafe Hes not doing anything to make so if there going to have a they better blow the Guy Harmans waitress Sheila Hushka also said Canada and the United states have no business being in the As she served customers Friday i think they should have to Settle their own she we dont know anything about their culture or their Way of this is something that has to be settled by the arabs and Barber de Tober saying military action against Iraq wont solve anything unless the palestinian Issue is there will never be peace if they dont get their own towers partner Klaus Graef f saw it a different he said and the rest of the free has no Choice but to stand up to using whatever Means necessary to drive him out of Why should the americans just defend if you allow too much for he will go All you have to Stop a wild the Guys at the Navy and air Force veterans in Canada clubroom on Garry Street also said the threat of War might be the Only Way to resolve the i dont agree with the whole said Maury but i think we should be doing something about Canada is doing their part and should carry on doing what there in not a Lover of the but i think there doing the right Brian Public affairs officer for the military said since the Gulf crisis began last and the Mohawk standoff at Young men have been flocking to sign the numbers have been just Short of he adding those numbers Are up 50 per cent from last Koshul said it was unlikely the army and the reserves would be called up to go to the Gulf if there was but were prepared to do anything were told to he were pretty confident to fill in any role were asked Garth whose son David is stationed with the military in said Canadian troops would be massacred if they were put into a combat i think its obscene that these kids could be sent Over there with the equipment Treyve he they dont stand a look at our its not that these kids Are they just dont have the tools to do the photos by Wayne Glowacki Barbers de and Klaus Graeff disagree on Hope lives for peace with Honor by Paul Wiecek prominent Winni Eggers like everyone else these Days have been keeping a close watch As the Gulf crisis clock ticks towards heres a sampling of what some of the better known Winni Eggers have observed Monty entertainer i believe the poker game int Over i have a feeling in my gut there int going to be a Hall said in a phone interview from los whether its in Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar or an emissary from i think someones going to inter Vene and save the world from a nobody in his right mind really wants a nothing comes out of it except death and Hall non Gary Manitoba nip Leader i think Iraq is a barbarian country in terms of its leadership and i think it should be condemned but i also think we Haven Given sanctions enough time to doer said the 15 deadline for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait should also be extended and a face saving gesture offered to the who have recently tied their withdrawal to an International conference on the palestinian if a conference on the palestinian Issue is the then id rather see that than hundreds of thousands of people Sheila Hushka says Kuwait is an Arab John Hatzoglou Calls looming Gulf War a disaster j Colin Over a couple cold claims he Doest want War but if it get Tyrone Winnipeg Blue bombers linebacker everybody around Here thinks War is Jones said in a phone interview from Jones said he has two cousins and several friends with the forces in the in from a Small town and theres a lot of our people Over id go there too if i had its All a part of standing up and fighting for what you believe Jones Odd Sharon Manitoba Liberal Leader i have this terrible trepidation that were going Down the Road to War and no ones willing to drop off the was should be the final solution and i dont think weve reached that Point in on the Side of those people who say sanctions Haven been Given enough time to we should give the economic Model a decent try before we Start looking at a military non Phil Winnipeg jets defence Man nobody likes to see your country go to War because its definitely going to take some lives and families will get said a Minnesota in not much of a politician but i think George Bush believes what Hes doing and he be doing it if he didst think its in the country Best Housley said he was relieved when he recently found out he int eligible for the draft in the United should there be you have to be 26 or younger and i just turned non Al City councillor i dont want to see bully tactics used just to prove were bigger and stronger than but if the in decides the Only Way to preserve peace is to take control of the situation through then i oppose Golden that hed still like to see economic sanctions Given a Chance to they have Oil and we need it but we also have things they need and in not convinced the sanctions have had enough of a Chance to web keeps title of bad boy on bureaucratic Block t no pain married with three when i first began writing this the bad boys on the bureaucratic Block were the unemployment insurance provincial social services and the workers compensation three years i get considerably fewer Calls about Pic and not so with the they Are still coming in at the same about 10 a most Are about lengthy delays in approving some Are just simply like the two that came my Way in the last couple of heres what happened to 20yearold Tara Zec Hoval when her a Boyfriend told the web she had lied about How she injured her the without asking her to Cut her off last four weeks before Nice her payments were restored this month when the Board decided the a Boyfriend want telling the truth and that she injured herself lifting a 12kilogram Ketchup Container to refill a nine kilogram dispenser at a Wendy restaurant weighs Only 98 pounds 44 kilograms herself and had not Hurt her As the Young Man bending Down to pick up a Zec Hoval already has had one operation to fix her a Bone popped after she carried the and expects to have another Mike Ward later this year because it Hast her Wayne called me a few Days before Christmas to complain about the boards Cavalier handling of the i suggested he write a letter to Pat the boards fair practices advocate to Manitoba Gordon who investigates government bureaucracy and to Send me a it within a few the Board called Hancock and his she made a statement rebuffing her a boyfriends allegation she was based on vindictiveness because she had broken off their a couple of Days she received a Cheque for backdated to when she was arbitrarily Cut off six weeks had the Board bothered to Check on this particular instead of believing his claims and cutting off it would have discovered that the City police have been called twice about his continually harassing her that he had written cheques on their joint Bank knowing there were no funds that he had been evicted from his apartment after pretending to be a Security guard for the and also had been ordered by the courts to repay his Mother for using her credit card without ill be the first to agree that a persons less than honest background be the Beall and Endall of believing whether he or she int telling the but it sure the Point Only his word was accepted and that totally out of in Hancock wrote in his we have the word of a 20yearold with a very clean in contrast to the word of a 20yearold vindictive surely this transparent lie can be dealt with Joe the boards Media relations admitted it should have been dealt with More she was certainly denied due process if this is what he it is not our practice to suspend benefits solely based on allegations made about a particular he promised to investigate what took but before doing that he explained what normally once an allegation is he told both tie accuser and the claimant Are asked to make after that is the Board can then suspend a it then goes to an adjudicator who makes the final the next a different Cottreau got Back to me to say that Zec ovals were suspended without her having an Opportunity to As far As i can see proper procedure was he this want just an not an Anonymous it was a sworn a binding Legal it was enough to act after taking a statement from the client we gave her the Benefit of the enough to act on come on Cottreau told me that last year the Board received 138 tips about suspected of Only 29 were investigated by the Board with three being turned Over to the ramp for investigation and two to the Crown for possible i wonder How Many people were unfairly non heres the other runaround that came my Ive passed it across to Orloff for her to take a look once its a mind boggling decision where the Board four months that up rail machinist Paul Langevin did injure his Arm and shoulder at work last april while handling heavy but has refused to accept a second claim that clearly relates to the first married with three Young was forced to go on welfare while cars insurance Sun and the web disputed who should cover the Sun life finally chipped i guess i blame myself for not going to workers compensation when i first injured he told he carried on a week while opening a door he experienced intense pain again Arm and i blew it he i went to my doctor for but stayed on the Job doing Light office i had to give it up after four months because the muscle spasms became they still in the web told him hed have to wait six to eight weeks before a decision could be last the Board finally got off the they wrote me stating they accept the first injury claim to the left Arm and but do not accept the reoccurring injury a week which really does not make a whole lot of maybe he should swear out an quite in hoping Orloff can resolve his runaround because this web decision makes no sense to me at victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy write Mike hell look into 4 ;