Winnipeg Free Press

Sunday, January 13, 1991

Issue date: Sunday, January 13, 1991
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Previous edition: Saturday, January 12, 1991

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Romanian police use clubs to end protest in capital Winnipeg free january 1991 5 from Bucharest romanian riot police crushed an antigovernment demonstration in the capital Bucharest last clubbing and kicking protesters and witnesses the clashes flared when about demonstrators barricaded a Central Boulevard following a pro test March by supporters of the biggest no parliamentary opposition the civic some blocked the University Square outside the hotel intercontinental and hurled stones at hundreds of police who surrounded the police gave no details but wit Nesses said police kicked people As they Lay on the ground and arrested Gorbachev seeks new pm in shakeup Moscow a president Mik Hail Gorbachev proposed yesterday that the finance minister be elevated to prime minister As part of a shake up of the National the president of Leonid said Gorbachev told the federation Council that he will nominate Valentin Pavlov to head the new soviet Gorbachev choices for his Cabi net Are being closely watched for clues to whether his new team will be More or less disposed to Radical economic Reform than the team assembled by the current prime minis Nikolai Ryzhkova suffered a heart attack in december and is still in Gorbachev is scheduled to present Pavlovs nomination and those of other Cabinet members to the supreme soviet tomorrow for confirm its me for thi tax Pam to take away the cites credit card who knows better than the taxpayer if taxes should be raised or not Why cant we have a referendum on each and every City tax increase we need 7000 signed ballots so we can lobby the Premier of Manitoba to pass an act of legislation to Force the City to ask taxpayers to vote on any tax we need your signed ballots and please Send donations to continue the Battle against High taxes caused by oversized n i Waht Iown of u Send to 206584 a Ombina r3m 3x7 name address at least 10 journalists were among those a photographer for the French news Agency Francco Ruksc was taken to Hospital bleeding and concussed after a fierce beating on the head and kicks to the they attacked us when they saw we were trying to take pictures of police beating up and they smashed our said a romanian journalist who was also the riot police chased protesters out of the Square and into sides where the violence of the March to government head quarters and the state television building earlier reflected growing discontent with the National Salva Tion front government which took Power in december 1989 after the overthrow and killing of communist party Leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his the demonstrators called for president Ion Iliescu to step and chanted Down with communism and we no longer want to work for the Many marchers in the column shouted support for exiled eking who was thrown out of the country last month when he arrived for a private his first since being forced to abdicate by the communists in the rally was called to support of government opponents in the City which has been crippled by strikes and protests for More than a talks in Timisoara be tween the strikers and government officials ended sources workers at several firms were maintaining stoppages begun 16 to demand the resignation of the the cites mayor and the police chief for the Timis Region resigned thursday but were still in their posts at weeks a government delegation headed by natural resources and Industry minister Mihai Zisu held talks at Timisoara Friday and yesterday strike leaders from the Timis but spokesmen for the strik ers said the governments proposals were strikers representatives contacted from Bucharest by Telephone said they were prepared to continue their movement until their demands were unable to pay your debts considering bankruptcy for tree initial consultation on options Avail Able Contact David Guttman trustee or Elizabeth estate David Guttman trustee in bankruptcy 502 Airport executive Centre 1780 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Anc followers were holding a prayer Vigil for a murdered Anc the attackers sprayed about 200 women and children with bullets from ak47 assault shotguns and they never said they just opened said petrus wounded twice in a he said the attack was carried out by More than 10 Black others said As Many As 20 men were in there was screaming and said Rachel aunt of Anc supporter Mph Kelli Christof Fel who was found strangled last week after he was kidnapped by unidentified we were preparing to Bury now we have Many More to Ncube the the latest in a series of mass killings in was one of the deadliest in six months of violence Between political groups in townships around More than people have been killed in the Spear and gun South Africa worst Urban violence in most of the violence has been Between township supporters of the Anc and migrant workers Loyal to the Zulu based inkatha Freedom the Ancs main there have also been Battles be tween the Anc and two More Radical the pan africanist Congress and Azania people Anc officials said thugs hired by inkatha carried out yesterdays they said inkatha had used a local gang engaged in a vendetta with some Anc members in there was no immediate comment from a movement favored by Pretoria which is influential among Rural members of the six million Strong Zulu the coun try police spokesman Johan Mostert said at least 35 people were killed in the funeral attack and 40 were two hand grenades were used and 70 ak47 Bullet cartridges were found at the 33 sailors lost in Atlantic storm by Stephen Thorne the Canadian press Halifax a Spanish fishing trawler missing since Friday after noon was found adrift in the midst of a raging Atlantic storm her windows smashed and radio awash in but even As the 25member Crew of the Eduardo Chao was declared 33 More from a swedish bound cargo ship were feared lost in the same area 400 Kilometres East of most were East in the 240metre protector apparently succumbed to the five Storey seas and Hurricane Force winds which had been pounding her for More than eight she disappeared from radar just As a Rescue aircraft arrived at searchers could find yesterday was an Oil he was in a bad said Reid the last Man to talk to the protector As her terrified Crew huddled on the the captains wife and child were with he was there one minute the next minute he was its quite disheartening to be that the state of the 50metre Chao was a testament to the fearsome might of the raging she had limited use of her engines and had taken a the windows have been smashed out of the wheelhouse and All his communications have been gone unserviceable due to said Ross Brown of the Rescue coordination Centre in what a aircraft from across North America and ships from around the world had converged on the scene where the Singapore registered cargo vessel protector with 30 East a a pakistani and a ghanaian aboard apparently went Bill Macdonald said the chances of finding survivors Are Board knew nurses would Cross by Stevens wild Winnipeg free press Swan River striking nurses at the Swan River Valley Hospital say the Hospital Board did not sign an essential services agreement because it knew some nurses would Cross the picket they knew ahead of said Marion president of Swan River local they knew they would have the Board chairman denied the decision not to sign was influenced by knowledge that some nurses wanted to continue work nine of the locals 93 Mem Bers have joined two manage ment nurses to maintaining essential services at the 88bed some of the working nurses brought in their personal effects before the strike the Union and Are camped out in a vacant Hospital both say the Hospital Board decided on less than two weeks before the strike began not to sign an essential services striking nurse Carol Anderson said the Union imposed additional conditions on the Hospital As punishment for the these included triple time for working nurses and giving the Union authority to determine what constituted emergencies and essential a Hospital spokesman said such terms were unacceptable to the there were those nurses who were concerned that they would not have the right to work and they would be shut out by the Board if we signed the essential services Anderson said under the Essen tial services agreement the Union would determine who she questioned whether the working nurses had the right experience to maintain All Neces sary As an she said none of the regular operating room nurses were at so the Swan River Hospital has not faced any serious Emer both sides Poland drops Tyminski slander probe from the news services Warsaw a polish prosecutor has dropped a controversial slander investigation of Toronto business Man Stanislaw Tyminski after for i7515uu free initial consultation on get starting up a Busi Ness income tax accounting Merv boys 7758231 6334249 news Roundup Mer polish prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki said he does not want the matter the country news Agency reported a Toronto computer business owner and Leader of Cana Das Small libertarian who eliminated Mazowiecki from the polish presidential race was investigated for alleged slandering of a state a charge that carries a penalty of up to eight years in the inquiry was prompted by Tyminski statement at a 17 Campaign rally that Mazowiecki be Best Choice save 1040 store wide we pay the 7745544 493 notre Danic ave open ample 1kee parking since 11m7 6696633 1795 Henderson Hwy ample free parking traded Poland by mismanaging the Economy and Selling off state assets at undervalued four guerrillas killed Jerusalem israeli troops killed four palestinians guerrillas in a nighttime gun Battle in Southern the army said an israeli patrol encountered the guerrillas Friday night while patrol Ling israels self declared Security zone and opened the army com Mand said in there were no casualties to the israeli it Black activist stabbed new York Al Sharpton was stabbed in the Chest yesterday minutes before the controversial Black activist was to Lead a protest March through a neighbourhood marked by racial two men were arrested in the stabbing at a Street Corner in the predominantly White Brooklyn neighbourhood of said police spokesman de was taken to Coney Island where he was Sta conscious and resting Comfort said Hospital spokeswoman Barbara adhesive recalled Toronto another Brand of denture adhesive is being pulled from store shelves across Canada after it was found to contain traces of a Cream sold in is the third Brand of denture adhesive to be recalled in recent its Procter and Gamble said All boxes of the product Are being pulled from stores and Consumers Are warned not to use it if they have it at or fix super grip was recalled earlier this As was Cushion aids charges Laid in a Case described by prosecutors As the first of its kind in police arrested a 45yearold unemployed car Penter Friday for allegedly infecting a woman and the child to which she gave birth with the aids David Scott Crother of Santa bar Bara turned himself in to police to answer a county grand jury indict ment on 15 counts of assault with a deadly one for each of the sexual liaisons he allegedly had with an unidentified woman Between sep tember 1988 and prosecutors said Crother knew he had the aids virus As Early As yet had sex with the woman repeatedly without telling her about it or using a jacket to Kiu for new York leather eight Ball jackets have become the latest teen fashion to die police said quran thursday night became the third Young new yorker killed since no vember for the fashionable which features a Pool Ball Emblem on the quran was fatally shot in Brooklyn by a mugger Bent on stealing the which quran Mother gave him for police ;