Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Name game what you Call your children Sticks with them for life sports soccer fans die in Brawl at least 40 South africans die at exhibition match Between Soweto teams 25 party Post hard to fill farm Boss Yeutter takes new Job with gop Cloudy today8 Cloudy tonight 16 second cuss mail registration number 0286 weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard Home delivery 957o550 classified 9562330 january Sun rises sets Moon rises sets demonstrators guard lithuanian parliament by Thorn Shanker Chicago Tribune Moscow thousands of demonstrators stood guard last night outside the lithuanian parliament in the capital of defying a soviet army curfew imposed after troops seized the Baltic republics to and radio Tower in a predawn raid that left up to 13 crackdown jeopardizes raising Hopes that a Compromise might be the lithuanian leadership urged the people Power guards to return Home after receiving assurances from the military that troops would take no More action against the All through the armoured vehicles with searchlights and loudspeakers had patrolled the streets of ordering people into their tanks swung their Cannon barrels in huge arcs to disperse the in the first East West rupture since the cold War the United states was joined by the european Community and nations of for Merly communist Eastern Europe in strongly condemning the use of Force to halt Lithuania drive for in external affairs minister Joe Clark said yesterday that Canada May cancel some Aid programs to the soviet Union because of the bloody a letter to soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev see sandbags Page 4 a lithuanian woman weeps outside the seized to analysis the soviet Union into Rob new order legacy destroyed at Vilnius by David Remnick the Washington Post Moscow the soviet army assault in Lithuania threatens to leave behind additional casualties of history the country perestroika Reform the new world order of closer superpower even Mikhail Gorbachev own legacy As a democratic the deaths in and the fear of violence in Ukraine and other come less than a month after for eign minister Eduard Shevardnadze stunned the world by resigning and warning of an approach ing soviet see Vilnius Page 5 Lake of the Woods District Hospital offers use of Beds during nurses Mother of dead woman blames Thompson ads for daughters nurses see room move to As talks resume by Bain Gair negotiators for the Manitoba nurses Union and Manitoba health organizations were saying Little last night about their first serious negotiations since nurses walked off the Job negotiations resumed at 3 yesterday and conciliator Jim Mur Dock was still taking proposals Back and Forth Between the two sides late last mho director Ron Birt said he was unsure How Long the talks would theres a lot of big issues still out but at least both sides Are still he obviously everybody wants to try and get this thing Well go As Long As it nurses Union president Vera Cher neck said the Union negotiating team was but still waiting for More significant movement from mho last i dont want to sound too optimism she but were Here and weve always said were prepared to reach a we have come we have room to but that Doest mean this will be resolved about unionized nurses throughout the province set up picket lines Money has been a key Issue in the the nurses Are asking for a 27percent raise Over two while Mhos last offer was 20 per cent Over three including pay Misericordia general Hospital spokesman Ron Hill said the hospitals emergency could re it May be monday or tuesday or but if we can reopen we Hill said spokesmen for the health sciences Centre and Boniface general the two facilities in the City with the busiest emergency said it want Clear How Many extra emergency cases they but they were Able to Hill said management was scheduled to meet at 2 today with nurses to discuss requirements for see patient Page 4 Gulf Only god knows 1tf up photo in chief kept waiting by Saddam Canadian civilians in Qatar train yesterday in the use of Gas masks in Case of chemical attack by sleepless nights the lot of soldiers wives Index Ann 12 10 Horoscope 14 Jumble Puzzle 19 7 11 19 sports record to 11 23 14 10 25 29 9 10 by Glen Mackenzie Kim Fenwick and Pam Goodwin didst sleep too Well last with less than 48 hours to the a imposed deadline for Iraq to withdraw from the Winnipeg women Are becoming More worried about the Prospect of their husbands going to whose Robert left for the Gulf said the Strain has grown As the deadline Ive got two really big she in partly worried about whether he will come Back at she added in an there has also been a lot of talk about possible germ if he does come i wonder if he will come Home All right Fenwick said her husband has been in the army for 19 years and she knew when she married him six years ago his Job would dictate some periods of forced this the Prospect of War is see daddy Page 4 from Preu Terrp the in Secretary general met with iraqi president Saddam Hus Sein for More than three hours yesterday in a bid to make peace in the persian Gulf and said later Only god knows if there will be Javier Perez de arriving in Paris from Iraq Early would not say whether his let hour meeting with Saddam succeeded in averting if you believe in then i ask you to the in chief there is still a possibility of but unfortunately there is still a possibility of Israel would hit commons to it was a Long wait yesterday for Perez de Cuellar to talk with sad the 71yearold former peruvian Diplomat sat next to a phone in a government guest House for six 15 minutes to be called by the iraqi Saddam met with a japanese socialist delegation and iraqi in a radio the iraqi Leader reiterated his country is ready to fight to keep that Doest Surprise but there making a tremendous mis president Bush shot Back in Perez de Cuellar left Baghdad immediately after his meeting with in officials said the talks lasted 3v4 earlier reports said the talks were 2y2 hours the meeting took place two Days before tomorrows deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait or face possible i have always said that i am neither optimistic or pessimistic but always i could not have been a Secretary general if i was not Perez de Cuellar said in see War Page 4 assessments cited in layoffs tax refunds May hit million by Nick Martin i employees Laid off this year can look to tax refunds ordered on Overas messed properties As part of the Al Golden has Winnipeg is heading toward a tax refund Bill of million this year and it will get worse in succeeding the Gle Lawn councillor pre citing City finance depart ment City assessor Bob Brown said appeals of the 1987 reassessment have Cost the City about million in tax refunds and because commercial properties were last on the list of largely residential appeals filed in 1987 and Are Only now being the City will be hit by the major refunds this coupled with the refunds Are three years of interest accrued while the Board of revision cleared its huge every million in tax refunds represents one per cent of the 1991 budget that Council Hopes to limit to a increase through Lay offs and service finance com Mittee chairman Greg be this is the worst year for it to Selinger tache the cites assessment department has come under increasing fire As big business chalks up Victory after Victory on assessment appeals be fore the Board of Eaton recently won a refund on property taxes for 1988 and 1989 for its downtown while Garden uni City and Kildonan place regional malls Are carving up million for the same the appeals of the 1990 reassessment Are Only beginning to be adding the potential for see City Page 8 Small percentages add up to shortfall of big Bucks t the percentages Are the Bucks Many people who appealed 1987 property reassessments Flat out City assessor Bob Brown while others got less than they want with Only 179 of More than appeals still to be heard by the Board of assessment reductions have represented Only or cent of the cites assessment base in per cent in 1988 and per cent in the reductions Are not putting much of a Dent in the total tax base of the he but the successful appeals trans late to about million in property tax refunds and each million is one per cent of the cites the last appeals from the huge 1987 backlog Are potentially the big properties with any 1987 refund to include 1988 and 1989 plus All of which is being racked up while appeals of the 1990 reassessment Are getting under Eaton just won Over three years on its downtown four regional malls will share private appraiser Karl Farstad recent victories include an out of court settlement with the City Grant ing the Triec building and Winni see big Page 8 1 ;