Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Protesting for peace local activists demonstrate outside Jake Epps office watchdogs unleashed Canadas cf18s have been cleared to attack the enemy gis set for ground War allies ready for Battle after air attacks soften up iraqis markets react to War news prices soar As bombs hit dive As missiles hit Israel Cloudy today3 Cloudy tonight 10 second cuss mail Rea Simmion number 0286 january 1991 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Home delivery i Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 943933t Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 d Israel holds Back d Jordan on High Alert Canadian pilots get ready to join fray Siles strike Israel from the news services Tel Aviv Iraq launched a missile attack on Israel last firing eight scud missiles into downtown Tel Aviv and Haifa in a Long feared development that seemed Likely to draw the jewish state into the rapidly escalating the missiles had explosive not the Poison Gas warheads that had been there were conflicting reports about casual ties israeli radio said there were and coalition warplanes hammered Iraq again and again yesterday in what one commander said would be War 24 hours a Day to expel the iraqis from president Bush was outraged by the attack on Israel and the White House said bombers from the desert storm Alliance had been sent for a fresh wave of air strikes against iraqi Israel radio said Bush has promised israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir the would retaliate against the iraqis intensively for the attacks on Israel said it reserved the right to but held off last the and Iraq that israeli involvement in the Gulf War would break the Arab states Loose from the desert storm coalition arrayed against Jor also fearing an israeli moved to its highest military Alert since the 1967 Mideast Canadian fighter pilots began preparing to join the action and possibly take on iraqi on the British tanks and coalition troops were reported moving North toward the Kuwait Border and a possible desert showdown with the Dugin iraqi forces in the occupied so so said defence Secretary see Iraq Page 10 j a photo a burned out Shell of a Van sits amid rabble in Tel Aviv after yesterdays missile Gulf War summary d Iraq attacks Israel with scud missiles armed with not d about eight injuring six or seven no deaths Are d Israel reserves right to but holds urged by not to Rock desert storm d prime minister Mulroney convenes emergency meeting of War Cabinet for second consecutive says attack on Israel May Lead to change in Canadas d president Bush expresses sends fresh wave of bombers into d Iraq fires scuds on military base in saudi shoots one d White House demands surrender of iraqi president Saddam saying it is now too late for him to end fighting by pulling out of d ground forces Are reported moving North in saudi taking up jump off positions near kuwaiti d external affairs minister Joe Clark gives three iraqi diplomats 48 hours to get out of Tomahawk cruise missile hurtles toward Iraq after scuds Rock m 1 a to Tel Haifa by David Firestone new Day Jerusalem As an Early morning missile attack struck two israeli cities people across the country rushed to there were reports of injuries and dam but there were no immediate reports of the radio reported Tel Aviv and Haifa had been hit by several mis Siles just after 2 local the israeli army and the Pentagon in Washington reported that the mis Siles apparently carried convention Al israeli radio said there was a report of at least seven minor in at the site of one missile strike in Tel the Wall of an apartment House was blown twisted Metal and shattered con Crete was strewn and the warhead carved a 20metre to my people were a Man identified As the mayor of Tel Aviv told television reporters at the we have taken car of the the the see no Page 10 Puzzle Legate Ann Landers Bridge business 38 50 m real estate 49 4s record crossword deaths 18 to Ustinas 88 entertainment Horoscope first iraqi War kill turns Pilot into hero by Timothy Phelps new Day Eastern saudi maintenance Crew who helped put the sleek american f15 fighters in the air Over cheered As Steve fresh from his first engagement of the new taxied to a in the Early hours of the it had been slim picking for most of the f15 whose Job it is to escort and protect american and Allied bombers to and from but an air Force Pilot from spotted one of the few iraqi planes to Challenge the Allied air Armada during the initial attacks As he flew like a worried Mother Over his package of bomb the iraqi apparently a French made Al Mirage Jet May have been chasing one of three other american f15s in the flight see Sparrow Page 4 Saddam will pm vows by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa Iraq missile attack on Israel proves Saddam Hussein War machine must be prime minister Mulroney said last showing his told reporters the iraqi leadership will have to pay for firing 10 scud b missiles at three Sites in he said if Saddam is prepared to attack the world can expect he has designs on saudi Arabia and the entire Middle the unprovoked attack on Israel this evening constitutes a very evil act by a very diabolical Mulroney said after a 90minute meeting with his War see party Page 4 iraqi scud missiles strike Israel m a attack Syria Heights West Bank Jordan Gaza strip Israel y Jordan Egypt 25 mites v v is Winnipeg jews explode in anger outrage fallout from attack a by Bruce Owen an outraged Winnipeg jewish Community watched in horror last night As iraqi president Saddam Hussein made Good on his threat to attack jews watched As to reporters donned Gas masks in air raid sirens whining in the Back initial reports of chemical warheads and the prospects of israeli retaliation made the situation even More in Lyle National president of Bani in outraged that Iraq can use chemical weapons against in outraged that jews can be the victims of a Gas in just in others reacted with a deeper sense of in profoundly sad that one Man could bring such destruction to an innocent rabbi Neal Rose it just Points to the whole insanity of How we Deal with human but rather than direct his outrage at a University of Mani Toba religion took aim at the countries that supplied Saddam with the technology to build and launch chemical weapons the soviet Union and the United but he added Saddam used the weapons As a Las gasp Chance to draw Israel into the War and split the see Blind Page 4 a protester plants Candle in Snow at memorial Park v ;