Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 20, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mysterious weekly ritual determines interest 1990s weird inventions include waiter Tummy Gulf War tests technology and sunny Clear 8winnipeg free press vol 119 no 50 second class Herbt Ratum number 0286 january free Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg Mam switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957o550 class Fried 9562330 Hunt for scud launchers stepped up d Iraq offers Bounty on downed pilots Israel gets Patriot missiles a photo iraqi pos treated gently by Charles Platiau Reuters with marines in saudi Arabia the first 12 iraqi prison ers of the persian Gulf War Bare unshaven and subdued quietly accepted Field medical care and water on their first full Day in Captivity they were captured Friday in a raid on nine kuwaiti Oil plat forms in the Gulf used by iraqi troops to fire on Allied the prisoners sat in the Sand spooning up food from the Brown plastic packets of Field one american Soldier Bent to Bandage a prisoners there As Well As can be expected for combat one Marine officer said of the dressed in Navy sweaters and Olive drab fati troops treated them an no put an Arm around one prisoners shoulder at one Point and a photographer was forbidden from filming their they Are not exhibits in a the americans thumbscrews and Racks Are a thing of the said the Marine Security officer supervising the of you can break anybody and get them to say whatever you want to but you get a better response if you treat them we Learned that in after the prisoners were to be asked their names and ranks and a medical they were to spend the night in a pit dug in the Sand to protect them from the sporadic incoming iraqi fire in the the americans gave them Gas sleeping bags and the prisoners had been Manning antiaircraft batteries and firing surface air missiles when they were taken by a joint Force from the guided missile frigate uss Nicho army helicopters and a kuwaiti patrol two air Force pilots whose plane went Down yesterday because of mechanical fail ure have returned safely to their Pentagon officials the two ejected from their f4g wild weasel and landed on saudi arabian said the they were picked up and returned to their 3 lotto winning numb 29 number 43 Tow pkg winning Baghdad left reeling by repeated pounding from pc Reuters the skies improved and bombers battered Baghdad and other iraqi targets in a prelude to ground pilots zeroed in on Iraq Best strategists scrambled to head off israeli retribution for iraqi missile attacks and a possibly wider officials said they have rushed Patriot antimissile batteries to Israel and they were quickly up and manned by army and Canadian fighter jets pre pared to take a combat the cf18s should begin flying sweeps and escort missions in the persian Gulf War a Canadian military spokesman said in it will be the first combat action for Canadian forces since the Kore an War 40 years Baghdad was reeling under Long hours of air and communications were an associate see Israel Page 4 War in the Gulf protesters demand end to Gulf War wounded Saddam remains defiant 710 generals say War going quite Well military sanitizes War news for Public Canada sends pilots into Battle by Ken Becker the Canadian press for the first time since the korean Canada sends its sons into Battle Canadian commanders said yesterday that fighter pilots armed with sidewinder and Sparrow missiles would be in the air within 24 hours headed for Iraq for the first time in the persian Gulf its with every Confidence that we announce today the cf18s and their Crews would be engaging in sweep and escort John Williston said at Canadian Mili tary Headquarters in officer questions two of the 12 iraqi prisoners taken in raid on Gulf Oil scuds strike uns Waying psyche of israelis in so called the twin engined supersonic fight ers act As scouts for bombing mis Sions to ensure the skies ahead Are Clear of hostile the instead of following the bombers will go maybe 15 or 20 minutes ahead of the strike and sanitize the area of enemy Richard Bastien said in they could encounter iraqi air Craft or ground the first Days of the War saw the 36 Canadian fighter pilots and their 24 cf18s each carrying six Airt see pm Page 4 by Vernon Loeb Knight Ridder newspapers Tel Aviv the sirens that terrorized this City through a sleepless night sounded again just an hour past Daybreak giving scant notice to the weary that mis Siles were in the As the sirens wailed for the fourth time within 12 the be Lulu family did not bother to climb from their windows were sealed against chemical their Bones aching from a night without they had just slipped on the Gas masks that waited at their besides when their Nightmare became a re a minute after the Siren i heard flying said Albert whose parents and Uncle Lay in nearby hidden behind their Black rubber Gas there was a and then a and the window blew in on top of my the three missiles that landed Here on the jewish Sabbath damaged shattered windows and caused minor injuries to 17 but the blasts did far More harm to the psyche nation traditionally a swayed by the notion of turning the other Cheek to its yesterdays iraqi missile the second in As Many came after three false alarms during the night sent the cites people scrambling into Gas masks and rooms sealed against chemical As they pulled off their Gas masks yet again after the saturday their anger seemed to have Crystal while the United states urged restraint for fear that Israel would be drawn into the persian Gulf con people in the streets of Tel Aviv counselled Faiz Negim tacked plywood across the mapping windows of his Home pausing to explain the conflict Between the political wis Dom of restraint and the gut reaction to lash i understand the american Posi but i disagree with said whose gaunt face wore several Days Worth of dark because the american children Are sleeping at he patted the head of his brow haired she said to Why is Saddam Hussein doing this to us he she what did Israel do to him1 the fear should Negim the children should be Able to see retaliate Page 4 annual deficit forecast this he Lattof of Phirtu by Patrick Mckinley the provincial deficit could soar to a record million a year unless government spend ing is drought under firm finance minister Clayton manness has in an unusual manness has summoned government and opposition members of the legislature to a briefing tomorrow where he plans to outline the dire Straits of the govern ment facing a virtual standstill in reve unless it is prepared to see a mounting the province will have Tough choices to make about areas such As education he said in an and he said family service agencies already complaining about their funding cannot continue to expect the kinds of in creases they have received in the he said unless the government makes hard it could be going million to Tough choices manness says million into the red annually just a few years Down the that would eclipse the record deficit the nip government racked up in the government would lose its ability Ever to balance the budget again without a tax increase of at least 12 to 15 per cent in a single manness in not saying were going there to an deficit but this is Why were at such a critical the rare briefing for All Las comes in the midst of the governments dispute with striking and the government made a wage offer that would guarantee civil servants just two per cent Over the next two Liberal finance critic Reg Alcock Osborne dismissed manness planned briefing As Media Alcock said he accepts the need to ask whether Manitoban can do without some government but he charged the government is using the civil service As a whipping boy while giving businesses an tax break to pay for training nip Leader Gary doer charged the briefing is a cynical ploy to divert attention from the governments handling of the nurses manness warning of the potential for rec Ord deficits comes in the midst of the most serious Revenue crunch the province has faced in recent during the recession of the Early annual Revenue growth never dropped below per this years budget predicted a sluggish and manness said even that May be Overly Revenue actually fell per cent during the first half of the fiscal the government faces a deficit of about million this but it would be million higher had the government not dipped into its manness said to keep that deficit on the government will heavily curtail Nonessen tial spending by departments in the remaining three months of the current fiscal in health remains the governments top he every Dollar we can save in All of our departments that we feel should not go to deficit reduction will go into he said although family services can expect smaller the government does not plan to dismantle the system which the former nip government began building ;