Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo women work getting men to share household chores remains elusive goal for most women focus new Era after Many Boom Taiwan learns to adjust resp Section Security Blanket volume of resp buying expected this year due to financial insecurities of recession Cloudy 6 Cloudy second class Mai re Straton number 0786 january free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Home de Hwy in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg Mahl switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957o550 classified 9562330 Patriot missiles form effective shield against scuds Iraq turns fury on saudi from Iraq fired a barrage of missiles today at saudi arabian capital and a key military Centre for the multinational Force fighting it in the persian Gulf there were also reports that the Gulf state of Bahrain was targeted by iraqi surface surface scud most of the missiles fired at the saudi capital Riyadh and the Eastern City of Dhahran were believed intercepted and shot Down by Patriot but reports said some mis Siles got officials said nine missiles were shot Down and one fell in the iraqi president Saddam in a broadcast on Baghdad said the Alliance trying to rout his forces from occupied Kuwait has not yet Felt a fraction of his military the tyrants missiles and air Craft Are being Saddam told As if to underline their leaders iraqi batteries a few hours later fired off their biggest missile barrage yet against saudi Arabia a nighttime Shower of scuds on Riyadh and a key coalition military site about 300 Kilometres made missiles had hit the South of a Patriot also intercepted a scud at Dhahran on in Pentagon spokes Man Pete Williams said the missiles carried conventional to also said that of three scuds fired at two had been shot Down by the fell harmlessly in the officials saudi television said that Only our of the missiles were shot Down by and a european military source said that three of the soviet in Mike Gallagher said that a total of 10 scud missiles were fired at saudi see reporters Page 4 Turkey i 4 Syria loan x 200 Miles 2qo Patriot ground air missiles launched tiap up photo iraqis flee reality9 of terror from skies by Nora Boustany the Washington Post Jordan refugees arriving at this jordanian Border Post yesterday spoke of civilian Ca of the terror of bombs Landing nearby and in some cases hitting residential areas of Baghdad and and of cars loaded with coffins at the Southern port City of fleeing Overland from Iraq and the palestinian and lebanese refugees described a creeping fear of death among iraqis along with horror and Dis May As Aerial attacks by Allied forces continued for the fourth straight in the iraqi the refugees residents Are Cut off from the rest of the country and from one not knowing what is happening on the Periphery of people wait for the but they Only come on after the first said Nidal a me who said he and his family had been living without lights or water since after the first strike Early and with third air attacks on Bagh the bombing seemed less Khalil re at Felt when the planes people run left and right and look for basements and said Yaqoub Cha a who described himself As a stateless palestinian who lived in Kuwait and now is looking for a new people have started hating these air they live in constant fearing death in their their faces Are their bodies tremble from the this is the Chahine said grim while some refugees expressed enthusiasm and see air Page 9 War in the Gulf Gulf mom praying for Clouds iraqi Supply lines Cut scuds elude High tech War crimes trial Likely 711 ground technicians Luce Labadie top and sue Lonergan inspect a of iraqi terrorists May be set to strike Abc says to Thuinli an i Amfilo Cinda Cahn firn i Washington up terrorists linked to Iraq May be trying to infiltrate into the United states through said a report by Abc solicitor general Pierre Cadieux who Heads Cana Das Security forces confirmed he had heard a report that Canada might soon be a target of iraqi but he said the government believes there is no imminence of a terrorist attack in in a report Abc correspondent Pierre Salinger said Iraq May have sent terrorists through scandinavian countries to Canada and they May be ready to strike in the next terrorist groups have been deployed throughout Salinger said from London on this week with David we now understand there May some who have been sent to Canada from scandinavian terrorist groups and Are now getting ready to they could not launch at the beginning before the War because they were put on Low profile since Saddam Hussein did not want a terrorist attack to provide provocation for president George but it is possible we will see terrorist attacks in the coming Salinger adding he had a briefing with British defence officials prime minister Mulroney said yesterday Security forces have redoubled their efforts to ensure the safety of Black berets takeover in Riga kills five by Serge Schmemann times news service Moscow soldiers from a special unit of the soviet Interior ministry in gunned their Way into a government building last leaving at five people dead and nine according to reports from the latvian officials and witnesses said 50 to 100 soldiers of the a special forces unit whose members Are known As the Black had attacked the lightly guarded and nearly vacant latvian Interior ministry in the evening and occupied it after firing a fusillade of tracer the building was then surrounded by police officers Loyal to the elected latvian which is seeking Independence from the Black berets Are an elite unit of about 150 who have refused to acknowledge the author Ity of the latvian they have gone on shooting rampages firing off grenades or but earlier this in an operation see Canada Page 4 March on Kremlin by Chris Morris the Canadian press Moscow hundreds of thousands of soviets marched to the Centre of Moscow yesterday to denounce the killing of 13 lithuanians and demand the resignation of soviet president Mikhail Gorba at least soviets gathered in the Shadow of the Kremlin to demand peace and Freedom and show their support for the Independence move ment sweeping the All the republics should be said Engineer Valentin standing near police barricades set up to control the huge rally in front of the hotel i think it can be done peacefully and without but i dont think it will be done by speaking in he said he Hopes the huge turnout will turn some International attention Back to the soviet Union and the struggle for a new order in the were afraid the world will forget what is see Yeltsin Page 4 Ann Landers 24 22 Bridge 24 classified 28 Cleversey 7 comics 38 crossword 24 28 letters 6 entertainment 25 Horoscope 24 Jumble Puzzle 31 my you 23 movies 26 22 sports 33 to 2 City debt Load Points to tax hike by Kevin Rollason Winnipeg Mill rate will have to increase five per cent this year just to cover interest and finance charges on past capital civic bureaucrats and councillors have confirmed the City faces a total expenditure this year of about million in interest costs and financial that a increase from last Greg be linger civic finance com Mittee that Means the Mill rate will go up five per just because of this is the worst year for interest charges hitting the current with the five percent guideline passed by City it gives us no room to Selinger said it was difficult to say How councillors would hold the prop erty tax increase to five per because the budget process is just getting under Mel budget Bureau direct said the jump in debt charges Means the average with a House assessed at faces a property tax increase for debt charges Shibley said debt charges this year account for about 20 per cent of the average Munici pal tax compared to 17 per cent last mayor Bill Norrie said he is concerned about this years debt but the borrowed Money was used to build needed capital were paying for the Kildonan Bridge and the Bishop Grandin sex Norrie these figures were but the dilemma we face is that at that time our revenues were buoy we didst anticipate a recessionary Bill civic finance commis said the City has to borrow More this despite a Cap on to fund capital projects already under Way and approved by previous its like your Home what happens if you keep adding More to the mortgage mortgage charges will go up each we Are adding More debt each year than retiring existing Carroll pegged the cites tax sup see Golden Page 4 ;