Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba The Road ahead no polluting tiny medical robots seen in the future 25 Snow Clouds focus fighting the polls Grant Devine Hopes farm plan helps him stay in office second class Mai registration number 02b6 sports shutout at Home jets improve divisional standing by blanking North stars 20 41 january free press Sun rises sets Moon rises wkly Home delivery m Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957o550 classified 9562330 Bush Call move a War crime More scud attacks launched on saudis Iraq using pos As human Shields terrorists threaten Canada 2 Winni Eggers split on morality neutrals push for Saddam preserves air Force a photo captured British Pilot answers questions on iraqi modern methods make forced statements routine pos facing torture drugs by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Rule was rank and serial its torture and trick the stilted phrases and wooden delivery of the prisoners spoke volumes to military men who watched captured pilots denouncing the Gulf War on iraqi the statements were either faked or Canadian military officials charged at a briefing Here drugs and modern torture meth ods make it impossible for prisoners to stick to rank and serial said Commodore Larry he and Richard Bas Tien said the videotaped messages by seven Allied pilots on iraqi television were intended to demoralize coalition troops in saudi three two an italian and a kuwaiti were shown on iraqi television delivering halting statements denouncing the United nations coalitions action against it is very easy to make a television montage that proves the Point that a country or people want to Bastien someone can talk with me for hour and extract the words that they want to use or they can use interpreters with Simi Lar voices who want to make us believe the information is it is also possible these voices were recorded some time ago and that they were it is part of the Type of information that is very often used in an attempt to destroy the morale of american observers agreed the statements we rent Ive no doubt they were said retired air Force Bud who was Cap tured by the Viet Cong after his Jet see chances Page 13 from Iraq hammered by More than bombing raids in five Days said yesterday it will use captured airmen to deter attacks on civilian areas by the some of the airmen British and italian appeared grimaced on iraqi television Sun Day before being moved to places that the iraqis described As civil education and other Iraq has shown More captured Allied airmen on Baghdad radio reported the monitored in said two pilots were shown last night following earlier film of seven captured the radio named the two pilots but heavy interference made it difficult to identify the Iraq treatment of pos was condemned by Canada and other coalition members As a War crime violating the Geneva it goes against All standards of the civilized external affairs minister Joe Clark said of the iraqi asked whether iraqi president Saddam Hussein will later be held president Bush replied you can count on the International red Cross expressed concern both about Iraq handling of prisoners and about bombardment of nuclear installations in under the cover of two a10 an air Force helicopter rescued a Navy a6 intruder Pilot in an eight hour air Force officers at one an a10 fired on and destroyed an iraqi truck driving toward the stranded they Iraq launched two surface Osur face missiles against the saudi Ara Bian capital Early today and saudi television said both were intercepted by Patriot parts of one of the missiles on Riyadh but did not appear to have caused much iraqi forces fired a scud missile at saudi Arabia but the missile fell harmlessly into the per Sian Gulf North of the Pentagon Canadian pilots tried to get their cf18s into the persian Gulf but were foiled by bad cf18s took off from Qatar yester Day with the intention of flying sweep missions to Clear the sky for coalition bombers raids on but Cloud cover Over the target see Iraq Page 4 marines race through a Trench assault Drill in the desert in saudi officers fight alleged demotions by Paul Wiecek three senior Winnipeg police who sources say were demoted Over their handling of the Harvey Pollock Are challenging their crime Dennis crime Randy Bell and crime Ron who were demoted As part of a larger internal have contacted the Winnipeg police senior officers association about filing a formal grievance Over changes in their the matter has been referred to us and its now being looked at by Legal said Ken Wil president of the which represents the departments 35 inspectors and Mel a labor lawyer who represents the Asso said he is studying possible Legal grounds for a grievance and will report to the association and the three officers within a police chief Herb Stephen flatly denied the three officers Are being saying the transfers Are sources said yesterday the officers involved feel they were unfairly disciplined without a formal hearing for their roles in the Case of lawyer under the terms of the associations collective agree any disciplinary action against an i Dividu see officers Page 4 Index j 4 Horoscope Jumble Ann 26 Bridge 31 classified 32 comics Sinclair 28 of laths v v 33 letters o entertainment 30 to 1 j i Canada cuts on Aid to protest atrocities Bobbie firm on shaky ground by Bruce Owen a Winnipeg publishing company run by the husband of conservative my Dorothy Dobbie has issued Lay off notices to several employees and told a City businessman it will not be Able to pay a Irwin president of Porta graphics said yesterday he Learned sunday that association publications Al could not pay its Bill with his ill be Able to remain open and i wont have to Lay anyone Kreber said that what you have to live i dont think Well see any Money at comments came the same Day several Al employees received Layoff at a meeting employees were told by Glenn and Dorothy Dobbie the company would be wind ing Down in the next few Days unless a buyer could be found and layoffs would a company spokesman would Only say yesterday that several of the firms 16 employees have been Given Layoff Dobbie and her husband could not be reached for comment the layoffs contradict statements made by Dorothy Dobbie last week that Al was a viable Kreber said he has been trying to collect payments for lithographic services from Al since the he said he met 2 with Al president Glenn Dobbie and his majority to Hammer out an agreement to re Cieve orderly and timely the spokesperson at the meeting was Dobbie and after we explained the situation we were led to believe that monies would be forthcoming on the availability of monies coming in on he Kreber said when he went to collect the first Cheque he found out no arrangement had been made and the hobbies were on vacation in seemed Page 4 by Portia Prieger the Canadian press Ottawa Canada has suspended its offer of technical assistance and a i omillion line of cred it to the soviet external affairs minister Joe Clark said yes we have drawn a direct linkage Canadian assistance and the continuation of soviet he speaking in a special Emer gency debate in the said the move is a response to what he called an appalling soviet crack Down in the Baltic Republic of lat where soviet soldiers killed five people and wounded 10 others sunday in an assault on police head quarters in the it followed by a week a bloody assault in neighbouring Lithuania that saw 14 people filled by soviet Canada has condemned the crack Down to by Jyh the soviet ambassador in Canada and that country foreign minister in every i is shocked by the brutal and Unwar ranted use of military Force against the people and the democratically elected governments of the Baltic Clark prime minister Mulroney warned soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev after the crackdown on Lithuania that any escalation would have Seri Ous Home guard who met yesterday with Dainis the Vic president of said Canadas condemnation is the strongest by a Western a Clark suggested the government May bypass the soviet government and provide Aid directly to Canada looking at Concrete ways in which can support the Baltic states through increased contacts and direct he ;