Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 23, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo nerd for hire Geeky gangster will do a number on your victim focus Tough cuts reduced Aid budget Means More hunger and suffering sports players need translation when coach Marv Levy Buffalo Bills but there not always sure what he said Clear 8 Clear second cuss mail registration number 0286 january free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Home delivery i Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957o550 classified 9562330 Tel Avi canadians behind Lack thirst for blood by Gerald flood support for the persian Gulf War is soaring in but canadians remain reluctant to get blood on their an Angus press poll the poll of people interviewed be tween 16 Day coalition forces attacked Iraq and found 75 per cent support the governments decision to Send forces to the up 15 Points from 60 per cent in it found opposition to a Canadian presence has fallen to 23 per cent from 37 per while the number of people unsure about Canadas involvement has slipped to two per cent from the poll found 73 per cent of canadians support the decision to attack but Only 36 per cent believe Canada should take an offensive a total of 53 per cent believe Canada should use its forces Only in a defensive while nine per cent believe Canada should withdraw from the theatre and three per cent Are there seems to be a not in my Back Yard View on the part of Angus president of the Winnipeg based Angus Reid said whether that is going to change As events heat up i see Iraq has attacked Israel again i dont Reid said the hesitation by see Quebec Page 4 a photo n is taken from the War Gulf Canadia arabs complain of Sis refugees claim Baghdad Short of angry British press blasts of Republican guards gain respect of in forces an elderly tidy suburb turned into Tel Aviv hell Tel Aviv a men and women ran with stretchers across the churned up an old Man in a Skullcap was lifted gently into the arms of Rescue those who walked those who were carried bathed in the unearthly glow of bulldozers roared and screeched yesterday As they inched Between densely packed apartment blocks to reach the rubble left by an iraqi the which flattened a two Storey apartment building and damaged at least 20 transformed a Middle class sub Urb into a hellish some people emerged in a family of russian just four Days in see bus Page 4 Tel Aviv residents View damage caused by iraqi scud Index Ann 17 34 32 27 deaths 6 29 food 31 Horoscope 27 Jumble 45 20 movies 30 7 3 sports 44 18 to 26 funding by Maureen Houston a meagre two percent increase in Public school funding spells deterioration for Manito Bas education stunned educators said the children in this province can no longer count on the same educational opportunities Treyve had in the and that is very troubling to us As a seven Oaks school Board chairman Claudia Sharbit funding announced yesterday for the 199192 school year was nudged up million to the increase is less than half the rate of inflation and Well below last years increase of per there will be no increase in per Pupil base funding or special needs but 33 Manitoba divisions with declining enrolment will be guaranteed the same level of support As last divisions with growing student numbers will also continue to receive compensation Grants for increased education minister Len Derkach emphasized yesterday the need for school divisions to seek creative and cos effective solutions in these difficult financial one area Public schools May Cut Back is in optional programs there Are a plethora of them out he he chastised school divisions for failing to keep a tight rein on last years trustees said they have run out of creative ways to manage their at this were about As lean As we can Assiniboine South school Board chairman biggest divisions funding Frozen Winnipeg school division will see no in crease in provincial funding next paint ing a dire picture for students and after meeting with education minister Len Derkach and finance minister Clayton Man Ness trustees were told the school Board could expect no additional an Overall two percent increase in Public school funding announced yesterday Only pro Vides increases for growing or shrinking Divi and private there will be no extra consideration for special needs which Are most Prev Alent in Winnipeg school the largest and most diverse in this puts us into a real division finance committee chairman Mario Santos adding he went into yesterdays meeting expecting a three percent see big Page 4 injuries May provoke israeli reprisal from Preu Tersip Iraq taunted Israel with a fresh scud missile attack last when a projectile blasted a densely populated residential area of Tel Aviv and wounded at least 70 people after penetrating the Patriot defence three elderly israelis were reported to have died of heart attacks during the missile both Israel radio and television said Only one iraqi missile was fired at the jewish but Raanan the Deputy israeli army said it was unclear How Many missiles were this third missile attack on the jewish state since Friday again raised the possibility of an israeli reprisal against Iraq and a wider persian Gulf the Cabinet was meeting today to decide How to the under constant Dayan night air attack since the coalition launched War last thursday in a bid to free Kuwait from Baghdad also fired scud missiles toward saudi Arabia and blew up kuwaiti Oil patriots intercepted and destroyed All four scuds that were descending on the saudi site of the see Iraq Page 12 my lineup to Back War by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa a week after bombs started falling on members of parliament voted yesterday to support a United nations sponsored International War As Canadian pilots sat in the cockpits of their cf18 fighters ready to escort bombers into the commons voted 21747 to reaffirm its support of the United nations in ending the aggression by Iraq against immediately after the parliament adjourned for a the War will be monitored by the governments War Cabinet and two joint common Senate none of us in this House wants but sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace and this is one of those prime minister Mulroney told the Wishful thinking that evil will go away if see Mulroney Page 4 disaster Gail Watson i dont deny there Are programs that will have to be but i dont know if you can Call a program an official with Winnipeg school Divi facing a freeze in provincial called the announcement a there Are not too Many creative ways you can deliver services without paying wages and finance committee chairman Mario Santos creative is Only a word that looks Good on both spokesmen said they were counting on a minimum three percent jump in govern ment support to keep property tax increases to around six per the projections will have to be changed they Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs said Chil Dren will be the see teachers Page 4 in pretty by the Canadian press is postcard perfect Rural a town of treeline streets set amid Rich its a town of solid f fieldstone shops and and solid United Empire loyalist its a town where evil lurked for some say the solid citizens of Prescott turned a Blind Eye to a horrid now own they squirm in the spotlight of More than 30 Prescott six been charged with about 140 counts of sexual abuse involving 77 of them police say More people May be two men have already been convicted and Are serving jail two of the accused have committed some of the charges involve incidents years some victims now Are Young social agencies have taken custody of 17 police initially speculated that a Satamo cult might have played some part in the some alleged to have occurred up to 10 years Prescott police chief Rick Bowey said the accused people know or Are related to one another and described them As members of a specific anxious not to jeopardize a Long and complicated police refuse to comment on the they that there is a link among All those the accused All know or Are related to one Stephen director of the local child services Calls the situation the most Complex and most serious sexual abuse Case i have come a group of social workers Are trying to help the some Are in Foster some Are in treatment some Are still at a committee of social and Community workers has said proper treatment of All the victims could Cost some of these kids have been so badly damaged they will never be Normal said Dave assistant director of family and childrens police began investigating reports of child sex abuse in october three of the people accused last year have see townsfolk Page 5 ;