Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba City women express opposing stands in abortion take care when exploring retirement savings plan Cloudy Cloudy free press vol 119 no 57 january issues should Canada be involved in the War in the free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Homo delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 Loving girl beats Falls victim to school bus by Allison Bray a Petersfield family is in mourn ing after their six Earold Daugh who survived cancer As an infant was fatally run Over by her school bus Friday As classmates looked on in Sarah was such a Loving person and were trying to remember How she was with her ponytails flying in the Patricia Toms said of the youngest of her six Toms said that while her children and family from Thunder Bay gather today to mourn Sarah the family remains angry and bewildered Over circumstances of the he said he didst see but we cant understand Why Toms said of the bus whom school officials said has since requested to be taken off school officials refused to identify the Selkirk ramp yesterday said a lord Selkirk school division bus knocked the child Down and ran her Over shortly after she got off and stood in front of talking with a ramp said the bus driven by a 62yearold Clande Boye resident pulled away after Toms classmate cleared the Patricia Toms said Sarah was a cheery child despite being diagnosed with a Chest tumor at 11 had a zest for life that pulled her through chemotherapy and a succession of she went though life with a cheery even though she has gone through a she William Patterson principal Barrie Kuly said the school will meet to discuss the up photo Oil Slick disaster feared Iraq accused of ecological terrorist act from the coalition continued intensive bombing raids on targets in Iraq and Iraq occupied Kuwait yesterday Asa huge Oil Slick causing an ecological disaster spread in the persian coalition military sources said part of the massive Oil spill in the Northern Gulf near Kuwait was on spokesmen in saudi who accused Iraq of deliberately causing the said the Oil pouring from a kuwaiti offshore pipeline covered about 600 Square Kilometres and was moving slowly military sources in London said a Small portion of the Slick was they did not explain How it was set although Iraq had previously vowed to set the Gulf ablaze with burning Oil if it was attacked by the canadians were among those denouncing one describing the spill As an International ecological terrorist Iraq continued to fire scud missiles at Israel and saudi Patriot missiles foiled last nights scud initial reports from saudi Arabia indicated there were no in Hospital officials said two israeli arabs were slightly injured in the the patriots apparently put on a better performance than on Friday when two scud missiles managed to land in Tel killing one person and injuring an iraqi Blitz on the saudi capital of Riyadh late Friday left see thousands Page 4 an Oil coated Bird stands in fouled stranded refugees shiver through Hail about Placar waving Montre Alers turned out to protest Gulf War by Laurie Garrett new Day on the Jordan Iraq Border about refugees have been stranded in the freezing desert of Iraq since wednesday when president Saddam Hussein closed his country Border with according to diplomats and refugee Jordan dispatched gasoline and two doctors yesterday to help the which include which still has full diplomatic relations with has asked Baghdad Why it has closed the but the iraqi government has offered no full among those left shivering in their cars during the last two Days and nights of snowstorms and Hail were Vietnam ambassador to 116 Indian three jordanian and scores of sudanese and other no iraqi according to jordanian officials and International the Only reports on conditions in the desert come from people like Rafi Nayef a bedouin who admits that he has made a Small Fortune smuggling gasoline to the stranded the people cannot go Back to Baghdad because they Are out of Weilan and this morning one pakistani child and one Indian baby they died of Lack of food and the the people Are living inside their but they cannot use the Heaters because they have no they Are very they think they All might die starve see War Page 4 Index Ann letters Puzzle answers sports sports record to 16 18 26 25 25 6 17 7 24 11 18 24 19 23 13 15 14 3 lotto winning Bonus number 26 the rus winning plus number is q793m checks Gulf backlash hits City classrooms by George Nikides when a girl of afghan descent stood up recently in a Winnipeg her classmates called out two other girls of Arab one say snowballs were thrown at them while they waited for a islamic youths taunted by schoolmates while a War wages thousands of Kilometres away in the persian its effects Are being Felt among schoolchildren of Arab and Muslim background in the islamic Community gathered about 40 their a teacher and a child psychologist yesterday to discuss the emotions the War is stirring in they asked that the location of the gather ing remain students from kindergarten to Grade 12 after much How they Are sometimes misunderstood by no Muslim Cana sometimes when they talk about the War at i feel a girl they muslims Are so three children raised their hands see boys Page 4 patriots thwart More scud attacks demonstrators wage Battle for peace band loses last living link with past by Bob Lowery special to the free press Solomon colomb passed away last week at age he died singing a hymn in Cree the Only language he Ever he passed away As he was coming to the last Pascal chief of the Mathias colomb Indian the last living link to his Peoples was singing from a roman Catholic Cree hymn i am asking he Sang to Dies singing hymn in Cree please take me and listen to so ended the life of a Man honoured by Popes and praised by his the cherished elder was mourned by the people of the North in a simple service last week on the Reserve at in an old wooden Church he helped Wal Towall people crowded every Inch of space As Bishop Peter Sutton began the service to Honor the patriarch and spiritual Leader of the Mathias colomb we Are closing a chapter in big Hetty said in his we have lost our last band member who was born in the but there is no turning we have opened another Page and we have Learned enough from our elder to meet tomorrows the funeral was attended by All band Only part of the crowd made it into the there were also scores of guests from Lynn Granville Lake and split As Well As Pelican Narrows and Sandy the youngest members of the band eagerly joined the kneeling at the it was very local historian and author Marie big Hetty in the Church were Many of Colombo immediate which includes nine 54 134 great grandchildren and 26 great great see cherished Page 4 i ;