Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 28, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winners losers Tempo a Squeaker jets get burned healthy attitudes a a Jeff Hosteller savors giants 2019 super Bow win oilers grease valiant Home team 32 at Arena new studies find Strong link Between disease old Ottis Anderson feels on top of Heap after runs against Bills Clouds Clear second Oass mail Regist Brwn number 02b6 january Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9434331 Home delivery 957o55o classified 9562330 i canadians favor Gas Price poll finds by Alexandra Paul a majority of canadians favor government regulation of gasoline prices because they suspect Oil companies will use the Gulf War to gouge an Angus Reid press poll has the poll of canadians found 71 per cent believe multinational Oil companies will use the persian Gulf conflict to take unfair advantage of fully 61 per cent also strongly support government regulation of Gas prices As Long As the War in the Gulf the conducted Between 16 and is considered accurate to within percentage Points 19 times out of Federal Energy minister Jake Epp said yesterday Ottawa has seen no evidence of Price gouging at the pumps and is not looking at regulating he said the Energy and consumer and corporate affairs departments Are closely monitoring Price changes at the that Doest mean to say gouging cant happen but if there is gouging or Collu upon consumer and corporate affairs can Lay see we Page 4 smart bombs fight Oil spill a photo warplanes seek to Stem flow of crude from from far Flung desert coalition bombers took Wing today to carry out their air offensive against but the Success of one crucial Mission to Stem a massive Oil spill remained to be International teams were arriving in saudi Arabia today to assess environmental damage from the which officials said was unleashed by iraqi occupation forces in Iraq said air attack on two iraqi tankers caused the Over the warplanes used High tech bombs to blow up the pipeline identified As the source of the giant estimated at More than 55 Kilometres Long and 15 kilo metres wide in the persian it was not immediately Clear whether the flow has Al though a commander said less Oil was being air forces attacking iraqi targets had encountered Little resistance and managed to largely keep iraqi warplanes out of the but coalition officials acknowledged air Power alone would not win the american ground troops will be ready for an assault on iraqi forces occupying Kuwait by the end of defence Secretary Dick Cheney said Iraq threatened to launch crush ing strikes against its opponents and turn Israel into a dead Baghdad also accused in Secre tary general Javier Perez de Cuel Lar of being responsible for the ugly crimes of coalition forces that it said were attacking eco nomic and religious military cast a wary Eye on Iraq Norman the commander in the said a 39 iraqi aircraft had flown to Iran has declared it is Neutral and said it would confiscate the planes for the duration of the but Schwarzkopf said we would be absolutely not Worth our Salt As military people if we ignored the fact that those planes could Fly Back out of Iran after saudi Arabia and Israel had a rare respite from missile no iraqi missile launches were reported last night and Early since the War began Iraq had hurled a total of 51 modified scud missiles 26 at saudi Arabia and 25 at the coalition French president Francois Mit errands top military and see Iraq Page 4 the widow of a Tel Aviv Man who was killed by an iraqi scud missile is comforted at the funeral a photo Gulf disaster labelled Var on environment from the news services even in the persian Gulf Oil spill would be one of the worst environmental disasters of All add a major War to cripple clean up fires that Blacken the sky and bombing raids on nuclear plants and Poison Gas factories and the doom saying of environmentalists rings nightmarish by the Gulf War Only in its second week has fulfilled some of the Darker prewar predictions of looking they can Only surmise from their things will get this is no longer a military War Between said sue president of the Sierra this Kuwa ifs Ahmadi Oil terminal bums after 4 West Bank arabs rejoice As missiles Streak toward israeli cities ingredients for War come together in pulling Ini canadians clock turns Back on soviet Reform by David Remnick the Washington Post Moscow last weeks Kremlin decrees authorizing joint military and police patrols of major cities and Kab inspection of All Domestic and foreign businesses Here Are not isolated but ele ments in a continuing reversal of the trend toward democracy that Mikhail Gorbachev began when he came to Power nearly six years the mood among All democrats now is absolute said Vitaly a scientist and reformist member of the soviet we Are watching the end of the Gorbachev and it is even More dramatic and terrible than the end of the reforms under of it depends where you Are said Algimantas a Mem ber of soviet Lithuania secessionist but i am convinced that in the Long what you Are seeing now in the soviet Union will prove More important historically than the War in the persian i dont think anyone doubts that the Allied coalition will win in but who will prevail in the soviet Union How much blood will be shed this is not some isolated Issue for the tiny Baltic or even for the soviet the course of events in this coun try will have a dramatic on the Fate of Europe and even of the United hardliners in the soviet legislature who have loudly demanded a crackdown on rebellious soviet republics and democracy movements seem disappointed Only that Gorba chess move toward suppress Ion did not come sooner or More in an inter View with the Mas circulation weekly argument i Viktor a Leader of the conservative Legisla Tive faction even indicated that he believed the army could shift eventually from a strategy of behind the scenes pressure on Gorbachev to outright last weeks particularly the one authorizing army troops and police to see soviet Page 5 iraqi family Haven deadly As bombs bring ceiling Down Canadian press correspondent Leila Deeb is one of the last report ers in Baghdad filing reports to Western news it was not known whether this subject to iraqi by Leila Deeb the Canadian press an Iraq the Ahab Bobbi family left Baghdad to escape the bombing and moved in with a Brothers family in this provincial iraqi but the City was bombed and the family Home was iraqi authorities thirteen out of 14 people in the House were said to have been killed when the ceiling the sole the owner of the is still reported to be in a an about 150 Kilometres South of was untouched during the eight years of War with but iraqi authorities say it was bombed by the coalition trying to drive Iraq from see Muslim Page 4 Index 21 movies 24 people 16 23 20 Ann 21 6 20 21 sports record 34 19 7 Jomwe 27 to 20 birthday of via cuts Rolls by quietly figh to save trams a fading Railroad memory o or total by Joanne Bennison special to the free press with the storm of protest a Distant the first anniversary of massive cuts to via rail Canada rolled by quickly and an eastbound train screeches and hisses As it pulls into Portage la steam fogs the windows As passengers peer at another empty platform on the Canadian a year stations like this were filled with angry crowds protesting cuts to the country passenger railway that took effect now All is the Only sound is the Static of a transistor radio As passengers scan for news about the persian Gulf two japanese women try to decipher the menu in the dining the conductor swaps stories with a Winnipeg Man rocks his infant daughter to sleep in the dome Why would you hear anything the trains service manager asks about the anniversary of the via who asked that his last name not be has spent 27 years working on the railway and appears but still people did everything possible at that time by sending thousands and thousands of petitions that went into prime minister Mulroney garbage but some fires of resentment still the government owes us says passenger Iris a Montreal grandmother who was see debate Page 5 ;