Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Desktop diners beat the get by joining the Brown bag brigade for lunch focus false alarms fears of revived Garrison plan Are premature sports Nords lose jets win game woefully weak even at full gives Winnipeg a Cornucopia of Power play chances and pays Price Cloudy Clearing second cuss registration number 0286 free weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 january striking nurses to by Alexandra Paul Manitoba striking nurses will vote tomorrow on a Deal that Calls for a 14percent wage increase Over two years and maintains ear Lier offers to extend pay sources familiar with the tentative settlement which the Manitoba nurses Union admits did not achieve All objectives said it is a Victory for Rankan file Union its a Success Story for the the source the struck monday after four Days of squeezed the provinces rejected three year offer into two vou19no to Sun rises sets Moon rises sets vote on 14 wage package Union president Vera Chernecki since will vote on the Deal year the source the 1991 10percent raise Over two Yea refused yesterday to confirm or tomorrow in a secret increments Are six per cent the tentative the source is Rei Usea Yesier Udy cent j and one Len Nate be Calls for a Union president Vera Chernecki refused yesterday to confirm or deny terms of the tentative set the Union executive has adopted a Neutral position on nurses had sought a 24percent wage increase Over two who have been on strike since will vote on the Deal tomorrow in a secret the which will not be officially revealed until just prior to the consists of three the source registered nurses would see wages jump 14 per cent Over two years with 10 per cent coming this a photo year the source the 1991 increments Are six per cent three per cent july 1 and one per cent the provinces licensed prac tical nurses who were earlier offered an signing Bonus with no wage increase in the first year of a would receive a 10percent raise Over two years in the tentative the source the Len package Calls for a six percent increase this year three percent on both 1 and july registered nurses and lpns would receive four percent in creases in the source see nurses Page 4 rewrite Law or we Quebec says Bourassa demanding Battery bangladeshi refugees fleeing from Iraq seek Protection from the cold at Story Page Bush vows quest for lasting peace Israel palestinian diplomacy to follow defeat signals by John Valori the Canadian press Washington president vowing to crush Iraq tyranny and Savage said yesterday the United states will help secure a lasting Middle East peace after the end of the persian Gulf we All realize that our responsibility to be the catalyst for peace in the Region does not end with the successful conclusion of this Bush said in his annual state of the Union address to Bush has been trying to quiet concerns among Arab and other Western countries about the mounting destruction caused by massive air strikes against he has also been trying to signal that once the fighting the United states will try to address the palestinian israeli the presidents comments came shortly after see soviets Page 4 Canada gives Gas masks to palestinians in territories Iraq says coalition pow killed in air attack 1 coalition warplanes destroy iraqi Convoy j Oil spill breaking up Ottawa up Canada has donated Gas masks for palestinians in Israel occupied territories of the West Bank and external affairs minister Joe Clark said the masks Are in the Middle East and will be distributed Clark told the commons Exter Nal affairs Clark said the Federal Cabinet decided three or four Days ago to Send half the governments Supply of Gas masks to help protect palestinians in the occupied territories from possible iraqi missile the masks Are from the department of nation see Axworthy Page 4 by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa Canada will celebrate its 125th birthday ushering in a Radi Cal new form of federalism or it will do it without Premier Robert Bourassa has Carstairs sounds holding up the threat of a 1992 referendum on Bouras Sas Quebec Liberal party yesterday demanded a Battery of additional Powers that would make the prov Ince a near Sovereign state and reduce the Canadian Federal system to a Mere we want to change the Structure of Canada which obviously cant he obviously this will be a radically new Canada but we cannot accept the present status present constitutional Law is no More acceptable to in the Bombshell was greeted calmly and by All it was seen merely As the first of several shots that will be fired As other provincial reports on Canadas future Are the task is made that much More difficult by polarized Public in the most recent polls suggest 70 per cent of Quebe cers favor some form of sovereignty while in English 75 per cent would rather see Quebec separate than gain special with its has done Well Over 123 prime minister Mulroney speaking As a before Quebe cers reject Canada and All the they Are going to think Many times about the future of its Progress and Prosperity and its Cul Tural Security lies within a United the new Reform measures were spelled out in a Quebec Liberal party committee report on the future of confederation entitled a Quebec free to in author Jean Allaire says this is the final and decisive test for the Quebec City lawyer Bourassa no to status quo Bush catalyst for peace in Mideast see Quebec Page 4 Index Ann 25 13 20 17 20 32 27 Jumble 41 7 sports 39 14 to 24 6 Black Friday awaited in fear Moscow ominously quiet on eve of Kremlin ordered military patrols by Steve Goldstein Knight Ridder newspapers Friday it is being two Days before it even a new governmental order takes effect allowing the soviet military to jointly patrol big City streets with troops May carry and patrols in armoured personnel carriers will be held in coming so swiftly after the bloody military incursions in the Baltic republics of Lithuania and Latvia this the decree by the Interior and defence ministries has stunned soviet and it has created an ominous atmosphere the soviets since a crackdown on dissidents under Leonid Brezhnev More than a decade Moscow is blanketed by an uneasy Sergei the capitals Deputy said last the government of the russian by far the nations warned that the military patrols would violate human rights As Well As the republics such actions could provoke or Worsen said an official the joint patrols Are not a onegin Salvo from the righting forces pressing on president Mikhail a Battery of controversial measures has been unleashed in recent Days and including an order empowering the Kab to raid businesses on suspicion of economic mondays postponement of a regardless of the stated excuse of preoccupation with the persian Gulf has done nothing to alleviate the anxiety Here that the Days of perestroika Are fading like the yellowed pages of an old its All like watching an Accident said a woman whose a former political now serves in the soviet and being helpless to do anything about soviet army officer Sergei a see red Page 5 Kkt activist branded troubled by Paul Wiecek and Bruce Owen a local organizer for the Kun flux klan described by his father As a troubled Young Man was refused a gun per Mit last year after police Learned of his ties to the White supremacist police sources said the 20 year old Man applied for a firearms acquisition certificate last year to buy an ak47 semiautomatic assault the sources said the Winni Peg police departments fire arms unit rejected the application because of the mans known ties to the Kkt and other White supremacist organizations in Canada and the United but in a letter to a Friend a copy of which was obtained by the free Man claimed his request was rejected for political reasons and because i might use it to defend the mans father said yesterday his son had a history of mental problems problems having to do with his White supremacist beliefs that eventually led to him being thrown off the family farm near Ston we told him that we didst see suspected Page 4 ;