Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 23, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Radio blues Job struggles to turn around ailing fortunes Worth winning try for in game 4 or if youre a seven Day subscriber go with the flow Toronto airports futuristic terminal 3 exudes Cool efficiency fancy phones its rings up hot Neon Security services on new units weather flurries today 13 Clearing tonight 22 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 744 34 books 22 66 17 classified 40 23 deaths 40 editorials 6 entertainment 25 24 food 58 36 45 45 21 7 movies 32 26 Russell 7 Sinclair 3 sports 61 stocks 67 travel 53 37 the Winner judge gives Man three make that three years by Aldo Santin and Dan Lett the the courtroom was defence lawyer Long and then the judge realized he had made a the provincial court judge in por Tage la Prairie issued a sentence of three when he really meant to say three police were ordered to Chase after the court finally catching up to her near and brought her the convicted Man was dragged Back into without his and Given the bad provincial judge Bruce Mcdonald told a hastily reconvened court Mon Day afternoon he erred when he sentenced Eugene Robert to a three month jail term for Man its a bad it really Feil said in an interview from heading Ley correctional it was a they put me in the Hole for three months then i started to get my Hopes but they hauled me Back into court and told me they made a others in the courtroom were equally Ive never heard of anything like this happening Crown at Torney de Sloane said Sloane and defence lawyer John Scurfield had recommended a prison term ranging from two to four Sloane said he was puzzled by the Short but said nothing at the he said he was so puzzled by the sentence he asked the court clerk later to verify what Mcdonald had written to his he Mcdonald had written Down three Scurfield told the Canadian press Hes not sure if the judge can change his sentence in such a Feil was originally charged with second degree murder for killing Gerald Edward in septem Ber of 1989 at his Home near the but the charge was reduced to court was told the two got into an Feil got into his car and while travelling about 25 hit Scott and knocked him into a where Scott struck his head on a railway registration number 0286 february free press vol 119 no 84 saturday Only Home delivery weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957o550 classified 9562330 Iraq faces High noon deadline a photo soviet plan not enough to halt bloody ground War by Charles Ellen Warren and Steve Goldstein Knight Ridder newspapers with an anxious world Iraq faced a High noon deadline today to get out of Kuwait or await a bloody ground president Bush issued the Ultima Tum yesterday to iraqi president Saddam Hussein to begin a Large scale withdrawal of troops by noon est today amid a flurry of super Power negotiations that had the highest of stakes peace or a land sea invasion by Allied Bush also demanded that Iraq Complete the pullout in one remove All its forces from Kuwait City within the first 48 hours of the withdrawal and allow for the prompt return of the kuwaiti the president said the list of conditions informs Saddam Hussein that he risks subjecting the iraqi people to further hardship unless Iraq complies fully with the allies appeared to accept a modified six Point soviet plan to withdraw from Kuwait within three weeks of a ceasefire an initiative the White House said was an in see soviet Page 4 allies Pound iraqis As Saddam adopts scorched Earth policy a palestinian girl waving a toy gun gives Victory sign at ant american rally in Amman disabled children lose Camp by Bruce Owen up to 85 handicapped children will have to find somewhere else to spend their summer casualties of economic hard the society for Manitoban with disabilities has decided to end a 30year tradition by closing its sum Mer program for disabled kids at Lakeside to save in the 199192 fiscal believe it was no easy said society president David the whole from a financial is running very the society is axing seven staff including two teachers and an employment he Hargrave said the society will continue to rent its Lakeside six Kilometres North of to other those most Hurt by the cos cutting will be Young disabled children whose parents rely on the Agency for physiotherapy and occupational he Hargrave said funding Over the last five years from the province and United Way has not kept Pace with the society mounting the including Utility Bills and staff have gone up by five per cent a he while Grants have been held at about three per a family services department spokesman said the province gave sad million Over the last a United Way spokesman said it provided Hargrave said with the summer Camp program being the society will expand its summer recreational outreach allowing children a Chance to have on Day outings or be placed in generic he said Many disabled children will be unable to go to other Camps because they Lack the appropriate supports and by Apple times news service saudi Arabia Al lied fighter bombers pounded enemy troop emplacements in every Corner of Kuwait flying a record number of missions Over the emirate despite Clouds of inky smoke from Oil Well apparently set by that covered a Quarter of the a firing Volley after Volley of shells and american and British howitzers and rocket launchers joined in the final preparation for a ground As did armadas of army and Marine corps Heli Allied planes flew More than missions against targets in and near Kuwait and 100 More against scud missile launchers inside the ground attack could come As soon As Dawn officers of the american command if iraqi president Saddam Hussein does not heed coalition demands that he begin pulling his forces out of Kuwait by antipersonnel Cluster bombs Clat Down on iraqi troop dispatches from frontline reporters and hundreds of canisters of the gel that bursts into flame when it were dumped into Oil filled trenches in front of enemy lines to Burn off the it was the first known use of napalm in the persian Gulf Richard the american military said in Riyadh that Saddam had ordered a scorched Earth policy into effect in setting fire to about 140 of the 950 Oil Wells in the the rising Tempo of Allied ground including highly aggressive probes from saudi Arabia into Iraq and also indicated that a land assault was imminent unless the iraqis quickly pulled saudi troops penetrated More than nine Kilometres into kuwaiti Terri tory to open a Lane through an iraqi a saudi spokesman re and they lifted about 75 mines without encountering any enemy by late last american pilots and listening posts had detected not a shred of evidence that the iraqis were preparing to leave an officer at american commander Norman Schwarzkopf head quarters in Riyadh some of the fires were visible 65 Kilometres away in saudi their Orange flames boldly outlined against the at the Border town where the wars biggest Battle so far was fought three weeks the sky was almost dark at get pushes inflation to Lightyear High tax has greater Impact than Wilson anticipated by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa the implementation of the get has pushed Canadas inflation rate to an Lightyear in the first month of its the seven percent tax helped push prices an average higher than in statistics Canada reported the annual inflation rate for Jan uary was boosted to per economists said yesterday the rate has not been that High since March when it stood at per of last months inflation rate Points came from an actual Rise in while Points came from the another Points were added by other last prices also Rose percentage Points from december but there was no get to add to finance minister Michael Wilson had predicted the get would add Points to last months inflation in inflation increased percentage Points last month from the annual rate matched the National average of per restaurant read ing material and recreational ser vices All taxed for the first time federally under the get led the increases in most of this increase was associated with changes in notably the introduction of the goods and services statistics Canada said in a assuming that All prices which contained the old Federal sales tax were lowered to reflect its it is estimated the net effect of All these tax related changes was to increase the consumer Price Index by about per cent in the month of was the initial reaction of Mike president of the Ottawa economic analysis group in to the Rise in that considerably More than the government had anticipated and get blamed for Rise in inflation rate to in source statistics Canada quite than i have Wilson called the increase significant but told reporters it is nothing to be alarmed he still expects some prices will fall once Small retailers begin getting their annual rebate cheques from but he acknowledged some retail ers might have used the get conf to slip in Price there is probably some of but the Impact of that on prices is probably Wilson Royal Bank chief economist Allan Yarish said the statistics would Sug Gest All the discounting and waving of the get that retailers Are claim ing to be doing has been offset by other increases in the somebody is not passing on the savings As Yarish Mccracken said the on month in crease would not Force the Bank of Canada to increase interest across clothing prices Rose per the Price of magazines and newspapers jumped nearly 10 per while the Price of restaurant meals Rose nearly seven per running a Home increased two per mostly because heat ing Bills Are now ;