Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 24, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bankers Duck when Larry Whaley i Arches through their Winnipeg tree press Gulf conflict propels interest in prophecies of Cloudy today15 Clear tonight 23 Winnipeg free press vol 119 no 85 second class registration number 0286 february free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 d marines take 200prisoners in 48 hours Iraq vows it will never surrender allies punch into Kuwait a photo we of t m iraqis step up reign of terror from the news services iraqi soldiers have intensified a Campaign of terror in Kuwait executing hundreds of citizens and arresting according to intelligence reports and kuwaiti resistance resistance leaders and Mili tary officials said yesterday that iraqi troops were stepping up arrests and herding Young men As Young As 13 into buses commandeered from school Dis Allied spokesmen said civilians in Kuwait City were being killed at and iraqis were dumping the sometimes bodies of Young men and women into the front Yards of their parents Marine Richard Neal referred derisively to the re ported atrocities As terrorism at its finest there is a systematic Campaign of executions of people Treyve Tor tured they Are grabbing people and summarily executing said the command chief a kuwaiti Security official in exile in Dhahran said some 200 corpses of people detained by the iraqis had been dumped near their Homes or in empty lots in Kuwait City since the bodies showed signs of torture and the official they Are now has san a Kuwait information ministry said in they Are committing atrocities to hide their past the accounts heightened a sense of urgency on the Battlefront As time ticked past the deadline set by presi Dent Bush for the iraqis to begin leaving the reports were not confirmed by Independent Neal said electronic eavesdrop Ping equipment had substantiated kuwaiti resistance groups accounts of a widespread and systematic Campaign of exec kuwaiti foreign ministry officials in Riyadh said yesterday that people were being held in jails and prison Camps by iraqi soldiers in the kuwaiti Security offi Cial in Dhahran said Many prisoners in Kuwait City were being held at the iraqi the Central police neighbourhood police stations and a juvenile kuwaitis fleeing their occupied country have told of hang see there Page 4 16 2q 14 14 26 17 7 18 32 18 31 21 25 13 Ward 3 utto winning numbers 47 Bonus number 28 winning plus number saudi troops with an armoured personnel Carrier look toward suspected iraqi positions in French troops enter Iraq resistance lighter than source reveals Dhahran a thousands of French foreign legionnaires and other French forces punched at least 20 Kilometres into Iraq Early today and met Little a Western military source the progression of our forces is entirely according to the source resistance is much lighter than we the source has been reliable for military reports in the his Story could not be confirmed because of a blackout imposed by and other coalition military the source said he had no reports of resistance from iraqi tanks or four hours after the coalition ground attack French forces were at least 20 Kilometres inside Iraq and continued to he the source for Security to disclose the Point at which French forces were crossing into he would not confirm or deny reports that French forces were involved in a flanking manoeuvre West of moving toward Frances rapid action Force has been largely deployed at positions along the saudi iraqi it includes the foreign legions motorized infantry regiment with antitank missiles the 800man 1st spa his regiment with 36 amx10 fighting vehicles and the foreign legions 6th regi both the French and British governments announced their forces would join the ground Offen troop positions based on prewar estimates Jav Lakhdar fat Susaya Republican guard roads Borders Allied troops rough estimate reserves and support units main route for Allied truck convoys no Ayriyan Abu Hadri reserves and support units saudi Arabia sources National guide Atlas of the kingdom of saudi Arabia the economist a bus predicts decisive ground Victory by Juan Tamayo and Larry Copeland Knight Ridder newspapers saudi Ara Bia Allied forces invaded Kuwait and Iraq under cover of darkness last night As the ground War against iraqi president Saddam Hussein army soldiers punched through two stretches of the Border Between saudi Arabia and with one northward thrust near the town of Zafra and an other eastward into the umm Qadir a kuwaiti government source the troops had driven More than 14 Kilometres into Kuwait toward the oilfield and 12 Kilometres toward Zafra shortly be fore 9 he a saudi military source con firmed the the kuwaiti official also reported heavy helicopter activity Over Kuwait which he thought was a Landing by marines from ships in the persian aimed at seizing and securing the National air Marine units earlier had taken control of Fayla Kah about 32 kilo metres offshore from Kuwait senior Mili tary sources the battleship Missouri fired 16inch explosive shells into observers on the British warship Gloucester in presi Dent Bush said the attack would swiftly and decisively eject iraqi troops from defence Secretary Dick Cheney or dered an immediate and total Clampdown on Public information about the fighting flared on sever Al fronts As Dawn broke today under Greasy Black skies marred by the smoke from about 200 burning Oil Wells sabotaged by iraqi initial reports from frontline Marine units at the kuwaiti Border suggested new Oil fires May have been ignited by warplanes dropping fuel air explosives designed to destroy iraqi mines buried beneath the desert the bombs were part of an Allied Effort to Clear about a Hal million mines until the threat they presented was reduced to a hunk of Swiss cheese on a hot engine As one Marine put before Bush 10 est announcement that see ground Page 4 summary d thousands of tanks and artillery pieces poured across the saudi Arabia Border into d president Bush said he authorized the land assault when it became Clear iraqi president Saddam Hussein would not withdraw his d soldiers punched through two stretches of the Border Between saudi Arabia and d a Kuwait government source said he also had unconfirmed reports of heavy helicopter activity Over Kuwait d in Baghdad first reaction to the Start of a ground a spokesman for Iraq embassy to the United nations said Iraq will never a lot of americans will die d authorities reported the systematic execution of kuwaiti civilians by Iraq in what one commander called terrorism at its finest d As the deadline Iraq set fire to additional kuwaiti Oil were also reports that iraqi troops were burning downtown Kuwait d marines took As Many As 200 prisoners and destroyed 33 iraqi armoured vehicles after a 48hour Border one of Many opening the Apache helicopters hell on Saddam invited Mulroney dont take births lying moms told by Alexandra Paul a former Winnipeg doctor says its potentially dangerous to Mother and child to Force women to give birth lying Down and Hes got a study to Back his i Hope this will go a Long Way to changing the medical mindset that pregnancy is a disease that women Are unable to Cope without a Larry formerly with Boniface general Reynolds study of 179 deliveries at Boniface appears in the latest edition of Canadian family it suggests women who lie Down during birth risk their baby and their own if a woman is lying on her its like having a Small Watermelon pressing Back on her Aorta artery and her Vena Caya head of family practice at Josephs Hospital in As a result of lying a woman in labor often feels faint because her cardiac system is under he the baby health is also compromised because its blood Supply is constricted through the umbilical Reynolds Reynolds said the main reason women give birth on their backs is for doctors it can Lead to painful forceps deliveries and in which the birth canal is Cut open to accommodate the Reynolds but when women stand squat or lie on their they regain control Over the Reynolds they push have significantly fewer forceps interventions and and More spontaneous the study it is Clear that modern women can assume primitive birth that they can deliver in these positions and that they seem to find these positions More More comfortable and safer than the traditional recumbent the study University of Manitoba family Medicine head Gary Beazley said Reynolds worked for years to talk Boniface staff into conducting the the Hospital now Breaks with convention As Long As the Mother and doctor Are comfortable with Beazley said the biggest hurdle is the attitude of conventionally trained doctors and fort three deliveries in the study group were compared with 136 conventional deliveries in a control a total of 42 of the 43 women in the study group delivered babies As they stood or Laid on their the study women had a lower Episiotomy rate than the control group per cent As compared to per cent and were More Likely to have a spontaneous delivery 93 per cent As compared with per the study ;