Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 26, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bridging the decades Paul Simons style May have but the fans dont mind a bit sports turn on the Glitz Toronto Argos get glamorous new owners focus federalism still alive Many Quebe cers Are reluctant to separate from Canada Winnipeg it be pros 4ucky sunny today12 Cloudy tonight 21 second cuss Mai registration number 0286 february by vol us no 8 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets weekly Homo delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957o550 classified 9562330 a photo Saddam Calls troops Back Washington response the War goes on iraqis surrender yesterday in Southwest More than pos have been taken iraqis say there but fed up with fighting from Riyadh Reuter iraqi troops have begun withdrawing from Kuwait City and abandoning sup kuwaiti military officials said in the saudi capital news of the withdrawal came less allies have Field than minutes after iraqi presi Dent Saddam Hussein said his army had won the fight against the led coalition and had been ordered to Complete its withdrawal from the emirate a lot of troops Are leaving the they Are leaving lots of things behind their weapons stores and even their a senior Mili tary official requesting Ano he said the soldiers began with drawing yesterday at around 11 they Are driving out in the Hun using any available Means of he this iraqi president Saddam Hussein said on Baghdad radio iraqi troops would Complete their withdrawal from Kuwait came after Iraq asked the soviet Union to arrange a ceasefire in the persian Gulf War through the United earlier the United states demanded that Saddam personally and publicly order his troops to with draw from Washington also dismissed an ear Lier Baghdad radio by an unnamed official for iraqi troops to leave the country they invaded see iraqis Page 4 British Soldier Waves Media away from Barracks debris scud missile Falls on Barracks 27 98 wounded by William Branigin the Washington Post with saudi Arabia army troops continued to round up iraqi prisoners yesterday without firing a and Many of the new captives appeared Happy to be out of combat but defiant about their ability to survive the Allied four officers were among the 87 iraqi soldiers who gave themselves up to the army 1st cavalry Divi Sion yesterday under a steel Gray sky and an intermittent some iraqis said they had trekked anywhere from eight hours to three Days to reach lines in saudi and most seemed unafraid of the troops and unfazed by the fact that they Are now prisoners of were not were just tired of said one iraqi with a Broad Black weve been in the army for eight years he said he others from the iraqi army 48th infantry division had eight hours to reach the Allied but that the journey was no iraqis Are he we dont get several soldiers repeated their governments claims that Allied bomb had not killed Many military men but had caused heavy civilian casualties in residential they that the bomb ing had taken a Large Tollon equip ment and the bombing has not affected us so but it destroyed a lot of equipment on the ground and disrupted Supply one Cap Tive they said they were Happy to find some Allied said David of As he supervised the iraqis Transfer from the Sand berm that Marks this Border area to prison Camps farther they said More of their friends Are Howard said the iraqis had no water when they arrived and that some had been walking for two or three he said they told How they had taken the Opportunity to escape during confusion caused by Allied which intensified immediately before the Allied ground assault was launched Early Allied officials said More than have been captured in the first two Days of the ground among the Early linear passers were two captains and two Lieuten ants including a member of presi Dent Saddam Hussein elite Republican the four men commandeered a soviet built iraqi army jeep and drove it to the berm in order to surrender Index Ann 20 24 40 45 40 23 Jumble 43 people 22 47 12 Tempo 19 to Ira group pact saudi Arabia a in the worst iraqi missile attack of the persian Gulf a Barracks housing troops was demolished the military said at least 27 soldiers were killed and 98 wound it was not immediately Clear if a Patriot missile was fired to intercept the missile Early the Central command issued a statement saying 27 were killed and 98 were the updated which Fol Lowed a night of searching for the said All personnel were accounted it was said Arnel assigned to crowd control at the blast some soldiers appeared to be in others embraced each other in Many were in in the four pairs of boots poked out from under sleeping bags and military uniform belts were scattered about on the charred there was Little left of the building but its steel girder i have to prepare myself for said a Soldier walking toward the George Middle East Bureau chief for the military newspaper stars said an air raid Siren gave scant warning of the approaching Basing his account on Mili tary wrote a Large piece of the missile that apparently contained the warhead plunged straight Down into the creating an Orange fireball on the Barracks was in an Industrial area about five Kilometres from the huge military air base at a sign at the Entrance marked it As the Home of the 475th quartermaster a Reserve unit from North of the attack came at about local while some of the soldiers were eating dinner and after others had apparently gone to bed or were Many survivors were in civilian clothes some in sweat suits or gym Manitoba bankruptcies ban rate big leap by Mary Ann Fitzgerald and Aldo Santin Consumers led a record breaking assault on bankruptcies last month As 272 Manitoba individuals and businesses declared the 237 individuals and 35 companies unable to pay their Bills when they fell due in january is a 90per cent increase Over the 143 bankrupt cies individuals and 30 Busin esses in january last certainly january is the highest month increase Guy car assistant superintendent of bankruptcies for Manitoba and Sas bankruptcies last month jumped 69 per cent to compared to in january the number of bankruptcies in Manitoba and nationally last year were both the insole Consumers Lead assault on insolvency record vercies in Manitoba last year outdid the previous record in when Consumers and businesses went there were a record bankruptcies nationally last its the economic state in general and the amount of credit owed by Carriere some people carry on to the Point they cant go any the Royal Banks assistant chief economist Earl Sweet said the re cession and prolonged period of High interest rates have taken their toll on businesses and High interest although they have come have put a lot of people under Sweet said from see freight Page 4 failure but procedure easy source statistics Canada h by Bruce Owen the toughest part about personal bankruptcy is dealing with the stigma of being a the easiest part is declaring bankruptcy and going through the theres a social stigma that goes with said who joined 236 other individual Manitoban in de Claring personal bankruptcy in Jan once people hear that youve gone then they reformulate their opinion of you makes it but the More it becomes the less relevant it its a big but once youve made the decision to declare its an easy process to go who asked that his real name not be filed for bankruptcy after a business Deal went sour and the Bills piled there was just a lot of personal debt i he i had creditors that were going to move against it was i had no personal recourse so now Mitch has become another one of Many faced with see bankruptcy Page 4 ;