Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 27, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press i Luck 7a21991j sports Tempo but a Victory session Kay Harbottle marmalade and jams Are a delicious Winter ritual jets hold off Hartford whalers in a i game that they seemed destined to fritter away through Sloppy play sunny today10 Cloudy tonight15 second class Mai registration number 0286 t weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 february Sun rises sets Moon rises sets j run r i allies Hammer fleeing iraqis Wilson budget holds the awaits growth budgetj91 Public ser Tea wage raises will be held to 3 per cent a year for the next 3 the Only tax increase is on up a income tax rates wont increase unemployment insurance premiums will the budget deficit will be billion for this fiscal year and the budget limits Transfer payments to the provinces for education and budget by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Mulroney governments first recession budget slashed spending rather than in creasing taxes in a Stan Pat Fis Cal plan aimed at holding the deficit until economic growth re fighting the War in the persian helping those most Hurt by the recession and getting Strug gling Grain Farmers Back on their feet were priorities As finance minister Michael Wilson set out his plan for economic recovery since my last rising uncertainty has taken a heavy toll on both economic Confidence and performance in Wilson said in his seventh and possibly last our priority is action to create the essential conditions for the actions in this budgetary Tough and they Are Challenge tax increases were limited to a boost in unemployment insurance premiums by this year and next year and a three Centa cigarette increase in the tobacco while there were no personal income tax the two smaller measures will bring billion More in revenues next but in everyone from the prime minister and maps to Public servants and special inter est groups will pay dearly be see Wilson Page 4 sickest of patients May be worst Hurt by mho says by Nick Martin and John Douglas hospitals May have to forgo extending the lives of gravely ill patients because of Federal spend ing Manitoba health organization director Ron Birt warned last equipment and procedures in intensive care Are an expensive portion of health budgets expected to be battered by the Federal governments decision to limit Transfer Birt How far can you afford to extend life the costs in those places Are just he Manitoban should Brace them selves for cuts in health care and education standards in the Wake of Federal finance minister Michael Wilsons decision on trans Fer officials Cau Birt said hospitals knew a year ago of limits on 199192 Transfer but yesterdays announcement will Force the prov Ince to reassess maintaining the current level of medical service through the Jim spokesman for the see health Page 4 column of iraqi captured by marines in Early moves toward processing Camp in were going to attack Saddam to avoid jaws of coalition pincers from App under fire Iraq army Strait incl North yester Day in a headlong flight Kuwait were going attack and attack and a general said As marines tangled with iraqis fighting a rearguard action at Kuwait City Airport and a vast British armoured Force collided with Iraq Republican guard reserves somewhere to the in one tank Crews of the 7th corps battered a guard division in the iraqi desert West of a senior Pentagon official a new spool mean said Republican guard units were setting up hew defensive lines my Republican guard division wailing iraqis plead for Saddam soldiers had Little West of the Southern iraqi City officials of the exiled kuwaiti government said the iraqi army has been withdrawing for three or four Days and Saddam pullout order was synchronized with the near completion of the from Kuwait a Highway leads North to Basra 120 Kilometres a spuds of smoke from hundreds of Oil Well fires set by the iraqis May have masked the the Campaign appeared Toa deadly face through the desert Between iraqi troops retreating North toward Iraq heartland and the 7th corps Armor rumbling in from the West trying to Cut them the iraqis were reported to have kuwaiti hos tages in no one in authority was saying How deep into Iraq the forces might pursue the withdraw ing Iraq president Saddam Hussein labelled the withdrawal a president Bush called it an out rage and said Saddam was trying to cling to formidable military Power with his prime minister Mulroney said Iraq Hast met the conditions for a Canada Supporta ceasefire Only when Saddam agrees to comply with All United nations resolutions on the Mulroney he Saddam is not a Man to whom the Benefit of the doubt can be said More than iraqis have now been taken the com Mand our Joy is thanks be to Kuwait exile radio de see kuwaitis Page 4 kuwaitis returning to rebuild country British to records kuwaiti Flag rising again in by Kim Murphy los Angeles times saudi Arabia grouping Here for a March into their liberated officials of Kuwait government in exile said yesterday that the majority of Kuwait City is free of iraqi occupation and that they Are eager to return Home and begin rebuilding their War ravaged one of the first Steps toward that announced the exiled kuwaiti would be the implementation of a three month period of martial kuwaiti resistance leaders said that iraqis took thousands of hos tages As they rounding up from schools and the hostages included relatives of kuwaiti military personnel and prominent these leaders amid reports that citizens were celebrating in the streets in the kuwaiti capital As iraqi soldiers fled government officials said that the kuwaiti resistance in Side Kuwait was moving to take control of police stations and remaining government buildings to maintain order until a new interim martial Law government is set our Joy is thanks be to the enemy is turning said Kuwait Pentagon officials said that marines were still engaged in a fierce tank Battle near Kuwait cites International Airport and that pockets of iraqi resistance remained within the kuwaiti officials see kuwaiti Page 4 29 33 17 38 47 crossword 29 38 editorials 6 32 34 30 Jumble Puzzle 48 33 7 3 43 sports record 46 18 27 28 firms Lay new axe threatens Day Job programs by Patrick Mckinley Winnipeg free 1991 the Filmon government is looking at slashing daycare funding and wiping out More than million in Job programs that serve Manitoban a Mega fears government documents obtained by the free press propose cutting million from daycare spending by eliminating Grants to daycare advocacy groups or reducing ser vices for children with physical Dis abilities or other special the documents also propose the family services department close regional employment offices across the province and eliminate employ ment programs for North Ern native welfare recipients and others with chronic problems finding by eliminating the the documents the government can eliminate about 80 civil service jobs and 70 contract if the minister and the Premier act on these recommendations the results Are going to be absolutely devastating for the most vulnerable of nip family services critic Becky Barrett Wellington these program cuts Are going to hit the youth they Are going to hit people in the North they Are going to hit people on social services and they Are going to hit Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs said she was horrified the govern ment would consider cutting Day care for children with special predicting it would cause families to break up because some parents would be unable to Cope with their disabled children at both said it makes no sense to Cut Job programs when unemployment is on the family services minister Harold Gilleshammer said final decisions have not been i think the finance minister Clayton manness has made it very Clear that we have a situation where our revenues Are going to be Flat this year and we have to take a very critical look at our what you have in front of you is one of a number of working Docu ments and probably there Are Many documents government wide where different aspects of govern ment work Are being Analysed and brought Forward for ministers to look Gilleshammer i think its fair to say that in previous budgets the social pro family education have been a priority and you we still feel that we have Strong responsibilities in those areas and we will be meeting those he the recommended cuts include d scrapping the human resources Opportunity which pro Vides Job placement and other services to 000 welfare recipients annually d closing human resources Opportunity centres in Portage la the Beausejour and the centres provide work experience and other services to about Hardt employ Manitoban annually d closing general employment ser vices offices in Dau the Churchill and at the Limestone generating station o wiping out the Northern youth corps which provided suf timer jobs last year for 824 Young people in Indian and Metis communities d terminating the career Start pro which helped businesses and Community groups provide summer jobs for students and youth last year and d trimming eight jobs from the administrative ;