Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Yeoman service Murray Campbell retiring after 45 years with music festival 30 sports Bonanza on Diamond High priced players like Kelly Gruber worry baseball owners 41 hard line on lumber will fight if Canada fools with softwood lumber pact Fri i 5 is to i k Lucky Cloudy today7 Snow tonight15 St Ono class number 0286 if february i Sun rises sets Moon rises sets of Fwy to our twp outside wlm Peg Mato 9434331 Hong do Katy 9570550 Tomt food 956z330 iraqis say All demands acceptable i Mammoth Armor Battle is last act says Bush Kuwait ecstatic As enemy routed from president Bush announced a ceasefire in the desert War last saying the coalition had achieved its military Kuwait is Iraq army is said Iraq general officials said their top armoured divisions dealt heavy blows to just hours before Bush announced the warplanes were still flying on missions As Bush reports from the Field spoke of tank Battles on the outskirts of Basra and troops 150 Kilometres from but generals had already declared the outcome certain by the time Bush went on television to say the War was won after 100 hours of ground he said and coalition troops would suspend their attacks at Midnight est last he a Perma nent ceasefire would take hold once Iraq ends All releases pos and foreign captives and meets other iraqi sources said Iraq in Mission sent a letter to the United nations yesterday accepting All the Security Council resolutions on the persian Gulf As demanded by the United the speaking on condition of said the latest letter makes Clear Baghdad will Honor All the in defence officials said coalition attacks stopped at the officials said there were no reports of iraqi attacks at the this War is now behind Bush ahead of us is the task of achieving a potentially historic peace in the Middle special forces Soldier is mobbed by jubilant residents of Kuwait free for first time since iraqi invasion in see casualties Page 4 29 34 33 34 30 Horoscope 28 1 Jumble Puzzle 37 48 movies 31 26 41 18 to listings lotto 1 x a Tonto Nusbom 44 Bonos Hunter 20 winning number 4030w most others count casualties by Dan Fesperman the Baltimore Sun Kuwait City from noon to dusk yesterday it sometimes seemed that the whole of this City was men on Corners fired machine guns into the families rushed to carry food to arriving Allied Hor bonking carloads of revellers weaved Between the smashed bulks of spent iraqi but amid these scenes of other kuwaitis began totalling the numbers of maimed and while wonder ing How deep the nations pain will once the euphoria of reclaimed Freedom wears stories of loss and suffering came from almost anyone that was spoken Esmah Al Rasheedi told of her whose fingernails were plucked put whose body was shocked with she because he operated a printing Entessar Hassen joined if any Man went the iraqis would ask Why do dress this Way Why do you do this or that where Are you going if the iraqis dont like they kill now the children have no no it they like if they they kill i dont want to kill Saddam i want the children to throw their shoes at because now they have no no Al standing seven metres then offered a Short tour through a series of local first Stop was a few blocks in a Small vacant lot near his Home in the suburb of two nights he while Many iraqi soldiers withdrew from the he saw several of them push two teenage boys to their Knees m the Middle of this Square at the soldiers then shot the boys in the head with he Khateeb strolled to the Centre of the Square and pointed to the a blood stained White the head garment worn by Arab Lay in a a Short distance away the Sand was covered with a Large Brown Khateeb then drove to the fringe of his neighbourhood and led a tour through the local police which he said the iraqis had turned into a jail for hundreds of the building was now and reeked of human waste and rotting Khateeb and several other people inter viewed said that they had attempted to see kuwaitis Page 4 coalition terms coalition political and military terms for a formal ceasefire include the following requirements Iraq must release immediately All coalition prisoners of third country nationals and the remains of All who have Iraq must release All kuwaiti Iraq also must inform kuwaiti authorities of the location and nature of All land and sea Iraq must comply fully with All relevant United nations Security Council by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa Federal bungling of David Mil guards 22year bid for Freedom will be publicly revealed in appeals to the Federal court of Canada and the Saskatchewan court of his lawyer promised Liberal maps demand the decision to launch the appeals follows Justice minister Kim Campbells refusal to order a new trial for convicted of murdering a Saskatoon nurse in it would not be appropriate to refer this Case to the courts either for a new trial or for a hearing in an Appeal Campbell i in Good there was a body of evidence which establishes there was Likely a miscarriage of i an convinced that the trial process was Milga Ards David charged the decision runs counter to a Mountain of evidence he says to but which Federal officials refused to recognise Dur ing a two year secretive either they ignored what we presented or they just complexly misunderstood w Asper said from his Winnipeg although Campbell the extraordinary step of getting an outside Legal from former supreme court of Canada Justice William Mclyn any Hope she had of ending of her departments handling of the Case faded Quick this reeks of political Winnipeg Liberal my John Harvard said she sits on the information for months and Tjien releases her decision in the Middle of the the War and a Joyce Wittici daughter province quietly kills housing authorities by Patrick Mckinley the provincial looking for major budget has quietly disbanded 98 regional housing program cuts members of the regional boards which managed about Public housing units throughout Manitoba began receiving letters yesterday in forming them they Are being re placed immediately by a new provincial Agency in a bid to save million a they kept this whole thing very said Dave drum a member of the no Dis banded Winnipeg regional hous ing authority lie said tenants will lose representatives they elected to the Board and predicted the province will save much of the Money by putting off repairs or failing to carry out improvements the local boards have been pushing housing minister Jim Ernst said the elimination of the regional housing authorities will re sult in about 50 people losing their jobs across the the move comes As the Ince looks at cos cutting Mea sures including limits on Day care funding and the elimination of several employment programs for welfare students and native those cuts could wipe out up to 150 govern ment sources said yesterday bureaucrats in some areas of govern ment have been told to look for Seemann Gss page4 ;