Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 2, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo ethnic Facelift Fol Lorama is endeavouring to inject some new life into the aging festival 29 focus was Justice really done did those accused in the assassination of Maurice Bishop get a fair trial news invasion marked Kuwait is rebounding from Iraq invasion one year ago today 42 Cloudy today 21 Cloudy tonight 12 publications mail registration 0266 August vol 119 no 241 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 136 weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outcome Winnipeg k main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 9570550 Clamp fled 9562330 Dies As mystery infection stalks townsfolk a 4 by Alexandra Paul a six Earold girl is dead and at least 130 people Are sick but health officials remain baffled by the cause of an infection spreading through a Remote Northern University of Manitoba paediatric Ian Michael Moffat said eight children and one adult have been airlifted to Winnipeg out of 900 Kilometres East of Yel since the illness became severe at the end of All the evacuees have been suffer ing complications from an infection caused by the Coli bacteria which was first diagnosed in the town of in Early Moffatt he said 130 residents have been identified or Are suspected of suffer ing from an Early symptom of the Ive never seen an outbreak like Moffat id have to guess that half the population has been exposed to the child died monday from Hemo Lytic uraemic syndrome caused when the Coli produces a which damages the lining of they get inflamed in the the toxin Chews up the red blood Moffat All the children had hem Lytic uraemic see doctor Page 4 fort Garry assessment ruling adds Fidel to suit by Allison Bray a ruling that Winnipeg Over assessed the hotel fort Garry tenfold before seizing it for unpaid taxes has strengthened an ill million claim against the the buildings former owner our property was taken away from us based on an assessment that was grossly John per Rin said i wish someone at City Hall would have the courage to admit this was a major Perrin said that after a decade of Legal the Manitoba municipal Board ruled wednesday that the City had grossly Over calculated the taxes owing on the property because it did not assess them based on the Market value of the the City seized the landmark hotel in 1987 for million in unpaid Perrins Michael said the taxes charged on the property Between 1980 and 1987 were be tween and a year when they should have been Between and they should have been an eighth of what they he Perrin he lost the hotel after refusing to Mercury said the Over assessment occurred because the City did not take into account the reduced Market value of the property after it declared the hotel an historic site in a year after Perrins Harvard investments purchased the building and its surrounding property from Canadian National rail ways he said Perrin launched a lawsuit against the City in 1987 arguing the historical designation took away Harvard development which he said amounts to a form of expropriation without the lawsuit is seeking million in damages for loss of depreciation of land value and compensation for lost Perrin said the seizure of the hotel sold to Quebec businessman Raymond Malenfant for in 1987 resulted in the loss of 150 jobs As Well As millions of dollars in shareholder see City Page 4 Ken free press opening night the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Susalka dance ensemble teamed up to bring equally exciting helpings of delicate Charm and slavic Fervour to an appreciative crowd of about at last nights opening performance of Ballet in the the show runs through sunday at Assiniboine smoking a hassle inside even worse outside by George Nikides cigarettes can be hazardous to your health ask anybody who Steps out for a smoke at the air Canada a Man walked up to a woman on her break and for no apparent reason punched her in the face wednesday of Winnipeg police some of the airlines workers say the City Park in front of their por Tage Avenue building has become a Haven for say smokers the Butts they leave behind Are the big attract smoking is taboo in the in said Wendy Jackson As she puffed on a cigarette it gets around that there Are a lot of Butts around air Canada should create an indoor smoking area or patrol its property More another woman they come in four or five at a said a woman who has been with the airline for four its getting really bad and it want like that when i started working a is charged with assault in wednesdays incident in which the woman suffered police to save on the Cost of some vagrants smoke Butts or collect them and Roll their contents into Roy the air Canada buildings acting said company policy wont allow an indoor smoking i dont believe theres anything we can do that we Haven done said who said Security guards patrol inside and outside the it the assault was a Shock to on Leonard Williams and another air Canada employee tracked Down the alleged theres always been the Odd verbal but its been ignored until yes said police spokesman Eric Turner said the Park is an area of concern for the How do you prevent a random attack like that he Ann Landers 32 answers 30 Bridge 35 business 37 classified 14 comics 27 35 deaths 2 14 6 33 Horoscope 36 17 legals 26 21 movies 34 54 people 30 real estate 41 Sinclair 3 snorts 49 sports record 53 stocks 38 Tempo 29 to listings 30 wart aft 31 weekend 31 cops Shamir oks talks on peace says Baker has assured palestinian question wont present a problem from a Reuters Jerusalem israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir accepted yesterday a formula for Middle East peace talks with the saying state Secretary James Baker has assured him the Issue of palestinian representation will be resolved to israels on that Shamir agreed to submit the proposal to the israeli Cabinet on a senior official said he is confident of an exultant Baker said a conference with facet face negotiations Between Israel and its Arab neighbors is no longer simply a we have agreements with representatives of the United states on the makeup of the palestinian Dele a Shamir told an israeli television there will be no Plo men there there will be no residents of East Jerusalem and there will be no people from the palestinian but initial palestinian reaction was i dont see what All the fuss is said Hanan a palestinian representative who has met Baker on his previous a yes with conditions is a no in she the palestinians insist on choosing their own delegates to Baker is to meet with a palestinian delegation see Plo Page 4 poker machines death Knell for bar video games by Donald Campbell the Filmon government broke its word and is threatening the video game Industry with an ill advised Gamble of millions of tax dollars on electronic poker the Manitoba amusement operators association the decision will sound the death Knell for an association lawyer Chris Lorenc told a news conference we Are frankly most disturbed that the lottery foundation has failed to understand the real negative impacts on 400 to 600 people and thousands of other Manitoban whose livelihood depends on the entertain ment the Manitoba lotteries defended its decision to install gambling machines in Rural hotel bars and the association said that not Only will the government be spending taxpayers Money wrongly with its plan to install the machines in Rural hotel bars and it will also be killing a video games Industry in bar and lounge owners will remove existing video machines from establishments to make room for the gambling the association forcing video operators to lose their most profitable the association said its members can set up and run see Cost Page 4 Garden raiders steal ailing couples crop m Lison Bray ours of toil proved fruitless for an ailing Winnipeg couple on disability pensions who awoke yesterday to discover thieves had picked clean their vegetable we have to pull the weeds and fight the Lena we had to work were two cripples you who has a lung disease and breathes through a tube hooked to an oxygen said it is reprehensible someone would steal from her and her husband whose Back injuries Force him to walk with two it would be different if we were both she her voice full of bitterness and but Here you have two people who Are already next to and when you try to do something for yourself someone comes along and does something like Fontaine said the thieves plundered the biggest the smaller ones Well As an assortment of peas and to add insult to Fontaine she recently erected a two metre High Fence around her Manitoba Avenue Home to keep raiders out of the people what have you fort Knox there she its very she said the which also includes an 11yearold has no source of income other than disability pensions and relies on the Garden for its summertime there will be a few beets but i could have had enough so i have to buy Fontaine said that if the thieves were she would have Given them food if they had just come to the door and Lena Fontaine examines damage to her Manitoba Avenue 4 ;