Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 1, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada at a glance Winnipeg free press a o november to Beatty dismisses rumours Csc set to shut stations Canadian press Ottawa the Csc will not have to close any radio or television stations because of budget communications minister Perrin Beatty assured the commons yester unlike members of the other Side who daily get up in the House and suggest that there Are dire predictions for the Csc and a requirement for them to close stations and so that is not going to take Beatty the government continues to work with the Csc on the Issue of Lon term Beatty was responding to new Democrat my Lyle who asked if the minis Ter had decided yet whether the Csc would get the Lon term funding it has been re questing for Csc president Gerard Veilleux told a com Mons committee wednesday he has presented Beatty with some solutions to the abcs funding problem but Hast received an answer rumours about cuts have been flying fur Ousby at the they include the possibilities of turning off the English and French pm stereo cutting some regional sup per hour to closing to stations in Ottawa and Winnipeg and cutting three per cent from budgets across the Man convicted in explosion a Man who shot at an explosives crate last touching off a blast that rocked the Community and caused an estimated million dollars has been convicted of criminal Guy of was found his teenage Stepson lost an Eye in the he received a suspended sentence with three years probation Campbell pleaded not guilty to the charge judge Andre Lagace heard How Campbell was drinking during Brunch on fathers Day and later at another hotel in the comm that Campbell decided to go for a drive with his ending up along a Road where explosives were he parked his got out and shot at the containers with a semiautomatic the shot touched off kilograms of propelling a Large Rock a Kilometre until it dropped through the roof and floor of an elementary school in Campbell lost his right leg in the blast and severely damaged his he also sustained severe stomach and Arm injuries As Well As two ruptured virtually every building in town received some damage from the cat abuser barred from owning pets Calgary Man who broke his cats neck has been ordered not to own or have custody of a pet for 10 William Byron was also fined and placed on two years Proba Tion he pleaded guilty in provincial court to causing unnecessary suffering or in jury to the Tabby cat july Carruthers threw the cat around his Resi it suffered a concussion As Well As the neck the feline was taken to an animal Hospital for treatment after the it is not known if it court was told Carruthers is now undergo ing counselling for alcoholism and Doest re Call the he is extremely remorseful and even Sui said judge Sharon Van de the court does not condone its As despicable a treatment of animals As can be the judge said in sentencing car but to jail Carruthers now is Akin to kick ing a Man when Hes he is trying to Deal with his Calgary humane society chief Constable Linda Badgley said the sentence was appropriate for this Ite Ginas transit walkout to Roll on Regina transit workers in voted yesterday to stay out on strike indefinitely until they win a new contract Deal that meets their wage the the first in the transit services 80year left Many Regina residents stranded while temperatures dipped below about people make use of the transit system each Ted who has cerebral palsy and Doest was scheduled to see an Eye specialist but he was forced to cancel his like Many Mcquaid survives on a fixed income and afford the taxi after waiting nearly three months to see the who has Cata said hell have to wait until the strike is Over to reschedule the in mad at City he they should pay those bus Drivers a decent local 588 of the amalgamated transit which has 225 had been conducting rotating strikes for 26 Days be fore deciding wednesday afternoon to Esca late the the Union said the City rejected a request for an 18month contract calling for a wage increase of in the first year and three per cent in the the City says its offer of a per cent in crease in one year without the wage adjust ments is a fair and reasonable offer consider ing current economic its unfortunate that the contract dispute has ended in a strike said City manager Bob shutting Down service is something i hoped we could no talks were caught in a web three Iron workers in Montreal look like insects trapped in a Gigantic spider the workers Are converting the former Pavilion at expo to a biosphere housing a museum and an environment second breach of Trust by Vander Zalm alleged Premier Bill Vander Zalm was charged yesterday with a second count of breach of Trust in the Sale of his fan Tasy gardens theme the new count was Laid when Vander Zalm appeared in provincial court to face a breach of Trust charge Laid in the new charge accuses Vander Zalm of committing breach of Trust by combining the duties of his office with his personal interest in the Sale of fantasy the charges Stem from the Sale of fantasy gardens to taiwanese billionaire Tan Vander who resigned As Premier april elected trial by a supreme court a preliminary hearing is to begin outside Vander Zalm said he was surprised by the new i understand the let alone the he his Ken was also taken in quite surprised that at this late Date on the basis of the same material that the charge is being Quebec admits setting fire to Girlfriend Quebec a 15yearold boy has re versed a previous plea and admitted to beat ing and setting his 13yearold former girl Friend on fire a month pleading guilty to attempted the who cannot be named because he is a i asked through his lawyer to be sent to a Hospital for the criminally insane for a monthlong psychiatric the court will decide on the request tues Day when he is to be the girl is still in Hospital recovering from severe Burns to the lower part of her body but should be released within a the boy had grabbed her As she did her ear Lym orning paper route in a sleepy Quebec City dragged her into a nearby parking lot and beat then he poured a bottle of gasoline Over her and set her on Quebec City police were warned he threat ened but came under fire for doing Noth 100 May face charges in vets pension ripoffs Montreal at least 100 people could be charged in a scheme in which immigrants have been collecting veterans pensions Ille says an official with the Montreal Crown prosecutors the official did not want to be but the ramp in Montreal confirmed yesterday that the Force is investigating possible abuses of the veterans pension plan by immigrants allegedly using forged documents to get Ben by immigrants who have been in can Ada for at least 10 years and who Are in need can claim the same benefits As canadian1 vet Erans if they served with the Allied forces or can prove they were part of a resistance yesterday a Man was charged in a Quebec court with illegally collecting in pen Sion 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meticulous plans to Welcome Marcos to the Philippines after almost six years in exile in the United the Marc oses son Ferdinand Marcos also known by the nickname Bongbonga flew Back to Manila flashing a for Victory sign at the he said its time to Bury his the late dictator Ferdinand and Start he faces charges of graft and tax evasion in the but the government said it would not arrest him skirmish kills 97 niger Farmers battling shepherds in a centuries old Dis Pute Over land use set a Southern Vil Lage on starting a Blaze that killed 97 the government said Andre head of the interim declared yesterday a Day of National mourning in this West african Bro lies fatal again Tokyo a Crane operator was electrocuted in Japan yesterday while dismantling a portion of Chris tos giant umbrellas project the second death in a week linked to the a Continental Masaaki was killed after the Boom from his Crane apparently touched a Power line As he prepared to remove one of the Blue umbrellas from the Ibaraki prefecture North of police the Bulgaria born environmental artist has ordered the umbrellas to come Down in Japan and in the Tejon pass North of ims Angeles because of the death last saturday of 33year old Lori who authorities say into a Boul Der by one of yellow us uprooted by the Bongbonga Back in Manila Menem scraps rules Buenos Aires Argentine president Carlos Menem issued a sweeping decree yesterday scrap Ping decade sold regulations on Trade and the decree included the abolition of All quotas and limits on imports and brother fingered a lawyer said yesterday his dead brother was the notorious Zodiac killer who Mur dered at least a Hal dozen people in the but police said there is no evidence to substantiate the William a Veteran de Fence told a news conference he believes his Jack Stead Man was the Man who baffled police in a series of slayings in the san and los Angeles who has written a Book about his elder said he based the identification on a psychological profile and the physical evidence left at the crime Jack Beeman died in Phoenix in february 1984 at age influx threatened Haiti interim prime minister Jean Jacques Honorat warned yesterday that a economic embargo against his country will result in a new flood of haitian refugees to the United states and other Caribbean the immediate outcome of the embargo will be a wave of boat peo Honorat said in an interview yesterday at his office in the National you people need to begin to get ready to receive that Washington imposed a strict eco nomic embargo against Haiti on which becomes effective next in compliance with a Reso Lution by the organization of Ameri can states demanding the return of Jea Bertrand the coun try constitutionally elected presi Dent ousted in a 30 tree a big draw Beijing chinese Are flocking by the thousands to Burn Light candles and leave offerings at the foot of a 450yearold Ginkgo tree outside Shanghai that they believe has become the Home of a an official newspaper reported yesterday Shanghai Wen Hui Bao newspaper said the tree in Qingfu county was drawing hordes of supplicants who believed it could cure disease and Avert voyage aborted Moscow two siberian Broth ers hoping to become computer programmers set off in an inflatable raft across the frigid Northern Pacific to America but were picked up by a so Viet nuclear the soviet news Agency Tass Tass said wednesday that 21year old Andrei Vino Trailov and his 18 year old brother Pavel were picked up after setting sail from Petrous the main the Kamchatka ;