Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 20, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Local secret Deal halted a leasing contract awarded in secret by a civic committee Sparks an unprecedented policy review b17 Tempo sports Nutcracker takes Bat to Toronto on stage different new dancers keep classic fresh c33 slugger Dave who leads All Active players in career Home has signed with the Blue jays d57 Prairie theatre Exchange serves up a Bunch of Munsch d35 vol 120 no 21 publications mail registration no 0286 if Winnipeg free press weekly Home delivery 60 in 75 outside City upfront Mulroney sums up after talks positive accentuated just rolled up their sleeves and said were Here to get can Ada working again and that was the attitude Premier Gary Filmon said at the end of the first ministers conference it was typical of the determination the leaders showed to Send out positive signals prime minister Mulroney called the meeting a Success and told reporters he hoped to sit Down again with provincial leaders before the end of a4 breakup accelerates breakup of Yugoslavia gained momentum yesterday As the parliament of the macedonian Republic voted to seek diplomatic recognition As an inde pendent the move by the Southern Republic raised fears that the civil War will spread in the Wake of the european Community Deci Sion this week to extend recognition to any Republic that guarantees the rights of eth Nic fighting intensified yesterday As croat Ian and serbian forces traded accusations that civilians Are being c31 critical juncture Johannes of South Africa Black and White communities begin a crucial meeting today on the future of South Africa that could see a biracial interim government established by the convention for a democratic South Africa brings together the White govern ment and Black opposition groups to work out an end to apartheid and draw up a new Constitution giving Blacks the All that aint folks woolco department stores Are pulling a bugs Bunny video from their shelves after a family from Richer bought a copy that added bunnies of another after the traditional that All there was the tape continued with promos for Playboy with scantily Clad Playboy us Torrie said her husband bought the cartoon bugs and Daffy carnival of the animals recently at a Winnipeg i was totally Torrie i simply believe that would be on the end of a childrens Torrie said it was the last copy of the tape in the store and didst have the usual cello Phane a woolco spokesman in Toronto said All copies of the video Are being pulled from its 150 stores across Canada and woolco will apologize to the Torrie quote of the Day everybody having a rough but Treyve got to be having a really rough time to steal a Christmas h Len the superintendent of a Wolseley apartment after discovering yesterday thieves had taken his artificial tree out of the buildings bb17 Index Ann sports to weather today becoming mainly High Low tomorrow High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details c30 Manitoba fears effect if generic drug firms sacrificed by Alexandra Paul medical reporter prescription drug prices would soar and Industrial expansion plans for Manitoba would falter if Canada sacrifices the generic drug Industry in Gatt warn a Host of officials in the Hue and cry Over the possible Deal started with Trade and tourism minister Eric a department offi Cial revealed Stefanson wrote International Trade minister Michael Wilson last a Strong in support of the generic drug Indus who said Stefanson was not available for comment stressed that the province is very concerned that compulsory drug licensing is up for Sale in talks to lower Trade barriers at the general agreement on tariffs and Trade in the fears Are shared by Industry officials across Canada and pharmacy and consumer groups in under compulsory copycat drugs Are Given wider latitude to compete against More Brand name but Canada is prepared to give up the sys tem in order to reach an acceptable Deal in such areas As agriculture and an offi Cial with the generic based Canadian drug manufacturers association association research director Wayne Schnarr said a Deal could mean an end to existing and pending compulsory if All our compulsory drug licences were that would destroy our see generic police infiltrate local klan net ringleaders police reporter Wayne free press Gislason displays Robe and among the evidence seized in klan two Winnipeg men described by police As ringleaders of the local chapter of the Kun flux klan have been charged with Advocat ing genocide a move police predict will be a crushing blow for local White Conrad Gislason who spearheaded the 13month investigation that resulted in the arrests wednesday said at least one and possibly As Many As five More arrests will be made before police wrap up their undercover investigation of local klan Active surrounded by tables filled with klan liter nazi Memorabilia and High powered rifles police seized during raids on six Winnipeg Homes wednesday Gislason told reporters investigators identified three klan cells in in Winnipeg and one in Gimli with an estimated 25 to 30 he described the members As mostly White males who appeared to be Well schooled and Well trained in activities of the he said the Case could have National imply its the kind of Case that could end up set Ting a lot of Legal said who was beaming despite having slept just two hours in the past two Days As the Case came to a Gislason told a packed news conference yesterday morning that As Many As six Winnipeg police officers infiltrated klan meet Ings As part of a lengthy and Complex invest which City police claim is the first time any police department in North Amer Ica has managed to penetrate the High lyse creative Gislason said the charge of advocating genocide which carries a maximum five year sentence was Laid after officers infiltrated local klan meetings and heard state ments being made about natives and William James of notre Dame Avenue who had become a spokesman for the klan during recent months appeared briefly in court yesterday afternoon and was granted bail on the condition he Post a surrender his passport and report weekly for bail theron Maurice of Manitoba was released earlier in the Day on his own see police even Gorbachev office goes As Yeltsin takes control from App Moscow Boris Yeltsin took control of the including Mikhail Gorbachev office and All soviet Central government agencies except the defence and nuclear Energy reports said the russian presidents taken by All but buried the soviet Union which has been dying a slow death since a Hartline coup failed in nato and the european Community indicated yesterday they were almost ready to recognize the soviet republics As Independent in president Bush said recognition is just going to take a Little bit of the nato meeting in the Bel Gian capital set criteria the republics should meet for they included respect for human nuclear and conventional disarmament International Borders and free Market external affairs minister Barbara Mcdougall said they Are they Are not there is no sense everyone will move on the same Day with the same she that will still be a Sovereign prime minister Mulroney said Canada would Grant diplomatic recognition to but wants assurances about the Security of nuclear in an interview broadcast last night on so Viet Gorbachev accepted the common wealth of Independent saying its for mation is in the decisive the epoch of the Union of soviet socialist republics is being and the first Page of the Commonwealth of Independent states being he he said he believed the new entity should be called the Commonwealth of Independent eurasian states a formula he said was first discussed by the late Nobel laureate an Drei a longtime soviet asked if his Post As soviet president will be Gorbachev we Are be ginning a new life and let it be but everything should be done within the framework of the he to Rule out suspicions by part of which thinks that something has been done behind its Gorbachev said a concluding session of the supreme soviet legislature should be convened to make the entire process con Yeltsin russian federation also formed a new russian Security ministry based on the old Kab and russian Interior said the inter fax news service and the russian in formation he also placed the foreign ministry and soviet embassies under russian took Over the assets of Gorbachev and raised the pay of All intelligence and Security personnel by 90 per cent As of Yeltsin said before leaving for an official visit to Rome yesterday that for All practical purposes Gorbachev has no future role in the kids adopt family of five for Christmas we need to declares by Michael Jenkinson free press correspondent six Earold Nicklas Stange said Hes doing it for the poor because they dont have enough what Hes doing is helping classmates contribute and toys to a Christmas hamper that is to be Given to a family of five its a project organized by the kids a Grade 1 class at Victor Wyatt with some help from their Keith and a Grade 45 Strachan said he wanted to show his kids How to give at instead of especially at Grade 1 there so focused on what they and the things there getting at he they dont really have an idea its a time when other people should be getting things As Strachan said As the class talked it was decided that As a group they should do something for and when we talked about the kinds of stuff we should bring they thought food was the most important and then Winter this came out of a discussion that we were having about what to do about people who didst have a lot of Strachan said Only at that Point did he bring up the Christmas cheer then the kids decided what they wanted to bring we made a Long and we compared it to the list the Christmas cheer Board gave and it was pretty so we divided up the tasks and started bringing the stuff if Strachan wanted to make his class recognize the needs of a Chat with some of his students indicates he Eric said he contributed to the hamper so others can have extra also agreed it was Good to give to people in Nicklas we have enough we need to i have Over 100 toys in my i have 100 movies to i when asked what he was going to do with the food his class Nicklas in Gonna Send it to a special and what makes that family special because they have nothing for he it feels Good to give things to people who need like the special they should have lots of food to eat for and a Christmas and were bringing food and said Steven to the poor the special family Nicklas so they can have Steven Glenn cd free press Victor Wyatt students from grades have assembled own Jin saturdays free press Winnipeg crash test dummies make fans on u West coast ;