Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Raiders dismantle Denver in nil wildcard playoff d3 28 pages vol 122 no 40 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press t get Post me t get Post outside oily in Onla Iio weekly Home delivery wkly i Post in Winnipeg wkly outside City Chretien wants nato to grow by Stephen Ward Canadian press Brussels Canada sup ports a plan for nato partnership with Eastern Europe but the Alliance should take in new members More prime min ister Chretien said Chretien flew into the belgian capital for his first nato a today session on the future of the 45yearold military Alliance and Ouelle favors air strikes to Clear Road for bosnian Relief convoys Clinton warns of indifference a5 How it can help Stop the bosnian civil earlier in the on a european held talks in Paris with Boutros the United nations Secretary on Canadas peacekeepers in former Chretien expressed some impatience with the plan when asked if offering stronger nato ties with Eastern Europe Only postpones Alli Ance that a Complex problem but its a first Chretien said As he stepped off his id like it to move some members oppose a Quick nato enlargement to Hun Gary and the czech Republic for fear of angering the partnership for peace expected to be endorsed by natos 16 government Calls for military cooperation with former communist countries in Eastern Europe and eventual nato member ship for but the plan stops Short of offering immediate Mem a hmm firefighters prepare to fight a Blaze near a luxury suburban Sydney Home four have been killed in fires so hundreds More flee Sydney fires associated press Australia wildfires raging outside Syd Ney flared yesterday when winds shifted and became Stron hundreds More people were forced to flee the winds and flames eased after four including two fire have been killed and More than 60 injured since the fires began a week thousands have been evacuated and others left stranded after major High ways and railroads were blocked by smoke and the huge fires came within eight Kilometres of Down town Australia largest shifting winds whipped up huge blazes in National Parks on opposite sides of witnesses said flames were up to 10 metres High in some at one flames came perilously close to Sydney main inter National satellite helicopters scooped water from lakes and reservoirs and dumped water on the fire Crews burned Forest litter and vegetation to slow the Advance of the both the winds and the flames eased soon after fire fighters said the Northern fire was safely contained in Kuring Gai Chase National while the Progress of the other through the Royal National Park to the South had the department of Bushfire services warned that without 135 separate fires burning across hectares of Forest and Grassland in new South Wales state might rage on for Many what we need is a Good heavy downpour to put them said spokesman Kevin huge fires also burned in the Blue 80 Kilometres West of police say Many fires were started by they have arrested 11 people for lighting fires and have been inundated with alleged sightings of a woman work is never shocking new statistics reveal by Heather Mclaughlin free press correspondent guess who bringing Home the Bacon now guess who still Fry ing it statistics Canada data show that even though record numbers of women have entered the labor most Are still doing the bulk of the work at Home statistics show that in More than 72 per cent of dual earner women Are preparing doing cleaning House and doing laundry with almost no help from their University of Manitoba sociology professor Cheryl albas said such inequality on the Home front shows a continuation of sex role in some its just easier for men to go along with existing she when youve got a Good thing Why would you want to inside Story so selfless b3 change it albas in households where both husband and wife work full statistics Canada found that Only 10 per cent of couples shared equally in household Only 28 per cent of wives reported that they received some help from their statistics reveal theres been Little change Over the last two decades in who doing household chores even though the number of women working outside the Home has jumped from 30 per cent to 71 per the data is based upon interviews with men and women done during the 1990 statistics Canada general social the statistics also reinforced the notion that in More than 77 per cent of men looked after All House maintenance and outside University of Manitoba family studies professor Cheryl Fraehlich said the numbers Are for the general population its still a very inequitable distribution of household she even when men say there helping out in the it May mean they Are playing More with their not doing child related she but women can sometimes be their own worst enemies in perpetuating she in one Fraehlich said Many women said that they didst want More but the statistics also show that 80 per cent of men and women surveyed said they were satisfied with the status Susan who holds the Margaret Laurence chair in women studies for the University of Manitoba and the University of said there Are a lot of reasons Why women take on most Domestic a woman career is often considered less important than that of her husband because women earn Prentice employers who May let a woman dash off to take the kids to the doctor tend to look Down on a Man who does the same she women identify More with Domestic work than men in the sense that they often see what needs to be done in the Home More she men either defer it or do nothing because they feel they Lack the she theres an unspoken contract that a Man is helping his wife with the she the result of the systemic patterning is that men Benefit from women labor in she men go to work and come while women go to work and come Home and keep she Chretien said Boutros Ghali did not seek assurances that Canada wont withdraw its peacekeepers from former and they didst discuss possible nato air strikes against serb fighters in Boutros Ghali said in Paris that he didst pressure Chretien to keep Ca Nadian peacekeepers in foreign affairs minister Andre Ouellet said later in Brussels that Canada believes some Eastern euro Pean countries Are pretty close or should be asked to join us nato Al most on Ouellet said warring parties should be warned to seek a peace Deal or peacekeepers May be he also said Canada would support air strikes if Neces sary to get Relief convoys to their out town gamblers out of Luck bitter addict blames province for neglecting Rural counselling by Doug Nairne staff reporter a Brandon Man who lost his his Job and after a six month gambling spree wants to know Why the provincial government has delayed offering help to addicted gamblers in Rural a member of gamblers Anonymous in said Rural areas were the first to be exposed to widespread government run gambling when video lottery terminals were installed in yet Rural communities have been the last to get treatment programs to help Deal with new gambling he we had been asking the province for a treatment program for years but didst hear anything from them until the volts hit Winnipeg and then All of a sudden something needed to be said who did not want his real name its a typical provincial government attitude a there they think everything outside the perimeter Highway Means counsellors from the addictions foundation who treat pathological gamblers have been in place since september in Winnipeg and since november in Brandon and Only communities with the counsellors so Vince said he commonly spent a gambling from 11 until 7 until he found if this program had started up about 10 months ago i would have been in he i lost my Job and my wife kicked me cant get much lower than cites hotline b2 Les president of the citizens coalition on gambling directions in said the absence of a treatment program has left pathological gamblers in most Rural communities on their with sometimes disastrous we should have the same Access to the treatment As we do to the he there Are volts in almost every Rural hotel but we dont have one gambling counsellor in our whole Region Landry said a Man in his Community committed suicide last year after losing playing volts in the local i was the last person to talk to him and there is no doubt in my mind that he killed himself because of those bloody he if we had the program when we first had the volts maybe hed still be Herb executive director of the addictions said that not All the counsellors slated for Rural areas Are in place because of staff training were breaking new he its taking some time to get our staff in Landry and Vince both said the program and funded by gambling Haven been publicized i went out the other night to see if i could find any of the brochures and Only one or two of the hotels in Brandon have them displayed up front the Way they Are supposed to Vince quote of the Day i need an eight Day Agnes a Busy Winnipeg has become the first woman and the first paediatrician chosen As president of the Royal College of physicians and surgeons of details on Page b1 the weather today mainly some Drifting High Low tonight tomorrow m increasing 40 Chance of flurries High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on Page c7 inside Ann in sports to ;