Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 19, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 28 pages vol 122 no 287 publications mail registration 0286 i Winnipeg free press get Post wkly Al 05 0 is m 30 is109 in Postl r september 1994 Haiti rulers give in As takes to air troops arrive today to Clear Way for return of Aristide by Kenneth freed and Norman Kempster los Angeles times Washington with the paratroopers leading an invasion Force already in the Haiti top Mili tary leaders capitulated last night and agreed to step Down and per Mit exiled president Jeanbert Trand Aristide to return to a clearly relieved president Clinton announced the Deal in a televised speech from the White House just hours after a delegation led by former president Carter reached the Clinton said that paratroopers from the 82nd loaded on to 61 were already in the air last night before Raoul the army and Philippe the army chief of finally agreed to under the Cedras and Biamby May remain in their positions until 15 or until parliament passes an amnesty it was not immediately Clear whether Michel Joseph the powerful Portal Prince police would also have to Aristide will not return until the generals despite the troops slightly fewer than the planned invasion Force will begin to arrive in Haiti today to re store order and Clear the Way for Aristides Clinton said Cedras and Biamby agreed to Coop Erate with the a photo Porta Prince demonstrators rail against invasion threats before Deal is Clinton said the troops will go in under much More favourable conditions than they would have if the generals had not agreed to re Linquish retired Colin a member of Carters in Cedras and his associates that the invasion forces planes had been launched and when they were scheduled to a senior administration official at that Cedras realized that his cause was Cedras agreed to leave Haiti last 15 under the terms of the governors Island agreement that called for Aristide to regain Power last but Cedras reneged on the agreement last a fact that Clinton emphasized last week in announcing that the United states would invade if the haitian Mili tary leaders did not step Down vol this have happened if it we rent for All those troops on the carriers and the planes in the an administration official it want just Jimmy cart ers persuasive Powers that got this they heard about it from Colin and if they dont listen to Colin Powell on that kind of there pretty throughout Carters visit to the haitian which began at midday the former president had one Point to make to the generals any refusal to give up Power could Lead to a Large loss of including their according to towns residents flee As fire nears All residents of Leaf rapids were evacuated last night As a for est fire swept to within three Kilometres of the Northern mining we informed everyone by and by going door to said Ernie the towns emergency Coordie were evacuating the entire he said at about 10 last night lightning coupled with rec Ord temperatures yester Day whipped up what began As a 50hectare saturday into a 1000hectare fire by late the fire travelled three kilo metres and Epp said it could move the last three Kilometre distance to the town very within Only essential workers remained in Leaf located about Kilometres North West of its out of Dick a provincial duty officer toe natural resources said of the feminists anger u of m researcher wont accept study on abusive women by Ruth Teichroeb social affairs reporter u could m the fire is also blocking Highway the towns Way route to the author of a new study which suggests women Are As Likely As men to resort to Abu Sive tactics has fuelled a Contro Versy by accusing feminists of Dis counting her data for political Rea Reena who recently completed the fou year study for her doctoral thesis at the University of said Radical feminists have refused to acknowledge that women can be in not out to Bash said a research associate at the University Manitoba Centre for health policy and my intention is to look at domes tic violence from a family perspex i dont believe feminists Are do ing themselves any Good by ignoring the other in the first stage of her research in Sommer surveyed 899 married Winnipeg adults from a randomly selected she found that 26 per cent of men and 39 per cent of women reported using tactics which ranged from throwing an object to punching or kicking their in her second wave of research in 737 respondents from the original Sample were questioned special report abuse knows no b1 again and 17 per cent of men and 27 per cent of women reported resort ing to such tactics at least Sommer said staff at the u of is Centre on family violence and Vio Lence against women have spurned her efforts to discuss her not ignored its a real political som Mer they do not look at family violence they look at violence against 7dont believe feminists Are doing themselves any Good by ignoring the other side1 Centre co director Sid Frankel said Sommers study has not been in adding it contains some inter Esting data about the Impact of spousal assault on but he said Sommer has jumped to some sweeping conclusions without considering weaknesses in her i including a failure to adequately measure the Impact and context of the were not treating this As a Zero sum Frankel but the fact that some men Are victims of violence Doest in any Way negate the services being offered to feminists have not denied that some men Are Centre Codi Rector Jane Ursel but their focus has necessarily been on trying to provide services to abused she Romen have said All along that men should Start support groups and shelters if they need she most studies have also concluded that women Are far More Likely to be the victims in More Vio Lent spousal assaults including those resulting in she according to statistics men have been the perpetrators in 73 per cent of All spousal homicides in Canada Over the last Sommer did not include questions relating to extreme acts of violence in her Ursel those Are the women were see ing in shelters and in the courts the ones who Are being maimed and she therapy Centre sued for implanting false memory second Case weighed lawsuit challenges abuse recall Bald Santin and Kevin Rollason staff reporters Roma Elizabeth Hart has changed her mind and the Way Shes thinking now May Well put the Legal spotlight on one of the most controversial social and medical issues of the 1990s false memory Hart said she became convinced during mental health therapy at a Boniface treatment Centre that her parents had sexually abused but now she believes it never Hap using an argument identical to that of false memory syndrome a condition that has not been medically or legally recognized in it claims fictitious memories can be implanted in vulnerable patients through Sugges Hart is hoping the courts will Al Low her to sue former Winnipeg psychiatrist Colin Ross for claiming he wrongly diagnosed and treated her for multiple personality disorder for several a Condi Tion ostensibly caused by childhood sexual first to file Harts sworn which accompanies a court motion expected to be scheduled for hearing this says Ross diagnosed her after a single Hart is the first of two Manitoban to file an action related to false on George Bergen launched a action against a Christian counselling claiming one of its counsellors con Vinced his wife she had been ritually abused by satanic Cults and was subjected to incest and who is one of the Plain tiffs along with his wife and their claims the therapy ses Sions left his wife unable to take care of their children or per form household according to Harts affidavit during weekly psycho therapy sessions with Ross be tween october 1986 and August 1991 he would constantly question me about having any memories or dreams about incest or sexual abuse by my father or any other people when i was a the affidavit reads in As a result of Rosss influence and my failure to maintain my convictions in the face of his Isis i began to confess untrue allegations that my parents had sexually abused me As a quote of the Day i Damn each and every one of Bill Vic president of the National party of had harsh words for Board members As the fledgling political party collapsed yesterday amid tears and angry details on Page a3 memories court actions surfacing in Manitoba Are putting a local spotlight on an Issue making National headlines Over the last two years whether false memory syndrome in this special Law courts reporter Kevin Rollason examines the controversy surrounding sudden adult memories of childhood Hart has filed affidavit inside Story fact or fictitious charges b2 if the matter goes to it would be the first time Manitoba courts will be asked to Rule directly on the Validity of false a two year deadline for filing suit expired last but Hart will try to persuade a court of Queens Bench judge to extend her rights on the grounds that she was incapable of managing her affairs during those two years due to impairment of her physical and mental condition caused by the respondents her sworn affidavit claims As a result of Rosss she suffered such emotional and physical damages that she cant work full time and will require future Ross would not citing he used to practice out of a Centre at Boniface Hospi Tal and moved to the in the weather mainly High Low tonight tomorrow variable High Moon 7q3 inside diversions far Side and Ann doctor sports d5 ;