Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 25, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 28 vol 122 no 293 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get is get Post City 75c in Ontario weekly Home 25 wkly 05 i 20 Post in Winnipeg 30 wkly Post outside City september 1994 a Fork in the Road to new Arena by Scott Taylor sports writer City Council is in danger of making an irrevocable Deci Sion on the site for a new Winnipeg Arena before it knows All the Deputy mayor George Fraser said councils executive policy com Mittee is to consider at a special meeting tomorrow whether to give 44 local business want no new they say a4 Council in tight the Arena built near the godhead to spend million on Fraser says if the pc gives its Council is virtually cer Tain to endorse the vote and the City will have crossed the if we agree to do the group is on its Way and weve Given them the exclusive right to Market and build a new Arena at the site North of the he Fraser said other groups inter ested in building an Arena at the Winnipeg convention Centre de serve a Public mayor Susan Thompson has called a meeting for wednesday to discuss the Issue but Fraser says that will be too late if the City has Al ready effectively handed the reins to Manitoba entertainment com plex the formal name of the business we Are in a very difficult Situa Fraser said monday at 2 Well hold a meeting to vote on adjusting the interim operating agreement so that the group can draw on million from the private sector fund in or Der to Market the new that concerns right i understand there Are two groups that could have better financing plans for the convention Centre soldiers kill eight armed haitians i firefight a Soldier on foot patrol passes group of haitian boys yesterday in a neighbourhood near the seaport in a deadly confrontation Tow Guys got lit up their returned fire App Haiti in the first deadly confrontation Between troops and marines killed eight armed men outside a police station last the Quick firefight was followed by a Long siege outside the As the marines tried to coax out of the police station two men believed to be police officers who were wounded in the it want Clear whether the eight men killed were Many civil Ian attaches work alongside Hai Tian which Are part of the a Marine who serves As an inter Preter was wounded in the the injury was not considered Steve the Battal Ion commander who arrived on the scene minutes after the said the patrolling platoon from Echo company had stopped across the Street from the when armed men came out of the words were exchanged and there was Hartley Mike a member of the said armed men came out of the police station and opened four Guys came out from the front saw us and got spooked and lit up their he and we returned the bodies remained on the Street late last after the Marine interpreters tried to persuade the two wounded men to after tense five other men came out of the Leav ing the two wounded men a Marine armoured personnel Carrier that rushed to support the platoon then turned on its head lights to illuminate the Street As riflemen pointed their weapons at the open windows on the top floor of the two Storey Yel Low stucco some marines arrived tuesday in Cap haitian to provide Security for the re turn of exiled president Jeanbert Trand about troops in All were in Haiti by yes the arrival of soldiers followed an agreement last sunday for the country military rulers to step Down by a Canadian Advance team of 13 ramp and four military officers is to arrive in Haiti sometime next rwandan death squads relentlessly practise their Craft blood still flows in killing Fields free press reporter Doug in Rwanda to prepare a report on the role of Canadian soldiers in the refugee crisis files this Rwanda people in Eastern Rwanda say death squads still roam the killing the popular misconception is that the genocide is All John an american nurse working in said but i see examples that prove it is still going on walking into my Hospital every Day its really quite shocking when you consider that the ones we see Here Are Only the ones who made and it is Likely that most of the people being attacked Are he said soldiers Loyal to the Doug deposed government Are terrorizing the local the United nations commander in Canadian Guy sent soldiers from the Canadian airborne regiment into Eastern Rwanda there using armoured vehicles to patrol the the site of several massacres in the civil War Between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups that has so far claimed a million Tousignant said the in knows of a flow lolling still taking place in but he stressed he does not believe it is widespread or that it Marks a return to the period of genocide when thousands of r rwandans were killed at a time and dumped in mass the in is banking on relative peace As it begins its biggest return of refugees since the War starting it plans to move people Back to their Homes from a Refuge in Southwest about 30 in including a Canadian will take Tousignant acknowledged the number is a drop in the million r rwandans Are thought to have fled the Mem Are displaced within it and one million Are out population but to said Hopes that the refugees will spread the word that it is Safe to and that will help reverse the mass that process wont be helped by the events around despite the in patrols and the presence of the victorious tuts dominated rwandan patriotic residents say bodies Are still appearing on the they blame the Defeated soldiers of the former hut dominated they come for us in the night with machetes and guns and kill us for our food or sometimes for reasons i do not one Man in the Kib Ungo Hospital said he said As Many As people a Day Are Bini killed by the soldiers i and around they say the War is not Over and they will kill us if Wedoo help 1 think they need to be heard before we put our Complete support behind a group that has to successfully sell luxury boxes and High priced seat ing in order to get the Arena i am a supporter of the Conven Tion Centre but in prepared to listen to the Mec As Long Asim Given More said Fraser if there is somebody out there saying he can build an Arena with less then were obligated to look at Al Golden takes Fraser concern one step we cant support these Golden vital said they Are volunteers and i be Lieve they Are working for the Bene fit of the citizens of but in not sure i can support any group if there Are other groups out there with better deals for the i want to know what the other groups honestly have to Mexico City Paradise lost in smog by Gerald flood staff reporter Mexico City is a Paradise when the spaniards Cap tured it from the aztecs 473 years the City of was on an is land at the Centre of Lake Tex Coco in a Valley ringed by one can Only imagine How Beautiful it must have the spaniards had no sooner arrived than they started destroying everything the aztecs had and the process has continued the Lake was drained hundreds of years ago and today it is paved so much water is sucked out of the aquifer under the City that the whole place is starting to the once spectacular Valley has filled with making Mexico City the largest City on Earth with a population somewhere Between 22 million and 26 depending on who the inhabitants pro Duce tonnes of garbage a imagine what would happen to Winnipeg if everyone in Canada moved Here with their dogs and cats and you begin to every conceivable space is filled with houses or there Are few lawns outside of the enclaves of the the wide boulevards next to the freeways Are filled with Trees in close packed they Are there to absorb Carbon that they Are Green is mountains still ring the City but they have become holding in pollution generated by the Mas Sive the worlds worst according to a United nations veils the horizon most during 10 Days in Mexico i saw the mountains Only once for a couple of hours one then the Haze from the four million vehicles that clog the streets closed in the other to most Mexico is a Winter escape to Sun and Sand in an exotic but there is another a land of family in recent big reporter Gerald flood was in Mexico recently and filed this inside Story family the ties that bind a5 the smog is so thick the City is in a perpetual Twilight that can fool Visi tors into neglecting their the stench of exhaust fumes is it literally made me sick to be in the the Road for the most is an engineering some roads Are 12 lanes one one is 40 Kilometres it is for the most a City of High Rise largely because of the soft subterranean the tallest which mexi cans like to say is the highest in the world because of the is 47 it is largely a City of colourless on and two Storey Adobe structures where the vast majority of residents houses Are so densely packed that clotheslines Are found on As Are dog but there Are prosperous districts an average property in the los Lomas Hills area is said to go for of All the sights and sounds of this sprawling of All facts and the one that continues to amaze me is this there Are More Rich mexicans in los Lomas than there Are people in quote of the Day 7 expected the Job to be More difficult than it has been so prime minister enjoying try support of 60 per cent of save he keeps strew Down by swimming every and never watching the evening Tho Saathof today sunny High Law tonight f ton Fly sumy wit Toudy Peri High 1l inside in sports to lotto let and Bonus 5 ;