Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 28 pages vol 122 no 294 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get Post 604 get Post outside qty in weekly Home delivery Winnipeg 30 Why 09 21 outside cily attack revives fear of strife ambush blamed on Hutu forces free press reporter Doug in Rwanda to prepare a report on the role of Canadian soldiers in the Refu gee crisis files this Bidou Nairne staff reporter Rwanda soldiers from the ruling rwandan patriotic army were ambushed near the tanzanian Border yester renewing fears that the forces of the former government Are still Active in the Gary Canadian Sec Tor commander of the area in the Southeast Corner of said he and four soldiers from the Canadian airborne regiment arrived on the scene moments after the ambush took finding three spa sol Diers injured in the attack and their vehicle Soldier Breaks Back in fall a8 we were on our Way to the Bor Der to do a standing patrol to con firm an spa report on the number of refugees coming and he As we were about two Kilometres Short of the Border we came across an spa vehicle that had been fired the wounded were Given first Aid by the canadians and were later evacuated from the area when it appeared that whoever carried out the attack May still have been in the i Dawson said the Canadian peace keepers were sent into Southeastern Rwanda Friday to investigate re ports that a massacre that has killed one million rwandans since april he said the three spa soldiers injured in the attack yesterday Are blaming the incident on inter Hamu Loyal to the former govern that Are infiltrating Rwanda from people living in the area also claim soldiers Loyal to the former Hutu re Gime Are committing atrocities and terrorizing the local the incidents Are taking place at a delicate Point in the United nations Mission in the Organiza Tion is in the midst of trying to con Vince the million rwandan Refu gees in Rwanda and neighbouring countries to return but the refugees Are remaining in the Camps out of fear they will be killed if they go Dawson said he expects yester Days ambush to result in the spa in creasing its military activities in the Region and tightening Security along the tanzanian i know that if i was the spa commander in the area id be going out and searching around to find who did he approximately 30 canadians from the airborne regiment will continue to patrol Southeastern Rwanda in a Mored vehicles Dawson said the soldiers Are per forming very Well under difficult african they Are very this is what they came Here to he september 1994 army medics Rush a haitian child to a helicopter after he was trampled by a haitian City in chaos Cedras accuses marines of atrocities in deaths Preu Tersip Haiti police and soldiers abandoned their posts yesterday Asau Hority collapsed throughout Hai tis second largest hundreds of emboldened by the deaths of 10 armed men in a firefight with a ransacked police carrying off identity and even musical the fight outside a Cap haitian police station saturday night was the first deadly clash Between haitians and american police and soldiers abandoned the cites main Mili tary police station and restless for c8 about a dozen smaller word spread to the bringing hundreds out to trash the property of those who had ruled Over haitian army commander Raoul Cedras and Henry Hugh commander of the operation in flew to Cap haitian to Cedras accused us of atrocities and demanded my Transfer and Marine Tom Jones told reporters american servicemen and a source close to the haitian Mili tary said the haitians opened fire first in saturday nights gun Bat a military spokesman identified the 10 haitians killed As haitian military a Navy Seaman apprentice serv ing As an interpreter received a flesh wound in the a source close to the haitian speaking on condition of said the clash broke out after a Marine approached the police station and told a police sen Tinel he wanted to inspect the when the Sentinel ref an altercation broke the source said the haitian shot wounding the interpret the marines then sprayed the police station with killing officers who were playing Domi noes the source in Mexico City youll find a cop for every occasion by Gerald flood staff reporter Mexico Cit there Are cops everywhere in Mexico most of whom seem to have Little to there Are traffic cops at the intersections blowing there Are cruisers every where filled either with metropolitan cops or Federal cops who patrol outside the metropolitan there Are Highway patrols whose function is to help Drivers in the event of and other patrols to catch there Are special cops who speak English and whose duty it is to protect you also see cars filled with usually driving in the Wake of big limousines that whisk the very or the very around the Mexico ranks third in latin America in kidnappings of wealthy with about incidents a and then there Are cops stationed the other Mexico inside Story or go outside All Banks and important centres of they All Are heavily armed with an array of machine guns or Longor Short barrelled heavy rifles of Ramon Lopez who was my Driver and interpreter in Mexico is a former he said the massive display of firepower is mostly for the psychological and that the weapons Are Seldom in he said cops Are leery of drawing their weapons because there is Little Legal Protection for them if they cops involved in shootings must be Able to prove they were fired on first in order to be eligible for a free Legal it is Best that you Are wounded before you Ramon he also said there is relatively Little crime in Mexico certainly compared to big it was a claim both hard to believe and hard to crime information is it shows that for the Federal District of Mexico the Core area where about 10 million of the cites 24 million residents there were investigations of crimes in or about one investigation for every 80 Given that most of Mexico cites poor live outside the it is hard to know what to make of the the murder rate was 10 times Manitoba Standard of about three per there were murders reported in the District last year 30 per of which were crimes of there were sex crimes new lease consumer group peeved that Deal int widely publicized secret aids its by Allison Bray and Glen Mackenzie staff reporters the Manitoba Telephone system is saving thousands of dollars through a Little known discount the Crown corporation has quietly been promoting Over the past the free Piess has its like a secret said Sondra spokeswoman for the Winnipeg Branch of the Consumers association of As of june All its sub scribers who make a verbal agree ment to lease an its phone for be tween one and three years Are entitled to discounts of Between 10 and 20 per cent on their monthly phone rental the offer is part of the phone com pants drive to keep customers in a competitive its spokes woman Sherilyn Forsyth the problem is few subscribers Are aware of the a situation Bruni called totally she said the consumer watchdog will be writing the Utility a letter of its not a very Good corporate at Bruni theres no question it should be a Universal Dis count offered to a Winnipeg accountant claiming its Cost him More than in savings Over the past he said he Learned of the discount by Accident last the who asked not to be said a clerk at the Kil Donan place phone Centre told him he could now take advantage of the discount which will save him about a month even though its quote of the Day this past my husband and i just feel kind of were just trying to get through each Leona la Roque of the who has a Young describes How it s been since 13 Yea Row Sarah Kelly was details on Page b1 the weather today sunny with afternoon Cloudy High Low tomorrow mainly High Sun remt Seta Moon a Lett been available for More than a i feel Ive been Why dont they just give everyone leasing a phone the discount lie the accountant estimated its would have saved about million since last june if Only 10 per cent of subscribers were Able to save a month since the discount went into although its has saturated the airwaves with to ads about its Long distance savings plans and other Forsyth said the rental discount has Only been advertised in flyers accompanying phone Bills sent out Between july 25 and a notice was also printed on Bills sent out Between 14 and Forsyth said its could not unilaterally give customers the discount As that could be construed As anti Consumers Are required to make their own Deci Sions about its but a free press who asked an its clerk at the Garden City shopping Centre about Dis count rates on rental phones last was told no such discount sex even though the reporter was quoted the discount rate of a month for a Harmony although the reporter was unknowingly Given the discount rate when she switched phones in the clerk mentioned nothing to her at the nor to a Friend accompanying her who was leasing a new Forsyth said its up to the con Sumer to read the material accompanying their phone she refused to say How Many Manitoban have taken advantage of the inside diversions far Side and Ann doctor in sports to on on a unique Livi the new Graham the heart of historic i venue the ear o Soric in per for a new inform coition cell Piane 9561800 ;