Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 26, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Yule feast salvation army Christmas dinners for the needy warmly appreciated b1 All we want scary stuff Green Bay and new England 15 a desperate Che Ehens seek food in their ruined capital i4 60 pages vol 123 no 25 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press git Post Why to Lovey s3 25 Kiy s3 05 30 my t is 11 december City retailers prepared for biggest week of the year lets shop staff reporter in what has become a Christmas Steven Parker planned to be up at 5 today to kiss his wife and two children goodbye and take up his Post outside his favorite store by waiting in the frosty morning air for the doors to Parker will be one of thousands of people like so Many Raven Ous Circle through the malls and stores of the taking part in the buying frenzy that is known As boxing Christmas presents for the kids come on the but i get my pre sents on the Parker this year Santa is going to bring me a new i the boxing Day sales Rush be Jan years ago As a few stores sell ing off their surplus Stock the Day after but the week following it has now the busiest time of year for in a single week some stores will sell As much merchandise As they will in an entire month at other of the the electronics stores in particular see their Busi Ness As people filled with Christmas cheer and armed with gift Money go looking for big ticket items like stereos and com marketing director for Advance said he has seen the boxing Day Sale tradition grow larger and larger each year until it has reached Al most unmanageable it gets a Little bit scary some times when you have to fight your Way through the crowds to get around the he estimating several thousand people will go retailers tossing the Dice through his store there Are a lot of people who dont even get close enough to the store to get in its annual retail Holiday out look Eloitte and touche said More than 50 per cent of retailers expect sales to beat last Christmas by at least eight per Large electronics retailers such As future shop and visions have resorted to stockpiling massive inventories As much As an entire months Worth for one week and then bringing their whole staff in to work boxing Day to keep up with the mobs of shop As the parking lots fill the stores plan to Send out staff armed with radios to help direct traffic and find parking Pilchuk predicts his customers will line up in front of Advance two hours before the doors open at 8 Tran who was doing some Advance scouting of an electronics store last said he Doest celebrate Christmas other than As a time of year when he can go shop i dont always but there Are Good things to be he despite a string of sales that never seems to retailers maintain the boxing Day sales re ally Are the Best deals of the suppliers offer bargain basement deals on their 1994 Stock to certain creating Sale prices As much As 50 per cent off the usual Price on items such As televisions and Joe Hyksa Winnipeg free press Advance warehouse manager Bill Cline checks hijacked Jet lands in France extremists kill third passenger negotiations begin in Marseille a Reuters Marseille French and algerian officials started talks today at Marseilles Marignani Airport with the islamic militant hijackers of a French airline French authorities a French government representative and officials from the algerian consulate were in Contact with the which was standing on a run Way Well away from the main air port officials an elite Antiterrorist police unit was at the a local official the plane had flown to Marseille from where it was seized saturday by five Muslim fundamentalist gunmen As it prepared to take off for failed to act the gunmen killed three Passen Gers in algerian Interior Abder a mane Meziane accused the planes Pilot of wrecking an at tempt saturday to free some of the he said the whose name Hast been did not play the role that was Cherif did not give any or say How the Pilot failed to the with 172 passengers and Crew members landed at local the Airbus a300 was commandeered saturday in the most dra Matic act yet in a three Earold guerrilla War against algerian Mili tar installed the French government gave per Mission for the plane to land in France after an employee of the French embassy in Algiers became the third passenger to be killed by the it want Clear what the five hijackers one report said they demanded Freedom for two jailed Muslim the armed with two Kalashnikov rifles and two hand killed two passengers Satur Day and freed at least 60 mostly women and before Algeria granted Permis Sion last night for the plane to a third victim was dumped onto the Tarmac at about French news reports said that was a dead line set earlier by the hijackers to and that they were threaten ing to kill More foreign affairs in Ottawa said no canadians were known to be one freed hostage described How one of the victims killed an algerian policeman who was a pleaded for his life be fore he was shot in the he dont kill me i am married i have a child said the the gunmen also killed a Vietnam Ese passenger and dumped the two bodies on the staircase outside the algerian officials Muslim guerrillas went to War after the army cancelled a round of parliamentary elections the Salva Tion front was expected to and installed its own leaders in january stressful Job has its Downs h controllers at Airport making the skies Bugle Mackenzie staff reporter is eyes on a near empty computer Glen takes a physical and mental breather after Monitor ing about 40 aircraft hovering in the Manitoba for an air traffic the periodic Lull in heavy air traffic is the most dangerous aspect of the Busy time your attention Span is More Likely to lapse after a Busy when there int much to said inside Story training route arduous b2 Kevin a controller for three you can get hypnotized just do ing at the other if you lose Contact with a plane in a tight Situa your blood level goes a traffic controllers Job is a bit like that of the Pilot he or she directs of ups and the which carries a top salary of is known to be one of the most stressful on technological failures can mean near misses or even Cost ing hundreds of passengers and Crew their but who will have been on the Job 20 years on takes that in you dont even think about if you youd Burn out it would just eat you the real Way you Deal with it is by being the Job of the air traffic controller is to Monitor All air traffic by com Puter and communicate with the Pilot by Telephone when he or she enters local air traffic con experts blame erosion of limited adult Contact turning out troubled teens by Doug Nairne staff reporter puberty never known As an easy time in the life of a child or a becoming even More tumultuous in the so called gentler experts and the children who exit the years of turmoil today As Young adults Are suffering More emotional have less support and Are generally having greater difficulty coping than previous glaring symptom Philip a University of Manitoba professor and child psychologist in Winnipeg for 32 said one of the most glaring symptoms of the problem is a great increase in the number of patients he sees suffering from narcissistic puberty and parents personality the condition mirrors what Many parents see As textbook unruly teenage who Are demand their own resist authority and Are unwilling to the problem they dont always grow out of is not an optimistic Katz the children i see today who Are having trouble Are much More disturbed than the kids were 20 years Katz blamed the problem on the erosion of the family and the limited amount of adult Contact in childrens he said Young people do not have As much interaction with their grandparents or even teachers As they forcing them to look to their Peers for direction and Katz pointed to youth gangs where an older teen takes leadership Over a group of younger ones As an example of How kids Are turning to each other for Bob a counsellor at Dakota adding that the real Price of the High divorce rate in the 1980s May also just be starting to As children who were traumatized by a divorce now Are unable to Deal effectively with adversity in their Hen kids Are presented with difficult they just want to bail out because that is what their parents did when the going got he said in some Young people seek out situations such As teen pregnancy or gang membership to fill the need for support in their Sadler j see Young girls who think having a baby is a Way to gain financial and emotional complicating the turmoil of puberty for both parents and children is the fact that while Young people Are not As emotionally prepared As they once the physical changes Are taking place sooner in the past 25 the average age of the Onset of puberty for girls has dropped from j5 to males have experienced a similar Barbara a social worker with the Winnipeg chid said often feel lost when it is time to Deal with their Childs emotional and sexual trollers located at the Airport control Tower guide planes during land ing and although the Job can get very Horoshock said controllers have to keep their its like being the chief executive officer of a wanting to succeed All the time and knowing you have to succeed All the Horoshock said stress can also Stem from he said his most anxious Days on the Job came at the beginning of his As time goes you rely on your experience a lot he controllers in the Winnipeg re quote of the Day it takes a lot of bullets to play Jingle belts on a a unofficial offers an explanation for the sound of gunfire in where soldiers used their weapons for a noisy Celebration during a details on Page Gion keep an average of about aircraft flowing every this the largest in has been operating at 70 per cent of optimal staff Levels the lowest level of seven traffic control centres across the this Means More stress and Over but the Job also has its Horoshock said he likes working with professionals who take Pride in their Findlay said 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