Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Decisions keyboard Romance email courtship leads to Bliss via the Modem b8 36 pages vol 123 no 33 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get t Post 60f get Post outside City 7k in Orlano weekly Horne delivery 5 s3 05 t 20 Post in Winnipeg 30 Why s3 09 21 Post outside City january russian Bear licks wounds by Carey Goldberg and Sonni Efron los Angeles times Russia triumphant rebels swaggered through Central Grozny yes in Clear control of the heart of the chechen capital after sending the russian army into humiliating on Freedom Square in front of the presidential several burned out armoured personnel carriers testified to the russian genocide decried d8 the charred corpses of russian sol Diers Lay the failed new years eve assault on the City May have been Only a temporary setback in what will Al most surely be a continued russian offensive in an mostly Muslim Republic that declared Independence from Russia three years but the chechen Victory in Grozny gave the lie to Moscow boast that it could easily conquer and cast Kremlin leaders in the role of bungles who sent unprepared russian soldiers to their by yesterday chechen fighters in about eight kilo metres East of said there were Only a couple of pockets of russian troops left in the russian sources confirmed that troops had pulled Back from the Cen trial City but said reinforcements were the official russian news service dropped its earlier claim that rus Sian troops controlled Central and admitted that chechen fighters were putting up resistance from so different positions with a grenade launchers and but the russians denied that some 600 troops had been killed and 300 soldiers taken As the chechen the official news service said several tens of armoured vehicles had been and that some soldiers had been but mostly Only the russian Antiwar Law makers returning to Moscow from Grozny described a russian the troops that entered the City suffered a crushing they said in a statement that was also signed by president Boris Yeltsin human rights ser Gei who remains in thousands of civilians have died our Junior hockey squad Best in world for third straight year were team Canadas Dan Eric Daze and Jason clinched the Gold medal for the Canadian which earlier from celebrate in red yesterday after a Fin had beaten the it was the third consecutive Gold land Sweden tie in the world Junior hockey championships medal for Canadas please see Story on Page Zero tolerance abuse policy loses something in translation Byruth Teichroeb social affairs reporter language barriers Are preventing Manitoba Zero i tolerance message on domes tic violence from reaching ethnic a new Pilot project for abusive men has Susan who As part of the project ran groups for filipino men charged with wife said theres an urgent need for education on in languages other than the whole Issue of Zero tolerance is not Irupe Anscott these things Are hidden in the theres a stigma about Irupe Anscott and others involved in the services to immigrants on probation project say most of the inside Story policy foreign to some b3 men who were ordered by the courts to attend the groups had never heard of Zero they didst see the seriousness of what they were Iru Pang Scott Back there is no Law on Domestic it was Only when the men attended the group conducted in their native language of they began to understand their abusive behaviour had to she David a coordinator of the project run by probation said the program was developed As increasing numbers of men whose first language want English were ordered by the courts into but they we rent getting much out of mainstream which we rent sensitive to cultural differ he Given the pressure of Zero we had to do some statistics show that Between five and 10 per cent of spousal abusers referred to probation have first languages other than two years probation began training 12 group leaders from six ethnic communities in the dynamics of Domestic since 58 men from the Filipi Spanish and vietnamese communities have attended the the two year project has been funded by the Justice depart the heritage and citizenship department and the Federal during the projects final educational workshops Are being offered in various ethnic communities to raise awareness about Domestic Jacek who led a group for polish said its Cru Cial that the province not Only expand the treatment groups but fund Domestic violence prevention pro Grams in ethnic the Cycle of violence will just be repeated in the next Gen he then it will be come a problem for mainstream society As he also said More research is needed to determine the frequency of Domestic violence among Immi we know its a big but How we dont he abandoned baby mom now wants him by Alexander Paul medical reporter a woman who abandoned her Darold baby boy at the Thompson general Hospital has had second Thompson she wants the child ramp Karen Adams said last i think she was relieved to be there was a lot of re Adams said a tip the Hospital received sunday night led police to the woman the identity of the woman who has the Means and income to care for the being withheld because the child is in the custody of child and family Adams said it is unlikely charges will be Laid in the Case but a final decision will be left to the the nicknamed baby John by Hospital is in apparent Good health and weighed 7 pounds when a Laboratory technologist and a doctor found the baby about an hour after the woman and a Friend left him on a table in an examining room saturday no one saw the two women drop off the Adams said the woman told police she had delivered the baby at Home with the help of one other after the the woman and her companion also unidentified took the child to the partly to ensure the baby received medical Adams Adams said authorities Are no longer viewing it As a straight abandonment the Childs safety was never in Adams its up to child and family services Shell have to Deal with them in or Der to prove her self a fit she has family to support her and i feel confident Well see a Happy end ing to a tragic Trudie Thompsons regional child and family services program said that the Agency has several options in cases like this including returning the baby to his giving custody to a or Vic Thompson general Hospital executive said he will be reviewing Security measures for the in bombing raids and under the ruins of their the lawmakers hundreds of russian sol Diers have died in the government information service is hid ing the truth about the casualties in we Are dealing with mass murders that fall into the category of they television footage showed the russian military Goliath to be made up of Daze looking while Chechnya Davids looked like seasoned men in their 20s and Many of them soviet army super Pill to Battle heart disease oestrogen of future May be so Good men will line up for it my says by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter the Day of designer oestrogen a Pill that will protect menopausal women from heart disease without prompting breast and uterine cancer will soon be upon says a local and then men will line up for it As predicts Richard a gynaecologist who works with the women hospitals new menopause that will be the drug that every body will be looking said men will look for it until according to Winnipeg pharmacist Marie theres a Good reason for both sexes to be a Little wary of pure the hormone is responsible for creating secondary sexual characteristics and unwanted Sideen men risk swelling breasts and women face the Prospect of heart disease is the leading killer of older it has Long been recognized As a prime threat for men in Middle oestrogen has remarkable effects on people suffering with angina or blocked blood says and theres a wealth of research continuing on the Promise it holds for Medicine in this its really quite he As it has been conclusively found to prevent a condition most common in postmenopausal women where Bones become thin and Brittle and the risk of limbs breaking is the latest research is on design ing a synthetic oestrogen that will go a Price of living b2 Only to the areas of the body where its Good work is oestrogen receptors that take in the hormone Are found All Over the Boroditsky Estro Gen taken in by the blood vessels and Bones will prevent disease and of but taken in by the uterus or the it can cause he what youre going to see in the future is the designer oestrogen that has beneficial effects on the blood vessels and the Bones but will have no effect on the uterus the designing a better oestrogen is the next horizon on a Long Road of medi Cal research that has seen oestrogen use both criticized As tampering with and heralded As a bless oestrogen caught on in the 1960s when it originally promised women the Opportunity to be forever Femi it ushered in the Era of Hor Mone replacement therapy hot for menopausal women who were suffering with Sid effects hot flashes and vaginal dryness that accompany the change of use in Canada is gauged at around 13 per this year the society of obstetricians and gynaecologists of Canada issued a statement that said it would like to see that increased to 25 per cent because of the benefits Many women would Boroditsky said hot is not for every but All women should be told about hot and those who Are at risk of heart disease or osteoporosis should consider x o d a quote of the Day its a three peat its a three peat an excited Ryan Winger with Canadas Junior announces the teams third consecutive world championship Gold medal details of Page d1 the weather today mainly sunny k and windchill up to High Low tonight tomorrow mainly Sun sets Moon sets of tills on Page c9 inside diversions rubes and Ann in sports to ;