Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Stage set for showdown cowboys oust packers to set up pfc grudge match with 49ers d1 More horror attacks Spur fears of new i Tiff j i i 28 pages vol 123 no 39 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get p5t get i 75c in Omar o Vav Why Home cute Ivy s3 k 53 05 20 Post to Winnipeg 30 wkly 09 1 psf outside City january barrage paves Way for tanks Homes Blaze in Grozny Byson Niebron los Angeles times Russia the Kremlin tanks rolled into the devastated chechen Capi Tal of Grozny yesterday behind a Hail of rockets and mortar fire the likes of which this battered City has not seen in the month since russian president Boris Yeltsin sent thousands of troops to crush chechen inde War is hell for a2 As russian troops moved to within 550 me tres of his flaming chechen president do Hoar Dunayev reportedly fled to Guder 55 Kilometres East of the russian government there was no and previous russian reports of do Layevs whereabouts have been proven Duday evs vastly outgunned fighters showed no signs of they claimed to have rebuffed the first wave of the russian ground destroying 18 tanks that had moved into the City late saturday a vesti television correspondent reported from the Grozny railway station that russian troops trapped in heavy fighting there for Days said they had lost 11 or 12 pieces of heavy Armor and that Many soldiers were but the pinned Down by overwhelm ing Aerial have clearly lost the Southern Section of the which had so far been spared heavy was Pum a photo a distraught Over the loss of his lies in front of its ruins in melted by rockets the last open Road leading out of the City was Bro Ken Gas pipelines flared like campfires beside crushed Brick chechen rebels continued to vow to fight the russian invaders to the and it appeared yesterday they May be forced to do just Yeltsin has now shown that Hes in control of said a furious chechen who watched the bombs explode Over Grozny despite the russian presidents second Promise to halt the Aerial bombardment of the in a sign that Russia intends to continue its scorched Earth policy toward residents re ported a helicopter flew Over the Southern Vil Lage of Altha Gorovo yesterday afternoon announcing that the local population had 48 hours to hand Over captured russian soldiers or their Village would be a Case of future Shock at u of m plan 2000 rattles critics Bald Santin education reporter Arnold Naimark ambitious plan to make Over West Ern Canadas oldest univer sity has been described As a moving target by critics and allies whenever pointed questions Are asked about certain components of the University of Manitoba plan the University says everything is open for the faculty association has raised Many questions about the blueprint for change released by Naimark office last but say few of them have been association president Ranjan Roy said their criticisms Are always an swered by administration with the same is etched in the plan is Naimark own set of challenges to the u of set within the context of dwindling govern ment support and a Challenge from the education minister for universities to revamp Grant association vice said that while Naimark storming Leivory Lowers Manitoba universities Are under siege like never faced with dwindling dollars and accused of losing touch with the in this six part reporter Aldo Santin examines the mounting pressure for dramatic parts inside Story inertia hobbles change b2 has presented a comprehensive plan to Reform the its not Clear How each component relates to each what would occur if some parts Are not the Campus is being asked to make choices without knowing All the Wood for one Point of the plan focuses on providing mostly four degrees and a common first year program to Weed out weaker some worry that could mean a drastic reduction in student Wood said that could Lead to downsizing of the the Campus is being asked to make choices without knowing All the another Point Calls for reallocation of million Over five years to attract Quality faculty and Stu new distance education technology and expanded Library hold some fear the target May be met by not replacing retiring proves leading to larger classes and deteriorating Quality of the fluid like nature of plan 2000 has probably been its Sav ing its the Naimark that he is interested what weve done is challenged the institution to confront the issues As issues that need to be looked while Naimark was criticized for initially foisting a completed plan onto the he has gone a Long Way towards giving ownership Back to the various Campus components by allowing a thorough the first draft received by All Deans in the Spring was circulated throughout the Campus and rewritten before an official version was presented to University Senate in that meeting produced a heated debate and division Deans of arts and science oppose dropping three year degrees in favor of fou year most of the academic Community opposed a proposal to create a Bach Elor of general studies faculty and Deans opposed a proposed consolidation of i fearing it would weaken Campus colleges and architecture and engineering but a flurry of meetings among faculty and Deans has calmed most of the there Are things that staff and students have taken exception to but there has been a fair hear ing for those concerns at the Senate level and various other said Blessing student Union distress gets Busy signal not enough crisis lines operating to handle All tee Scalls for help by Janine Macdonald free press correspondent i the crisis c1 suicidal and depressed teens Are getting a Busy signal at least 66 per cent of the time when they Call a Manitoba youth Dis Tress a Manitoba Telephone system study the teen touch distress line asked its to find out How Many callers were not getting the free press has results showed that of the teens who attempted to Call last 66 per cent got a Busy Busy Sig nals were up to 75 per cent in that May have been a Factor in a higher rate of teen suicide last signals rejection Peter Manitoba chief medical said a Busy signal is taken As rejection by some one who is mentally distressed and calling out for his records show there were 15 suicides of people under 19 in Mani Toba in up from 12 the previous teen touch has one phone with two lines one for local the other a 1800 number for Rural teen touch director Kathy Wiebe said the average is about 23 Calls a with a dramatic increase around teen touch callers Are not the Only ones getting a Busy Klin is suicide prevention crisis line was the first of its kind in Winnipeg and is in such demand that Many callers have to wait up to three hours before getting coordinator Tim Wall said the Calls the line received in 1980 had grown to Calls by with an estimated increase of about Calls in these Are just the Calls we he every More and More Calls Are not getting when teen touch opened its Manitoba phone lines in it received 212 that had increased to Calls in 1993 and to about Calls last youth Are feeling More hopeless because it really is a Bleak future for Wiebe on one their parents Are do Well in and on the other they see that there Are no jobs its just a very confusing and it gets More confusing every Wiebe said there is Only one person answering the phone at a even though the program employs three full time staff and uses More than 50 trained volunteers in she said having More people answering the phone at one time is difficult be cause it Means More trained staff members to supervise and coach the up until two weeks ago we didst even have a full time Volunteer co and scheduling of two lines is just too much for one person to she Wiebe said her organization May have to add a second 1800 line for teens outside but funding is a she said the program requires an additional on top of its budget to improve its t o d a quote of the Day without a bylaw in panhandling is about the same As Alan chairman of the Osborne 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