Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 9, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba New entrepreneurs it tits first nation is about to explode with new businesses b3 36 pages vol 123 no 247 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post get Post Oul Siulc cily 75c in Onla fio weedy Home delivery 25 20 Post in Winnipeg 09 oils ice cily August Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press Connie of japanese was forced from her Home during the please see Story on Page malevolent Shadow lingers by Treena Khan staff reporter the atomic age and Neil Durrani were born about the same and the Alberta store owner remembers Well their trying childhood it was always there in the Back of my like a said who turned 50 last he was eight years old in when the first tested the Hydrogen bomb and the doomsday clock was set at two minutes to closest it Ever came since it first appeared on the cover of the bulletin of atomic scientists in Durrant remembers his teacher in Swan River talking about the cold about building and about diving under desks in Case of an air it was interesting because it was something our parents never injustice Sears b8 he Jack Neils now living in said he had More pressing concerns at the after the he returned to his Home North of Swan River to and he didst have time for world he most Farmers were returned soldiers and we we rent too worried about whats going on in the that was left to people in the Neils daughter Tanya was born in Winnipeg in the year the strategic arms limitation treaty was and the clock hands were moved Back to 12 minutes to it hardly affected me at said now working for a fencing company in i recall being really Young under the Cloud part two hearing something about but now i think society More concerned with the environment and protecting she but nuclear War is still i think people Are naturally i dont think Well Ever learn our i dont think in so worried about my own future As i am for my childrens but Cec a second world War Veteran who Heads the Manitoba chapter of veterans against nuclear says Tanya and All Young people of today should worry for their own smarten youre going to have to do something about Well need some world authority to ban the world is As dangerous As it Ever maybe even the threat of icbms intercontinental ballistic missiles int As but what about the tactical nuclear weapons a person could carry one into a City in a Backpack and destroy spirit will Cap salaries controlling player costs crucial in plan to buy jets by John Douglas business reporter the spirit of Manitoba will impose its own salary Cap in an Effort to keep professional hockey alive in for hockey that could mean a team with fewer superstars until the jets financial situation the league expands and learns How to control its own a business plan lays out the Reali ties that you absolutely have to Deal with if you want to spirit president Cam Osier said in Winnipeg that Means controlling and managing we need a team that meets a budget in the Shorter term and within five to seven years we must find a Way not Only to keep the team Here and open a building but do some winning As months in the spirit finally made Public its plan to keep the jets viable in Canadas smallest nil the three entime Tretick Book put words to Many of the concepts spirit has made Public in recent spirits plan makes two significant changes from what has already been made Calls on Council and the teams current owners to extend the closing Date two weeks to and says it will raise million for an endowment fund by septem Ber 1997 to cover which had been fundraising towards a endow ment now says it no longer needs to get the full amount in while spirit is expected to get the inside Story a million Dollar Gamble fans wait for teams Fate votes it needs from Council today to it still has not heard from the current ownership yesterdays three hour session with the private sector group also galvanized opposition to the they dont have the numbers to pull this Deal said Terry Duguid North the team could be out of Winnipeg within three years of moving into a new the spirit plan hinges on essentially freezing players salaries Over the next two years until the jets move into a new and then Lim iting salary increases to no More than 91 per cent of that translates into an Nual salary increases of no More than about four per failure will mean Selling the team in As few As seven years if the pay Roll hits million in 1998 and in creases average 10 per cent Over the next five the jets current ownership Esti mates player costs next season will be about the nil has suggested salaries will Likely Rise by Between 10 per cent and 15 per cent each of the next two Osier said that Means some players will have to its a Tough nosed strategy the nil does not yet but Osier said it is one currently being contemplated by the leagues other Small Market Canadian Balkan hatred carves new River of misery by Tracy Wilkinson and Dean Murphy los Angeles times the larg est flight of humanity in four years of Balkan a River of refugees poured from the conquered Krajina Region of Croatia yesterday and Many of them came under new political a5 trapped by advancing tens of thousands of serb women and children on tractors and in horse drawn carts desperately sought Refuge outside a United nations or simply jammed roads awaiting epic scenes were unfolding for hundreds of Kilometres across the former angry and anguished serbs fled a victorious croatian military that recaptured the Krajina in a weekend rout that ended the separatist rebels vision of a greater Serbia More than serbs were moving from the in and officials estimated the number could reach Relief workers warned of a Cata strophic humanitarian is an endless River of ref Amanda an offi Cial with the International commit tee of the red said in an inter View in people Are in a state of panic and some cant people Are wounded authorities Are just overwhelmed by the sheer size of Many of the refugees were blocked As they caught be tween the croatian army advancing from the North and the newly triumphant bosnian government army from the about Refu gees were reported trapped near the town of 60 Kilometres South of and at least that Many just to the East at the bosnian government fresh from its Success in breaking the siege of torched six bosnian serb the in and at the croatian Border with Bosnia prevented Many of the Refu gees from in officials said refugees were shelled by the croatian army at the Border town of Dyor there was heavy Small arms fire and shelling overnight in the Glina quote of the Day Miff Kilifi do my Mommy got a new kidney transplant in a sign outside her East Kildonan Home ally expresses her Joy that Mother Ethel no longer has to spend hours each week hooked up to a dialysis details on Page b1 the weather today sunny with a few Cloudy High Low tonight tomorrow High Sun pipes sets Tyson rises details a Al Page d7 inside diversions rubes and Ann in c10 sports to pacemaker saves dogs life by Bruce Owen staff reporter the heart that beats in this dog is powered by a tiny Bat a Foury Earold is one of the few dogs in North America alive today because of a pacemaker to regulate her heart the pacemaker was installed a week ago at the veterinary school at the University of it was either this or watch her owner Linda Bartlett Shes like a baby to us and when you love an you do what you can to take on that Meesha surgery came after she was diagnosed with a Complete blockage of one of her heart a condition which was discovered after a litter of puppies she was carrying her heart want Strong enough to Supply blood to allow them to be it was Strong enough Only for her to Bartlett without the pacemaker Meesha had six months to a year to with the pacemaker she can Lead a nor Mal Bartlett said the surgery Cost and was relatively straight Forward Meesha was on her Way Home the next and once the incision Shell look like any other but youll be Able to feel it under the Bartlett Meesha Pat Napier of Henderson animal said pacemakers for dogs Are Al though heart problems among dogs Marc Gallant Winnipeg free press Bartlett welcomes Home Meesha after pacemaker Are common and usually treated with the pacemaker will maintain Meesha heart rhythm at 100 beats per minute up from 40 beats be fore the and the Battery is designed to last five to seven a gradual slowing Down of the heart will signal that Meesha has to get a Bartlett says Meesha must be limited in How much exercise she gets Over the next few once the tissues she can run and ;