Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 4, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba Local Bizarre twist Driver of car that hit and Killed man lying in street then turned himself in to police after drinking antifreeze Tempo costs Secondhand goods help consumers battle the recession Sports Manitoba farm leaders are pleased by Boris promise to buy 25 millron tonnes of Canadian grain 116 Air of C JOB is back as voice of the Blue Bombers VOL 120 NO 65 PUBLICATIONS MAIL REGISTRATION NO 0286 Winnipeg Free Press Weekly home delivery in outside city UpFront February Wilson arrives at court Excuses for lying Wilsons lawyer por trayed him yesterday as a pathetic burned out drug abuser easily led by suggestion and said Wilson meant no disrespect to the Supreme Court when he told conflicting sto ries in the David This should give the court a clue into how Wilson got trapped into lies 22 years lawyer Ken Watson The court will decide later this month if Wilson will be punished for his Warship going to Gulf federal government will send a warship to the Middle East to help enforce United Nations trade sanctions against the Defence Department Defence Minister Marcel Masse and Ex ternal Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall decided late yesterday to send the ship sometime this HMCS Restigouche will join a tional force patrolling the Red Sea to en force UN trade sanctions imposed 18 months ago following in vasion of Ku Learning to talk NEW learn the basic of six before they utter their first a new study As a researchers say in the latest issue of Science babies whose hearing is damaged by chronic ear tions may have lifelong language And parents who talk with its high exaggerated intonation and clear can help babies ac quire phonetic prototypes that are building blocks to researchers ODDITIES Fickle finger of fate man accused of shooting dead a businessman during a rob bery allegedly left behind evidence that pointed police right to Clive McGee blasted away his left index finger when he shot his victim through the a court heard who found the finger lying next to the arrested McGee when he went to a hospital three hours later to have his in jured hand McGee told doctors he lost his finger try ing to repair a car fan The murder trial is QUOTE OF THE DAY Over the lost it seems that America has reached the point that the mindset to produce things and create value has loosened Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa criticizes the American work Ann Sports TV Wt AMUR Today Some sunny Winds increasing to south 20 High Low Tomorrow Mainly High Bun Rises am Sots Moon Rises Sots Shots ring in fears of biker war Its going to Id virtually guarantee police investigator warns after shooting Police Reporter Winnipeg police believe the shots fired in a bar this weekend were the first in a new biker Its going to Id virtually guarantee one veteran police investigator Something like that just isnt going to go un Police fear it could lead to a fullscale war reminiscent of the bombings that rocked the city in the NASA says ozone hole may open over Canada Police confirmed yesterday that a shooting at the Diamond Club early Sunday morning in which four people were shot one critically involved members of two rival gangs em broiled in a turf Crime Conrad Gislason said the inci which involved two members of the Los and an associate member of an up start gang known as the was appar ently the result of a dispute between the two gangs which had been simmering since early when the Spartans reformed fol lowing a 15year hiatus from the local Gislason said the department is treating the incident extremely seriously and will not tolerate a repeat of a turf dispute like the one in the between Los and Silent There was at least one killing and several bombings before the Riders We are not going to allow gathering places in the city to become a shooting Gis lason referring to Sundays shooting at the Diamond Two of the wounded were innocent bystanders caught in a But for the grace of we could have had four people dead An emergency meeting between city po lice and the RCMP yesterday afternoon con cluded with the formation of a joint task force which will monitor the local biker situa tion in the coming he See Road Warriors Decade of violence Regulars undaunted From the news services CAPE An ozone hole could open over the Northern Hemisphere this subjecting parts of the United Canada and Europe to dangerous ul NASA scientists said yes Canadian scientists said two years ago they had observed an ozone hole over the but this was disputed by The new NASA report indicates an emerging con sensus that the situation is Everybody should be alarmed about said Michael manager of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administra tions research Were seeing conditions primed for ozone Its in a far worse way than we Using a plane and a newly launched researchers have found record levels of chlorine over New the British Scandinavia and Such levels could thin the ozone layer by 30 per cent to 40 per cent for brief periods this the scientists The wellknown ozone hole over by de pletes SO per cent to 60 per cent of the protec tive ozone Kurylo reported that the expeditions in have detected concentrations of chlorine monoxide the major culprit in ozone destruction at levels so high that they will probably devour the ozone layer at a rate of one to two per cent a day later this Our conclusion is that the immune sys tem of the ated ability to fight ele ments is weaker than we had suspected said James Anderson of Harvard lead scientist for the airborne ob servations None of the news is husband Officer comforts Valdemar whose wife Elizabeth was shot dead yesterday at the Ontario Glove plant in by a fac tory The killer turned himself in after slaying two others New rules for buyers hailed as light at end of tunnel By Bud Robertson Business Writer OTTAWA DELIVERED good news yes to Canadians who havent been able to save enough money to make a down payment on their first Federal Housing Minister Elmer MacKay announced effective home buyers can make a minimum down payment on mortgages insured by Canada Mortgage and Housing would insure only mort gages with a minimum 10percent down pay Im optimistic that it will be a helpful be MacKay told reporters following a speech to the Canadian Home Builders Asso 49th annual convention in Canadians are still in a very cautious frame of mind when it comes to purchasing he But housing is so basic to all of our needs that perhaps this will give them the feeling now is the time to take advantage of what ap pears to be a favorable investment The plan will be in effect for the next two he and then Only buyers or people who havent owned a home in the last five years can apply for the new lower Others are left with the old 10percent guarantees mortgages for banks and other lending In it re a premium of up to per cent of the Homes eligible for assistance are subject to price ceilings ranging from in What does it mean to the purchaser Canadian Press What lowering minimum down payment means on a home mortgaged over 25 years at per cent interest rate WITH DOWN The payments for principle and interest would be per Alter five there would be owing on the WITH DOWN The payments would be per After five the balance would be THE RULES To a buyer must be purchasing his or her first house or have not owned a house in five Buyers cannot spend more than 35 per cent of their pretax income for interest and In most parts of the home cannot be worth more than In some that maximum is and in Vancouver and Toronto the maximum in Greater Toronto and Vancouver to in most other including We are extremely pleased we see a little bit of light at the end of the tun said home builders association presi dent John I think it might be just the ticket to get a little bit of consumer confi dence The CHBA has been pressing for measures to give a boost to the ailing housing According to 1991 was the worst year on record for housing with starts in Manitoba falling 41 per cent to even 1982s estimates that as many as renters may become homeowners this year as a result of the and Basse be the numbers could be even I think were going to get some of our own people back to and hopefully thatll be part of the trigger that may get the rest of the economy While applauding the Basse said the association will continue to support a pro posal which would allow home buy ers to use their RRSP contributions toward a down MacKay said the federal government is still considering the RRSP put for ward by the Canadian Real Estate Associa A decision on the proposal is expected lat The announcement raised concerns some people may take on more debt than they can While prospective homeowners can in crease the percentage of income they spend on a mortgage because of the rule wont allow them to increase their overall That means people will still be limited to spending 42 per cent of their gross income to service their debts whether for car loans or credit to ideas Kidnap victim rescued at border Police Reporter A jockey who once raced at Downs may face kidnap ping charges after a 25yearold quad woman was abducted from her Fort Garry home early yesterday Anthony De raced at the Downs for several years in the 80s be fore moving to been im plicated in the which had city police and Customs officials scrambling to avoid creating an inter national While police refused to identify those involved in the sources con firmed yesterday that De Silva is being investigated along with three other Americans in the kid napping of his estranged The incident began about 7 when De two other men and one woman entered the Fort Garry home where Tammy De Silva had been living with her parents since a 1987 car acci dent left her a Over the protests of par police the four forced the woman into a waiting Police were notified of the incident about and immediately alerted all border crossings when they learned a citizen was Customs officials stopped the car at the Pembina border crossing about at which point the case took a radical Anthony De Silva told customs he was husband and showed them Illinois court documents listing him as The documents also ordered her to undergo a medical examination in the United States in a multimilliondollar lawsuit filed on her behalf in connection with the car Unable to speak because of injuries sustained in the Tammy could only sit in silence as discussions took place between officials and Winnipeg police about whether a kid napping had City police finally managed to per suade border officials to hold the allowing them to send detectives to the border with a computer which Tammy uses to Winnipeg police Staff Van said the message Tammy typed out settled the She made it very clear in no uncer tain terms that she did not wish to enter the VanderGraaf Tammy was released into the cus tody of police who rushed her back to Winnipeg in an Her lawyer said yesterday she was returned to her parents safe and The fate of Anthony De Silva and the other three involved all citizens remains more in doubt as all four were allowed to proceed into the United VanderGraaf said police will con investigating and warrants for the arrest of the four may be Robert said his client and Anthony De Silva are embroiled in court cases here and in the United States over who should receive disability payments and the proceeds from her which is be fore a Tapper charged that De Silva kid napped the woman in the hopes it would strengthen his claim to the money as the womans even though she has lived with her parents since After the par ents were named her guardians by a Manitoba Tapper IN WEDNESDAY S FRE PRESS practical ch can modify diet
