Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, April 17, 1984

Issue date: Tuesday, April 17, 1984
Pages available: 80
Previous edition: Monday, April 16, 1984

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 17, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free april 1984 machine gun fire from embassy rips through protesters from the news services London a gunman firing from a window of the libyan embassy sprayed rounds today at libyan students protesting the Mili tary regime of libyan Leader Moa mar ten students and a police officer were Scot land Yard police rushed to the on fashionable Jamess Square a few blocks from Buckingham and sealed off surrounding several including British columbian government were evacuated during the the provincial which handles Trade and other is located in a building which backs on to James a dozen sharpshooters were dropped by helicopter into the a Short time after the mid morning a Man emerged from the embassy and surrendered to witnesses news Roundup the shooting was the latest in a string of attacks on libyan exiles opposed to an ambulance service spokesman said the injured were taken to West Minster where the police offi cer and a demonstrator were in serious parliament evacuated Canberra a bomb like device that prompted the evacuation of aus Oralias parliament building today was an elaborate fake linked with a Fash of bomb threats sweeping the police prime minister Bob Hawke was Amon those turned away from the building after the device was disco Vered in one of its Central the location of the bomb was contained in a letter sent to a local which was turned Over to parliament is not in the incident was linked to a wave of bomb threats along the Eastern coast of Australia in recent Days by a group claiming to be Radical antinuclear police six fake bombs were found in schools in Melbourne yesterday after bomb threats were made against 15 schools in the More bomb threats were made today against military crash kills 12 a Tagaloa two nicaraguan military transport trucks plunged off a Mountain Road into a killing 12 soldiers and injuring army person Nel said the soldiers had been serving in a Northern where insurgents have been on the and were returning to their Homes for easter said soldiers at the Gabon torture charged London amnesty International has accused Security services in the african Republic of Gabon of using the human rights organization said yesterday it has received persistent re ports that gabonese Security officers Are torturing prisoners with severe electrical devices and suffocation in retired general dead retired Mark who led the 5th army As it swept from Africa through Italy to capture Rome in the second world died Early today of cancer and heart a fourstar general and one of the wars few surviving famous com Bat was he became the Liberator of Rome in 1943 while commanding the 5th army that chased the German army from Italy in the second world he was later the supreme commander of the United nations forces in the far East and the signer of the korean War Caroline expecting Monaco Princess Caroline of Monaco is expecting her first child in the a Palace spokesman said the spokesman did not say in what month the child is Likely to be married italian entrepreneur Stefano casiraghi on her first marriage to French business Man Philippe Junot in 1978 ended in divorce after barely two her child would be unlikely to reign Over the Prince Rainier immediate heir is his Carolines who is still a Bache any children he might have would be next in line to the followed by Caroline and then by her mans heart pierced Ohio a Man whose heart was pierced by an Gunpowder driven Nail is recovering to the amazement of doctors who were sur prised he lived Long enough to undergo Keith was injured March 7 on his construction Job when a Nail Driver sent a Nail through his the Nail pierced the right atrium and left ventricle of his his right his stomach and Large intestine before exiting through his left the doctor told me i want just pretty i was damned Mckenzie said recently from his Home in this Community of 90 e Are Ilo j to pc Crom l or orc store dial 7832112 downtown shop uni City vital Kildonan place shop to stores closed Good april 1 ;