Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba World Winnipeg free january 1995 As news Roundup somali clans Battle for port from the news services Soma Lia rival somali militiamen battled for a key District of Mogadishu for a third straight Day yester seeking to win Access to the seaport before in troops residents in the battered Central Bermuda District said the sounds of Cannon and heavy machine guns and the Boom of mortars reverberated through the City from shortly after Dawn and that six people were kurd at War Baghdad heavy fight ing is raging Between rival kurdish groups in the North Ern iraqi City of Ham Pering the distribution of Aid to needy a senior unofficial said the iraqi news Agency Ina said 472 people had been killed in the other reports put the death toll capital paralysed Bangladesh opposition legislators who re signed from parliament in a dispute with the prime minis Ter organized a strike that paralysed the capital hundreds of opposition activists marched through the streets shouting Down with Khaleda Zia during the eight hour general strike that closed businesses across Dha a City of eight million peo bust a Flop London nine British police officers on a narcotics raid failed to reach their tar get after they squeezed into an elevator made for eight and it ground to a the police were trapped for 45 minutes in the elevator in Coventry in Central England before their cries for help were the Sun newspaper reported writer attacked Italy a Norge Gia born jewish writer who was slashed in an apparent racist attack in Italy last was beaten in her Home yesterday by three police were investigating whether the assault on Maria Theilman Geelmuyden Bodil was racially Geelmuyden Bodil told authorities the attackers appeared to be fascist skin peace pledged Liberia the Man whose forces started Liberia Fivey Earold civil War has told his fighters to prepare to disarm and prom ised 1995 will be a year of Liberia Elba radio quoted a statement from Charles Tay Leader of the National patriotic front of telling his men to prepare for demobilization under the latest peace Accord signed revived Rhine nations on the Banks of the Rhine believe have the River cleaned up by their tar get Date of 2000 and restocked with fish that Are Safe to the launched in is called Salmon 2000 to signify the Standard the nations have set which Are notoriously susceptible to Are extinct in the Maureen Dunn jewellers we pay your i get Post Winter fun some with fireplaces t fully equipped free movies t grocery store end liquor Vendor on premises from 204 Zedillo delays emergency plan economic Rescue scheme Likely to be unveiled today i rebel commander has smoke in front of revolutionary by Esther Schrader Knight Ridder newspapers Exico Cit locked in a contentious Battle Over wage and Price mexican president Ernesto Zedillo late last night postponed an announcement of an emergency eco nomic plan aimed at calming investors and restoring Confidence in the sharply depreciated Zedillo promised to unveil the plan this a major feature of the program is an International support package with the United states and other countries and Banks providing mex Ico an line of credit the country can draw upon if the United states will provide billion in the according to government offi Zedillo plan also includes wage and Price cuts to pub Lic spending and an increase in the Price of Public and plans to sell off important state run Busi Zedillo had promised International investors he would present the program yesterday and scheduled a National television address to announce but late last Zedillo was still locked in negotiations with business and labor investors have been waiting in tense anger for 12 Days since the be administration announced the devaluation that played havoc with portfolio and then plunged into official but analysts said the mexican Stock Market will continue to lose value unless the government Indi Cates an ability to Cope with the de valuations expected results soar ing a badly shaken Stock Market and plunging investor and consumer for More than a week the govern ment has been mum on the devalue which investors interpreted As a sign of and which has badly damaged Mexico reputation even after the resignation of finance minister Jaime Serra up Che last thursday and a Promise by Zedillo to take matters firmly in the government appears to be the pesos plunge was sparked by investor doubts about Mexico Abil Ity to manage its current account deficit and fuelled by a peasant re Bellion in the state of the speech announcing the Emer gency plan the result of a Mara Thon meeting Between mexican to business and labor leaders was not confirmed until late yester Day then its announce ment was rescheduled More than six when Many mexicans finally went to Zedillo still had not de tailed the whose reported goal is to Cut the country current accounts deficit in half by the end of outside economists called that 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