Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 6, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba B6 free August the world France feeling nuclear heat cancellation of South Pacific test weighed after Boycotts associated press activists Don Gas masks in Berlin yesterday to protest Frances planned nuclear May drop one of eight planned nuclear tests in the South Pacific after being stung by environmental protests and economic Michel minister of european told the sunday newspaper be journal de Dimanche that the final test might not be one must remember that these tests constitute the very last limited to a maximum seven or Barnier maybe we wont do the simulations the underground which would end a three year Are scheduled to begin next month on an atoll in French France says the blasts Are needed to develop computer simulations that will make further testing and has promised to sign a test ban treaty next despite that the testing has met with Strong resistance at Home and drug lord fears assassination associated Colombia the fugitive head of the Cali drug Cartel fears hell be shot dead by Security forces because he provided evidence linking top govern ment officials to a Cartel member said police and soldiers have been Hunting for months for Miguel Rodriguez one of two drug Kingpins on the police mos wanted list who have not been captured or Given themselves to get police to ease up on the Rodriguez left evidence for them to find that shows president Cartel Leader linked officials to dirty source claims Ernesto Sampers 1994 election Campaign took Cali Cartel said the interviewed on condition of the implicit message was pull Back your drag net or ill release More the during a police raid last month on Rodriguezs apartment in Cali included a list of those who have received drug it led to the resignation last week of defence minister Fernando Botero and the arrest of Sampers Campaign Santiago me Rodriguez now fears senior government officials will become Des Perate and will try to shut him up permanently by having Security forces kill him without giving him a Chance to said the people in Rodriguezs inner Circle Are very they dont Trust anybody said the in drug Kingpins have generally been captured and brought to Justice rather than in the last two five others on the mos wanted list have been put behind the source confirmed testimony by Medina that the Cartel gave at least the equivalent of million can to Sampers election in it gave at least Mil lion to candidates for Congress and Edward will wed paper says Reuter British news paper said yesterday that Prince Queen Eliza Beths youngest has finally decided to marry his Girlfriend Sophie but Buckingham Palace Dis missed the report As pure the Mas Selling news of the quoting friends of the said the two were celebrating on the Royal yacht Edwards it followed weeks of pressure on him from the Queen and from his the Duke of Edin to end speculation about sophies role in his tamil militants target tourists Reuter August 1120 Winni tamil militant which claimed responsibility for a car bomb blast at Colombo Airport in has again threatened to kill tourists and foreign investors in sri Ell Alan Force said it wont be ready to show any unless the armed forces Stop killing tamils in the Northern part of the Indian Ocean Island the letter denounced the current military offensive in the rebel held Jaffna Peninsula and the bombing of a Church it said it will not allow foreign flights or ships into the country unless the offensive on troops based in territory captured in operation leap Forward against the liberation tigers of tamil eelam launched a limited killing or wounding at least 50 Winnipeg free press and the Deer Lodge Tennis club present be press the military said on wednesday and naval patrol Craft attacked 16 Tiger vessels in separate destroying six of the military Ell Alan in its vehemently condemned allegations it was connected to the who have been at War fighting for a separate Homeland in the North and East since the group has Many times warned foreigners to keep out of the country and on june 9 took responsibility for a failed car bomb attempt at Colombo due to a technical the bomb didst go it said in a you Are All it threatened to set off massive bombs in Colombo last month unless a commission was set up to investigate the killing of tamils in the East of the a few Small explosions were recorded but there were no it also claimed responsibility for Small hotel bombs in Colombo last year in which there were no we cant allow any foreign investors to come to sri the letter president Chandrika Kumar Tunga announced a devolution package for the country minority stressing the War was against the tigers and not the tamil the bombing of Peters Church compound on the first Day of operation leap Forward on july 9 has become steeped in both the tigers and the International committee of the red Cross have blamed the sri lankan air Ell Alan Force also said it partially blames the tigers for the casualties at the compound for telling the people its antiaircraft capabilities were enough to Stop any air wounded italian tenors career hits Low note As he Breaks a leg Reuter Italy an italian shot in the left foot during an execution scene in last weeks opening night of the opera hobbled Back to the broke his right organizers at the summer festival in Eastern Italy said Tenor Fabio a Milia to lost his balance while lean ing on a Crutch offstage after the first act he broke his right leg in two whose injury will Force him to rest for two months and will mean the cancellation of commit ments in the United had been using the Crutch backstage for sup port after injuring his left foot last the Tenor had not been using the Crutch on preferring to sing unsupported with a soft cast on his festival staff said last week it appeared the Tenor had been hit by Fly ing debris from a Blank fired from a Rifle used in the execution scene near the end of the third sixty two per cent of people in France think their government should cancel the according to a Harris poll released yesterday and conducted for the Votre Dimanche there was no margin of error Given for the Survey of but random Sample polls of that size generally have a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage Consumers in new zealand and Norway have launched Boycotts of French in sales of some French wines have fallen 30 in opposition to the French nuclear tests has emerged As a major theme on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of which killed an estimated about 500 Hiroshima survivors staged a Satin yesterday near ground the spot above which the bomb to protest the French Hiroshima mayor has urged residents to Honor the but Frances main quarrel has been with which last week blocked French Jet maker assault aviation from bidding on a multimillion Dollar Trainer plane contract in protest of the France now plans to take Australia before the United nations and the world Trade organization Over the and for allowing protests to disrupt French interests in the French foreign ministry also said it would review Coal and uranium contracts with Australia and ban Frances state Power Utility from investing australian foreign minister Gareth Evans scoffed at the threatened theres a lot of Bluff in this he told the French newspaper be Figaro for yesterdays whats at stake is the credibility of France Stop the Paris needs to Stop its nuclear rebels released this undated photo of injured hostages in Kashmir wounded associated press India an american tourist being held hostage in Northern India says on a tape released by his captors that he has been shot and his fellow British hostage critically Donald of so said in the audio tape released yesterday that he was wounded during an Indian at tack on the Kashmiri rebels in the i do not have the strength to speak Hutchings but i think Keith Mangan is critically ill with Many wounds in his broken we have no med along with the the rebels sent their own statement and two color photographs showing Hutchings and of swathed in bloodstained ban Mangan appeared to have an intravenous drip in his right the rebels issued a statement july 21 saying two of the hos tages were wounded during a Bat the with Indian soldiers near the town of the govern ment has denied any such clash reporters said the voice on the tape matched that on an earlier tape of Hutchings released by the rebels and accepted Asau thetic by but it was not Clear under what conditions it was in their the rebels said Mangan and an other of the five hostages Dirk of Germany critically ill and could for the last three Days they have stopped it unless immediate treatment is Given they May die and for that the Indian government will be re the statement did not explicitly repeat a threat to kill the five but said that if foreign governments wanted the hos tages they should pres sure India to fulfil the rebels de the rebels scaled Down their conditions for the release of the saying they want India to free 15 jailed guerrillas in Stead of the 21 whose release they had previously India has refused to free any Mil a German police casualty toll climbs As chaos Days violence continues Deer Lodge Tennis club Ness 9865714 sponsored by Winnipeg free press associated Germany Young anarchists set fire to cars and trash containers yesterday during a third night of clashes with police called in hundreds of reinforcements and arrested 630 people after 94 officers were wounded by flying bottles and stones in an All night Battle Friday part of the punks chaos Days summer the police casualty toll Rose to 160 by late a police spokeswoman said rioters were Mak ing forays in Small groups out of the University setting fire to an unknown number of cars and other one apartment was on said the there were no figures on the number of injuries among the but Ard National television showed one being kicked repeatedly by to who also hurled stones Back at their assail the Interior minister of lower Saxony Gerhard congratulated the police for keeping the punks in last year More than were arrested in i Chancellor Helmut Kohl and others had criticized local authorities for permitting the punks to storm through the Northern City of breaking windows and burning this police were turning Back punks arriving by train or but the Young coming mainly from Berlin and with some from outside Germany claimed to have found other ways to reach several Hundred reinforcements were called in yesterday from states neighbouring lower sax of which Hanover is the some punks were injured in Street fights with hooligans and As Well As in clashes with police punks threw firebombs and used steel bars to attack who mobilized water cannons and armoured cars to try to break through Street Barri Cades the anarchists set ablaze Friday night in the University the anarchists plundered two supermarkets for food and Many shops had boarded their windows to stave of f a leaflet circulated last month said the punks goal for this years chaos Days would be but it was unlikely that target could be police expected about punks to try to reach Hanover during the while the punks claimed were the in addition to arresting 630 by Dawn booked 980 others and ordered them to the an order Ninny v ;