Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba A bloody Salute a gang member was smiling after slay jury told the weather Thompson takes charge of assessment olympic association challenges Cycle shop Pinawa envisions a new future lawyer gets few Calls for free work in t e it Isi m Fri t watchmen try to remain upbeat the pet Page questions Elk capture beatles anthology 2 captures revolution Sega brings out its big guns the Best commercials Cannes advertising film festival returns to Winnipeg Art gallery Ami next Zha nov fears he May be next on the jets Trade Gretzky returns to the forum in los Angeles huskies meet for hockey title jets Deal for Craig romans Aba rant costs in flute and sports record Ann stocks to Cloudy with 30 Chance of details on Page c8 Winnipeg free press 5o plus taxes higher in outlying areas March linguistic ability seen As source of new jobs local Lingos Worth mining by Nick Martin staff reporter speaking English As a second language or a fifth or sixth could create new jobs in its our bes kept our linguistic Winnipeg and Manitoba have an amazing linguistic this is a tremendously undeveloped Talent says Susan director of research and development at the International Shes part of a committee expected to table a two year study in june that proposes the More than 100 languages spoken in Manitoba can Supply a Pool of interpreters to be hired out to business and government for dealings with the global if a train ing and certification program can be we Are incredibly Multi linguist said what we Lack Are training governments Are not prepared to implement programs unless the grads Are going to get having professional credentials and overseas contacts would be a huge Bonus for she the advisory committee surveyed health and the private sector to gauge the potential need for the demand exceeded even our understanding of most written translation or spoken interpretation is very special such As health care and and then usually limited to French and american sign Lan she i think certification is a great said Winnipeg chamber of Commerce president Trevor Hay for business it would be a tremendous i like it a it will be an enor Mous Benefit for our business whether our business Community is poised to take advantage of it is another said Morva administrator of the Centre for International business studies at University of my Rey Pagtakhan l Winnipeg North said he would like to see a National language Institute in Winnipeg where businesses would Send their staff for intensive Lan Guage and cultural please see diversity Page ona6 Hoot its protected wildlife Phil free press league shows Ivory some of the band found out their pipes we rent the real customs Calls the tune shrine pipers forced to pay by Cameron macintosh free press correspondent it Cost some Winnipeg pipers an extra to March in the Patricks Day Parade this year in Sioux because the Ivory in their bagpipes had to be inspected by a customs some of the shrines Khar Toum pipe and Drums band thought that was silly but it really upset band members who found their pipes we rent real a 1971 wildlife Protection Law prohibits importing Ivory into the without a and bag pipes commonly have Ivory fit to comply with the the band had to pay for the inspector to travel the 225 Kilometres from to the Bor Der crossing at its just the typical govern ment bureaucracy that everyone Here said Parade Orga Nizer Sylvia it was just ridiculous to make these Guys she when was the last time any one shot an elephant in Canada band member Al Teague said this was the first time they been hit with the some of the Guys were ticked not so much because we were getting checked but because they found out their pipes we rent real not even the intervention of Senate minority Leader Tom Daschle could save the shrines from the inspection Henkin appealed to and he was Able to get the band an it Doest take until next but Teague said the band will return to Sioux Falls next As it has the last 12 we always have a great time Down tax woes mount at City Hall new computer system not ready 1997 reassessment faces delay by Aldo Santin City Hall reporter a multimillion Dollar computer system that was to have solved the cites assess ment problems wont be ready in time for the next mayor Susan Thompson said implementation of the computer assisted mass appraisal Cama system is six months behind adding the delay will Force the City to ask the province to postpone the 1997 without wed have to rely on the manual system and were not confident doing Thompson the City has already spent million on the system and was to spent another million this Thompson said she was caught by Surprise by the adding she Doest know whats causing the City administrators said a Lack of time and staff were responsible for postponing full introduction of a compute based acting City assessor Cliff during questioning from City councillors said the Cama system could have addressed the major criticisms of the assessment process but that it would not be in place for 1997 As this is a question of Jeffers later told the free adding that the implementation of the program has been slowed Down because department staff Are too Busy defending current assess ment continued please see at least 150 die in Manila disaster crowded disco a death trap for Grad party from a Reuters Manila flames Tore through a disco packed with graduation Rev Ellers Early sending them fleeing for a blocked exit and killing at least 150 As Many As 50 More bodies could still be in the smoking ruins and dozens of people were badly officials when the fire broke out shortly after there were an Esti mated 350 people inside the Ozone disco pub in a Manila Many of them were taking part in High school and College graduation survivors it was like said disc jockey Marvin who watched flames catch the hair and clothes of screaming Vic i tried to announce there was a but the microphone stopped he bodies of people who had tried unsuccessfully to escape were piled Waist deep in a Nar Row corridor leading from the dance others were crushed beneath a collapsed Mezzanine investigators said the fire exit had been blocked by a new building next it was the worst fire Ever in the Philippines and the worst in a nightclub since when 164 people died at the Beverly Hills supper club in we saw smoke and tried to run but were caught in a said one who gave Only her first i was stepped but managed to Force my Way she said two of the three friends she was with were other survivors described a desperate Rush for the door when lights went out and flames roared through the smoke filled the wails of relatives search ing for loved ones added to the chaos As firefighters put out the tobacco giant Fine tunes drug in smokes nicotine Levels were routinely targeted and adjusted by Philip Morris an l former Philip Morris research scientist by John Schwartz 7778 Washington Post Washington Tobac co giant Philip Morris manipulates nicotine lev Els in cigarettes to Fin tune the drugs Impact on according to three new affidavits from two former scientists and a production official at the company made Public by the food and drug it is Well recognized within the cigarette Industry that there is one principal reason Why people smoke to experience the effects of Nico William former new claims put Philip Excel in hot seat director of applied research at Philip said in one of the nicotine Levels were routinely targeted and adjusted by Philip stated Ian a for Mer Philip Morris research Scien who said the company used tobacco blending and other technologies to maintain desired Nico Tine Philip Morris issued a statement late yesterday that it had just received the documents and would not comment fully until it had thoroughly reviewed Philip Morris Stock was Down 4 Points More than 4 per cent yesterday on a Day when the Dow Jones Industrial average Rose by per the affidavits Are at Odds with sworn 1994 testimony by thence of Philip Morris William speaking before a House Campbell How do we manipulate1 or independently control nicotine As our critics charge the answer is we Campbell has since left the Henry who chaired that and other hear Ings investigating the tobacco said that the new affidavits clearly contradict the Tes Timony we received from William Campbell under oath and raised questions of now at was travelling yesterday and unavailable for com a Federal grand jury is investigating whether the seven cos at the april 1994 hearing May have lied under a source close to the investigation said yesterday that the grand jury will Call the three former Philip Morris employees who provided affidavits to the the documents could have an explosive effect on Many Legal challenges facing Philip Morris and the the Fra has pro posed regulating tobacco products As drug delivery devices to curb underage the Agency is trying to prove that the companies intend that their products be sold for their drug 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