Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 22, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Call the rent line 958renl see Apex realty and in today classifieds Winnipeg free press Canada world b1 Patrick Flynn 6977294 March around the world gun amnesty London Reuter the British government announced an amnesty on illegally held or unwanted guns eight Days after a Man shot and killed 16 children and their teacher in a scottish the last in was introduced after 27yearold Michael Ryan killed or fatally wounded 16 people before shooting himself in his Home town of a fatal bet Beijing Reuter a teenager who smoked 100 cigarettes in one sitting easily won a bet with a Friend but paid with his life when his heart gave a state newspaper As a crowd of passersby watched the 19year old suddenly lost his color and collapsed after finishing a fifth pack of Guatemala truce Guatemala City Reuter in a major breakthrough toward ending Guatemala 35 year civil leftist rebels announced a ceasefire wednes and president Alvaro Arzu ordered the military to halt operations against the Gerril the temporary end to hostilities in Central americas last remaining civil War is the most significant Advance toward peace since negotiations began five years India Calls election new Delhi a India has called a general voting will be held regionally on four separate Days april May May 7 and May first results Are expected by May the voting will be staggered to allow Security forces to move across the country to protect the 590 million registered vote rigging and voter intimidation is common in Many parts of mass grave found Luscri Palanka a a suspected mass grave has been found in a deep Cave in North Western Bosnia near one of the worst serb death investigators say it could contain the remains of up to 120 muslims and in an apparent attempt to con ceal the someone threw rubbish and dead animals on top of the human remains and set off an explosion at the a bosnian War crimes researcher parole denied Washington native activist Leonard who was extradited from Canada and sentenced to consecutive life sentences for killing two Fri agents on a South Dakota Reserve in has been denied parole for a second the parole commission announced yesterday it rejected Peltier request March racism alleged Washington a a for Mer fundraiser has sued the Republican National committee for alleging the party Headquarters was Rife with lewd racism and Deborah Henson lawsuit describes in graphic detail an environment hostile to Minori women and homosexuals during her five months As a consultant inside the finance Divi Sion at party Headquarters on Capitol iraqi missiles Washington a the United nations chief weapons inspector says Iraq May have up to 16 missiles armed with biological warheads hidden on fast moving Rolf executive chair Man of a in special inspection told a Senate armed services subcommittee wednesday the missiles have a Range of 600 Kilometres and were produced with spare parts the soviet Union provided along with scud missiles before Iraq invasion of Kuwait in hear Vitamin e link stuns scientists Reuter London Vitamin e can reduce the risk of a heart attack by 75 per British researchers said the findings about one of the worlds biggest killers were announced by a team of Cambridge University scientists who studied patients with heart we Are enormously excited to discover that Vitamin e really is As beneficial As we had All said Morris Brown from the Eastern English University i will be recommending that patients with angina and those who Are at risk of heart disease should be Given supplementary Vitamin e at a High Vitamin e occurs naturally in Oil Rich foods and is a Staple part of the Mediterranean Brown and his colleagues said the Vitamin is far More effective than current heart treatments such As aspirin and cholesterol lower ing along with their regular med one half of the patients in the 18month trial were Given Vitamin the other half took Placebo the results were the number of heart attacks in the Vit Amin e group was Only one Quarter of that in the Placebo Vitamin e reduces the risk of heart attack by a massive 75 per they the Mediterranean diet has been a role Model for Many years but no one has Ever quite been sure Brown now we can confidently say that Vitamin e protects against heart on the face of this is even More exciting than he said after presenting the findings from chaos Cambridge anti oxidant Brown stressed further studies were needed to see if Vitamin e actually prolongs Oxford University scientists Are currently carrying out a five year study of but should we All Rush out and buy Vitamin e tablets As a Short Cut to a healthier lifestyle they Are available in health food stores but it would be irresponsible for us to recommend it Vitamin e Brown a photo what a ride a helicopter Crew from new zealand airlifts three Bighorn sheep out of the Rock Creek area of Montana near a total of 40 sheep were captured and trans ported to either the Elkhorn mountains or the Bea tooth game Drunken killers get break top courts ruling May Lead to More manslaughter verdicts by Wendy Cox Canadian press Pope enters All Homes to pitch to Rosary Deal Reuter Vatican City Pope John Paul is to appear in a series of radio and television commercials to promote a new audiovisual product called John Paul ii the Pope of the the which the Pope will push under the slogan i enter All Homes to enter All was presented by roman Catholic officials and their business associates at Vatican radio the product contains a a photograph of the Pope and two cd or audio cassettes in which the pontiff recites the Rosary in latin with comments in italian and music by the Vatican radio it costs the equivalent of the Rosary is a prayer in which the believer medi tates on 15 events in the lives of Christ and Ennio president of the advertising firm handling the said the Campaign will kick off on Vatican radio and italian radio Ottawa some lawyers say the supreme court of Canada has opened the door for judges to give lighter sentences to Drunken it will now become easier for people who kill while drunk to argue they should be convicted of not the difference Between murder and manslaughter is extremely says University of Toronto Law professor Kent murder leads to a mandatory sentence of life manslaughter is totally up to the sentencing discretion of the trial the supreme court ruling yesterday Doest have the same explosive Impact As the one two years ago which allowed a Mon Treal Man to use extreme intoxication As a defence against a charge of sexually assaulting a disabled the resulting outcry prompted Ottawa to outlaw the drunkenness defence for crimes such As sexual assault and Domestic in precedent setting judgments delivered by the High court yes it removed one of the Legal hoops murder defendants must jump through before claiming they were so drunk they we rent responsible for their judges and juries Only need to find reasonable doubt about a persons ability to form the intent to kill they needed to find reasonable doubt about a persons mental capacity to form the intent to the court ruled on two cases involving three men charged with Shorter sentences some facts on the supreme courts drunkenness decision Law As a result of court ruling judges and juries Only need to find reason Able doubt about an accused ability to form the intent to kill Law prior to court ruling judges and juries needed to find a reasonable doubt about a persons mental capacity to form the intent to result now easier for Drunken killers to use the judges will have to instruct juries on the defence More pros jurors no longer have to understand the abstract concept of mental and instead can use their common sense and the evidence to deter mine whether the accused could make the decision to cons could mean More convictions for manslaughter instead of and lighter second degree Donald of will get a new he was convicted of second degree murder in the death of a fellow court heard everyone who saw the incident was extremely As Brothers Randy and Harley Mcmaster of Calgary will also get a new they were convicted of second degree murder in the 1994 death of another Evi Dence suggested they were also very drunk at the Britain eyes killing 11 million cows by Helen Branswell Canadian press a customer views Range of meat products in London five european countries ban beef five european countries banned imports of British beef yester after the health Secretary admitted there May be a link Between mad cow disease and a fatal brain disease that affects some facts about Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease be is a Little understood but always fatal disease that bores holes through the brain tissue of infected some become aggressive before hence the nickname mad cow incidence nearly cows have died of the disease in Britain since it was identified 10 years How they got it scientists believe be was passed to the cattle Herd from which suffer from a similar disease called in the mid Tolate sheep offal was used to make cattle prac Tice has since been cd is a similar but rare disease that afflicts initially victims seem later dementia sets is no known link the government always insisted there was but there Are fears victims became infected by eating contaminated now the government revealed its scientists believe there May be a link Between 10 recent cd deaths and beef London Britain cattle Farmers were reeling yester As five european coun tries announced they Are Banning British beef in the latest and most acute panic Over mad cow the Netherlands and France the biggest buyer of British beef closed their doors after Britain admitted wednesday there May be a link Between beef consumption and a fatal brain Creutzfeldt Jakob Spain is considering following suit and Germany has called for a european Union ban on British an idea the eur will consider next rejection want limited to across the a Large number of British schools said they Are strik ing beef from their menus join ing Many that took that step late last year after a spate of cd its estimated on third of Britain schools wont serve beef in their the blaring headlines and Exten Sive television coverage of the Issue Are also making people like Mary Petrie think Long and hard about whether the taste is Worth the Petrie ignored previous mad cow scares but has decided its time to say goodbye to panic i didst take it seriously in the past but i think 1 am she said As she left a North London super the panic was sparked when health Secretary Stephen Dorrell admitted the governments advisory panel Felt 10 recent cases of cd May have been caused by exposure to Bovine spongiform it was the first time the government had acknowledged the possibility of a link Between be and Dorrell Mav have heightened fears when he said the government might consider having Britain entire cattle million Ani Mals destroyed in an Effort to eradicate the prices for live cattle plummet Farmers saw the value of beef cattle drop by the equivalent of about can a the drop was sharper for Dairy which have suffered a higher rate of a Dairy cow that was Worth tuesday was Worth and nervous Farmers knew things might the reaction in the Industry is a Complete disbelief that the Situa Tion is As bad As it said Guy Par press officer for the Farmers Union of there is no mad cow disease in officials said yesterday in the Canadian cattle Industry might even see new Market opportunities due to panic Over the Dis ease in says agriculture minister Ralph ;