Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 23, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Canada world Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 Section around the world victims mourned Belgium Reuter the people of Belgium yesterday buried two Lightyear old girls starved to death by a paedophile gang As detectives resumed their investigation into the Fate of two other Kidnap the bodies of Melissa Russo and Julie contained in two Small White were Laid to belgians across the country observed a minutes the four were All kidnapped or held by convicted child rapist Marc an unemployed father of two other girls he had concealed in a Concrete Dungeon were rescued late last private birthday Beijing a Deng Xiaoping turned 92 and China honoured its Paramount Leader with a essays and other tributes to the Man credited with bringing Prosperity to this nation after decades of believed to be in poor has not appeared in Public in More than two there were no Public events to celebrate his Neo nazi jailed Hamburg Reuter a Ham Burg court sentenced a Neo nazi Leader yesterday to four years in prison for pumping banned extremist propaganda into Ger Many from his base in the United Gary sporting his Trade Mark Hitler esque yelled a tirade of abuse at the court after his conviction for inciting racial thousands slain Bujumbura a More than people have been killed in Burundi since a Tutsi army major seized Power july purportedly to end ethnic bloodshed in the Cen trial african amnesty International said Kevorkian Busy Detroit a Jack Kevorkian stepped up his Campaign for doctor assisted suicide yester Day helping a woman with Multi ple sclerosis kill and then bringing the body of a Man to the same Hospital eight hours the deaths were the third and fourth Kevorkian has assisted in eight Kevorkian was taken into custody at the Hospital on a charge of being disorderly after he became very loud and abusive toward the offi Pontiac police Ken Lewis nuclear talks fail Geneva Reuter disarmament negotiators conceded defeat yesterday As almost three years of talks on a treaty outlawing All nuclear explosions ended in the 61country conference on disarmament cd could not reach a test ban treaty because India demanded the con Ference could not even agree to report its failure to the in Gener Al but major Powers said they would work quickly to revive the draft treaty and have it approved and opened for signature in new York next month despite India plot alleged Cairo a a senior Palestin Ian official accused Iran and Mili Tant palestinian groups of plotting to overthrow the palestinian and suggested there is a plot to assassinate Yasser Mahmoud a member of the plos executive told the arabic newspaper Ashaq Al a sat that the plotters plan to kill symbols of the palestinian Arafat self Rule gov Dike Breaks Hanoi a a Dike holding Back the storm swollen red River has burst North of forcing people to evacuate and flood ing railway lines and a vietnamese newspaper reported the break occurred wednesday in Vinh Phu 50 Kilometres Northwest of the according to the English language Vietnam there were no immediate reports of More than other people had already been left homeless by floods and protesters removed a French riot police officer escorts a demonstrator from the occupied the offices to Back 300 illegal african immigrants Headquarters of president Jacques Chirac conservative rally of them in the 49th Day of a hunger strike who Are threat for the Republic party in Paris about 40 protesters ened with please see Story on Page make feds told staff up Canadas premiers have United in demanding that the Federal government Ante up its share for another infrastructure pro Gram to Spur Job creation and develop strategic led by Manitoba Premier Gary Fil the premiers unanimously agreed yesterday to make a United demand that Ottawa participate in a second round of the highly successful National infrastructure in an interview from the premiers conference in Filmon said governments at All Levels must co operate on developing strategic Infra Structure that will create the biggest economic bang Filmon said this time around the pre Miers would like to see More involve ment from the private sector As full premiers want program for info Bahn business sets Agenda a12 partners in funding the that that there will be less Money made available for municipal level projects such As sew sidewalks and the premiers would like to focus on larger items such As National airports and the information final details of the proposal should be ironed out at a meeting of finance ministers next Filmon at their nine of the 10 premiers also decided to take it upon themselves to rewrite the rules governing Canadas social they said the standards set by Ottawa for everything from health care to child benefits no longer the premiers agreed to set up a Council to rewrite standards Over the next six the Federal govern ment will be asked to but Quebec separatist Premier Lucien Bouchard said his government wont take setting up the possibility that Ottawa and nine provinces could agree to standards not to que becs other premiers said it was about time they took a More Active role in setting since Ottawa has reduced the amount of Money it gives them for social this is recognition that the Federal government has been unilaterally Cut Ting Transfer payments and the provinces have to Deal with the consequences of those Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin said at the pre Miers conference at the Jasper Park Lodge resort in the Rocky Alberta Premier Ralph a sup Porter of More Powers for the provinces in areas such As health will be co chairman of the Council that will come up with its the Federal government will be asked to appoint a co chairman As premiers agreed to the plan after shelving controversial proposals in an Ontario report that called for provinces to get full control of social programs and exclude Ottawa Lebed strikes Deal with rebels Chi to pull out halt fighting Reuter novye Russia russian Security chief Alexander Lebed struck a Deal with chechen rebels to Stop fighting today and said he will withdraw troops from All of Chechnya As Well As the troops will be withdrawn from Grozny because constitutional order cannot be introduced using air and artillery Lebed they will be withdrawn from the whole of he said after a signing ceremony on the second Days of Moscow forces have been attack ing Grozny to try to remove rebels who seized it in a raid 6 that humiliated the russian the separatists said the attack was in retaliation for bombardments of chechen russian news agencies said Lebed and the chechen rebel asian agreed to a ceasefire from midday Ita Tass news Agency said they had also agreed to an unconditional Exchange of All dead and Pris Lebed said forces would Start with drawing from Southern Chechnya today and joint military administrations would be set up at the same news of the truce had apparently failed to reach Grozny fast inter fax news Agency said at least 50 russian servicemen were killed in a Battle in Grozny yesterday that continued after the truce Deal was the report could not be independently outnumbered by rebels inter fax quoted russian military command in Chechnya As saying that about 200 Interior ministry troops sent on a reconnaissance Mission had been outnumbered by attacking before signing the Lebed dumped plans by the russian com Mand in Chechnya to launch an fallout attack on Grozny if the rebels did not withdraw from the Lebed is our great said sakha a 36yearold Man who had stayed behind in Grozny to protect his Home from the latest fighting followed a Deal that foresaw rebel disarmament in return for step step troop withdrawals from the mainly Muslim Region to be completed by truces have come and gone in 20 months of the chechen and it was too soon to say whether the new Deal would bring respite for civilians who have been fleeing Grozny in tens of thousands since the raid it was also unclear How much Power Lebed actually though presi Dent Boris Yeltsin appointed him Spe Cial envoy to Security Council Secretary and Security advis the president criticized Lebed in an interview earlier i am not completely satisfied with Leeds performance in Yeltsin told Ria news engineers get a at last associated press chemical arms Burnt plans to incinerate huge stockpile of deadly gases associated press Tooele army Utah the army began destroy ing the country stockpile of chemical weapons yesterday in a High tech starting with nerve Gas rockets that were reduced to Ash and molten by Days the army planned to incinerate 60 m55 rockets containing the deadly nerve agent they were the first weapons to go in a billion Effort to eliminate tonnes of Mustard and nerve Gas packed into three million land missiles and canisters stored in eight Congress had ordered the army to destroy All chemical weapons by but that deadline was extended to 2004 because of changing Regula environmental con Gressional mandates and what the defence department acknowledges was poor even after the burning environmentalists continued their claiming the government suppressed or ignored the two hours after the first rockets were a Utah hazardous waste Board rejected a Las minute plea for a shutdown from opponents of the we Are off on a very positive step on a Long Trail to eliminating the Haz Ard of chemical said Robert manager for chemical demilitarization at Aberdeen proving grounds Edge Wood Arsenal in we believe this is the safest Way to rid the nation of its chemical the incinerator was built to destroy the tonnes of chemical agents stored at the Tooele army 80 Kilometres South West of Salt Lake too Les arse Nal contains 44 per cent of the country total chemical the burning will continue for 10 to 15 followed by a period of about six weeks during which the state of Utah will Analyse emission Levels and safety then the state will decide whether to Issue the army with a permanent licence for 24houraday the army Hopes to Complete 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that began have you Ever noticed that if you look up Boring in the yellow new civil Engineer columnist George a pseudonym based on the institution of civil Engi neers address on great George Street in says it is now incumbent upon All of us to be really interesting and make sure that to one Ever Calls civil engineers Boring ;