Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wetter securities a he Nina putts Emce Imti mint fim Winnipeg free press Canada world Patrick Flynn 6977294 business b10 Section m i around the world Tunnel of woe London a ferry companies cashed in yesterday As thousands of eur Tunnel customers had to Cross the English Channel the old fashioned the 50kilometre Channel linking Britain and France was closed by fire damage monday there were Only slight injuries to truck Drivers Riding the fires trick in freight but the Publ Crela tons trauma was the Tunnel reopened for partial service late Telescope deployed Cape Reuter Small free flying Telescope was readied to look deep into space seeking the secrets of the while the Crew of space shuttle Columbia settled into their Orbital work among other experiments is one created by Kevin a University of Manitoba medical Stu to study the effect of space travel on astronauts president reelected South Africa new York times Frederick Chiluba has easily won reelection As president of but the country most important election monitoring group declared yester Day that the elections cannot be said to have been free and the official tally will not be Avail Able until but observers said yesterday that with about two thirds of the vote Chiluba had about 80 per cent of the presidential vote and his the move ment for multiparty seemed on course to win at least 120 of the 150 seats in truckers protest Paris truck Drivers formed creeping convoys yesterday on major highways around causing huge traffic tie ups in what they called operation or operation to demand better working cars were backed up for several Kilometres at key intersections and toll Booths in Frances second largest As truckers slowed their tractor trailer rigs to a unionized who launched a similar protest on the Paris Belt Way last week and in the provinces since want higher pay and the right to retire with full benefits at age kidnapper jailed Johannesburg a a woman who kidnapped a Newborn baby from the Childs Mother and kept the girl for nearly two years was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in Sonja Combrink masqueraded As a red Cross employee in May 1994 when she took 19hourold Micaela Hunter from her Mother at the Mary mount maternity Hospital in Man Dies in own trap Warsaw Reuter a polish Man who was so afraid of burglars he filled his House with deadly Booby traps has fallen victim to his own Warsaw police said the 60yearold Man named Only As Czeslaw b was found shot dead outside his garage police said he was killed by two homemade guns mounted on the garage explosives experts found eight similar traps by the front in rooms and in the evasive executive Miami a a Val Jet executive left relatives of crash victims Seething yesterday by repeatedly avoiding questions and blaming a contractor for putting oxygen Gen rating canisters aboard flight 592 without safety investigators have said the Caps could have prevented the fire aboard the which plunged into the Everglades on May killing All to people David Val Jet vice pres ident of heavy appeared rattled several times Dur ing questioning at a National transportation safety Board Cardinal praised Chicago Reuter Church leaders crowded a Cathedral and hundreds of faithful stood outside in the cold As Cardinal Joseph Bernardin was eulogized yesterday As a Leader and All nine surving cardinals and a number from around the world were at the funeral along with More than 150 High Rise fire a helicopter hovers above a building which is engulfed by heavy dark smoke and flames in Hong Kong firefighters Rescue a person who is perched on an air at least 29 people were killed and 77 injured in the armed Mission to Zaire is iffy Canadian plan in disarray by Robert Russo Canadian press grit tobacco Bill debut choked by Dennis Bueckert press Ottawa an insurrection of Quebec maps is being cited As the probable reason for a mysterious delay in health minister David Din Walls tobacco control Dingwall created consternation on parliament Hill yesterday by abruptly cancelling a news conference scheduled for today to reveal highlights of the Long awaited he gave no Clear explanation for the nor was a new time set for the news All our is Are but our to Arent Dingwall said outside the were in the process of finalizing the in not a spec in not going to speculate on the speculation in terms of my he walked away while being bombarded with the cancellation was announced shortly after the Quebec Liberal Cau Cus met arts and cultural groups who depend on tobacco company the who organize such Well known events As the Montreal jazz festival and the just for laughs Are fiercely opposed to restrictions on tobacco company natives had also asked Dingwall not to go ahead with his news conference because they feared it would upstage a report being released by the Royal commission on aboriginal a Liberal who asked not to be said Many maps Are angry with Dingwall for trying to announce the package before they have made their recommendations on the the caucus was receiving people this and tomorrow he Dingwall is going to make a declaration said the i know a lot of them Are people Are what the Hecks the matter with this Guy is he making All the Laws by himself does it he want to listen to health activists say the mood in Ding Walls office was i read that to mean that this was not a decision made in the ministers that it seemed to be imposed on said Eric Legresley of the nonsmokers rights Reform health critic Grant Hill seized on the cancellation As evidence that the government has caved in to the tobacco in sure this is a Money Issue rather than a health said theres a big lobby from the tobacco Industry and they see this As having an Impact on their Bottom United nations a Canad angled International military Mission to provide an Relief to thousands of refugees in Central Africa May be drastically scaled Back or scrapped a new exodus yesterday of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Zaire to Rwanda has thrown the Mission into planners frustrated by the rapidly changing situation in Eastern Zaire said they were reviewing their the options include the Zero option in Eastern that there is no need for a military Force to provide Security to the humanitarian Relief organi said Gordon Canadas Deputy minister of foreign it would be crazy to put a Force in place Only to find once the Force arrives that there Are no refugees or that humanitarian Aid gets through easily without military Maurice the Canadian who is to command the multinational will still go ahead with a meeting tomorrow in to plan the military component of the but that is no guarantee the Force will be the situation has changed so dramatically that the military Mission certainly would now seem to be a lot less of a focus than it was 10 Days defence minister Doug Young said soldiers could still be needed to protect convoys delivering Aid to the Esti mated refugees that May still be in Eastern foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy said that finding out just what is happening in Zaire remains the United nations Security Council asked Canada last week to Lead a Multi National Force that would open up corridors allowing starving refugees wandering in Eastern Zaire to return the refugees Are huts from neigh Boring Rwanda and Burundi who fled to Zaire after tribal fighting Lead to massacres of huts in hundreds of haitians feared drowned associated press Haiti at least people who set out in a Leaky Sailboat with Hopes of a better life in Florida Are missing and feared i cant believe god is so hard heart de that he would let my whole family Natasha said yesterday in 65 Kilometres West of the capital of Chery has not heard from dozens of including her brother and since they sailed 3 from nearby 7hu Chouchou aboard Lange a 20metre motorized wooden with 290 passengers the boat stopped at go Nave Island in Portal Prince and May have taken on Nore passengers before leaving for Miami two Days Maxo said he was told by friends on go Nave Island that the boat was leaking and they left with out repairing it in Rainy weath ibis younger a Cousin and his Stepmother were on the misery drove them to the the country is Dibi the first news of the missing Pas sengers came from a radio report yesterday claiming that Petit gave residents attacked the Home of the alleged organizer of the Rene and nearly lynched him and his wife police denied the they said about 100 worried relatives and friends surrounded Louis House sat demanding to know the Fate of the boat police dispersed them without Louis reportedly left for the coast guard said yesterday it had no information on the boat War of the sexes a draw in math and science girls pull even with boys in huge International study by Wendy Mccann Canadian press source 199496 Toronto women May be from Venus and men May be from but these Days girls Are just As Able As boys to Tell you what the planets Are made of and How far apart they Are an International study for the first girls have caught up to boys in math and theres been a lot of Effort and research to Point to differences in ability Between the Jim a professor at the University of British said but Given equal Opportunity and i see no Good reason for boys and girls to do the Only the third i its Tod in 36 tested half a million Stu dents in four dozen country after the results snowed virtually no difference Between the boys and in both sexes got an aver age of 59 per cent in while boys averaged 60 per cent in science and girls scored a things Haven changed As quickly in some countries As they have said David coordinator of the test by the International association for the evaluation of educational keep options open the differences Between the sexes have been gradually that because girls have Learned that have More choices in University and have a better Chance at an interesting career if they keep their options Gaskell but its also because parents and guidance counsellors Nave started encouraging girls to take courses once thought of Only for weve come a Long says and girls Are starting to hear the Canadian students scored significantly higher than the International average in the test of Grade 7 and 8 Canadas Grade 8 students aver aged 59 per cent in both four percentage Points higher than the International mean in math and three Points higher than the International mean in but Ontario and new Brunswick scored significantly lower than the Canadian with British Columbia and Alberta scoring Korea and Japan took the top three spats in while the czech Republic and Japan got top Marks in compared with american canadians ranked Well above the United states in math but just below in the science Ali uni ;