Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday free press around the world Mai w Mai a amp Smi Mars probe set Cape canaveral Fla. New Day a if All goes As planned a Mission to drop the first vehicle that can go wandering around in the dust of Mars rugged surface will be boosted into space Early tomorrow. Launch of the one tonne Pathfinder is scheduled for 1 06 . Cost. The goal is to have the Complex spacecraft Bounce Down on to the red planet on the fourth of july sort of a Celebration of Independence Day. Government decided Sarajevo apr after hag gling since september elections Bosnia a three member presidency agreed yesterday on the makeup of a new government with a serb and a Muslim to rotate weekly in the Post of de Facto prime minister. The six person ethnically balanced Council of ministers also will include a croat As vice chair and foreign minister a serb As minister for civil affairs and communications and a Muslim As minister for foreign Trade and economic relations. Each minister will have two deputies representing Bosnia a other two ethnic groups. Reactor shut Down Yiv apr Ukraine shut Down a Nucy ear reactor at chernobyl yesterday but immediately announced plans to restart another at the Plant. The announcement clouded prospects for the final closure of chernobyl site of the worlds worst known nuclear Accident to years ago. Chernobyl a a Only other working reactor no. 3, is scheduled to be shut Down in 1999. The country a nuclear Energy committee citing Ukraine a Energy crisis said reactor no. 2 will be temporarily restarted at the end of 1997. That reactor has been Idle since a massive fire in 1992. Walks cancelled Cape canaveral Fla. Reuter a the jammed Hatch on the space shuttle Columbia has confounded engineers and forced Nasa managers to cancel two space walks. The Hatch refused to open thursday. Protest massive Belgrade Yugoslavia apr in the biggest demonstrations since Serbia a president came to Power in 1987, 150,000 people marched through the capital yesterday aiming eggs and firecrackers at City Hall and state to. It was the 13th Day of protests. Nun recovering Calcutta India a Reuters a Mother Teresa sat up sipped Tea and demanded to be sent Home yesterday a Day after surgery to remove life threatening blockages from her arteries. Doctors said they will keep the 86-year-old roman Catholic nun in the Hospital for a while longer. Drag races deadly Baker Calif. Apr two cars racing along an interstate spun out of control Friday killing six people. One of the cars swerved into the other to avoid hitting a truck on interstate 15. Four people in the second car died when it crashed through the median into an oncoming car killing a Man a woman and a dog inside. Occupants of the first car were unhurt. On thursday a porsche Driver and an elderly couple in a minivan also were killed on the Highway. The porsche was racing a motorcycle when it struck the minivan. The motorcyclist world Section editor Patrick Flynn / 697-7294 a3 my pleased As food Medicine arrive canadians deliver Aid to refugees by Gloria Galloway Canadian press Kogoma Tanzania rwandan refugees who settled in Large Camps near Here since fleeing War torn Zaire were the first to Benefit from an Airlift conducted by a Canadian led International military Mission assembled to help them. Yesterday a Canadian Hercules cargo plane took off from the missions base in Entebbe Uganda and flew to Nairobi Kenya where it picked up two pallets of Medicine and other supplies needed to quash a cholera outbreak in the Camps along the Zaire Border of Tanzania. From there it flew to this Small town where it was greeted by hundreds of curious children who watched the Large Green transport plane touch Down on the Remote runway. A a it a a Good role for the military Mission a said Tom Kapteyn of doctors Hutu refugees pass refugee reportedly hit by truck in Zaire. Without Borders who had asked the military for the emergency Airlift. A a in a More than just a Little pleased a he said looking relieved As his cargo was taken off the plane. Although there have Only been a couple of cases of cholera reported among the refugees in this country the disease could spell disaster if not dealt with quickly Kapteyn said. It took Only four hours Friday for the military to approve Kap Tyne a request. Canadian and . Contingents of the International Mission have been stationed in the Entebbe Airport terminal for More than two weeks. But political wrangling about the size and scope of their Mission has made it impossible for them to do much to actually help the refugees. Rescue rwandan hostages Mcc urges military staff associated press Canadian peacekeepers headed for Eastern Zaire should be used to Rescue hundreds of thousands of rwandan refugees being held hostage by Hutu militia says an official with the mennonite Central committee. But Terry Sawatsky Mccu a co director of Africa programs said the peacekeeping Mission should not intervene in the internal zairian conflict raging simultaneously in the Region. A go in and get them out and take them to Rwanda a said Sawatsky 41, Volcano menacing Montserrat eruption could cause tidal wave lava could also shoot from the Cone in a manner similar to a september eruption that blasted rocks 12,000 metres into the air before they cascaded into the sea. The 650 residents of St. Patrick a were ordered evacuated months ago along with much of the South Side of the 100-Square-Kilometre Island including the capital Plymouth. However Savage said a few residents remain in St. Patrick a. A we had earthquakes then steam eruptions then Large Ash Clouds then Pyro Clastic flows. Now we re saying its at a much More dangerous level. But its a Beautiful sunny Day in Montserrat so we re having a hard time to get that message across a Savage said. Pyroclastic flows Are superheated Rock and Ash. The 914-metre Volcano roared to life july 18,1995, after sons of inactivity. About 2,000 people a one fifth of the population a have left the Island while thousands live in shelters or with friends or relatives. Who spent four Days in the Region recently. A it can be he said Many of the More than 400,000 rwandan and burundian refugees in Zaire Are hostages of rwandan Hutu militia who were involved in the 1994 massacre in Rwanda. He said that four refugee Camps near Bukavu in Eastern Zaire Are now empty and the militia Are forcing the refugees West further into Zaire a Interior. Another group of hostages is being forced North from Bukavu. He said reports say refugees Are in weakened condition and outbreaks of cholera or diphtheria Are possible. Sawatsky a former Winnipeg resident who now lives in Akron Pennsylvania said the refugees in Zaire could be better cared for if they were allowed to return Home to Rwanda. A it would need to be assumed that there is some danger a Sawatsky said of the Mission. A i think it would be almost a Given that there would be some Sawatsky made it Clear that he did not think the peacekeepers should interfere with the zairian civil War also taking place in the Region. Sawatsky said the situation is complicated by about 500,000 to 700,000 zairian displaced by the rwandan refugees. All but ignored by the International Community these people have been displaced As the refugees and the militia travel through their villages looting and pillaging. A you could be looking at quite a serious situation a he said. A this area is the bread Basket of Central Sawatsky said Mcc was asking for financial Aid and for 50,000 blankets for displaced zairian. About 2,000 blankets have been donated in Manitoba so far. The Manitoba division Headquarters of the red Cross at 240 Graham ave. Will accept donations. San Juan a the government of the Caribbean Island Montserrat urged residents living near an Active Volcano to abandon their Homes yesterday warning of an imminent eruption that could cause a massive tidal wave. If the so Friere Hills Volcano erupts about to million cubic metres of volcanic material could hit the sea a mainly As a single bulk Over a very Short period of time a said Simon Young of the British geological Survey who is working at the Montserrat Volcano Observatory. Computer simulations of the effects of an eruption and tidal wave show people might be Able to remain on the Island if they Are in Low risk areas British gov. Frank Savage said in a Telephone interview conducted from puerto Rico. But scientists said a very Likely scenario is the volcanic Cone would collapse and Bury St. Patrick a Village. Roy rus correction notice in the toys Quot a Quot us a big Little toy guide distributed the week of nov. 17th. The Taco 9.6v radio control Dagger on Page 68 states a regular $94.99, reduced to $89.97 through dec. I less $7 mail in the Price has been permanently reduced to $49.98. The $7 mail in rebate is applicable on that Price. 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