Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Winnipeg free april 1997 world settlers Pelt israeli soldiers protest shuts associated press Jerusalem jewish settlers pelted israeli soldiers with eggs and then soaked them with a water Hose yesterday As palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron watched in after nearly a month of Stone throw ing riots by the soldiers were stringing Chicken wire above a Gate outside the beit Hadassah settler compound to Block angry settlers said More fencing at the tightly guarded compound made it feel like a one settler tried to Stab a policeman but was police spokes woman Linda Menuhin said two set tiers were this is Good for said a Ahmed Abu now the police will see the settlers As Provo Israel palestinian relations essentially collapsed last month Over an israeli housing project in disputed East which the palestinians claim As a future the resentment has played out in near daily palestinian rioting in where about 500 jews about palestinians live in the Hebron but in recent there have been signs of israeli Media reported yesterday that prime minister Ben Jamin Netanyahu told his italian counterpart that actual construction on the housing project will not begin until providing time to reach a final peace agreement with the palestini and israeli foreign minister David Levy is considering what ministry officials said was a palestinian request that he meet palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat in it would be the High est level Contact since Israel pales Tinian talks broke off in Levy decided to attend a Confer ence in Malta after initial misgivings that the gathering might become a platform for ant israeli doubt Decker april 16 and april 17 discount does not apply to cafeteria prescriptions gift certificates do a double take at Kmart and save everything we do is built around you no rain checks i Stock items Only some limits apply no adjustments to existing layaway or previous purchases 2 locations sout Daue shopping Centre 35 Lakewood 2564324 River East Plaza 1455 Henderson 3399288 capital As rebels near from Reuter sap Zaire political opponents of embattled presi Dent Mobutu sese seko closed Down the capital of Kinshasa with a stayathome protest yesterday As rebel Leader Laurent Kabilka entered Aires second largest City in who earlier announced the capture of the Only major City besides Kinshasa that had still been in government swept into the Southern mining capital of bum Bashi to a tumultuous Church Bells rang and crowds waved branches and chanted Tabilas on the diplomatic in Secre tar general Kofi Annan urged the who control nearly half the huge to agree to a ceasefire and negotiate a settlement the stakes Are he said in a statement released in if we it will mean misery and Stagna Tion for millions of people in the there was no Independent confirmation of the rebel seizure of Kanan but if True it would put the rebels less than Kilometres East of Kin Shasa on the Southern the rebels Are using the Zaire River to Advance through the North of the country and claim to be within 250 Kilometres of the in opponents agitating for an end to Mobutu despotic Rule called for zairian to stay off the streets and Boycott work for a the so called Ville Morte dead town general strike was widely leaving the normally crowded streets and markets in this City of million people soldiers kept a Low standing at some key intersections and Dis Persing a Small crowd that gathered outside the Home of opposition Leader Etienne but there were no clashes like last when tear Gas was used to disperse thousands who marched to protest Mobutu 31 year Kabilka has been greeted by cheer ing crowds in most zairian and a malnourished refugee lies beside Road near Many people in Kinshasa say they also would Welcome his or just about anyone else arrival if it brought about Mobutu the rebels tried yesterday to Shore lip their hold on one of their biggest prizes the Mineral Rich Shaba Region by naming a but the move sparked anger among some zairian who accused the new rulers of acting in a Hartline they Are replacing the Mobutu dictatorship with another said Boni a resident of Lunbum we want not dicta spectators Jam court for nazis second trial associated press Rome hundreds of spectators crowded into a Hig Securi to prison courtroom yesterday for the second trial of a former nazi officer accused of helping massacre 335 civilians during the second world a military court convicted Erich of murder last August but cleared him of premeditation and Cru Elty the aggravating circumstances needed to override Italy 30year statute of limitation on the verdict sparked a Public outcry and prompted an appellate court to order the second military heed ing prosecutors claim of Bias in the original this is the last Opportunity for Italy to face up to that period of its Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesen Thal Centre said yesterday at the open ing of the second Riebke is under House arrest at a franciscan Convent outside the tribunal decided yesterday to try Riebke along with Karl an is major in nazi occupied Rome who went to Italy from Switzerland to testify against Riebke in the first after Hass backed out at the last he was indicted for the Mas Riebke and Hass have both said they were Only following orders when the 335 civilians were executed in the Ardestine caves outside Rome on March they were murdered in retaliation for an italian resistance attack that killed 32 German nazi Hunters tracked Riebke Down in opposition bloc tops to dumans party in Zagreb election Reuter Croatia an opposition coalition has edged past president Franjo to dumans nationalist party in municipal elections in the capital of according to a final unofficial count announced yes serbs in Eastern to be reintegrated into Croatia this summer after a period under in got an extra Day to vote to compensate for organizational bungling that shut Down balloting for hours the United nations blamed the govern which rejected the the results in the capital reversed the order of finish reported by the state electoral which said earlier that the ruling croatian demo cratic Union or Hudz party had beaten the Allied social democrats and social liberals by a razor thin Ivan chairman of the state electoral said the social democrats had finished with per cent of the vote and the social liberals with per cent in sundays elec Tion a combined per cent for the while the Hudz tallied this did not necessarily mean the opposition would take Over the Power Ful Zagreb regional since the Hudz reemerged As the biggest single vote getter and its rivals fell Well Short of a viable with the result so any change of Power looked fraught with problems in a country where effective on party Rule with a democratic veneer has prevailed for decades communists until 1990 and nationalists since the social Democrat social Liberal coalition led a seven party bloc to Vic tory Over the Hudz in Zagreb 1995 municipal but Tadjman vetoed four opposition mayoral Nomi nees on National Security grounds and imposed provisional Hudz Tadjman argued the Hudz had won a relative majority while the opposition was an unstable mishmash of parties ranging from far left to far intense political manoeuvring loomed once again in Zagreb with each Side seeking a Broad enough bloc to Rue Croatia largest it has a third of the country almost half its Industrial Economy and a powerful patronage the Hudz appeared to have lost two other big cities in the nationwide regional but Only two of 21 county the social democrats and social liberals eventually take Power in Zagreb May depend on whether they can lure the moderate peasant which got per cent of the to their ;