Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday free press Canada world Winnipeg May 18, 1997 editor Patrick Flynn / 697-7294 a3 More Canada and world news b15, b16__around Canad sandbags to help . Vancouver a two million sandbags Are being shipped from Manitoba to help British Columbia Battle floods. Cooler weather eased flooding fears in some areas of . Yesterday but residents across the province continued to Shore up dikes in an Effort to protect their Homes from rising Rivers. The flooding is fed by melting Snow from .�?Ts Hills and stance criticized Toronto a the leading human rights watchdog in Canada has attacked the Liberal government that appointed him for losing credibility when it watered Down its stand on Freedom in China. Warren Allmand president of the Montreal based International Centre for human rights and democratic development said Canada has turned its Back on chinese abuses by dropping its sponsorship of a United nations Resolution calling on Beijing to respect International terms. Jean Chretien a government last month said it would follow the Lead of other Western nations and no longer co sponsor the Resolution at the annual meeting of the United nations human rights delays traffic Algonquin Park ont. A motorists passing through Algonquin Park encountered Brief delays yesterday As non status algonquins staged a picket to highlight their opposition to land claim talks. About 45 participants began the peaceful picket at the Eastern Gates near Whitney ont., about to . And stopped the last car four hours warning alleged London ont. A a High ranking correctional officer says officials ignored his warnings of an imminent riot at the Bluewater detention Centre 36 minutes before violence erupted last year. Mark Kotanen said he phoned the corrections ministry a crisis Centre on feb. 29,1996, demanding a lock Down that could have prevented the uprising. A phone Bill obtained by the London free press shows Kotanen called the ministry a general inquiry line 36 minutes before the riot broke occupy Plant Saskatoon a striking workers dug in for a second night in the Pepsi cola Canada beverages Plant defying a court order to leave. Pepsi management obtained the court order Friday afternoon in an attempt to regain control of their Millar Avenue bottling Plant. A dozen workers and a representative of the retail wholesale department store Union local 558 have occupied the Plant since about 4 . Thursday. Compiled from Canadian press polls raise pressure on leaders gain in tory support forms backdrop for to debate on Unity by Marty Logan Canadian press polls have put More pressure on political leaders trying to impress canadians tonight As they resume a televised French Lan Guage debate that will focus on National Unity. The barometer has risen noticeably since tuesdays debate was suspended when the Moderator fainted. Four polls released Friday and yesterday show conservatives gaining support both nationally and in Quebec prompting tory Leader Jean Charest and prime minister Jean Chretien to Trade barbs about their Unity policies. An end ironic poll done for the Globe and mail newspaper suggested tories were in front among those surveyed in Quebec. They were at 35 per cent the liberals were at 32 per cent and the bloc quebecois was at 27 per cent a Down from 44 per cent in a similar poll in March. A Leger and Leger poll also in the Globe had the bloc still in front at 35 per cent of decided Quebec voters. The liberals were at 33 and the tories at 30. The four polls put tories in second place across the country Well behind liberals but just ahead of Reform. Tonight a event is seen As bloc quebecois Leader Gilles do Ceppe a Best Chance to reverse bad polls and a Campaign plagued with miscues that continued Friday when he said federalists in a separate Quebec could hold a vote on rejoining Canada. Then he said a vote in favour of separation would end the Issue forever a no going Back. After that he said he really meant federalists could hold As Many referendums As they wanted but Quebe cers would stick with sovereignty. At a Campaign Stop in Fredericton yesterday Charest ridiculed the bloc Leader. A they started the Campaign saying the Issue is jobs and the Economy and changed bus Drivers changed Campaign directors and changed policies a Charest said. A now we find out the referendums Are elastic a they Bounce one Way Bounce the Reform Leader Preston Manning in turn mocked Charest a National Unity position. A what does he bring to National Unity Mulroney leftovers from the past the distinct society clause that was rejected in the Charlottetown Accord a Manning said yesterday in Calgary. He said hell repeat his Call at the debate for Reform of the Canadian aviation authorities blow up a Boeing 747 in Effort to make planes safer from bomb attacks. Bomb proof plane possible but not imminent expert associated press Bruntingthorpe England a researchers blew up a jumbo Jet on an Airport Tarmac yesterday to test new British and . Technology aimed at minimizing damage during mid air bombings. It was an Effort to determine whether reinforced cargo areas could help a plane withstand terrorist strikes like the 1988 explosion that destroyed pan am flight 103 Over Lockerbie Scotland. The initial verdict a bomb proof plane is a Long Way off but engineers can partially insulate cargo areas. A a we re just making the Job harder and harder for the terrorists a said Ken Hacker a . Federal aviation administration researcher. . Officials also monitored the explosions sound to compare it with a cockpit recording of the final moments of Twa flight 800 the cause of that explosion off the . East coast last july is still undetermined. The Guinea pig in yesterdays Experiment was an old French jumbo Jet wired with four bombs to explode simultaneously at Bruntingthorpe aerodrome about 180 Kilometres North of London. Tore a huge Hole As expected the explosion in an unprotected rear area Tore a huge Hole in the fuselage sending up Clouds of debris and showering bits of Luggage onto the Tarmac. But the three other blasts testing reinforced cargo areas shattered windows and left a Small crack but did not tear the planets outer skin. Engineers said neither the broken windows nor the crack should have prevented the plane from flying. Nevertheless said Richard Wright spokesman for Britain a defence evaluation and research Agency a it will be a Long time before we discover the exact effects of what a the retired air France Boeing 747-100 had been pressurized to simulate flying at about 9,000 metres and the bombs were about triple the size of the device that destroyed the 1988 pan am flight. That bombing which killed 270 people spurred new research on improving safety against air saboteurs. In 55 per cent of civilian aircraft bombings the planes have managed to land. Federation based on Equality among provinces. One Reform candidate caused a potential stir yesterday when she said Canadas immigration system is racially driven to ensure at least 85 per cent of people who come into the country Arentt White. A if you look at the immigration system right now. They be got it divided according to racial lines a said Carla Dancey running in Ottawa South. Nip Leader Alexa Mcdonough who has been reluctant to get embroiled in National Unity accused liberals of creating serious Unity problems by cutting social programs that bind the country. If canadians Are willing to use Force to hold Canada together a As one poll suggested a its because the liberals have driven them to it she said in fein Britain to talk associated press Belfast Irish Republican army supporters accepted the British governments invitation for a meeting raising Hopes yesterday of a renewed ceasefire in the iras violent Campaign against British Rule. Gerry Adams and Pat Doherty leaders of the Ira Allied sinn fein party also talked yesterday in Dublin with advisers to Irish prime minister John Bruton. No details immediately emerged but Bruton said he had authorized the first official Contact in nearly a year a with a View to seeing if there is an imminent the meeting followed British prime minister Tony Blair a suggestion sinn fein talk with his senior Northern Ireland advisers in Belfast. Breaks policy Blair a invitation represented a break from longstanding British policy not to meet sinn fein unless the outlawed Ira renewed its ceasefire. The overture offers the Best Chance for improving relations since the Ira abandoned its last truce 15 months ago. Adams whose party has been barred from Multi party negotiations on Northern Ireland a future because of the violence said he and the new Cabinet minister responsible for governing Northern Ireland to Mowlam had already exchanged letters. The British sinn fein meeting should proceed a without delay a Adams said. 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