Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, May 20, 1997

Issue date: Tuesday, May 20, 1997
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Previous edition: Sunday, May 18, 1997

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Balding and hair transplant we aim Rimmi Sotoy Imir ital com 9577242 such Ltd col Arti m3 it Findy Winnie More Canada and world news around Cyclone deadly Coxs Bangladesh a a Cyclone hammered the Bangladesh coast yester Day with the Force of hundreds of levelling entire villages of mud and thatch flooding and killing at least six three men and two children were crushed under collapsed buildings or hit by flying pieces of tin roofs in the Southern port of one Man died in about 180 Kilometres Down the when he was blown off his roof while trying to secure it against the Brex figure ousted Jakarta Reuter undone Sias mines and Energy minister appointed a new Secretary general for the ministry replacing the Man who played a prominent role in the Busang Gold mines and Energy minister Ida Bagus named Karmoko Slamet As the new Secretary replacing Umar warlord deposed Pakistan a the White flags of the Taliban religious army flew from government buildings in Afghanistan North Western Faryab province signalling that warlord Rashid Dos Tum has lost control of the residents contacted by two Way radio said Dos tums renegade Gen Malik was now in charge of the Pahla wans soldiers clogged the streets of the provincial yesterday but there was no fight ing As the City signs of holocaust London Reuter the allies suspected As Early As september 1941 that the nazis wanted to Exter Minate european British intelligence documents released yesterday about six million jews Are believed to have been killed by the on British intelligence said the execution of jews was a recurrent feature of reports sent by the German police that were intercepted and decoded by the Bletchley Park intelligence gathering Centre outside Mongolia goes left ulan Mongolia a in their fourth free election since dumping Hartline communism seven years mongolians told the government to slow Down the painful transition to they elected the Leader of Mon golias former Hartline communist party As president after he promised to slow the Pace chairman of the Mon Golian Peoples revolutionary won per cent of the vote sunday to president of Chirbas per the election com Mission said a third can legislator received per Yeltsin warning Moscow Reuter russian president Boris striving to overcome criticism of his treaty Deal with told leaders of the legislature yesterday he will review relations if the Alliance ignores rus Sias if nato begins to take decisions without taking account of russian Russia will review its relations with the inter fax news Agency quoted Yeltsin verdict split East a a new Brunswick trucker was acquitted yesterday of vehicular homicide but sentenced to a year in jail on another charge for a crash that killed five members of a the jury split its convicting Austin of Flo of the lesser charge of driving to Gifford was set up Washington Post it looks like a typical tabloid expose intimate photos of former football Star Frank Gifford embracing a blonde who is very definitely not Kathie Lee but the Globe did More than just publish the pictures the super Market tabloid paid former flight attendant Suzen Johnson to entice Gifford into a Manhattan hotel room where a video camera was say sources familiar with the in other the Globe helped orchestrate the Liaison Between Gifford and a woman he had not previously slept Winnipeg free press Canada world May 1997 Patrick Flynn 6977294 j democracy for Zaire rebels Promise new eventual election associated press ousted dictator Mobutu sese seko holed up in the former rebel movement yesterday promised a new government soon but refused to set a Date for saying it would not be pressured to do so by the angry crowds forced some of the thousands of former government sol Diers surrendering to rebel troops to walk past them on their Knees and Lis ten to taunts for their past association with on newsreaders who had once dutifully read pro Mobutu propaganda ended newscasts declaring Long live the democratic Republic of Congo the name change ordered by rebel Leader Laurent Congo was the name of sub saharan Africa third largest country until Mobutu changed it to Zaire in 1971 As part of his drive to erase the vestiges of colonial the rebels restored the Star spangled National Flag first adopted at Independence in an official said thousands of Exso Diers have sworn allegiance to who proclaimed himself president saturday after sweeping East to West Over Zaire in seven Kabilka himself would be in Kinshasa As Early this said South african president Nelson it seems that everything is going according to Mandela said Dur ing a visit to his miners Appeal reopens a photo government in civilian surrender to rebel forces in Kinshasa but some adjustments were proving Many of Tabilas fighters come from Eastern areas where swahili rather than French is television workers were at first refused entry to work because the swahili speaking guard could not communicate with at their first news conference in the Tabilas representatives promised to announce a new govern ment today that would include a Broad spectrum of political elec will have to wait until the country is ready for them to be conducted said Deo Secretary general of the democratic Alliance of the armed forces of the name of Tabilas before you need Prepa you need civic he Bugera said the Alliance would not be pushed into holding elections quickly by the United states and other West Ern the Alliance got a boost from South whose governing african National Congress also was trans formed from a guerrilla movement to a political organization after the end of White minority Rule in South african Deputy president Thabo Beki announced that South Africa was recognizing Kabilka As pres Canadian press former y Gold Miner Roger Warren returns to Yellowknife this week to Challenge his conviction in one of the largest mass murders in Canadian the 1992 underground bomb ing that killed nine men at giant As the explosion was the Cli Max of one of the ugliest labour Dis Putes the country has the nine killed were Union members or replace ment workers who crossed the picket line during a strike lockout at the mine owned by Royal Oak a Metal Detector has been set up at the Yellowknife it stands outside the 96seat courtroom where the hearing will be a precaution in the event emotions run High As recent wounds Are Shock Waves from the explosion were Felt far beyond the the blast and the strike divided Yel pitting Neighbours and col leagues against each Warren was convicted of nine counts of second degree murder in january he was convicted to life in prison without a Chance for parole for 20 lawyers for Warren say he falsely confessed to setting the they Are expected to ask a three judge panel to strike Down their clients murder convictions or order a new feds tougher on private Industry environment Canada accused of favouritism Canadian press Warren appeals sentence in documents filed with the court of lawyers for Warren say the original finding of guilt should not they argue the trial Justice Mark de erred among other allowing the confession into the defence also says Deweerdt made mistakes in refusing to allow a defence psychiatrist to testify on false and in preventing the jury from hearing evidence that May have drawn suspicion to other mistakes they further argue that de a former supreme court judge now living in British made mistakes in his charge to the Lead ing it unfairly to its one of the striking was arrested in october months after the it was the darkest moment in an dispute already marked by violence Between the strikers and replacement workers brought in to keep the Gold property in Halifax environment Canada has played hardball with private Industry More often than it has with other Federal departments in the enforcement of environmental a study officials have been quietly warning Ottawa about the problem for the last four but staff at the department told reviewers a few months ago that they think Little has been interviewees expressed frustration about the departments inability to enforce Laws consistently with respect to the Public and private said the january review of enforcement programs obtained under the Access to information the internal report contained no specific examples of where environment Canada has been More lenient with its sister but the study contained a table counting the number of warning letters sent to government and private on Between 1994 and Federal departments and agencies got on third fewer warnings than Indus but the Chart contained a Dis claimer saying the numbers May be skewed because of factors such As regional compliance rates and the number of Federal buildings in different an environmentalist was alarmed by the findings and the apparent attitude of do As i not As i its plainly said Mark Butler of the Nova Scotia based ecology action youre supposed to set an example and Start at you clean up your the Law applies to or it Doest apply to environment Canada officials denied theres any favouritism shown to other branches of the Federal government and echoed the conclusion of the Many of the issues raised in this review have been addressed during or since its said the but the report want specific on How the problem was or will be other concerns were raised by the including the uncertainty of inspectors on How far they should go with Industry when enforcing environmental there were complaints in the past by staff that strict enforce ment is being inspectors say there not certain whether their Job is As a police Type enforcer or whether the More appropriate role is one of educating Compa Nies and making sure they adhere to the Butler was appalled by the finding and said it should serve As a warning to those concerned about the Mcdonalds heir identified As grand Forks Cash Angel associated press san a proud daughter of the mid West and heir to the Mcdonalds was identified yesterday As the Angel of grand who anonymously gave million to the cites flood Kroc flew into grand Forks on saturday for a tour of flood and the Tail number on her Gulf Stream in Jet led the grand Forks Herald newspaper right to senator Byron Dorgan con firmed who lives outside san Diego in Rancho Santa As the but later denied saying he was Only passing on Nancy Kroc spokeswoman in san did not immediately return a the act of kindness came As no Surprise to those who know the widow of Mcdonalds founder Ray she has a big heart and a sort of Cinderella said Neil a family Friend and columnist at the san Diego she likes to sur prise people with the Golden slip but dont come after Shes hard to but when she she gives with great spontaneity and the daughter of a Railroad telegraphed and a concert Vio she has always been proud of her without those mid Good id Proba Bly be doing something stupid right like running Barefoot on the she said in a 1983 interview with the los Angeles Kroc asked officials in april to distribute to each fam ily who suffered from the flood that ravaged 90 per cent of grand Forks and East grand across the red she requested officials use a minimum of red tape and not reveal her she stated that the press should go to the people in need and not said Lynn mayor of East grand she didst want to take away from their the million want enough for the homeowners who applied for another Anonymous corporate donor gave million to be distributed at per but some peo ple will still be left flood victim de Kemble Waits for his share of Money donated by Mcdonalds ;