Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, May 24, 1997

Issue date: Saturday, May 24, 1997
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 24, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free May world rioting Mars final Day of indonesian Campaign associated press Indonesia thousands of Stone throwing rioters rampaged through Indonesia capital a violent finale to an already bloody election police fired bullets and tear Gas to Stop the the Campaign for next thursdays parliamentary vote has been marked by repeated clashes among rival party members and Security at least 80 people have been Campaign ing will be banned for a five Day Cooling off Peri starting tensions have been aggravated by complaints about restrictions on political activity particularly a ban on opposition Leader megawatt Sukarno utri and her top supporters running for although the parliament is largely ceremony it is the Only outlet of political expression in which is tightly controlled by presi Dent a former general who seized Power in 1966 from megawatts More than people rampaged through a neighbourhood adjacent to the main Jakarta business damaging houses and cars and burning tires before As Many As police and soldiers restored grand prize the 10th annual Groat Manitoba Duck race june 3 fort Whyte Centra 1961 buys your Lucky Duck plus free family admission for four on race support Imort 0itd stroke re Soorin Ond in get your Lucky Duck at Safeway Manitoba credit participating insurance brokers or by phone have your credit card Mic not tax deductible continuum education Host families Are needed for qum cd Ifni Lum fun stuff Lent july 7august 8 july 18july 29 August 3august 30 August 1 payment is provided Call Sharon Hott family coordinator of photo Iii vim a ii top heart cuts out the i i i t 89r Century St 786540o 62 Dakota St 2572337 this eked supporters in Kinshasa tear apart a shirt with Tabilas face on Kabilka consolidates Power in own hands Preuter Congo Laurent Kabilka Consoli dated Power in his own hands scrapping the Post of prime minister and snubbing the Man who led years of peaceful protests dictator Mobutu sese the move angered opposition activists who had wanted their Etienne to be named prime a Job from which he was twice ousted by they reacted by staging a loud March through the denouncing Kabilka As another we cannot fill a Hole by creating another said pro tester papi we Are going to struggle for our Liber even if our blood is later troops opened fire Over the Heads of demonstrators marching toward the Parlia ment it was not known if there were any this eked himself said yesterday he did not recognize the new this government Doest exist for he i ask All the people to resist with their last Energy All attempts to impose a government without popular but this eked said he still hoped to meet the new Strong Man whose forces captured Kinshasa last weekend after an eight month armed Kabilka subsequently changed the country name from Zaire to the democratic Republic of a change Canada says it will recognize after receiving formal who is ailing from prostate fled the country he had ruled for nearly 32 years for Togo last he arrived in the moroccan Capi Tal of Rabat yesterday although his eventual destination was thought to be congos new information Raphael said Kabilka would Rule without a Vic president or a prime min ister and would also retain control of the its a presidential Ghenda seven of the 13 Cabinet ministers named so far have come from Tabilas Alliance of democratic forces for the liberation of the rest come from other political including two from this eke Dis Adrien Appel your 8piece gift exclusive to the Bay with the Purchase of or More from the Adrien Appel receive our elegant Black mesh cosmetic bag duo with some of the Best treatment and Colour products from the Adrien Appel collection Bio cellular night Cream Aromas Leur daily Cleanser two eyeshadows with Alpha hydroxy Mascara this week while supplies one gift per offer ends May skin correction body treatment Creme the moisturizing treatment Creme that also tightens and body treatment All in one Winnipeg downtown uni City St vital the bringing the Best to you exes officer was a witnesses Tell War crimes trial Reuter families of men killed in Italy worst massacre of the second world War told a court yesterday that former is Erich Riebke was a sadist and a Riebke was the most the most col heart de of the is officers in said Elvira Sabbati whose husband was a prisoner in a nazi jail Dur ing Germany occupation of he beat my he used a steel she told the War crimes trial being held in a military Sabbatini and other rela Tives of the 335 men and boys shot in the Ardestine caves massacre in March were testifying against and former is Karl both Are accused of complicity in the ordered in retaliation for a partisan bomb attack which killed 33 soldiers of the occupying remo Pellegrini recounted How he watched is offi cers rounding up some of the victims from the Regina Coeli prison where he was also being held i saw there were invalids and men in wheelchairs among i understood they were not being taken to work As the guards but were being led to be he the victims were taken by truck to the caves outside where they were shot in the Back of the head in groups of Riebke and Hass have admitted to taking part in the and to shoot ing some of the but have said they had to follow orders or face the firing squad Riebke is being tried for the second time in the Case after a controversial verdict at the end of his first trial last which found him guilty but not punish Able because of a statute of the verdict was quashed on the trials next session is scheduled for but May be postponed until june 5 because of a lawyers in halts business with Canadian firm Router United nations the United nations said yesterday it sus Pended All contracts for Heli copters and other aircraft with Skyline aviation transportation service following years of controversy involving the Toronto based no reason was Given for the suspension after an investigation by the in office of internal oversight headed by Karl Paschke of its report is expected to be made Public at a future the United nations has decided not to Issue any fur ther contracts to the Skyline corporation from which it has chartered planes Aad other air services in the spokesman Fred Eck hard the feeling was that it would be irresponsible in Light of the findings to con duct further business with Skyline at this he in officials said the report involved analysis of in air charter their safety records and the bid Ding Skyline was not the Only company in the United nations accused four of its High level procurement officials of allegedly showing favouritism in awarding contracts to which supplied air Craft in peacekeeping oper eighteen months later they were cleared of the allegations in a debacle that showed confusion and incompetence in the in ;