Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 2, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba More Canada and world news and d6 around Canada lineups on the link the confederation Bridge was built to improve Prince Edward islands transportation link with the rest of the but hundreds of motorists waited hours yesterday to get across the new 13kilometre traffic going across the Bridge from both Prince Edward Island and new Brunswick was so officials were unable to provide num Bers on How Many vehicles had travelled the engineering wonder during the first 24 hours of its oper death Mars opening a new Brunswick Man died in a boating Accident near the confederation Bridge during its blustery opening ceremonies the 68yearold Man died when his vessel ramp say the boat was carrying five the other four suffered minor son charged in killing Victoria a 24yearold Man has been charged with first degree murder in the stabbing death of his who was attacked with a Long bladed besides the charge for the death of Ruth Aaron James Mil Lar who lived with his Mother was also charged with attempted murder of her whose hands were slashed in the the 52yearold Man was treated and released from of duty officer slain police have charged a Man with first degree murder in the shooting of an of duty police officer in a Thomas was shot at a hotel in georgian Bay a Man fled the but was arrested police the sus a former Toronto area firefighter and former member of the Penetanguishene police services was charged last fall with impaired police but could not confirm reports it was cof Fin who pulled the suspect compiled from Canadian press around the world remains turned Over Tehran a Iraq yester Day handed Over the remains of 20 iranian soldiers killed during their 198088 the sol Diers remains were returned at a ceremony at the Khosrawy Border Point in Western the two coun tries also agreed to launch a joint search to locate the bodies of other iranian and iraqi palestinians blamed Jerusalem Reuter israeli police said yesterday they had solid evidence that a Security Branch of the palestinian authority bore responsibility for the killing of two palestinian land there is solid evidence that one of the palestinian intelligence branches is responsible for the two cases in addition to the police spokeswoman Linda Menuhin the land dealers were slain after palestinian Justice minister Freih Abu Medeen said last month arabs who sold land to Israel would face the death death rates High Canberra a aboriginal death rates from some diseases Are up to 23 times higher than for the rest of Australia mostly White pop says a report describing aboriginal health As the worst in the researchers who presented the report to prime minister John Howard on wednesday requested new government efforts including vaccinations for respiratory diseases that afflict Many musician gets Boot Jerusalem a a German musician who signed his bar Bill at an israeli hotel Adolf Hitler was sent Home yesterday and will be fired from his Berlin orchestra the German ambassador to Israel ambassador Theodor Wallau said the musician might even face prose we do not take these mat ters he expressions of antisemitism Are against the Law in Winnipeg free press Canada world june 1997 Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 French left victorious Chim forced to share Power with socialists associated press profiting from voter Ranger Over unemployment and a colossal miscalculation by French president Jacques leftist parties scored stunning victories in voting yesterday and won the right to share Power with the conservative the results represented an extraordinary comeback for the French left after its crushing defeat in elections four years ago and an equally dramatic setback for who now will be forced to share Power with a leftist government until the end of his term in socialist party Leader Lionel Jospin will Likely be the new prime replacing conservative Alain Juppe just two years after Chirac Defeated Jospin in the presidential entering yesterdays Runoff Chirac conservatives faced a Tough voters were weary of Calls for fur ther privatizing of the Economy and government cutbacks to qualify for Europe new the while exit polls by three agencies earlier indicated the socialists and their no communist allies would Muster a majority in the 577seat National they missed that goal by 14 the result is the socialists will need the support of the with whom they have quarrelled Over final official results from the Inte rior ministry showed the socialist led coalition took 275 seats to the conservatives the communists won i give my gratitude to the French who gave their Confidence to so Many candidates of the socialist the a photo waving to supporters will Likely replace Juppe As Frances prime left and the Jospin its a demand for real a demand for an economic and social policy at the service of Jospin also noted the demand for a reorientation of european construct to which we referring to the euro and european hundreds of socialist supporters Sang and danced outside the party election night chanting Bravo for the French said Jack a popular former culture minis Ter for the the losing conservatives acknowledged they had not effectively made their Case to French i wish Luck to those who will gov Ern a dour Frances most unpopular Premier since the said As he conceded the rights we were unable to convince the French that we were going in the right conservative exp remier edouard Balladur admitted conservatives have to recapture the who left this is our task for the unless Chirac Calls a new which he has the Power to do a year after the the new National Assembly will remain until when Chirac term also comes to an Neo fascist National front Leader Jeanmarie be pen called for Chirac he should give his office Back to the people who elected be pen be whose party siphoned votes from the governing endorsed Only a handful of confront a photo Seoul clash riot police officers wielding Sticks beat a student Radical in a Street clash in Seoul yesterday following a antigovernment protesters were demand ing the resignation of South korean president Kim Cost guard f Ruffio ears sound alarm for safety by Dean Beeby Canadian press fresh Hope for peace in Northern Ireland keen new government pledges to negotiate with sinn fein Canadian press aimed at finding a peace Ful solution to the bloody Northern Ireland conflict resume in Belfast this week with a sense of now never the new British governments Large majority and its apparent keenness to find a Way to bring the iras political sinn to the negotiating table have created the belief Northern Ireland faces its Best Opportunity for peace in it said Brendan an expert on the conflict who teaches in the department of government at the London school of a settlement can in not saying it will in saying it can very definitely the weekend provided a couple of graphic that the horizon int bathed entirely in a Rosy Early a gang of protestants beat to death an of duty officer of the Royal Ulster constabulary in a roman Catholic Village near the gang was apparently angry one of the traditional and controversial protestant marches was rerouted in consideration of the opposition of roman Catholic and on the Irish Republican army shattered a six week unofficial ceasefire when it abandoned a nearly 500kilogram bomb in a Van in a roman Catholic neighbourhood in a using a recognized code told a local radio station the Ira planned to attack an army Convoy but aborted the Mission for the safety of people in the that move was interpreted As a sign the republicans Are growing frustrated talks with the government have not led to an agreement on How quickly sinn fein could enter All party if an official Ira ceasefire were but the fact the government is talking with sinn fein at All is a sign All sides want move when the Ira ended its last ceasefire in february Britain previous conservative government Cut off All discussions with sinn another positive sign is the new British government has not linked sinn Feins participation in peace talks with the decommissioning of Ira republicans see giving up their weapons As a sign of surrender and have made it Clear they will not disarm in real terms until a peace settlement is the former which needed the support of pro British Ulster unionist parties to maintain control of insisted decommissioning would have to begin before sinn fein could join peace the stalemate doomed the ceasefire and left the peace talks missing the player sinn fein they were meant to draw into the recent positive developments leave observers suggesting the question of a new ceasefire has gone past if to not a lot is going to happen before the said a spokesman for the Irish gov Halifax big com Mercial ships Are turning a deaf the radios of the fishing boats and yachts Bobbing around putting safety at say radio operators with Canadas coast that because the big ships have adopted a new High tech radio system that cannot talk with thousands of Small Craft in Canadian coastal and the Canadian coast guard is under pressure to abandon its Small Craft radio watch in favour of the International system that caters to Large the operators you have two classes of vessels and its a recipe for says Brian spokesman for the Canadian association of professional radio the representing about 400 workers at the Canadian coast is urging yachts men and others to press Ottawa to maintain its traditional radio watch for Small the older system is under threat from the global maritime distress and safety which uses satellite technology that eliminates the need for inboard radio the system becomes the International Standard in 1999 for vessels of 300 tonnes or but is already used by Many com Mercial almost All smaller vessels in Canadas coastal rely on a frequency known As Channel Channel 16 operates like a High seas party line it remains constantly on while a vessel is at sea and any Calls for help Are heard by everyone within a radius of perhaps 40 nautical that except the big ships using the new a fishing vessel May be in Murphy said from he May be on and Hes calling on Channel 16 to anybody in the area to give him Assis a big vessel wont hear even though its within a few Murphy says Canadian coast guard stations Are the Only link Between the two Able to Alert the big ships when the Small vessels Send out a mayday and vice but at a meeting with department officials in Ottawa last Murphy says he was advised that the coast guard intends to Stop listening to one Small vessel frequency by 1999 and that Channel 16 May be the next to coast guard spokesman Lea Barker denied theres any plan to abandon the 24 hour listening watch on Small vessel until there is evidence of a Lack of need for we will Barker said from we will carefully Monitor the Barker that the coast guards 23 radio centres across Canada cannot continue to do this both Barker and Murphy agree the new satellite sys tem will eventually become Universal for ships Large and a process expected to take Between 10 and 15 the chief stumbling Block is Price the new sys tem costs up to for a though the Price tag is expected to fall rapidly Over the next few Murphys group has pressed without to require big ships to Monitor Channel 16 while in Canadian ;