Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 25, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Is Bieber securities a Manitoba full service investment firm Royalty units paid quarterly Call Guy Bieber 9460297 or 18002059070 Winnipeg free press Canada world june 1997 business b7 Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 More Canada and world news d10 and 012 around the world if pay Austria told Geneva a keeping the pressure on Switzerland to pay Back what he called Bil Lions in holocaust a top nazi Hunter announced a similar Campaign yesterday against neighbouring rabbi Marvin founder of the Simon Wiesenthal said aus Tria should hand Over the roughly million us Worth of Gold it received from the allies after the second world if the Swiss Are being forced by world opinion to Why should the austrians who fought for Hitler do no less Hier gloves tied to death Moscow Reuter a researcher who became russian firs nuclear Accident victim since chernobyl said shortly before he died that Slippery gloves were partly to blame for his fatal itar Tass news Agency said i told the gloves were too slip a member of a government commission investigating the Acci Dent quoted Alexander Zakharov As telling his colleagues after emerging from the contaminated workshop in the weapons research Centre of Arza the unnamed source said who died also blamed himself for the amazing feet Beijing Reuter researchers Hunting for chivas reclusive hairy Bigfoot May have found foot prints of the legendary the Xinhua news Agency said hundreds of Large footprints resembling those of a Man but much larger have been seen in the forests of the mountainous Shen Hongjia National Park in Central Hubei Wang head of the privately run committee for research on strange and rare told the Bill Burns giant Philip Morris the giant of the cigarette will provide the majority of an initial pay ment under the Tobac co settlement proposal reached last under a formula agreed to by the five tobacco companies taking part in the the first payment will be divided based on their Stock Market under the which was a heated topic of Dis Cussion among companies during the Philip Morris will pay Bil lion of the initial payment and maybe people inside and outside the company a close Call Jerusalem a Benjamin Netanyahu government survived a no Confidence vote in parliament yes although 11 members of his ruling coalition skipped the balloting to show their displeasure with his the motion brought by opposition parties was rejected by a 5550 with two Knesset members abstain ing and 13 refusing to appear to the measure needed 61 votes for friends get bail a three friends sentenced to 15 years for pulling up a Stop leading to an Accident that killed three were freed pending Nissa and Christopher posted bail they were met by their Friend Thomas who made bail the Day All three were All three were found guilty of manslaughter last month in the deaths of three 18yearold buddies killed when an eight tonne truck broadside their no elephant joke new Delhi Reuter an Indian firm has launched a group insurance scheme for including for cremation the press Trust of India said the news Agency said state run Oriental insurance unveiled the plan late monday in the Southern state of Kerala in collaboration with the All Kerala elephant owners historic crossing Tokyo Reuter japanese adventurer Mitsuro Oba completed the worlds first Solo crossing of the Frozen Arctic the daily Asahi Shimun reported Obas expedition Headquarters said Oba arrived at Ward Hunt late on 121 Days after he left russian Koms molets Island on the other Side of the arc tic the Asahi time travellers Dock the Matthew Heads into Bonavista explorers greeted by Queen by Michelle Macafee Canadian press the weather was Nasty enough to make even the Heartiest explorer turn Back for open but the Matthew and its Crew stuck to the plan yesterday and completed a 20th Century version of John Cabot transatlantic the wooden Square rigger rolled Over rough Waves into Bonavista Harbour while about chilled and wet spectators cheered and the arrival was the Centrepiece of newfoundlands yearlong Cabot 500 celebrations marking the european explorers arrival in North America in although the aboriginals and Vikings preceded Cabot journey opened North America to British settlement and the dressed in 15th Century appeared delighted to reach Terra it Felt a great said David Alan Williams of following a Welcome that included greetings from the singing and Alan Williams marvelled How the Matthew held up in the fierce North its just amazing what Cabot no very Little safety equipment and terrible the Matthew was equipped with satellite navigation equipment and other safety related everything else about the voyage was As in Cabot the Only part i didst like was having to go into the Galley every said John a 77 year old Seaman from there was also a learning curve to sailing the despite Smiths lifetime on the no one has this kind of expert said my two prob lems were learning to sail and Queen Elizabeth greets the Matthews who completed reenactment of Cabot at a Matthew crewman is welcomed by a Friend As he arrives in Bonavista after transatlantic at Queen and heritage minister Sheila Copps stroll past canine learning How to stand up she rolled like a its seven week voyage the Matthew will tour newfound land this temperatures dipped to 2 c with the windchill Factor yesterday and the Crew had to navigate past an iceberg at the Harbour its just Newfoundland they keep telling said Alan the who attended the festivities with Prince Philip As part of a 10day Canadian said Newfoundland became the link Between the old and new it represents the geographical and intellectual beginning of mod Ern North the Queen that extraordinary relation ship has existed Between great Britain and Newfoundland Ever not everyone saw the Day quite that aboriginal protesters caught the Queens attention earlier in the Day but did not disrupt her schedule As organizers had they say the celebrations Are an insult because they Overlook the fact the both us indians who lived in Newfoundland were exterminated by disease and clashes with the eng Lish settlers who followed the Queen stopped to listen to their native Drums and chanting after planting a Small tree in this tiny fishing one of the oldest settlements in North the group of 40 led by Assembly of first nations chief Ovide peacefully held placards denouncing the Mercredi said the estimated million the provincial and Federal governments spent on the Days events could be better used to help improve the living conditions of aboriginal Mercredi Centre leads native pm Calls for greenhouse Gas curb Chretien urges joint action to stave off global warming by Dennis Bueckert Canadian press United Chretien went into environment Friendly Mode calling for global action to curb Green House Gas the prime minister said countries must join together to stave off global warming an Issue he has rarely mentioned at the potential human and economic costs of unchecked climate change Are simply too High for us not to take action he said in a speech at a United nations Summit on the envy Chretien said he supports legally binding targets to curb greenhouse emissions after the year he did not say what those targets should nor How Canada would meet the main source of emissions is the burning of Oil and Canada is a major producer of those climate change emerged As a significant Issue at the Summit of eight in Denver on the and the pres sure continued at Earth Summit 2 with Chretien confers with environment minister Christine Stewart during Earth Summit at the United the europeans pressing the North americans for on monday British prime minister Tony Blair said the biggest responsibility lies with the countries with the biggest emissions such As negotiators Are working behind the scenes at the new York trying to set the stage for a binding treaty on climate change which is to be concluded at Japan in in other matters Chretien called for a legally bind ing International agreement to Stop environmentalists Dis miss Canadas longstanding Campaign for such an agreement As a propaganda exercise intended to disarm inter National criticism of Canadas own Forest Chretien called for urgent action to address persistent organic which Are contaminating the food Chain in Canadas most of the pollution comes from outside the prime minister urged other countries to join Canada in signing a treaty Banning land Sug Gest Chretien is being convinced by european leaders the climate Issue is its now Clear that after the Denver Summit and this in meeting Chretien will now know How to say the words greenhouse Gas and climate said Elizabeth May of the Sierra club of the Liberal government has repeat edly rejected any form of tax on Fossil which has been proposed As a Means to reduce their use and promote Energy the government has instead relied on a voluntary emissions reduction program which has not at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro five years Canada joined Many other countries in pledging to stabilize greenhouse emissions at 1990 Levels by the year emis Sions have continued to the Only two major countries that have stabilized emissions Are Britain and Chretien suggested yesterday that Success was largely due to Germany Cut emissions by closing inefficient industries in the former East and Britain replaced Coal with natural Gas from the North we dont use much Coal to generate electricity in Chretien the circumstances Are ;