Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press 958rent 7368 More Canada and world news around Canada changes Likely Toronto improving the Young offenders act to give canadians Confidence in the system is a top says the new Federal Justice Anne changes include ensuring serious and repeat offenders Are dealt with roughly but also working on pro Grams to steer youths away from a life of Mclellan i heard during the election Campaign considerable concern about the existing Young offenders she told the Toronto car hits Church Niagara Falls a Church was struck by an out of control car yesterday morning just As the eight Oclock mass let an elderly couple in the car suffered minor but no one else was the Church sustained mainly to its Revenue forfeited Edmonton Alberta taxpayers Are forfeiting millions of dollars in liquor Revenue due to a pricing Deal that critics say amounts to a subsidy for private liquor store own the conservative government is sticking to a Little known policy that Caps the amount of Money the province collects from liquor As a Albertas 675 private liquor retailers stand to get up to million this year in Bill electrified Tony and Martha Roeding want an apology from Nova Scotia Power after receiving a whopper of a the who live near opened their mail to find a Power Bill for Tony Roeding says their Bills Are normally about and the Power company is now police Helper killed a mature summer student working for the Brockville police Force has died after being struck by a drunk Dri David of Long Sault was hit and killed Friday while rid ing his Bike in he had just finished a shift at Brockville helping out at a tent set up to encourage people to report drunk an Aven More resident has been charged with impaired driving causing death and will appear in court compiled from Canadian press around the world pageant cancelled London a a pageant planned for july 5 to Mark the Queens 50th wedding anniversary has been cancelled because heavy rain has made the site a mud Hole and it will not be dry in the Royal pageant of the horse had been scheduled to take place before the Prince Philip and spectators at 30 kilo metres West of California dreaming san California is getting worse but feeling they Are More health conscious and self indulgent than their counterparts in other despite the traffic and runaway housing they would rather live in the Golden state than anywhere this is the prevailing View revealed in a statewide poll released yesterday by the Field Institute of san no new Cybert axes Washington the Washington Post after a two year study into the growing world of internet com the Clinton administration has decided not to Call for new taxes or regulations on business conducted Over the global computer net work and instead will largely allow the private sector to determine How it will operate in the administrations stance is a marked departure from the Feder Al governments practice of closely regulating other electronic net such As television and Canada world june Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 thousands of chinese gather in Beijing Tiana men Square last night to look at decorations marking the by Paul Loong Canadian press Hong Kong looking ahead on the last Day of British Many of the stickiest political problems facing postcolonial Hong Kong can be traced to one source the bloodshed around Tiana men Square eight years no one knows it better than Tung who will be the chief executive in charge of Hong Kong when it becomes part of China at local time the june military attack that crushed the 1989 pro democracy movement in Beijing is at the Root of the Public fear of the chinese Mili the worry about freedoms being eroded and the furious debate Over the incoming Tung wants to put the matter to june 4 is something that nobody wanted to but it Tung referring to the crack Down commonly known As the Tiana men Square massacre though Many of the casualties occurred on the boulevards leading to the we now must put Down the bag Gage and look we Learned from the lessons Why it How it we now must move easier said than Hong Kong people supported the student led demonstrations in Bei the crackdown by the Peoples liberation army changed the Outlook of Many people concerning their own in the Shadow of Tiana men China plans grand military Entrance future under chinese the announcement that Chi Nese troops will make a grand Entrance into Hong Kong at Day break tomorrow caused such anxiety that chinese officials hurried to reas sure the you have to believe that the Pla Are coming to protect and take care of said Zhu a Deputy director of the local Xinhua news Agency which has Long served As a de Facto embassy for dont be afraid of he Martin Leader of the democratic saw it its acceptable for China to station troops in Hong he but not the Way they plan to come there coming in by by sea and by land As if they Are invading Hong Lee said perhaps such an entry to Hong Kong is calculated to intimidate the people of Hong the Tiana men Factor goes beyond fear to whether or not authorities will allow future commemorations of the june 4 anniversary has become a yardstick for measuring Hong Kongs Freedom under chinese Tung has tentatively said we All have the right to Demon to express our views so Long As they Are peaceful and so Long As they Are and this can continue in the future and different voices in Hong Kong will be Tung said the provisional Legisla Ture is a product of the disagreement Between China and the dispute centres on the Pace of democratic development in Hong to ease panic in the Colony after the Tiana men Square crack Britain seeded up the process for an elected the who denounced Beijing for ordering troops to fire on won the largest num Ber of seats in the legislative coun China refused to recognize the Council and will replace it with a provisional body picked by a 400mem Ber committee screened by Tung said yesterday the provision Al legislature will give Way to a new elected legislature in May next Hong Kong sees last rites of Empire by Steven Mufson the Washington Post a worker adjusts lanterns in Beijing for Hong Kong Hon Kong a police brass band played a Rendi Tion of the beatles yester Prince Charles bestowed Royal honours on local dignitaries yesterday and made knights of a billionaire industrialist and a senior civil dressed in a White naval the heir to the British throne stood in the ballroom of the British governors mansion and performed one of the last rites of the Empire that has ruled this Island since industrialist Gordon we and Hong Kong financial Secretary Donald Tsang Knelt on a Stool brought from Buckingham Palace to receive Knighthood from the Prince of Wales in recognition of their services to the monarchy in boosting British exports and mind ing the colonial purse the honour will soon be Little More than a quaint reminder of 155 years of British Rule by tomorrow Chris Patten will have packed and left with the Prince aboard the Royal yacht Britannia and the Sun will set Over this Corner of the British it is a measure of the fading grandeur of the monarchy that Many Hong Kong residents these Days perceive Royal honours As a potential last sir to Liang a former supreme court chief jus promised to renounce his Knighthood during his unsuccessful Campaign to become Hong Kongs first postcolonial chief instead of the Queens Hong Kong residents May soon seek glory with an award being Cre ated by the new special autonomous Region government the grand Bau Hinia Crew of we Are thank god from a Reuters Russia we Are thank that was the message from the commander of russian mangled Mir space station yesterday As the Threeman Crew finally got a Chance to so to after last weeks unprecedented Colli conditions aboard the 400 Kilometre High outpost were much improved some of the lights were Back the air conditioner was working again and the automatic steering system was almost Back on in a radio conversation their first since the Accident the wife of vastly Tsi Aliyev warned be care but did not beg him to return i understand her feelings and her Tsi Aliyev told reporters gathered at russian Mission control outside when in listening to her i cannot feel that Shes but i can imag Ine she tries to contain it in herself in after talking to my wife i was calmed in reply to a question about prob lems with hot Tsi Aliyev said when we had problems with Light and air we were killing time by Nasa astronaut Michael Foale got a Chance to talk with his on vacation with their two Young Chil Dren in he assured his russian Crew mates and flight con trollers that regardless of All that hed be willing to Fly again in unlike the four previous Days nerve racking and crammed with Power Salvage work the Crew enjoyed a slower Pace and even took time out for a Brief news the chief flight Vladimir commented on How Well the men we Are thank Tsi Aliyev replied in the three crewmen appeared robust during the video smiling and even laughing at the director of nasal shuttle Mir Frank was heartened by the animated that a Good sign that they feel like things Are getting More under Culbertson what you have is a slowly increasing level of Comfort on Board and on the ground that things Are returning to More nor Mal Mirs aluminium Hull was pierced when a cargo ship slammed into the station on the Impact was so great that the Crew Felt and heard the and then heard the sound of precious air being sucked it took the men at least eight min utes possibly As Long As 20 minutes to disconnect Power cables and Cut research data lines running Between the ruptured Spektor lab module and the rest of the and to Seal the because Mirs mos used solar panels Are on the station was immediately reduced to half preparations in Russia have already begun for the next Supply flight to the cargo ship is supposed to be launched As soon As july 5 with equip ment for a repair a week or two after the Supply ship Mirs two Wear ing Are supposed to enter the airless they plan to connect Power cables to solar batteries inside and to replace the Hatch with a spare outfitted with Power airman a ;