Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958re it 7368 More Canada and world news Canada feds must act judge Ottawa Somalia inquiry chair Justice Gilles Letourneau says the govern ment must act on the commissions Letourneau told a television news program yesterday if nothing is implemented soldiers will eventually take action Letourneau suggests people in the military will Force changes by com ing Forward with additional information or leaking and he says have the support of the pub courthouse unsafe Hamilton workers at a provincial courthouse in the heart of this Steeltown worry the building where they spent Many hours each Day May be a the ministry of labour closed the courthouse More than a week ago after air test results revealed disintegrating Asbestos on the second Canadian cleared Toronto a Canadian Man who spent almost five months in a California jail protesting his inno Cence returned Home yesterday after being cleared of All Matthew arrived at Pearson International Airport for a Joyful reunion with his then headed Home to suburban scar stupa Ryks ordeal began earlier this year when he was identified on the television show unsolved mysteries As a murder teen Lone survivor a i old girl is the Only a boating Accident in which four of her family members drowned sat drowned were Lawrence Desjar Edward Eleanor All of Jans and Amber of Prince Ashley Petit of Prince Albert was the Lone Bombardier upbeat Montreal Bombardier expects to sign a million con tract in mid july to build 252 sub Way cars for Mexico cites transit a company official said they have looked at All the tech Nical and have judged ours to have totally conformed to what they said Jeanyves Bombardier transport group compiled from Canadian press around the world the bulls Are running Spain a of Champagne Swilling revellers cheered yesterday when a rocket signalled the Start of Pamplona san Fermin fes famous for its daily running of the mayor Javier Chor raut lit the Small rocket from the Balcony of town Hall and announced the nine Day festivals opening in Spanish and Basque Viva san Fermin Gora san Fermin beggars arrested United Arab emirates Reuters saudi Arabia has arrested some beggars across the kingdom in one year of its anti begging the daily Arab news said a source at the ministry of labour and social affairs explained that of the total were men while were were no saudis while were the English language newspaper violence Mars vote Albania shooting at two polling stations marred the second round of Alba Nias elections Hilling three people and wounding two oth turnout was noticeably lower than in the previous weekends first when voters overwhelmingly chose the socialists Ina resound ing defeat for president Sali Berishay democratic the socialists bolstered the 61 seats they won outright in the first round with More seats the Cen trial electoral commission Winnipeg free press Canada world july Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 Landing site Ideal All instruments of Rover sniffs Marc associated press the Mars Rover sojourner was headed for a Lumpy Boulder nicknamed barnacle Bill yesterday among a Field of diverse rocks that had scientists ecstatic with prospects of unravelling the planets she is the robotic equivalent of Neil Armstrong on Rover scientist Henry Moore said Shes your Field and she wants to thank the people of the de states and All foreign contributors paying for Mission scientists treat the 30cen time Treigh which has a 3d camera and an instrument designed to chemically Analyse the Martian As if it were Between its instruments and images taken by the Landers scientists can sense the Martian Environ ment better than we have the perfect the perfect the perfect instruments and the perfect said project scientist Matthew yesterday hours after it rolled Down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder sojourner sat just beyond the at the end of a Dis Tinct pair of tracks in the red from studying the geologists said the surface seemed like a thin dusting of flour Over a harder by Days sojourner was expected to have completed a 90 degree counterclockwise then backed up a few inches to put its Alpha Proton xray spectrometer in Contact with barnacle a Rock about the size of the of elements a would follow out what minerals Are in the the ultimate goal to the geologic history of the Landing site will take years of scientific the full Story int going to emerge in a Short period of but we really have the tools to do the Job said University of Arizona geologist Ron communications with Pathfinder Are not continuous because radio Sig nals cant reach the spacecraft while it is on the opposite Side of Mars from because the Martian Day is slightly longer than 24 communications happen roughly on a 12 hour 12hour off As the Mission the 12 hour on period gets later and it now extends from Early afternoon to a few hours after a week from Mission controllers will find themselves up All geologists said they have been happier with the Landing a mostly Flat Plain studded with rocks and thought to have washed Down from Distant Highlands in Vio Lent floods billions of years on the horizon Are Hills with horizontal coloured bands the fingerprint of we really wanted to see the Geo logic diversity of and we have not been Greeley Mars is thought to have had a vital component of on its sur face billions of years that water could have to or it could still be on Mars Frozen underground and in the Polar Mars May even be More water Ley Tofu Golombek left and scientist Peter smith7 geology around the Lander at the Mars Pathfinder probe exits the ramp onto the planets sur a Rock dubbed barnacle Bill is seen on the Martian an area Nasa scientists have dubbed twin Rich than Earth we really dont Golombek the site is so with distinctive Hills and a Small Crater less than one and on half Kilometres that scientists have already figured out exactly where the Craft is on when the Viking missions went to Mars in it took a year to figure out where one of the space Craft the position of the other was never accurately deter scientists presented the first panoramic photograph of the Pathfinder site a Blackland White 360degree View that can be accessed through internet internet Sites were being added As nasal got by yesterday those computers had received More than 100 million Pathfinder was about to become the biggest internet event Golombek c nato gets set to Beckon a communist states by Helen Branswell Canadian press Madrid prime minister Jean Chretien arrived Here yesterday for a nato Confer ence that will make history by doing what would have seemed inconceivable a decade ago inviting several former communist countries to join the military How Many and which is yet to be for Mally according to Canada and several other of the 16 existing nato according to president Bui Clin the answer to that ques Tion is just three the czech Republic and Clinton has made it Clear that the Compromise to be reached at the Madrid which starts will involve others coming around to his Way of and not the reverse i dont foresee any circumstances under which i would change my Posi Tion that we ought to have three new Clinton stated Friday observers believe his insistence on limiting the first wave of expansion is an Effort to placate sceptics m the the government of each nato country must ratify the Deal for expansion to France and Germany Are among nine nato countries lobbying for a broader first wave of with Romania and Slovenia the favourites to join the three countries earmarked by the other would be nato members Latvia and Estonia among them have less support better than none but there seems no Chance that the Only remaining superpower and natos loudest voice can be pushed to change its mind its pretty Well certain it will be a senior Canadian official admitted yesterday no one appears ready to push the Point to a the americans say that Only Hungary and the czech Republic have met the criteria set put by nato for membership a stable democratic Goy a free Market civil Ian control of the armed no outstanding disputes with Neighbour ing countries and respect for human no one is Clear on what the eventual will Bethe us administration estimates expansion will Cost nato Between billion us and billion Over 13 a private think the Rand says the figure could be As High As but is More Likely in the Range Canadian officials estimate Canadas share of the increased costs would be million to million can a if five countries Are added but they admit that under government pro that increase would be closer to million a rebels Down helicopter at least 29 dead Reuters Bogota leftist rebels shot Down an army Heli copter Over rugged rain in an Oil producing Region of Eastern Colombia killing at least 23 soldiers and four the head of the army the Russia made mm7 chop contracted out by a civilian aviation was flying to a Remote area in armies province after National libera Tion army Len rebels dynamited a Section of Colombia largest Oil pipeline earlier in the Manuel Jose Bonett said he said Len guerrillas had hidden in houses close to where they blew up the pipeline near the town of Arau Quita and waited for the helicopter to arrive before emerging and firing on ;