Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 9, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg july the world a photo thai nationals flee via phenom penh coup Leader eliminating rivals Post if an evacuation is necessary we Are ready for Valerie foreign affairs phenom Cambodia coup Leader Hun sen began eliminating his opponents sending soldiers into hotels and1 Homes to round up one of his most vocal critics was shot dead while in Hun Sens sweeping consolidation of Power raised fears about the safety of those who sup ported the deposed first prime Prince Norodom to a former Interior minister and Hun Sens was arrested monday and accused of plotting against Cambodia new a Hun sen adviser announced Hosok was he was arrested by the government troops and he has said Khieu calling Hosok a he denied Hun Sens forces were responsible for the claiming Hosok was killed by the Hosok was shot in the head after being arrested by Hun Sens a Western human rights worker said the killing raised fears of More reprisal we fear that this is the first on the said the cambo Diabase speaking on condition of who went to France before saturdays accused Hun sen of ordering a manhunt for his Hun Sens military police went door to door yesterday through phenom Penis largest hotel and arrested opposition said american democracy activist Ron Abney who witnessed the the Londo based human rights group amnesty International urged foreign embassies to offer Asylum to Rana Riddhi supporters and said at least 50 were in hiding or needed the Fate of 13 people detained in Batta bang province and 22 in prey Veng was amnesty it said several journalists who supported the Prince were also believed to be in much of the capital was reported to be return ing to Normal most shops remained closed and the streets were eerily residents said in Telephone few soldiers were some Aid workers returned to their offices to assess the and newspapers reappeared on the capitals the International Airport remained closed to commercial traffic and visitors yesterday said the terminal including the duty free shop and the had been looted and the control Tower but the radar system and runway were said to be still Thailand took advantage of the relative quiet in the capital to ferry about people to Bangkok in military c130 transport planes after receiving a pledge of Security from Hun the past three Days of violence left at least 58 including a Cana Dian shot and killed in phenom authorities have declined to release his i can confirm he died on july 7 As a result of a shooting said Valerie a foreign affairs spokeswoman in the Man was from Western in his Early 20s and married to a cambodian National living in phenom Noftle she refused comment on reports that he was filming officials in which provides consular services to canadians in said the Man killed was in the wrong place at the wrong and was filming troop movements at the no decision had yet been made about evacuating the 183 Canadian registered in if an evacuation is necessary we Are ready for Noftle at this Point we Are taking a Waitan see approach things seem to be calming Down a Little the Airport might even be open for Commer Cial flights As Early As yesterday there were reports of scattered Skir mishes in Cambodia Western where Rana Riddhi routed forces were said to be trying to regroup alongside guerrillas of the notorious Khmer tanks had moved into siem where about 300 tourists visiting the angkor wat Temple Complex were and an Aid worker said it looks like therell be a a Western human rights worker said the killing raised fears of Moret reprisal slayings Mirs out service lab May be hazardous to repair by Marela Dunn press Glass shards from broken Ules of blood and urine from popped toxic spills from ruined experiments and burst those Are some of the dangers that May await Mirs cosmonauts when they open the Hatch to the space stations de pressurized the spacemen could be open ing an Orbital Pandora Box so Nasa is scrambling to put together a worst Case list in preparation for the repair Job later this among other the cosmonauts could rip their pressurized spacesuits on something could be deadly track toxic materials Back into the Sei enee experiments inside the lab have been exposed to the frigid vacuum of space Ever since an cargo ship slammed into Mir on june 25 and punched a Hole in the aluminium the crewmen had to ble to shut the Laboratory Hatch before the entire space station lost Cabin it could Well be that it looks like a a dark orderly said James an expert in russian space it could look like an Ner scene from Jurassic a mysterious leak has ened last Ameri can astronaut Michael Foale and his Crew mates heard a series of thumps and saw White flakes Drifting away into space from somewhere near the labs dented the snowflakes could have been ammonia or silicone ing from the or thing leaking from the Interior of the which is called Nasa shuttle Mir program Man Ager Frank Culbertson said yes it worries not Only the space stations overseers but which wants to make sure there is no danger to space shuttle Atlantis when it arrives in sep tember to pick up the plan is for cosmonauts Vasily Tsi Aliyev and Alexander Lautkin to Seal themselves in a Small Don their space suits and then remove the Hatch to one of them will then crawl two metres or so into the darkness to Hook up cables to critically needed solar batteries that had to be disconnected immediately after the then the cosmonauts will install a new Hatch designed to allow Power to flow from Spektor into the rest of the the last step is to re pressurize the Foale will wait in the attached soyuz escape ready to flee with his Crew mates if some thing goes the capsule can bring the men Back to Culbertson said he is most concerned about the possibility of Bro Ken Glass and hazardous materials such As used to pre serve science among the biomedical samples stored in Spektor urine and it utter 888 6673200 How one company locates customers worldwide without 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at Alk Hobar 1bw ers and flew from there to Kuwait a Short time i have no i dont even know the location of Alkhov Sayegh told the Sayegh spoke with the news paper by Telephone from an undisclosed location in the Washington area where he is being held by the times said the Conversa Tion was monitored by a mar Shal and Michael Sayegh s immigration Sayegh recently extradited from Canada to the United states in an arrangement under which he is expected to plead guilty to conspiracy for his part in a unsuccessful plot to scout american installations in saudi Arabia for possible in a Federal indictment unsealed last Sayegh was accused of travelling with in saudi Arabia to look for guns and explosives for that Scapegoat Federal officials have said Sayegh told them he could shed Light on the Khobiar towers but according to the Sayegh denials and shifting statements indicate that the Legal arrangement that brought him to the United states could unravel this week when Sayegh faces a court hearing on the conspiracy the times said the saudi government provided information to american and Canadian officials indicating that Sayegh was involved in the but the suspect told the paper he was being made a Fie said he was a saudi political dissident who once lived in i am not a said if the americans Are terrorists when they went in and bombed children in Iraq supporting the dictatorial authority of saudi the immigration said he believes the saudi government acted against his client to placate american officials unhappy Over their inability to gain Access to suspects detained by the saudi gov they Are going to use Wildes said of the adding that his client had misled his lawyers and Fri agents about his knowledge of terror ism inside saudi Wildes seemed to suggest that Sayegh might have lied in the Hope of being sent to the United rather than to saudi the times j would fear i would be guillotined upon being returned to saudi Sayegh told the i protests against mine escalate Reuter protests against a proposed mine in Scenic Northern Wisconsin have with 29 environmentalists held in jail yesterday for refusing orders to mondays demonstrations were organized by the environmental group Earth first against Crandon a joint venture of mining giants Toronto based Rio Algol and Exxon Coal and Crandon mining has applied for per mits to extract Lead and Copper from a tract of land near the headwaters of the Wolf which is prize for its Whitewater rafting and Scenic state approval was seen is expected to take at least 18 the protesters were arrested at the proposed mine site and outside the company office in Crandon and held on charges that included unlawful trespassing and disorderly the Forest county sheriffs initial court hearings were t scheduled for the mine would be the largest min ing operation to open in where Copper mining has Only recently become viable More protests at the proposed mine could occur this said Susan a member of Earth there going into areas that have been Pristine and extracting leaving piles of waste that will pollute the Franz mining company officials said they would comply with Wisconsin strict pollution if we we wont get our said Dick a Crandon mining Hong Kong rolling Back rights Laws Heuter Hong Kong Hong Kongs new in Power for just one will introduce draft Bills today curtailing the rights of workers and children that were protected in Laws passed in the Twilight of British colonial a government spokesman said yesterday seven mostly covering workers rights such As collective bar should be suspended to allow a proper and thorough scrutiny of the to determine whether the Are in the Public inter Trade unions said they would continue fighting what they called a tycoon the led by Beijing backed chief executive Chee announced yesterday that the jaws adopted by the colonial Legisla Ture just Days before China dissolved it would need a proper and thorough scrutiny of the one of the Las minute Laws passed gives unions the right to use collective bargaining in negotiating workers pay its a very Basic right enshrined in the International labour convention and its a Basic right enjoyed by our competitors in Asia and said government will also Intro Duce a Bill to permit the deportation of children smuggled into Hong Kong from Mainland China As the return to Beijing Rule neared hundreds of children have crossed into Hong Kong in recent weeks to claim the right of abode and China says More Are waiting in neighbouring Huangdong province hoping to get t ;