Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 11, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba More Canada and world news around the world Orange parades off Belfast Reuter North Ern Ireland Orange order said yesterday it has called off All flashpoint parades across the British province the parades raised widespread fears of fresh roman Catholic Vio Lence after the protestant order marched Down the Garvaghy Road area of Portadown last pleads guilty new York Washington Post Malcolm grandson of the slain Black Leader Malcolm pleaded guilty yesterday to setting the fire last month that killed his Betty want to help up leaders of americas Industrial heartland insisted yesterday they like to help solve Canadas smog but complained that Domestic politics Are getting in the delegates to a great lakes state governors con Ference said there willing to work with Canadian provinces to tackle deadly air costly upgrade Washington Washington Post the Federal aviation administration yesterday set new standards for flight data recorders which help investigators determine Why airliners the upgrade will Cost the aviation Industry an estimated million Over the next four new borrowing Bonn a the German government plans new borrowing Worth billion can under an emergency budget plan outlined raising fresh doubts about whether it will qualify for the planned single currency for around Canada Farmer jailed North Farmer who exaggerated the amount of Grain he had grown so he could receive advances from the Canadian wheat Board has been sent to jail for a Frank of Lloyd pleaded guilty in provincial court yesterday to defrauding the Federal Agency of seized big the big Cove first nation band Council is consulting lawyers after the new Brunswick sheriffs office seized almost from the bands Bank the action follows a Federal adjudicators labor ruling in favor of employees Laid off in april Avalanche fatal Vancouver a summer Avalanche has claimed the life of a North Vancouver Man on the High est Peak in the Canadian the Avalanche on mount Robson near on wednes Day caught five climbers who were sleeping on the North Side of the new trial Ottawa a new trial has been ordered for a Northwest territories Man convicted of sexual partly because the victim was too drunk to remember if she consent the supreme court of Canada on yesterday upheld a lower courts judgment that Able Joshua Esau should receive a new trial on the grounds the defence of honest but mistaken belief in consent want used at his original satisfied with care Edmonton albertan responding to a government Survey appeared satisfied with the health care they Are but 40 per cent characterized the Overall sys tem As fair or Challenge ends Toronto a constitutional Challenge to a jaw merging metro Toronto and its six municipalities ended yesterday after lawyers argued Ontario didst give citizens enough input and had no authority to pass theres no Legal definition of the term meaningful consultation that was used by lawyers opposed to cow Pfeif Iron is Nairn press Winnipeg free press Canada world july b j Patrick War crimes suspects arrested in Bosnia newspapers Sarajevo nato forces Cap tured three bosnian serbs and killed one who resisted arrest yes delivering a Stark warning to War crimes suspects that they no longer can be intrepid or count on being the move by British troops in North West Bosnia did not target top suspects serb wartime Leader Radovan Karadzic and his former military Ratko but the operation did signal a Tough new Effort to Nail suspects who Are stalling the Dayton peace agreement and moving freely in Bosnia despite the foreign troops British troops descended on the suspects in Northwest of Paraje the site of some of the worst serb prison Camps at the Start of the Bosn Ian War in when they tried to arrest Simo Del a former Price Dor police he immediately Drew a pistol and shot and wounded one of our said British defence Secretary George Drljaca was killed in the shootout that and the British Soldier was slightly wounded in the the local Hospital Milan was arrested without Inci Dent and sent to the International War crimes tribunal in the nether two other men who accompanied Drljaca also were turned Over to Tri Bunal officials in said nato spokesman Chris Riley in Sara Drljaca and Kovacevic had been indicted on charges of complicity in genocide for their actions in when no serbs in the Region were rounded expelled or it was unclear whether the other two were Simo Drljaca above was slain in a shootout with British at sol Diers stand guard at a checkpoint near Price Dor in Northern the willingness to use Force As much As Kovacevich arrest itself signalled a growing impatience with the failure of Balkan leaders to enforce the 1995 Dayton peace Many argue that Bosnia can not be stitched together without prosecution of the wars nato commanders previously interpreted their orders but British foreign Secretary Robin Cook said it was enough that the suspects were in the sector of Bosnia controlled by British and were known to the Clinton administration welcomed the Surprise commando strike and provided logistical Days before the Clinton was briefed he signalled his approval july shortly before the nato sum Mit meeting in British soldiers made their move at 8 one team arrested Kovacevic without a fight at his Hospital while another pursued Drljaca As he headed out to fish with two other we knew he was going to be fish he was approached on being he Drew a gun and said a British Diplomat versed in the Drljaca shot one British sol Dier in the and was killed when others fired an overseer of the brutal Omar ska prison where countless croats and muslims Drljaca was pronounced dead aboard a military Heli copter ferrying him to concentration Camps in the Price Dor Region became notorious for killings and rapes As serbs carried out their policy of ethnic cleansing in the Early a in commission asserted that police forces tinder or Slacas com Mand tortured and killed it is an important declared Christian spokesman for the United nations War crimes tribunal in the for the first natos mandate has been implemented in As the British planned their opera Tion in they had several the indictments against Kovacevic and Drljaca remained which gave commandos the ele ment of and soldiers on Rou Tine patrol spotted the Cogger disappointed As acquittal quashed by Jim Morris Canadian press Ottaw Atory senator Michel Cogger is Terri Bly disappointed the supreme court of Canada has quashed his acquittal on influx enc peddling and ordered the Case Back to his lawyer said the High court unanimously rejected arguments Cogger did it have a corrupt state of mind when he accepted from a Montreal Busi Nessman trying to win Federal it is Clear that an intention to commit a prohibited act combined with knowledge of the Rel Evant circumstances is an accepted form of criminal Cul Justice Claire Lheureux Dube wrote for the seven concurring Raphael loggers said the court based its ruling on a very narrow Point of we Are terribly disappoint Schachter said from Mon Treal after speaking with his this matter has been a lingering and onerous part of his life for it appears that it will not go away we were hoping the senator could once and for All get on with his the supreme courts decision leaves Cogger with two he can return to court to fight the charges or plead Cogger accepted at this there is no thought of making any kind of a Schachter was charged in february 1993 with receiving a Benefit while performing government the lawyer and Veteran progressive conservative organizer never denied he took Money from businessman Guy Mont Petit in return for his efforts to lobby the Federal government for million in Grants for a computer hip Mont Petit never received any Feder Al a Quebec court judge acquit Ted Cogger in saying he didst have the mens or guilty blame worthiness required to be the Quebec court of Appeal unanimously upheld that decision last the Crown arguing the acquittal created a new Burden on the Eugene a lawyer with the Ottawa firm Lang said that had the High court upheld the it would have made it More difficult to prosecute influence Ped doing or in the High courts Lheureux Dube said the Crown Doest have to prove a government officials moral turpitude when accepting Cash to do someone a Cogger was appointed to the Senate by his Brian mul he was paid the Money Between 1986 and 1988 when Mulroney was prime making a Point British Hunters show off their hounds to some of the people at London Hyde Park yesterday protesting a Likely ban on Hunting foxes with see Page Canada used to hide nazi Gold Reuter new York Portugal used the Swiss National Bank to Swap 20 tonnes of looted nazi Gold for Gold held in the Bank of Canada and the Federal a intelligence document released yesterday the document details a classic Money laundering said world jewish Congress Yip president Kalman whose organization released the previously classified the described As coming from a very confidential said in 1942 the Bank of Portugal deposited about four tonnes of Gold it bought from nazi Germany in its account with the Swiss National Bank the Swiss transferred the same amount of Gold it had in a Bank of Canada account to the classic Money laundering operation concealed stolen report says in transferred title to the Gold in its Swiss in the Swiss and portuguese swapped another 15 tonnes of looted nazi Gold held in the Federal Reserve Bank in new York the document said the Bank of por Dugals objective is to get rid of Gold purchased from the Bee Hubank through the Banque National Sultanik said the transactions might have been Legal because the Swiss Ted the right to Transfer Gold to other accounts and there was no evidence the and Canadian Banks were aware of what was happening the bad Guys win a sul the nazis have sold their Gold the portuguese have swapped their looted Gold for clean Gold and the Swiss National Bank earns commissions on each All it took was a few strokes of the the 20 tonnes of Gold was Worth million us in the 1940s and would be valued at about million wittingly or the and Cana Dian Banks were disguising the move ment of looted nazi Gold and this helps explain one of the mysteries of the Sec Ond world the War started with Portugal having no Gold reserves in new York and ends with it having tonnes of Gold in the Federal Sultanik said he said it is now apparent a significant if not of the 258 tonnes came from Portugal Purchase of looted nazi the Swap was made to eliminate Evi Dence Portugal was receiving Gold stolen by the the document said the allies warned Portugal and other Neutral countries they would face reprisals if they bought looted German the wac said present Day Portugal has cooperated with its efforts to Trace nazi Gold movements and an investigating commission headed by former portuguese prime minister Mario scares was making rapid after the the allies demanded Portugal return an estimated 139 tonnes of looted nazi Gold it bought but the country Only gave Back four of Putch Gold it had in its in its original ;