Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, July 16, 1997

Issue date: Wednesday, July 16, 1997
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Previous edition: Tuesday, July 15, 1997

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 16, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Securities a in blobs my Sec tej fim Magnie unit More Canada and world around Canada manhunt joined a helicopter equipped with infrared equipment joined the Hunt yesterday for a Man charged in the fatal shootings of three Young men and the wounding of a police dog and about 20 investigators Hunting for Kevin ver of Kitimat he was charged monday with three counts of second degree murder and one charge of attempted police also issued a Canad wide flooding protested about so local residents marched on City offices yesterday demanding changes to the old sewage which they say is responsible for their flooded about homeowners in nine Quebec towns were hit by flooding follow ing Flash rainstorms monday boat capsizes Rescue officials were searching for survivors yesterday after a capsized lobster boat was discovered off the Cape Breton a Hercules aircraft and a Labrador helicopter were in route to the off the coast near fire Rescue boats and an Aurora aircraft were on the too men shot Regina tension Between gangs of natives and bikers is believed to be behind a double the two shootings Mon Day night in Nort Central Regina left two men Neighbours said at least one of the victims belongs to a Regina motorcycle in an unrelated police were also investigating a suspicious death yesterday after the body of a Man was found in a parking lot in a West Side residential anniversary marked Montreal Sovereign lists want Quebe cers to remember the importance of Charles de Gaul Les Vive be Quebec Libre they have planned several events Over the next week to Mark the 30th anniversary of the former French presidents controversial remark on july Guy head of the Sov Erie Antist society kicked off the ceremonies by releasing a commemorative stamp of de Gaulle in front of City status changing Victoria politicians in British Columbia Are prying open the definition of spouse in a Bill that would give same sex couples Legal status when it comes to their Chil British Columbia will be the first in Canada to ensure that Homo sexual couples have the same privileges and responsibilities for child Access and custody As heterosexual City keeps Money red homeowners who paid too much tax because of a City error wont get a coun cil ruled City assessor Al Knight admitted that Charles and Marion Lavallee were overfilled since the City assumed the Home was Square its actually Square we did make an error and we apologize for said but he recommended against a refund saying taxpayers can Appeal when they get their assessment officer fired Thunder a police officer dismissed from the Thunder Bay police Force yesterday for professional misconduct will Likely launch an Appeal Over his firing within the next two Al Simmons was convicted May 23 of neglecting his duty and committing discreditable conduct by repeatedly leaving the area he was assigned to patrol and driving around the Home of Jodi and David Olson and looking in the testimony at the trial showed the officer drove past the couples Home 54 times in three Days in tory convicted Regina former Saskatchewan highways minister Sherwin Petersen has become the latest conservative from that province to found guilty of defrauding Justice order Archambault found Petersen guilty yesterday of one count of f Raud Over Archany Bault acquitted of Mother count of fraud Over and one count of conspiracy to com met Taud compiled my Canadian press Winnipeg free press Canada world jul Al Yew 6977294 vows surprise9 announcement on her future i steals spotlight Reuters London the Royal superstar who once tearfully said she wanted nothing More than for the new Media to leave her is tantalizing britons with the Promise of a Shock announcement about her in an extraordinary speedboat rendezvous yesterday with British journalists spying on her supposedly private Holiday in the South of the Princess of Wales said her teenage sons had urged her to quit Britain for a quieter life else the papers reported yester Clad Only in a Leopard print swim suit and the 36year old Princess was then pictured leaning Over a yacht and reportedly telling the press corps you Are going to get a big youll you Are going to get a big Surprise with the next thing i she promised a statement to explain within two dianas London office issued a statement yesterday saying there had been no discussion of the possibility of any statement being issued in the but the damage was already newspapers and Royal pundits went into overdrive with speculation about the latest Bombshell in dianas armoury of ranging from her 1995 admission on television of adultery to her 1993 withdrawal from Public bookmakers William Hill started taking bets on options including remarriage becoming a nun 25 1 and joining the spice girls pop group it was a very volatile said Ingrid editor chief of majesty dianas speedboat dash across the Mediterranean to the boat carrying the press corps was ostensibly a plea for privacy after severe criticism at Home for holidaying with egyptian born harrods Boss Mohammed Al Princess Diana suns herself after a watercraft t ride on the French Riv the Queen above chats with guests attending a Garden party at Buckingham Palace Al Fayed was at the Centre of a sleaze scandal that helped crush the previous conservative government after he disclosed he had paid sever Al maps thousands of pounds to ask questions in parliament on his my boys Are urging me continually to leave the they say it is the Only Diana was quoted As maybe that what i should they want me to live i sit in London All the time and i am abused and followed wherever i now i am being forced to move from the Princess above possibly to Italy or new was bandied about following dianas acrimonious divorce almost a year ago from Prince but if Diana did quit Britain she would have to leave her two beloved sons fifteen Earold Prince William is next in line to the throne after Charles and for Security and protocol reasons would not be allowed to live dianas bizarre encounter at sea underlined her penchant for stealing the limelight while at the same time professing her distaste for her role of the worlds most photographed just As she grabbed the frontages by wearing a stunning off the Shoul Der cocktail dress on the night in 1994 that Charles went Public about his affair with Camilla Parker Diana has again reduced the rest of the Royal family to the interesting thing is the Tim her timing is she has knocked Al Fayed out of the head lines and turned the spotlight Back on said hello magazines Royal correspondent Judy who remembers now about Camil la having a 50th birthday party this or about the Queens Golden wedding anniversary Garden party its very she Mir repairs delayed commander treated Reuters a member of Mirs next Crew enters Spektor Moscow doctors put the tired and stressed commander of the Crip pled russian space station Mir on Medicine to combat a heart problem while ground staff scrambled to reschedule vital electrical russian and officials considered asking Nasa astronaut Michael Foale to do the repairs for Mir com Mander Vasily who has been under Strain since the Accident june 25 that has jeopardized the survival of the Sta Mission physician Igor gon Charov told the 43yearold Tsi Aliyev to Start a course of sedatives and drugs to Correct a slight irregularity in his heart first noticed Mission control yesterday cancelled the Days planned dress rehearsal of the electrical repairs that would have involved Tsi Aliyev and flight Engineer Alexander Lautkin working intensively in Clumsy spacesuits for six hours or the rewiring in the now air less Spektor module had been due to take place at the end of this russian officials said it was now Likely to be postponed for about a week giving Tsi Aliyev time to or Foale time to prepare for the a Nasa official Howe that the american Side would need a Day or two before being Able to give Foale the grieving aussie athletes to carry on Bridge collapse stirs controversy in Israel associated press Tel Aviv sobbing and hugging each Ralian athletes prayed yesterday for two teammates killed in a Bridge collapse at the Macc Abiah and they vowed to compete in their Hon As police began investigating mondays which also injured 64 the Engineer who approved the Wood and Alu Minum Bridge said the Span could not hold More than 100 people at a time i and the client that a Roan would be posted at the Entrance to the Bridge and would not allow More than Sqq people onto it any one Mica who was questioned by told Israel police minister Avigdor Kaha Lani said he did no know of any sync video shot just before the col lapse showed the australian athletes coming onto the Bridge in and no one is seen counting Israel to said almost All the australian team of 380 were on the Bridge when it earlier reports and wit Nesses said the number was the israeli army reportedly had offered the Maec Abiah organizers to build the Bridge across the Yarkon River into the Ramat Gan stadium for but lost out to a private company that offered to do the work for the reported that the army bitterly criticized the games with one officer saying people died because of a Petty dispute Over the my five daily said organizers ignored warnings by israeli Security officials that the wobbly 20 metres Long and four metres would not be the australian team gathered its own interviewing team members who witnessed the tragedy during the opening ceremony of the the games were suspended a Day until today to mourn the and Yetty both men Bers of the australian 10pin Bowling the injured included 63 australians and one seven of those Hurt were in serious condition there were about 300 canadians attending the games and none were injured the Macc Abian games have contests in 36 sports ranging from Lawn Bowling to the games Are named after the a group of jews who lived in second and first centuries and led a successful War of Independence a photo australian athlete injured on Bridge gets a ;