Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958 rent 7368 Mare Canada and world news and 012 around Canada Hitman admits guilt Halifax a Hitman for a Quebec Bike gang came to Nova Scotia amid tight Secu Rity yesterday to admit to the tract killing of a local Aime pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the 2 shooting of Robert in a Deal with Quebec Simard pleaded guilty to several crimes in Exchange for a lighter sen tence and Simard was flown Back to Quebec immediately after the 30minute hearing in Nova Scotia supreme Boycott urged group of euro Pean environmentalists said yester Day they will ask companies in their Home countries to Boycott Timber or Forest products from old growth the group said Europe is being sold Timber and pulp under Glossy assurances of world class forestry made by Forest companies and smooth talk ing Canadian embassy Mother appeals to son the Mother of a Man charged in the Shotgun slayings of three Young men appealed yesterday to her son to turn himself we All want you where we can help you we love Amelia Vermette said during a news con Ference in this six die in crash six Young people were killed Early yesterday in a fiery two vehicle crash on a Sec Tion of the Tran Canada Highway notorious for police said a car crossed the Centre tried to veer but collided with another car at about inmates poorer Toronto jail inmates in Ontario Are about to get a Little bit and one prisoner advocate says the results could be More inter Nal crime and the conservative government has axed a allowance paid to occupants of provincial after cutting the payment from in solicitor general Bob Runci Man announced suspect arrested arrested a 15 year old boy yesterday As a suspect in the burning of another who was set on fire and then doused with the also remained in Calgary Foothills hos Pital in critical condition with Burns to 90 per cent of his no cause for probe is no need for an investigation into allegations of political corruption and financial mismanagement on the Stoney Reserve near an Indian affairs official said at this we see no cause or have any intention of launching an said Jim big catch Victoria alaskan fishermen could catch 10 times their limit of Canadian Sockeye by the end of the leaving British columbian fishermen with reduced catch Lim fishermen from the state have caught Canadian despite a limit of officials say that number could reach one Mil lion by private sponsors Regina breweries and Oil companies May soon be propping up Saskatchewan Cash strapped recreational areas if the province continues plans to expand corporate sponsorship of its Park Saskatchewan aging outdoor facilities need More Money than the nip government can afford to environment minister Lowe Scott said compiled from Canadian press Winnipeg free press Canada world Pamek Flynn 6977294 b1 Narayanan Waves at a crowd of supporters in new Delhi yesterday after he was elected the new president of India by members of the National and state a photo from Humble associated press new Delhi for the first a member of India lowest class is to become the country a symbolic Victory for Mil Lions of indians once considered was elected by members of the National and state leg As is the custom in although the vote was conducted Mon ballots were not counted until yes 0 currently the vice pres won his nearest former election commissioner got just Narayanan will be sworn in july a Day after the five year term of cur rent president Shanker Dayal Sharma though the Post is largely ceremonial and the prime minister runs the the symbolism of Narayanan election was he is the first Indian from hinduism lowest class to become he said he would represent the whole i am feeling but Lam confident that the parliament and legislators have full Confidence in Narayanan the religion Practised by most indians divides society into four plus a lowliest class commonly called or oppressed peo a Century when indians like Narayanan were known As unt ouch brushing against such a person or even glancing at one was consid ered enough to defile a hindu of although today it is illegal to Dis Criminate against few have risen As far As davits make up an estimated 25 per cent of India 970 million mostly poor and Many Are landless others work As Street garbage collectors or cobblers jobs that according to hindu defile a High caste their frustration boiled Over last week in where someone desecrated a statue of Dalit hero a prominent Independence Era lawyer who helped write India police fired on the killing 12 of and unrest spread to other cities this one Man was killed yesterday when police fired on Low caste protesters in about 500 Kilometres North of my slaying unrelated to killing Polk Cunanan sightings reported associated press Miami reported sightings of Andrew Cunanan poured in to police phone lines leading investigators to believe the prime suspect in the slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace is still in the South Florida one sighting came from a Man who said he saw someone fitting Cunanan description running from a Home where a Gay doctor was slain in a neighbourhood about 25 Kilometres from where Versace was gunned by late police said there was no link Between the two the reported sighting sent Fri agents and police scrambling to the Home near Miami International Airport where the doctors body was found in his metro Dade homicide Lou Alvarez said Silvio a Cuba born had not been shot but died from trauma to the upper part of his Versace was shot twice in the Back of the head wednesday outside his oceanfront Villa after a morning investigators who believe Cunanan is still in the area playing a deadly game of cat and mouse put a close watch on miamis Busy air seaport and bus terminals to head off an escape and warned South Florida residents he could be John Coffey of the Florida department of Law enforcement said tips about Cunanan whereabouts were constant Lead ing authorities to believe Cunanan has not yet left a photo ads Home dusted for experts on serial killers warned the intense International publicity surrounding the 27 year old who has been accused of preying on wealthy Gay could be fuelling his ego and his i would say Hes euphoric at this if we dont Stop he will kill said Jack who Heads northeastern University program for the study of violence and is the author of three books on serial killers described by his Mother and police As a Gay Cunanan is also suspected of four murders in Illinois and new Jersey since april he has been charged in three of those the latest charge coming yester Day in the May 3 slaying of millionaire Chica go Developer Lee who said was stabbed and wrong plug pulled on Power Cut Klu v to f t 14u vhf guv the soyuz escape capsule to steer the station until the associated press Moscow the Crew of the hobbled Mir deepened its own trouble yesterday with a very Downto Earth error pulling the wrong plug and temporarily cutting most of the space stations already disabled the mistake ultimately sent the Mir Askew and on a twisting ride through space for initially Cut off from Contact with its Crew was forced to use to the foul up could be besides raising new con Cerns about the Mir and its overworked the latest in a growing list of setbacks for the outdated space station forced another postpone ment in vital repairs needed on a damaged both the practice session and the fixity spacewalk which had been scheduled for next will now be bumped Back for an indefinite russian Mission control As for which of the three Crew members two cosmonauts and a Astro naut disconnected the Cable and How it could Hap officials either didst know or we rent it was the Crews mis Mission control chief Vladimir Solovyov said from the control Centre out Side other officials agreed it didst matter who did but with the world watch ing the unfolding of seemingly daily the control chief said evacuation from the aging vehicle int that Means astronaut Michael subbing for exhausted commander Vasily should get a Chance to team with flight Engineer Alexander Lautkin to try to fix dam age done to Mirs Power when a Supply ship slammed into the station on june approval the space Agency Nas announced it had approved russian request for Foale to take part in training for the challenging repair Frank manager of nasal shuttle Mir said there is some question As to whether Foale will fit in the russians spacesuit and gloves provided for such if it Doest fit Well enough and Hes not Happy with we wont do ;