Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba More Canada and world news b3 and c8 around warlord leads race Liberia times the warlord who started the conflict that destroyed much of his country has apparently won a Strong popu Lar mandate to restore the nation or at least to Rule it with some legit Only preliminary results were announced last night from saturdays but experienced foreign election observers said it was nearly certain that Charles who started the civil War in Liberia in had enough votes to avoid a with 250 of polling places Taylors party had per cent of the his nearest oppo Ellen Johnso Sirleaf had per flood fears ease Prague Reuter River Levels slowly fell yesterday in the czech Republic and easing fears in those countries of a new wave of the flooding that has killed nearly 100 but in Germany the Oder River reached its highest level in 50 years near the polish Border and water lev Els Rose steadily on the hungarian Section of the River in flood Waters retreated but the Danube was closed to ship Ping along an 80kilometre stretch Between Linz and charges Likely Jerusalem a police have enough evidence to indict six people on criminal negligence in the col lapse of a Macc Abiah games Bridge that killed two australian athletes and injured a newspaper reported the daily Dediot Ahrnot said police would recommend prosecuting the Engineer who planned the the contractors who built the Developer who hired them and the Macc Abiah games chairman and ceremony died and 67 others were injured when the Bridge collapsed As the australian delegation crossed Dur ing the opening ceremony of the Macc Abiah games last Back to the Bay a accompanied by a Fleet of sailboats and modern Navy the oldest commissioned warship afloat left its berth the uss Constitution was towed to where it was to be let Loose today to sail in Massachusetts Bay under its own Power for the first time in 116 a flotilla of from Woodman Elled yachts to floated around the filling mar behead Harbour As the 200yearold ship came into sight through the craggy edges of Bostons North fish Dan isolated a fisheries experts from the United states and Canada want to restock two great lakes with the once plentiful Blue Pike by isolating Dan from a rare specimen caught in they Hope to match the Dan to what Are thought to be other scarce Blue Pike still living in lakes in Minnesota and then reintroduce the fish into Lake Erie and Lake officers arrested Jerusalem times palestinian Security forces have arrested four police including a police chief whom Israel accused of heading a squad that planned to attack jewish officials said the israeli government claims to have evidence that the palestinian police agents already have attacked israeli soldiers and and that it was operating under orders from one of the top palestinian police com Ghazi in Danny Rolls out Gulf Knight rid Der Southern Baldwin across the Bay from remained a water floored labyrinth of floating flooded Homes and capsized boats yesterday As the last Rainy tendrils of tropical storm Danny reluctantly rolled trailing vast bands of showers in its More than 750 my of rain had fallen on the Alabama coast Over three with even More concentrated on Mobile where Danny stalled for most of by compari the total rainfall for All of last year at mobiles Airport was just Over Winnipeg free press Canada world july Patrick Rynn 6977294 b1 party boots Plavsic associated press Bosnia Herzegovina Radovan Karadzic support booted his main rival the elected bosnian serb president from the ruling accusing her of aiding natos Hunt for War crimes suspects and promoting a dangerous split among the action late saturday appeared to confirm fears that a stepped up nato Campaign against Bosnia 1 War crimes has Only led Hartline serbs to close ranks around the Leader of the three Anda Hal year the serb half of Bosnia has been tense since nato raided a Northwest bosnian serb president punished Ern town on july capturing one War crimes suspect and killing another who resisted on nato made a show of Force outside Karadz is Home in massing 11 armoured personnel carriers Only metres away while a helicopter clattered Karadzic still dominates the Bosn Ian serb although he is barred from formal Power because he is wanted by the in War crimes Tri Bunal in the bosnian serb president Biljana Plavsic was quoted in a German news Magazine saturday As saying she was willing to use police and troops to arrest Karadzic if Neces in a meeting that the serb democratic party expelled the bosnian serb news Agency Srna reported yesterday that 55 of 84 Mem Bers of the party main Board were and All of them voted to oust the Board accused Plavsic of Caus ing a Legal crisis by trying to fire the Interior dissolve parliament and Call new according to the official Tan Jug news Agency of adjacent serb led Kabul residents look for family members in a House reduced to rubble in jets bombing anti Taliban Jet kills eight associated press Afghanistan an anti Taliban Jet fighter screamed in Low Over a crowded Kabul neighbourhood yes dropping two bombs that killed eight including three and wounded 12 opposition forces fighting the Tal iban religious which seized the capital in earlier claimed to have ousted Taliban soldiers from a strategic air base and town North of if the capture of bag ram air base would put the opposition within easy rocket Range of the the Taliban religious army seized Kabul on 27 and controls the Southern two thirds of the where it has enforced its strict ver Sion of islamic prohibiting women from working or going to school and ordering men to Pray regularly and grow before Dawn an opposition Jet dropped a Cluster bomb on the Kabul there were no two bombs hit the capitals Khai Khana neighbourhood about shattering windows across the heavily populated area and Send ing a huge Cloud of dust billowing into the victims were crushed when their mud Homes residents villagers worked feverishly to res Cue people believed trapped under the fearing the Jet fighter would mercy killings suspected Canadian press Ottawa the Ontario Coro ners office believes mercy killings Are taking place in Homes across the but Doest want to destroy families by conduct ing autopsies of their loved James Deputy chief says mercy killings Are More Likely to go undetected at Home than in his office suspects Many relatives administer drugs that hasten death in the last stages of but there not Likely to be caught unless they talk about it he said Many patients want to die at Home and usually have enough painkillers to end their with or without information on other methods is also available in books and on the said the Only Way we could do any thing about it is to autopsy every sin Gle person who what is the greater evil to destroy the family unit under these circumstances it would be an unjustified intrusion into decent palliative there is no simple said a prominent Arthur said if Cairns is its a Good argument for legalizing its not a Good thing that families should be bumping off their aging or dying said director of the Centre for applied and professional ethics at the University of families Are often under great emotional stress because of inheritances and the Burden of caring for someone who it would be better and safer if patients could Call upon a doctor who could assist them to die at a time of their Schafer said Many doctors have told him they have assisted a but there Are no studies to indicate just How often it happens in if euthanasia was under strict it would at least bring some accountability into whats already its All happening in and families can be wonderfully support Ive or rats nests of violent said Cairns said his suspicions that cases Are detected Only when some one talks Are confirmed by cases Hes mercy killings Are unlikely to go undetected in hospitals and nursing Homes because the coroners office does random and because staff have to report any suspicious it accused her of making it easier for nato to Hunt War crimes there was no immediate comment from she was unlikely to acknowledge the expulsion or Bow to the party simultaneous demand that she resign As Bosnia ser ruled territory is nearly divided in with one part holding Plavsich Headquarters in banja Luka and the other dominated by Karadzic from his stronghold at East of serbs fear that a geographic split would leave them militarily Vul Era making it easier for nato to grab More War crimes including fishermen debate whether to obey allow ferry to pass court by James Compton Canadian press Unce Fisher men blockading an alaskan ferry were ordered by a court to allow the vessel to continue its voyage yes passengers on the Malaspina spent the weekend caught in the tangled net of the Salmon War when frustrated canadians began circling the vessel with their fishing the fishermen debated into last night what to do about the which included an affidavit that left Many there were unconfirmed reports the fishermen would allow the boat to leave after consulting with their British Columbia fishermen say that alaskan fishermen Are violating the treaty by intercepting excess num Bers of Sockeye Salmon bound for British Columbia the affidavit the state of Alaska maintains that its management is consistent with the general treaty principles and objectives and with the conservation and sustained yield goals employed by the state of that said Bob Rezansoff a spokesman for the about 300 passengers re boarded the Malaspina yesterday morning after spending the night in but the fishermen refused to move their some passengers shouted obscenities at a few fishermen who burned an american an alaskan ferry bound for Prince Rupert yesterday was diverted to the moves sparked heated reaction at a rally of about 300 fishermen yesterday As they met to discuss you Guys got a lot of Power said fisheries Union spokesman John one of things we asked for before we take that ferry Down end blockade we want fisheries minister David Anderson Paddy a City councillor and fisheries adviser to Premier Glen said he is sympathetic but he cautioned that the ferry service is Worth about million a year to the France Marks 1942 Roundup of jews French pm Lionel Jospin lays Wreath at jewish memorial in associated press France paid tribute to the memory of Al jews who were rounded up in 1942 and sent to nazi death Camps in one of the worst incidents of French wartime at a ceremony marking the 55th anniversary of the Vel Shiy prime minister Lionel Jospin reminded his countrymen that the French bore responsibility for the mass this Roundup was planned and carried out by the Politi police and Gen Darmes took not one German Soldier was needed to accomplish this hideous Jospin Jospin was the latest French Leader to pay homage to the victims of the Roundup at the velodrome a cycling stadium in Western Paris where the jews were detained on july before being deported to nazi death former president Francois Mitter Rand dedicated a memorial three years ago at the Vel div which was razed in and made the anniversary a Day of National in about jews were deported from France to nazi concentration Camps during the second world Only this crime must leave its Mark on Pur collective said Jospin in his sombre which was car ried live on at Dawn on july French police began banging on doors through out dragging women and children from their Homes and taking them by bus to the cycling the families were imprisoned for three Days without food or then deported by train eastward to where most of them ;