Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 5, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba 3vpbx 958re it 7368 Winnipeg free press Canada world september Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 gift tii Fitti a fld Al s3 and 610 around Canada heavy water spills a leak at he Pickering nuclear Plant Jas been plugged up after about is litres of tritium Contaoi rated heavy water spilled into Lake Ontario Hydro spokesman Terry Voung said tritium Levels were below regulatory limits and there was no danger to drinking he added the unit 1 reactor has been shut Hydro is closing Down a total of seven reactors in the Wake of a damning report on workers protest Montreal at least to municipal workers staged a noisy protest in front of Premier Lucien Bouchard office workers Are concerned that million in provincial cutbacks to municipalities will be passed on to the government has hinted that it could pass a Law that would allow municipalities to change some of the conditions of their contracts with the Public cod future grim there Are no convincing signs of recovery for Northern cod stocks off the Newfoundland coast and the future looks says a government today i am conveying a very grim Scott an assistant Deputy minister of science with the department of fisheries and said available evidence suggests there continues to be almost no fish off Labrador and the Northern tip of a hand for the Arm Cana Darm is get Ting a Canada space giant spar aerospace and the Federal government signed a contract yesterday to build the robotic a High tech Gizmo that will be part of Cana Das contribution to the International space the Complete with cameras for will help build and main Tain the space which is due to be operational Early next she defied the Odds the first Canadian with cystic fibrosis to defy the Odds and have a died after a lung transplant on left behind a life that included two a nursing and advocacy designed to bring the struggles of cystic fibrosis patients to the Public cystic a congenital Dis is usually diagnosed in Early childhood until the last those who had it rarely lived beyond the age of devoted to the rules life devoted to parliamentary rules and procedures would seem to Many dry and but a Stair former clerk of the House of commons who died monday at age was a Man who could enliven the Stod Giest he was an expert on parliamentary procedure who combined wit and Wisdom and was one of Ottawa most popular hosts and his death came less than a month after Jung cancer the operation had been deemed a its believed he died from a heart attack or blood kids stay at Home several Par worried about the health effects a nearby Industry has on their kept their kids out of school for the first of about 20 whose children attend Walpole South elementary staged a protest by withhold ing their children from the first Day of school because of safety they Are concerned about the Esso refinery that sits 600 metres behind the school playground explosion in Cuba capital kills italian resident of Canada bomb blasts hit hotels i Havana associated press Mexico City explosions Shook three tourist hotels in the cuban capital Havana at midday yesterday and an italian resident of Canada was the explosions appear to be part of a Campaign by dissidents aimed at Cubas increasingly important tourist reporters reached by Tele phone said the first and worst explosion occurred just before local time at the Copacabana where Fabio Dicelmo was workers were cleaning up shards of plate Glass following the blast in a bar connected to the the italian foreign ministry in Rome identified Dias a native of but resident in it said he and his father were staying at the hotel As reporters said two much smaller blasts occurred within 45 minutes at the chateau and Triton no injuries were immediately a receptionist at the contacted by Tele insisted nothing happened hotel Access blocked she would give her but police blocked Access to All yesterday afternoon m cuban official had no immediate comment on the but if said in August three earner hotel bombings were terrorist acts organized and from with in the United states Terri officials said they had no information to sup port the claim and yester Day said there was no justification for the United states is committed to supporting a peaceful transition to democracy in said state department spokesman James this does not in any Way condone the use 6f violence As a Means of achieving that transition or of demonstrating political Hie group Alpha 66 in Miami said in August it was not responsible for the blasts but was in Contact with Clandestine dells inside Cuba that Alpha 66 promotes the use of Vio Lence to overthrow the government of president Fidel foreign currency the last confirmed bomb ing in the cuban capital occurred 5 at the luxury hotel Mella Small explosives went off july 12 in the Nacional and Capri injuring three there waft also an explosion 4 at a cuban tourism office in Nassau in the with Many other parts of the Economy Cuba has come to rely increasingly heavily on which in recent years has surpassed sugar As Cubas largest source of foreign Cuba said it expects Well Over one million tourists visit this year mostly1 from Italy and also a cuban dissident was sentenced to 18 months in prison for con tempt of Sira if Miami based Palacios was arrested Early this year after telling a a German television broadcaster Castor had failed to abide by a political rights declaration he signed during a Summit of latin american leaders last Axle Likely f aused rail crash experts Canadian press Saskatoon a Bro Ken locomotive Axle Likely caused wednes Days deadly passenger train experts dismiss ing suggestions there were problems with the the transportation safety Board of Canada made the preliminary conclusion yesterday after combing through the wreckage of the via rail train in Cor a second it seems More and More obvious that the Axle caused the Board chair Man Benoit Bouchard said after inspecting the Bouchard said one possibility that has been eliminated is the which was found to be in Good Condi the train will studied it could be a year before a cause is in rail agreed a broken Axle on the second locomotive caused the the company brushed aside suggestions from some workers that cutbacks contributed to the Mike Simpson of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers which rep resents via said the two train engineers heard something go just before the Sug Gesting a broken the with 193 Pas sengers and 29 was headed for Toronto from Vancouver when it flipped off a straight stretch of track just of 100 kilo Roeter Tif West of at the two engines toppled on to heir sides and 10 of the 19 passenger cars piled up behind them in a mass of jagged Metal and broken one woman died and dozens of people were tidied thursday As Diana of she was travelling with her a Uil off Mori 196m997 Candle in the wind is the text of the Frio differ version of the song Candle in the which Rock Star Elton John will sing at dianas funeral composer wrote the words to the Fig Ilal song in changed the lyrics of the Occa goodbye England Rose May you Ever grow in our you were the Grace that placed itself where lives were torn you called out to our and you whispered to those in now you belong to and the stars spell out your and it seems to me you lived your life like a Candle in the wind never fading with the Sunset when the rain set and your footsteps will always fall among England greenest Hilts your candles burned out Long before your legend Ever loveliness weve lost these empty Days without your this Torch Well always carry for our nations Golden and even though we the truth brings us to tears All our words cannot express the Joy you brought us through the goodbye England from a country lost without your Wholl miss the wings of your compassion More than youll Ever at Dis All eyes will be on William Fly by John Morrison Knight rudder newspapers t ook into his face and i shy Doe like the Silky the seeming self efface ment that can suddenly turn Indi Cating an Iron strength under a soft he is William Arthur Philip and sometime in the next if All goes he will be King of he is a 15yearold adolescent trying to Bear up under the awful Burden of having lost his Beautiful and beloved Mother in a horrendous car Prince William is said to be a serious and withdrawn boy who hates the idea of being in the pub Lic As his process stalked by photog a every move recorded for the delectation of a tabloid entranced Public hungry for titillation to Light their own drab but he May have Little More than 6 feet tall and hand to mention Young Prince is said already to be attracting the attention of Young ladies at parties and discos he has All duly reported in the of but his next foray into the Light tomorrow will test his met the As never More than a million eyes will be on my As he walks behind the gun Carriage wit Independent bearing his mothers coffin on a three mile journey from James Palace 19 Ster where the funeral will be millions More will be watching on Televik i William insisted against the wishes of his Prince that he make the displaying the Streak of stubborn Pendency he inherited from his Mother and which May Mark his it is said that Charles wag worried that his elder son might not be Able to handle the but William was his father and younger win walk with but the attention May be focused on him As the Royal subjects Ponder what kind of a person he How he is hold ing what kind of a Man he will there is no question that both William and Harry will miss their who was not hesitant to show her love for them with fre quent hugs and who took them out of the Castle and into the allowing them to frolic at eat go Whitewater play Tennis and attend the with they dressed informally in base Ball jeans and by whenever they were seen with their father Hunt ing and fishing in they were dressed in at More formal in his father called William Willie not considered an William at shy energetic youngster since the name conjures up a rather Slothful Bearline his Mother once said he is a typical gemini some times anxious and William seems to be happiest tramping around the Hills of bal moral with Bis gun and his he hates to be he once urged his parents not to attend a function at his because their presence would bring too much attention on but he is said to enjoy an occasional loud music and designer he also enjoys driving around the private roads of Balmoral in the fastest vehicle he can All of which could be fat fodder for the tabloids in future will William remember the lessons of his Mother when he assumes the throne or will they be lost in the Stern and secluded world behind the Stone Walls of Buckingham where he win spend the next decades Diana showed her sons the world of where people suffer with disease and hunger and will his father and the rest of the Royal including the continue this informal education for the future or will he now be isolated and protected As he is prepared for his eventual Assumption of the throne ;