Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press m0fb gift my of fld around the world serb to official upset Bosnia Washington Robst the director of serbian radio and television issued a thinly veiled the eat of f retaliation yesterday against Western peacekeeping troops and one Day after Natoley forces seized his Broad cast i fear there will be some uncontrolled actions and unpleasant conditions for your soldiers and International Miroslav director of the Tele vision said in an we wont be Able to control the Situ Bouchard sees Success Sophia prance up Lucien Bouchard declared his trip to France a huge Success saying he achieved All his economic and cultural Bouchard political goal was to seek Frances support for Quebec after a yes vote in a sovereignty ref we wanted to stress the continuity of our relations and the French government More clearly than that it will accompany what Ever our Choice May Bouchard said of meetings with French presi Dent Jacques Chirac and prime min ister Lionel kids survive night Alaska a after losing a Trail near Chena hot four children survived a freezing night in the wilderness by huddling together under a makeshift poncho i had to Tell myself everything was going to be said nine year old Samuel who spent More than 18 hours in the Woods with his sister and Cousin before being rescued monday by an Alaska state troopers Russia snubs Belarus Moscow Washington Post the russian government kept the president of Belarus from visiting Russia the latest in a series of squabbles Between the neighbouring former soviet which Only last april formed a Loose an aircraft carrying Belarus an president Alexander Lukashenko was scheduled to Fly to russian Yaroslavl province yesterday for a Belarus an Days just hours before the the government of russian president Boris Yeltsin refused to give the plane permission to enter russian Lukashenko has irritated Yeltsin by reestablishing a virtual police state in dismissing Parlia ment and infringing human ruffles feathers Netherlands Washington Post a fresh conflict Between the United states and Europe Over the costs of nato enlargement threatens to complicate the accession of Hungary and the czech Republic just As member states Legislatures Are opening the final debate on whether to ratify the alliances barely three months after Western leaders toasted the alliances embrace of the new East european democracies at their Summit con f Terence in several european governments Are voicing serious misgivings about the insistence that along with the new Mem should carry the bulk of the expenses related to nato enlarge Russia foiled Iran Moscow Washington Post russian internal Security service acknowledged yesterday that it had stopped an attempt by Iran to obtain ballistic missile technology from a russian undercutting earlier assurances by Russia that it was not supplying missile parts to Canada world october Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 suitcase nukes out of bag Washington a resented russian scientist and former adviser to president Boris Yeltsin said yesterday that Moscow secretly developed nuclear suitcase bombs under Kab orders in Alexei who served Oft the russian National Security contradicted statements by russian officials denying the existence of the weapons and buttressed claims that Many of them May have gone 1 am absolutely sure that they have been he told the House of representatives military research and development Kab had portable official the Issue arose when former Russ Ian National Security adviser Alexandr Lebed alleged that up to 100 portable made up to look like were unaccounted for since the 1991 breakup of the soviet according to who has agreed to testify before the House committee later this the devices have an explosive a parity of one equivalent of tonnes of int can be activated by a single person and could kill As Many As Yablokov said he had spoken to the scientists who worked on the weapons and so was certain of their but he acknowledged that the for Mer soviet defence ministry might never have known about the so called atomic demolition munitions because they were developed for the Kab spy service under a secret the according to were designed Only for terrorist Pur poses and were to be used by specially trained units to destroy key targets such As Power plants during it was the not the ministry of defence that ordered they were never included in the official list of a photo waiting for the Pope a woman holds a poster of Pope John Paul in downtown Rio de Janeiro while waiting for the Pon the Pope arrived in Brazil yesterday for a fou Day visit to preside Over the second world meeting with thousands of pilgrims from around the world Are in Brazil for the meet please see Story on Page Agency cant find semen samples that might Clear Truscott of murder by Tom Blackwell Canadian press review by Ontario top crime lab suggests it has lost semen samples that might have helped a Man prove he was wrongly convicted of a Mur Der 38 years no one at the Centre of forensic sciences is quite sure where the Sam Ples that might have freed Steven Truscott Are or if they still a spokesman for the solicitor Gener als ministry said if they Are still around and still intact enough to be that would be said ministry official Kenneth there they might be somewhere or they might until Treyve run out of places to keep on lawyers for convicted of strangling 12yearold Lynne Harper in 1959 and originally sentenced to asked the government for help in finding samples from the scene that could be submitted to a they Hope such a test would conclusively prove he did not kill records at the Centre of forensic sciences suggest it once had posses Sion of semen samples found on the victims said ministry spokesman Ken they indicate that any samples would have been returned to the be but its not Clear whether that meant they went to the prosecutor who handled the to a Central prosecutions office or and the evidence has yet to turn in those things we rent quite As systematic As they Are Tufts Brendan spokesman for the attorney generals said his department has yet to turn up any useful evidence but is continuing to cooperate As fully As possible with of Scotts conflicting witness accounts prompted questions about Truscott guilt almost immediately after he was for the doubts have never really his death sentence was commuted to life in prison and Truscott was released on parole after 10 years behind escaped murderer surfaces in the Canadian press Toronto an escaped Teller so violent that police once said he makes the blood run cold has been picked up without incident in the United three years after be walked away from convicted murderer Colin was arrested wednesday by marshals in where be was living under an assumed Wood ran out of the unfenced Bath near in in and jumped into the Back of a waiting he was serving a life along with two of his for the 1984 murder of Karen was to be a witness at a trial where Wood was facing a charge of break and her badly beaten body was found in Lake Ontario near a Canad wide warrant for his arrest was issued after his if Wood waives an extradition hear police said he will be immediately returned to at the time of Woods questions were raised about Why he was transferred to a minimum Security the ramp listed him at the top of its mos wanted list after his Woods criminal which dates Back to includes weapons drug driving offences and failure to attend Wood was one of four British ers police called Canadas most Dys functional All were involved with drug dealing and three were convicted of soviet he officials have not denied the existence of such but hate cast doubt on claims that some May have gone missing since the end of the we have not seen any hard evidence of suitcase Steed nuclear devices Unac counted for of falling into the hands of terrorists of rogue Fri director Louis Freeh told a separate congressional hearing but representative Curt the Pennsylvania Republican who Heads the House said the threat was serious and urgently need to be accorded higher priority by the Clinton forged passports used in assassination attempt Canada recalls envoy to Israel Canadian to View York Canada will recall i its ambassador to Israel after forged Canadian passports were used As a says Toolin Trade in a shadowy attempt to assassinate an islamic Leader in we have no involvement whatsoever in foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy said in if we Are an innocent party that has been used in this two men carrying Canadian pass ports were arrested last week in after an attack on Khaled a Leader of the pales Tinian extremist group Send a message a8 the passports identified them As Shawn and Barry according to jordanian police documents transliterated from ctr news reported yesterday that kendalls passport was authentic but had expired and apparently had been Axworthy said Canada takes great exception to the use of the reputation of Canadian passports for those kinds of Pur and we Are recalling our Ambas Sador to Israel from Israel Back to Ottawa for consultations on the recalling an ambassador is a Way to express Sharp displeasure with another Ottawa said the passports Are Axworthy said he spoke yesterday to jordanian Crown Prince Hassan to assure him that Canada played no role in the promised to bar agents of its secret from using Canadian passports for its operations after they were caught doing so in Axworthy said he will seek further assurances from Israel after the Rosh has Hanah jewish Axworthy decision to recall the Canadian ambassador to Israel is a Strong but Likely wont Hurt relations Between the countries in the Long say a local academic and the president of the Bani Canada has been far too soft and used too much by the intelligence said University of Manitoba political studies Peter Israel could retaliate and withdraw their ambassador or they May not do said our relations with Israel Are More important to them than i Hope it will be Lyle National president of the Bani said of the the relationship Between the two countries has been very last month Mordin attended a meeting with Canadian jewish leaders and Axworthy in Ottawa which be said underlined the positive relationship Between two ;