Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october the world Milosevic foe poised for win Reuters Belgrade a foe of yugoslavian president Slobodan Milo Sevic was expected to win the presidency of Montenegro while a race for the presidency of ser Bia Hung on whether voter turnout exceeded so per with a fifth of the votes counted in smaller of the two republics in the yugoslavian federa elections officials said Milo Djukanovic was building a solid Lead Over Milosevic protege Momir Bula who As prime minister tried to privatize Montenegro econ has pledged to Force Reform on Milosevic with the threat of election monitors estimated the Djukanovic expected to win Montenegro presidency turnout in the second round of the presidential election in the dominant failed to exceed the so percent threshold for a valid the Centre for free elections and democracy said Only some per cent of the million electorate the vote pitted milosevics socialist party nominee Zoran Lilic against nationalist Vojislav although they needed one million More voters than supported their candidates in the first socialist and Radical party spokesmen still hoped for a decisive result which would avoid a rerun of the boycotted by opposition a socialist estimate based on a count of 10 per cent of the vote put Lilic slightly ahead of the radicals said the score was to per cent in favour of Seselja based on a 20percent his party on a was in confident form after promis ing cooperation with Milosevic and confrontation with the West if he the Radical party Victory would Rule out any possibility of kneeling to any Western he said after Vot Serbia will focus on its own inter the interests of the serbian people and All its to wont be anyone a Hartline nationalist and paramilitary commander during ser Bias wars with the secessionist for Mer yugoslav republics Croatia and has been both an ally and a foe of commenting on relations with the yugoslavian he said our duties Are strictly defined by the con t doubt whether hell be Able prevent me from fulfilling 1 have no intention of hampering him in fulfilling his the Radical who won 82 seats in the serbian legislature last has indicated he might enter a government coalition with milosevics socialists who failed to win an outright a Bellicose speaker with a he gave Lilic an easy apparently to avoid i fling socialist feathers when the i met for a live television debate during Seselja is a dedicated foe of the Bosert Ian peace agreement and of demands for Compromise with Tai albanian majority in Serbia South Ern province of tie has specifically ruled out tit extradition of former Bowsfi Ianswer president Radovan a fabric and i commander Ratko Mladic cd trial by the tin War crimes j coalition with Seselja would make i impossible for Milosevic to meet til wests without which the of sanctions still crippling the Yugo Lei Vian Economy will remain in a photo Pope John Paul is greeted by As Many As two million brazilians for his Farewell mass in Rio de Brazil says so Long to pontiff associated press Rio de Brazil some peered from High Rise balconies and others climbed Trees to see Pope John Paul yesterday As More than a Mil lion people turned out for his final mass in winding up a fou Day John Paul kept to his theme of defending the calling it the fundamental Community of love and Globo to estimated the crowd at Bayside Flamingo Park at More than one while police put it at two it was at least As Large As the crowds this year in Paris and but this one had a brazilian flair men in shorts and women in Bikini All swaying to hymns under the tropical the temperature hit 28 c on the first warm brazilian Spring Day since the Pope arrived the 77yearold pontiff showed remarkable often insisting on walk ing unaided and twirling his Cane for the at a rally in Maraca a stadium sat urday he walked up and Down the 23 stairs to the the Vatican said he intends to keep on with his next pilgrimage to for he looks a lot older now and a lot weak but his message is still the said Jose Alberto a systems analyst who was 16 when John Paul last visited Rio in Hes the the Popes visit was mainly to pronounce the Church message on the family and to set Down strategy with Bishops meeting Here to defend the institution against what the Church sees As secular John Paul condemned sex outside of mar Gay marriage and and called abortion the shame of dont let a hedonistic Ambi Tion and selfishness enter your he said in his homily during the he also assailed the wide Gap Between Rich and poor in and showed Solidarity with the poor by Ping to Greet residents of a notorious Shantytown and distributing communion to a group of Street children at sunday roman catholics cheered Johnson believed Castro killed Juk Book exp resident feared retaliation would Lead to wan tapes show associated press Washington president Lyndon Johnson thought Cuba played a role in the 1963 assassination of presi Dent John Kennedy but Wor ried a retaliatory strike could Lead to nuclear a new Book Johnson said publicly blaming cuban president Fidel Castro would generate a Public outcry for an attack on Cuba or the soviet Union that could Check us into a War that can kill 40 million americans in an the Johnson White House by historian Michael said Johnson also told the late senator Richard Russell in 1964 he did not believe the conclusion of the Warren of which rus sell was a that Kennedy was killed by a Lone gunman the Book casts Russell As a reluctant member of the commission who was coerced into signing the report against his in just worn fight ing Over that damned Russell is saying on one i dont believe i dont Johnson Newsweek today carries excerpts of the which details conversations from the secret Johnson kept running during his stay in the White the published by Simon and is to appear in bookstores this the tapes also reveal John son had Strong reservations about involvement in1 i stayed awake last night thinking of this he told his National Security Mcgeorge in May it looks to me like were getting into another i dont think we can fight them Miles away from i dont think its Worth fighting its just the biggest damned mess that i Ever shuttle Landing delayed associated press Cape after 144 Days away from his family and astronaut Michael Foales return from the russian space station Mir was delayed yesterday because of thick Clouds that prevented a Safe Landing by the space shuttle Nasa waited until the last minute before ordering the seven member shuttle Crew to remain in orbit an extra although the weather was Good enough for an unmanned rocket to blast off with a communication Satel the sky was too Cloudy for Atlantis to attempt a Tricky touchdown in dark earlier in the Gusty wind was also a con if he returns this event As now Foale will have spent 145 Days in orbit free Market reforms rattle chivas firms by Falton y times news service China la Yaquin cheerfully admits for a chairwoman of the she does not know much about Lus running a company newly freed from government own right in the heart of chivas largest might seem an enviable spot for finding Opportunity in the worlds fastest growing but like so Many managers in China who came of age under Central has More experience Fol lowing communist party instructions than making business at her Bac Kalley where 159 workers make Industrial sewing she seems a pit perplexed in her search for new sources of the leadership is encouraging us to explore new said a portly woman of whose company has retained its communist Era Shanghai i textile machinery i thought maybe we should Start a laundry delivery what do you think the vast majority of chivas state run like Lus Are inefficient and under pressure to Way to stay the business mate has become treacherously and Many leaders like la Are party operatives with Little experience or understanding of at the communist party Congress last month in the party approved a plan to shift the owner ship of All but or so enterprises away from the through Public Sale of shares or Transfer ring control to a company management and the state press has hailed the move As a Cru Cial step Forward in chivas economic shed Burden the in is to shed the states Burden of Money losing Busi while dismantling the last leaders say they must Stop paying huge subsidies to lagging enterprises that cannot compete with non state companies that Are fueling chivas locomotive like rate of eco nomic growth the As seen at a factory like is a mishmash of Good murky political Deal making and chinese charac As politicians Here Call Phenomena they cannot easily Thot in me appears Likely to be a Messy mixture of state and private chinese officials Hope that Over the Long releasing state companies into the free Market will Force a Nat ural selection of viable we must have a system where the Strong survive and the weak said Wang minister of the state economic and Trade commis during the party that is the lesson of the Market the grave risk is that unrest will erupt among since More than 100 million jobs Are at stake in the stat owned businesses that will be up for Sal workers at Many companies Are suddenly finding them selves obliged to buy shares if they want to keep their and once government support disappears they could be left with nothing if their fac tories an even greater dramatised in Small but ominous worker protests across the country in recent is the danger of corrupt factory managers who fail to pay workers taking advantage of the disorder As ownership is shift abscond with a company for esp in choosing leaders clearly a critical a shareholding system wans giving shareholders the right to select a company the reality May not be so in Lus for the same four leaders who ran the factory before it shifted from state ship to a shareholding system last year were elected again at a first meeting of with a new fifth member added it was la said proud feels much better to be chosen by everyone than appointed by one or two people up has been the factors com unit party Secretary since when fanatical leftists were in charge and the main require ment for the As la remembers was organizing and chanting political slogans of the cultural she became the factors general manager to mirroring the kind of elections held at various Levels of chinese gov at enterprises life Lus Max sometimes offer a few genuine but Only within parame ters that the relevant authorities have la inadvertently revealed As much when she described the process at her when we were preparing for the our leaders got nervous and asked Are you sure this is going to be a up la dont worry few months before the directors were la held staff meetings to talk about switching to a Sharea holding the workers were of each asked to put up about triple the average monthly for a stake i the to such a Price is in because the country savings rate so inexpensive housing still allows a typical Urban worker to Bank 40 percent of a and in addition to chivas cultural tradition of there Are few investment choices better than a savings i bought because its a said a machinist at the keeping an Eye on who was present she our factory is a Good the shares that this worker bought at Lus factory cannot be except to another and will Reti eally Rise or fall in value in line with the company Only about 700 companies in China have won permission to Trade shares on one of the nations Young Stock la said that her workers had All bought shares and insisted that the 100 percent participation rate reflected workers not any compulsory everyone bad a Strong desire for the new la were Sqq everyone thinking was in toe with toe Leader f ;