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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 14, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bieber securities a Manitoba full serve in investment firm 5 year corporate debenture rating can Steve ill Lek 9460297 or Winnipeg free press Canada world May 1998 Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 More Canada and world news b6andb12 around Canda Pharest Sticks to guns Quebec Quebec Liberal Leader Jean Charest stuck yesterday to his script that the provinces Economy is his priority and that he wont depend on Ottawa for constitutional its not going to be a problem for Charest said after a meeting with his party Charest said he Doest plan to lose sight of what really matters to peo grits get boost Halifax Nova Scotia fragile Liberal minority government got a symbolic boost yesterday when a new Democrat la resigned from caucus Over problems with his Legal Reeves Matheson resignation comes just one week before the Start of the Spring session of the Legisla Ture and Breaks the 19seat deadlock Between the two in terms of it suggests that one party has nosed said Leonard a Polit ical scientist at Saint marys uni senator hospitalized Prince senator Pat Carney will stay in Prince Rupert Hospital until at least today after suffering Chest Carney checked herself into Prince Rupert regional Hospital yesterday morning when she apparently had Chest pains and shortness of results on tests Are not yet Bug in pms ear Ottawa a commons report on the millennium Bug to be released today will recommend the prime minister take a stronger leadership role in getting the country computers on track for says a member of the committee studying the particularly the prime i dont is taking it seriously we need leadership at the absolute top and the govern ment should be exercising a Leader ship position on this Reform my Werner Schmidt said in an inter with the minister taking a leadership at least it could help to downplay some of the Compla compiled from Canadian press around the world 29 Disney animals die t Are Buena a i animals died at new animal kingdom theme More than twice the number previously Accord ing to a Federal report obtained yesterday by the associated Disney had acknowledged that 12 animals four cheetah two two hippos and four other animals died at or in route to the us theme officials for the department of agriculture investigated the deaths and found no wrongdoing on Disney but its report listed several other deaths not made Italy death toll rises Italy a week of confusing and fluctuating Esti authorities upped the death toll in the mudslides in Southern Italy to 143 yesterday and said 136 people were the number was based on a House to House cabbies strike Back new York a thousands of new York taxi Drivers went on strike yesterday in a on Day protest against proposed new rules aimed at making cabbies More police said Only about 200 of the manhattans cabs were on the death Row reprieve Texas Houston Chroni Cle a divided state appeals court yesterday overturned the death sen tence of a mildly retarded Man convicted in the 1985 robbery and slaying of a convenience store the Texas court of criminal appeals ruled that jurors in the trial Bobby Joe wills should have been told they could weigh his mental Sta Tus in deciding whether he should be put to death for the a police officer draws his gun to disperse a riot in involving emotionally charged supporters of rival mayoral mayoral race Sparks riot by Dan Lett staff reporter Makati police broke up a clash Between factions of rival mayoral candidates in this philippine City about so Makati police brandishing riot Shields and Bamboo poles tried to separate Arturo Toro abuts who surrounded Makati City Hall with their and backers of opponent Ellen when Yabut supporters lobbed tomatoes and rocks at the Binay one officer Drew his revolver and pointed it at the angry Yabut alleges Binay is guilty of vote rigging an All too common part of elections in this Makati City councillor Mike Joseph stood among the angry throng of peo ple surrounding City Hall and Shook his he used to be a Binay but now he supports Yabut and he is not afraid to accuse his former Polit ical ally of i know All these people and i Tell they Are Joseph his eyes Welling with the Makati Battle is a classic exam ple of the blood feuds that regularly strike philippine More than 50 people have lost their lives in elec Tio related violence across the coun much of it stemming from these localized Binay is the wife of Jojo the outgoing three term mayor of Makati and one of the most powerful local politicians in the in partial returns from Binay is running Well ahead of municipal politicians in the Philip Manila free press reporter Dan Lett has been covering the controversial election Campaign in the today he reports on a clash Between rival Pines can Only serve three but it is not unusual for politicians who have exhausted their term limits to install sons or daughters in their place to continue the family political sometimes these feuds would be comic Relief if it we rent for the tragic on election armed bodyguards working for Jojo Binay stormed the office of Gabriel a City councillor and abuts running in a confrontation Between rival two of Dazeas loyalists were stabbed and while Sev eral others were seriously Jojo Binay has refused to comment on the attack and As of yesterday had resisted Calls to order his bodyguards to surrender themselves to Ellen Binay has denied All knowledge of the Lyle free press vote rigging allegations make checking ballots just a few blocks away from the City Hall the fates of and their angry supporters will be ultimately nearly 100 employees of the Board of election inspectors carry on the task of counting the ballots by Twenty heavily armed soldiers stand Vigil Over the counters to ensure the Security of the ballot one election inspector smiles when asked How Long she has been at the we started on the Day of the election 3 and went till mid then it was 9 to Midnight and it will be the same the woman her eyes bloodshot from filling out enor Mous municipal return with Little automation in the elec toral government officials struggle for weeks to collect the Esti mated 27 million ballots that were the philippine commission on elections reported yesterday that final electoral results will not be confirmed until which would allow the new president and Vic president to be sworn into office june partial results and exit polls by Cit Izen watchdog groups and the Media show former Vic president Joseph Estrada with a commanding Lead for the these polls and returns account for less than 15 per cent of the votes while it appears the race for presi Dent and Vic president could be land Battles for lower offices remain competitive and capable of provoking a great Deal of emotion from opposing each philippine newspapers Are filled with charges and counter charges of electoral fraud and presidential candidate Jose de Venecia said Estrada had manufactured a series of exit polls and Par tial returns to show that he was leading the balloting by a wide mar his Are being interpreted by most analysts As an indication that and not is preparing to fix the a major step towards peace occurred yesterday when Manila archbishop Jaime Cardinal sin called on the 10 other presidential Candi dates to concede defeat to israeli jets launch deadly attack in Lebanon on training Camp for palestinian guerrillas conductor kicks toddler from path of moving train associated press associated press Lebanon in the deadliest attack in Lebanon in More than two israeli jets bombarded a training Camp for pales Tinian guerrillas killing As Many As 10 and wounding 20 or More As they the Syria backed Fatah a palestinian faction opposed to Middle East said six members died in the rocket attack on what it described As administrative positions in Eastern Lebanon Bekaan Val it vowed to make the enemy pay the Price for this callous police said eight people were killed and 20 but state run television and Beirut private voice of Lebanon radio quoted Hospital officials As saying 10 guerrillas had been killed and 22 Fatah uprising issued a statement saying Israel used internationally banned weapons in the it did not but Beirut radio reported that israelis used Cluster which explode above target and Spray shrapnel for maximum in a the israeli military said their jets attacked terror targets in the Bekaan Valley and that All pilots returned safely to it was not Clear what prompted the attack near about 15 kilo metres West of the syrian Border and 50 Kilometres East of the raid came a Day after pro Iran Ian Hezbollah guerrillas in Southern Lebanon wounded two israeli soldiers and fired rockets toward israels Bor Der As revenge for israeli shelling that wounded two lebanese at least four jets fired Airt surface rockets in each of two attacks As guerrillas were still in bed at the a series of tents and trenches scattered in the Fields near the Beirut Damas Cus the conductor on a slow moving freight train spotted a Tod Dler lying on the tracks just so be dashed to the Grill at the front of the locomotive and kicked her out of harms i just had to try it had to be just All con Ductor Robert Mohr said Nineteen Montgold Emily mar shall was bumped tuesday by part 9f the locomotive but suffered just a Cut on her head and a swollen she was released from Hospital military probing Winnipeg conference by John Ward Canadian press Ottawa the military is con ducting an internal review of an air Force conference held in Winnipeg last year which Cost As much As Reform my Leon Benoit told the commons defence committee yester Day that the three Day conference was a virtual retirement party for al then head of air Benoit said the total Tab was at least defence minister Art who didst dispute Benoit said the military is running an audit of the it was not a it was a Confer he there were 460 peo ple All including some civilians and in told it was very it was a very useful Exchange of he confirmed that celebrations played a part in because it marked the creation of 1 Canadian air division and the opening of a North american aerospace defence command Norad Headquarters in Winnipeg As Well As de Quetteville the costs were primarily associated with the that the auditors Are going the matter is under internal audit by the chief of review services and 1 expect to have the audit the july conference was a Star studded participants included the present chief of the defence Maurice Baril David Kins the new head of air command and Vic Admiral Gary now Vic chief of the defence Benoit obtained details of the con Ference through an Access to information his figures showed expenditures of on hotel on food and for a Fly on a flight simulator and for incite the biggest item was about Mil lion to Fly in guests on military Benoit said the military has better uses for million than to spend it on a gathering of especially since the defence committee has spent weeks listening to complaints from servicemen and women and their spouses about Low sub Standard housing and struggles Over medical care and there Are some Many places that it could be i just dont think this is he he said the troops Are once again getting the wrong signals from Mili tary we know what kind of message this he that Type of and a lot of other ways the moneys being spent Are really the cause for morale dropping As much As it Eggleton condemn the conference saying Hes waiting for the we have to judge these on a Case Byase he id ask you to wait until we get the lets not jump to ;