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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 8, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Yeltsin s candidate for pm rejected a a m Central Bank chairman Sergei Dubinin has offered to resign. Associated press Moscow legislators rejected Boris Yeltsin s candidate for prime minister yesterday for a second time throwing Russia into deeper political and economic turmoil. In other blows to Yeltsin yesterday the Ruble crashed again dramatically and the Central Bank chairman offered to quit. Some russians flocked to stores to buy goods before prices shoot up any higher. The economic crisis is gaining momentum with catastrophic Speed acting prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin told the state Duma the lower House of parliament before it torpedoed his nomination 273-138. We Are All standing on the Edge and no time is left for settling scores he said. We must begin the vote sets the stage for a final confrontation Between the president and his opponents. Yeltsin must decide whether to nominate Chernomyrdin again or find another candidate. If the Duma rejects Yeltsin s Choice a third time the Constitution requires the president to dissolve parliament and Call new elections within three months. Russia has been operating with an interim government for two weeks since Yeltsin brought Chernomyrdin Back after firing him in March. Chernomyrdin s efforts to win confirmation by parliament have left him Little time to devote to the worst economic crisis since the collapse of the soviet Union. Both Yeltsin and Chernomyrdin met leaders of the parliamentary factions at the Kremlin before the vote but there was no breakthrough and the president offered Only a few symbolic concessions. The president suggested that the parliament confirm Chernomyrdin and then assess his performance after a trial period of six to eight months. Communist Leader Gennady Zyuganov said his party the largest in the Duma would never accept Chernomyrdin. He complained that Yeltsin was not inter ested in real talks with parliament and had not listened to opposition Calls for an alternative candidate for prime minister. This is not a Victory Zyuganov said after the opposition Defeated Chernomyrdin. The country is in Chernomyrdin picked up 44 More votes yesterday than on the first vote aug. 31. He needs 226 votes to be approved. The communists and their allies say they have nine alternative candidates including several top soviet Era bureaucrats. The moderate Yablokov party suggested foreign minister Yevgeny Primakow yesterday. Meanwhile the Central Bank set the official Exchange rate at 18.9 rubles to the . Dollar Down sharply from 17 on Friday. Deals that Are to take effect today pegged the rate As Low As 30 rubles a Dollar. The Ruble was trading at about six to the Dollar when the crisis hit last month. Trading in dollars was cancelled on Moscow s currency Exchange because people Only wanted to buy dollars not sell them. Street Exchange Points remained open and were offering to buy dollars at about 20 to 22 rubles. Everyone is waiting for the confirmation of the prime minister and the announcement of a new economic program said acting Deputy Premier Boris Feodorov. If there Are no offers the Ruble Price can be Central Bank chairman Sergei Dubinin who has been widely blamed for mishandling the crisis offered yesterday to resign. Chernomyrdin is advocating an ambitious if somewhat unclear plan to stabilize the Economy within several months. He has also sought to reassure Western governments and russians that there would be no Retreat to a soviet style economic system. So far the economic crisis has not sparked unrest but russians were stocking up on household items clothing and food Staples. In the Eastern port City of Vladivostok prices for meat sugar Macaroni and baby food have roughly doubled in recent Days. Japan hit by epidemic of summer poisonings by Janet Snyder Reuters Tokyo Japan has been hit by an epidemic of summer poisonings and health officials admit they Are at a loss As to How to protect unsuspecting people from tainted food and drink. Since the first incident in july when Curry at a Community festival was laced with arsenic five people have been murdered and dozens left ill. There have been More than a dozen incidents but police will not say exactly How Many. Analysts said the series of crimes were the work of imitators seeking attention. In a Small country like Japan the Shock Waves from this kind of scare Are magnified said social commentator Sho Miyanaga. The poisonings have received so much Media attention that copycat criminals Are coming out of the a senior japanese police official who asked not to be identified likened the current wave of poisonings to copycat criminals who in the mid-1980s imitated an extortionist who terrorized Japan with cyanide laced candies. I believe we re seeing the same phenomenon people getting into the act the police official said. Japanese health officials were perplexed Over How to protect people from further harm but said no plans were in place to introduce tamper proof packaging. This series of crimes is really shocking but i m afraid As it stands now it s largely up to the individual consumer to protect himself from such harm one health and welfare ministry official said. Ironically the latest victim was a policeman. Ikuo Sugimoto a 31-year-old patrolman collapsed sunday in his police Box at Shizuoka train station in Central Japan after eating a Sandwich he bought at a convenience store. He was in critical condition All night but now fortunately he has regained consciousness a Shizuoka prefectural police official told Reuters. In a separate incident a 30-year-old housewife who was not identified was taken to Hospital in Shizuoka 320 pm West of Tokyo with Burns to her Mouth after she drank a bottle of Orange juice she had just bought at a supermarket. The Bottom of the plastic bottle had been pierced and resealed but the Poison has not yet been identified. Another poisoning took place sunday when a 19-year-old woman in Otsu in Shiga prefecture Western Japan vomited after drinking a can of Tea. Trouble at the Gates students demanding the resignation of indonesian president . Hasibie stand atop the Gates to parliament in the capital Jakarta yesterday. Hundreds of anti riot police prevented the demonstrators from 40 universities from entering the grounds. Indonesia is suffering its worst economic crisis in 30 years. Careers Canada offers assistance to polish military after Poland links up with nato next year general manager reporting directly to the president this position will encompass All aspects and responsibilities for a Winnipeg based Industrial distributor primarily servicing Western Canada. Preference will be Given but not limited to those candidates with a successful background in Metal and or woodworking equipment and related Industrial supplies. Please reply in Confidence giving full particulars and expectations to Box 971, Winnipeg free press 1355 Mountain ave., wpg., my. R2x 3b6. Reuters Warsaw Canada has offered to help Poland transform its military once it joins nato the first of a series of Alliance schemes expected to help former Warsaw pact armies adapt to membership in the Alliance. Canada s five year scheme of peacekeeping language and communications training will also be offered to Hungary and the czech Republic defence minister Art Eggleton said yesterday. All three countries Are expected to join nato next april on the Western defence Alliance s 50th anniversary. They have been trying to modernize their aging Warsaw pact military equipment. Tight budgets have prevented heavy spending limiting Central european ambitions to training and communication upgrades to allow their forces to work alongside other nato troops. Language differences have been the worst problem. Substantial help nato aspirants received substantial help under the partnership for peace Deal but that program will not be available to new Alliance members. What worried us was that once we were nato members we could not Benefit from the various preparation schemes said polish defence minis ter Janusz Onyszkiewicz. The Canadian initiative shows we can count on the further assistance we so obviously he said the United states was also considering fresh schemes to help new nato members. Poland has been too poor and its defence Industry too backward to re equip its armed forces to Alliance standards. But the country has tried to compensate by lineups with nato states and on saturday it signed a pact with Germany and Denmark creating what it said was the first corps uniting Western and former Warsaw pact soldiers. Regional health authority Central Manitoba inc. Health care Reform and Region ligation of services has created one of Rural Manitoba s largest health care organizations. Regional health authority Central Manitoba inc. Is responsible for the planning co ordination and delivery of comprehensive health services to More than 100,000 residents within Central Manitoba. 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Man listening to taxi radio uncovers wife s affair Reuter Naples a Naples Man Riding in a taxi discovered his wife was having an affair when he heard the taxi Fleet s dispatcher Call on the radio for another car to take her to her Lover s House. The newspaper la Republica of Rome reported yesterday that the unidentified Man was Riding Home in a taxi when he heard the dispatcher say a client needed a car at the apartment Block where the Man lived. Seconds later he heard the Dis Patcher identify his wife As the client who had called for the taxi. When he arrived at the apartment Block the Man asked his taxi Driver to follow the taxi that had come to pick up his wife and then followed her to her Lover s Home. Physicist says he will clone himself associated press Boston a physicist with three Harvard degrees but no medical License says he is ready to begin the first step toward immortality he will clone himself. Richard seed who provoked controversy earlier this year by announcing plans to clone humans said the first person he will try to copy will be himself the Boston Globe reported. Seed said his wife Gloria has agreed to carry an embryo that would be created by combining the nucleus of one of his cells with a donor egg the newspaper said. I have decided to clone myself first to defuse the criticism that i m taking advantage of desperate women with a procedure that s not proven the 69-year-old physicist said saturday at a meeting of the association for politics and the life sciences a group of academic researchers. A five year moratorium on cloning is apparently being observed by mainstream scientists but Congress has failed to act on legislation to outlaw the procedure. Divers Zero in on cockpit recorder continued from b1 hopefully in there it will capture things that include some indication of when or if the smoke in Cabin warning came divers using hand held sonar devices continued to search monday for the cockpit recorder in about 60 metres of water off Peggy s Cove. Gerden pointed to the personal sacrifices being made by searchers noting that two divers received medical treatment after a diving incident As the data recorder was being recovered sunday. One diver was forced to return to the surface too quickly because of Small tear in his suit but managed to keep hold of the recorder. The diver and another who accompanied him to the surface were put in a decompression chamber on the dive boat for several hours then taken to Hospital. They were later released in Good health. The search for the second of the plane s flight recorders intensified monday after a Navy submarine heard its pinging locator signal near the area where the first recorder was found. They be got a very Good signal on the transponder that is associated with the other flight recorder said Navy spokesman capt. Robert Frank. Whether or not it is together with the other flight recorder remains to be the cockpit voice recorder if it is found and was functioning at the time of Impact could help solve the mystery of the last silent minutes of flight 111. However Gerden cautioned that the cockpit recorder was also hooked into the electricity system. Investigators say there was no Contact Between the Jet s Pilot and air traffic controllers during the final six minutes of the flight. The flight data recorder was transported to Ottawa late sunday in a cooler filled with distilled water to prevent corrosion. It was later taken apart in the water then washed thoroughly in More water to remove sea Salt. It looks quite intact As you can see said Gerden As he showed slides of the Orange and Silver tool Box shaped piece of equipment during a news conference. The flight data recorder can Tell investigators about such crucial operations As the plane s Altitude pitch engine performance fuel flow and a myriad of other functions. The search for clues to the cause of the crash resumed As relatives of the victims continued to Stream into Peggy s Cove a tiny fishing Hamlet overlooking the Accident site. They clambered on to huge rocks worn smooth by Waves and wind to gaze out to sea and Grieve. Cheryl Klein who lost her father in the crash blamed the Pilot for the crash As she stared at the Choppy whitecaps. "1 think he wasted valuable time when he made that big Circle to dump fuel said Klein referring to capt. Urs Zim Niermann s decision to Fly away from Halifax Airport in order to lighten the air Craft for Landing by dumping fuel. I think he should have just tried to George Abady 24, who was on his Way to Geneva to attend hotel management classes was identified As the second Canadian killed in the crash. He had Only two More years to go his father who would t give his first name said from his North Toronto Home. We Are going through a lot of pain and there s nothing we can do but Yves de Roussan a Montreal native who was a Unicof adviser was the other Canadian victim. Organizers of an International air show at nearby Canadian forces Shearwater said yesterday they were cancelling next weekend s event out of respect for grieving families. Spokesman Rodger Sorsdahl said the move was also being taken because facilities at the air base Are needed for the crash investigation. A to hangars have been commandeered one for pieces of the wrecked plane and another for the remove id remains of victim ;