Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 10, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba A16 Winnipeg free press thursday september 10,1998 Keiko makes first leap to real life Freedom associated press Newport Ore. Keiko the killer whale who leaped Over a Harbour break Wall to the sea in the free Willy movie took a real life step toward Freedom yesterday. The whale was hoisted from his aquarium and taken to an air Force c-17 transport plane for an eight hour flight to Iceland. There he will be placed in a football Field sized Bay pen that will serve As a sort of Halfway House until is Able to be released into the wild. N. Y. Times news service phenom penh Cambodia restless mobs milled about the City yesterday As opposition leaders who had stoked the mobs anger said they were powerless to Calm the crowds or prevent the violence that is eroding Hopes for democracy and stability Here. For a third Day riot police fired automatic weapons and beat protesters mostly Tough Young men who taunted Security forces and hurled volleys of rocks at them. Human rights workers said a Buddhist Monk had been killed but this could not be confirmed. The biggest crowd of up to 1,000 people filled the alleyways behind the . Embassy scattering wildly when Security men approached then gathering again. The crowds including students civil servants and monks in Orange Robes appeared to have no leaders and no Clear idea of what they wanted. The anger that began with opposition protests Over the conduct of an election six weeks ago seemed to have metastasized into an aimless uprising. People Are really fed up and what is amazing they Are not afraid to say so said a Western Diplomat. This is not about the election any More. There Are no tactics no strategy. They Are Here because they Are it is an aimless anger he said born out of years of mistreatment and thwarted Hopes for peace and stability. Complaints about election abuses however valid or exaggerated have struck a chord among people who Are familiar with abuses by their leaders. Aimless As it was much of the anger was expressed As a hatred of Vietnam the age old enemy of Cambodia and the sponsor in the 1980s of Hun sen who is now the country s strongman and the official Winner of the july 26 election. Nowhere was there talk of King Norodom Sihanouk whose name is usually magic for his countrymen but who has remained in seclusion. Kosovo refugees flee in panic serb shelling forces 25,000from Homes in chaotic exodus associated press Pristina Yugoslavia thousands of families streamed out of southwestern Kosovo in a chaotic exodus yesterday jamming dirt roads with tractors and wagons full of belongings As serb forces shelled their villages a in refugee official said. Fernando Del Mundo said As Many As 25,000 civilians were leaving their Homes about 30 Kilometres South of Pec Kosovo s second largest City. They re panicking and going everywhere but they Don t know which Way to go said Del Mundo a spokesman for the in High commissioner for refugees. The shelling is closing in like a Del Mundo who visited the area yesterday said he heard shelling As serb artillery apparently attacked five villages. He said the refugees began leaving in the last 24 hours and continued to pour out of their villages. Tens of thousands of additional civilians remain dangerously close to the shelling and May also soon leave he said adding that the situation threatens to create As Many As 25 ghost towns in southwestern Kosovo. Aid workers have warned of an increasing humanitarian disaster in Kosovo a Southern province in Serbia one of the two republics that make up Yugoslavia. Before yesterday s clashes hundreds had been killed and an estimated 230,000 villagers had been forced to flee since yugoslav president a Looban Milosevic began a crackdown in february against the separatist Kosovo liberation army. Ethnic albanians make up 90 per cent of the population in Kosovo and serbs 10 per cent. Aid officials Are especially worried about the 50,000 refugees now living in the open in Kosovo s Hills and forests. If something in t done soon we can expect a humanitarian drama within weeks belgian foreign minister Erik Derycke said in the capital of Pristina after meeting ethnic albanian Leader Ibrahim Rugova. Much of the fighting of recent weeks has racked Kosovo s Southwest with serb police and the yugoslav army teaming up to crush rebel strongholds. But in the previously Calm Northwest Yugoslavia s official Tan Jug news Agency reported the rebels were battling police yesterday at the stari try Gold and Zinc mine 30 Kilometres Northwest of Pristina. Tan Jug said one mine employee was killed. While world leaders have condemned the serbs for killing civilians and pursing a scorched Earth policy the serbs have accused the militants of massacring serb civilians. Air Canada striking pilots keep talks in air by Allan Swift Canadian press Montreal pilots and air Canada met late into the evening for a second Day in a Row yesterday to resolve a labour dispute that has grounded the airline and disrupted thousands of travellers plans. There Are big issues Here and it requires work said Jean Marc Belanger chairman of the air Canada pilots association. We re not negotiating to a deadline now. There is no denying there is some pressure from passengers and fellow the 2,100 pilots who earn an average $100,000 a year Are seeking a 12 per cent increase spread Over two years. Air Canada s latest offer was nine per cent Over two years. Priscille Leblanc an airline spokeswoman said the difference Between the two salary proposals would Cost air Canada an extra $150 million Over five years if applied to All employees. This is a significant labour Cost that would have made air Canada uncompetitive in Canada our largest Market. There is a very justifiable concern that what we Grant one Union would be demanded by other unions Leblanc said. Belanger and i a Blanc took turns last night meeting reporters but neither official had anything definite to announce. We re talking. We re making Progress said Belanger who declined to specify which areas were proving most difficult. Leblanc asked whether there were some agreed on contract clauses said i cuu t conf Futi that we be Sigil a off on any issues t coming saturday september 12hyour free press. The i a p h o m official guide to the 1jp9&il Parade of r Homes i 4dm we a the free press it s Worth knowing protester flees from club wielding police near . Embassy. 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