Winnipeg Free Press

Sunday, December 06, 1998

Issue date: Sunday, December 6, 1998
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Previous edition: Saturday, December 5, 1998

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Crossword by Thomas Joseph across 1 cohort of Kramer 7 per Ness 11 colourful Bird 12 Tennis Star Lendl 13 Waxen 14 Pitcher Hideo 15 bar at the bar 16 happen twice 17 editors base 18 warning word 19 glow 21 Kayitah 22 the masses 25 Solo in space 26 More than none 27 steered Clear of 29 feathery wraps 33 West Pointer 34 run out 35 fit 36 be generous 37 gossip bit 38 loved 39 refer to 40 the landed folks Down 1 nuzzled 2 Clear 3 loses freshness 4 hawaiian Island 5 crooked 6 fresh 7 muscular Power 8 Green Shade 9 Feudal Warrior 10 night sounds 16 kingdom 18 mope r a j a h r a w e r e v a d e a l i n e b a c o n m a l t a i l k n i p k i d d o i e n s i c e s n e e r s b e e r c r y p t i c b o o r a r n o l d e l l a c e l o o g i l p e a l u g o v i n e c the i n g f i n e r l a n g e f a s t s e a s e d fridays answer 20 Surprise win 22 danish cheese 23 trying to lose 24 Syria neighbor 25 frenzied 28 �?obeloved1 director 30 Eye popping posters 31 late Bloomer 32 run Down 34 mine find 36 Follower of t Trygve 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 h 15 i a 16 17 a 18 19. 20 a 21 22 23 24 25 a 26 27 28 a 29 30 31 32 33 a 34 35 a 36 37 38 39 40 daily crypt quotes a Here s How to work it i Longfellow one letter stands for another. In this Sample a is used for the three l a x for the two o a Etc. Single letters apostrophes the length and formation of the words Are All hints. Each Day the code letters Are different. Crypt quote Viz Rev Biz la Duvet a div South Africa mesmerized by apartheid fighters trial prosecutors say funds supported lavish lifestyle by Suzanne Daley n. Y. Times news service Ogu i f d y x i u z p Ogu Xiv Zyfko Yfe eau if eur fizz Voul Nufo. A i x i u y z fridays crypt quote Aristotle said that education was an ornament in Prosperity and a Refuge in Diogenes Lartius a 1998 by King features Syndicate inc. Cape town South Africa a All Allan Loesak says he is guilty of is a struggle but in courtroom 19 in the new Wing of Cape towns High court a judge is going to decide whether a struggle bookkeeping was really fraud and theft crimes serious enough to Send one of the liberation struggles heroes to jail. Since August the court has heard from a string of witnesses that Loesak used welfare projects to raise Cash for a life of luxury flashy cars and overseas holidays. And for a while it seemed the prosecution might Breeze to Victory. But last month one of the prosecutions principle witnesses to Esako a bookkeeper crumpled under Cross examination and admitted that he had implicated Loesak Only to cover up his own thieving. With tears in his eyes the bookkeeper Freddie Steenkamp who is already serving a six year sentence for theft asked for to Esako a forgiveness. Just How big a blow to the prosecution this was remains to be seen. Prosecutors Are scrambling to line up other last minute witnesses including the Singer Paul Simon who contributed More than $100,000 to to Esako a foundation for peace and Justice. But the Case has gripped this country both because it has offered a window into to Esako a indulgent living and because president Nelson Mandela has several times swooped in to help him in ways some critics find deeply objectionable. When Loesak returned from a year in California to face charges last year Mandela sent his Justice minister to Greet him at the Airport and in recent weeks Mandela has openly raised funds for his defence and derided the Quality of the prosecutions Case triggering outrage in Legal circles. He later apologized for those remarks. In his heyday Loesak was a clergy Allan Loesak one of the liberation struggles heroes says he feels abandoned by almost everyone. Loesak says the charges Are not about fraud or theft but about politics and people getting revenge for the Success he had. Man in the forefront of the anti apartheid movement defying the authorities and Landing More than once in solitary confinement. He was a founder of the United democratic front the political group aligned with the outlawed african National Congress and a Man with a certain gift for rallying a crowd. But in the years that followed prosecutors say Loesak began using the funds that poured in from foreign donors to support his foundation for peace and Justice for his own needs a sports cars an expensive Home and after his divorce the debts of his new Young wife. At one Point auditors testified More Money was spent on first class travel for Loesak and his family than for any other project the foundation was involved in. The accusations of misappropriation of funds surfaced in 1994, when lawyers for Dan Church Aid a danish Charity said Money they had sent to help victims of apartheid had been used to pay for to Esako a House. But it took More than two years before formal charges were made. A file photo Loesak faces 32 counts of fraud and theft involving nearly $1.5 million dollars $195,000 of which he is accused of taking for himself. Much of the Money had been donated by scandinavian charities but some was donated by Simon after his Graceland tour of South Africa and some from the charitable Arm of coca cola. The prosecution says Loesak deliberately raised Money from coca cola saying it was for a poverty project when he had every intention of using the Money to invest in a hotel. Loesak says he feels abandoned by almost everyone but Mandela. At times he says he has regretted a never leading one single he says the charges Are not about fraud or theft but about politics and people getting revenge for the Success he had. He says that administering the accounts of the foundation was not his work and that he paid Little attention to it. A my Job was to work for the downfall of apartheid a Loesak said brushing aside the notion that perhaps he should have been More aware. A i should like to think that that was a Job not badly Imelda Marcos files suit against husbands a cronies associated press Manila Philippines the widow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos plans to sue her husbands former associates to Force them to turn Over wealth he is thought to have entrusted to them a Manila newspaper reported yesterday. Imelda Marcos and her lawyers Are planning to recover As much As $25.3 billion us in equity in More than too top philippine corporations believed to have been entrusted to Marcos a associates the philippine daily inquirer said. Imelda Marcos and her lawyers were unavailable to comment on the report but a source close to her confirmed her plans to sue her husbands former Imelda Marcos claims the Money used by Marcos a associates to acquire majority stakes in philippine Compa Nies came from the family so legitimate earnings a the report said. The government has said Marcos illegally enriched himself during his 20-year reign and claims his wealth including $570 million in Swiss deposits. His Swiss accounts Are also being claimed by 9,539 filipinos who won a class action suit for human rights violations and were awarded $2 billion. Marcos was ousted in 1986 and died in exile in Hawaii three years new York times Magazine crossword Puzzle answers in tomorrow s entertainment Section Money changing by Matt Gaffney edited by will Shortz across 61 four time super Down 46 City Ese of Calais i classic soft drink bowl winning i most fresh 47 Gulf Weed 5 exaggerate coach 2 betting option 48 Long Odds la . Stops 62 1973 rolling 3 baseball 49 expressions of 15 Illustrator stones #1 hit announcers phrase love Silverstein 63 classic whodunit 4 i abroad 50 one of the fates 19 Wharton Grad 69 More than brighten 5 cry of horror 51 Don Quixote . Maybe 70 hebrew letters 6 Side dishes abbr. 52 As a Rule 20 a a. 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