Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Best rate Rice 14m ski diff 5 Cerf Flifle Hunt my More Canada and world news around Canada strike hits pork Plant strike at one of the provinces major pork processing plants has left Ontario hog Farmers struggling to find Slaughter facilities for animals a picket lines went up yesterday when 950 employees at Quality meat packers walked off the Job at plants in Toronto and Bram superbug in Hospital Montreal so called superbug has been found in Dame forcing officials to take measures to prevent its six patients carrying the drug resistant bacteria Nave been Quad one in the intensive care unit and the others in a cancer the Hospital has temporarily closed its emergency Ward to ambulances and cancelled surgery requiring intensive none of the six has developed an infection related to Van Comy Cin resistant they were in Hospital for other govt boosts funding Ottawa the Federal govern ment is boosting funding by million for research into the effects of toxic chemicals associated with human illnesses such As heart and lung diseases and can a fou year program wont duplicate existing research into the effects of toxic substances but should instead increase under standing of a massive global health and ecological Environ ment minister Christine Stewart said As toxic hot spots will be and that could include the tar Ponds in she workers reject Deal red its Back to the bargaining table at the red Deer advocate after employees at the Central Alberta daily newspaper rejected a proposed fou year Deal about 60 per cent ignored the recommendation of Union leaders and an impassioned plea by their mail room the lowest paid of the locals 175 the employees who have been without a contract since february All departments at the top earners Are senior reporters and editors who make to an Back to the red Ink Ottawa it was Back to red Ink for the Federal government in october with a budgetary deficit of but the finance department said yesterday a deficit for the ninth was expected because of timing factors that affect government expenses and a deficit was recorded in october Ottawa still has an accumulated surplus from april to october in its current fiscal year of that is up from billion at the same Point of the previous fiscal finance said revenues were adversely affected in october by the quarterly payment of the Low income get tax credit and Tance procedures for Persona income and employment Ance Premium win in Peg re press Canada world Phi Tytek 0 4 d i a photo some say Clinton May have to address the nation Hyde right says censure is under a compelling Case for impeachment reciter Washington there is a compelling Case to support three articles of impeach ment being readied for a decisive vote this week against president Bill the chairman of the House of representatives judiciary com Mittee said As the White House prepared a today defence that will kick off the committees climactic week of hear Ings Republican Henry Hyde told a news conference he has not ruled out allowing the panel to vote on censure of Clinton As an alternative to its under Hyde said of it int ruled out but its not a dead bang certainty Hyde confirmed the committee is developing three articles of impeach ment for obstruction of jus Tice and abuse of Power stemming from the Monica Lewinsky affair but said the exact wording awaits the presentation from the White weve made a compelling Hyde i think the real void Here is the failure of the democrats to Contra in any Way the Evi we Haven heard one word about evidence repudiating or reject ing the the White House told the commit tee yesterday it wants to Call at least 14 witnesses during the two Days of they will discuss historical precedents and constitutional standards for prose tutorial standards for obstruction and perjury and the abuse Power standards used in the watergate scandal involving Richard Greg White House special will outline Clinton factual with White House counsel Charles Ruff making the closing argument the Republican controlled panel is expected to approve at least one Arti Cle of impeachment against throwing the controversy to the full House where a special session would be called next week for what expected to be a Cliffhanger Senate leaders said Over the week end approval by the House of even one article of impeachment against Clinton would Force them to put the president on trial next year Only the second time in history a president has faced a Senate Only a two thirds vote of the sen ate could remove a president from office and even Clinton harshest critics have said they do not expect this to continued please see White House up next the next Steps in the impeach ment process the House judiciary committee hears White House arguments As part of the hearings to determine whether president Bill Clinton conduct merits a majority committee vote in favour of one or More articles of impeach ment would Send the matter to the House the full House reviews any recommended article of impeachment forwarded by the if the House declines the recommend the impeachment Effort if a majority of those present vote to approve one or More the matter moves to the Senate conducts trial to determine whether the president should be removed from chief Justice presides and managers appointed by the House function like the defendant is permitted to have Legal counsel and has the right to testify and Cross exam Ine there is a separate vote for each article of impeach a yes vote by two thirds of the senators present is needed to convict a conviction on even one article is enough to remove the president from survivors plucked from icy River seven believed dead in Quebec plane crash by Jennifer Patterson a Small plane crashed into the feeling Lawrence River killing seven but the toll would have been higher had it not been for the heroic efforts of a local helicopter Canadian forces divers retrieved six bodies from the plane late last night and were looking for the seventh police blamed poor communication Between the Rescue helicopters and divers for an earlier report that said seven bodies had been the three survivors were taken to Hospital in and transferred to Quebec City suffering from broken backs and the who spent about an hour in the were found clinging to the Tail of the Norman islander which was sticking out of the they were rescued by a local copter its staff took 17 minutes to get a helicopter to the site Kilometres from Shore after it received a Call from provincial minutes said Francis the owner of the its Pilot lowered the helicopter to about half a metre above the Choppy water and another employee managed to pull one of the men they then flew the Man to Rescue officials on Shore before coming Back for the other two one at a Coroner Arnaud Samson described it As a heroic its Crew rescued three people in a Flash with no equipment for doing he they didst follow All the rules but they saved three Quebec provincial police spokesman Richard Gagne also praised the Rescue we have three survivors today because of what they he Samson said its a Miracle the three people plucked from the water sur i think that somebody that can survive an hour in that cold water its he you have to be in Good health to go through the three Francois Roger and Steve All from were conscious when they arrived in Quebec in said be rubes she did not give her name when contacted by continued please see b2 Yeltsin emerges to lop off Heads russian president fires then returns to Hospital by Daniel Williams the Washington Post Moscow in an impulsive show of president Boris Yeltsin left the Hospital returned to the Kremlin and fired four top in a familiar show of weakness three hours he was Back in the Hospital to Perate from a prolonged bout of Yeltsin dismissed Bis chief of Valentin and three deputies on the grounds that they were lax in fighting the crime and anti semitic outbursts that Are convulsing russian political he named Nikolai who Heads Yeltsin Security to replace Yuma Shev the other posts were left Yeltsin also ordered the Justice ministry and tax police to report directly to him and not just to prime minister Yevgeny the spectacle of the ailing Yeltsin coming out of seclusion to dismiss associates has become a common last he returned from a weeks convalescence to fire prime minister Viktor for opponents of such Light Ning shakeup raise that Yeltsin might try to reassert the influence he lost during recurrent illnesses and recent political although frequently Laid the year old Leader still seems capable of identifying hot issues to exploit crime and hate politics have become major particularly after the recent assassination of Galina a democracy activist and the presidents actions Are said Valentin a communist party member of Parlia it is to be expected that after some vacation or some sense less personnel changes will be he could fire the whole yet few in Moscow believe that Ter Days manoeuvres signal Yeltsin return to an Active continued please Yeltsin Hes almost a sure sign of Winter l the overnight parking ban hit the i after december any car parked on a Snow route Between 2 and May be we want to remove the not your so look for the special Snow route signs help make Winter driving trouble free per Mere information on Cau 775snow also stay tuned to ical Media for information in temporary fallowing heavy ;