Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba It Canada world Winnipeg free May 2000 around Canada enlists the insider Victoria the government re ignited its fight with the tobacco Indus try yesterday by introducing new legislation allowing it to sue the Indus try and by bringing an insider on Board for the just before introducing the new leg Premier Ujjala Dosanjh held a news conference with Jeffrey the former tobacco Industry scientist whose decision to go Public about Industry practices inspired the hit movie the the Industry knows full Well that adults Are not the ones that give them the new it comes from the said who is being retained As an Industry a Girlfriend aided robbery Calgary the a Girlfriend of a Man charged in a daring brinks Holdup in which 88 shots were fired at a shopping mall admitted yesterday she played a key role in the Heather a former brinks testified she supplied the key needed by the robbers to Access a Bank in the mall and offered tips to accused Patrick Ryan before the botched Ryan faces four charges in the March tape Case doomed Toronto the Case against an author accused of illegally viewing Paul Bernardos torture tapes is doomed for failure because key Evi Dence has been a court heard defence lawyer Alan Young argued in court that charges against Stephen author of invisible Are impossible to prosecute because the tapes Williams allegedly viewed have been report bashes courts Ottawa the Justice system is an abysmal failure that discriminates against the poor while apprenticing future says the National coun cil of instead of developing effective ways of dealing with conflicts within our our schools and our com we dump All our disadvantaged social misfits into the criminal Justice says a report released yesterday by the West Jet checks stay put Ottawa a transport Canada spokesman denied yesterday that West Jet airlines was ordered to have All flight operation inspections con ducted in inspections Arent being Peter Coyle whats happening is the administration is handled in the inspections would still All be held in the or out in those theres no plane Canadian Alliance my Val Meredith had suggested during the question period that air Canada put pressure on transport Canada to have West Jet travel to Ottawa for inspections instead of continuing them in Edmon inmate gets guards file confidential information about two jail guards was inadvertently released to an inmate at the Peterborough say correction a Crown Brief Given to an inmate accused of bribing a jail guard contained the guards Home phone numbers and said Ross spokesman for the provincial ministry of correctional Adam but left press a British Soldier is saluted by a Young boy on the outskirts of Freetown Airport Sierra leonean rebels free 139 in hostages forced to trek through Jungle for nearly three Days Sierra Leone Sierra leonean rebels holding 500 in peacekeepers have released 139 of their captives into liberian in officials said fifteen of the freed captives were flown by a government chartered Heli copter to Liberia on sunday while the remaining 124 were waiting to be evacuated from the town of Foya on Liberia Border with Sierra said in spokesman David in liberian president Charles Taylor briefly introduced an associated press to two Smil ing but tire looking men the presi Dent said were freed kenyan and zambian West african and in including Secretary general Kofi annals envoy to Felix stood by silently during the meeting in the living room of Taylors presidential Taylor said the 139 captives had been held in Sierra leones Eastern Kail Hun but did not specify exactly the revolutionary United front rebels closest ally in the had been asked by West african Lead ers to mediate for the in captives the liberian Leader said the United states had refused air transport to evacuate the freed forcing them to trek through Jungle for nearly three Days after their truck got stuck on bad roads following what he called a successful mediation Effort by a team of liberian comment was not immediately available from officials in the liberian Taylor has Long had strained relations with the Aid and development funds to the liberian Leader have been withheld because of alleged corruption and diversion of government resources to the liberian Taylor also warned that continued attacks by Sierra leones pro govern ment forces against the rebels threaten the lives of the remaining in adding he was trying to obtain their the development followed an announcement earlier sunday by Wimhurst that 18 other in peace keepers and military observers had been allowed to return to an Indian in contingent in Kail Hun the regional capital of the District with the same the commander of the in Vijay said the captives 11 Indian troops and seven unarmed Mil itary observers of various nationalities in Good physical condition and had not been harmed by the their safety was far from assured As Kail Hun remained surrounded by the in has promised to Send in More some of whom will be flown to the country aboard a Canadian forces Canada is also sending million in emergency trained crisis response planners and equipment to help the in hold the rebel forces at press police release detailed Columbine report the sheriffs depart ment released a minutes minute account of last years Columbine High school Bloodbath concluding the 12 students killed by the teenage gunmen were dead within 16 the timeline appears to support the department in disputing claims by Vic Tims families that police could have saved lives if they had acted More quickly but the report also confirms that teacher Dave who died in a Sci ence and some of the 23 people waited for hours until the swat team finished evacuating the the first shots in the april attack were fired at Accord ing the the gunmen killed them selves 49 minutes six minutes after swat teams entered the there was no evidence that there was a third shooter or that anyone had prior knowledge of the killers the report Jefferson county sheriff John Stone distributed the report from the 13month investigation to victims families and the news Media under an order issued by a judge hearing nine lawsuits filed by 15 families of slain or Woiln ded the voluminous carom with about 700 pages of text plus photos and audio and video was based on As Many As witness interviews and about pieces of Many of the details already have been published or including the gunmen movements through the firing at As hundreds of Stu dents fled or cowered underneath in bathrooms and bombs didst explode the investigation determined that the gunmen didst intend to end up in the Library but apparently changed their plan when bombs they had brought did it explode and police arrived at the the report said the gunmen were in the Library for in that they shot and killed 10 people and wounded 12 they car ried More than enough ammunition to kill All 56 people in the Accord ing to the released by the report said the teenage Dylan Klebold and Eric also intended to kill 488 people in the cafeteria through the use of two according to the timeline set out in the report Harris and Klebold took the bombs into the school in Duffel bags and Back packs the morning of the when the bombs didst they went Back to their cars and got the seven minutes after the first shots were Harris exchanged fire with a school resource officer outside the the report the resource officer called for help at by students were dead and 34 it would be More than half an hour More before swat team members entered the building at a camera in the cafeteria showed Kle bold and Harris surveying the damage at at they returned to the and at they killed them the report palestinian protests turn into firefights 4 die while israelis hand Over villages by Samar Assad associated press West Bank palestinian protests spun out of control yesterday and escalated if Ito gun Battles Between israeli troops and palestinian police that killed four palestinians and injured More than at one West Bank israeli snipers commandeered a palestinian run hotel and took aim at palestinian gunmen holed up in buildings hotel guests and including nine were trapped in the one palestinian guest who ventured out was wounded by sniper last palestinians fired hundreds of shots and threw firebombs at Josephs an israeli enclave in the West Bank town of israeli soldiers fired and one palestinian was Hospital officials witnesses said about eight israeli armoured personnel carriers moved toward but did not enter the palestinian ruled across the palestinian thou Sands battled israeli soldiers with rocks and streets were littered with and White Clouds of tear Gas and Black smoke from burning tires Rose into the israeli soldiers took aim from behind trash and palestinian gunmen fired from behind buildings and despite the israels Cabinet and parliament approved the handover of three West Bank villages near Jerusalem to palestinian prime minister Ehud Barak sought the Transfer As a Goodwill gesture while peace talks were being conducted in the two sides Are trying to formulate a blueprint for a peace the chief palestinian Yasser Abed who was not invited to Stock resigned in protest say ing Israel was trying to sow division among the palestinians by setting up rival negotiating israeli and palestinian leaders traded blame for yesterdays last Barak called palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat to inform him of the 56 48 vote approving the land Transfer and asked him to restrain his a pales Tinian official the events began with marches by thousands of palestinians marking Al the arabic word for which is How palestinians describe israels founding and the beginning of their displacement 52 years the protests were organized by sever Al with Arafat Fatah movement taking the israeli officials suggested that Arafat had intended nothing More than a warning to Israel that delays in reaching a peace treaty Are and that the demonstrations had spun out of when violence Breaks even if connected to an it is hard to Stop said israels Deputy defence Ephraim i think this also serves As a message to him that he needs a peace agreement no less than we the violence began about 10 yes after a two minute Siren rang out across the palestinian lands in commemoration of Al the fiercest clash erupted outside the West Bank town of at about 400 palestinians hurled stones and two palestinian policemen and two palestinian demonstrators were the israeli army said 14 soldiers were press the free press its Worth knowing Strong performance continued from 81 your Vaci station travel qx104 your vacation the Winnipeg free press a Sony music Canada and Caa travel want to Send you to meet the Pixie Chicks in Calgary on june listen for the sound of the Jet for your Chance to be the 4th caller through and youll automatically win a copy of the Dixie Fly or wide open spaces and be registered to win the fill out the entry form and mail it in or drop it off for another 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Are Sparrow was constantly asked Why voters in Johns West should Send another Back Bencher to he was far Back in third place a vote for the pcs be seen As an indict ment of Liberal said Mark a political scientist at memorial University in on the other i didst sense there was any great enthusiasm for the Liberal government of the the Dps a Well known social activist bomb continued from officials said there was no damage to the Laboratory permanent structures scientific facilities or facilities that handle radioactive or hazardous tests conducted so far showed increases in Alpha and Beta radiation that were consistent with increases in natural radiation caused by the Forest they said and comedic put in a Strong particularly in the final two weeks of the by focusing on increased funding for health Malone tapped into the issues that continue to Gen Erate National provincial support for Liberal Premier Brian As for the Canadian the reincarnation of the Reform party never stood a Chance in Johns and was a Distant fourth yesterday with about four per cent of the the party emphasis on shrinking government through aggressive cos cutting just Doest sit Well in a province that owes much of its Prosperity to Transfer payments from tory supporters Are sure to suggest the results show the Alliance int credible As a National considering its support in the Riding barely Over shadowed that of the Canadian extreme wrestling led by wrestler de Sailor the by election was called after tory my Charlie Power announced his decision to step Down in Jan press East through Santa Clara no further evacuations had been Cecilia Seesoltz of the Forest service said the fire had crept around historic Pueblo Indian Cliff dwellings without damaging them because there was Little fuel for the the fire posed no immediate threat to indians on the Santa Clara she the fire began m May 4 As a controlled Burn by the National Park service to Clear flammable underbrush and reduce the danger of g nexus but it quickly raged out of control ;