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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sound butt t we will do better than that very Good Flea inca minister Paul Martin on a sur Palm billion Federal Page b7 May 2000 Canad world b1 business b7 tse listings b9 Mutual funds b10 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 Canada world news continued on a around the world actor jailed an unemployed Montreal actor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in a plot to steal from an elderly woman by convincing her shed won the publishers House prosecutors say Michael worked with a group in Montreal that called elderly peo ple and told them they had won Cash prizes but could collect Only if wiring Money to cover insurance and handling Kasyanova approved Moscow Mikhail Kasyanova was overwhelmingly approved As prime minister yesterday by legislators after he promised to ahead with Market reforms while protecting rus sians hit by years of economic Charles sounds alarm t penchant Prince Charles has for speaking out extended yesterday to the dangers of modern science with a warning of a possible Long term catastrophe if technology domination of int Inan address taped for Broad cast on British Charles covered a Range of topics but levelled some of his harshest criticisms at biotech fuelling the debate Over the genetic engineering of food and the ethics of stewarts the focus of big brother anger Philippines bomb today inside upscale shopping mall in Manila Finan Cial injuring at least 10 officials 11 die in crash at least 11 of them mentally were killed in a Road crash in Northern Germany yesterday when a truck slowed into two Church minibuses Tak ing on a Day compensation fund s Austria Fausna and have the Broad outlines of an austrian fund to compensate vips pros of nazi forced with single of nearly drafters of the plan said wont be rushed protestant Politi yesterday to be v used into decision on the Tat get Northern Ireland peace retain to Wro them Teal unionist party was guarded ahead of Al meeting saturday that i to by Paul Samyn Tom Hanson Canadian press Stewart database works Ottawa human resources minis Ter Jane Stewart was Back in the oppositions Doghouse yesterday As she came under attack for the Way her department has been playing big brother with the lives of All four opposition parties raked Stew Art Over the coals a Day after the Feder Al privacy commissioner criticized a massive computer database containing extensive details about millions of Cana the minister most famous for mis management and bungling is collecting sensitive information on 33 million Cana interim Canadian Alliance Leader Deborah Grey tax and employment travel immigration and ethnicity information on Dis moving patterns and education Are now under the control of the biggest Bungler in this tory House Leader Peter Mackay also jumped on the privacy canadians have borne witness to the had ministers mismanagement of Over a billion he with this record of How can canadians Trust this minister to protect their most personal of continued please see big brother b3 want to know whats on file about you the Federal government says anyone can request the information about them in its computer database i fill out a personal information request available at local human resources development Canada or i write a including your name and social insurance and mall to Access to information and privacy coordinator human resources development Canada place do Portage phase level 1 140 promenade do Portage k1aoj9 rebel Leader captured Freetown doubts linger on end to civil War Sierra Leone Days after disappearing into Hills of the rebel Leader whose followers have terrorized Sierra Leone for More than eight years was captured yesterday by pro government forces who shot him in the stripped him naked and turned him Over to government offi the seizure of foday whose revolutionary United front has maimed and dismembered thousands of prompted joyous celebrations in the streets of War ravaged the country questions remained whether Sankows capture would Speed an end to Sierra leones reignited civil Spur his revolutionary United front followers to even More in at least one positive sign of Dimin Ishing in spokesman Fred Eckhard announced in new York that Liberia had reported the rebels had freed another 80 in peacekeepers held by the renegades deep in the forested Interior of this West african Eckhard said Liberia indicated the latest among Soo in person Nel captured earlier this had been moved to the Remote liberian Border town of where More than 100 of their colleagues were delivered Over the helicopters were gradually ferrying the freed 40 zambians and four kenyans released late Liberia Mon and then to the lat est releases would bring the number of peacekeepers still in Captivity to around Sankoh was captured Early yester Day next door to his which he had associated express photo who has been in hiding for a is taken to be turned Over to Sierra leonean fled May 8 after Ruf fighters opened fire on thousands of killing 19 witnesses since Freetown buzzed with rumours about Sankows some said he had fled into the others said he had slipped into had suffered a heart or was tipped off by pro govern ment soldiers confronted Sankoh and his bodyguards As they approached the House from the surrounding wit Nesses gunshots rang out and the aging rebel Leader was wounded in the within a mob Sankoh was disrobed by the jubilant crowd and taken to the Home of sex Junta Leader Johnny Paul who Heads the forces that captured a photo taken by one witness showed Sankoh crammed into a four wheel drive with one captor holding him by the neck and another gesturing toward the rebel Leader As if showing off a it is a Victory for Sierra a Victory for common sense and a Victory for the peace said Koro Mas Prince the fighters cheered and raised their guns in Triumph in front of their leaders satisfaction at Sankows capture was expressed in As we Welcome the news foday Sankoh has been arrested in free foreign ministry spokesman Michael Oshaughnessy said in the government of Canada Hopes this will contribute to restoration of a durable peace in Sierra we await the reaction of the government of Sierra continued please see news Welcome b3 Pope John Paul still preaching at 80 by Ellen Knickmeyer Vatican John Paul Cele Brates his 80th birthday striking a note Hes sounded throughout his papacy a claiming the roots shared by christianity and islam this time in a concert directed by a jewish the Celebration is also taking on an air of tribute to John Pauls 22year which is clearly in its he wants to continue in until the time god Calls archbishop John Foley said this week in and he wont give up before despite the limitations brought on by i continue to enjoy the aging and ailing pontiff assured catholics in a highly personal open letter to the elderly last it is wonderful to be Able to give oneself to the very end for the Sake of the kingdom of today observances will be intensely with John Paul inviting priests from around the world to join him in celebrating a mass at in Addi there will be special birthday masses celebrated at churches through out his native the celebrations sustain a theme of his papacy building a Bridge Between christians and and followers of other faiths like his prayers at Jerusalem West Ern Wall in the Point is being made largely John Paul chose Brooklyn born jewish conductor Gilbert Levine to conduct Haydn creation for the birthday the late 18thcentury work depicts the Start of the universe by the common god of christianity and theres a tremendous statement there about the universality of said its who the Pope Levine first met the pontiff in after Levine assumed the leadership of the Krakow philharmonic in the Popes former Ive read All about John Paul said without preamble when the con Ductor walked into his private Library at the Popes soon Levine received an invitation to conduct at the 198810th anniversary of John Pauls it forged an Alliance Between the jewish conductor and Catholic Leader whose symbolism was obvious to observers on both in Levine took part in a solemn Vatican concert and prayers in mourning for the the Pope and Holo Caust survivors listened As the jewish prayer of mourning was read in the Cen tre of the roman Catholic continued please see Pope John Paul 83 Pope John Paul ii familiar refrain for the most important Calls in the world Iwers mobility ;