Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 saturday free press May 2000 news around the world rebirth fatal Denver police arrested three people thursday for con ducting a controversial re birthing therapy on a 10 year old girl who died after being wrapped in a Blanket despite telling them she could not breathe and was going to the aimed at help ing children who cannot form Bonds with their parents by Mak ing them relive was Cap tured on close circuit to april 18 while her horrified Mother watched in a nearby according to Suharto faces trial Indonesia Reuters the indonesian government said yesterday it was close to putting disgraced for Mer autocrat Suharto on and expected to Lodge the Docu ments with the courts in former president forced from office in 1998 after 32 years of Iron is been under investigation for months Over accusations of russians under attack Russia a Russ Ian positions in the ruined chechen came under fire in a spate of hit and run rebel marking what could be the beginning of a rebel count prof military officials said death penalty stands the Gover nor of new Hampshire vetoed a Bill yesterday that would have repealed the death something no state has done since the supreme court reinstated capital punishment in hurdle cleared Beijing a China and the european Union clinched a Deal yesterday to open chinese markets to european Clearing Beijing biggest hurdle to joining the world Trade organization and increasing pressure on the Congress to give China permanent trading around Canada police cleared Toronto the provinces watchdog has cleared nine police officers who fired 44 shots in the fatal shooting of an armed Man last special tons unit director Peter Tinsley said each of the officers who fired on Norman were acting within the realm of Legal justification in doing Franklin was shot 44 times on 29 after he stepped out from a pickup truck brandishing a he had led police through an Highway Chase in North of Bun of jokes Ottawa a 24yeaiold Man will Likely be the butt of Many jokes but right Hes Way too sore to the Man impaled himself on a stick during a Drunken stunt Early thursday morning in the cites restaurant and bar the Man was one of three drunk men who Drew a Smau crowd As they jumped from a garage confident of a Safe Landing in a dumpster filled with although onlookers shouted two of landed safely but the third wound up with a Nail studded piece of Wood shaped new Oral aids vaccine promising time courts to Rule on n Issue by Alex Dominguez Baltimore an Oral aids vaccine is under development at the Institute headed by Robert Codis Cov Erer of the and is expected to undergo human tests in Uganda in As Little As 18 the vaccine could Cost or less per providing an inexpensive form of prevention in poor countries hit hardest by its backers said i dont feel this announcement is the answer to but its a very important additional step toward the next line of said who Heads the University of Maryland Institute of human virology Francis Uganda director general of health services who attended yesterdays news said a vaccine is the Only Hope in his where millions of people Are infected with his and cant afford High priced treatments and the vaccine is one of several expected to be tested in according to Gallos Institute and the International aids vaccine Seth president of the non profit said the vaccine is clinical trials of the which uses the common Salmonella could begin in As Little As 18 Berkley once in full the bacteria used to make the vaccine could be grown in mass he this has the potential to be As cheap As any said whose initiative is providing at least million Over three years to Complete develop ment of the nearly 70 per cent of the worlds million i infected people live in sub saharan current efforts to slow the spread of the virus by eliminating risky behaviour a Eliot enough because Many people do not know they Are Omasta press mayor Giuliani tells City Hall news conference that he is dropping out of the Senate Giuliani Abandons run for the Senate y mayor says time in t right to seek office new Yor mayor Rudolph his political ambitions derailed by prostate cancer and a Nasty split with his abandoned his Senate Campaign against Hillary Rodham Clin ton this is not the right time for me to run for Giuliani told a City Hall news Confer ending his Campaign before he Ever officially announced its the stunning Deci Sion ended three weeks of intense speculation Over his viability As a i used to think the Core of me was in it he Ive decided that what i should do is to put Hillary Clinton my health questions about whether would quit the Senate race almost instantly followed his april 27 disclosure of prostate Giu Liani had said that his candidacy would be con Tingent on his Choice of treatment but yesterday he said he had not yet decided what the treatment would adding he had found the whole process of deciding his future much More difficult than he he said he made his decision on the Senate Only hours before the following a sleepless a lot of Good things come out of i think i understand myself he you confront your you confront your and you realize that youre not a he continued please see Giuliani a13 local firm in Eye of pm canola storm eyes lawsuit against Winnipeg seed company by Helen fall Dong the British government and Farmers began exploring the possibility yesterday of taking Legal action against a Winnipeg based company that inadvertently sold genetically modified canola seed from Canada in officials with the British agriculture department and the National Farmers Union said their investigations of the Legal implications of the Sale of the banned seed were at a preliminary the swedish and French have proposed destroying the infected Sweden said it would consult with authorities before a final decision is the also planted in was sold by Adlanta seeds us and produced by Adlanta its sister com Pany based in the company says less than one per cent of the contaminated seed had been genetically a spokeswoman for a major environmental group said yesterday the european furore Over genetically modified canola should be a makeup Call for Canadas agriculture theres a real threat to Canadian business As a result of our Lack of due Diligence in friends of the Earth spokeswoman Beatrice Olivastri the seed came from conventional canola in Southern Alberta Fields that was accidentally Cross pollinated with pm canola plants More than a Kilometre genetically modified canola is banned in but Canadian Farmers have been growing it since the Adlanta general manager Howard Morris said yesterday the company has broken no european Laws and he has riot been contacted about any Legal i if european Farmers Are unable to sell their pm tasted biotechnology companies Selling pm canola might also be liable for Monsanto which produces one of the canola varieties found in samples of a Vantas declined comment the Canadian seed growers association is unshaken by the fuss in nothing very serious has happened said executive director Bill noting that no company can guarantee its seed is 100 per cent what has to change is the level of agriculture consultant Doug Mutch said european Resis Tance to pm crops is As much about trying to Block imports of Canadian crops As it is about environmental and food safety the european Market for canola seed is noted Dale president of the canola Council of but Ingeborg the Winnipeg author of a recent Book on pm said she wonders when the canola Council will acknowledge the mounting costs of promoting pm continued please see camolaa15 Israel palestinian gun Battle rages again peace talks continue in Sweden Netz Arim Gaza strip capping a Day of israeli soldiers in armoured trucks and palestinian policemen crouching behind Cement blocks fired live rounds at each other yesterday despite efforts by both sides to keep a lid on violence As peace talks resumed in in one chilling moment during the 15 rain Ute gun Battle near the jewish settlement of a Bullet struck an israeli Soldier sitting in a he slumped Forward and his bloodied hand dragged along the pavement As another Soldier grabbed him around the two israeli attack helicopters hovered overhead As a warning to palestinians during the second armed encounter with israelis this the army Shaul disclosed yesterday that in a gun Battle Sarver this week the West Sank town of he told palestinian open fire from attack helicopters if the snoot ing didst Stop m 30 yesterdays How difficult it has for palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat to control his troops and How volatile the situation across the West hundreds of palestinians hurled stones at israeli troops in what activists said was the first of two Days of rage Over israels refusal to release palestinian Security in protesters burned an effigy of israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and israeli and in 82 demonstrators were injured t and five were in serious condition by rubber coated steel in Ramal a majority of the Stone throwers were supporters of islamic militant groups that oppose peace with in protests earlier this week were Barak said before the gun fight at that he May cancer next weeks trip to the United including a meeting with president Bill if violence persists in the palestinian territories and along the in Barak was to outline has been made after round last Israel to achieve peace with the at an Undis clod speaker Aenied Jurew began a new round of both sides said their state in All of so Gaza office bad no aude Diane the have rejected saying they want to establish ;