Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, May 31, 2000

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 31, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 Winnipeg free May 2000 Lockerbie trial focusing on where blast originated witness says explosion was in cargo Container by Eric on lad Camp Netherlands a Cir Cuit Board fragment was discovered wedged into wreckage of a cargo Container aboard the pan am jumbo Jet that exploded Over Scotland in the Lockerbie trial heard yester air Accident investigator Peter Claydon said he was Fin Gering a Small piece of twisted puzzling Over where it fit into a Jigsaw reconstruction of the when he spotted a tiny piece of blackened Cir Cuit Board in a Claydon described How the circuit Board fragment was wedged into a warped Metal tag used to identify the manufacturers of the aluminium con prosecutors say an electronic timer was used to detonate a bomb hidden in a prosecutors say blast emanated from a suitcase the defendants placed on the flight in where they worked for libyan Arab airlines suitcase on pan am flight judges viewed blackened and twisted parts of the cargo Container when the trial resumed after a today adjourn the break was called so Tainer could be reconstructed in the specially built scottish courtroom on a former air base in the pieces of the with the Blue pan am insignia on its mangled Side pan were crowded into the Well of the Claydon testified earlier that a High Energy blast occurred within the con supporting prosecutors allegations that a bomb hidden in a suitcase brought Down the plane on killing All 259 people on including two and 11 on the ground in the scottish town of prosecutors accuse libyans Abdel Basset Allegra i and Alamin Khalifa Fahima of hiding an improvised bomb in an unaccompanied Brown Samsonite suitcase thai originated in where they were working for libyan Arab air prosecutor Alan Turnbull asked Clay Don several times to confirm that the blast occurred not the cargo the expected to argue that palestinian extremists operating in Frankfurt were responsible for putting the bomb on Board pan am flight have been zeroing in on testimony that May cast doubt on where in the plane the explosion an engineering expert with Britain air Accident investigation said he concluded the blast went off in the containers aft Corner near the aircraft the bomb was probably in a suitcase sitting on top of another he but under Cross examination by defence lawyer Richard keen acknowledged that it could have been Flat on the floor of the didst agree with keens suggestion that damage to an adjacent fibreglass cargo Container could suggest that the blast came from outside the last week another investigator Testi fied that there was a significant error in the 1990 Accident investigation report on the disaster since a formula used to calculate blast Impact Waves was incorrectly air Accident investigation expert Christopher Protheroe said that Correct calculations would have indicated the bomb went off around 30 centimetres from the fuselage rather than 65 centimetres As stated in the Reuter tests to determine if body Jesse James Crews moved aside a hefty Headstone and a Back Hoe operator began digging yester Day to exhume the remains of a Man who some believe was the notorious outlaw Jesse the bearing the name Jesse Woodson James and giving a death Date of was moved so several workmen could begin exhuming the they will then be subjected to Dan test the quiet cemetery 70 Kilometres Southwest of fort Worth was filled with television Crews As officials worked to exhume the James was among the most famous old West his felonious exploits sensationalized in dime nov along with his brother James was a member of the feared Quanta its raiders during the civil after the he joined other former confederates to Rob Banks and trains and generate reams of history books record that James was shot in the Back by Bob a member of his own on april in others say James faked his death in Missouri to elude moving to Texas under the assumed name of Frank townspeople had Long suspected 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defence and evaluation which tests new technologies for the defence the innovative solution now makes charging a Battery through walking Fea said Dera technical Leader Steve this Energy can be used to Power anything which needs a similar output for example Torch flashlight batteries and global positioning sys Reuter Alliance to debate Touchy topics by Steve Mertl Vancouver the persistent under current of social issues threatened to swell As Canadian Alliance leadership candidates began the first of three Tele Vised debates with few other policy differences Between the issues such As where they stand on homosexuality and abortion Are sure to make for sexy Tele although there has been discussion in the Media about the candidates widely differing stands on the Touchy Alliance members got their first Chance monday night to buttonhole candidates on their views at the first Al candidates Preston the former Reform was apparently aware of the kind of wedge social values could create on the fledgling scuttling the alliances efforts to create a new conservative coalition aimed at dislodging the liberals in the next Federal theres a coalition building Job to do Manning said during the we did it in Reform to a certain and weve got a better Opportunity to get social conservatives and Fis Cal conservatives to work together in the Canadian at the first of six debates the leadership front runners stressed social moderates and conservatives will have to work together for the Alliance to stand a Chance of we do have to find common Tom a provincial tory told about 900 people at the town Hall style we need to find those issues that bring us the Alliance is staging six leadership debates in three of them the candidates meet again tomorrow in followed by a televised debate in Halifax on june another town Hall session in Montreal on june 12 and the final televised debate june 13 in party members Complete their mail in voting june the late entry John Stachow of a political neophyte pushing repeal of the income tax act differed Only by nuance on the issues of Canadas gutted aboriginal and agricultural Alliance my Keith Martin was Blu test on where they to win he the party needs a fiscal conservative and a social moderate As Leader we have had Over the years not a pol icy problem but we have had a perception he referring to the trouble Reform and Manning had in attracting Centre right Martin said forthrightly he is pro who has the support of antiabortion said equally bluntly in clearly As most newspapers in the country remind you Day and who is also anti favour citizen sponsored referendums to gauge canadians appetite for but Long pointed out that More needs to he in Central and Eastern Canada and for Mer reformers from Western v ;