Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 3, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free press june 2000 a14 Doug Speirs 6977294 Canada world news f in timid on 1 0 around Canada Klein shuffles Cabinet Edmonton Alberta Premier Ralph Klein shuffled some top Cabinet ministers and advisers yesterday in what critics called bloodletting Over his govern ments handling of the controversial private healthcare the announcement also officially ended the provincial Cabi net career of Stockwell who left his Job As treasurer earlier this year to pursue the Leader ship of the Canadian Soldier threatened Toronto a Canadian forces officer threatened to kill a sol Dier in his unit who was suffer ing from combat stress during the in Mission in Croatia in according to testimony that emerged a military chaplain and doctor told a military Board of inquiry last year they saw the whose name has not been released under Federal privacy threaten to kill the Soldier if he was returned to his mountie under gun Edmonton an ramp offi cer who publicly criticized the Force for its handling of the Wiebo Ludwig vandalism Case is now the subject of an internal it is alleged you have conducted yourself in a disgraceful Man Ner which brings discredit to the Gerry Sharp wrote to Bob lawsuits ruled out Calgary hundreds of for Mer residential school students cant sue for breaches of their charter a Calgary judge has Justice Rosemary nation said the lawsuits claiming cultural genocide involve incidents that occurred before the charter of rights and freedoms came into compiled from Canadian press around the world diplomacy first Suriname the commander of surnames army says the military is prepared to act Only if the government exhausts All diplomatic Means to resolve a territorial dispute with Guyana that involves a Canadian the army is not sharpest on a clash of Grenn Sedney Guyana has granted offshore Oil drilling rights to Toronto based Cox in Waters that Suriname no need for greed pm Berlin Jean Chretien mounted the International stage to tear a strip off his Domestic opponents preaching lib eral compassion As an alternative to what he sees As an ideology of greed on the political Chretien pointed to the 14 Centre left leaders at the conference As an example of How the world has to go to have a civil society that operates Well in the slaying bloodied truce cease fire took effect yesterday in Indonesia aces end ing 25 years of separatist Vio but the historic step toward More autonomy was Over shadowed by a rebel leaders in police said unidentified gunmen killed Tuku Don head of the free aces movement thursday prime evil gets break Johannesburg apartheid killer Eugene de Nick named prime had a 262 year sentence slightly reduced yesterday after winning amnesties from South Africa truth de Kock had 32 years trimmed off his sentences for role in six the torture and killing of Black activists in the 1980s and compiled from news Canada world gel condom May save lives by Marlene Hableb Toronto prostitutes and other women Are being recruited by researchers at Laval University to test gels known As invisible con Doms As part of clinical trials announced research to determine whether microbicide gels protect against sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy will begin this head researcher Michel Bergeron said at an inter nation prof asks hookers to test microbicide Al conference on his and but it could take up to two years to get the gels on the Market because trials have first to prove their safety and he said after health min ister Allan Rock pledged toward Laval Bergeron said the new gels would give women More Power Over their own health and May save millions of particularly in developing countries where his is spreading he also Hopes invisible condoms will sell for about the same prices As mens what drives us is that As a if our gels can save millions of Well see the contribution that our work can said chairman of the Quebec City University infectious Dis ease research Doan bad Chau associated press Hieu right Speaks at a relatives Home in Hanoi yesterday about execution of his wife Nguyen Thi Vietnam vows to release executed canadians mom by Tinl Tran Tran Hieu and his family have spent a night Marish four years since his wife and her Mother were arrested and jailed for drug smuggling in the family fight for their release became an even Grimmer Battle after Hie us Nguyen Thi was executed by firing squad in despite reassurances her death penalty would be but As Hie us family comes to terms with their which has caused a major diplomatic Row Between Viet Nam and they at last got some Good news Vietnam promised to release hips ailing elderly Tran Thi i just want my grandmother to come said cams grandson Trung who arrived from Toron to with his brother to join their in Hanoi this i cant bring my mothers body Back to Lif but my grandmother is still alive and we want her Back with cams release has been the subject of intense negotiations Between Cana Dian and vietnamese officials since Canada imposed diplomatic sanctions Over hips is expected to be freed As part of the Gen eral amnesty on Vietnam National Canada expressed satisfaction yes Doan bad Chau associated press Trung prays before shrine to his Mother yesterday in Ter Day at the vietnamese i am encouraged that these negotiations have resulted in significant Progress in meeting Canadas efforts on behalf of the Nguyen said foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy in a hips execution provoked a Diplo Matic firestorm because vietnamese officials had assured Ottawa they were willing to delay the execution on new evidence that the two women had been duped into smuggling the but on april Hiep was gagged and executed by a firing As Well As suspending ministerial level Canada Cut off support for Vietnam bid to join the world Trade organization and suspended upcoming annual talks on develop ment bowing to Vietnam last week indicated it was willing to turn Over hips remains to her family and strongly consider the release of associated press vaginal microbicide gels begin As liquids that react to body heat to form an impermeable Barrier that acts As a protective shield during the gels cling to the curves and contours of the mucous Early trials on animals in Canada and other countries have shown that the gels can prevent his and herpes some forms May also prevent pregnant continued please see condoms a15 police ruse in freeing hostages slammed to Crew pose upsets journalist group by constant Brand police faced criticism yesterday from the worlds largest journalists organization for using officers posing As a television Crew to lure a gunman into an ambush and end a hostage crisis at a daycare when the gunman emerged for an interview thursday holding a child in one Arm and a grenade in the police posing As cameramen shot him twice in the the tactic led to res Cue of 25 children and three adults who had been held hostage for about 30 these Are disturbing cautioned Aidan general Secretary of the International federation of Jour cameramen Are always Poten tial targets when filming in dangerous incidents like this May put them even More at risk from trigger Happy the Brussels based which represents More than journalists asked for an investigation into the tactics police each Many journalists die reporting on incidents of their life is dangerous enough without adding to their White said in a Luxembourg police defended their saying it minimized the threat to the Interior minister Michel Wolters said Neji Bejaoui demand for to airtime gave police an Opportunity to get a Clear he was very we were ready to do it before but he didst come far enough Wolters an unemployed tunisian was shot at the daycare Cen tre in a Village of peo ple in Eastern he was recovering from his injuries yesterday after emergency and police said his wounds were no longer All the captives were freed authorities released details yesterday about the 39yearold who bran dished a a hand grenade and a knife As he seized his hostages wednes in a the Luxembourg government said Bejaoui had a history of violence and was convicted of assault in he had been seeing a psychiatrist for several press researchers hopeful vaccine May kill Coli bacteria its promising but theres no cure scientist stresses Oconnor Canadian press steam rises from a Belleville Resi dents Kettle As he boils Ottawa scientists at the National research Council May have found a Way to eradicate the deadly Coli bacteria that has killed several researchers have discovered a vac Cine that might kill the 157 Coli Strain in the Canadian press has that the same Strain that contaminated the water Supply in Walker killing up to 11 people and making hundreds its said scientist Mal Colm who stressed that theres no cure id say its an answer to the clinical trials on mice in the last two years were successful in killing the deadly Coli said who has not talked publicly about the vaccine for fear of raising Hopes before tests Are trials on cattle could begin in August with results Likely two months said cattle Are considered the primary transmitters of Coli infecting humans by contaminating some foods and the vaccine works by attaching a harmless bacteria to the Coli Bate creating antibodies to kill it May sound a bit bizarre to use a bacteria to remove a said who compares the process to How cow pox vaccine is used to eliminate Small antibodies produced when you were immunized against Small they didst actually give you Small they gave you an injection of cow pox which is a relatively harmless virus and you produced the antibodies which now protect you against Small last strains of Coli 157 made people sick and killed 60 people in the United according to the Cen tres for disease control and prevention in j its estimated that up to 30 per cent of cattle across North America carry the 157 if its eliminated from then it get in the food Perry we think that we have found other bacteria harmless bacteria that carry the 157 if cattle Are Given those organisms they will pro Duce antibodies against them and that will de colonize them or it will prevent colonization in the first the Council is still waiting for government this current outbreak has been an impetus to get us some funding to do said the worst thing that could happen is that we give these other Coli bacteria to the cattle and they concedes continued vaccine a17 i ;