Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 8, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Soundbite this brings a serious player into the Canadian Bank of Montroal spoke in Ron Pearce reacting to the Pur Chase by Citibank of ads master card business b7 Junr 2000 Canada world b1 business 87 tse listings b9 Mutual funds b10 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 news continued on around the world help for Sumatra Indonesia planes and warships brought medical food and tents to earthquake devastated Suma tra Island even As More aftershocks rattled the the earthquake hit sunday killing at least 94 people and injuring up to heroes Day shattered Colombo a suicide bomber shattered sri Lankas first Ever War heroes killing a Cabi net minister and 20 other people yesterday during a fundraiser for the families of slain Mugabe talks Tough Harare zimbabwean presi Dent Robert Mugabe said yesterday his govern ment could seize All White owned land and if Whites were allowed to continue farming it would be out of Yourow Chari Mugabe said the government was looking beyond the 841 White owned farms already designated to be seized for redistribution to landless Ebay bidding probed san Francisco the Fri is investigating whether people Are driving up prices at online auctioneer Ebay by bidding on each others we can confirm that there is an investigation and were assisting in any Way an spokesman said yester he declined to Jack Why Are they pointing guns at you Manila philippine authorities said yesterday they had dropped their Case against a Bank worker suspected of involvement in the love Bug which caused billions of dollars in damage to computers around the a senior state prosecutor said there was no Law that could be used to prosecute 27yearold Leonel investors riot Bucharest a riot police fired tear Gas yesterday into an angry crowd of who demanded the government compensate them for savings lost in a failed investment shouting about 500 depositors in the fund tried to push their Way past Iron fences surrounding the main government building in riot police fired tear Gas to disperse them and two men were the prosecutors office said the former chairman of Roma Nias National savings Bank was arrested on suspicion of mis leading investors into believing that deposits made to the nation Al investment fund were guaranteed by the compiled from the news services Waterford All someone said was Jack but at a suburban Detroit that was enough to create a a microphone happened to be open monday when someone greeted the co Pilot aboard a corporate and the Tower heard police Rick Crigger Oakland International Airport Tower officials called the Waterford they in turn called in a whole extra shift of the Oakland county sheriffs department swat the Fri and other Federal Crigger the plane was told to return to the and the pilots identification was i like false alarms like police chief John Dean they Are Good for training nobody was Hurt and they were just delayed a few min once the alarm was the Law offi cers could laugh about probably pass a Rule that no one named Jack can Ever be hired in aviation said Waterford Chuck the Airport is about 50 Kilometres Northwest of associated press unwilling to accept the notion that it broke the Law judge Thomas Penfield Jackson breakup is an unwarranted and unjustified intrusion Microsoft chairman Bill Gates ruling a pretty scathing assault on Microsoft new York attorney general Eliot Spitzer Gates vows to fight order for breakup judge splits Microsoft in says software giant untrustworthy by Larry Margasak Washington a fed eral judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft declaring the software giant that spurred an explosion in Home computing should be split into two because it proved i no guarantees a sep on As consumer it is presently Impact organized and editorial is unwilling to Llorian to accept the breaking notion that it broke the District judge Thomas Penfield Jackson wrote As he ordered the most dra Matic antitrust breakup since in an unrepentant Microsoft chairman Bill Gates vowed to calling the division of his Empire an unwarranted and unjustified he said the company would seek to Block Jacksons order from taking effect during the appeals this is the beginning of a new Chap Ter in this added who would Only be Able to control one of the two companies created by the Rul its too Early to say How the ruling will Impact Microsoft although the move will Likely delay development of the giant company internet companies such As netscape communications and those promoting com Peting linux including Ottawa corel May also Bene fit Down the an operating system that can be downloaded for free off the has been touted As a Strong future rival to Microsoft windows corel shares surged More than 30 per cent on the Toronto Stock Market rising can to close at in heavy trading of More than million Jacksons ruling came two months after he concluded april 3 the software company violated antitrust Laws by using illegal methods to protect its monopoly in computer operating sys stifling he also found the company tried illegally to expand its dominance into the Market for internet the judge gave the company four months to devise a plan to Divide itself into two continued please see Microsoft b2 Gates above answers questions during a news conference at the company Headquarters yesterday after Jack son left ordered the breakup of Paul Hose hos York times archives did Canada let cuban ads Down by Robert Russo Washington questions Are being raised about Canadas handling of Des Perate Asylum seekers after two cuban doctors who pleaded with Canadian officials for Refuge were kidnapped in Africa and put on a flight headed for the cubans were visited yesterday at a jail outside the capital of Zim and indicated they still Hope to come to their ordeal is Rife with the stuff of cold War spy zimbabwean Secu Rity agents arriving at their door after Midnight handed them Over to cuban who spirited them onto a Havana bound flight with stops in Johan Nesburg and a United nations offi Cial one of them managed to scribble a diplomats handling of desperate request for Asylum questioned frantic note in broken English on police stationery and slipped it to an air France employee in Johannesburg before the aircraft left for the heavily under lined word kidnapped was writ ten in the margin of the three Page the airline refused to transport the Noris Pena and Leonel Cordova 31they were returned to where they were put in the two cuban doctors were part of a government program that sends doctors overseas for Tours of duty to help poor their misadventure began after they denounced cuban Leader Fidel Castro in an interview with a zimbabwean on May they asked Canadian embassy officials in Harare to allow them to come to embassy officials listened to their informed them that they could not seek immediate Refuge at the embassy and directed them to the office of the United nations human rights commis those instructions Are in keeping with Canadas Asylum but a Cuba american group said yesterday the policy failed to take into account the imminent threat the two Doc tors were Canada did not need to defer to the in and should have at least facilitated their request Given the difficulties cubans face when they seek said Mariela spokeswoman for the Cuba american National found Canada should have sheltered these in sure the Canadian govern ment is aware that the government of Zimbabwe is Friendly with Fidel Zimbabwe has Long maintained close cultural and ideological ties with and president Robert once a leading counts cuban president Fidel Castro among his closest political a spokeswoman for citizenship and immigration Canada in Ottawa said embassy officials Are always instructed to inform in human rights officials whenever Asylum seekers turn up at Canadian diplomatic continued please see Asylum seekers b2 Canada one the big one n0 no s l 2001 925 Lagimodiere at Marion 233 4ooo a Nair ;