Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 4, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free press november 2000 Canada world a13 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 Canada world news on a14 is 0 around the world Surrey teen missing purse found in trash associated press a palestinian police officer tries to restrain Stone thrower rear Gaza City leaders urge restraint Jerusalem after several failed israeli and palestinian leaders abandoned their inflammatory rhetoric and called for restraint yesterday in the most concerted Effort yet to halt five weeks of two palestinians were shot and killed and dozens injured in clashes with israeli troops in the West Bank and Gaza Hospital doctors four israeli soldiers were also the army payment to families Paris after months of Wran lawyers agreed yesterday on a partial Deal to compensate the families of those who died in the fiery crash of an air France concorde near a provisional compensation payment will be awarded in the next few lawyers for the victims families and air France declining to disclose the they Are to meet again to discuss the final Bush George Bush conviction for and runic driving in 1976 could bar him Canada but it Likely wont happen especially not if he becomes j the next americans attempting to enter Canada who have been convicted of a crime such As driving under the influence of alcohol face the Prospect of being turned j immigration Canada spokesman Rene Mercier said yesterday from the Republican candidate for was arrested on labour Day 1976 near his f Ami Lys Retreat in Estrada isolated Manila the Heads of both houses of Congress resigned from the ruling Pajity yesterday the most to abandon i a amid growing support f impeachment Overta Senate president Franklin and House speaker 1 Manuel Villa Rewt Estradas Law the latest in a t of judge thwarts group d yesterday Julge rejected an Bro life Alliance Tor Bruno Quintavalle to of take its ease to the Britain control Portugal a 15yearold girl from this Vancouver suburb has disappeared from the same Community where a Young girl was abducted and killed a month ramp say Yiching a High school Exchange student from has not been seen since wednesday when she failed to show up for school in the Cloverdale but police Are not linking her disappearance with that of 10yearold Heather who vanished 1 and whose naked body was found three weeks later in a Lake 45 Kilometres a suspect has been arrested in the Thomas abduction Vancouver Tele vision stations a ctr and Vav reported last suspect arrested in killing of girl 10 Vav reported that the suspect is 23 years old and lived in the same Cloverdale Complex As heathers ramp Bud Mercer said the Chen and Thomas cases Are remarkably Dif Heather vanished without a but police have at least one clue in Chens Chens purse and other personal items were found in a garbage Container near a downtown Vancouver sky train she has no history of running officials at Chens school were trying to quell fears spokeswoman Muriel Wilson said teachers have talked to students and a notice was being sent Home to parents discounting connections with heathers the Host family sensed nothing unusual until Chen failed to rendezvous with them for a ride Home from school on Lori Pettifer speculated the Grade 10 student might have skipped classes and been afraid to return if Shes out there you Shes decided not to go to school for the Day and thinks she might be in trouble or Shes said we just want her Pettifer said the girls family in Tai wan has been airline apologizes for fatal Accident l David press relatives of victims of tuesdays plane crash Kneel in front of wreckage at the Airport in Taipei plane collided with equipment after Pilot missed warnings Taiwan Singapore airlines apologized yesterday after investigators discovered that the Pilot of a los Angeles bound jumbo Jet missed Clear warnings and crashed while trying to take off on a runway full of construction equip ment the Boeing 747400 into three pieces and burst a Lajnes of the sole Canadian escaped with this is a terrible Are deeply Deputy chief executive of reporters last night in san gait the crash was the airline disaster in 28 years of they were our Pilot a wit the aircraft should on that runway and Cheong relatives were at a crematorium and Fuzfa Centre outside Taipei to remains of loved ones when the cause of the crash was taiwanese investigators said it was too soon to whether Kong Foong should beheld responsible for the Foong was being kept Taiwan for questioning Foong missed some Kef including a routine preflight briefing paper that warned of the Hazard on the runway under construction and two big signs indicating the number of the runway he mistakenly went despite the singaporean officials insisted the investigation was not yet Complete and suggested there May have been some mitigating fac we will be looking at human fac tors and also what could be done to Mafe airports Cheong he said it was critical tha we understand exactly what happened and precisely what made the cockpit believe that they were on the Carrest Ajr traffic Catt trousers had no Way w knowing Foong turned on to Rair been in e 11 Tony Yao associated press a damaged after tuesdays lies on the said Alfred a National transportation safety Board investigator who was in Taipei to help with the inquiry into the after Airport controllers cleared Foong to take off on the open he acknowledged the instruction by radio but somehow ended up on the blocked As Foong pushed toward Takeoff he saw a big Concrete Block straight ahead that had been put in place to close off part of the runway being but it was too late to the part of the runway where Foong took wrong turn had been kept open for jets to taxi taiwanese officials the Captain an explicit four letter word he theres something Yong soon there was a series of Impact sounds and four seconds later the tape the 747 hit the Concrete Block before crashing into More construction apparently including two scattering wreckage across the in addition to the poor there were suggestions that the Light ing on the open and closed runways might have caused some taiwanese officials said some of the lights on the wrong runway were ill and a few lights on the Cor rect runway were knocked out by another flight that veered slightly off course airline experts said Foong had no excuses for his Cheong Choong Kong of Singapore airlines pauses during a news con Ference wrong runway because an approach ing typhoon had made visibility too poor to see the jetliner from the control Tower and the Airport does not have ground radar that could have detected the on a Clear the Tower can see the whole Kay managing director of Taiwan aviation safety said late weather plays a some major airports also Lack such which can be costly and although officials Are try ing to have More of them v press Chens first language is mandarin Chi but police say her English is Heather Thomas was abducted from outside her fathers condominium in part of the sprawling sub Urb of Surrey Southeast of her body was found three weeks later floating in Louette Lake in Golden ears Park in Maple Northeast of the no arrests have been Mercer said the fact both girls disappeared from Cloverdale has raised the level of police have also been investigating reports of More than a dozen attempted abductions of children and Young teens in the Vancouver area Over the last few Canadian press companies probe issues of liability after deaths tragedy May keep kids from workplaces by James Mccarten Toronto companies participating in High school Job shadowing programs May soon face a Choice higher insurance rates or no More kids at Canadas corporate sector and its insurers will be probing the risks inherent in allowing employees to bring their kids to even if just for one Day a experts those risks became tragically apparent wednesday when Rob Fulbrook and Amanda both were killed in a Freak Industrial Accident at a John Deere manufacturing Plant in while police Are sceptical that Crimi Nal charges will be Laid in the the Ontario labour ministry has not ruled out the under the occupational health and safety the ministry has the author Ity to Lay charges against companies and a ministry communications officer did not Rule out the possibility of charges being Laid in the Accident that claimed the two the two South its going to Western Ontario teens were participating in take our employers kids to work take a very an annual Canadian ritual for Grade 9 students that some look at fear May soon be mho thar Weiner its going to make they re going employers take a t0 continue very hard look at whether there 00 going to continue to do said Chip a personal injury lawyer in they have to look at the very real possibility of injuries on the Job site that just want thought about Fulbrook and peat were killed when the Utility vehicle they were driving smashed into a parked tractor trailer at the Plant where Fulbrook father John Deere has refused to comment on whether the pair were granted per Mission to drive the called a or whether they were being but their deaths Are sure to prompt a close examination of the liability issues companies face when they have children on the said Dave an insurance expert with Toronto consult ing firm Komg in it May be that they advise their 1 insured parties to not permit this Type of at least in certain types of work such As an Industrial manufacturing Thomson its quite different when taking to work involves going to an despite the parents and employers alike have been unanimous in their support of a program they say pro Vides students with valuable experience in preparing them for the working in order to exclude students or the children of employees from being allowed to visit work it May be Nec Essary to exclude visitors of All types an onerous task said faced with such a insurers May simply decide the Accident was a one time occurrence and Doest represent a serious risk for the it May simply be a situation where the insurer looks at it and its unusual that this happened maybe this is a onetime he you just dont but hopefully it wont prevent the from being Able to have this Canadian press ;