Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958rent Canada world news continued on around Canada not a Good idea red robber who held up a hotel in this trial Alberta City paid the Price for not doing his a Man who said he had a gun robbed the desk clerk at the Stanford inn yesterday about 2 but didst get fan the hotel is right by the cites ramp detachment said Dave Mitchell police crossed the arrested the Man without Inci Dent and recovered the ride for cancer Regina ten Saskatchewan women Are planning to travel Kilometres on snowmobiles raise Money for breast cancer the members of Prairie women on will make the eight Day journey along trails from Regina to North Battleford in the Hopes of raising mergers denounced Quebec almost pro testers gathered at the Quebec legislature braving bitter cold to denounce a govern ment plan to Force municipal mergers throughout the detox Centre promised Goose the Day before canadians prepared to go to the the Federal govern ment promised yesterday to build a detox Centre to treat inn children addicted to sniffing compiled from Canadian press around the world election votes Shock former communist and a far rightist ran first and second yesterday in Romanias first round tial election in a vote certain to Shock Europe and dim the coun try prospects for entry into the european former president and Ion Iliescu took 36 to 37 per cent of the vote in exit while his party of social democracy won 40 per cent of the vote for the but in a sur Hartline nationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor vaulted into second Gas explosion kills 2 Baku Sion triggered by earthquake damage Tore through an apart ment building in Azerbaijan capital officials people crashed to death by r the blast residents of Baku already shaken sat quake we icel Kyj led three people and injured Jnore clemency review set Bill Clinton review Al Pend eng requests clemency before he leaves office in the White House said deluding Tjit of a native american activist of convicted of murdering two Fol agents in South Swiss Back army army r november 2000 Canad world b1 business b7 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 kids alarmingly fat study by Helen Branswell Toronto Canadian kids Are getting fat at an alarming says a new Brunswick researcher who puts the blame squarely on the sedentary lifestyles of the game boy the rate of obesity among boys aged seven to 13 nearly tripled Over the 15 year period Between 1981 and while the prevalence of obesity among girls of the same age More than Mark Tremblay reports in the Canad an medical association which was published a research fellow at the Canadian research Institute for social unhealthy Lack of activity raise fears for game boy generation policy in Calls this a Stag Gering rate of think it is i Hope some people with decision making Powers find it that he said in an Tremblay was not alone in finding the trend clearly the dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity in Canadian Chil Dren represents a serious threat to pub Lic Ross Anderson of Johns Hopkins school of Medicine in Balti writes in an accompanying com Centary for the Tremblay and coauthor Douglas director of the research compared data on childrens body mass Index Ami from studies done in 1988 and Ami is a ratio of weight to height commonly used to determine How much a person should using the 1981 data As a Obe sity was defined As being in the 95th per Centile for that Means kids in the top five per cent for weight were deemed kids in the 85th to 95th percentile were considered when figures for 1996 were compared to the 1981 the prevalence of obesity in boys soared to per cent from five per among girls the Fig ure Rose to per the rates of overweight children also Rose nearly 30 per cent of boys and 24 per cent of girls were considered overweight that includes those deemed obese compared to 15 per cent for each in and Tremblay believes things have gotten worse since theres no doubt the trend is getting its like driving a Tanker you just dont Stop it and turn it on a continued please see fat b4 Israel launches raid on Lebanon israeli soldiers arrange tank shells As they prepare to target suspected lebanese guerrilla hideouts near the Village of of a lebanese students throw stones through the israeli Fence at Sheik Abbad Hill along the lebanese israeli Varon press retaliatory attack on guerrillas raises spectre of regional War by Lee Hockstader Jerusalem israeli combat helicopters and artillery attacked Southern Lebanon striking at islamic guerrilla targets there for the first time in six months after a Roadside bomb killed one israeli Soldier and injured two others near the lebanese israels raid was the first of its kind since prime minister Ehud Barak with Drew his troops from Southern Lebanon in ending israels two decade occupation of what it called its Security zone in the following two months of fighting Between israelis and the sudden new violence in the North raised the spectre of a second front in the Ara israeli and even a regional although the lebanese islamic guerrillas of meaning party of have been relatively cautious about provoking the groups Leader warned saturday just hours before the Roadside bomb exploded about 7 yesterday morning that it has not Given up the fight against the jewish that is a potent threat because not the lebanese filled the vacuum on the ground in Southern Lebanon after israels Hezbollah insists that israels withdrawal from Lebanon in May was incomplete because it did not include a Small Patch of territory known As she Baa but backed by the United insists Sheba farms was captured in 1967 from not and considers Lebanon claim to the land intended to keep tensions High along the holy War is the Only Way to regain every Inch of Pur occupied Hezbollah said in a statement Satur Hezbollah claimed responsibility for detonating the Roadside bomb that exploded about a half mile South of the just As an israeli patrol passed the israeli Soldier killed in the blast was an Arab Khalil a 27yearold arabs represent nearly 20 percent of israels Popula Tion but Are not drafted into the army like most jewish but a like do israeli Cabinet minister Amnon lip a former army warned that the possibility of further violence in the North is Israel said it would Register a complaint with the United nations that the Roadside bomb had violated Security Council Lebanon said it would com Plain about israels retaliatory which slightly wounded a Man described As a syrian its unacceptable for Hezbollah to carry out activities without there being Lipkin Shahak the government of Lebanon must be responsible for what Hezbollah does inside the state of As jitters mounted about an Escala Tion in the there were tentative signs that israeli and palestinian Lead ers were seeking a Way to ease the Vio Lence that has claimed some 275 lives in the past two most of them Lipkin Shahak was reported to have met secretly Over the weekend with Yasser the palestinian and Baraks top Security Danny flew to Cairo for a session with egyptian president Hosni seeking to mend relations following Egypt decision last week to withdraw its ambassador from Tel Aviv to protest israels use of Force against the there was no immediate sign of Progress from either in the egyptians barely acknowledged that Yat pm had been in issuing no official statement about the 45 minute talk and allowing no photos or to the Washington Post troops sent to Stop albanians yugoslav army tanks patrol near the Buffer Yugoslavia Yugoslavia army sent tanks and reinforcements near the nato patrolled Boundary with Serbia Kosovo province one Day before Yugoslavia deadline for nato to crack Down on albanian militants whose attacks have inflamed the Kosovo has been under International control since last year and albanian separatists want inde in the five Kilometre Buffer zone Between Central Serbia and attacks by the separatists left at least four serbian policemen dead last yugoslav authorities set a deadline of afternoon today for nato to Clear the militants from the Boundary they have threatened to launch counterattacks after the deadline in the local to station reported one albanian fighter was wounded in the contested area yesterday but gave no further the albanians declared their own unilateral ceasefire Friday but it expired at Midnight the crisis erupted last week when militants believed to be operating from Kosovo killed the serbian policemen and seized key positions just across the Boundary from the Nat patrolled about 500 civilians from the contested area crossed the Border into Macedonia to avoid any new the government to station in the neighbouring country the new conflict Between serbs and albanians has provoked a major crisis for the new govern ment of yugoslav president Vojislav continued please see crisis b3 ;