Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 2, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A14 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 saturday free press i camber 2000 Canada world Canada world news continued on around Canada election recounts Canadian style Ottawa recounts Are expected to Start next week in three including two que Bec seats where bloc quebecois candidates scored narrow wins Over Liberal rivals in mondays Federal the other recount is expected in the Saskatchewan Riding of where the Canadian Alliance candidate narrowly Defeated her nip feds Cut Al premiums Ottawa insurance premiums will drop in 2001 to from the current per of the Federal human resources department said the announcement makes offi Cial the cuts proposed in septem that Bill died 22 when the Federal election was thief swallowed ring say a thief who held up a jewelry store made off with a Diamond ring in his a 27yearold Man from Gran was being held in jail yesterday under 24hour police guard after rays indicated the ring was still in his drug ring cracked Halifax three Nova so trans were arrested yesterday after ramp said they cracked a suspected drug trafficking ring that operated in four Wayne Noonan said the three men two Brothers and a Cousin were allegedly involved in the West coast drug Pri Marily in the Vancouver and Squamish the drugs were also distributed in Nova Ontario and Mani police compiled from Canadian press around the world cod catch halved Brussels a european Union commission announced proposals for deep cuts in North sea fish quotas halving the permitted cod catch next year in a bid to rebuild stocks on the verge of scientists have warned that overfishing has reduced cod stocks in North sea Waters to the Point where they May not recon but the drastic quota cuts could mean disaster for scottish who make up 70 per cent of the British under a Deal reached Between the eur and Norway the total allowable catch for cod in the North sea has been nearly halved to metric Mideast violence Jerusalem palestinians streamed out of Muslim midday prayer services yesterday and clashed with israeli Security forces at tense spots in the occupied West Bank and Gaza two palestinians were killed and More than 20 were throughout the two months of Mideast the two sides Jive frequently clashed following prayers on the Muslim nato adds to patrol Yugoslavia nato sent reinforcements to the tense Southern Kosovo Boundary yesterday after clashes Between ethnic albanian rebels and yugoslav about 250 additional British sol Diers were sent to patrol outside a Buffer zone Sepa Yugoslavia Southern province of Kosovo and its main province of violence escalated last week As ethnic albanian rebels launched attacks into the Buffer Cap Turing several strategic Points in Serbia at least five peo including four serb police Day wants to stay As Leader Quebec Stockwell Day said yesterday Hes confident he will survive a future leadership review by Canadian Alliance members despite failure to dramatically Widen the party support in the Federal elec who made Quebec City his first Stop outside British Columbia since Mon Days said he has received positive feedback from Alliance supporters about his he said that under the party constr the leadership question will automatically come up at the convention next summer but Hes not our members and our candidates throughout the country Tell me that they Are proud of my leadership and that says Hes willing to modify policies we have to build on More Concrete Posi but i have a lot of Day said in French at a news the Alliance won 66 seats in mondays Federal most of them in the the party did not win any seats in que which is dominated by liberals and the bloc but Day said at least the Alliance raised its two out of eight voters in the Quebec City Region backed the Alliance and it won votes in the he our growth in Quebec Hast yet allowed us to elect but we have Laid solid bases for the asked whether he would adopt a More moderate social policy in order to woo Ontario and Quebec Day said that will be up to Alliance but he said Hes not afraid of Dis cussing i am not like Jean i am not a Day i am a i will ask questions and the members will decide if there will be Day conceded that his party must do a better Job of explaining its ideas and appeared to take the blame for some of the party Michael Zibari press democratic and Republican supporters crowd the Street and Plaza yesterday near the supreme supreme court justices wrestle with role in Florida by Robert Russo Washington it took just a few moments for supreme court justices to signal yesterday they Are uneasy about being More firmly enmeshed in a presidential minefield than at any time since the watergate several justices who May decide who ultimately moves into the White House repeatedly posed questions americans have been asking since Dis Pute arose Over the 7 election How did we get Here and what Are we supposed to do about it George Bush asked the High court to quash a Florida court ruling allowing hand recounts that almost halved his tiny Lead Over Al Gore there to 537 any decision against Gore might be a mortal political it could also effectively end his Legal Challenge in Florida High Gore badly needs a court the Florida supreme court dealt him a double defeat reject ing Gores plea for an immediate and speedy recount of Over one million bal lots and refusing to order a new elec Tion in Palm Beach county where the Butterfly ballot was a lower court judge in Tallahassee is scheduled to Rule today on whether million ballots from Palm Beach and Miami Dade counties will be recounted by Gore needs those recounts to proceed to overtake As packed galleries peered Down along the Marble columns in Ameri Cas highest court in Many of the justices solemnly but relent Lessly quizzed Bush lawyer about Why the Texas governor needs a supreme court ruling on the states rights Florida supreme court had allowed select manual recounts and the supreme court rarely Steps into an Issue where states rights Are in were looking for a Federal Issue said Justice Anthony is there any respect in which it makes a this Case whats the consequence of our going one Way or another now in this Case Justice Stephen Breyer and then there was this gentle but withering reminder from perhaps the most conservative Antonin this is a Federal Scalia said to Joseph the lawyer representing Florida Secretary of state Katherine neither Bush nor his democratic rival attended the 90minute but Gores four children sat in a vip along with several including Edward Kennedy and his Republican colleague Orrin Access to the 50 Public spots had become the hottest ticket in washing ton for those hoping for a glimpse of about 100 people borrowed tactics from music fans hoping to see a Rock they camped on the sidewalk outside the Temple like wrap Ping themselves in blankets and sleep ing bags to Ward off the overnight those who slept awoke to the raucous chants of about 500 protest at the first 50 campers were let the others had to wait for rotating continued please see court a15 Pinochet under House arrest on charges of kidnapping compiled from services Chile a chilean judge indicted former dictator Augusto Pinochet on kidnapping charges yester ordering him to face a trial for the disappearances of 19 the charges Stem from disappear ances that occurred in the first months of Pinochet 17year which began in 1973 and ended in they Are among 177 criminal com plaints he faces stemming from human rights violations during his judge Juan Guzman said he also ordered the 85yearold former Strong Man to be held under House last Pinochet made a hesitant admission of responsibility for atrocities the military committed Dur ing his As a former president of the i accept All the facts that they say the army and the armed forces Pinochet speaking but he also added that some of the accusations against his government were just Pinochet made similar statements last year in a letter to a Docu he sent Home from London he was under House arrest there while a Spanish judge sought his extradition to face torture according to a report by the civilian government that succeeded opposition Union leaders and others disappeared and Are presumed to have been killed while he was in Pinochet lawyers contend the Erdic Tator is not healthy enough to stand he was kept under House arrest in Lon Don from october 1998 until he was freed in March because of health a Federal magistrate who has led efforts to prosecute con firmed the indictment upon leaving a Santiago he said Pinochet was also wanted on suspicion of being the intellectual author of some 55 deaths As Well As the 19 disappearances in which he is in the first weeks after Pinochet coup in september military officers led a helicopter flying death squad along the length of pulling suspected opponents from jails Santiago la Noin press archives Pinochet under House arrest court sources said had not yet been told of the arrest this disappoints Fernando bar an adviser on Pinochet defence told local without even questioning Pinochet is being put on Argentina has requested Pinochet extradition for his suspected role in the 1974 car bomb murder of Chiles former army Carlos he downplayed a report this week that some Ontario conservatives who backed the Alliance Felt their expertise had not been utilized during the the report suggested the Ontario sup porters thought Day veered from the party fiscal message to defend his social i continue to be impressed and delighted with the support we received from senior and key people in Day i take full responsibility for any messaging which did not happen As it should have during the Campaign As different things came at Canadian press Csc producer suspended c11 alleged Kingpin lived High documents Hes May adjudicator warned by Greg Joyce Vancouver the alleged master mind of a vast chinese smuggling scan dal appeared to live a High rolling life in with plenty of Money to immigration Canada documents presented yesterday immigration Canada lawyer Jim Mur Ray told a detention review adjudicator that Lai changxing lost to at Casino Niagara in Niagara Murray had planned to Call a Casino official As a witness but Lais lawyer Daryl Larson didst dispute the making the testimony Murray also presented some new Evi Dence at the which followed an initial detention hearing Bank statements for Lais wife Tsang Minga and some of her children showed assets of about the balance in one of tangs accounts was million Murray said the Bank documents Indi Cate there is a lot of Money available to the assets i submit they could use to leave Lai and who were handcuffed entering and leaving the packed pro listened intently to the Man Darin immigration also entered As evidence a statement from the ramp regarding tangs arrest earlier this Mur Ray said the evidence suggests that Tsang and Lai were not living Lai was arrested in Niagara Falls on the same Day Tsang was arrested in suburban there were no mens personal effects or accessories in tangs Burnaby con Murray he was unable to Tell the hearing Why that evidence made them a flight risk but said it Indi Cates theres not a close relationship Between the Murray urged adjudicator Daphne Shaw Dyck to weigh All the new Evi plus the evidence presented tues our principal submission is that All the documents taken together show a significant flight he they Are unlikely to appear for removal if ordered during a the hearings were lightened briefly when an asian reporter covering the hearing passed around a Glossy supplement from a recent Hong Kong daily the Magazine had a picture of Lai being hustled into the hearing earlier this accompanied by an immigration Canada the headline referred to Lai As the emperor of smuggling and alluded to 400 Days of extravagant living in Cana Lai is described As the most wanted Man in accused of controlling a multimillion Dollar smuggling operation in the coastal province of oppo site the smuggling which allegedly skirted import duties on As much As billion us Worth of goods entering was apparently protected by a Phalanx of corrupt hundreds of officials in fijian have been implicated in the largest corruption scandal in China since the communists took Power in a total of 14 senior government officials and employees of Lais Yanhua group were sentenced to death 8 for their role in the another 70 including Lais two received prison sentences ranging from three years to Canadian press ;