Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free press March 2001 news continued on around the world Dabkus 8chreibeh Mem a court approved a Deal allow ing Helmut Kohl to pay a Fine and avoid criminal Kohl avoids charges Berlin a German court said yesterday it has approved a Deal allowing former Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl to pay a Fine and avoid criminal charges in his party financing Kohl accept but his political foes accused him of buying his Way under the Deal with prosecutors in an investigation possible breach of Trust charges will be closed As soon As Kohl pays a Fine of close to Kohls Stephan Holthof said the former Chancellor would Napster fights for life san Francisco fighting for its life in Napster told a judge yesterday that it will unveil a screening system this weekend that will Block users from trading pirated music through its web lawyer David Boies offered the system in an attempt to alive the wildly popular internet music swapping which is battling the recording Indus try in a copyright infringement president affirmed Philippines the supreme court voted yesterday to affirm the legitimacy of the presidency of Gloria Macapia Gal Arroyo and to deny her predecessor immunity from associate Justice Josue Bel who presided Over the said the court voted 130 to Back who was hastily sworn in 20 after huge protests Over Tion allegations forced president Joseph Estrada from nonlethal weapon Washington the Pentagon has unveiled a new nonlethal weapon designed to drive off an adversary with an Energy beam that inflicts pain without Caus ing lasting the weapon could be used for riot control and peacekeeping missions when deadly Force is not officials said Rich Pardon fracas Washington Denise a wife of pardoned fugitive pushed nearly toward democratic causes after a Rich confidant sent an email saying she should sent on a personal Mission to n01 whom congressional investigators identify As former president Bill republicans and a Federal prosecutor in new York have been trying to find out whether there was a Money Oreardon Deal in Clinton Grant of clemency to the billionaire commodities Washington Navy officials Are investigating How hackers broke into a computer at a Navy research facility in Washington and stole source codes to a missile guidance pro officials said the Navy has been working with the Fri and police forces in Germany and other unnamed countries since when of f believe the breaking occurred an Fri spokesman downplayed the saying the software stolen was unc Lassi Goflin Piitz for Rrt the wire service Canada world a11 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 refugees flee Slaughter Indonesia about refugees boarded two Navy ships yesterday to escape an ethnic Slaughter that has seen hundreds of Madures settlers beheaded or hacked to death by Dayak natives on the indonesian part of by the killing Hati stopped and Many people in Central Kalimantan province began rebuilding their but for Madures who saw their loved ones their Homes and businesses life May never be the settlers leave bloodied Borneo lets Pray it never happens said a Man who identified himself Only As some Madures refugees still languished yesterday in a disease infest de Camp after being driven from their waiting for boats to evacuate they Are desperately Short of food and the Madures began arriving in Bor Neo from Madura just off the coast of Indonesia main some 40 years ago As part of a govern ment drive to alleviate overcrowding on their arrival set off a Competition with the kayaks for Access to jobs and the Dayak Campaign to drive the Madures from Central Kalimantan province has largely at least 469 Madures were killed in the Slaugh Ter that began 13 Days and few survivors dare All the Madures have lets Hope they never come said Suriyan a if the Madures Ever try to come Back Here they will be Many victims were beheaded or otherwise mutilated As the kayaks returned to ancient War continued please see Slaughter a13 farm worker stands next to slaughtered Herd of cattle awaiting eur Tunnel employee disinfects vehicles Footman Mouth cancels Ireland Patricks fete Dolly the cloned sheep under quarantine Blair fingers one farm As outbreaks origin London Ireland called off its biggest Patricks Day Parade and Scotland quarantined the cloned As Footman Mouth disease spread across Britain and threatened the Irish but the British government said yesterday that a week of restrictions on the movement of livestock was paying and it planned to allow some animals to be slaughtered for prime minister Tony Blair said All cases of the livestock virus in the United 36 so traced to a single at the each of the cases even in Northern Ireland and Are All traceable Back to the one the origin of in he agriculture officials confirmed six new cases including the first in Scotland and Northern ire the disease sickens Only Cloven hoofed creatures but can be spread by anything that organizers of Patricks Day festivities in Dublin heeded a government plea and called off the country biggest annual event a Parade through the capitals streets that was expected to draw spectators from across the the cancellation came after an emergency meeting of the festival committee late amid fears the virus could be spread by foot tray the farming intensive Irish re pub desperate to avoid the also called off All weekend sporting Britain biggest dog was also police checkpoints jammed traffic along the Belfast Dublin Highway but livestock smugglers May already have outflanked Ireland nationwide Alert against foot and the first Footman Mouth outbreak in Northern Ireland was confirmed near the during an emergency debate in ire lands prime minister Bertie Ahern announced that More than police and soldiers were mounting Roundt Hemlock checkpoints at air terminals and More than 100 roads connecting the Republic of Ireland and the British ruled the goal was to deter livestock smugglers and to get All visitors to run their shoes or vehicle tires Over Mats splashed with billion a year officials from every Corner of Irish society determined to defend a live Stock Industry that employs people and generates about billion can a year did their bit to deter the transmission of the which can hitch rides on the disease is a relatively mild live Stock and it is not a danger to but once a farm animal has Ady press been exposed to infection it is killed to safeguard International Footman Mouth disease is probably the most infectious illness in the world and the most important according to the Institute for animal health in the world reference Laboratory for foot and Mouth it can destroy livelihoods and food supplies almost animals that recover produce less meat or milk vaccination is experts the meat is Safe to unlike the Case of mad cow which has been linked to a brainwash ing disease in variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Canadas last Footman Mouth out break was in it affected fewer than 30 farms around Regina and Only 300 Swine and 100 sheep were it still Cost billion in lost production and mar press scientists link flu epidemics to solar outbursts by Margaret Munro Vancouver influenza epidemics Are More Likely to sweep the Globe when the Sun develops spots and sends its excess Energy barrelling toward say Canadian epidemics Are four times As Likely during solar says Ken tap a solar physicist with the National research pointing to the strik ing correlation Between flu pandemics and the peaks of the 11year Sunspot also known As the solar he and two colleagues have compared flu and solar records dating Back to 1729 urn found a statistically significant there were flu some of them killing millions of in 1968 and years when solar activity and flares bombarded the Earth with extra radiation and cosmic there were also close correlations in other but they were not As pro the probability of the matches happening by Chance is less than two per the researchers say in a report to appear in the Canadian journal of infectious the research was done by epidemiologist Rick Mathias of the University of British Columbia and physician Dave they Are at a loss to explain the con and tapping warns it could be completely but he said the numbers Are so compelling they decided to publish the results so others can explore the even though things like this sound a bit strange at the when you look around you find lots and lots of evidence that the Sun is playing games in our envy tapping these games get much More intense during the solar when the Sun and the sunspots that develop on its surface release pent up Energy with the Force of millions of Hydrogen bombs and Send Clouds of radiation and sear eng hot Gas hurtling toward such storms can Warp our planets outer set off spectacular Aurora boreal is induce Power Ful magnetic currents in ground based Power lines and damage communications who Heads the solar Moni Toring program at the National research Council Observatory near and his colleagues offer no explanation for the connection Between Sun and flu in their research tapping was reluctant to speculate on How flu viruses might be or As a result of increased solar we just dont he ;