Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 10, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday tree press March 2001 a12 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 news continued on around Canada makes threat police seized a double barrelled shot gun from a Home in this South Western Ontario City yesterday after an 11yearold boy threat ened to shoot his Princi pal and the boy admitted he made the staff Al Cas Sidy but i dont know if he looked at it As a stupid funeral for policeman hundreds of police officers from across Canada were expected to attend a funeral today for an ramp officer shot while on duty in Canadas far Jurgen was gunned Down monday in the Community of Cape in after responding to a Domestic he died later at a nursing Sta deficit recorded Ottawa the Federal govern ment recorded a deficit for the month of january As the first of several tax cuts and rebates most of the decline was due to a special Federal payment to homeowners for heating expense the finance department said in its fiscal Monitor released yester Alliance to meet Otta Wathe Canadian Alliance is sticking to its roots when it holds its next National the party announced yesterday that its second regular National convention will be held in Edmon ton the first weekend of april compiled from Canadian press around the world flood toll rises Budapest the rain swollen Tisza River reached its highest level yesterday in More than 100 years As thousands of troops and residents worked around the clock reinforcing dikes to protect a hungarian offi Cial the death toll from the floods in neighbouring Ukraine Rose to six the emergency situations ministry new outbreak feared London two weeks after Britain restricted the movement of animals through the country Side in an Effort to slow the spread of Footman Mouth Dis officials feared yesterday that a second wave of the live Stock ailment was beginning to two slain near court a retired Navy Man shot and killed his former Girlfriend and her Mother in a courthouse parking lot yesterday after a hearing at which he was granted a visit with his police Michael Angelo then fled in his car and barricaded himself in a hotel room about 15 Kilometres away off interstate after a three hour standoff he shot himself new Hope for talks Jerusalem Israel Palestin Ian meetings could resume in a few a senior palestinian negotiator said the comment came after Ariel israels new prime min expressed Hopes of establishing personal Contact with palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat very compiled from the news services Canada world Day p to High Alliance Leader says hell borrow Republican policies gets 24 but no with Vic president by Robert Russo Washington the Canadian Alliance will prepare for the next Federal election by Bor rowing policies from Republican pres ident George Bush and the american Stockwell Day said yester the Alliance Leader told members of the conservative american Enterprise Institute thin tank that he will use the next few years to construct a modern Canadian conservative we look Forward to building relation ships with our counterparts in the United learning political strategies from Republican colleagues and strengthening our intellectual Armour with the help of people like those of you Day who spent two Days in the capital at a time when his stewardship of his party has come under fire at met briefly with Vic president Dick Cheney at the White he had said he hoped to convey to the Bush administration that the Alliance represented a friendlier government i waiting in that might have been difficult to do while raising concerns about disputes Over softwood lumber and agricultural subsidies during the 24 minutes he had with Day also conveyed his support for the National missile defence program support that he insisted was less equivocal than that offered by prime minister Jean Chretien Liberal the program Aims to construct a technological shield to protect the United states and other countries from incoming the Federal liberals have been less than warm on the missile defence Day told a news conference out Side the Canadian our position in we have to have Protection from rogue continued please see Day a14 Rick 8qwmer associated press Day wants to learn from gop aped boy jailed for life killed tiny girl with rampage of body slams and stomps fort lauded boy who says he was imitating pro wrestlers at age he killed a Little girl was sentenced to life in prison without parole yesterday after a judge refused to reduce his first degree murder tears rolled Down Lionel tates Cheeks and he was led away in Handcuffs and leg shackles to begin serving the which was mandatory under a toughen crime Law enacted a few years now becomes one of the youngest defendants in the United states sentenced to life behind in imposing judge Joel Lazarus called the slaying of six Earold Tiffany Eunick callous and indescribably Tate was found guilty 25 of beating Tiffany to death at his Tiffany suffered a fractured a lacerated liver and More than 30 other injuries on july from being stomped and during the the defence argued that the 170pound boy did not mean to kill the 48pound girl and thought he could body slam people and they would walk away just like his wrestling idols on the judge rejected a defence request to throw out tates conviction or reduce it to second degree murder or saying the evidence of Lionel tates guilt is obvious and tates Kathleen a Florida Highway patrol trooper who described Tiffany death to the judge As a tragic showed no reaction to the continued please see wrestling a14 Lou Toman associated press sentenced for a wrestling fantasy that turned Lionel Tate front right is escorted from clones Are on the International research team says Rome looking to shatter the taboo of human an International research team declared yesterday nothing can Stop the creation of human beings by the kind of methods that produced the cloned sheep the Genie is out of the said Panos a reproduction researcher who resigned earlier this month from his longtime Post at the University of Kentucky to help Lead the human cloning Dolly is Here and we Are yesterdays conference had a Rau sometimes circus like Atmos a narrow Rome Hospital lecture Hall was crammed with rival sceptical local doctors and a swarm of International news Severino an italian Gyne ecologist who boasted in january that a human would be cloned within a used the Rome conference to try shift ing the focus of human cloning from ethical questions and fears of diabolical manipulation to the quiet desires of infertile cloning creates Ordinary claimed they will be unique not photocopies of Indi while his fellow scientists from the United Italy and Israel outlined their areas of exper Antinori repeatedly shouted Down visiting researchers and reporters who raised objections to the Prospect of human toward the Antinori end of the four hour a Young medical researcher read a statement from Ermelando one of the two directors of gynaecology at Umberto i objecting to a human cloning conference being held at the Public they use the word they talk about sacrificing said Nathan a 34yearold poly clinic gynaecologist from Echo ing his colleagues doubts after the now anything that you Are Able to do is considered not for clones Are made from a single adult cell joined with an egg the genes of which have been researchers trying to clone animals have reported Many of their attempts have ended in with monster like creations and repeated premature the British sheep created by cloning in came after the artificial production of 29 though just a single Zavos said for ethical reasons the human Effort will not use an animal after announcing in january that 10 infertile couples wanted to be part of the human the team said it has been flooded by others seeking to have children through the researcher said some 600 to 700 couples with Fertility problems in the United Argenti Britain and elsewhere want to take part in the cloning single couples who want to have another child after the death of other offspring and childless couples advanced in years have All been ruled out As Zavos would not say who is financing the research teams where it will take place or what other scientists Are taking part in the he said the team has unlimited fund ing from private sources and we dont want the government in this pro organized Hacker groups in Ukraine blamed credit card numbers stolen from web Sites Washington More than a million credit card numbers have been stolen from Commerce web Sites Over the past according to the Fri which blamed the crimes on organized Hacker groups in Russia and investigators at the National Infra Structure Protection the Bis Caber crimes warned that internet retailers and online banking firms should be More vigilant in protecting their they said Well known Secu Rity holes should be Over the past they there has been an increase in thefts of credit card numbers and a similar increase in the fraudulent use of credit cards in the investigations have disclosed several organized Hacker groups in East Ern specifically Russia and the that have penetrated e Commerce computer the Fri said continued please see hackers a15 ;