Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Best rate 30 Rice gig 1411 Henderson 9257420 491 Portune 7884040 1 510 marys 9257423 3025 Portese 9257390 news continued on b2 around Canada Canada harmful Montreal Premier Bernard Landry fired another blast yesterday against accusing the country of holding Back Quebec economic devel for Canada has been worse than Landry Sug in not Only convinced that it Canada has n6 useful but that it has been harm he said in a radio interview with premiers son cleared son of Premier Ujjala fought Back tears As he left an Ontario court yes relieved to be found n6t guilty of assaulting a police offi cer in a bar broker pays Price Toronto rogue Bay Street broker Michael found guilty last month of 14 counts of investment fraud totalling was sentenced yester Day to sevenans Dahal years in prison and ordered to pay million in restitution to some of his a tory Alliance party Montreal about 100 que Bec tories and members of the Canadian Alliance met at a cock Tail party last night to raise wine glasses and the possibility of uniting their righting compiled from Canadian press around the world Boss blames sub chief Pearl Hawaii the inability of uss Greeneville Scott Waddle to detect a japanese trawler through his Periscope led to the fatal Colli Sion Between the two the head of the Pacific fleets sub Marine Force testified this is the meat of the mat Ter the commanding has the absolute obligation to make sure the area is said waddles rear Admiral Albert Progress in Balkans Yugoslavia for Mer enemies nato and f Yugoslavia agreed on a Deal yesterday that will allow them to squeeze ethnic albanian guerrillas from separate while the rebels signed a ceasefire All moves meant to reduce the threat of a new Balkan under the Yugoslavia would be allowed to Send better armed troops into the Southern tip of a Buffer zone adjoining Kosovo that is now overrun by ethnic albanian flood cleanup begins Ukraine tens of thou Sands of emergency workers struggled yesterday to fix dikes and deliver Aid to residents in Ukraine and Hungary left Home less by heavy As water Levels fell steadily from record a week of flooding has killed at least six people in Ukraine Zaka Pattia compiled from the news services March 2001 b1 business 83 tse listings 85 Mutual funds 86 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 tory dynasty Rolls on Klein three eats with increased sends archrival packing e by Dean Bennett Edmonton Call it Ralph kleins finest Adrian Wyld Canadian press Ralph Klein casts his ballot yesterday in his tories easily cruised to the 58year son of a professional wrestler Rode a tory Blue wave to a dominating majority government Vapour izing his opponents in the his seat totals and popular vote rivalled the overwhelming conservative majorities under Peter Lougheed in the 1970s and ladies and Wel come to Ralphs world Klein told cheering and chanting sup porters at Calgary Roundup and Welcome to the first Day of Albertas new said who called the Victory a Success beyond my wildest the loss was devastating for the opposition whose Leader and longtime Klein Nancy went Down to defeat in her Edmonton Mcclung new Democrat Leader Raj whose party held two seats before the retained his seat in Edmonton the tories were on track to capture 74 seats to seven for the liberals and two for the new yesterdays popular vote percentage for the conservatives was per compared with Lougheed Al time record of 63 per again in this one is As Sweet As 1993 kleins first win because of the Edmonton said key Klein adviser Rod this time we finally got its a tremendous who was easily reelected in his own had campaigned for 10 of the 28 Days in Edmonton in Hopes of making a i always thought he could do it again and in very very proud of said the premiers Phil with his third has increased the popular vote and seat totals every time in the 1997 election his party captured 51 per cent of the vote and 51 in they had 44 per cent and 63 the Victory is the tory party ninth in a dating Back almost 30 has never lost an his political career started in when the former to reporter came from nowhere to become Calgary a key Klein said voters in the provincial capital obviously saw that the govern ments policies Are As Good for Edmonton As they Are for the rest of the he said voters didst accept Media and opposition reports that tory policies to increase private health care and deregulate the electricity Industry would prove people in government were saying voters would accept the government once people have a look at these issues and Stop just believing what they see on the news reports every the loss was cruel Dejavu for whose Edmonton head quarters had a funereal Atmos the running her first Campaign As was a former tory Cabinet minister who ran and lost to Klein in the 1992 party leadership Canadian press Navy training exercise goes wrong As bomb kills 6 Washington a Navy plane mistakenly dropped a bomb on sol Diers during a training exercise yesterday in killing five troops and one new Pentagon officials the Navy Hornet was prac Tising close air support for ground troops at the Dairi bombing 72 Kilometres Northwest of Kuwait when it dropped explosive Ord Nance on or near an observation the Central command the command said in a statement the six were confirmed dead and five military personnel were taken to Hospital with injuries that were not two of them were for hours after the Accident the Pentagon made no official statement confirming the number of Pentagon officials who discussed the matter Only on condition of anonymity said initially five people were they later raised the Fig ure to a figure confirmed by the command in its the command said other military personnel wounded in the Accident were treated at the it did not say How two of the troops killed were from the army and two were from the air said one speaking on condition of John Mcnutt was identified by the new zealand army As the new Sealander the command said it would not identify the dead and wounded personnel until their families were one Pentagon official said an Esti mated 10 people were a Sec Ond official said no civilians were president George travel Ling in Panama opened a speech on his budget proposals and military spending with a Brief men Tion of the in reminded today of How dangerous service can Bush we lost some servicemen today in Kuwait in a training he led a moment of silence for the soldiers and their Bush was receiving regular including one on the flight Back to Washington from said Ari his the Accident happened at about 7 local time yesterday in about 45 Kilometre from the iraqi Bor during a multinational training exercise in which ground forces direct strike aircraft to specific tar it was not Clear what went wrong the Navy plane was flying from the uss Harry Truman aircraft Carrier in the persian an official said the plane dropped what was believed to be a 227kilogram Gravity it was not Clear whether the Pilot erred or whether those on the ground directed the Hornet to the wrong area on the bombing the aircraft was participating in a routine close air support training exercise involving joint and coalition the command said in its this exercise involved both Day Iraq Kuwait Udall a Bobbing bomb accidentally dropped during exercise Camp Kuwait Doha oily persian Ahmed l Gulf i Aljaner v saudi Arabia Turkey Iraq Kuwait Sudan saudi Arabia Iran 300 300 pm sources Navy a and night such exercises Are held quarterly for the purpose of practising air operations against hostile ground targets in close proximity to Friendly the exercises involve Friendly ground and airborne forces pointing out tar gets to Friendly fighter aircraft orbit ing the fighter aircraft then deliver weapons on the an Accident investigation Board has been appointed and will arrive in Kuwait this the command associated press Young men Arent doing fair share at Home study by Sandra cordon Ottawa unlike their More seasoned Young men dont seem to be pulling their weight at a new fed eral study suggested a surprising Gap appeared in the latest statistics Canada study of the differences in workload including household chores and in pay Between men and women in their late 20s and older Are taking Home pay packages that Are edging a bit closer towards what men in that age group Are also helping out More at narrowing the traditional Gap Between women and mens unpaid but for the younger these gaps Are taking experts by sur teens and women in their Early 20s Are working a lot harder some of it with out pay compared with Guys their the study we really Haven come such a Long said Hedy Secretary of state for the Federal status of women we still have some Way to the study found Young women Between 15 and 24 Are performing about 18 per cent More including unpaid labour such As household than in older age the Gap dwindles almost to Equality in chores Between men and women from about 45 to 55 years continued please see 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