Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Best rate 5 Rice Gic i4tl Henderson 9j57420 491 Portage 7884040 1510 mans 9257423 3025 Portage 9257390 Canada world news continued on b2 around Canada Canada harmful9 Montreal 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 had Tio useful but that it has been harm he said in a radio interview with premiers son cleared Aseem son of Premier Ujjala fought Back tears As he left an Ontario court yes relieved to be found not 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 6f 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 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 Canada world business b3 tse listings b5 Mutual funds b6 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 tory dynasty Rolls on Klein three eats As albertan reelect party that ruled since 1971 e by Dean Bennett Edmonton new Mil same old Adrian wild Canadian press Ralph Klein casts his ballot yesterday in his tories easily cruised to Premier Ralph Klein made Good on his three peat Promise leading his progressive conservatives to another majority government in Alber tas general its the third win for the tories under Klein and the ninth straight for a party that has been governing Alberta for almost 30 has never lost an dating Back to when the former to reporter and son of a professional wrestler came from nowhere to become Calgary yesterdays loss was cruel Dejavu for kleins Liberal Leader Nancy the 52 running her first Campaign As was a former tory Cabinet minister who ran and lost to Klein in the 1992 party leadership the win matches the nine term record of Albertas social credit which ran the province from 1935 until the conservatives knocked them off in since when the last lib eral government was Defeated by the United Farmers of Power in the province has changed hands Only at standings in the 83seat legislature were tories liberals new democrats there was one Independent and one seat the Man known simply As Ralph ran on his wildly High per Sonal popularity and on a roaring Low unemployment and reduced taxes he had the Benefit of a budget this year that will have billion More than due largely to soaring Oil and Gas the Windfall allowed Klein the luxury of being whatever voters wanted him to Ralph the Fis Cal Hawk took a Large chunk out of Albertas debt this year while also putting Money into pro Grams at unprecedented when electricity Bills soared twofold and threefold earlier this year the partial result of the provinces new Power deregulation program Klein smoothed ruffled feathers by returning billion in direct rebates to customers about per two adult spent punishing Days crisscross ing the province and rolling out policy announcements for Maxi mum she promised More Money to hire and retain doctors and nurses and to reduce overcrowded the electricity sys tem would be deregulated for homeowners and Small business users under her Albertas controversial Law to expand the medicare work done by private providers would be she the tories new 10 per cent single rate tax would be replaced with a progressive one to help the Middle Albertas new democrats focused not on forming govern ment but on reclaiming from the liberals the Mantle of official which they held in the Leader Raj also in his first Campaign As labelled Macbeth liberals tory Lite and accused them of spineless kowtowing to the Klein 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 20 Miles 20km Iraq Kuwait Udalric Bobbing bomb accidentally dropped during saudi Arabia Carp Doha persian Ahmed Aljaner Egypt Turkey Iraq Kuwait Sudan saudi Arabia Iran 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 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 housework b2 ;