Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 21, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba If Bieber securities full firm Blue Chip income Trust paid monthly Beggs 9460297 or 18002059070 la Oia Naa member of off March 2001 Canada world b1 Ess b3 tse listings b5 Mutual funds b6 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 news continued on b2 scammer targeted Forbes 400 around Canada student checks sought nyc Busboy tried online bilking of wealthiest in Victoria British Columbia teachers want background checks done on hew students before the students Are allowed to attend members of the teachers federation overwhelmingly endorsed a Resolution on the idea at their convention Many said they Are concerned about the recent school shoot Ings in the United states and the one in Alberta two years audit supported Ottawa a Canadian Alliance motion pushing for release of records on How billion a year is spent on first nations was not voted on yesterday because All parties supported the motion tabled monday in the commons demands that the use of any Public funds be publicly reported and the government usually rebuffs opposition but liberals supported this measure along with the bloc tories and diseases linked sclerosis and juvenile diabetes Are far More closely linked than has been previously and May in fact be different manifestations of the same a team of researchers reported yesterday in the journal of immunology their research also that a diet that includes cows which is suspected of increasing the risk of juvenile diabetes in those genetically sus Inay also increase the risk of developing is for those genetically predisposed to that no army cuts planned minister Art Eggleton says the govern ment has made no decision on cutting the number of soldiers in i have no plan to reduce the number of he said yes his comments came after Mike who took Over command of the army last said he cant maintain the status quo with the Money Hes Eggleton said All kinds of Mea sures Are being looked at to help make ends meet in the Summit Fence opposed Quebec for the Summit of the americas Are an unconstitutional assault on individual a lawyer said yesterday after filing suit to halt plans for a giant Fence around parts of Quebec Security officials plan to install a Metal Fence around four Kilometres of downtown Quebec where leaders of 34 coun tries will meet april 2022 to negotiate an extended free Trade the Fence is expected to keep protesters at Bay and avoid the violence tha derailed International Trade talks of Seattle in but lawyer Marc Tremblay yesterday that such Mea sures violate constitutionally guaranteed lights of movement and presumption of Canadian press by Tom Hays new York a restaurant bus boy is accused of using the inter net and Forbes list of the richest people in America in a scheme to steal millions from such figures As Steven Warren Martha Oprah Ross Perot and Ted police Are calling it one of the most ambitious identify theft schemes they have they Are still tracing the com plex electronic Trail to determine exactly How much was stolen but fear it could be Well into the new York police investigators arrested Abraham a 32yearold High school on March 7 As he allegedly picked up equipment to make phony credit court papers say Abdallah was carry the social Security Home addresses and birth dates of 217 celebrities and the information was scribbled in the margins of a tattered copy of Forbes the 400 richest people in police also had More than 400 stolen credit card including some that were used to buy about of computer equipment and Gold All those have not been com said chief of detectives William referring to the Forbes the ones we believe have been weve charged with multiple counts of criminal forgery and is being held on is million authorities said he has a Long record of arrests for various and at the time of his arrest was on supervised release for a Federal Bank fraud he once even appeared As an expert on a training video on fraud prevention prepared for credit card defence attorney Sam Gregory said Abdallah is not prosecutors made an unfair leap from Possession of this information to an inference that there was an attempt to take said Gre who declined further police commissioner Bernard Kerik described Abdallah As someone who was very very he didst try to he was very he would go one step at a time to build his the alleged scheme was uncovered when an email request to Transfer million from a Merrill Lynch account belonging to Thomas founder of Oprah left was on Abdallas list Siebel raised red police Siebel said he never made the request and Merrill Lynch contacted the Trail of evidence led police to mail boxes rented by Abdallah under the names of Paul Confounder of and James head of Bear court papers he allegedly used the addresses to order merchandise using their credit card associated press Mirs death carefully planned russian space Agency sets precise timetable Moscow the russian space Agency yesterday issued the precise timetable for dumping saying the space station would be brought Down into the South Pacific on Friday with a six hour series of measured engine after Mir descends to an Altitude of roughly 210 Kilometres by Early Tomor Mission control will switch on the stations computer and align Mir for if the sometimes unreliable com Puter and its orientation system work As a Progress cargo ship docked at the station will fire its engines twice for about 20 minutes at around Friday Moscow time Cost and an hour and a half around 8 Moscow time 11 Cost Progress engines will fire again to Send the station hurtling into the Ocean Between Australia and most of Mir is expected to bum up in the but up to 25 tonnes of debris Are expected to reach the earths the first debris is expected to splash Down around Midnight Cost Friday with lighter pieces Drifting Down for the next said mis Sion control spokesman Valery Lyn Mission control officials say they Progress cargo ship when the station drops Between 212 Kilometres above Mission control will fire the stations engines twice during two consecutive several hours they fire again to Send the station 14580 pm above Earth the breakup Loose objects such As solar lever arms and extended radars break scientists steer the Mir bringing Down a Behemoth the Mir space now a Shell of the once proud will be brought Down in a fiery but controlled plunge into the South Pacific Between Australia and the delicate series of Maneu vers begins March most of the 130tonne station will Burn up in the but some fragments with a total1 weight of up to 25 tonnes Are expected to make it to earths falling fragments the fragments Are expected to fall Over an Ocean area about 193 pm wide by pm travelling at a Speed of 160240 11248 pm above larger elements of the station 8040 pm above individual t modules break potential hangups Mission control anticipates two possible problems batteries running Low and the Central computers if either of these Mission control will adjust by using the Progress cargo which has its own computer an radio sources Nasa federation of am have conducted computer simulations to make sure that debris lands in the right and pointed to their experience in dumping Progress ships and other spacecraft into the same but the 130tonne Mir is by far the heaviest spacecraft Ever and officials have cautioned that its descent could defy their Nikolai head of the Central research Institute of machine build the leading expert group for the russian space acknowledged monday there was a Small Chance the engines wont Supply As much thrust As they meaning the wreckage might overshoot the dump continued please see Mir 62 holy Taco space station could make culinary splash with the Mir space station facing a fiery end on Taco Bell is wait ing to see if the 143tonne Hulk will ring its the fast food giant is offering a free Taco to every person in the United states if the space station hits a floating target placed in the South Taco Bell has created a 12by12 metre painted with a Bullseye and purple letters stating free Taco if the Core of Mir hits the target upon its every person in the will be entitled to obtain a Coupon for a free valid at participating Taco Bell Taco Bell is capturing the imagination of millions of people As they eagerly a flit Mirs return to Chris Beckt Vic president of Brand communications for Taco said in a statement released in the event that Mir lands on the floating Taco Bell has Pur chased an insurance policy to cover the Cost of the Taco Canadian press handicapped teen poisoned Canadian press photo Chelsea Craig had Poison cocktail Montreal a woman was charged yesterday with first degree murder in the death of her 14yearold handicapped daughter who consumed what police called a Poison Chelsea Craig was More like a baby and still wore said Montreal police Jeanfrancois Martin said Rachel Capra was in stable condition in Hospital after Likely taking the same cocktail of medication that proved fatal for Jim who knew the said the girl suffered from Retts syn mom charged with first degree murder which the Canadian medical association defines As a brain disorder that affects Only a school bus Driver said Che seas Mother was very she would go out of her even at the to make sure her child was properly cared the woman if she Felt she she would be saying she the girl would get nervous and she would panic and take fits if she were a Neighbour of the family said they remained a its its said Robert they come in with their they open the garage drive the car in the garage and close the they were very continued please see Mother charged b2 2001 rotary career symposium putting the pieces together Don miss out on the informative evening sessions on and March 21 from March 21 and 22 Winnipeg convention Centre tickets at the free admission for parents accompanying child with a badge in the putting the pieces together for All your career and pos secondary m p 0 m u m 0 r institutions Rne person ;