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...against the advice of the Pentagon, which says it still needs mines for defense reasons, but a highly visible campaign that included such figures as Princess Diana, General Norman Schwarzkopf and Elizabeth Dole persuaded the President to change his mind. A treaty is scheduled to be signed in Ottawa at the end of the year. Its effectiveness, however, is far from assured: two of the world's largest mine producers, China and Russia, will not take part in the talks, and the U.S. is demanding that an exception be made to allow it to continue using mines on the border...
...OTTAWA: After a lackluster campaign touting the status-quo, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien's ruling Liberal Party has returned to power by the seat of its pants, clutching a slim, four-seat majority that will barely support any ready-made Liberal solution to such nagging problems as Qu?bec separatism, growing unemployment and a sagging national health care system. Taking up the position of chief opposition party is the Alberta-based Reform Party, whose right-wing, populist agenda dominated in the West. That was enough to push the separatist Bloc Qu?becois, the Reform Party's diehard foe, into the number...
...OTTAWA, Ontario: U.S. officials are continuing efforts to have Hani Al-Sayegh extradited a day after Canada accused him of participating in the Khobar towers bombing in Saudi Arabia last year that killed 19 U.S. soldiers. Hearings will begin on April 28 to decide whether Al-Sayegh will be sent to the U.S. or back to Saudi Arabia, where he could face the death penalty. FBI agents are anxious to question Al-Sayegh, since the Saudi government has so far not allowed them access to any suspect in the case. According to a report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service...
...OTTAWA, Ontario: U.S. officials are continuing efforts to have Hani Al-Sayegh extradited a day after Canada accused him of participating in the Khobar towers bombing in Saudi Arabia last year that killed 19 U.S. soldiers. Hearings will begin on April 28 to decide whether Al-Sayegh will be sent to the U.S. or back to Saudi Arabia, where he could face the death penalty. FBI agents are anxious to question Al-Sayegh, since the Saudi government has so far not allowed them access to any suspect in the case. According to a report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service...
...only should Holocaust victims or their relatives have the opportunity to retrieve money and possessions [WORLD, Feb. 24], but they should also collect interest from the Swiss banks. And they shouldn't even have to mention the word lawsuit. SIMON HUCK Ottawa...