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22A DETROIT FREE PRESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1999 Mf. WAVW 1 No money: Mir may fall, after all Financial backers pull out; stations end may come as early as August Volunteers For Sleep Research Study Men Women Ages 21-55 Or Over 65 With Difficulty Sleeping 24 Hour Participants Will Ik I 'aid Call 613)916-5185 "It was just wishful thinking," the space agency's director, Yuri Koptev, said of Energia's statement. "They have indeed carried out serious work with an investor who had the money. But the investor has some problems." Shutting down Mir is favored by NASA, which wants Moscow to forget about Mir and dedicate its meager resources to a new international space station. The 16-nation project is a year behind schedule because Russia didn't build an early component on time.

The station's first elements were launched late last year. Last month. Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov decreed that Energia could keep the Mir in operation for another three years, but only if private investors paid the station's yearly expenses of up to million. Primakov's decision was praised by Russia's space officials, who had insisted that the much-loved Mir stay in orbit. Mir, in Russian, means peace.

Koptev said space officials would start planning to abandon Mir if no money is found by April. By Vladimir isachexkov Associated MOSCOW Russia's Mir space station may be discarded as early as August because investors who were supposed to fund it have backed out, the nation's space chief said Thursday. The RKK Energia company, which built and runs the 13-year-old station, said in December that it had found a private sponsor to keep Mir in orbit for another three years. The station had been scheduled to be scrapped in June. mmmmm im I id A Same Day Installation I lli Wfc, Vt lUMAl I1IAV ItfACIW.

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Exner was vociferous in condemning British Columbia's redefinition of spouse. He raised the specter of "special rights" being extended to homosexuals, and claimed that a same-sex couple cannot be considered married because "biologically, such couples are not equipped to be husband and wife." The archbishop warned that Roman Catholics would make their voices heard "when election time comes about." Exner took a similar strong position in a Jan. 27 letter to Chretien. Speaking for Canada's Catholic hierarchy, he said he feared a redefinition of marriage. "Surely the government can think of a way to respond to the legal challenges it faces from same-sex partners without redefining terms that millions of Canadians cherish and undermining an institution that plays a pivotal role in society." Exner has also come up with an alternative.

He suggested that pension and social benefits be granted instead of to same-gender couples to anyone in a long-term, caring relationship such as elderly siblings caring for each other. But other major churches have lined up behind giving social benefits to same-sex couples. Vancouver's Anglican Bishop Michael Ingham says the traditional, heterosexual family is not threatened by society's decision to recognize a variety of "long-term relationships." By Joel Connelly Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thirty-one years have passed since justice minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, gave a bit of a start to his staid country by telling a conference, "The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation." The remark helped propel Trudeau into the prime minister's office. It also heralded criminal-code revisions that removed penalties against private sexual acts between consenting adults. Canada is at the brink of making another startling move, one that many religious conservatives have furiously resisted in the United States.

Federal cabinet ministers have said the Canadian government will act to erase all legal differences between homosexual and heterosexual couples. Justice Minister Anne McClellan recently announced that the government will not appeal the so-called Rosenberg ruling, a 1998 court decision in Ontario that ordered that "spouse" be redefined to include gay partners, in benefits. British Columbia already has acted along the same lines for the province's 225,000 public employees. Last year, it passed legislation that added same-sex partners to the list of people who can be designated recipients of pension benefits. In the early 1990s, the city of Vancouver adopted a same-sex benefit policies for its employees.

"We were the first, and we've done two very significant things," said the Rev. Tim Stevenson, a Unit- New law would treat all partnerships alike ed Church of Canada clergyman who represents downtown Vancouver in the B.C. Legislature. He also is gay and in a long-term relationship. 'The first was to change the definition of spouse to include same-sex couples.

They are treated the same as heterosexual married couples and common-law couples who have been together for at least two years. "In 1998, we extended pensions to same-sex couples in the public service, anyone who in any way works for the provincial government or crown corporations. We want private companies to take similar action of their own accord, so we don't have to bring in legislation." A crown corporation is government owned. In British Columbia, the pension legislation was supported not only by the ruling, left-leaning New Democratic Party, but also by a majority of opposition legislators. The Liberal Party has a majority in the federal parliament, and likewise can count on some lawmakers from other parties if it tries to redefine "spouse" and extends pension benefits to same-sex couples.

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