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HMfllH JIlftML The high life at low tea AT HOME Fl A painter whose art Zidane apologizes for head-butt An ancient craft: Making gets up and walks away but not to his Italian target things look good on paper CULTURE CI JOHN MacKINNON Dl BUSINESS Gl EDMONTON'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1903 THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2006 www.edmontonjournal.com mom raraoaBii EKE GO REPLACEMENT FOR CITY JAIL ON LIST FOR SHARE OF SURPLUS BILLIONS A3 Two Edmonton guys and their hot wheels 1 i Act of war' I has Israel fighting on two fronts Hezbollah raid seizes two more Israeli soldiers 1 IL rs: LAURA KING and VITA BEKKER Los Angeles Times SAFAT, ISRAEL CP 0 Israeli troops and tanks drove deep into Lebanon on Wednesday in retaliation for the seizure of two Israeli soldiers in a meticulously planned cross-border raid by guerrillas from the Shi-ite Muslim group Hezbollah. Eight Israeli soldiers died in fighting on both sides of the frontier, the army said. At least one Hezbollah fighter and two Lebanese civilians were also reported killed. Israel's thrust across its northern border for the first time in six years left it waging simultaneous warfare on two fronts. In the Gaza Strip, nearly 80 Palestinians have been killed during a two-week-old offensive that also began after the seizure of an Israeli soldier.

In Lebanon, Israeli troops previously spent two decades locked in a debilitating and inconclusive conflict. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described Hezbollah's raid as an "act of war," for which he said the Lebanese government bore the responsibility. HMmert said Israel's response would Kb restrained but "very, very, very painful" to those who had carried out pe attack At a triumphal news conference in south Beirut, Hezbollah's leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, said Israel would have to agree to an exchange of prisoners if it wanted its soldiers back. "What we say is that these hostages won't be returned to their homes except through one way: indirect negotiations and a swap," Nasrallah said. See LEBANON Ml 3 RICK MacWILLIAM, THE JOURNAL Edmonton driver Mike Forest, a rising star in the Champ Car Atlantic Series, shows six-year-old Eric Ironside how he fits into his race car during a visit with children outside the Glenrose hospital on Wednesday.

Forest suffered compression fractures to two vertebrae in a crash during qualifying in Long Beach, on April 7, but expects to make his return to the Atlantic series at the West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix, starting in 1 0 days. For more on Forest, see page D4; for more on the Grand Prix, see page D1 Dozens of workers fired as Citytv pulls newscasts Simultaneous sale of local station coincidental: manager Contest offers trips to city, but couldn't give them away Shortage of willing winners blamed on scheduling conflicts, scam fears INSIDE TODAY DUNCAN THORNE Journal Staff Writer EDMONTON Mainly sunny. High 20. Low 14. Details D8 mons to noon meetings Wednesday, where they were given envelopes containing details of their separation packages.

They were told not to return to their desks. The station, owned by CHUM Television, has pulled its 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts forthe rest of the summer. The only remnant of its news coverage will be its noon program and an expanded four-hour Breakfast Television show, said Pam Hnytka, publicity manager for the station.

Similar moves will occur at CHUM-owned stations in Calgary and Winnipeg, where more workers were laid off. Other stations across Canada will undergo a variety of changes. Many will involve job losses as the company moves away from traditional newcasts. See CITYTV I A14 JIM FARRELL Journal Staff Writer EDMONTON Edmonton's Citytv station fired more than a third of its employees Wednesday and drastically curtailed its news broadcasts cuts some employees called inevitable. An hour after being told she was out of a job, Tania Nease pointed out that spring ratings from the Bureau of Broadcast Measurements the national ratings service showed the audience for the former A-Channel's supper-hour newscast had plunged from 11,000 to 4,000 viewers, compared with 137,000 for CTVs local newscast onCFRN.

"We always knew there would be layoffs," Nease said. Forty-seven out of roughly 120 employees received an e-mail sum SUPPLIED Jennifer Martin: Gone Horoscope E5 Lotteries A2 Obituaries B6-7 Opinion A16 Puzzles E4 Television C6 Venting B2 Wonderword E4 Abid to raise national awareness of Edmonton stumbled. this week when sue Canadians won a trip to the city. Trouble is, after the draw was held Monday, it took un til Wednesday to get three parties of two to say yes. Everr "You wouldn't believe how hard it is to give something- away for free," Robert Mdyles, the city's acting commu-; nications manager, said Wednesday.

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