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Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry were killed and eight others wounded when a U.S. Air National Guard jet dropped a bomb on them during a night firing exercise on April 17. The four soldiers killed were the first Canadian combat fatalities since the Korean War. The bomb was dropped from an F-16 from the Illinois Air National Guard's 183rd Fighter Wing after one plane reported seeing tracers shooting skyward. Capt.

Key will not name his client, who is bound by an air force order that prevents anyone involved from speaking about the accident. "It's extremely difficult for the pilot because he has no real avenue to express his condolences to the families," said Capt. Key. "He can't go to the press and say he's extremely sorry, although that's exactly how he does feel. "It's something that haunts him nightly.

Every time he goes to bed he knows that he killed people on our side." So far, his client has given only a written statement to the U.S. board and has not been asked to provide oral testimony. He will likely decide this week if he will ask the U.S. board for permission to give information to the Canadian inquiry, which is led by retired General Maurice Baril. The pilot is concerned that if his name becomes public, his family might be targeted by terrorists sympathetic to the al-Qaeda or Taliban because he flew combat missions over Afghanistan, Capt.

Key said. And although he believes his client did nothing wrong, Capt. Key is concerned any testimony he gives could expose him to prosecution in the future. Although both the Canadian and U.S. military have refused to name the pilot who dropped the Key, the military lawyer representing the still-officially unnamed F-16 pilot, said his client was devastated when he learned he had dropped his laser-guided bomb on friendly forces.

But he said yesterday the pilot would do it again. "He believed he was under attack and the other aircraft flying with him was under attack, and he responded in self-defence," said Capt. Key. "From hindsight, surely it was a mistake, but if you were to put him back in that situation with the exact same knowledge he had that night, he would probably make the same decision he did and drop the ordnance." Four members of the Princess Vancouver Edmonton Calgary Regina Winnipeg Toronto Ottawa Montreal F-16 airman believed he was under attack, military lawyer says By Glen McGrloor SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS Nearly eight weeks after four Canadian soldiers were killed by a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan, the lawyer for the U.S. Air Force pilot who bombed them says he is distraught Over the deaths but still believes he acted properly.

Captain James 20:31 20:33 20:33 20:55 (sunset) 20:47 (sunset) 20:38 (sunset) Eclipse begins 17:01 18:11 18:11 18:19 17:01 Maximum eclipse 18:01 18:58 19:01 19:03 18:01 Eclipse ends 18:57 19:43 19:50 19:45 18:57 All times local standard time SOl'KCK: SUN KAK'I'H CONNECTION KDUCATION FOKUM WEST WILL HAVE BESTVIEW OF SOLAR ECLIPSE Hargrove eyes run for NDP leadership RICHEVILLE AUTOMATIC CHRONOGRAPH EVENT DRAWS CROWD GIRARD-PERREGAOX revived the "tonneau" shape -popular since the 1920's with its Richeviile collection. With its soft, balanced lines and refined dials, it enjoyed immediate international success, winning the "Watch of the Year" award in Japan in 1993. The tonneau Richeviile comes in noble steel with a choice of original and subtle dials, some of which are embellished with distinctive Breguet numerals. KX SIVELY in Toronto Royal de Versailles 'HE CAN'T GO TO THE PRESS AND SAY HE'S EXTREMELY SORRY' ported British Columbia MP Svend Robinson. Since then, Mr.

Hargrove has persistently criticized NDP policies under Ms. McDonough. In 1998, Mr. Hargrove suggested the CAW could no longer support the NDP if the party continued to court the business community, and union leaders should consider forming a new left-wing party if Ms. McDonough led the NDP too far from its roots.

In March this year, Mr. Hargrove threatened to pull the CAW's financial support of the party. In the last election, the CAW gave an estimated $l-mil-lion in cash, goods and services to the party. Mr. Hargrove acknowledged he has been critical of the NDP policies under Ms.

McDonough, but said he has never attacked her personally. For her to call his criticism undemocratic is itself an affront to democracy, he said. "She said I attacked her personally. I defy anyone, anywhere to see where I've done that. It's not my style.

I stick with criticizing ideas and the facts," Mr. Hargrove said. "There has to be more democracy in labour unions and more respect for different views within the socialist movement. Our party was built on open debate, tough debate It's only in the last few years under Ms. Mc-Donough's leadership that raising an issue means you are the enemy." Mr.

Hargrove said he would support Mr. Layton in an NDP leadership race, so long as he ran on the left, but added he would consider running personally if Mr. Layton straddled the political fence. Ms. McDonough, whose mother died on Friday, could not be reached.

But her weekend comments indicate she believes Mr. Hargrove's criticisms of her leadership have hurt the party's relationship with trade unions. "I don't think a future leader should have to deal with what's gone on," she said. "How damaging it has been to what has been a very constructive working relationship between the New Democratic Party and the labour movement," she said. National Post CAWboss denies rift with McDonough By Odile Nelson Basil "Buzz" Hargrove, Canada's most powerful union leader, said yesterday Alexa McDonough just might goad him into running to replace her as NDP leader.

Ms. McDonough said last week the Canadian Auto Workers chief, a persistent critic of her leadership, has turned the country's labour movement into a "dysfunctional mess," and did not have "the guts" to run for the party leadership. "She's really wanting me to run and struggling with the way to tell me," Mr. Hargrove, who has previously said he might endorse city councillor Jack Layton, said yesterday. "I've never aspired to be a member of Parliament, I love working for my union.

But if it's a spring convention I'm going to take a serious look at the candidates and see if I can take a role." In a CBC Radio interview broadcast Saturday, Ms. McDonough accused Mr. Hargrove, a critic of the NDP's shift toward the political centre, of having little respect for her leadership or the democratic process. "I think it would be irresponsible for me not to talk frankly about how problematic it is that we're a political party that believes in democracy and it doesn't matter what democratic decisions the New Democratic Party has made since '95, Basil Hargrove has seen fit to trash me personally," said Ms. McDonough, who on Wednesday announced she will step down as NDP leader.

"I didn't appoint myself leader of the New Democratic Party At the end of the day, one would think a big-time trade union leader would actually have some respect for the democratic process." Differences between Ms. McDonough and Mr. Hargrove go back to the 1995 NDP leadership convention, when Mr. Hargrove sup GP GIRARD PERREG AUX Manufacture depuis 1791 RV ROYAL DE VERSAILLES WHHU IHI. WORLD MiOPS FOR JFWULIRY 101 Htrnir Street llht, Toronto, Canada MM 27.7.

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Schmidt, 37, is a career fighter pilot and a former instructor at the elite "Top Gun" Navy fighter school. When approached at his home last week, Schmidt refused to discuss the incident and threatened to call the police. He refused repeated requests for an interview, as did other pilots with the 183rd all over Springfield. Several shuttered their windows and refused to answer the door or telephone. The Canadian board will present its final report on the incident to John McCallum, the Minister of National Defence, on June 21.

It will be released publicly at the same time as the report by the American board, in late June or early July. Ottawa Citizen Bv Dan Kowf. Early evening beachcombers in Vancouver should get the best seat in Canada to watch today's annular eclipse of the sun. Astronomers say the city's Spanish Banks area, a beach near Pacific Spirit Park, will be the best place in Canada to catch the eclipse, which will be visible throughout most of western and central North America. However the view will improve as you move southwest and the best vantage point in all of North America is expected to be on Mexico's Baja California.

The path of annularity, the narrow track where the percentage of sun covered is greatest, passes through the Pacific Ocean and does not touch North American soil. An annular eclipse is different from a total eclipse in that the moon is far enough from Earth that it appears smaller than the sun and does not block it entirely. Weather permitting, those watching can expect to see an orange solar corona or crescent depending on their location. Craig Breckenridge, the president of the Vancouver Centre branch of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, hopes to get off work early so he can take advantage of the top sightlines in the country and he expects many others to join him there at exactly 5:01:14 Vancouver time. He will be joined by members of his group, who will have their telescopes trained on the sun for the duration of the two-hour astronomical event.

Even though only about one-third of the sun will be obscured during the eclipse Mr. Breckenridge said people are excited, but not as much as if it was a total eclipse. "There's a real party atmosphere when there's a total eclipse." Still, nearly 400 people turned out to watch a lunar eclipse three years ago, and he expects the publicity for this event should bring a substantial crowd. For the members of the Vancouver Centre RASC the eclipse is a rare opportunity to study the sun more closely, something Mr. Breckenridge says more amateur astronomers are starting to do.

Dr. Stephen Edberg, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, says there are a number of points of interest in today's eclipse for backyard observers of the cosmos. "It's fun to compare, for example, how dark the silhouette of the moon is compared to sun spots. Sun spots look black against the disk of the sun. Yet when you compare them with something that is opaque like the moon, it turns out they are not as dark as the moon." National Post, with files from news services droweigi nationalpost.com LOTTERIES Unofficial results Lotto 649 June 8: 2, 12, 19, 38, Bonus 13.

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