Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 14, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Settje Winnipeg free press Tlle Day March 14, 1978 Centre wins year Long Battle Home for Retar dates Given to stay by inge9okg to yens a six retarded girls Between Ages of or and 14, will in their group Norrie in St vital Ateca j year Long Battle with local r residents to remove them. T St. Amant Centre 440 River Road will continue to operate the Home at 47 Tracy Crescent As result of a Deci 2 Sion monday by the St. Boni face St. Vocal Community j committee. The committee approved t the special zoning variance on the House for the second despite continued oppo to Jiining rectal itch relieved in minnies exclusive in ainu substance relieves pain an it i mor Rhoida. a wit. A renowned pm Orch Hal Malory found n unique ing in acc hint promptly my in rink Ilch Gnu pain shrinks this Tuli . Rigi in it. In Luu a life Clivi Rale Riding improvement i of i risk a. And Moel to implant this improvement was rain n period of or miss. All hit wan by a la Al inc which quirk la Oral in lurid chs nil growth of new Llew. Now Ilin Dyn is offi Rcd in ointment Anil Forni railed 1 Rcpt Iralien if. Ask Fiir in Jil All Ilour hath Clion . V preparation 45 residents who said petition they opposed any group Home neighbourhood. Set was permitted to operate Home last March. However local residents obtained a court of Queen s Bench ruling which referred the matter Back to the Community committee on a tech hic Allty and St. Amant was forced to appear again Mon Day night. Sister Bertha Bowman the director of the Centre said the girls Progress had been remark Able. She said they Are Well integrated into a special program at or. . Pennor elementary school. She said that it was Good for Normal children to have afflicted children in their Frank m. Lechner who presented a Brief on behalf of residents in opposition said the group Home would set a precedent and that other group Homes for drug addicts and alcoholics could Home into the neighbourhood. He added that the quiet Safe Ideal environment for the local families was Al. To Rcd because of increased traffic visiting the Home. He claimed that the Home had been thrust into the settled areas against the wishes of Lechner said that St. Amant showed Little con Cern for the residents of Tracy Crescent. Tom Macqui Karrle another resident speaking against the group Home said St. Tamarit had made a mistake by not conducting sufficient ground work to have the Home in the area. Dont make it seem As if we were against the he said. Mrs. Dave Mccrae who lives beside the group Home said that she and her family had a Good neighbourly relationship with the children and that the girls had visited their Home. John Prail of 50 Victoria Crescent who does t live in the the area said had to speak on the matter. What Are we supposed to do take those kids out into the Middle of the Prairie those kids need All the help from can he said. Grant Tichenko a Mem Ber of the Midland residents advisory group conducted a study on group Homes. Tichenko said group Homes Are a right not a Privi he said the matter was not simply a zoning Issue but de livery of a social service which is the responsibility of a Community committee. Visiting soviet dissident likens communist party to the mafia or. Gwynn Nettler a noted psychologist and professor of sociology at the University of Alberta will deliver the fourth an Nual Elizabeth Laird lec Ture at 8 . March 16 at the University of Winni Peg. Nettler s topic will be thinking about the future. By Debbie Lvon Igor a. Mel Cuk disclaims any prophetic Powers. But this leading russian linguist Speaks from painful experience when he likens the soviet communist party to the and warns it threatens Western existence. The soviet communist party is a big mafioso said Mel Cuk who was fired from his Job harassed and threatened with imprison ment after a letter he wrote in support of two soviet dissidents was published in the West. It is Only because of West Ern Public opinion that rus Sia has not become a this intense animated mid aged Man Row a visiting professor at the Una verite de Montreal commented in a Winnipeg interview. He urged westerners to continue pressure to squeeze out of the soviet government All the civil liberties possible for the russian people., past pressure has been effective since soviet authorities Are afraid of publicity the Only thing which can help is Western pressure. The higher the source of the the Mel Cuk who was on Brief visit to the University of Manitoba said it is Only through increased Civi Liber ties that the eyes of the so Viet people will be opened. Otherwise a nation of computers with Metis want to know effects of flood pact on their rights Thompson Man. Manitoba Metis federation emf has asked Northern affairs minister Ken Macmaster to clarify the effects the Northern flood agreement will have on fishing trapping and Hunting rights of Metis people. Emf president John Morrisseau said monday that after receiving Macmaster s reply the federation will decide whether or not to take out a court injunction to hold up implementation of the agreement. He said the emf is also concerned the province May want to make individual Settle ments with Metis people for damage caused by the flooding instead of making a joint settlement. The federation wants to know where its people stand in relation to the resource areas around each of the five reserves co Vered in the compensation agreement. These areas Are made up of the trap lines around the reserves and the Indian bands Are Given a majority share in controlling fishing trap Ping and Hunting within their boundaries. Under the agreement Metis communities adjacent to the reserves appear to qualify for these reserves involved Are Nel son House Cross Lake split Lake Norway. House and York Landing. Morrisseau said the matter is urgent be cause a referendum is to be held on the five reserves wednesday which would final ize the agreement if the vote is positive. The agreement which covers a land Settle ment for the Indian bands for land flooded As a result of Manitoba Hydro s Nelson Chur chill Rivers development also includes an economic development fund and wildlife pro visions. Without blowing your budget. 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The Hydrogen bomb May emerge. He was critical of russian scholars who besmirch the scientific contributions of their politically Active col leagues. And he criticized Western scientists who re main silent for fear of jeopardizing future contacts with the soviet Union. He indicated disappoint ment Over an apparent Lack of understanding about conditions in Russia and a fail ure to act beyond words of support among people i the West. It s hot bad will which leads to a Lack of under standing rather it is be cause what is going on in soviet Russia is absolutely it is contrary to human nature. It is on an other been away from his native land since last May finds it Al most impossible to now explain what it was like to live there. He joined amnesty inter National a privately funded human rights organization after coming to Canada but appears disappointed at a Lack of action to Back up concerns Over violation of rights in the soviet Union. The Cas of an orthodox jewish family weighs on his conscience at present. The family elderly couple their son his wife and Daugh Ter unsuccessfully have sought five times in the past three years to leave Russia. The father like his forefathers suffered at the hands of authorities for his religious views. The son a is professor was fired when the family applied to Emi grate. Mel Cuk has tried to get co fans give blood a recent Choc sponsor of of xxx door Chirac he Crow re Ufa of in 228 Kate non Tumko we to Pavo ital most Xuc Jour of Art Wood. E. A Olpp Yovo for the Slat Ottmo and Rono Nicolas Lor the 71 of Limo Harold e Robinson Rondo his 6oth contribution. Fern who have Donam from 31 to 67 Phil 61 mood my k. 31, mrs. M. Froom 31, Gerry Krebs 33, o. Block 33, Joan Mortimer 33, r. Boots 34, Harry Jones 31, Dennis Macphall .15, David Mellon 37, j. W. Yaroma 38, w. A. Free san Denis Amos 40, Sandy Haley 41, Gordon r. Tauber 44, James Fardy 45, w. J. Care less 15, Maurice Tryhula 47, Jack Fedyck 52, Harry b. Campbell 52, d. Tallon a w. S. Mark 55, Steve Dubins Al 56. R. Mozol 57. Here on Home More a Joel blood they be Given mood from 21 to 30 Tomee Abe Post locker Lloyd Han son 0. J. Nawrocky g. Bar re stocks mrs. A. M. Mar tin Edward Holloway Terrance w. Greenlay Alisa Crook Stephen l. Strone Art Chomuk Vince Bram Bella Frank Franz j. A. Simpson j. Acheson Joseph Ozlowski Jeff Nowatzki Maria Epp Wil Liam a mlle k. C. Bently. Poo pc cared enough to contribute mood 11 to 20 mrs. E. Haywood Donna Kaul Bill Crimer John Hal Cro Lena Rankin Hanns e. Schulz Gary Swan e. Jahnke George Braun Zenon Kushnir Anthony l. Obsniuk. Harry Rosinbaum Angela shipper Lyle halt Linda fish Wally Punk Birnice or. T. G. Egan miss a. L. Sheppard Frank Wienc. Andy Lussier Carl re def Roc Goodman teds Dloski. Who have Given up to 10 pints of mood were Audrey Peckover David e. Sam Lalsingh d. W. Len Kealer ii. Kelch William Kushner miss Priscilla Squire Domitala Baum Gutner w. Ele Dulc Gerald Lueler Eleanora Knapp p. Free dlr Pat Ewen s. Schultz Christina Carrier Mary Tingman mrs. M. Chorney Janice Haugen sue Kendall Carl plug store Wayne Moody w. Bruce to Chen Erika Epp Ger rat Wil Liam Quint mrs. D. Grunn mrs. Shelley Hyatt Karen la Uncle Maurice Pratt l. P. Ludon Colleen chock mrs. Sadie Huszar Dennis Valet Sharron Obsniuk m. Monitor Jan Fardy Evelyn Jake Martens Clara Mitreck r. Pc runs bran a cd Lake James d. Sin Clair Dave Whalley Vern Larson Todd Ste Ven Nowaczk Judith Gra Lam c. Mushrow John Tchur. Peter Johnson Gor Don the Lessen mrs. Ixon Susan Cook Shelley wire Helen for teen. K. To. Back mrs. Bonnie Giles j. Ack Lewocz Valerie Sankar Ila Anderson. Audiences interested in Tele phoning the family and in i letter Campaign but to Little Avail. Yet he said such activities would protect the fam ily from further persecution and put pressure on authorities to act. When a family has been tortured their lives spoiled at least the old people could be let go. Why it was this Type of moral indignation that got Mel Cuk into trouble with the authorities. A father of three children Mel Cuk is considered a Lead ing linguistic theoretician who has made a number of original contributions to the study of the Structure and development of languages. Since i9s6, he was a senior research fellow at the Institute of linguistics in the Academy of sciences in mor scow the Best position he could Hope to hold without administrative responsibilities. He came in conflict he said with his new Boss conflict which led to postponements of his Recert Ifica ton normally a routine matter required every Dve years for senior re searchers and slights such As the cancellation of his appearance at a National con Ference on linguistics. In january 1976, the new York times published a Mel Cuk letter smuggled out of the soviet Union by a foreigner. In it the professor protested the events sur rounding the imprisonment of Blo physicist Sergey Kova Lov and expressed support for dissident nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov. His action he said was of a moral not a political nature. He was not politically Active although he had assisted dissidents who were. He in t certain what made him speak out in Kovalov s defence. But he was More than shocked by the absolute Lack of concern surround ing the Case of this renowned soviet researcher imprisoned while ill with a tumor. Kovalov was connected with the Helsinki watch committee and was accused of participating in the under ground publication Chroni Cle of current events both of which Monitor soviet in fractions of the human rights provisions of the 1975 Hel scold agreement. He was hated by authorities for his work in freeing from prison a lithuanian Fisherman who tried to jump ship and live in the United states. I decided i could not be silent any More i knew i was silent Many times when i actually saw that i should have spoken Mel Cuk said. A secret vote on his Recer Tif cation was held. He lost it although he protested that under new soviet Law the publication of the letter was Legal. He was unable to get full time work found his family harassed by authorities and his Many articles and books removed from study. Slaying trial postponed the trial of three men on charges of murder has been postponed until May because one of the accused has been found to be mentally incompetent. Leonard Joseph Prescott is unfit to instruct his counsel As the result of an incident shortly before a preliminary hearing last fall Crown at Torney John Guy said in ask ing for the postponement. The preliminary hearing against his two co accused Lloyd James Appleyard 20, and James Victor Vawryk 20, continued with Prescott being ordered to trial along with Appleyard and Vawryk. All three Are charged with the murder last oct. 22 of Laurence Smith 43, who was found dead oct. 25 in his Bachelor apartment on Stra Brook Avenue or. Justice Peter Morse tentatively scheduled trial for the three men for the May Assize list in the gout Al Queen s Bench ;