Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july boat people not our Many say up not everyone in this conservative Community North of Toronto is prepared to Welcome with open arms the Vietnam Ese refugees that Canada has agreed to in most people interviewed were opposed to letting indochinese refugees Settle in the occasional word of Praise for the govern ments action came from established immigrants who remember that Canada took them those opposed to their entry say in group criticizes pc policy Ottawa United nations association in Canada has joined opposition Leader Pierre Trudeau in criticizing the governments Southeast asian refugee Gregory association executive said yesterday the new policy announced this week is politic ally on thursday Trudeau said the under which the government will Spon Sor one refugee for every one sponsored by individuals or private is a immigration minister Ron Atkey and external affairs minister Flora Mac Donald estimated that the new pro Gram will mean that indochinese refugees would arrive in Canada this year and that compared with the government had previously forecast for this we appreciated the increase in Refu gees helped that this plan said whose association claims but the government should be Lead ing the not tying its performance to private Given for indochinese Toronto up the red Cross says canadians donated this week to help indochinese the society Hopes to raise for clothing and medical supplies to be distributed to refugees in Camps throughout Southeast nation refugees Are not our or they will take away jobs from canadians and one Man went As far As to suggest that they Are not really refugees at Thomas says he was in a War and he fought to protect his fellow citizens and i can Tell you i dont want any boat people coming Here that goes for up photo japanese of pakistanis his sentiments Are echoed by several other men standing around at a filling those people Arent our prob he we have enough problems of our Down the Road at a hair design owner Dene Davis says she can not see Why Canada is accepting so Many a landed immigrant from Davis says her husband thinks they should All be left on the across the Street at a Gus the says he is not worried about the indochinese Refu gees taking valuable jobs away from Bouzeos came from Greece 10 years ago and worked As a dishwasher be fore opening his people who look for jobs will find there Are too Many people who just dont want to i guess they make on unemployment or Diane is folding clothes at the already collected insurance and the government cant even feed what Treyve got she every year theres More and More of them coming they do All the Breeding and then they want the rest of us to take care of As far Asim concerned asians should be staying in that part of the says Constable Kenneth one of the towns five police he said his remarks do not reflect the departments weve so Many problems old Chil Drens Young unmarried theres no end to our Wood says the boat people May not be there fleeing that coun try because they dont like that Treyve got lots of i do sympathize but i dont see where this is a this is a White society Shel Burne and they just Joseph a German immigrant who runs a sporting goods says Canada is made up of different peo we Are All and the unemployment figures Are in refugee meet sees new assistance pledge Britain sharply critical of Hanoi policy an unidentified vietnamese refugee girl stares at an immigration officer stamping her entry papers in Vancouver this Switzerland new pledges of assistance to the refugees of Southeast Asia and a conciliatory Ges Ture from Vietnam marked the opening yesterday of a today United nations conference on the refugee despite Progress in speeding resettlement of the deep anxiety remained among delegates Over the political the depth of the disagreements was dramatized in a Sharp attack on Vietnam by the delegation of perhaps anticipating a new flood of refugees from urged a moratorium on refugees of perhaps six months to allow the world Community time to process the almost persons already crowded into Camps in Southeast sharply critical of urged consideration of an Independent Neutral commission to supervise Refu gee the meeting opened yesterday against the background of protests directed against Vietnam by indochinese refugees who gathered at the main Gate of the palais Des nations Here to demonstrate their opposition to the present government in Hanoi and its interventions in Cambodia and later in the other protesters took to a boat in Lake without food and pledged not to return to Shore until there Are meaningful results within the conference itself to Rescue the boat people of Vietnam offered yesterday to negotiate the establishment of refugee processing centers within its As had been demanded by its neighbouring the move was interpreted As a gesture of conciliation by Many Dele but it had a mixed with widespread lord Britain foreign and Commonwealth warned that there was a real danger that they would turn into some minor concentration if Vietnam behaves in the Way a responsible government should there would be no need for Camps for people who Are lord Carrington told a press he added that the people seeking to leave should be allowed to stay in their Homes and at their jobs until the formalities Are impossible to remain but Pochtar for eign minister of noted in his address the of the leaders of he is going to Hanoi after his meeting for bilateral negotiations with the there were obvious degrees of Dis agreement yesterday among the Mem Bers of the association of Southeast asian along with Hong have had the greatest influx of Malaysia served notice that it would continue to bar any More refugees until firm guarantees of resettlement had been and where most of the fleeing cambodians have indicated a similar the Days Only burst of applause came when an elder Carlos now foreign minister of the announced the decision of his country to provide a second major resettlement Center for the temporary handling of lord noting that perhaps a Quarter of a million refugees have the equivalent of the Popula Tion of said that one can Only conclude that they have left because the policies of the vietnamese govern ment made it impossible for them to Singapore foreign minister Rajaratnam was the most outspoken of Vietnam neighbouring nations in re Gretting that full political debate was not being he predicted that the conference would be no More successful than earlier efforts of the in High commissioner for but the most outspoken intervention was that of Zhang chivas vice minister for foreign Zhang called on the nations of the world to suspend All economic Assis Tance to Vietnam and to Transfer the Aid to the refugees until Vietnam halts its policies that have driven thousands from the he accused Vietnam of genocide in what he referred to As a solemn condemnation of the Arch Cul China already has refugees from according to but he said his government was pre pared to accept another in would make a contribution of almost million to the in refugee the los Angeles times Africa admits record on human rights poor Liberia in a rare moment of Public Africa admitted yesterday that its record on human rights was not acceptable and took the first step toward protecting individual the action at the organization of african Unity Summit meeting will Lead to the establishment of guidelines to promote and protect human rights on the spokesmen the proposal met no opposition from the 49member we Felt it was High time we had such a said Peter the Oak we cant be talking about the denial of human rights in certain parts of Africa where Whites retain Power if we dont accept the same standards the significance of the decision is More symbolic than substantive be cause the Oak has no authority to enforce its will on member but Western observers considered it note worthy that Africa was willing to confront the Issue publicly for the first saying that the Charters Long term effects can Only be Onu said the organization would soon Convene a meeting in a still unspecified capital to draft an african charter of human which would be submit Ted to a future among the Vio lations of human rights mentioned in the Resolution were racial Trade imbalances and the use of the Resolution was sponsored by Senegal and Gam human rights have been widely ignored in Many if not most african countries since More than four million africans Are officially listed As refugees and the num ber of africans killed by their own governments since the Early 1960s probably exceeds one in Uganda former president Idi Amin killed of his countrymen be tween 1971 and his overthrow last amnesty International but so Many african countries have skeletons in the closet that Africa has always preferred to remain silent about human maintaining that what Ever africans did to africans was Only Africa when Uganda new god Frey told the Summit wednes Day that he intended to take the in precedence step of condemning the brutality of governments in the Central african Empire and equatorial Guin a shocked conference ordered the reference stricken from the Binasa then turned on Sudan presi Jaafar who had condemned the Tanzania invasion that overthrew in a devastating at tack that left the conference sitting in stunned Binasa said Amin had people disembowel a and had their livers brought to him for and this is the Man Numeir Calls brother As the 16th annual Oak sum Mit produced More division than More rhetoric than some key like the creation of a pan african defence were shunted off to even though the proposal already has been under consideration for 16 other such As the Tanzania ugandan were bitterly debated then the decisions taken at the which is expected to end included d Africa endorsed a ceasefire and a referendum to give the people of Western Sahara the right to decide whether they want Independence or continued association with Mauritania and the los Angeles times my will study wastes effects on residents Rhodesia clashes kill 180 auxiliary soldiers Cornwall up David who was appointed yesterday to study the effect of Industrial contaminants on the residents of this says it is a tragedy that the investigation did not Start the doctors appoint ment was announced by Federal health minister David Crombie and the band Council of the Regis Indian Parkinson said he agreed to conduct the study because it was an Opportunity to do a study of health effects that would be scientifically Imp Ecca he also said he had worked successfully with Crombie when Crombie was mayor of he has a tremendous commitment to making sure that everything is the doctor Crombie had announced that a study would be done after he visited this Island in the Lawrence River following published reports of High fluoride emissions from the Reynolds metals smelter in across the River from the an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh and medical consultant for the United steelworkers of imposed several conditions before accepting the a he said he wanted com plete Independence so the study would be 100per cent scientifically impel and he wanted the study to be open to the Public whenever there Are going to be no closed no figures hidden from meetings of the scientific committee will be open unless physically All information will be re ported in the the doctor also said indians who live on the Island will be involved at every stage of decision Mak ing a concern of the a they Are the said they have 100 per cent right to know what is going on and to be Parkinson has re searched Bone metabolism and Calcium in the his work with the United steelworkers has involved health hazards in the aluminium and chemical Adolph the unions director of safety and says Parkin sons expertise has run the whole Gamut of Indus trial i think of a bet Ter he is awfully dedicated to health of work Parkinson received his masters degree in physiology at Oxford and a second masters degree in occupational and environmental health at Salisbury Reuter More than 180 members of the Zimbabwe rhodesian auxiliary forces so called private armies Loyal to political parties were killed in clashes with regular government troops a spokesman at military Headquarters said the deaths occurred while what he called ill disciplined groups of auxiliaries were being moved from Rural areas for retraining and reorient most of the auxiliaries involved were Loyal to the Zimbabwe african National Union faction of the coun try major Black internal opposition Ndabaningi the spokes Man adding that he did not know if most of the dead were Sithole a spokesman for sit holes party said sit holes Home As Well As party offices were raided by Security police Sithole is holding talk sin sit holes party has been boycotting the coalition administration led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa because it alleges the Black prime ministers election Victory in april was a Anu spokesman said police were searching for weapons and for any auxiliaries who might be Avail two Anu auxiliary Camps were raided and searched and about 100 Anu members were detained by among those held were Anu military administrator Peter Deputy a the military communique tonal treasurer Enock a said troops swooped on eight Chi Gauta and Deputy Secretary for military affairs Sam different areas of the coun try to pick up auxiliaries for Page classified in the free press the Best Money can buy jux i it i a lifted quantities Model 38qs Btu this Coupon Worth on the Purchase of a Carrier i Central air conditioner Coupon expires july this Coupon in lieu of any other special Purchase inducement such a rebate i Gilt or Only one Coupon May be redeemed per family l Barr Brothers 60 Paramount Barr 6o Paramount 6331oo5 those magnificent men them Cooling machines the Willson store managers across Canada were instructed to reduce in Vestoris and increase summer sales the 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