Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winf Tibet free Toly Ken free pwe93 Brief Winnipeg visit Princess attired in White and flanked by and Sterling Lyon right were also at the Airport to Greet the Bud walks toward cab Winnipeg reception who Tilegan a seven Day visit to Saskatchewan and area yesterday during a refuelling Premier and Alberta yesterday for their 75th birthday russian Effort awesome sight continued from Page 1 directions for the nearest decent night club he replied try this is not to suggest that there is not profound scope for investigation beyond the quite glittering facade of these superbly run games already the organization makes the american Effort in Lake Placid a few months ago seem like a Distant Nightmare but rather that some cheap shots Are being fired at the sin City is a lie just As much As the fact that dissidents and refuseniks those seek ing emigration to Israel Are being moved out of and in some cases is the Moscow sanitized it is also True that Moscow has been utterly sanitized children have been shipped out to subsidized summer Camps and the streets Are mostly the effect is it is of course All part of a vast and astonishingly coherent organizational and it was Only on saturday that we could begin to gauge fully the pain inflicted on russian authority by the saturdays opening ceremony was a piece of stunning so so brilliantly that even the fact that its heart was torn out by the absence of More than 50 nations and 16 nations broke tradition and sullenly sent out the olympic Flag is unlikely to prevent it lingering in the memory of those present in the Lenin of course the russians have become masters of ceremony and his week end they moved an army through Moscow for the it was an awesome As Awe some As the scale of the show which followed the lighting of the olympic which had the runner racing Over the Heads of the crowd to the great a trick which brought gasps from the people in the Many of whom were from the third world and believed to be subsidized by the torchbearer was Given a path by flicked into a ramp with perfect timing by the designated at rehearsal the understudy slipped and fell in the rain but on the Day synchronization was Viktor the great triple Juniper and three times a Gold medal brought the flame into the stadium after Goose stepping Young russians had raised the olympic Flag carried from Montreal by the canadians who performed the Torch bearing ceremony in 1976 rather re leased a flock of earlier the March of the teams had had no More Elan than a procession of mourners and the ice was scarcely scraped by the effusions of the mexi cans and the who waved sombreros and berets actions which seemed of the nations who chose to operate soviets leading Gold medal race continued from Page 1 lbs said the embassy Here was aware of the afghans feelings but is powerless to in a state department spokesman said 1 dont know anything about lbs said it withheld the Story until a British to news organization went ahead with alerting soviet author the British organization was not the afghan athletes who want to defect realize that Security May be beefed up around them but feel that getting their Story out is their last Chance to lbs the ath letes were not in the first Day of soviet athletes won four of the five Gold medals soviet boy asks for political Asylum among the winners was soviet swim Mer Sergei who won the Gold medal in the mens 200metre Butterfly it was the first Gold medal for a soviet Man in a sport ordinarily Domin ated by the United the other soviet golds were in free 100kilpmetre cycling and 52kilo class East Germany took one in the women 4xloometre Medley swim the number of athletes and officials Here As Competition began yester Day about was Down by about from the number that would otherwise have been the Boycott appeared to have no immediate effect on the level of Competition four world records were set As soviet and East German teams Domin ated the medal a photo under the olympic seven enforced their gesture by leaving the Job to the Dick head of Britain Dele marched it was decided that i would March because we didst want a russian taking the olympic oath on our he lord Killain again declared that the olympics were above and the cracked record made another spin on the and out poured the performers the Gypsy the cossacks and the peasant girls from some of whom looked suspiciously sleek and Russia will of course dominate the medals table with East but whatever it achieves in Competition there is also the knowledge that the olympic if it will be firmly in its no less than 40 third world countries have been subsidized on the Road to Moscow Botswana eight runners having been brought Here five weeks the beneficiaries of a cultural irreparably flamed in one sense the russians cannot win in the games Are irreparably and if anyone doubted the tactical value of Jimmy Carters boy Cott decision they would be reassured with a full with the Glare of intense worldwide television the russian production of the 22nd i would have been quite the russians Pound out hol Low the great convoys of trucks bearing the soldiers and the the cossacks and the geor Gians have rolled into a it is one in which the most resounding dialogue is built on not All of them being told by the Chicago a Michael and Anna Polovchak emigrated from the soviet Union six months ago and now want to go but their 12yearold has asked for political Asylum in the United states because Here is better than my country the elder Polovchak says authorities in the Are kidnapping his the boy made his request for Asylum before circuit court judge Joseph Mooney on saturday and was placed temporarily in the custody of ukrainian friends until his plea can be decided by local and Federal i would rather never again see my parents than leave Chicago i want to stay the Grade 7 student i have new a Nice a bicycle i fixed and i dont want to be sent Here is better than my very a spokesman for the soviet embassy in Washington called the Case very strange and said the courts have no place in the our position is that a 12 year old should not be Able to Tell his parents what he wants to said Valentin he does what they Walter emigrated from the Ukraine six months ago with has i 42 Bis 38 a 17yearold Natalie and a six year old Michael who has her own Al ready has decided to stay in Chicago with but the elder who Walter said is dissatisfied with life in the wants to return to the soviet soviet authorities told Polovchak that because the two boys Are on their parents both must accompany the parents or they will not be allowed to return to the said Julian wallers when the boy Learned of his parents plans to he ran away from police found him Friday at a cousins Home and took him to a District police when his father tried to take the boy police called the state department which issued a temporary order keeping the boy in the United states until an appropriate judicial decision could be a department spokesman at the temporary Polovchak appeared without a he remained silent throughout the hearing As the proceedings were translated into but when Walter left the the father shouted in ukrainian there kidnapping my boy this is a free country it is a Good but i want to go he said later through an children should stay with their Par Bills lacked Pawley says continued from Page 1 annual legislative session in which members sit for morning and afternoon and night sessions lasting As Long As government Mem Bers As of the House has had 104 sitting Days since its 21 the most sitting Days legislature clerk Jack Reeves can its the governments responsibility to take the initiative and bring in the and the oppositions and Public function to Point out its the seven Bills on which the govern ment has made significant retreats from original positions include d Bill 101 an act to Amend the plan Ning under opposition the government withdrew a crucial Section which would have Given the City of Winnipeg planning authority Over adjacent Rural municipalities whether those municipalities were part of an autonomous planning District or d Bill 95 the elections original the Bill contained a Section under which anyone who published false statements intended to influence an election Campaign could be sent to you should have seen the Damn act when we first got said adding it was full of things which had to be d Bill 85 an act to Amend the mental health the opposition detected a loophole by which a native person requiring admission to a treatment facility could be held in police custody until such time As a government agreed to pay for the d Bill 83 an act to Amend the land lord and tenant act and the Condo minium although As Jorgenson the Bill still retains its major objective of abolishing rent it was amended so a landlord would have to pay a tenants moving expenses if the landlord refused to go to arbitration when the tenant protested a rent in d Bill 77 the family Law Amend ment which included repeal of the 1930 parents maintenance this would have allowed the courts to order adult children to support their parents in amounts exceeding d Bill 59 the fatality inquiries under opposition and Public the government introduced Amend ments making inquests mandatory in police related d Bill 38 an act to Amend the High Way traffic act would have repealed the Section of the existing act requiring used car dealers to provide safety certificates or a list of necessary re pairs to Pawley said his nip caucus has decided that on third were going to dig our heels in on three Bills it considers of major importance d Bill 86 the milk prices review under which a governmental pointed commission would set the pro Ducer Price of milk on a costo prod action but would Only Monitor milk prices at the retail d Bill 83 an act to Amend the land lord and tenant act and the Condo minium discussed d Bill 80 an act to Amend the pay ment of wages act and the real property Jorgenson said the new democrats will oppose the three Bills just to gain political if theres one thing the nip can its they know there Are More workers than there Are investors or the nip says to hell with Minori Jorgenson the progressive conservative party acts on the Princi ple that All should be treated my As pass on sitting saturday the the the spectators and the press were All but the Manitoba legislature quit work on saturday morning within minutes of the starting Only the opening prayer made it on saturdays work acting government House Leader Warner Jorgenson adjourned the ses Sion until today without government Las said they had always intended to Holiday on Satur an inadvertent announcement in the House on Friday committed the legislature to convening during the during the legislature May Call sessions of the House noon and six Days a in an attempt to Complete its program of the 1980 session is already one of the longest on with 104 sitting Days to its last week Jorgenson forced closure of the Public hearings on the govern ments rent decontrol legislation after Only two stating the govern ment carry the process on bolivian miners Battle regime Walter 1z leaves a Chicago court accompanied by his sister after being made a Ward of the a i 4 from the news services la Paz miners in Southern Bolivia reported they were still battling the new military government and reported heavy casualties As sporadic gunfire continued in la Paz through the nightly troop convoys travelled the capitals streets All the Junta that overthrew the civilian government on thursday said in a communique it has eliminated Resis it threatened to fire All work ers who do not abandon the general strike against its the mine workers clan Destine radio said the miners in the Southern Santa Ana District yesterday fought the soldiers sent there by the Junta and captured three Independence to proceed Paris France and Britain have agreed to go ahead and Grant Independence to the new hebrides on july 30 despite the rebel takeover of the largest Island in the South Pacific French officials said Paul the French state Secre tary for overseas and his British Peter is sued a statement saying they Are optimistic that negotiations with the rebels were turks Hunt four killers Istanbul Security forces mov ing House to House through the town of Drago on yesterday seized scores of people in the Hunt for three men and a woman they believe assassinated former Premier Nihat Indian floods kill 150 new Delhi floods from rain swollen Rivers in Northern India have killed More than 150 people and marooned thousands of the press Trust of India the news Agency said yesterday More than villagers have been affected by floods from the Ganges and Chagra Rivers in utter Pravesh state pravda criticizes Canada Moscow the soviet communist party newspaper Priidu charged yesterday that thousands of Canadian indians Are deprived of Basic rights and news Roundup doomed to unemployment and a beg Garly in a dispatch trom pravda correspondent Nikolai Bragin said the High Tessness of the Canadian indians and eskimos has brought truly tragic Castro scolds on Aid Managua cuban president Fidel Castro on saturday told nicaraguans celebrating the first anniversary of the overthrow of their country dictatorial regime that the United states should spend More Money on foreign Castro said we Salute the million in Aid the United slates is providing but he added that the should spend More to help underdeveloped nations rather than on its Lebanon talks Start Beirut Lebanon new prime Tak Eddme is consulting with paramilitary chiefs and political leaders on the formation of a govern ment of National was appointed yesterday by president Elias Sarkis in the Hopes of drawing together the fragmented ele ments of lebanese shattered by five years of communal labor tension eases Warsaw scattered work Stop pages were reported in Poland yester Day but tension eased As the strike bound City of Lublin returned to nor Mal the stakes in the Eastern polish City ended peacefully saturday when railway workers accepted a Compro Mise pay offer and reopened the line leading to the soviet Union which they had blockaded for four Miami curfew lifted Miami a three night curfew was lifted yesterday in miamis predominantly Black Liberty City area after a Calm weekend following several nights of police said 35 people were injured since the violence began last tuesday with the shooting of a White policeman who was trying to arrest a Black robbery ;