Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free sanitized Moscow streets eerily quiet by James Lawton up news service Moscow the soviet unions Chance to dazzle the world with a show involving the Best of Barnum and Bai Ley and the Bolshoi is not the Only casualty at the Dawn of the 22nd olym also in some trouble is the concept of a Western Media unfettered by All restrictions on How it sees and prets great British television producers Here were complaining about Savage and politically inspired editing Back in and Fleet Street writ ers Are talking openly about their Curt Ken flee press briefing before it was spelled out said one that everything has to be downbeat even British Gold medal victories have to be played the tabloid daily Mirror flew a Man in for five Days during which he apparently pursued prostitutes and the seamy Side of Moscow a task not difficult in any european and his Zabors were rewarded with a two Page sin City though sin is certainly available in it does not exactly leap off the and when one Young russian was asked 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 ing emigration to Israel being moved out of and in some eases is the 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 soviet authority by the 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 so 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 Princess attired in White my flanked by Bud walks toward Ufa Winnipeg reception area yesterday during a refuelling1 Premier and Brief Winnipeg visit Sterling Lynn right were also at the Airport to Greet the who began a seven Day visit to Saskatchewan and Alberta yesterday for their 75th birthday celebrations boy seeks political Asylum 12yearold Doest want to return to Russia with parents from the news services Chicago Michael and Anna Polovchak emigrated from the soviet Union six months ago and now want to go but their 12yearoicl has asked for political Asylum in the United states because Here is better than my 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 a spokesman for the soviet embassy in Washington called the Case very strange and said the courts have no place in the syrian killed in Paris Paris a syrian who was former vice Premier of the United Arab re which linked Syria and was murdered in Central Paris police said Salah Eddin was shot with one Bullet in the neck news Roundup from a silence equipped pistol in the offices of his political Al aha Al which Arab miners Battle skuers 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 said in a communique it had eliminated 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 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 Indian floods kill 150 new Delhi floods from rain swollen Rivers in Northern India have killed More than 150 people acid 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 pravda criticizes Canada Moscow the soviet communist party newspaper pravda charged yesterday that thousands of Canadian indians Are deprived of Basic rights and to unemployment and a beg Garly in a dispatch from pravda correspondent Nikolai Bragin said the High Tessness of the Canadian indians and eskimos has brought truly tragic Castro scolds on Aid Managua 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 states 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 Taki Eddine 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 the strikes 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 Bills Pawley claims continued from Page 1 i Bill 101 an act to Amend the plan Ning act 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 i Bill 95 the elections original i he Bill contained a Section under which anyone who published false statements intended to influence an election Campaign could be sent to jail you should have seen the Damn act when we first got said adding it was full of things which had to be 4 g Bill 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 c Bui 83 an act to Amend the land lord and tenant act and the Condo minium although As Jorgenson the Bill still retains us 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 51 the fatality inquiries under opposition and Public the government introduced Amend ments making inquests mandatory in police related i 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 Powley said his nip caucus has decided that on third were going to dig our heels in on three Bills it considers of major importance c Bui 81 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 r Bill 83 an act to Amend the land lord and tenant act and the Condo minium discussed q Bill 81 an act to Amend the pay ment of wages act and the real property act 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 f of course the russians have become masters of ceremony and this 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 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 1 would have been quite the russians Pound out hol Low the great convoys of trucks bearing the soldiers and the the cos sacks and the georgians have rolled into a it is one in which the most resounding dialogue is built on not All of them being told by the Afghanistan athletes seek Refuge continued from Page 1 that athletes Are seeking to 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 afghan olympic teams have been riddled by defections since the soviets began pouring about troops into Afghanistan last december to bolster that country marxist seven out of 11 wrestling squad Mem Bers defected to Pakistan in earlier this month after seven basketball players and a National volleyball player fled there in a number of soccer players had defected while lit West Germany a month the 17member afghan team provided a special focus of interest at the games that have been so affected by developments in their team leaders insisted that sports and poli tics do not but afghan olympic committee chairman Ahmad Nasir lectured journalists in fluent russian about the evils of imperialism and president Carters foreign afghan boxing coach Sali Muhammed Yasmir handed a reporter pamphlets on the speeches and pro Grams of Afghanistan marxist presi Dent Babrak the soviet troops have been support ing Karmels fight against the moslem rebels opposed to his marxist govern in the first Day of soviet athletes won four of the five Gold medals 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 gunned 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 Iraj mediate effect on the level of Competition four world records were set As soviet and East German teams Domin ated the medal Harvest Andrea an East German swimmer who set a world relay said were quite sorry that the Ameri cans Arent but we will try to prove that we can swim account closed i protest in protest of what they say is the Royal Bank of Canadas practice of granting Loans to repressive the University of Winnipeg student Union has closed its account with that in a letter to the general manager of the Royal Banks main Winnipeg student Union president Brian Pannell said the funds will be Transfer red to a credit we have no Confidence in the Royal Banks lending particularly in regimes of the letter naming South Africa and Pannell said the Royal Bank and other lending institutions use banker client confidentiality to Grant Loans which would otherwise not be made if the Public was aware of their he said funds to such regimes allow governments to funnel other monies into maintaining oppressive Jack Vic president and general manager of the Royal Bank for Manitoba and Northwestern replied that International banking would become impossible if the Bank accepted the premise that lending to certain countries constitutes support for the regimes of those the Royal is a International Bank which has dealings in practically every country of the Mcdonald in the area of respect for human governments policies and practices Range from exemplary to clearly Arafat mocks olympic spirit continued from Page 1 Noring once again the realities of a world with which his organization so consistently and so pathetically fails to if the olympics were ultimately con trolled from the movements head Quad a Castle above Lake surely Arafat promenade would have been shot Down As brusquely As the terrorists gunned Down the athletes in but of course he makes his it is maybe maybe an incredible lapse in Good but what can you do when Long ago you adopted a policy of of basically Selling to the highest bid Der the sky was slate Grey when Arafat strolled among the athletes in a place which is traditionally a Celebration of the kind which was saluted with technical brilliance but Little passion in the great stadium there May be Superb achievements in these games but it is hard to see How there can be much and if you doubled this before this evening your scepticism now has to be but where do the multiplications end certainly not in the showpiece of this 22nd the meeting of Sebas Tian Cue and Steve Ovett in the 800 metres and 1500 Coe has caught the imagination of the his of three world records last year revealed an extraordinary Range of Talent and he runs with the kind of courage which gets grown men up from their hearts Pound blood whose personality is some what less alluring and has already been discussed in this is one of the great Coe versus Ovett is a race which might have been conceived on mount Olympus but As an exercise in Amateur after is what the Ioc still claims these games to it is a hilarious and rather far fetched who arrived in Moscow yester Day and will hold a press conference is currently writing a series of articles he is putting his name to them for a London daily it is reported that his labors will be rewarded to the tune of approximately Ovett is doing rather better than he is writing his ghost writer is in town for the sunday and the Tab Here is apparently closer to there is also a Small part for Coes who has so skilfully plot Ted the boys Coe senior t giving his thoughts 10 the Sheffield morning Telegraph and at noon Bis ghost writer was malting desperate attempts to make you pay your Money and take your ;