Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free december 1982 world pm minister shifted off head table up protocol organizers for Vic president George Bush shifted Gerald Quebec cultural communities and immigration minister who was represent ing the provinces Jacques Van off the head table yesterday at a dinner of a conference on the who also is the provincial intergovernmental affairs decided to remain in Quebec to await a ruling today by the supreme court of Canada on the provinces right to veto constitutional he had been invited to sit at the head table in his capacity As the decision to place Godin at a secondary table was Attri buted officially to the conferences protocol a conference spokesman said the decision was understandable since Godin was Only representing a Vic Premier and other minis ters might have been offended had he been placed at the head Godins blamed Ottawa interference for the the opening dinner of the sixth annual con Ference on the economic development of the Caribbean also was attended by the presidents of several Caribbean and Central american countries and financiers from the Central the and Godin continues a five Day tour of Florida and Georgia today to promote Quebec inter abortion Bill Sparks Battle in France Paris a feminists and leftists Are battling antiabortion groups and the roman Catholic Church Over a Bill before the National Assembly that would Institute state subsidized the socialist government expects Quick approval in the Assembly will allow the which comes up for debate to go into effect by under the the state would pay 70 per cent of the Cost of the operations out of the social Security which is expected to Post about billion in losses this the Church denounced the Bill immediately after president Francois Mitterrand Cabinet approved it last week for parliamentary Catholic families do not want to be accomplices through their taxes to an act that is against their a statement from the association of Catholic families we will oppose this measure by every despite the 1975 Law legalizing the opera Tion is often difficult to obtain in there were registered abortions in France in and officials estimate another French women ended their pregnancies outside the country or through illegal operations in everyone knows that for abortion is very said Yvette minister for women but once a woman has decided to have she will go to any lengths to make sure its the current situation is straightforward too Many women must either go abroad or seek Clandestine Francoise an official with Frances largest feminist the movement for the libera Tion of says the Cost of a a abortion in France discriminates against women who need them the people hit the hardest usually Are who often dont have much Money and Are afraid to ask their parents for brie they end up waiting too Long past the 10week pregnancy limit for Jav Larry of them then leave the country for an abortion in England and end up paying Many times More than what an abortion would have Cost in women refuse to take up arms Bonn a several Hundred East German women have told communist chief Erich Honecker they will not take up arms to defend their state and asked him to reconsider a Law drafting women in times of the West German Magazine Der Spiegel said the Magazine printed what it said was the text of a letter the women sent to Honecker in Der Spiegel said two of the several Hundred women who signed it were seized briefly by East German police in the text published by the the women attacked passage of a Law last March 25 that extended military service for reservists and also introduced conscription for women aged Between 18 and 50 in times of passage of the Law by the East German parliament violated the country Constitution because the measure had not first been put up for Public discus Sion As the Constitution the letter half the population of East Germany is directly affected by this we women declare that we Are not prepared to be drafted and demand a Legal Way to the right to refuse is necessary because the passage of this Law results in a limitation of Freedom of we women refuse to think that one Day we will stand in the rows of the Nova National Peoples army and defend a land which will be uni habit even after a conventional which in Europe would probably end in a nuclear the letter added women do not see the Chance to serve in the army As Equality for their but As something which contradicts being a military service has become an increasingly controversial Issue in East with a Small Church based peace movement demanding social service take the place of the compulsory 18month military service for conscientious the demands have been rejected by the East German which reacted by passing the Law in March toughening on All new82 cars and you must take delivery by december onallnew83 cars and you must take delivery by december financing annual percentage rate for qualified buyers through 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