Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 17, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free january Mitterrand to visit troubled Colony Paris a president fran Cois Mitterrand surprised his countrymen yesterday by announcing he will leave today for the French Pacific Colony of new where 20 people have been killed in a violent struggle Over the announcement of the trip to the Island group East of Australia came in response to a question Dur ing a televised interview yesterday with four i am going to express what i believe to be reason and to support the territory High Mitterrand he also said he continued to sup port a French proposal for land and Independence with cer Tain new Caledonia has been under a state of emergency since saturday when melanesian nationalist Mili Tants shot a 17yearold White youth to death on his fathers farm and european settlers opposed to Independence in a related con police killed two nationalist the violence shattered Hopes that the Independence Issue could be re solved without More violence in a referendum next French officials had proposed a plan for Independence in association with France under which the French government would retain responsibility for internal Security and de the plan would recognize the sovereignty of the indigenous Melana Sian known As Over the territory and return tribal lands to their it also would include specific safeguards for the asian and polynesian settlers who choose to remain and retain their French the immigrants now make up the major Ity of the Mitterrand insisted during the interview that the plan for Independence and continued association with France was Good Compromise and would ensure that the Funda mental interests of each and every one Are but negotiations Between local officials and the melanesian militants were Cut off by the militants immediately following the slaying of the two armed melanesian activists by police sharpshooters local authorities said the Sharp shooters intended Only to wound the two and accidentally fired fatal but native nationalist leaders contend they were the nationalists have since rejected the French Compromise plan As the basis for further we will continue the but from now on the basis of talks will be our demands and not the French said Jeanmarie president of the kanak socialist National liberation vietnamese gunners Shell resistance Post Bangkok a vietnamese gunners shelled a cambodian Resis Tance Camp along the tha cambo Dian Border for the sixth straight Day yesterday to prevent the guerrillas from retaking their fallen a rebel official Iraq claims fighter shit Large ship Baghdad a Iraq yester Day said its aircraft attacked a ship in the persian Gulf near Iran Harg Island Oil a military Reading a communique Over state said Jet fighters scored direct and effective hits on the Large naval target and returned safely to the term Large naval target usually Means an Oil but the spokesman did not identify the ves he said the target was attacked at est near the Oil 122 Kilometres Southeast of Iraq coast on the shipping sources in Bahrain said they had not picked up distress Sig nals from ships in the in other developments Dan iraqi War communique said its gunners and combat forces at tacked iranian troops and equipment along the War kill ing and wounding d James chief of naval was in the Gulf Region this week to talk to Arab officials worried about the effect of the Ira Iraq War on their coun d a in inspection after visit ing All known prisoners War Camps in estimated that iranian pos were being held by the Bun a senior official of the no communist Khmer Peoples National liberation said in Bangkok that five guerrillas had been killed and 21 wounded attempt ing to reenter Sok Sann Camp since it was overrun by the vietnamese on the Khmer group is part of a coalition battling the vietnamese in stalled government of Heng the other two groups in the coalition Are the communist Khmer Rouge and forces Loyal to former cambo Dian ruler Prince Norodom Sihan the three Fielding or More Are trying to evict from Cambodia an estimated vietnamese a senior International Aid official said some shells landed at an evacuation site near Sok where of the Camps civilians had sought the who have been forced to flee from three evacuation Sites since the 11 fled to other areas of the he thai military officers and Khmer liberation front guerrillas claimed the rebels were Able to retake a portion of Rit Hisen another former rebel stronghold recently occupied by vietnamese after four hours of fighting yester the guerrillas said they suffered two killed and four wounded in the Rit Hisen and Sok Sann Are located along the Central Section of the 700 Kilometre Frontier Between cambo Dia and the Khmer liberation front has been the target of a dry season offensive by the vietnamese in which All the groups major bases have been attacked or Hanoi forces were also reported to be clashing with Khmer Rouge guerrillas at their strongholds in the phenom Malai mountains South of the thai Border town of but details available be cause the fighting has been inside cambodian thai military sources Australia to protest Ethiopia move Mitterrand plan Kenya a austra Lia says it will protest Ethiopia seizure of the cargo and Crew of a ship carrying australian famine re Lief food and supplies to rebel held areas of the impoverished african Ethiopia government seized the cargo ship Golden venture at the red sea port of and a spokes Man for the foreign ministry yesterday described Australia plan to Aid rebel areas As tantamount to interference in our internal of an estimated million people Are suffering from drought related food shortages in Many of the victims live in guerrilla con trolled areas of Northern Tigre and in foreign Secretary Bill Hayden said his government world would protest the i have directed that our representatives in Addis Ababa should Lodge a very Strong protest and a demand that the commodities and other items be Hayden said in a radio interview in he stressed the estimated million in Aid for rebel areas was for humanitarian purposes and not in tended to support we Only Supply humanitarian Aid be cause people Are he Hayden said the ship had dire fired instructions and put in at the ethiopian port monday instead of one in Ethiopia neighbor where it was supposed to have unloaded the diplomatic sources in who spoke on condition they not be said the ship was carry ing tonnes of wheat for rebel controlled areas and another tonnes for elsewhere in plus blankets and a Well drilling each bag of wheat was reported to be marked As a gift of Australia to the eritrean Relief association or the Relief society of both groups work closely with rebels who Long have been fighting for Auton omy in those the ethiopians would be justified in saying the cargo is con Traband because they know from ship documents that it is being taken to another country in order to be smuggled into said one Diplomat in heres one Good reason to buy a 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