Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free january 1985 up photo Laurie Piraux meets ambassador Alexey Chernenko letter to student delivered by ambassador Calgary up a Grade 12 student who wrote a letter to soviet president Konstantin Chernenko for a social studies class received an answer delivered by the soviet ambassador to Laurie sat Down at the Kitchen table last fall and wrote a letter to the Leader to fulfil an essay requirement of her the teenager expressed fears nuclear arms asked How soviet youths Felt about and quietly hoped for some the letter rated Only nine out of 20 in her teachers but it prompted a personal response from the fac that being 18 years old and at the beginning of your you Ponder the grave threat hanging Over humanity says a lot about the soviet Leader his letter was delivered to Piraux Home by Alexey the soviet i got All tense and shaky and said Piraux in describing her reaction to the ambassadors she looked shaken yesterday As she stood before a news conference and denied reporters suggestions that Chernenko reply is a Public Tyse eking political it int she my letter probably touched him he could see i was Goodwill in his Chernenko said the soviet people regard Canada and the Canadian people with respect and he described Piraux message As sincere and permeated with anxiety about most important things to Avert a nuclear to preserve the answer is he it is necessary to observe the norms of relationships among coun tries and Peoples and to develop relations Between them on the basis of Equality and noninterference in internal Piraux father Mother and 20yearold brother Tim were beside her at the news were just Ordinary said Ted who manages a City garbage for our daughter to get a response from one of the most powerful people in the world i cant describe the compensation plan splits groups japanese canadians divided on Ottawa by Maureen Murray two japanes Canadian lobby groups have taken sharply opposing positions Over Ottawa plan to uni laterally approve a compensation package for japanese a radians interned during the second world a spokesman for the National association of japanese canadians said the government would be ignoring the associations wishes if it unilaterally approves Bompensa the association began negotiating a compensation settlement with the government in Art association said although the negotiations were barely off the he has been told that multiculturalism minister Jack Murta will recommend to Cabi net that compensation be paid and an official apology package to Cabinet Murta has completed his Consulta Tion with the understands their position and is taking the compensation package to his Cabinet colleagues for their con a spokesman for the min ister Murta was not available for com the intent of compensation is to right a wrong but they the govern ment would be creating another wrong if they acted Miki but George spokesman for the japanes Canadian National re dress a relatively new group which claims to represent the nation us Riviers of the internment said he is pleased the government May finally respond to the Issue after years of the important thing is that the suffering of japanese canadians is finally going to be acknowledged you cant put a Price tag on he but Miki said monetary compensation should Bear some relation ship to the loss suffered by japanese canadians when they were stripped of their citizenship their businesses and property and placed in isolated Camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor during the second world he want prepared to say what he considered a reasonable sum be cause he still Hopes to convince the government to reopen but the association has previously said that japanese canadians would have to receive million if they were to obtain an amount equal to that recommended by an american government commission which re viewed the wartime internment of Imai said although his group had expected compensation of Mil he thinks Mikis association is making unrealistic with an amount like million there the association talking about individual compensation and that like suing the government and the Canadian people Money is going to have to come from Portugal condemns refugee Arti Ottawa up the portuguese ambassador to Canada has angrily condemned literature circulated by a controversial International Aid group which claims there Are one million refugees living in Portugal in squalid International Christian an Agency under study by Revenue Canada for its fundraising activities in distributed an article last year describing its Aid activities in 396 refugee Camps in the Aid groups february March Magazine mailed to thousands of Canadian included pictures and text describing starve misery and horror in refugee Camps across but portuguese ambassador Luis Labega said there is not one single refugee Camp in por who said he was shocked when he was shown the literature tax returns streamlined Montreal up the Quebec the Only province to collect its own has launched a Pilot project to simplify and Speed up its tax about taxpayers will be sent forms with information already filled says the Revenue the taxpayers will then attach appropriate receipts the forms and return the new forms will be sent to 500 taxpayers in the 500 in the trois rivieras Region and in the Montreal this the groups claims i dont think canadians believe that sort of he Labega said Between and people from the former portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique have flooded into Portugal since the two african nations gained their Independence in the those people have been totally assimilated into portuguese so he if Portugal actually had hundreds of refugee it would have Long ago sought Assis Tance from the International Aid Labega but Kenneth the Canadian director for International Christian said his groups claims Are absolutely Correct and Roe said he twice visited Camps or ghettos filled with refugees from the two former they lived in some of the most deplorable conditions i have Roe the organization has about 200 Aid workers in including three doctors and a Van that distributes he the organizations literature com pares the conditions in Portugal to the worst conditions in its Only when the children have their clothes off that you really see the skin the big swollen stomachs and the puffiness of skin that indicate when Roe and three other directors of the Aid group last toured the portuguese Camps a year two of them get out of their vehicles to go into the Camp because it nauseated the smells and the terrible Roe said his organization is being unfairly attacked by the Canadian and Media Over its fundraising efforts for the ethiopian Seiko clocks shop and compare from Winnipeg largest clock selection Independent jewellers 493 notre Dame at Isabel 1795 Henderson at Milvor 6696633 closed mondays open fridays till 9 passport photos 21 locations to serve you in Manitoba Quality above All Beta wifi 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