Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free March Beta nationalists attack police station i it Beijing a tibetans seek ing Independence from China at tacked a police station in Lhasa beat up officers and Des troyed their vehicles As a major Buddhist festival came to a the official Xinhua news Agency made no mention of casualties or arrests in the first ant chinese Vio Lence reported in the tibetan capital since at least 14 people were killed during those which also included an attack on a police Xinhua said demonstrators shout ing reactionary slogans yesterday also attacked an office of the tibetan Buddhist which is con trolled by China and is considered by Many tibetans to oppose an inde pendent the two sentence Xinhua report did not say How Many people were the situation was soon brought under it said without specifying what measures were it said Lhasa was Calm enough later yesterday to hold a scheduled horse efforts to Contact Lhasa by Tele phone were the violence occurred As hundreds of tibetan Buddhist monks and Pil grims in Lhasa concluded the annual great prayer one of the major events in the tibetan religious chinese authorities had consid ered cancelling the 10day festival for fear of a resurgence of last years but they went ahead and gave it heavy publicity As proof that the troubled Himalayan Region had returned to the festival began 25 and ended Many monks boycotted the Festi Val because of a heavy chinese police attendance by Pil grims was also said tibetan sources and westerners who observed the festival this year and in the in september and october last tibetan monks and Lay people angered at 37 years of chinese communist Rule held three protests Dur ing a two week in the an estimated people stoned and set on fire a Lhasa police station on 1 and police opened at least 14 people were authorities expelled All foreign re porters from Tibet at the time and Only a handful have been allowed in chinese authorities blamed last years protests on a handful of Tibe Tan nationalists they said were instigated by the Dalai tibets soviets admit 31 die in ethnic riot armenians seek single Republic Moscow Reuter thirty one people were killed in ethnic rioting in the azerbaijani City of sum Ait last the soviet news Agency Tass said it was the first death toll Given by soviet authorities for the sunday rioting which was caused by a Dis Pute Over the redrawing of Boun Daries Between the soviet republics of Armenia and As has already been a group of to elements provoked unrest in on Tass criminal elements committed violent actions and engaged in Rob they killed 31 among them members of various National old men and Tass said Resolute measures were taken to normalize the Situa Tion in a Caspian sea port just North of the azerbaijani capital of those guilty of the crimes were and criminal proceedings Are being instituted against them strictly in accordance with soviet it the news Agency said the sum Ait rioting started when immature people who fell under the Impact of false rumours concerning the developments in Nagor Novara Bakh and Armenia found themselves drawn into unlawful a predominantly armenian Region that has been administered by Azerbaijan since has been at the Centre of ethnic unrest in Transcaucasia for the last two last month the regional Parlia ment in Magorno Karabash voted for reunification with hundreds of thousands of people then demonstrated in ii capital of to support the idea of Street protests in Magorno Karabash stopped rail traffic and slowed production the Tass report boosted to 33 the known death toll in the ethnic strife in the two Transcaucasia re pub soviet authorities have already Rej Virled the deaths of two youths in ethnic clashes in near Tass said a government commis Sion headed by azerbaijani Leader Gasman Sedov has been set up to nip with the situation in where a curfew enforced by soldiers has been in effect since the necessary Aid has been Given to those who suffered As a result of the the news Agency All matters connected with ensuring tie uninterrupted functioning of municipal services Anil maintaining the Public order Are being tack soviet authorities in train Simioca Art struggling to prevent a spread of tie feuding Between armenians and an armenian in the azerbaijani City of sum Ait with whom Reuters was connected from Moscow when seeking to Telephone the local communist party Headquarters said seven members of a single family died in riots that broke out on the clearly distraught who said he was a refugee from the sobbed As he spoke from a clubhouse opposite the party build ing where he said refugees were waiting to he moved out of sum he said there had been cases of rape and robbery of armenians in two Days of ethnic disturb but then the troops came in and helped he apparently re Ferring to a military supervised cur few imposed on monday and backed by armoured afghan caches of arms reported Moscow a 1ntida said yesterday that ant soviet insurgents Are moving Large quantities of arms and ammunition into Afghanistan in the midst of negotiations to end Afghanistan bloody civil interference in the Domestic affairs of this Republic is not diminish ing if is the communist party daily said in a dispatch from the afghan Afghanistan and which represents the afghan began a new negotiations in Geneva last week designed to end the on they agreed on the main elements of a unmediated peace plan that includes provisions for withdrawing about soviet troops from Afghanistan within nine the Kremlin sent troops and tanks into Afghanistan in december 1979 and supports the government of president Najib against the Muslim in Mriln said guerrilla arms dumps and bases have begun to be moved from neighbouring Pakistan to said its reporter was old at the Headquarters of tie soviet military Force in Afghanistan that the guerrillas Are moving he weapons to make sure a annul reached in Geneva not de Prive them of under terms of the Geneva a the United would have to Stop supplying anus u the insurgents within 60 Days of the mining if an toddler loses use of title in Palace pronouncement London Kiu Ute Vurin u i a i a to i i no in Buckingham lit Iii a i Al will Oik k i Iii i Al la Diioli Neil i i Ute i lha Vii i us Tel till ill ii i Pil a my Ami wiil v i Mai Iwai Hoiu Imi Waali of a it Lull in Lull i in vol Lii la i i i Lirl Siulian i Vil Allf i Viviin Mil i tibetans protest Vatican agrees to details expenses former religious and temporal who fled to exile in India in Xinhua said yesterdays violence was caused by a number of agita tors acting against the wishes of local residents and monks and Western observers said hundreds of monks angered and frightened by the police boycotted the initial sessions with fewer than 600 showing Atten dance grew to nearly Koo the second Day under official but dozens of monks at nearby Depung monastery held their own most tibetans dispute chivas claim to seven centuries of sovereignty Over the mount inbound chinese Rule was exercised Only intermittently during that Peri with administrative control in the hands of the Dalai Lama and leading chinese communist troops crossed into Tibet in october nine years thousands of Tibe tans rebelled when it was rumoured that the chinese planned to Kidnap the Dalai and he fled to Vatican City Reuter the Vatican said yesterday its budget would be taking a major step towards opening its financial affairs to Public the announcement was made after a meeting of a commission of 10 cardinals formed in 1981 by Pope John Paul ii to oversee the Vatican troubled the statement was issued three Days after the Vatican gave details of its income and expenses for the first the holy see expects a deficit equivalent to million can in 1988 its highest Vatican financial officials had agreed to an audited budget follow ing suggestions by several roman Catholic Bishops the statement said without a Vatican source said the auditing would probably be an external one by a specialized accounting the statement did not say when auditing would the two recent moves followed years of lobbying by some notably John Krol of to get the Vatican to give a regular Public account of its Krol has often urged the Vatican to agree to saying the holy see whose budget is smaller than those of some dioceses nothing to As in past the Vatican said the 1988 deficit would be covered by dipping into Peters a collection taken in churches around the world for the Popes traditionally destined for Charita ble the fund has been nearly exhausted by covering years of Defi the statement said Peters Pence amounted to about million in up about million from the Vatican Bank has no part in the holy see but contributions to Peters Pence fell after the Bank was linked to the collapse of Italy Banco Ambrosiano in 1982 after a major financial the Vatican known As the Institute for religious Man Ages Money for religious it owned part of the failed Banco am and italian authorities had accused it of sharing responsibility for Italy largest private Bank fail last Italy supreme court annulled arrest warrants that Milan magistrates had issued for the Institute archbishop Paul and two Institute exec the court said the warrants were yesterdays statement said the largest single expense foreseen for 1988 was nearly million about 54 per cent of the budget in salaries for the Vatican employ Toshiba team up to give you the great for a limited time Only Trade in your old microwave for new microwave ovens 9 Power Levels and audible response touch control rotary Arm microwave distribution a technically advanced method Cooks most foods evenly without the need to manually rotate the dishes 720 Watts this versatile oven oilers a Range of Walls in nine stages you can slow Cusk or Cook at Tyli Speed Jet Toshiba Thiee stage automatic thawing program Delross foods evenly and very quickly Cha approved for household and commercial cavity size 1 0 Culm it this is 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