Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 28, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Issues crisis in China revolution or a political battered women who protect abusers Are like buy with your heart when staking Rural land Cloudy tonight 6 Clearing tomorrow 13 free press vol 117 n0176 Sun rises sets Moon rises final 25p of Tacto Winnipeg Home delivery 9570550 came held 9662330 second class mail registration number 0286 news watch turbans attacked three Calgary women Call ing themselves defenders of ramp tradition will take to downtown streets tomorrow with a petition against a re cent decision allowing sikh ramp officers to Wear tur bans and the women say they Are unhappy that something so closely linked to Canadas heritage is being tampered we wont be Able to deny North american indians the right to Wear ceremonial nor jews the right to Wear said Kay the policy change was made in it allows sikh officers to Wear beards and Rompis sued As Well As carry their ceremonial Neo nazis meet police and demonstrators surrounded a Beer Hall hosting a Neo fascist festival in Pas West yester about Neo nazis showed up at the event organized by the German Peoples Union As part of the sunup to next months european Community parliamentary elec they listened to nazi music and waved a spokesman said the Union expects to win seven to eight per cent of the German Driver honoured Roger the greyhound bus Driver caught up in last months eight hour parliament Hill Hijack will receive a bravery award Friday from Jeanne a spokesman for National transportation week said that Bednarchuk Cool in a very explosive Situa Tion helped save the lives of 10 hostages on the bus he was forced to drive to Ottawa from Union serenaded Stevie wonder Sang for Soli Darity in Warsaw today and thanked the Independent Trade Union for trying to improve life in wearing a Solidarity Sang his hit i just called to say i love you at one of the unions election offices after a student complained that tickets for a con Cert he was giving in Warsaw were too wonder earlier met prime minister Mieczyslaw wonder thanks Union Ann 30 18 30 6 22 13 23 Puzzle 19 sports 29 17 20 to 19 lotto winning numbers Bonus number 35 Dow Corning apples to build Plant by Terry Lulash Nyk and Zena Olijnyk Winnipeg free press East Selkirk a firm has applied to build a multimillion Dollar Silica and Plant in East Sel the application by Dow Corn ing of Michigan for a conditional land use permit to develop the site will be heard by the Rural municipality of Clements Council tomorrow Dow Corning has been studying possible Sites in the Selkirk Gimli area since last december in its search for a location to build a Silica and research the chosen site is located on the Manitoba Hydro steam Plant grounds in East in Clements to my this is the Only site that is being looked at seriously said an official with the triples Clements and Selkirk development a federally funded Agency that encourages business development in the what Dow wants to do is absolutely futuristic they want to make Metal out of Silica the who didst want to be said the location is since it would be easy to transport Silica Sand from nearby residents have received letters notifying them of the land use apply pm free press the triples official said if the Hydro location is turned Down by Clements other Sites within Clements and Selkirk will be last Dow Corning and the Manitoba Energy authority struck a Deal that would see construction on a Pilot Plant begin within a de company Page 4 memorial Day memories Aiman Montagnon places a memorial Day poppy on four years with Montagnon in the Princess Patricia a Wreath Landon Tommy Pence s grave in Brookside Canadian Light Canadian Viet us Meteny one of Canadas most Nam veterans also Laid wreaths at Brookside to highly decorated second world War served remember their fallen and missing comrades an by David Roberts a West Hawk Lake minister claims United Church authorities have terminated his con tract because of his outspoken denunciation of and members of his congregation say there ready to Start their own breakaway Church if David Clink int Given a that would make them the first Manitoba congregation to quit Over the homosexuality was hired by the Selkirk Presby Tery of the United Church two years he says he was told by the presbytery last week that his contract wont be renewed beyond june in reasonably sure its my sermons that got me into Clink things were going great until the Victoria i think they the presbytery deny that is the but in totally convinced and my people Are totally convinced that this homosexuality stand is the the United Church of Canada has been locked in a bitter debate Over ordination of homosexual clergy since its general Council issued a statement on the matter last fall in a recent inhouse Survey found the member Church Canadas largest protes Tant denomination lost 36 37 congregations and members in mainly because because of the homosexuality a so called Supply is not a member of the United Church and was hired because of his experience As a former Baptist he claims to have an evangel conservative approach to theology which appeals to the West Hawk last after Clink delivered a couple of sermons denouncing homosexual he was hauled before a committee of the Selkirk presbytery to account for West Hawk Church Board member Ron Young see congregation Page 4 chinese students March to protest party renew Freedom Call 1mmm Meta mammi from the news services Beijing thousands of students took to the streets of Beijing today to renew their Call for democracy in China and protest the purge of reformers in the chinese Lead i can democracy cannot read one Banner carried by students in one of five columns setting out from the capitals North Western University area toward Central Beij the marchers were preceded by squads of bicycling students who distributed handbills urging workers to join the organizers said they hoped to bring one million people into the at Beijing Normal University one poster read we must smash the Oldman party and not fear sacrifice or students called for a final rally on tuesday and called on those occupying Tain Enmen Square to leave and switch see chinese Page 4 Yeltsin denied seat supreme soviet closed to Reform the Washington Post Moscow leading soviet including Kremlin rebel Boris failed yesterday to win seats in the soviet unions new standing the mass defeat of Liberal and populist candidates provoked a storm of protest both inside and outside the Congress of Peoples which has been meeting Here to elect a president and the 542member supreme progressive deputies threatened to form a parliamentary group in opposition to the dominant communist party establish Power delegated although the Congress is constitutionally vested with supreme state much of its authority will be delegated to the smaller supreme which will meet for up to eight months a the supreme soviet is responsible for adopting supervising the work of the and drawing up a communist party stalwarts were Able to use their Builtin majority in the Congress to Weed out Many Independent minded deputies who had won upset victories in the soviet unions first Multi candidate elections in seven dec while Radical reformers occupy up to 30 per cent of the seats in the they appear to have been reduced to Between 10 and 15 per cent in the supreme it is a Victory for the communist party economist Gavril one of the Defeated told the this apparatus has been in Power for and it Hast led us anywhere except up a Blind discredit these results discredit our said Alexander a progressive Deputy from Yeltsin had the support not Only of six million he was also nominated by some people like him should be encouraged to participate in Politi Cal Here in this and not just at Public the election results seem certain to disillusion Many Ordinary soviet citizens who regarded Yeltsin As a Standar bearer for particularly after he was sacked As Moscow communist party chief in october thousands of muscovites tonight protested Yeltsin exclusion from the supreme so Viet at a rally in a Public see communist Page 4 police seek demise of watchdog Agency Union plans flood of court cases to prove Point by Lisa priest the Winnipeg police association plans to take More malicious com plaint cases against its officers to Small claims court to demonstrate the police watchdog Agency is use less and should be its not fair that police Are the Only profession singled association president John Campbell we want lera the Law enforcement review Agency Abo Campbell said Dave Dan Dreas recent Victory paves the Way for More officers to take those who maliciously complain about them to Small claims Marcus Doyle was ordered to pay Dandrea and court costs recently after a Small claims hear ing officer ruled he maliciously complained about the officer to the provincial watchdog the ruling against the 22yearold is believed to be the first time in Canada a police officer has received such an Doyle has appealed it to Manitoba court of Queens probe complaints in issuing the Small claims hearing officer de Toker labelled Doyles failure to show up for the order and the lera hearing As who ran his Campaign for the association presidency on a Promise to seek abolition of the Agen said he wants a Public forum for complaints against police by Way of a professions a recent recommendation to the Justice department by the association proposes a civilian Board be appointed to investigate complaints against All recommendations to Reform lera also have been made by Agency chairman Sheilla lera commissioner Des Depourcq and Winnipeg police chief Herb Ste be it the Powers of the lera the predetermined punish ment by police chief and commis or changing the Burden of no one seems to like the a study by the former nip government recommended changes and forwarded them to Justice minister Jim Mccrae when the conservatives took Power in april but so nothing has changed and department spokesman Linda Lee said no changes Are see chairman Page 4 Linburd Burden of proof t ;