Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free october 1989 i congressmen admit misgivings Over policy toward it or by Myron Waldman new Day Washington despite misgivings of some members of con the Bush administration today embarks on its new policy to Ward soviet which could direct a vast flow of refugees away from the United states and toward under the the United states would admit refugees from the soviet Union during the next 12 months More than Ever in Public jewish organizations have generally endorsed the but on Capitol from conservatives and liberals there Are objections and some at first seems re said Hamilton the senior Republican on the House judiciary subcommittee that deals with but it Doest go beyond the current Back with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev apparently ready to give soviet jews near total Freedom to it is estimated that next year perhaps More than soviet jews will try to take advantage of the but under the new few will be Able to come to the United with its Law of return under which any jew in the world is is hoping and urging them to come to the jewish for nearly a the government has tried to Force the soviet Union to allow its jewish citizens Freedom to Over the last 20 the United states welcomed soviet jews with open arms As a people seeking free Dom from it was easy to do this because the annual immigration numbers ranged from a few Hundred to a few Only once reaching and that in the Bush adminis which pays Between and to resettle each claims it cant afford to foot the Bill for a massive wave of jewel the coordinator for refugee has said that so Many emigres from a single country would distort and to a serious disservice to the Refu Ark gee an israeli official who asked that his name not be used said that his country expects an influx of soviet jews during the next three years and that it will Cost about billion to Settle Israel has asked american jewish organizations to Bear some million of the Cost and also intends to ask the United states to increase loan guarantees to help pay for use pact is Joyful eos germans Board trains to West soon after Deal made by Blaine Harden the Washington Post Prague an extraordinary agreement by East and West Ger Many was announced last ending the growing crisis Over thou Sands of East German refugees packed on the grounds of Bonns embassy within the first train Load of jubilant refugees began leaving for the West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher told an exultant throng of More than East German refugees at the West Ger Man embassy last night that they were free to leave for the the including More than 700 were crowded into a Muddy tent City on the embassy grounds where there was so Little room that people had slept in the first train departed Prague at local a total of five trains were to travel at two hour intervals and pass through East Germany to the West German town of Hof in with the first one expected to arrive at 4 according to a West German for eign ministry spokesman in East Germany insisted that the trains carrying the refugees out of Prague pass through East German territory As a symbolic gesture to underline that the East Berlin government had made the decision that its citizens should be allowed to emigrate to the in according to West Ger Man diplomats in the East germans would be Given exit papers from the East German government and they would have their East German identification papers taken Celebration West German officials have speculated that the East German government was desperate to resolve the embassy crisis Here before next weeks Celebration in East Berlin of the 40th anniversary of the creation of the communist soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is planning to attend the 7 had the embassy crisis been Al Lowed to drag on Here with thou Sands of people living in deplorable conditions the East German Cele bration would have been overshadowed in the Western Media by Tele vision pictures of freezing children standing in the earlier this in what was viewed As a major political conces the East German government promised the refugees Here that if they returned Home immediately they would be guaranteed the right to emigrate within six Only a few Hundred East germans accepted the in remarks that were largely drowned out in the tumultuous cheers of the East Genscher said the agreement allow ing the mass departure was the result of his talks this week in new York with East German Genscher later described the negotiations As very complicated and his greatest he did not elaborate on How the agreement was reached but said the negotiations applied Only to the peo ple who were inside the embassy grounds Hauler this Genscher had been at the United where he held talks with East German for eign minister Oskar czechoslovak foreign minister Jaromir Johanes and soviet foreign minister Eduard the czechoslovak which had no immediate comment yester Day on the has insisted that no East germans would be allowed to leave the country without permission from East Blessing according to West German for eign ministry spokesman Juergen Chrobot in East Germany agreed Friday to give its Blessing to the exodus from Prague after a key intervention by Fischer sent a message to Genscher on Friday saying the East germans at the Prague embassy could depart within 24 Chro bog said in a Telephone the East German message came one Day after Shevardnadze told Genscher in a meeting in new York during the in general Assembly that he would help resolve the Situa Chrobot Genscher told Shevardnadze about the tragedy in Shevardnadze was very much in and said hed take care of Chrobot Genscher went to Prague to prom ise the East germans at the embassy that they would be allowed to reach West Germany even though the trains carrying them would pass through East Chrobot the West German foreign ministry placed a representative on each train to ensure the refugees had no problems with East German a the spokesman As Young couples hugged each other and tears streamed Down the faces of uncomprehending Genscher explained that five trains were being prepared and they would be on their Way that we have come to Tell you that today you Are Genscher As he looked Down from the spotlighted second floor Balcony of the baroque czech Palace that houses the West German Mission i am very glad that i am Able to Tell you i am glad to Welcome you As germans among the East germans sent up a deaf ening cheer and thank you very thank you very briton fined for ill treating blowup sex toy England Reuter Carpenter Grant Oliver is feeling a Little deflated after a court in Southern England fined him for using threatening behaviour toward a blowup rubber was arrested in the Early hours of yesterday morning after police in the Beach resort of Torquay spotted him punching and shouting abuse at the inflatable sex when he refused to both he and his rubber companion were locked in a police funny Side in Oliver admitted using threatening behaviour Likely to cause alarm or distress and was fined 80 pounds Sterling the equivalent of about the police could obviously see the funny Side of they put me in the cells to sleep it said who had been on a Stag night with the worst thing was explaining it to my he an East German Mother cries As she says goodbye to her daughter through Fence pregnant woman gets jail delay for trashing baby Redwood a a woman who gave birth in an air plane bathroom and stuffed the infant in a wastebasket wont go to jail until december because she is expecting another baby officials Christina Locasto of new York City was to begin a six month jail term but a judge decided Friday that her sentence should begin after the birth of her fourth which is due in pleaded no contest in May to a charge of felony child endangerment in a plea she could have been sentenced to six years in prison if she had been tried and the Mother of two other Locasto gave birth in the bathroom of a United airlines flight Between and san the baby was found under the sink shortly after the air plane landed in Francisco on july Locasto told caseworkers last year she was afraid to Tell her husband about her third pregnancy because they were having marital a juvenile court judge awarded temporary custody of the named to her paternal another hearing on her custody will be held Shamir the Washington Post Jerusalem israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and egyptian president Hosni Mubarak spoke by Telephone Friday night and agreed to meet israeli radio said Mubarak has been promoting a opposed by for negotiations Between the israeli govern ment and representatives of the palestinians in the occupied Mubarak Telephone Call and agreement to meet appeared to thaw a freeze in relations Between the two Heads of state that has been a significant obstacle to the egyptian Initia no Date has been Shamir has strongly opposed the Mubarak proposal that a group of palestinians approved by the pales Tine liberation organization negotiate with about Shavirs plan to hold elections in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Mubarak 10point which includes a demand that Israel agree to the principle of giving up the occupied could serve As a platform for the palestinian although Shamir and his rights ing liked bloc oppose the Mubarak plan largely for reasons of political the prime minister also has been offended by Mubarak tactic of cultivating ministers of the left Wing labor party while refusing to meet Mubarak invited labor defence minister Yitzhak Rabin to Cairo two weeks and met labor party Leader Shimon Peres As Well As liked foreign minister Moshe Arens in the United states this but indicated that g soon he would not meet Shamir until negotiations Between Israel and the palestinians were under who has Long sought to arrange a Summit with has attacked the egyptian initiative in increasingly bitter terms during the last two calling it in Kosher and a formula for surrender by Israel to the leaders of the continuing palestinian uprising in the Shamir has threatened to break up Likus coalition govern ment with labor rather than accept the Mubarak israeli radio said that who ostensibly called to Greet Sha Mir on the jewish new said he had no desire to see the breakup of the israeli the coalitions 12member inner divided equally Between liked and is scheduled to meet thursday to decide How to respond to the egyptian the labor party favors the egyptian and Secretary of state James Baker Iii indicated Friday that if Shamir and liked forced its rejection by the United states would look for other formulas for a dialogue Between Israel and the that would jeopardize Shavirs own elections which would allow palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza strip to choose representatives to negotiate with Israel for limited political sources in Israel have suggested during the past week that labor and liked May Compromise on the Mubarak initiative rather than allow it to break up the govern ment and increase tensions with soviet paper castigates two balloon hooligans Moscow Reuter a danish balloonist and a soviet student tried to land in Moscow red Square this week but were blown off course by Strong the communist party daily pravda said the newspaper said the air hooligans touched Down near the ring Road on the outskirts of Moscow on but Only after forcing traffic controllers to Alert the Pilot of a passing Pas Senger pravda said the whose exploits recalled those of West Ger Man teenager Mathias took off from Moscow Gorky they wanted to demonstrate what they called their Peac Elov ing aspirations by flying Over the Kremlin and Landing in red but the wind it the flight of rust and other both recent and Long have taught us the article calling for tighter control of the the newspaper did not make Clear the Fate of the two balloon nor reveal any More details about rust illegally flew a Cessna Light plane Over 750 Kilometres of soviet territory in May 1987 be fore Landing near red he spent 14 months in jail be fore being allowed to return Home after appeals by the West Ger Man soviet legislators set to tackle delicate private property Issue Gorbachev outside limits by Bill Keller times news service Moscow the soviet Legisla Ture is to digress from the Downto Earth business of next years budget tomorrow to consider what May be Trie ultimate Issue who owns the soviet Union in a debate that promises to touch the most sensitive articles of communist Faith and to set the outside limits of president Mikhail Gor Baches move from a failing state monopoly to a regulated Market the eager Young parliament is to take up a Law defining the Basic notion of already the preliminary work has pushed Legal wordsmiths to new flights of As conserva Tives try to sound like reformers while preserving state control of Industry and and Market oriented economists strive to push the limits while avoiding the dreaded word private which generations of soviet communists have been raised to regard As the Root of capitalist frightens this word still frightens some said Aleksei an economics professor from the University of Donetsk and a member of the Legislatures committee on eco nomic who said he believed that limited private ownership is the key to economic Boiko has been entrusted by fellow Market oriented legislators with crafting the most far reaching of the proposals facing the his draft contains such delicate obfuscation As personal property anything from a pair of shoes to an individual property something used to earn a like a carpenters tools or a musicians and household Means of production a Pri vate plot of Farmland for family the most elaborate invention in his version is property for citizens labor which Means Pri vate business on a Small but com Mercial scale family owned grocery or shoe repair for any of which would be illegal if the parliament agrees to Call it private they will have my Gratis said 1 ;