Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba R of pin us y u u political ghost haunts banquet Winnipeg free october 1989 9 Beijing Reuter Zhao the former chinese communist party Leader who was fired in june after being accused of support ing pro democracy student Demon is unlikely to be expelled from the party for the time a senior official said politburo member i at tending a banquet for foreign guests to celebrate communist chivas 40th hinted the party leadership is still debating How to Deal with the disgraced As for the future i dont dare but for now it looks As though he wont i told a foreign reporter who asked whether Zhao would be Western guests at the banquet in the great Hall of the people in Beijing were surprised to see an other ousted reformist former politburo member he Qili make his first Public appearance since he was removed along with Zhao has not been seen in Public since Midway close to he appealed to crowds of students to end their protest occupation of Tian amen Square in Central his plea failed and two weeks acting under martial troops and tanks cleared the Square after killing possibly of civilians on the Way into the Western diplomats said it appeared As though the party new Hartline leadership could not agree on chaos it was possible that Deng Xiaoe the 85yearold senior was trying to protect his former protege and the wide ranging re forms they both stood Premier i a prominent Hartline rival to gave no Indi cation in his banquet speech last night that the former party Leader would be spared the ultimate Politi Cal we have finally won Victory in the recent struggle by relying on the collective strength of our party and Peoples support despite Comrade Zhao Ziyang serious mistake of supporting the turmoil and splitting the i in his Tough i described the pro democracy and antigovernment protests which swept China in the Spring As an extraordinary year in the history of our re pub the party crushing of the counterrevolutionary turmoil was a great i said in remarks which some of the Assem bled Western guests described As isolation Western ambassadors attended the some said they would however Boycott a gala display of fireworks and dancing scheduled for today Day of communist chivas 40th anniversary in Tian amen chivas diplomatic isolation since the army bloody crushing of the student led movement was High lighted by the Lack of top level for eign dignitaries at the guest of Honor was cambodian guerrilla Leader Prince Norodom is who promised to fight Liberal concluded his 20minute speech with a Toast to the anniversary and the vigorous development of our socialist sanctions against China will i warns los Angeles times Beijing Premier i speaking to foreign diplomats and chinese guests at a National Day declared last night that economic sanctions against China will backfire against those who impose the economic sanctions applied by some Western countries against China will bring it temporary diff i but they will also stimulate the Chi Nese people to even greater enthusiasm for making their country Strong through those who apply sanctions will suffer from their own president Bush acted in june to ban the Export of military related equipment to and several other Western nations also have imposed limited sanctions in response to the bloody june 34 martial Law crackdown against pro democracy protesters in business ties have been chilled but not Cut there is now some movement toward a re sumption of greater a Point that was marked at yesterdays reception by the presence of former Secretary of state Alexander Haig in a place of Honor at one of the head the reception was held in a Large banquet room in the great Hall of the also present the at one of the Ordinary tables for chinese was he the second High est ranking official to be removed from office As a result of the june who was ousted from the policy setting politburo standing had been a key Reform oriented ally of former Gen 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said anglican archbishop Desmond wearing a yellow Sun hat with the slogan free the and a shirt just Call me the 56yearold a jogged on the he then held a prayer service after persuading police not to use Force on the which ignored police orders Over loudspeakers to some families the police removed foreign television Crews and local but most opening their picnic swimming and wading in the water As the crowd grew to about 100 Whites watched from the Many criticizing the protest As they talked police took no Many officers even began smiling and waving As they left when the crowds thinned in the i Hope that the inhabitants of the strand will realize that we have liberated Tutu told a news conference they dont have to watch whether Black people Are walking on their beaches any they will enjoy the liberation of being Able to another people gathered in the Eastern Cape province City of port where former mayor Graham who is erected a Home made sign declaring Pollock reserved for Whites for 35 was open to the City Council has tried to end Beach but the provincial appointed by South Africa governing White National has the Wood sign resembled nearby municipal signs declaring the Beach is for the use of Whites the new sign we the people of port Elizabeth hereby declare Pollock Beach open for the use of All namibian disbanded times news service Johannesburg South Africa disbanded its police counterinsurgency Force in Namibia yesterday in response to pressure from the United nations and complaints of intimidation from namibian a government announcement on Friday afternoon said members of the paramilitary units known As Koevoet would be demobilized and sent Home the name Means crowbar in Afri an allusion to their Mission of prying insurgents out of the local Louis South Africa administrator general in conveyed the decision earlier to Martti the United nations special representative in charge of supervising Namibia transition to Blac majority the announcement emphasized that a Tissari and his Secretary general Javier Perez de had Given assurances that guerrillas of the Southwest Africa Peoples organization would not threaten the territory officers the demobilization affected Koevoet police officers confined to their base in the largest town in Northern other Koevoet units had been stationed in two far North angolan Border Racana and the demobilization ceremony took the form of a according to a report by Southwest african Broad casting food Short new Ukraine leaders Moscow new head of the soviet unions second largest pledged in an inter View published yesterday to attack acute housing and food shortages built up during the 17year Rule of his conservative the soviet communist party daily pravda also printed an interview with president Mikhail Gorbachev in which the Kremlin Leader gave lukewarm thanks to Vladimir the outgoing ukrainian Leader and soviet politburo Mem indicating the differences that coloured the mens the Tempo of renewal in various spheres of life in the Republic is clearly new ukrainian party Leader Vladimir Ivashko told pravda in his first published com ments since being chosen thursday to replace the people Are very Dis Satis said the new chief of the Republic Home to 50 million peo the soviet breadbasket and an important Coa producing autonomy he ticked off a Hal dozen Priori ties such As food consumer health the environment and nuclear Energy problems linked to the chernobyl nuclear Power Accident in Ivashko also pledged to allow the full development of ukrainian Cul a sign he might Compromise with those pushing for preservation of the ukrainian language and demanding More economic and political autonomy for the weapons and uniforms were turned in earlier yesterday United nations observers at the ceremony counted the men before they were allowed to go Gerard a spokesman for said that the discharged Koevoet members would draw pay for an indefinite period after their fear has been expressed that be cause most of the police officers Are poorly educated and know Only How to they could pose a Lawand order there is also concern that they Are vulnerable to reprisal from other South Africa agreed last Decem Ber to give Independence to Namibia As part of a regional settlement that includes a phased withdrawal of cuban troops from Estop priorities seen As a supporter of Gorbachev said one of his main tasks will be to work out a program of Ukraine economic in dependence within the framework of the soviet the last Polit buro Holdover from the regime of soviet president Leonid was intolerant of under Gorbachev re form ukrainians began Mak ing the same demands As other ethnic activists in the soviet and in Early september they held the founding meeting of the Rush Politi Cal the grassroots Politi Cal movement professes support for Gorbachev reforms but in some cases goes further in demanding democratic reforms and local con peace an called lebanese try to end conflict saudi Arabia a the Muslim speaker of Lebanon splintered parliament told the Assembly members yesterday that they have no Choice but to find a Way to end their country 14yearlong Cycle of Christian and Muslim gathered in the saudi Mountain re sort of taif for their first meeting in More than a Are divided Over the presence of syrian troops Back ing Muslim forces in Lebanon and Muslim demands for greater speaker Hassan a shiite told the deputies that fail ure to resolve their differences would mean a total loss of Hope in devastated where fighting has been halted by a fragile we have no Choice but to Suc he told the parliamentary saudi King in an opening address read by his foreign Prince Saud Al in tails conference called on the feuding Christian and Muslim parliamentarians to cooperate in find ing a settlement to the conflict in which More than people have been killed since now that the situation has shifted from the Arena of warriors to the negotiators it is High time we moved from trading artillery shells and accusations to hasten the peace the Kings message the Monarch said lebanese must Rule their own syrian control most of except an 830 Square Kilometre Christian enclave North of is under the control of which has troops in Israel occupies a Security zone of South lebanese territory along its fahd is a member of a three coun try committee mandated by the 22 member Arab league to bring peace and reconcile Lebanon feuding King Hassan of Morocco and president Chad i Bend Edid of Algeria formulated a seven Point peace plan that Calls for political reforms which the lebanese parliamentarians will the taif the first by Lebanon parliament outside the was designed to reduce sectarian pressures on the Legisla tors that have been a major Factor in the collapse of earlier lebanese deputies who arrived in taif late Friday said the meeting would last from three to 10 before the deputies left Beirut on Lebanon Muslim govern ment Salim a said the taif meeting could be the last Chance for peace in conference sources said 63 of Lebanon 73 surviving legislators 33 christians and 30 muslims were in taif in saudi arabian Western three shiite Muslim and seven Christian deputies failed to show no one has refused to but some gave medical reasons for not Saud elections prevented Twentyfive of the deputies in the 99seat parliament have been killed or died of natural causes since the last general election in the fighting has prevented elections Ince a ceasefire in Lebanon took effect u week halting six months of fierce artillery Battles Between the syrian which backs the mus and Christian forces led by Michel More than 900 people were killed und nearly wounded in the 1ighting that included some of the most ferocious bombardments of the most of the casualties were the and the lifting of blockades by both was the first phase of the seven Point Arab league peace the plan envisages political re forms that will give Lebanon mus Lim majority equal Power with the led by under an unwritten have dominated the Parlia judiciary and army since Lebanon Independence from France in the plan also proposed increasing the number of seats in Lebanon parliament to divided equally among christians and since the christians have had a 65 Edge in the the peace plan also proposes a syrian pullback from Muslim areas of Beirut to the Bekaan Valley in East Lebanon within two years provided political agreement can be Complete withdrawal would follow a Security pact Between Syria and ;