Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 2, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba U u u s Winnipeg free january us new years plunge Aldo a Middle aged takes the Bridge yesterday to Mark the new the new traditional dive into the tiber River from the Cavour years swim is widely Practised in sikh militants shut Down Punjab holy City India a stores closed and bus Sand trucks stayed inside depots in the sikh holy City of Amritsar yesterday in response to a strike called by sikh militants in Punjab the Alindia sikh students federation claimed its strike was successful throughout but Pun jabs top police official said traffic and business functioned normally in much of the Northern the states director general of said there had been no reports of strike related the strike appeared Complete in site of the Golden the sikh faiths holiest although new years eve is widely celebrated in stores nor Mally Are open As it is not an official the sikh students which functions As the youth Wing of the to create a separate sikh Homeland in called the strike to press demands for general amnesty for sikhs arrested since they also demanded punishment for hindu rioters who killed More than sikhs in Northern India in 1984 after prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her sikh Gandhi was killed in retaliation for her decision to Send the army into the Golden Temple to dislodge armed sikh about mostly were killed in the 1984 sikh agitation for Independence or autonomy for Punjab exploded into violence seven years sikh extremists have killed at least people in Punjab since five people were killed in the first hours of press Trust of India the news Agency said the victims included a sikh police Constable who was dragged out of a new years Celebration at his family Home in the Village of Ratta near the Jaswant was shot and killed in a Field Early yes although the sikh radicals initially targeted hindus in their Campaign of in the last few years they have attacked sikhs who do not support their the radicals have rarely called strikes to highlight their rely ing mostly on individual killings at night and occasional the police blamed at least deaths in 1989 on the extremists in where sikhs Are in a slight they comprise two per cent of the sikh militants have accused the hindu dominated National government of cultural and political Dis criminal hindus make up 82 per cent of India 880 million rival Zulu groups fight Over killing 10 Cape town Reuter ten people died in a new years eve gun Battle Between rival groups of South african zulus fighting for control of townships in Natal police said a daily police report on political violence said a further 15 people were wounded in the which erupted when one Side tried to set fire to the Home of a Well Over people have died in the two yearlong Power struggle in townships mainly near the Natal provincial capital of Pietermaritzburg and near the Indian Ocean port of the politically moderate inkatha movement is fighting the More Radi Cal United democratic inkatha backs Zulu chief mangos thu but Elezi and opposes economic sanctions against the uhf supports sanctions and backs the policies of the outlawed african National police gave few details of the latest but said nine of the dead and All the wounded were uhf it was not Clear from the police statement where in Natal the Battle was in respect for the late Emile couture couture 169 Provencher will be closed All Day january Gull Harbour resort conference Centre Hecla or wife escape to Hecla Island and Gull Harbour resort neg he Tuuu on occur Macy discover our new look which includes a renovated Pool area and up graded dining indoor games and much availability is limited offer expires March for reservations Call 4762354 direct 24 Grey Goose services daily free drives Down draft Spray qua ranted workmanship on body shop Hiom tar Senf Lutu accredited All makes Abe flaming body shop customer care Frontier Toyota 3486 Regent ave 2660 Pembina 9446600 9446610 Chrysler 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three people and wounded nine said a Cali police spokes ten people were killed during new years eve violence in the spokesman in Medellin 18 were while in the capital six were killed in Street fights and police Medellin police defused a Dyna mite bomb placed in a Lunchbox outside a coca cola bottling a spokesman police said they did not know who planted the a Bogota police spokesman said five aged 17 and escaped through the roof from a jail in Bogota shortly before Midnight new years Victor commander of the army sixth Bri said sunday army troops had arrested three major drug Traffick ing figures Pear the town of about 200 Kilometres Northwest of he identified them As Jose Manuel Cruz Eduardo Ramirez and Julio Alvarez said Cruz accused of being chief of the Medellin cartels death was the owner of three estates seized by the army during a search operation for Medel Lin Cartel chief Pablo death squads financed by drug traffickers have killed scores of peasants suspected of sympathizing with leftist Alvarez said the three arrested men had been transferred to Bogo Alvarez said the army had disco Vered on saturday a 300metre Long secret Tunnel on an estate belonging to the late Medellin drug Gonzalo Rodriguez known As Alvarez said Rodriguez Gacha had hidden in the Tunnel on several occasions since the colombian government launched an fallout Offen Sive against the Medellin Cartel last he was killed by police on Battles Between leftist guerrillas and Security forces left eight guerrillas and four soldiers radio reports in other a bomb exploded Early sunday in the capital destroying two the National police said in a no one claimed responsibility for the at the biggest Battle Between guerrillas and the army was saturday near the Caribbean coastal town of the defence ministry six guerrillas of the popular liberation army and two soldiers were the colombian radio networks run and Caracol quoted the Mili tary command also guerrillas from the same group ambushed an army patrol 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