Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Two nuns slain in Nicaragua third nun wounded during ambush in Remote Region Managua a gunmen am bushed a car carrying Church work ers in northeastern Nicaragua and killed two one an Church officials said they said a Bishop and a third nun were Marcelino Estrada said the attack took place monday night on Highway near puerto Cabezas in the Remote Caribbean coastal about 300 Kilometres Northeast of out of danger Church officials and family identified the slain nuns As Maureen of Wisconsin and Teresa a Bishop Pablo also of auxiliary Bishop of was shot in the he has lost a lot of said a roman Catholic priest i he is out of also wounded was a nun identified Only As Estrada the nicaraguan government blamed Contra but the Church said it had no information about the we had two Sisters killed Down All those Sisters Down there Are said an official of the Sisters of Agnes in i just found out the Convent came and told said Frances Mother of in the Milwaukee suburb of they know nothing she is Frances Courtney said her Daugh Ter had been in Nicaragua for 15 northeastern Nicaragua is an Iso lated area with few a Strong hold of the miskito it formed an autonomous part of the Contra Nicaragua main Caribbean is about 160 Kilometres South of puerto went in 1972 Schmitz went to Nicaragua As a missionary in 1972 and was ordained auxiliary Bishop in said brother Larry la a spokesman for the Capuchin order provincial head quarters in Schmitz was identified As part of the Capuchin order of the order of the Franci Thomas adviser on latin american affairs at the Washington based Catholic said he spoke to the provincial Superior of the capuchins in who gave him this account two carloads of Church people started including Bishop Salva Dor Schlaeffer of and his auxiliary they were going to a meeting scheduled for puerto to meet with leaders of the miskito they drove from Mana Gua and left yesterday monday they drove to Sauna in route to puerto Schlaeffer and the people in that car decided not to continue driving that night because it was Schmitz and the Sisters of Saint Agnes continued at about 7 Oclock last they were and the result is two people two people wound Norma a classmate of Maureen Courtney in the 1960s in said her Friend was set Ting up an education system for the miskito about 35 Capuchin missionaries work in la Cross said his Headquarters is in frequent Contact with them and no concerns were expressed about their safety in the Days before the Consumers Learance let boxing Day Sale Winnipeg free january rebels move refugees Bangkok Reuter Khmer Rouge rebels have moved about 000 refugees from secret Camps in Thailand into areas under their control in official sources said the who declined to be said the refugees were thought to have been moved during the last two United nations officials said no refugees had been moved from Camps under their control but said it was possible they had been shifted from several Camps run by the Khmer Rouge just inside the thai the Khmer Rouge and two smaller cambodian guerrilla groups operating from within Thailand have been fighting for a decade against the cambodian government in phenom which is backed by Vietnam and the soviet transport arms International Aid workers say the Khmer an extremist communist group which ruled Cambodia for almost four years until has used the refugees they control to transport ammunition and supplies to the moving such Large numbers of refugees now would give the Khmer Rouge More human resources to tap in the sparsely populated cambo Dian territory the guerrillas con the sources said the Khmer Rouge had moved refugees into the cambodian area of phenom Malai in Sis Phon District about 20 kilo metres South of the thai Border town of another were transferred to the Rachada Mountain area near the Northwest of the cambodian provincial capital of the remainder were believed to have been resettled around the town of which was taken by the Khmer Rouge in the Khmer Rouge holds about 000 refugees in secret Camps in locally based Relief work ers and do not allow outsiders the latest United nations figures indicate there Are a total of cambodian refugees in in Camps along the thai regular Consumers distributing and toy City have reduced their already Low prices to Clear out thousands of including leading Brand in our clearance you can buy merchandise originally from our catalogues and toy City which Are surplus or discontinued goods pricing policy savings quoted Are based on Consumers and toy City current or expired catalogue or retail regular prices quoted Are the prices at which the merchandise was originally offered m our catalogue or toy City hurry in quantities Ahe limited prices in effect while quantities 1000 Mcphillips Street at Mountain Manitoba cocaine peeled off ships Hull a cocaine Worth million us on the illicit Market was stashed in two Waterproof tubes attached to the under Side of a colombian police divers worked for More than 16 hours to detach the tubes from the cargo ship As police four colombians in diving suits appeared at a boat ramp across the Johns River from the apparently to retrieve the 120kilogram authorities the men were arrested on drug trafficking when you have four Guys up at the Arlington boat ramp with diving its unlikely there Here to Spear said Herschell head of the organized Section of the sheriffs the area is not known for sport especially in win correction re in this weeks Dollar mania flyer featured on Page 8 the 796 my sauerkraut sold for is not As we regret any inconvenience this May have store hours Monfri saturday am6 pm correction re Home fashions 90 Ryer january 3rd Page 8 Wabasso bedroom Coordie ing to Matching Pillow Page Wabasso sheets in Diamond pattern Are not woolco apologizes to our customers for any 003583036 ;