Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Polish catholics denounce prejudice by Drusilla Menaker the associated press Warsaw millions of parishioners heard Poland roman Catholic Church denounce antisemitism yes in a pastoral letter read at every the Church asked forgiveness for not doing enough to help jews during the it was the first time the country guiding moral Force focused in such a major Way on fighting the prejudice that has marred polish jewish relations for the 15minute message from the Bishops Council emphasized theolog ical ties Between roman catholicism and it also quoted polish born Pope John Paul is warning that antisemitism violates Christian this same soil which for Cen Turies has been the common Home land for poles and the blood spilled the sea of Horren Dous suffering and shared harms should not separate but join the pastoral letter it made no direct reference to the present surfacing of hatred that stained Poland first free presiden tial about million jews lived in Poland in about sur Vived the second world Waves of emigration prodded by continuing antisemitism later reduced the jewish Community to a few thou but even without antisemitism continues in Tadeusz a Veteran roman Cath Olic journalist who was prime minis was openly attacked by participants in Public presidential Campaign rallies last fall for allow ing jews to dominate his govern jews frequently Are vilified for roles in the soviet backed Post War communist the american jewish which complained in november about Church foot dragging on the welcomed the Bishops state ment As a step in the direction of an open and genuine the Congress said in an open letter to the Church yesterday that because the nazis located death Camps mainly in poles were in a unique situation As the most inti mate witnesses of the most appalling atrocity in this made the Church delay in addressing polish jewish relations particularly it and it is almost unimaginable that this terrible encounter could have left polish society with its old Antisemitic prejudices and phobias in but suggestions of conspiracies could be heard in the comments of some said reports of antisemitism in Poland result from a smear Campaign against the coun or suggested the Church should avoid political the Church is for other Pur said an elderly there is no antisemitism in to this problem was made up outside of up photo Winnipeg free january 10 Africa faces huge famine foreign Aid Slort As crisis wars sharing Tough times Terry Saby Beds Down on a mattress in the Calgary drop in Centre As she is one of 30 homeless women in Calgary who Are forced to share emergency shelter facilities with there is no emergency shelter in the City specifically for homeless Evic president takes liberian role Sierra Leone Reuter Liberia Vic president under slain Leader Samuel Doe declared himself president yesterday and told the country interim Leader to Harry Moniba told a news Confer ence in capital of neigh Boring Sierra that Amos who became interim presi Dent in had no constitutional right to hold the i want him to have respect for a Constitution that he contributed to and for him to Moniba he said he had the support of the main liberian rebel Charles Taylor and Prince who Are to attend a peace conference in the liberian capital Monrovia next an was put in Power by the economic Community of West african which has sent a peacekeeping Force to end Liberia yearlong civil Doe was killed in september after the president and his troops had been holding out for several months against rebels who had seized control of most of the Johnson was originally a subordinate of who led the uprising against Doe in december 1989 when he crossed the Border with a group of armed men from the Ivory the two fell out last but Johnson said saturday that he and Taylor had patched up their differ speaking from he told the bbl in London that he intended to keep his separate rebel but that he and Taylor both wanted Sawyers interim government to re by Howard Witt Chicago Tribune South Africa just when the world is most preoccupied with events elsewhere on the much of Africa once again is teetering on the Edge of widespread Only this if the worst predictions come the disaster will Dwarf anything in living an astonishing 27 million people across the continent Are in danger of starving to according to the latest estimates of the in world food nearly million tons of donated food is needed this year to Avert starvation in five countries torn by civil War i Angola and an other million tons of food is required across the rest of the con the United nations is making its largest request Ever for food for so Western donors have pledged Only half the amount needed and much of it has come from the United with the outbreak of War in the Middle East and growing crises in the soviet Union and Eastern in officials Are sounding increasingly pessimistic that they will come anywhere close to filling the if there Are no Western donations very a lot of people Are going to die in Africa this said Paul chief spokes Man for the world food program in either donors Are distracted by other things going they Are not aware of the or they Are simply unwilling to now that the crises Are few people Are paying no pop stars have stepped Forward to launch any High profile appeals for As they did during the 1985 famine in Ethiopia that claimed one million and Western gov which often Supply food out of their own agricultural sur this Winter have focused on sending food to the soviet the United nations has also appealed for hundreds of millions of dollars in Cash to pay for transport ing the emergency food throughout costs that have nearly Dou bled since the persian Gulf crisis sent Oil prices skyrocketing in a but much of the Aid workers arises from the fact that none of this years major fam Ines Are straightforward natural i which usually engender automatic world All of these famines Are largely said Stephen Edi Tor of Africa an authoritative Londo based news let theres no reason for there to be starving people in these coun the droughts and crop fail ures could be dealt if it were not for the a lot of people Are going to die in i Africa this year nowhere is that Point More True than in which faces the sin Gle most catastrophic famine this in officials fear that Mil lion a third of the Popula could starve if food does not reach them but the islamic fundamentalist military re Gime that rules the country has consistently frustrated All outside efforts to Western diplomats say the Junta led by Omar de spite widespread sold off most of the country food reserves to Iraq last year to raise Cash to pursue the War against no Muslim rebels in the Southern until this Beshirs regime would not even admit that it faced a drastic food govern ment officials blocked All Western efforts to transport food to people starving in the rebel held South and placed impossible bureaucratic obstacles in the 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