Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 4, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Email etiquette rules of the Road on the electronic Highway d10 36 pages vol 122 no 34 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get Post w get Post outside City 764 in Ontario weekly Home delivery wkly Post in Winnipeg wkly Post outside City january 41904 members of the Zap Atista National liberation army patrol along the Road from san Cristobal de Las Casas to fierce Battles rage in Southern Mexico death toll estimated at More than 100 in peasants violent revolt byte Robberson the Washington Post exercise Ottawa advises a duty officer at the foreign affairs department said while Mexico is still considered travellers Are advised to exercise caution if their vacation plans include a mexican travellers to Mexico should plan their itineraries particularly if they will be using personal motor he they should be vigilant while travelling throughout and Road travel should be limited to main with stops planned to avoid night travel a manager at a local Lawson travel outlet said her office had not received any Calls from vacationers concerned about travelling to it seems to me that these towns Are a fair Dis Tance away from the tourist resort said Linda they dont even appear on our tourist Desti nation an agent at Marlin travel agreed that interest in mexican destinations has not been affected by the people Are still coming in and asking for Mexico and not saying anything about the she san Cristobal de Las Ca Mexico Battles raged yesterday throughout South Ern Chiapas state in a three Day old peasant and the mexi can military acknowledged last night that an army base outside this colonial City is under sustained attack by rebel the military also said that guerrillas of the Zap Atista National liberation a previously unknown organization composed mainly of Indian were fighting with army troops for control of the Eastern town of Docosin which had been under rebel control through the complaining of social injustices and vast disparities Between Rich and poor in this impoverished Southern Mexico Zap Atista rebels seized at least four towns and half a dozen villages near the guatemalan Border during a sur prise uprising that began shortly after Midnight roots of strife lie in a2 despite the rebels continued control of at least two Large towns and several the govern ment of president Carlos Salinas de Gortari said it regarded the a Patistas As a Small group of provocateurs and delinquents who Are trying to draw the armed forces into prolonged in a statement Sali Nas appeared to acknowledge the guerrillas main complaint that greater efforts need to be made to reduce the Gap Between Rich and poor in the but he called on the a Patistas to seek peaceful solutions to their noting that acts of violence Only delay the real the guerrillas continued to control the Eastern towns of Lamirano and Las margaritas As Well As half a dozen villages in Southern heavy fighting was reported in and around a City of tourists drinking watched uprising the death toll among rebels and army troops appeared to have exceeded 100 As of last but the military said it was unable to confirm the total number of rebel Tele phone communications have been Cut with All municipalities under rebel state Secretary general Rafael Gonzalez said in a television inter View yesterday that former Gover nor Absalon a retired army had been abducted by guerrillas from his ranch out Side the town of Las in a major Surprise to the Sali Nas rebels Early saturday captured san Cristo bal de Las the second largest City in but withdrew Early scores of government troops patrolled the City Centre and blocked hundreds of european and american tourists from entering a popular Central shopping Coffee Start route rep san Cristobal de Las tourists drawn by the colonial Charm of this Beautiful Mountain City have instead found themselves at the Centre of a powerful uprising by armed peasants against the mexican since the insurrection began in the Early hours of new years dozens of european and North american visitors have left san one of the oldest cities in latin America and a showpiece of colonial an estimated 600 to mayan indians seized this City and five nearby sparking heavy clashes with government troops and police that have killed about 100 More than 200 soldiers were deployed in the City late in getting out of said British tourist Peter Morris As he headed toward the bus station the rebels were but i dont like the looks of these but others say they have had a great time since the rebels marched into the cites Central which is flanked by colonial style a town Hall and a shortly after a new years eve fireworks we had no idea what they were doing at but then they started smashing in the doors of the town said Phil a Young Canadian tourist taking a few months break from his work As a we sat in the Square drinking Coffee and smoking and watched them until about 4 when Daylight broke dozens of tourists grabbed their cameras to shoot videotape and photographs of the rebels in combat dress and armed with shotguns and antique most of the guerrillas Are Tzotzis or to Zettal descendants of the who speak mayan languages and Only a Little in a spokeswoman for the foreign affairs department said the Canadian embassy in Mexico City had spoken to tourists in san Cristobal and they were All she said canadians had been advised to avoid prudish educators denying teens vital information on Safe sex my aids classes May be doctor warns by Ruth Teichroeb social affairs reporter prudish aids education pro Grams in Manitoba schools Are jeopardizing teenagers lives by preaching abstinence rather than providing explicit information about safer a medical expert and oth ers Richard head of the University of Manitoba Gyne cology said such an approach reflects a Norm of denial that flies in the face of rising rates of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy in girls under were going to decimate our adolescent said who is also head of fam ily planning at the health sciences there All Horny but we dont answer their questions the Mes Sage of abstinence Doest less than 10 per cent of Canadian schools offer adequate sex Educa Tion and aids he yet studies including one done by Boroditsky in 1992 show at least 40 per cent of teenagers have had sex before there he younger teenagers also engage in the highest risk sexual activities like anal sex and multiple partners and Are less Likely to protect he since fewer than 15 per cent of parents feel comfortable giving explicit sexual schools must ensure preteens know How to protect themselves from aids be fore there Likely to have he i go into a class and Tell them they have Intercourse before there he then i Tell them if they they should use con a spermicide and the it also Means actively promoting inside Story teens pan sex classes b3 Lowe risk sexual alternatives among he we must legitimize no coital a he were saying inter course kills you but then we dont give them any school based clinics should also be set up to provide contraceptives and address other health he Miriam director of planned said schools spend far More time teaching trigonometry than Safe it really is Baron you Arent preparing kids for things that Are really going to have an Impact on but Joyce coordinator of social sciences and languages for the education said the aids curriculum is providing students with the information they its a Fine line one walks to give enough information yet not remove childhood Mcmartin students Are Given two to four hours of aids education per year beginning in grades 5 and 6 when Basic information about the disease is she High school students Are Given More detailed information about condom use and she defended the emphasis on a citing studies which suggest too much information too soon can push kids into sexual Active some of the results indicate it in creases sexual she she also said there had been no de Mand for school based 120 killed in siberian Jet crash Reuter m Moscow a russian air liner crashed in Siberia yes killing All 120 people about 50 corpses Are recognize 10 Are badly burned and the rest have been blown to said local official Alexander it was the country worst air disaster in nearly a officials said the Russia made jetliner slammed into buildings and Power lines after one of its engines caught fire and forced the crash Landing just minutes after Takeoff from an Industrial town in Southern the flight was headed for mos about Kilometres head of the Irkutsk civil defence said the plane crash landed in a Field and careened across the Snow before hit Ting a farmhouse and bursting into it then slowed through electrical lines and towers and hit two More farmhouses before breaking up 300 metres Short of the quote of the Day weve managed to stay alive by exploiting Louise manager of Nee Chi says staff half hoped to produce profits to create intercity but instead have had to take pay cuts just to 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