Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba 82 Winnipeg free the world Ireland erupts in violence a child on her Bike right watches while nationalist youths in Adown throw rocks yester Day at British at British troops in riot gear remove a tester on Vaghy Ira urges catholics to take to the streets Reuter sap Northern ire land police came under gun fire in mounting violence in Northern Ireland As a Leader of the iras political Wing urged catholics to take to the streets to protest a Parade by the protestant Orange a bomb was thrown at a Belfast police station Early this police returned gunfire but there were no reports of any the believed to be a handheld blast was thrown against the new Barnsley police station in North the explosion echoed around the City Centre shortly after hours after the Parade was allowed to March Down a Catholic area of Portadown Over the wishes of local Resi dents senior sinn fein Leader Martin Mcguinness told a rally in Londonderry that catholics should stand up for their whose party seeks the end of British Rule of Northern ire said the people of who Are mainly Catholic Irish nation were like the people of Al Salvador and South the place to be demanding Justice is on the streets confronting your he said to wild earlier a Northern Ireland police woman received facial injuries when a gunman fired on a police she was part of a patrol sitting in a vehicle in the town of Coalisland North of Portadown when a gunman fired a another unidentified gunman fired five shots at police on a Bridge that divides Catholic and predominantly protestant areas of South nobody was the March took All of 10 but it ignited car hijackings and gun attacks areas of Northern Ireland to in port Adoti so Kilometres South East of masked youths pummelled soldiers with stones on Garvaghy Road following the annual March of the Orange Northern Ireland main pro British protestant fraternal the military de with plastic i russian cargo ship sex to make routine Doc decked dog associated press Moscow it is sup posed to be a routine operation As much As anything can be routine 400 pm above this the Crew of Mir Hopes it really a Progress m35 cargo ship was scheduled to Dock with the russian space station today the same Type of Craft that crashed into Mir on june 25 Dur ing a manual Docking the new Progress was launched carrying 360 kilograms of desperately needed repair equipment and per Sonal gear for the Mir and its the Docking was scheduled to be performed on Auto Matic although the Crew can switch to manual controls if Hatch plate included in the emergency shipment being brought to Mir is a new Hatch plate that Russ Ian cosmonauts Are planning to install in the space stations punctured Spektor module july 17 or the replacement part willallow4theni to Hook up to badly needed solar Energy pan Els in the damaged since the the Spektor one of six modules making up the space station has been open to the vacuum of space and has been sealed off from the rest of the were confident we can pull this things Are looking a ground control official said after the Progress blasted off from the Bai Konur space Complex in the former soviet Republic of the Progress lifted off with a payload of including oxygen and half a ton of it carried French the next As Well As n 1 70 kilograms of personal gear and equipment for Astro naut Michael almost All Foales Down to his were in the Spektor earthquake jolts Northern Chile Reuters Santiago an earthquake jolted North Ern Chile Early startling residents but causing no immediate damage or a spokesman for the National Emer gency office spokesman said the quake was Felt near the Northern coastal City of la Serena and the mining town of residents reported a Long but not very powerful it woke some people but there is no damage around Rodolfo a schoolteacher in la said by the Hong Kong Observatory said the quake was estimated to be on the Richter your weekend photos on Quality photofinishing 1 service 4x6 Glossy prints Only get 24 exposure double prints for Only the real your Best value in backlash linked to Rise in sex assaults South african women fight Bias about rape by Pat Reber associated press ape town Tanye Langenhovel remembers a sudden weight descend ing on her in the the cold Blade on her Throat and then a Low whispering in her i prayed to god to help the 27year old College Media officer recalled about being raped in her bed two years i prayed for it to be i prayed the Man would not kill but becoming a statistic theres a rape every 10 minutes in South Africa Only began her she described How an under trained medical and Justice system left her feeling abused and the White doctor chatted about apartheid National Anthem while he examined Langen who is of mixed race a detective dismissed her fears of being alone with him so soon after the he offered to Tell her the forensic results in Exchange for a favour she want sure if he wanted sex or in the detective said he had lost the Evi which forced the judge to dismiss what to Langenhovel seemed an Operand shut Case against a Neighbour Hood such stories Are common and show the deep crisis Over one of South Africa most prevalent police received reports of rapes last including nearly of girls younger than the total was up 18 per cent from when South Africa average of rapes per women was already among the highest rates in the gang rapes Are so widespread they have a name Jae rolling after a gang in the Soweto Black township in the the problem has deep roots in Africa traditional patriarchy and is further exacerbated by a criminal culture spawned by the oppressive brutality of like rape is often a crime of Power and violence in South but changing attitudes about the role and rights of women is also a recent police report said a new emphasis on gender Equality under president Nelson mandelas government causes some men to rape As a Way to strike out at perceived Dis professionals who work with rape victims say gangs that target girls going to school want to impregnate them to keep them in their but Many South african rapists believe they Are entitled to sex whenever they want it and View rape As a casual said to Itumalo Kekaha at the Centre for study of violence and reconciliation in the Justice limping from the demands of a violent society in transition Ivlin Jim name Oniso Gasa with husband Raymond after apartheid end in remains bound by old police still ask you what you were Wear what time of night it what you were doing said mercy a pay who works with rape women court testimony also comes under a common Law provision called the cautionary which says women cannot be trusted to give an impartial account of their fighting the unwritten Rule is like Tilting at said Bronwyn an expert on rape courts convict Only 50 per cent of prosecuted rape compared to 80 per cent of defendants for other violent frustration has caused some people to take the Law into their own in Janu a mob castrated a Man for raping an eighty Earold girl in a Johannesburg but there has been some partly because women like Langenhovel have gone to newspapers and seminars to talk openly about what happened to under Public the department of Justice declared rape a priority crime in officials say they want to increase the minimum sen tence to 15 years for armed from 10 years and intend to tighten bail restrictions for support groups for rape victims Are being paid to conduct sensitivity training for police sever Al police stations in Johannesburg now have special sexual assault and a separate court was set up in Cape town to Deal with rape police attribute some of the increase in reported rapes to More willingness by victims to come i feel perhaps when you have seen my and attach a name to the unknown it will make the experience Nambo Niso the wife of a parliament told a news conference after being raped ear Lier this gets buried in the daily reports of sexual like the Story told by a Soweto woman in May at a conference on child rap her Fivey Earold daughter was playing next door when something Hap said the she came Back jumping and and took the and went to sleep under the woman i woke and when she opened her i saw the blood1 washed and i cried despite pressure from Neighbours to pre vent a Black Man from getting into the woman reported the crime police took the suspect to her House and her daughter Shook with fear when she saw him but the Case was dismissed because a medical examination was conducted the next Day and not the Day of the the i think As men dont care about she they dont feel the they dont think this is and we will always stand up there ;