The Castlegar Sun. Wednesday, April 3;1991" Long way from Souviner spree to twentieth sunlversary By FRANK ISERNIA Sun staff writer The Castlegar-Selkirk Lions years ago. The latest projects include pro- ‘! viding $1550 for three Bmergency + in the midst of major project aimed at raising ‘$60,000 for the Extended care Unit Handi-Bus, Response units, a $151 ele Club has come a long way since to the Aquatic Centre tor recently holding at T ieth Charter and the spree at the old Super Valu store 20 ang Lions’ ‘Trade Fair. The club is also night ata banuet held Mar, 26 at ! the Sandman Originally. alle the Castlegar : Lions Club, the Lions were char. tered Jan. 23, 1971, ‘and under the sponsorship of the Salmo.and Trail Lions Clubs, Special guest, District Governor, Floyd Masteller, of Kellog, Idaho, " was present at last week’s event. After a congratulatory speech, and a recap of the club’s community Graham Read 222 102 Street Castlegar Quallty Products Suarantesd "Because You Deserve The Bes: p.m. = Special pre Eect Not Until ‘April 9, WELCOME CANADIANS | CHUCK STEAKS Boneless. U.S.D.A, Choice IDRUMSTICKS & THIGHS BATH TISSUE. Western MACARONI & ~~ > CHEESE DINNERS Mestern Fami 2% MILK Tony 's Dairy. 1 gallon since its birth, Mas- teller and Zone Chairman, Ron Sigouin inducted new members Tim Allen and Al Wheeler to the fold. “In his stirring speech to the members, Sigouin praised the club for-all past efforts aimed at raising money for various charitable orga nizations in this area, The original Castlegar Lions Club founding members were Jack Smith, Dave Ridington, and Alder- man Jim Chapman, who also By served as Club President, Dave Ridington received a 25- year Chevron for a quarter of a'cen- tury of service to the club, Presented with 20-year Chevrons were Moe Zibon, James Penman, Jim Chap- man, and Walter Holuboff. Alex. Cheveldave was presented with a 15-year Chevron. " \ SHOPPE * Craft & Wedding Supplies #3-292 Columbia Ave. Selkirk Lions Club In 20 years, the membership of, Castlegar-Selkirk Lions Club has Brown from a mere handful to a total of 38 members, Lions Club Intema- tional is growing steadily all around “the world, This constant growth in membership is necessary if Lionism is to meet the increasing demands for its service to the needy, dis- tressed and handicapped in all.com- “munities, Because membership in the Lions Club International is by invitation only, worthy persons can- not join ee sponsored and invit- _ ed by a Lion member, Lions Club president Dave Sha- lanski, in his president's report, told the members that he was. pleased and proud of the club’ 8 aecomplishments {9 date, i Lions President Dave ‘Shalanski, center, looks on as special mice District Governor Floyd Masteller, right, of Kellog, Idaho presents Dave Ridington, left, with a Chevron for 25 years of service to the Castlegar Lions Club. Sun survey draw winner Mrs. Anna Kovrchik and a friend will be having dinner at the Fireside Restaurant courtesy of the Castlegar Sun. Mrs. Kovrchik's completed survey was sélected i ina random draw. The staff at the Sun thank all the readers who took the time to complete the survey. Results will be published on April 10. CASTLEGAR KIWANIS CLUB “Citizen of the Year 1990” ~ honouring: James (Jim) C. Waldie pril'9th, 1991°- -Venny's Cafe : Social Hour 6 pm ¢ Dinner 7 pm Tickets available at: Pharmasave, Carl's Drugs $14.00 pwrson ff ‘SUN STAFF PHOTO/ Frank seria Sun Editor Nancy Lingley, left, presents Mrs. Anna Kovrchik with a $50 gift certificate. are as aren This course grants students a certificate i in Professional Bartending. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER, PLEASE CONTACT SELKIRK C COLLEGE AT 352-6601. CHEERS!!! que HERE'S TO AN EXCITING CAREER IN ‘PROFESSIONAL BARTENDING Are you a "people" person? Are you interested in a new career opportunity? Would you like to work in one of Canada's largest and fastest growing industries - Tourism? Are you an employer who would like to see your staff become more valuable to your business? The Selkirk College Tourism Careers Department can help with training in Professional Bartending. Course details TE: April 22 - May 3, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (60 hrs.) LOCATION: Salk College, Nelson Campus CAREERS TRAINING NELSON CAMPUS 2001 Silver King Road, Nelson, B.C. VIL 1C8 - 352-6601 SUN STAFF PHOTO / Breretan Halper Investigation has changed VICTORIA (SNS) - There has been a change of direction ii in the into the di of four year-old Michael Dunahee. Photographs taken in the Blan- shard elementary school play- ground led the mother of another child who resembled Michael to identify her son to Victoria police, clarifying a discrepancy in informa- tion the police were receiving. It was her child who was in the Playground when Michael disap- peared, explaining the confusion as to why witnesses said they saw Michael in the playground long before the boy’s parents arrived at ee he Playground to play touch foot- STR cleared up a lot of time problems for us and it has really focused our investigation,” said Staff Sgt. John Smith. pressed hard by -relentless attacks from govemment forces, retreated into the mountains of northem Iraq Monday as their leader, Massoud Barzani, urged the United States, Britain and France to stop \"geno- cide and torture against our people." Barzani, head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, said that 3 mil- lion of his people have fled into the mountains‘ of northem Iraq's Kur- distan region, where they have little . food and inadequate shelter against the bitterly cold nights. “The i ; France and Britain to send ald to his people and to press for U.N. action to halt the Iraqi govern- ments assaults. He said he also was calling on King Fahd of Saudi Ambia for help, Fahd met secretly last week with White House national security adviser Brent Scowcroft and another senior White House aide, U.S. officials said Monday. There was no immediate Tesponse from any of the three gov- ements to Barzani's appeal. State Richard bas condemned (Iraqi President _ Saddam Hussein) but is giving him a free hand to crush the peaceful popular uprising of the Iraqi people, especially in Kurdistan, where he is committing genocide against civil- ians," Barzani said. His statement, released in Dam- ascus, Syria, came‘as Saddam's forces shifted their operations to the north after having crushed a Shiite Muslim rebellion in southem Iraq. Both Kurds and Shiites rose against Saddam's government after allied forces drove the Iraqi army from Kuwait in February. Baghdad radio said Monday that “ government forces had recaptured the oil center of Kirkuk, Dohuk, Irbil and Zakhu, the last major towns in the north that had been held by the Kurds. The exodus of Kurdish civilians from these urban areas prompted ' New evidence in Temple Mount clash, Becher said the Bush administra- tion was evaluating requests for meetings from Kurdish and Shiite Tepresentatives and that some meet- ings would take place this week. Boucher added that they proba- bly would be with officials of the ‘department's Bureau of Near East- em and South Asian Affairs, but he said the rank of the officials still had not been decided. The move would represent a break with prior administration pol- icy, which had been to meet with Kurdish leaders only on humanitar- ian issues. The department in February rejected a request by senior Kurdish opposition represen- tatives for such a political meeting. ‘The opposition leaders instead met outside the department with two mid-level officials in the depart- ment's human rights bureau. The earlier policy was based on aie Kurdish insistence on an indepen- dent state in Iraq, the official said. The Kurdish leadership is now in a *. coalition with a number of other groups and is pressing for greater but not for State Department officials’ Mon- day also acknowledged that Secre- tary of State James A. Baker III and British Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd discussed the Iraqi situation Monday during a telephone conver- sation, i Bush in Despite by hd the Pesto appal by for the Iraqi people to overthrow. Saddam, he has refused to let U.S, troops, who have: occupied a slice of southern Iraq since'a provisional cease-fire began on Feb. 28, to become involved in the civil war. Instead, Bush has tumed aside ‘appeals for USS. help by saying the question of who rules Iraq is a matter. for the Iraqi people and their government to decide, U.S. officials have said privately that Bush is trying to avoid the pos- sibility of heavy American casual- ties, and prolonged involvement in Iraq's internal affairs that could result from intervention... In addition, U.S. policy makers are believed to be influenced heavi- ly by the advice of two key allies in region: Turkish President Turgot Ozal and Saudi Arabia's Pabd. Ozal reportedly fears that a successful Kurdish insurrection in Iraq could encourage similar action by the inquest has turned up contradictions <° JERUSALEM (SNS) - An inquest by a Jerusalem judge has tumed up evidence that contradicts official Israeli explanations of why and how police killed 17 Palestini- an demonstrators six months ago in a bloody clash near the holy sites of Jerusalem's Old City. In testimony before Judge Ezra Kama, two ‘police officers who par- ticipated in the clashes on the Haram Sharif, or Temple Mount, the court has collected, have seri- ously the A crowd of several thousand Ambs gathered in the Haram Sharif of an official commission appoint- ed by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to investigate the event. ‘That panel, called the Zamir com- mission, said that police had been justified in firing their weapons. An attomey representing families of Arabs slain in the clashes, Avig- dor Feldman, said Kama "could indict some officers for musuee of last Oct. 8, di their. assault rifles in unaimed ‘fir. ing at Palestinian demonstrators, who they said attacked them in waves with stones and iron bars. One key platoon officer, Shlomo Katabi, told the court that the shooting had been "too much for my taste,” according to transcripts, A trooper said he saw other police “shoot from the hip" in violation of regulations, while another said he saw police fire on Arabs who had sat down and begun praying, tran. scripts show. At one point Kama sharply rep- timanded a police witness after asking him if a pool of blood made an impression on him, “No, why should it," the officer had replied. "Terrific," Kama, working in a small room of a converted Russian seminary that serves as Jerusalem’s court- house, has held six months of little- noticed hearings and received testi- mony from more than 50 witnesses, including most of the police officers who participated in the clashes. He is expected to con- clude his inquiry this month, Although many of the accounts have been vague or contradictory, lawyers say the accounts of several police, as well as other evidence their » or for 239 0F force." He added, "Even if. they + are not directly blamed for the deaths, that would make a big impression.” The judgment will carry a politi- cal as well as historical impact. From the perspective of six months, the battle on the Temple Mount has emerged not only as a human tragedy unprecedented in Israel’s rule over Jerusalem, but as a tuming point in relations between Israelis and Palestinians. In the days that followed, several angry Amb men sought revenge for what they saw asa the moming of the planned march in response to calls from Muslim clerics. At the same time, thou- sands of Jews were worshiping below at the Western Wall. After several hours of mounting. tension, the Palestinian crowd attacked a detachment of 44 Israeli paramili- tary border police in the compound. Police were temporarily driven out of the compound,.and demonstra-,: :tors threw stones at the plaza.in, front of the Wester‘ Wail, lightly " injuring several Jews. Russian MOSCOW (SNS) - Russian law- makers gave their leader, Boris N. Yeltsin, a sound political thrashing Monday, repeatedly refusing to cre- ate the powerful new presidency he seeks and calling for a wore of no, confidence in his The new challenge to Yeltsin’ 'S the internal stabbing Israelis. The result has been a Continuing deadly cycle of by fatally . struggle that the radical populist must face inside the sprawling Russian killings and The Zamir commission connect as he remains locked in a bitter national rivalry with Soviet ident Mikhail S. Gi ed the riot to a widely Plan by the Temple Mount Faithful, a Jewish extremist group, to march up to the area near two of Islam’s holiest mosques - the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa - on Oct. 8 to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Succoth. The two mosques are in an elevated, 35-acre compound - called the Haram Sharif by Moslems and the Temple Mount by Jews, one side of which is held up by the Western Wall of the ancient temple, Jewry’s holiest shrine. As part of a attack large Kurdish minorit in neighbor- ing Turkey, y ots Fahd is concemed that if’ the Shi- ites of southern Iraq break away from Baghdad’s authority, they will come under the influence of the radical Shiite government in Iran and increase Teliran's ability to pressure Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni Muslim Arab states 'of the Persian Gulf region. ; A spokesman for Barzani’s party said that civilians had become tar- gets of heavy air, tank and attacks over the past few days. "They are killing any Kurds they see," the spokesman said. "We are facing a worse genocide than Halab- ja." That was a reference to the Iraqi govemment's 1988 use of poison ga to kill an estimated 5,000 Kurds in the town of Halabja immediately after the end of the Iran-Iraq war. He said tens of thousands of ighting city 270,000. It had been the biggest against traq prize taken by ‘the Kurds in the uprising triggered by‘ Saddam's defeat in Kuwait, but after see-saw fighting over the past month, outside observers said the city now seems firmly back in government hands. In the south too; ‘U.S. Army sol- diers on the periphery of the fight- ing and Tefugees' streaming out of the battle zones said that, despite some continued, sporadic fighting, Saddam's forces appear in control. At the United Nations, the five Permanent members of the Security Council-the United States, the Sovi- et Union, Britain, France and China-put the finishing touches ona Proposed resolution that would end the gulf war by declaring a cease- fire in exchange for Iraq’s willing- ness to give up most of its military : Some Third World countries feel Pa terms the United States and its allies want to im; on are too harsh, pa iat: Others regard a provision that : would have the Security Council guarantee the borders between Iraq and Kuwait as a bad precedent that could embroil the council in’ count- less other border disputes around the world. All of these matters will have to be ironed out to the satisfaction of a majority of the council before the draft resolution is ready for a vote. U.N. diplomats said Monday they hope that can be done by Wednes- ie : y. Iraq's U.N. ambassador, Abdul Amir Anbari, said his government strongly opposed the part of the Council lution that power and pay for the d Caused by the invasion of Kuwait. “Last night, the permanent mem- bers met with the council’s 10 non- Permanent members to hear their views about the draft resolution. would enforce a 1963 boundary between Iraq and Kuwait, which Baghdad had not ratified. But be stopped short of saying Iraq would reject the draft. Georgians vote overwhelmingly for independence MOSCOW (SNS) - Voters in’ Soviet Georgia over- while, took the first step foward whelming support for full i dence from Moscow in a cane referendum amid signs that the Kremlin may be planning a crack- down on the rebellious Tranecan- casian republic, Georgian officials Monday released provisional results of the balloting, which showed 99.01 per- cent of the voters in favor of separa- tion from the Soviet Union. More than 92 percent of the republic’s 3.4 million eligible voters took part in the ballot, meaning that more than 90 percent of the electorate endorsed the idea of a break with Moscow. The landslide vote in support of “independence was even larger than those recorded last month in the three Soviet Baltic republics, which are also attempting to break away from Kremlin rule. Georgia was one of six Soviet republics that boycotted a countrywide referen- dum last month ordered by Presi- dent Mikhail Gorbachev to demon- -- Strate > {popular . ‘support for preserving, | the Soviet Union as:a multinational state: i The Soviet legislature, mean- the 1b) gian region of Southem Ossetia, where more than 50 people have been killed in ethnic fighting over the past three months. It passed a resolution by a vote of 353 to 7 calling on Gorbachev to use internal security troops to lift a three-month-long siege of the Osse- tian capital, Tskhinvali, by Geor- gian militia units. The Soviet news agency Tass reported that Tskhinvali came under artillery fire overnight as armed Georgian units fought Ossetian vig- ilantes for control of the outskirts of the city. Georgia’s Ossetian minori- ty, which numbers around 60,000 people, has d loyal to Soviet legislature. *' Georgia, a wedge-shaped region between the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, was incorporat- ed into the czarist empire at the beginning of the 19th century but Tegained its independence for three years between 1918 and 1921, when it was occupied by the Red Army. Many Georgians now accuse the Ossetian minority | of helping the Bolsheviks the independence of the fledgling state 70 years ago, after it was ini- tially recognized by the Kremlin. Sunday’s referendum question read: *“Do you agree that the state independence of Georgia should be restored on the basis of the inde- Moscow and has called on the Kremlin for p ion against act of May 26, 1918?" Unlike the three Baltic alleged Georgian Oppression. Under the Soviet which formally declared restoration of their pre-World War Ti Gorbachev must first ask the Geor- gian parliament to declare a state of emergency in Southem Ossetia before he can send troops. If the request is rejected, as it is almost certain to be, he has the P last year, Georgia has so far refrained from such a step on grounds that the conditions for independence must be created first. Some Georgian officials pre- dicted that the near unanimity of this to impose the region with the consent of the idential rule in. "s vote for. could result-in a formal indepen- dence declaration later this year. lawmakers attack Yeltsin oppose him, and he called for the Congress of People’s Deputies, the Russian republic's 1,060-member / parliament, to vote on whether the entire Russian leadership should Tesign. Another deputy, frustrated by the Congress’ inability to break the political deadlock between Com- munist Party conservatives and rad- ical Yeltsin supporters and get to work, said that unless Yeltsin could pull the unwieldy parliament into shape, he should resign and leave it to who could. against Yeltsin from within the Russian leadership, one of the Rus- sian lawmakers, Boris Isayev, accused him of being intent on bol- Stering his own personal power, using his vast popularity as a lever. "It's a very strange phe- nomenon," Isayev said. "The worse life gets, the greater Yeltsin's pop- ularity gets.” He said that Yeltsin has branded as an enemy anyone who dares to “I want to hear it from your lips, Boris Nikolayevich,” he told Yeltsin. "Can you consolidate the deputies or not?" ‘Yeltsin did not flinch at that and other challenges, saying only that be thought that all such questions should be postponed until the end of the Congress. The Congress originally planned to adjoum Tues- day, but probably cannot given the volume of remaining work. The calls for Yeltsin's resigna- . tion brought cries for and against the proposal from the raucous floor, but the issue of the powerful Russian presidency that he seeks to establish brought far greater dis- sent, triggering hour after hour of debate and exposing the deep schism that divides the Congress. Some three-quarters of Russian voters backed the ofa reformulated the question, they fell dozens of votes short of the 532 needed for a majority. They were blocked at every vote by a mix of conservatives and independent deputies who, judging by their comments in the lobbies, are not ready to trust Yeltsin with additional powers. Frustrated, some left-wingers directly elected Russian presidency ina March 17 referendum. 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