Show Standard-Examine- 9A Anti-Semitis- m colors campaign Greece backs director in battle with bishop ATHENS Greece — The government on Friday backed a film director battling a Greek Orthodox bishop who has threatened to vandalize the filmmaker’s props and excommunicate Walesa says he is not prejudiced Toronto Globe and Mail anyone WARSAW — An undercurrent swirls round the presidential campaign of Lech Walesa leader of the Polish Solidarity movement Walesa the in Sunday’s vote the first free presidential election since the end of from” Earlier in the campaign Walesa Communist rule last year says that he is not prejudiced against said he condemned Jews remarks and that Jews should not But many of his supporters say be afraid to declare themselves Walesa is their choice because openly they expect he will get rid of the “I am proud of being a Pole alleged Jewish influence in the Jews should be proud of being government Jewish” of “The government unreservedly supports Theodore Angelopoulos and the shooting of his film” Culture Minister Tzannis Tzan-netak- is Angelopoulos one of Greece’s best known directors and the winner of several European prizes is due to start filming “The Suspended Stride of the L-- IM — - — The Associated Press A Kantiotis has threatened to “destroy the props with fire and US trade markets is issue for dissident organizations in- SEOUL South Korea (AP) — Radical students fought riot police with firebombs and rocks Friday and demanded an end to US pressure to open Korean trade and agriculture markets The nation’s top opposition leader Kim Dae- -' jung warned of more political unrest over the is- volved in the film Angelopoulos says Four NATO nations scrap copter plans THE HAGUE Netherlands — southern Kwangju city the reports said There were no reports of arrests or injuries Opposition leader Kim told Parliament that the nation would face major unrest unless Roh halts “suppressive rule” using security organizations to crack down on dissidents workers and students Kim also said the country should “sternly cope with America’s unrealistic pressure to open its markets especially farm products” It was Kim’s first speech to the National Assembly since his group the Party for Peace and boycott and reDemocracy ended a turned to Parliament Monday All 78 opposition legislators walked out of the Parliament in July charging the governing party with railroading bills and reneging on democratic reforms Dissidents and farmers have staged violent and protests deKorea on to open South nouncing US pressure its agricultural markets wider sue Four European NATO nations have scrapped plans for an attack helicopter following three years of bickering over specifications for the aircraft the Dutch Defense Ministry said Britain Spain Italy and the Netherlands began the project to develop the European Light Attack Helicopter in 1987 in an ef- fort to reduce reliance on weaponry But a Dutch Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday “it was economically impossible to meet all the specifications” set by the four nations A 1989 estimate put the project development at $3 bil- American-bui- lt lion Traffickers complain about police brutality BOGOTA Colombia — In a surprise move this week Colombia’s government has promised to investigate drug traffickers’ complaints that their human rights have been violated in the war against drugs A group of traffickers called the Extraditables says it is holding nine journalists hostage to protest police brutality In communiques the group complains that its employees and families are being “massacred” as revenge for a wave of violence that killed more than 250 policemen in Medellin earlier this year “We won’t free the hostages as long as the ransackings the assassinations and the massacres committed with the arms of the State and the money of the people continue" the Extraditables said in a communique The group is part of the powerful Medellin cartel of cocaine traffickers Friday it proclaimed an end to violence through Dec 9 when Colombia elects an assembly to rewrite its constitution Three gold miners killed in mud slide JOHANNESBURG South Africa — Three miners were killed d Friday in a mud slide at a Western Holdings gold mine near Welkom about 100 miles southwest of Johannesburg Anglo American Corp announced On Thursday a rock fall more than 'h miles underground caused by an earth tremor killed five people at Doornfontein gold mine near Carletonville about 30 miles west of Johannesburg said mine owner Gold Fields Free-gol- Official assassinated while riding in car BOGOTA Colombia — Assassins in an adjacent moving vehicle fired 10 bullets into a Conservative Party congressman in eastern Colombia Friday killing him as he traveled in a car with his wife police said police bulletin said Rep Juan Barragan was killed in and his wife Flor Alba de Barragan was slightly wound- ga ed The gunmen escaped Barragan was elected to the House of Representatives last March Police gave no motive for the assassination — Standard Examiner ure senna But Deputy Premier Lee Seung-yu- n took a said Korea would and South tone conciliatory try to ease tensions with the United States The nation’s major dissident and radical student organizations said they would hold more demonstrations on Sunday Police said illegal protests would be blocked and security would be tightened around US facilities About 4000 students at 16 universities in Seoul staged rallies Friday and battled riot police news reports said At Sogang University about 500 students hurled hundreds of rocks and firebombs and police fired volleys of choking tear gas from armored vans Another 400 students clashed with police in Germany is seeing more KGB activity BERLIN (AP) — The Soviet KGB has stepped up its espionage activities in Germany despite the new era of friendship a spokesman for Bonn’s counterintelligence agency said Friday While political leaders hail the Cold War’s end Soviet spies continue to search for German defense secrets desperately needed and potechnological know-holitical information “It’s cheaper to use the help of a spy agency to get the know-hothan to buy it” said Hans-GeLange spokesman for the German counterintelligence agency About 400 Soviet spies are working in former East Berlin according to one leading newspaper In years past Communist East Germany employed up to 8000 spies to keep tabs on West Germany and then passed on the information to its Warsaw Pact allies in Moscow That changed after the peaceful revolution in East Germany a year ago led to the unification with NATO member West Germany “The intensification is due to the fact that they (the Soviets) have to do more on account of the information deficit and they are doing it” Lange said He is the spokesman for the Constitutional Protection Office the government branch in charge of fighting foreign espionage agents Lange said the political upheaval that shook East Germany made the Kremlin even more eager to get intelligence information More Soviet agents are slipping into Germany Lange said although he did not have a specific number of KGB spies operating in the unified nation Lange said the Soviets arc trying to recruit former East German agents “There has always been spying and there always will be spying” he added By law the spies should be rounded up and prosecuted but the Berliner Morgcnpost newspaper said German authorities for the most part are reluctant to make arrests because of the improved tics with the Soviet Union East-We- st w whisper campaign about Walesa’s main rival Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki forced him to deny that he has a Jewish background Mazowiecki issued a press release quoting a Catholic bishop as certifying his family’s Christian roots going back five centuries An old man at an election rally this week in Lublin claimed that Jews in the Communist secret police were responsible for killing Polish patriots after the World War II Why the man demanded were there still so many Jews in government positions? Walesa did not answer the allegation directly Instead he said there is no problem of in Poland Poland's prob South Korean students riot s Buca-raman- — Tear gas fired by police floats over students armed with firebombs in Seoul Friday afternoon Stork” in Athens on Dec 3 and in the northern border town of Fiorina on Dec 17 anyone er anti-Semit- said Avgous-tino- m front-runn- scenes But the town’s bishop lems are only domestic During another campaign stop Walesa said the idea that Jews are secretly in charge of the government is a “misunderstanding” that will evaporate “when we introduce a clear system of government (and) everyone will know who is who and where he comes By JEFF SALLOT working on his movie The bishop claims the film is unpatriotic in calling for the abolition of national borders He also charges that a copy of the script he has seen contains erotic A Saturday Nov 24 1990 World World briefs excommunicate” r anti-Semitis- m The comment was taken as a slight by many Polish Jews because of the implication that a person cannot be both a Pole and a Jew said Maximilian Sznepf director of Warsaw’s Jewish Community Center The mix of and politics is not unique to Poland But what is different here is that there are almost no Jews left yet lurks beneath the surface The slaughter of millions of Polish Jews by Nazis and postwar Jewish emigration to Israel and the West have reduced to about 10000 the number of Jews in all of Poland a country of 378 million anti-Semitis- m anti-Semitis- m Nuclear medical device stolen four-mon- th MILAN Italy (AP) — Armed a truck carrying an expensive nuclear medical device that its manufacturer warns could be dangerous if tampered with The nuclear magnetic resonance machine was bound for a hospital in Catania Sicily when bandits have commandeered 299-memb- er anti-Americ- an a group of men forced the driver to stop on an exit ramp near Catania on Friday and later dumped him on a highway The maker of the machine NV Philips of the Netherlands said the device could have “consequences for personal safety” if - modified British author of beloved children’s books dies IRoaldlDahlisTworks— Juvenile Fiction The Gremlins’ 1943 James and the Giant Peach 1962 ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ 1964 The Magic Finger’ 1965 ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ 1970 ‘Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator’ 1972 ‘Danny the Champion of the World’ 1975 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More’ 1977 ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ 1978 The Twits’ 1981 ‘George's Marvellous Medicine’ 1981 ‘Dirty Beasts’ 1982 Revolting Rhymes’ 1982 The BFG’ 1983 The Witches' 1984 OXFORD England (AP) — Roald Dahl the British author of macabre short stories and lighthearted children’s tales such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” died Friday his agent said He was 74 Rad-clif- ‘You Only Live Twice’ 1967 ‘Chitty Chrtty Bang Bang’ 1968 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ 1971 Source: The Associated Press fe all” w at age “I never knew him but I was a great admirer of his” said Theodor Geisel or “Dr Seuss" in a telephone interview from his California home “He wrote excellent children’s books and I was very interested in his short stories for adults” Dahl worked for a number of children’s charities and recently donated the manuscript and copyright of his story “The Vicar of to the British Dyslexia Institute World War II he was a Royal Air During Force fighter pilot and was seriously wounded over the Libyan desert He recovered in time to fight against forces in Syria Dahl married American actress Patricia Neal in 1953 and helped her recover from a series of strokes in the that threatened her ability to speak They were divorced in 1983 and he married Felicity Ann Cros-lan- d pro-Na- zi mid-196- 0s He began his writing career when the novelist CS Forester asked him for an account of his RAF experiences and the story was published in the Saturday Evening Post Dahl was born Sept 13 1916 in Wales rt LBf Nlr AMANA’S HIGH EFFICIENCY GAS FURNACE FOR THE DOLLARWISE HOMEOWNER Not even Scrooge would mind turning up the heat if he owned the money-savin- g 90m efficient gas furnace from Amana iarta Air Command 90 Gas Furnace Experience A New Dimension In High Efficiency Heating Stainless steel heat exchanger Stainless steel S m recuperative coil Induced draft Advanced solid stale ignition Long life burners 25 year limited warranty Efficiencies over 90 Full factory testing Avai'ahle in upflow and counterflow models Amid VjjM You and your family will be enchanted with our dazzling displays of animated characters Enjoy our many decorated trees and our pleasant atmosphere of holiday cheer We're in the mood for Christmas and we want to share it with you exactly what you want ana & the bustle and bustle of the holiday season take the time to visit Rainbow Gardens to see our Christmas Fantasyland When you know BE£OWBJ sons 5 HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING £ 770 WALL AVENUE G21-092l- 74 Nib-bleswic- Dahl died at John Hospital where he was admitted on Nov 12 with an undisclosed infection his agent Murray Pollinger said Dahl said his secret in his children’s tales was that he entered a conspiracy with children against adults “It’s the path to their affections” he said in an interview earlier this year with The Independent newspaper “The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that when it is bom is an animal with no manners no moral sense at Screenplays ic (fell)) cJicanSozo Gardens (movth ol Ogden Canyon) Open Eveiydjy 10 10 10 |