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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, December 5, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 5, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Carter in Colombia for vaccination Campaign former president Carter takes a polio vaccine capsule from colombian president Bilisario Betancur during he tart of a massive immunization Effort for colombian children. The sex us Leader toured the area devastated by the nov. 13 eruption of the Nevado Del Ruiz Volcano and the mud Avalanche that followed Effling More than 15,000 people. Me was accompanied by Colombia s first lady Rosa Lettu Betancur and Public health minister Rafael do Zubiria on a flight Over the towns of a Nero and Chinchiva that Wen buried under a River of mud. Carter praised colombian authorities for their efficiency i help ing the disaster victims. Seaway reopens then storm recluses it Valleyfield Quebec a a snowstorm closed the St. Lawrence Seaway just 90 minutes after it reopened following work on a Bridge jammed by a freighter adding delay to what already was a bad shipping season. The winds were just too High said Seaway spokesman Richard Juteau on monday. He was unable to say when the Seaway might reopen because this air mass is very  Only two of 55 ships idled by the damaged St. Louis Bridge got through the Beauharnois canal Between the time the canal was reopened at 6 30 . And the time wind gusts up to 94 Mph forced a shipping halt shortly after 8 . The canal was closed to ships Friday morning after the Bridge was rammed by the Indian freighter Jal Godavari. Crews worked around the clock Over the weekend on the Bridge As More than 50 ships lined up awaiting passage. The winds threatened to Force ships aground As they passed through the 600-foot-wide canal about 25 Miles Southwest of Montreal Juteau said. Three Hundred Miles further West along the Seaway at the Welland canal in Thorold Ontario winds of Between 50 Mph and 60 Mph forced ships to lie at Anchor said Seaway spokesman Robert Balcombe. They can t operate in winds like that so they have to stay lied up he said. They re a lot safer out on the  the Bridge Accident and monday s heavy weather came during the critical pc free cup part of the shipping season and seven weeks after the Wau of a lock collapsed in the Welland canal Between Lake Eric and Lake Ontario closing the Seaway for 24 Days. Juteau said monday s shipping suspension caused by Windy weather was not unusual for this time of the year but coupled with the Welland lock collapse and the Val Leyfield Accident it makes a bad year for the Seaway worse. This year is already one of our worst in memory. We arc Down about 30 percent in total tonnage this year he said. Juteau said the three Day Valleyfield blockage backed up 55 ships 25 bound for the great lakes and 30 headed for the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the Occa bound vessels carried Grain shipments from the Midwest. Seaway officials decided to allow vessels headed for great lakes Points to pass through the blocked area first so they can Complete one last shipping run before the Winter freeze Juteau said. A tired today Switzerland rejects proc to motive animal  Geneva a Swiss Voitcu five overwhelmingly rejected an environmentalist por Sal for Banning almost All live animal cd pm utter. I the government and Fri pharmaceutical Industry opposed the plan As a thru notes in research. In nationwide a or tone propelled constitutional Amend ment was dec a 70.5 pcrccnttj9.5 in the popular Vole the  said. Nebout was 37.5 per cent. Allo fac 22 cantons states rejected Theta asure. The a Hajj Canton in Western Switzerland showed i Mac margin with x8.5 percent of the voters of Man suffers minor Inu Aften car descends feet Medie with minor ii broke through Down a Hill police Catherine Girt suffered a Brok crash sail she the by Switzerland a a a woman escaped kidded off an icy Road i tumbled about 350 feet is thrown out of the car and uts in the Early morning police spoke Sirn Raymond Collon. In by jamming Tak t hit an icy Patch he s in. A resident of this Western so i Hospital for treatment. Age was citizens will no longer net visa Between Sweden to Ungary up Hun visa a cumin Ify and Sweden its Between the Lvi Doi i Post by hungarian Ary and the swedish is. It provides that citizens can Visil each resenting their valid pass try 1 West after Finland Ris do not need a visa also May visit West once a d per Buda hic decide1 two countr the agreement Deputy foreign m ambassador to Hui both hungarian and others countries by m ports. Sweden is the third and Austria where h1 if they have Vali other Warsaw a hungarian i tapis arc All year and person in Hun citizen a visa countries. More than $1 million paid for Oil painting by Chagall London a an Oil painting by Marc Chagall called la Chambry Jaunt the yellow room sold for almost  million an auction record for a Chagall work the auction ering firm of Christie s said. The painting was purchased by the  Citi Bank. The soviet born Chagall who died earlier this year painted the picture in 1911 when he was living in Paris. It depicts a woman with an upside Down face a Man a cow and a lopsided table with a Samovar on it in a yellow room with the Moon shining through an open doorway. It sold for 734. X 0 pounds or $1.094 million Christie s said. Hunt without i Lowed to \ to buy As a pact nation i rce Western countries a visa for citizens i s us bout nose Botha lifts state of emergency in 8 districts Johannesburg South Africa a president . Botha on tuesday lifted the 4-Monlh-old state of emergency in eight of the 38 cities and towns where it had been imposed and said the revolutionary climate in Black areas was fast losing Momen  earlier tens of thousands of mourners packed a soccer stadium for a mass funeral Tor 12 Blacks including a 2-Monlh-old baby killed in a Day of fierce clashes with police last month in a township near Preto  of the eight districts where the state of emergency was lifted arc Small Rural communities in Transvaal province and the Eastern Cape province where Al most no unrest has been reported in recent months. Botha imposed the emergency order in 36 areas on july 21. He lifted the decree in six Small towns in october. A Day later he extended the emergency area to eight More districts covering the entire Cape town area putting just Over 9 million people nearly a third of the population under its provisions. Rioting appears to have declined in most emergency zones but violence has flared up elsewhere in recent weeks particularly in Mam Clodi near Pretoria and que Slown in the Eastern Cape province. More than 50,000 people attended the emotion charged but peaceful two hour funeral then joined a procession to a nearby cemetery for the burial in Mam Clodi. The funeral became a massive anti apartheid demonstration with eulogies turning into Calls for an end to the state of emergency and the release of jailed Black leaders. One speaker after another described the nov. 21 police shootings of protesters out Side Mam Clodi s town Hall As an unprovoked massacre rejecting a police statement that riot patrols had to Battle particularly violent  Winnie Mandela wife of jailed african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela defied her Banning order to address several thousand mourners who returned to the stadium after the burial for the traditional african washing of the hands. I be come Here to weep with you. I be come to wipe up the blood of our children with you said mrs. Mandela who is under orders not to attend gatherings. We arc Here today As testimony to the failure of the government to Rule our country and to the fact that the solution to this coun try s problems lies in these Black  she added to clan Chad fist salutes and cries of Amanda the Zulu word for Power. We arc Here today to Tell you that that Day when be shall Lead you to Freedom is not far she said. Nelson Mandela widely regarded As the most important Black Leader in the country has been serving a life prison sentence since 1964 for plotting sabotage to overthrow the White government. He was head of the armed Wing of the african National con Gress at the time. At the funeral tuesday a member of the Mam Clodi youth Congress called on Young Blacks to show Solidarity with older generations. Let us show the enemy that we can work together with our parents he said we must Bury our heroes in a Way that will prove that the nov. 21 March was peaceful and we must expose their barbarism and vandalism against us on that Fate Ful   
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