European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes sunday february 22,1987canada toughens rules for accepting refugees Ottawa up Canada Long regarded As one ofic last Safe havens in North America Lor those seeking Refuge Friday ended its Liberal treatment of Refuge Sand will begin deposing people Back to countries of unrest such As Afghanistan Iran and Central America. Immigration minister Denoil Bouchard said All Refu gee claimants Wilt face the same process an Ora hearing before a refugee determination Board with a possible Appeal to an immigration Appeal Board to currently takes Al least six weeks for an Oral hearing to Lake place. Since 1977, Canada has been granting automatic work permits to refugees from War torn countries or countries with repressive regimes and severe exit controls including Afghanistan Al Salvador Guatemala Iran and sri Lanka. We had to implement measures to restrict Access to those who arc not real refugees Bouchard Lold report ers Al a news conference. He said inc new measures Wilt help Cut the number of refugees entering Canadian half. The minister said refugee claimants who Coler can Ada from the United states will now be resumed Here until a Canadian immigration can take said the government has reached an agreement with the . Immigration and naturalization service whereby salvadorans and guatemalans will be allowed to remain in the United slates until i hair hearing in Bird of play German Street entertainer Coll a compan Ion perhaps a feathered critic when he plays his hand Organ for passers by. Coli and in. Were photographed in Brussels but they travel throughout Europe making music together Canada in addition people travelling from countries thai now require a visa to visit Canada will also need a transit visa if icy Are travelling through Canada to Aihini country. Such a measure would prevent chileans with air tickets for Spain from disembarking in Canada and claiming refugee status. Bouchard said Canada will not Deport people to countries where heir lives May be in danger hut insisted each individual will have to prove he is genuine refugee with his life in danger to avoid deportation an estimated 6.120 refugee claimants entered Canada Between Jan. I and feb. Is. Mas were salvadorans and guatemalans crossing into Canada from the United states it Remote Border Crossings. Last december More than 3,000 filed refugee claims. The Canadian government was also warned earlier this month that a second Boatload of tamils from sri Lanka would soon leave Germany for Canada expect ing to be granted automatic refugee status. The Ca Nadian government accepted 1.55 tamils last summer after they were ditched in lifeboats in inc Atlantic Ocean off Canada s East coast. Bouchard said subjecting Al refugee claimants to the same process would discourage those who would abuse the refugee determination naval presence questioned by italian official Rome a italian defense minister Giovanni Spadolini on the eve of a trip to the United states on Friday questioned inc expanded . Naval presence in the Mediterranean. It is evidently he intention of the United states to achieve inc freeing of hostages through this deployment of Force said Spadolini. But i doubt that this kind of pressure is necessarily an effective Way to fight . Officials have downplayed speculation about a possible military strike in Lebanon saying that the ship Are in the Eastern Mediterranean to give presi Dent Reagan As. Many options As possible. Spadolini was to leave saturday for a we Klong .visit, which he said would focus on terrorism nuclear disarmament human rights and the proposed International conference on Mideast peace. The defense minister considered sympathetic to the United slates is to meet with Reagan defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of slate George Shultz. Italian american contracts for Star wars research also Are to be discussed. On other subjects. Spadolini said the soviet Union must respect the human rights of its jewish citizens to emigrate o Israel As a condition for successful arms negotiations with the United states concerning possible participation by the Palestine liberation organization in a m Iddle East solution he said it is no longer inc Plo hat finances most of the terrorism Given the right conditions Israel cannot prevent an eventual dialogue with the world today Swiss teacher suspended for questioning holocaust Lausanne Switzerland a education authorities Friday permanently barred a City High school teacher from teaching history because if woman had publicly questioned he existence of nazi Gas Chambers during world War 11. Marist la Pachoud caused an uproar in Switz Erland last july when she made i he slain Mestl at a Paris news conference with Henri Roques. A French Peri cultural Engineer who has developed revisionist theories about the nazi period. She. Was suspended from caching history at her Lausanne school last August pending an investigation by valid Canton authorities. Valid education director Pierre cevey told news conference Friday that the investigation had been completed and announced Pachoud j permanent suspension. Henceforth she will be allowed of Leach Only French he said. Directors of eur Tunnel choose co president Paris a the Board of directors of euro Tunnel the organization planning a Tunnel connect ing France and Britain under the English Channel named Alastair Morton of Britain As its new co president Friday to serve with Frenchman Andre Mcnard and added four financiers. Morton succeeds lord Pennock who resigned bul will remain on the Board of directors euro Tunnel said in a statement. Paralysed Accident victim awarded $ 1,3 million Bristol England a an Industrial worker won a record 850,000-Pound j1.3 Mil lion personal injury award from a British court Friday after being paralysed by inhaling a poisonous Gas while Ai work. High court judge Swinton Thomas awarded the damages to Graham Cook 34, whose lawyer said he had become a prisoner in his own body and unable to speak after the nov. 19,19 b2, Accident. The judge had ruled thursday after a i May hearing thai Cook s employers. Berec Micro Bat teries ltd., were to blame. The company also was ordered to pay costs expected to etcccd100,000 pounds j t s3.000. Chinese Survey to seek new data on population peking a the state Council has decide to conduct a National Survey of i percent of its population this year to determine population and other changes since a National census in 1982, the official Xinhua news Agency said Friday. The Cabinet s Survey will be conducted be tween july 1 and 10, the report said. It will include birth death migration an changes in population distribution culture and social economic Structure which have take place since the 1982 census. Xinhua quoted Zhang Sai director of the state statistical Bureau As saying. The government announced last week thatching s population has reached an estimated 1.06 billion. China is the world s most populous nation with about a fifth of the world s in Brussels Mil they travel it is no longer inc that finances t f the billion Chin most Popou throughout Europe making music together terrorism Given the right conditions Israel cannot Ullh at it " fish of
