European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 25, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 volunteers Aid stranded bus people Buffalo. , at1 Volunteer workers along the Canadian Border Are hurrying to find food and buds for scores of bus people blocked from Quick entry Inlo Canada by is revised Immi Gration policy. They stimuli coming practically As soon As the policy was changed said Sisler Bonnie Butler a Leader of Buffalo area Aid a Floris. Canada dropped ils open door policy Friday jamming a .1-Monlh-old Stream of refugees into i hat country by monday Mure than 200 people were stranded inside new York stale awaiting processing officials said. Nearly 80 were in tied temporarily in the for Mer Convent of the Queen of All saints Chur i in late Savanna South of Buffalo Insl of those denied entry Over the weekend were from Central America and Many spent their lust dollars getting to the Border officials said. The refugees arc nicknamed bus people for the Way most arrive. On nov. 6. President Reagan signed a tougher immigration Law that threatens deportation for anyone improperly in Llic United Stales. Since then thousands of people seeking refugee status have flocked to Canada officials said. Canada Wilt now require detailed hearings in ils Effort to slim the flow of people improperly claiming refugee stat us immigration minister Benoit Bou Liard announced last week the announcement ended the policy established May 21 of automatically granting admission to people from 18 strife Lorn countries that Canada has traditionally re fused to Deport people to including lil Sal Vador. Guatemala and Iran. The policy change forced Many to seek help from Public agencies and private groups while Awai Linga hearing. It sort of exploded on us Over the weekend said salvation army maj. Richard Dean. We became much More aware of How Many people would be coming this  Sinee . I the Low of people from All . Border Points into Canada granted temporary refugee status totalled 9.120, officials said. An estimated 2,000 potential refugees have crossed into c an Ada from Buffalo or Champlain since november said Benedict Ferro local director of the . Immigration and Nai ural�2alion service the Large majority of them Are Al Salvi Dorans said Kenneth j. Travis senior immigration officer in for Erie Ontario across the International peace Bridge from Buffalo. They re claiming to be  last weekend Canada turned Back to new York. 3 bus Load of 3d people from los Angeles 13 people from Houston and others from new York new Jersey and Washington j.c., officials said. Although most Are regarded As eco nomic not political refugees people granted a hearing in Canada May remain in nest York until then. Furro said. We estimate thai there Are several Hundred thousand Central americans illegally in lie ." said Ferro. The numbers no doubt gave them the canadians  couple agrees with surrogate to share baby san Dieco a a court Battle involving a woman hired to Bear .1 child for her Cousin and the Cousin s husband ended monday when they agreed to share custody of the baby. The agreement was read by san Diego Superior court judge William Pate after negotiations Between attorneys for Alejandra Munoz 20, of a Allan my i to and Mario and attic Haro of Hula Vista. The baby Lydia Michelle was born last june 25 after Munoz was artificially inseminated with Haro s sperm. She will remain will the Haros most of the time but will spend More Lime with her biological Mother As she gels older according to the agreement. We re Happy. It s finally conic to an end Haro said. We did i lose  Munoz is in the United Stales legally until april 26. If her application to remain after that is rejected the arg recent could become moot Munoz agreed to come 1o he United states from Mexico to Bear a child for the couple. She says the Haros tricked her Inlo carrying the child to full term by promising thai in the Early stages of pregnancy the embryo would be transplanted into mrs Haro. White water canoeing snowmobile canoeing on a Railroad track Why not says Gary Barrett of Bartlelt n.h., who Rives a group of five neighbourhood kids a ride along the abandoned by rail Ned. Frigid temperatures have Given a to warmer Biluys allow ing new la get out and enjoy the Snow. Wall Walker vows to return to Berlin in 89 or 90 Seattle a the Man known As the Wall Walker for his protests atop the Berwin Wall returned Home monday after being expelled from East Germany. John runnings was convicted by an East German court last thursday of Vio lating Border Laws and was sentenced to 18 months in prison but the sentence was suspended and he was expelled. He had been held for three months after his latest protest against the Wall dividing East and West Berlin. Runnings told friends and reporters who greeted him at Seattle Tacoma air port that he will go Back to the Wall be fore his three year probation expires. I m going Back in 1989 or 90," run rings 69, said. I plan to violate my Proba Tion. I plan to provoke my arrest. They la be in an awkward position. I want them to think about what they re going to have to do put an old Man in  in the meantime., he says he plans to write a Book about his experiences. Runnings a retired Carpenter who resumed his Trade to raise j2.000 for his activities arrived in West Berlin last summer and began to make headlines As the Wall  in the first two incidents he walked along the rounded top of the Wall until East German Border guards yanked him Down on their Side. He was held for a Short period each time. On the third occasion on nov. In he began smashing the top of the Wall with a Hammer and was again pulled Down by guards. Runnings said he was treated Well while detained although he injured his Back and legs when the guards pulled him off the Wall nov. 18. He said he had Access to the american Consul in West Berlin plenty of Good food and books to read. At Christmas my interrogator and the interpreter put on a party for me. We ate Duck. And they even gave me some goodies he said. He said monday that he had been try ing to show that we have to change our focus from arms control to the abolition of militarily imposed Borders. In the decades that arms control agreements have been in place things have gotten worse instead of better he said. Arms can t be controlled because the very nature of War presupposes that you re going to break All the  he said be thought he had achieved his goal. To  i was Able to show that military Borders Don t have very Good Teeth when you approach them politically by treaty Berlin is an International City governed by the four world War ii allies the United Stales inc soviet Union France and Britain. In iq49, East Germany declared that Berlin s soviet zone was its capital. The East germans treat the Wall built in 1961 to Stop flight to the West As an official Boundary. The United states Britain and France do not consider the Wall a Border and therefore do not recognize East Ger Many s charge that runnings violated it. 7-hour easter Seal sit a Thon hard on fund raisers Dallas up by the end of the seven hour Texas stadium Sil a Thon to raise Money for the easier Seal society one participant said he would rather have walked 20 Miles. Another would have preferred a 10-Kilometer race. More than 750 Dallas area Safeway grocery Ilore employees happen Slid and pulled themselves from one hard Blue stadium seat to another in an attempt to raise about $100,000 for the Charity said Brian Dowl ing spokesman for the Safeway food stores Dallas division. Participants collected pledges averaging about 10 cents for every seat they could sit in he said. I d rather walk 10 Miles said Keith Franklin an assistant store manager for Safeway in Rock Wall after five hours. It s harder than the walk a lion a March of dimes fund Raiser. The motion the gelling up and getting Down is  i be run a couple of 10-ks 10-Kilometer race Sand this is definitely worse said Mike Mikeska. 31, a Dallas store manager. Victor Estrada a 22-year-old food clerk at Safeway in Bonham sat in the Moit chairs a record 16,622 winning an All expense paid trip for two 10 new Orleans. My legs Hurt the most but my arms and my Shoul Ders Hurt too Estrada said. Reggie Coker a prod acc Man Ager from Jackson i lie finished second silting in 16,556 seats. I m doing it for the kids he said straining to sit in one last chair. Employees who sat in at least 10,000 seats during the seven hours received a full Day of pay or a Day off Dublin said. The sit a Thon was started last year by Safeway employees in Washington . Under the slogan sit so others can  Safeway s National goal is to raise $2 million in 1987 for easter seals a non profit outpatient rehabilitation Agency that provides treatment for children with disabilities Downing said. Sunday s event at Texas stadium netted about s50,000,,