European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 b the stars and stripes wednesday september 11,1991 Canadian travel shipping chaotic As strike tightens Toronto apr Canada s huge Public employees strike entered its second Day tuesday after angry pickets pelted prime minister Brian Mulroney s limousine with tomatoes and some workers refused to Cross picket lines. The first walkout by the Public service Alliance of Canada begun monday wreaking havoc with travel plans Grain shipments and other operations As the largest Union dug in for a Long dispute. Eligible to strike were 110,000 workers including clerks weather forecasters Dock hands Grain inspectors and a wide Range of other Public servants. Essential services were kept in operation. Mulroney was greeted monday by jeering pickets in London Ontario where he met with the Ontario conservative caucus and party faithful. Some strikers pelted his limousine with tomatoes and placards. After the meeting Mulroney said Union leaders such As Daryl bean Sac president believe in a big government spending and uncontrolled a this country is full of special interests but in a Here to defend the interests of the country a a he said. On the West coast Federal Grain inspectors weigher and samplers established picket lines at Vancouver terminals. Longshoremen and about 70 1 Grain handlers have agreed not to Cross picket lines Union spokesman Al Hadvick said. A i understand there Are a number of ships waiting to be loaded so i would imagine the Impact will be fairly fast a a Hadvick said. Bean said his members Are willing to stay out until the government backs away from a wage freeze this year and 3 percent Caps on pay raises in the next two years. A a in a absolutely 100 percent confident that our members will stay out until we get a new collective agreement Quot he said saying the Federal Treasury Board has shown no interest in resuming negotiations. Deputy prime minister Don Mazankowski said Ottawa wont Budge from the wage limits it is using to tackle the deficit. A a we re going to have an interesting couple of weeks a Mazankowski said in Vancouver where he was booed outside a downtown hotel. Bean said he could not say How Many of the 110,000 Public servants eligible to walk out actually stayed away from work. Treasury Board president Gilles Loiselle said Early estimates showed about 50 percent of those eligible were off the Job monday. The Union said the figure was higher. Some 45,000 Alliance members including Airport firefighters meat inspectors prison guards and customs officers Are deemed essential personnel and prohibited from striking. Also ineligible to strike Are processors of unemployment insurance and other Benefit checks. At Toronto a Pearson International Airport the country a busiest flights were Cut by two thirds As pickets delayed the arrival of non striking air controllers at work. Doing nicely thank you the Rev Robert Schuller flanked by his wife and son Robert jr., gives the thumbs up sign from a Hospital Balcony in Amsterdam Netherlands where the televangelist is recovering from emergency brain surgery. On the left is son in Law Paul Dunn. The . Rams Cap a intended to hide Schullerts a a marines haircut a was a get Well gift from team owner Georgia frontiere who joined other Well wishers such As Barbara and president Bush and comedian Bob Hope. Schullerts head was shaved for the surgery and a spokesman said the preacher joked about sending an enlistment message to retired ii a. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. World British youths police dash after party turns violent from wire reports London a hundreds of youths rampaged overnight in a housing project in Northern England setting fire to buildings and throwing bricks at police in violence that lasted until Early tuesday. The disturbances began during a Street party monday night held in memory of a 21-year-old housing project resident and a teen Ager who were killed when their stolen car crashed during a Chase with police. About 200 youths Cut Down Trees and blocked roads with barricades in the Meadow Well estate in North Shields As police worked for nearly five hours to quell the kicks out Clark Taipei Taiwan a taiwanese police on monday ordered former . Attorney general Ramsey Clark to leave the country for joining a protest to demand an Independent Taiwan a senior official said. Vice foreign minister John Chang told reporters that Clark spoke at the rally sunday in Taipei. He had been allowed to visit on condition he not participate in local protests Chang said. Taiwan will not a tolerate any foreign intervention in our International affairs Quot Chang said. About 15,000 people marching through Taipei streets demanded the government hold a plebiscite on taiwanese Independence and seek admission into the United nations. Taiwan was ousted from the chinese seat in the United nations in 1971, when the communist government in Beijing was won t free captives Ankara Turkey a kurdish rebels indicated monday that five westerners abducted in Eastern Turkey last month were not about to be freed. The latest communique attributed to the kurdish labor party dampened Hopes raised less than 24 hours earlier that Freedom would come soon for the five who Yvere travelling As part of a search for Noah Sark when they were abducted at a guerrilla Roadblock in Bingol province on aug. 30. A search by nearly 4,000 helicopter backed gendarme troops and police commandos had been concentrated in two provinces where the captives Are thought to be Soldier s infant son found dead in his bed Berlin a the infant son of a Soldier assigned to the operations in Field station Berlin was found dead monday morning in his bed a Berlin military Community statement said. Jonathan Boatman born dec. 18, died monday at approximately 6 30 . In his Home. He was the son of spec. Lee and Tami Boatman. According to the Community Provost marshals office Jonathan was taken to the . Army Hospital at approximately 6 30 . Sunday with a High fever. He was treated and released. He was found dead by his parents the next morning. The cause of death is yet to be determined but the Community Provost marshal has ruled out abuse As a contributing Factor the statement testing rapid intervention Force in med from staff and wire reports Rome a nine nato members Oil monday began a biannual naval exercise in the Mediterranean Kaiui quickly denounced the Maneu vers As a source of tension in the Region. Nato said in a statement that the exercise called deterrent Force was aimed at testing its rapid intervention Force in the Mediterranean. The exercise scheduled to last until nov. 7, involves nine Large ships and support exalt including hydrofoils planes and helicopters the statement said. The exercise began at la spezia on the italian Riviera. Jana the official news Agency of col Moa mar Qadhafi a a government criticized the Maneu vers in a dispatch by its International affairs editor who was not identified. A the announcement of such Maneu vers comes at a time when the world is witnessing the disintegration of. The Warsaw pact which Means that nato began exploiting the disappearance of that. To carry out its military strategies in the Mediterranean area. Said the dispatch monitored in Rome. A Why do we see More actions aimed at creating new sources of tension which humanity no More needs a the editor asked. One of the primary units participating in the exercise is nato s naval on Call Force Mediterranean. During the current activation it will consist of nine ships each from a different member nation of the Alliance. The flotilla has been activated in the Spring and tall each year for More than 21 years according to . Navy capt. Steve Taylor spokesman for natos Allied forces Southern Europe in Naples. Quot this is the Normal fall activation a Taylor said. Quot we need to keep exercising to maintain interoperability and the credibility that they have acquired Over the faking part in the nato exercise Are France Germany Greece Italy the Netherlands Spain Turkey Britain and the United Stales. The commander of the nato naval Loree is capt. Lulu Suncar of Turkey the statement said
