European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday december 14, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 Canadian Bill to require men to get consent for sex by the Washington Post Toronto a Canadas Justice minister thursday introduced a Date rape Bill that spells out the Legal definition of consent and requires that a Man engaging in sexual activity assure beforehand that he has obtained the unequivocal agreement of his partner. The so called a no Means not legislation is supported by All parties in parliament and is expected to easily become Law. Critics have said the Bill would practically require a Man to obtain a signed affidavit from a woman before engaging in sex. Women a rights groups scoffed at such interpretations As Gross exaggerations and said the Law would merely remove ambiguity As a defense in rape cases. The Legal definition of consent to sex that is included in the new measure requires an explicit a voluntary agreement a in words or action by the partner to engage in sex. The Bill makes it Clear that it is the Many a obligation to establish consent. Moreover consent would not be considered to have been Given if the victim were too intoxicated to make a consensual judgment. Similarly the Man could not use his own intoxication As a defense. Public support for the new measure gained momentum during the televised trial of William Kennedy Smith in West Palm Beach fla., which was followed As closely by canadians As it was by americans. Florida s sexual Battery Laws include a definition of consent As a intelligent knowing and voluntary agreement not resulting from coercion. But it does not go As far in setting out the Man s responsibilities for establishing explicit agreement to sexual activity As the proposed Canada Law would experts said. Justice minister Kim Campbell introduced the Bill in response to a Canadian supreme court decision in August that struck Down an old rape shield Law that had prevented defense lawyers from Arvin an alleged rape victim questions about her past sexual activity. Friend blows into town people in Ach Hoven Netherlands on wednesday welcomed a Knute a that Chilly High blanketing most of Europe. Here a family takes to the ice to enjoy the dutch National pastime under the eyes of a Bovine audience. This was the first Day in several parts of the country that canals were solid enough for skating. 1 killed in blast at dutch Plant Rotterdam Netherlands apr one person was dead and another missing Friday after an explosion in a petrochemical Plant in the port of Rotterdam police said. The explosion occurred in a storage tank of Benzoic acid a flammable petrochemical at a factory of the dutch dam chemical company said police spokesman Frank Huizenga. Fire department spokesman Willem Van Arendt Hals said the fire was brought under control about 90 minutes after the blast was reported at 10 25 . The explosion occurred in a Petroleum storage area in the Center of the port of Rotterdam the world s largest port said Van Arendt Hals. About 100 firefighters fought the Blaze alter it spread to two adjoining tanks prompting authorities to evacuate nearby plants Van Arendt Hals said. Officials said the explosion posed no danger to area residents. However dutch radio reported that some people had complained of Eye pain. Van Arendt Hals said rescuers were still searching for the missing person. Olympic flame begins journey to Winter games from wire reports ancient Olympia Greece a the olympic flame began its journey to France for the Albertville Winter games on Friday after being lit in this ancient town where the olympics were born. Greek ski Champion Thanassis Tsatiris 26, held the olympic Torch in one hand and an Olive Branch in another As he jogged the first 330 feet of an olympic Toumey that will include two air plane flights and a countrywide relay in France. The flame lit in a Pine tree Grove by the rays of the Sun in a concave Mirror was then transferred to three miners lamps for the flight from Olympia to Athens. It will be flown today by concorde supersonic Iet to Paris where it will be handed Over to French prime minister Edith Cresson before a relay that will end at Albertville on feb. 8. The flame will Burn throughout the games Ira bomb injures 60 Belfast Northern Ireland a the Irish re publican army has claimed responsibility for a bomb blast in a town that injured More than 60 people wrecked a police station and damaged a Catholic Church filled with worshippers. A second blast thursday night in Londonderry caused no injuries officials said. Six officers inside the police station and about 60 civilians were injured when the i ton bomb hidden in a Coal truck exploded in the town of Craigavon 25 Miles Southwest of Belfast police said. The Only person hospitalized was a woman who had a heart condition. She was in critical condition police said Friday. S. Africa releases two Johannesburg South Africa South african prison authorities Friday released two More members of the so called Sharleville six a group of six people sentenced to death in 1986 and later reprieved with life sentences for the murder of a Black councilor during political riots. Theresa Ramush Smolc the Only woman among the six and Reid Mok Oenn were freed conditionally exactly five years since they were sentenced to hang Lor the crowd killing in their Home township. Ramash Ainold walked out of Johannesburg s die Kloof prison on Friday morning into the arms of her Mother Julia alter serving six years of a life sentence calculated to have begun while she was in prison awaiting trial and during her trial. Mokrena was scheduled to leave Lee uhf prison 50 Miles South of Johannesburg on Friday. Another two of the Sharleville six were freed earlier this year. Aids claims conductor Sydney Australia a Stuart Challender chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney symphony orchestra since 1987, died of aids related complications on Friday at age 44. Challender diagnosed his positive in i9k3, died in a hospice where he spent the last few months an orchestra spokesman said. Challender conducted All of the major australian symphony chamber and opera orchestras in recent years. He announced in september he was suffering from aids and would be unable to work As vigorously As in the  who helped raise John Lennon Dies at 88 London apr Mary Elizabeth Smith who helped raise beatle John Lennon was buried thursday. She died in the fishing Village of Poole Southwest England on dec. 6 at age 88, two Days before the 11th anniversary of Lennon s murder in new York. The cause of death was t Given. Mary Smith the elder sister of Len non smother Julia took him into her Home in Liverpool after his parents split up when he was still a baby according to Philip normans Book shout the True Story of the beatles. Lennon called her a aunt  he would later describe her As a kind hearted woman who frequently scolded him. Her husband George Smith was the closest thing to a father Lennon Ever had. Smith died in 1955, when he was 15. Mary Smith bought the teen Ager his first Spanish guitar two years later but told him that he would never make a living from Rock n Roll. In the 1960s, after he had proved her wrong Lennon bought Mary Smith a luxury Home in Poole in Dorset. Among the approximately 30 mourners were Lennon s widow Yoko Ono their son Sean and Lennon a former wife Cynthia. Wreaths were sent by the other former beatles George Harrison Ringo Starr and Paul Mccartney