a A22 - Wednesday, February 11, 1981 - North Shore News U.S. REPORT INDICATES WASHINGTON (UPD) - Human rights and political freedom were’ endangered species around the world in 1980-and nations such as the Soviet Union, North’ and South Korea, Libya and Vietnam contributed to the disturbing trend. To a degree, so did Bolivia, Cuba and civil war- torn El Salvador in Latin America, the Philippines in Asia and South Africa, Ethiopia and Somalia in Africa, the -U.S. State Department reports. | These. were the findings of the department’s annual human rights report to Congress — 1,139 pages covering 153 nations and extremely critical of the Soviet Union and its invasion of Afghanistan. It was the last such report prepared by the Carter administration, under which human rights became a ? critical -factor in foreign policy decisions. The Reagan administration is putting more emphasis on combatting terrorism. In general, the depart- ment saw “little overall change in the status of political and civil freedoms in the world in 1980 ... (as) governments continued ‘wholly or partly to deny these rights to the majority of people.” While there were fewer cases of disappearances, tortures, abuses and inhuman and _ degrading treatment of political and other prisoners, there were “major human _ rights violations” in countries engaged in war and civil war. The invasion of Afghanistan was cited as a prime example of the Kremlin’s incréasing “in- tolerance for activity deemed incompatible with Ono song released BURBANK, Calif. (UPI) - The Yoko Ono single “Walking On Thin Ice”, the song John Lennon and his wife were remixing the night of his. assassination two months ago, was released and will be arriving at radio stations this week. “Getting this together after what happened was hard,” Miss Ono says in a “finishing note” appearing on the Geffen Records single. “But I knew John would J “ wesfi ree TIED UP IN MEETINGS? KEEP IN TOUCH WITH WES-TEL A slimline Wes-tel pager tucked inside your pocket will keep you in constant touch no matter where you find yourself. For cost details & demonstration, call not rest his mind if I hadn't. “Tt hope you like it, John. I ‘ did my best.” Ono explained that the song, dedicated “For John”, was “what we were working on that night.” “The past weekend we had listened to the song all day and night,” she said. “It was as if we were both haunted by the song. I remember I woke up in the morning and saw John watching the sunrise and still listening to the song.” 13277255 Communist party control and national security.” “Soviet practices in Afghanistan which violated human rights have included the reported use of lethal chemical weapons, ‘trick’ explosives and _ in- discriminate bombing and terrorizing of the Afghan population.” The report said Soviet repression of domestic human rights activists in 1980 was “as severe as any since the beginning of the human rights movement a decade ago.” By contrast, the movement toward a. “relatively more open society” made “some ‘progress’’ in China, described “as ‘an authoritarian one-party state in a stage of historic tran- sition and experimentation.” In Indochina, following Hanoi’s unification of Vietnam after the 1975 fall of Saigon, ‘'policies generating extensive human rights violations have been common” in Vietnam. It added those massive rights violations have spilled over into neighboring Cambodia because of that country’s invasion of and occupation by Vietnamese forces. Libya “has seen a con- siderable change for the worse in its human rights picture with reports of torture and abuse increasing markedly,” the report said. Come on home to Mother's and we'll take you when the world moved more slowly. Sit on a pressback chair in the warm glow of a liffany lamp. Rem- inisce with prints and photographs, antiques Communists reject Western seperatism WINNIPEG (UPC) - The > national leader of the Communist party of Canada William Kashtan, on the last leg of a western Canada . : tour, said in an interview said Monday his party , rejects the y concept of that Canada ‘should work out western Canadian pro-Canadian energy separatism. policies rather than split up. BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY CHANGES IN PASSENGER SCHEDULES The British Columbia Railway announces the following changes in its passenger service effective Monday, February 16th. Effective that date the present service between North Vancouver and Prince George will be cancelled and replaced by one train each week on Mondays from North Vancouver to Prince George and one train each week on Sundays from Prince George to North Vancouver. There will be service from North Vancouver to Lillooet and return on Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. There will also be service from- Lillooet to D'Arcy and return on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Fridays. No food service will be available on the trains. Meal stops will be made at Lillooet and Williams Lake. NEW CONDENSED SCHEDULE NORTHBOUND Wed/Sat/Sun Monday ONLY read down read down SOUTHBOUND Tue/Thur/Fri Sunday ONLY Mon/Wed/Sat Tue/Thur/Fri read down North Vancouver 0630 0800 0905 0950 1625 1040 ’ 1040 O'Arcy 1620 1620 1620 1740 1185 1155 Lillooet 1510 1510 1510 (arrive) (teave) 1225 1440 (leave) (arrive) 1500 1210 1635 1030 0630 0800 0905 0950 2035 1910 1800 1720 2035 1910 1800 1720 vamish Whistier Pemberton Lillooet Exeter Wilisms Lake {leave} 1705 Willlams Lake 10006 (arrive) 1845 Quesnel 0825 2 040 Prince G 0630 Sunday ONLY Mon/Wed/Sat read up read u Tue/Thur/Fri read uy; For additional information ptease contact your nearest B.C. Rail Agency. Ip : a chair and sit right there andremember the - Mii: ey nl Nisiees . and artifacts from a bygone And, enjoy generous portions of Mother’s cooking served in a friendly, old-fash- ioned way. Mother’s Pizza Par- lour & Spaghetti House. 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