cL IFE ON the North Shore is
“fullof prickles for the four
“ane embers of the Kondrateva
family. They have, no full-time
jobs-and their goverament
“assistance is about to.dry up.
. By Kate Zimmerman

“News Reporter

Batit’s a bed-of roses com:
pured with their last few years:in
“the former Soviet Union republic
of Georgia. .

“Theres civil war raged as troops
under the order of ob3ted President
Zviad Ghamsakhurdia battled with

“soldiers defending new leader

Eduard Shevardnadze.
“As the Kondratevas = parents

Karina: and Eugene, both-45, and a

‘sons Dennis. 15, and Dmitri, 12 —

got used {0 the;sound of machine-~,
“they ‘also faced, thes:

“gun fire,

-! prospect of Dennis being’ draft
along with his peers;."...-
“Most .of the mothe
‘coffins instead of their sons

Ethnic conflicts made thing

even” harder’-for~ Karina, .an-

‘Armenian,-and: Eugene, a Russian
eiWefelt that .we® were ‘not
Georgians..." Karina’said.;
School.was no longer i in. Se
ion, so the soe education was

Was’ time, to” gel ‘Out and with’ the
“help of:

re ivan incoming an
outgoing, calls, ‘limit 30 ca

amily’ —~, Karina's father:
Id: his car to help finance their :

Californie penépal, th
to get into Canada as
sored” jaimigrants, :
The process was arduous. When
the Kondratevas finally arrived in
Jancouver last November, they
had fitde money leftand no idea of
how they would. survive in their

94 ACCLAIM '4 DR

Radiant sed,’ automatic,‘air cond,
; », Uair bag, tilt, cruise, Bini.
a FM cassette

managed :
self-spon-

‘new country, .

They hada‘. wanted to: pay:
overweight baggage charges. so
they brought only: the: minimum of
clothes. Navember: dampnes:
quickly seeped into, their bones

ryan fronv zero.”

93. SUN ANCE 3 DR

> White, power, options automatic

What they did-have wis some
knowledge of English, because for
18 years Karina taught Paglish fit:
erature in high school. Otherwise,
they had -no furniture. ne method
oMtransportation. and ie trends.

Chums. began
nowhere. as. various helping agen-

ippearing out of

ties ‘took ihe Kondri Wevas in hand.
When they. had spent the: $10,000;
required 40 be designated “self:
sponsored” 2: on ‘their: plane tick~..
 fitst: inonth'’s reat. and other;
its — they» were told they. 6 were: