ag Vay”: 2 bathed Golan Heights. as. oh Mage: ‘Daye: conte ot " OUANT, Golan Heights" “breaking the echoed: . across. “the - ‘sun-' eS harbo we reared, 6. ..¥, May 21, v3 UN /peacekeeper enc Nations 7 force -h ere, Kilmartin was! ghtes j “> ending his tour of duty just . ap” as Syria and larael; the two most implacable foes in’ thé ‘Felon, ae. voicing ‘fears: they may: once more slide ‘into-attmed conflict: ; val When: Syrian: ‘tanks broke “ . ‘Twice in die. last 163 years : -*Redrpulled into the alley’ others: Jolaing ‘in’ “the” ay “Behind the small. brick.’ : church in "Evanston, “I, ~ cand its’ passenger,.a young © Salvadoran was _ quickly ' escorted inside. os 4 i “Held: been through a “Jot,” said Rev, Greg Dell, co-pastor of the Wheadon United Methodist Church, onein a growing: network of churches . offering “‘sane- ‘tuary" to illegal refugees ‘from Central America, . - That congregation,” like ' Onilted, _ prove TOKYO (CP) — Loan., sharking in Japan) has— become a deadly: business. . Newspapers’. and television report almost © to, daily on murders or suicides blamed on loan sharks. - : : In the first quarter of this. i ‘Year, dne newspaper survey _ estimated 185 people elther commited suicide or were victims of murder-suicides committed by heavily in- debted-borrowers. : A-family of four recently _ drove into the sea to escape loan sharks. Another man killed a prostitute so, he told police, “I could go to jail to ; escape loan sharks.” Another man killed his wife after she borrowed “heavily to pay: off gambling : debts. ° ’ Too offen, young children are also killed with their parents in gae-filled cars or _ houses. a . The problem stems from the “sarakin” (salary loan) system which allows people to easily obtain money from | '. ° several loan companies and | : to run up debts that can’ reach millions of yen in a few weeks. The: sarakin — often legitimate businesses which - simply don’t check credit references:— could, until’ April, charge up to 109.5- per-cent annual '-interest,~ . Then, ,-- when . debtors ; Gefaulted, the companies a eties var to strong-arm - other ¢ esas oti often, drave people to suicide. , - Faced with the problem, _the..Japanese government recently passed a new ' lending law, but critics claim it is toothless and has *.. --blmply * inetitutionalized - Usury. _ Under the new plan, maximum interest has been ‘ reduced to 73 per cent and will eventually decline to 40 per cent. ae ; With such profits to be. gained; sarakin ‘have popped up across country at an amazing .rate. : In 1980, . there were .an estimated .‘ 9,000 loan alfices: now there : are 14,000. ° a Takefuji, the “biggest: " doubled their outlets to 4 581 | last.year alone. =| The proliferation hasbeen attributed to the recent -——-——-- recession —in—Japan;—It-has- i driven small and medium ! -business owners to: borrow i from any available source { after their bank credit has run out and put pressures ori families hard pressed by shrinking réal income, Lacking - any credit-ra Japanese sarakin - check individual credit. So a borrower could begin with 500,000 yen ($9,500) from one lender, borrow another “500,000 yen to pay the firet ! _ Joan and #0 on, 1 astronomical debts nave been run up. It ia not unconimon to read thet a a suicide victim had borrowed. $500,000 or more of! a monthly salary of less than $1,500. . . ~ Movement. “eros the: ‘States, . ~ had. thoroughly . discussed ‘their ‘defiance of American law In, light of the Jong Christian . Tt was his haven from the sdaw, dradition behind it, both in ancient and modern history. . "We decided that at: this’ point, where God’s law is in conflict with human law we ‘must follow God's law even if we're breaking human law,'” said Dell. __ That course has been’ ‘declared by at least’ 43 . congregations in 26 cities in ky states, with church by. ~ Loan sharks deadly While many. sarakin will try to work out a reasonable - way for debtors to pay off their loans, police estimate - almost a quarter are fronts for gangsters or "gang: affillated “lenders. This group . appears relentless in. - trying to _ collect on bad debis. Hw ahusband disagpears to. escape the sharks, his wife is often forced : Into prostitution to pay off his - bad debt, For: many Japanese, the. only alternative is suicide. - Even with the new. law eventually lowering Interest | to 40 per cent, critics see ‘most peacekeeping / clashed: further north, in sent here in: 1074 to’ super. .Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, . ‘Since the 1967 Middle Epst ” “ this Syrian ‘territory -: has been in Israeli. hands ‘although “that: hold: ’ was bridfly shaken in 1973. “groups in, 15 ‘other, ‘slates : helping: fn an “underground. ‘rallroad” to relay refugees’ - ” to participating ‘churches. About. 500. other’ U.S. Congregations have ex- plicitly -° backed the movement,: condoning ely disobedience, - “It’s very “much a grass ‘roots. ' movement, - ’ something handed down by . higher judicatories, arising from‘the people,” ‘sald Lee Holstein of the Chieago Religion. Task Force on Central America, a The task force, somewhat 7 -happenstance, ; become the national co- - ordinator of the movement, providing - ‘booklets on’ .the. ~ ‘Sanctuary tradition and on ‘how to do it, answering © of | inquiries, . thousands - ‘keeping tabs or par- -Heipating churches, - ~. Holatein “estimated ~ that’ ~~ 25,000 U.S. citizens now are openly involved and could ‘be charged as 'co- conspirators. . . But no legal action has - been taken so far, Nor have _ immigration officers tried to-seize afiy people under” church protection, said. Verne: Jarvis . of the . Immigration ——s and Naturalization Service - in Washington. : - “There's no such thing in U. S. law as sanctuary, but asa matter of policy we have not gone into churches to make arrests and I'm’. doubtful we would do it,” he said. ‘It would be counter- ‘entral Ar vise ©: ‘the’ Geneve “disertfigement agreement ; between “Syria . and: ‘Israel - Reported: in id-May. that “neither. side has: ‘come close ~ the: border’: zone. : : ‘Under the agreement, the: ( ; ha Jn ‘canada ‘there ‘i 3 ‘reaching the maximum’. ‘The.. “number: “of tanks, artillery | “ a ge : * Obeetver andmen they are allowed | in _ Force says there have been’: airth: : “no Berious: breaches in. tha : * hantom’; & ied "ber nine years,” it ‘has been ¢. ‘Monat ‘Acreamed © ove ; id "000 soidiers, "75 tanks ‘gud’ ‘den ‘36 ‘medium ‘artiHery: pieces ‘within 10, kllometres'of.the | M ‘border. They are allowed no. - >. hing Austrian otficée. re . and “must have Jett: Teraal “clipped. the: Syrian’ ‘border 3 ‘more: than 430 tanks “within a7 * 4 \ ailtop behind Ziowsnt bristles with: ‘aerials’ * and. © Istaeli -. electronic’ * Bar-. ell . valllance “equipment, :.Th ~ JUN. > says, -.that: | despite. regular attempts, : Its: nen “dave: heei refused’ entry to. “the. position. ‘to. check.the © .)Sgreement ja | being obeyed. i an Foreign Legion pis, is base” et “whieh. Ztouani, ones 8’ French. béittalion: and a Polish; ualt Pa > specialises: ‘in. _ clearing: -the. mines and ~ unexploded shells: atill lit- 7, tered Aeros the Golan. ioe ‘sanctuary: ‘movement, says, a She: paid the refugees: : not. but Kathleen’ Plolemy, “co- were. fleeing” the violence. “ ardinatot for refugees of the - that has raked several ‘Human Right, “bee on” Central “American - coun- Human ts “because + expec! El there is-no need for’ ore." He ae tay ae “Canada "does - "not." autoriatically:” expel - | Refugees," she said, . stay because: ‘of conditions ~ in thelr own ‘country, ‘they: . Can ~ toddle . off ; Immigration and be given temporary" refuges ' ‘status, until their: “application _ is processed. And this can be extended to a’ prolonged _Tefiges status.” ” -”_ The traditlon of sanctuary ‘goes back to Old Testament times when “the “Hebrews ‘been recognized in ancient Roman ~ ‘law, . | Exiglish * common law and Roman Catholic canon law. . ~The practice was used for ~ fugitive slaves-in the U.S, abolitionist movement in the 1850s, in the civil rights. . ‘movement in this century: and sometimes to shelter » resisters af the Vietnam war, ” While. US. federal. law make no specific provision for sanctuary, lawyers. Alsagree about how it would turn out in court for lack of federal precedents, Holstein said .the movemet. was trying to pressure the U.S.. ‘government to do several things; ’ Stop: intervenlg in little chance for a reduction © in the humari toll from- bad debts, productive. ‘They're ob- viously trying to create a vonfrontation. " | Attend the Church _ of: Your Choice Central; America, : - forcing refugees toreturn to: “their homelands and cate o TERRACE © o PENTECOSTAL. _ ASSEMBLY _Pastor John Caplin 3511 Eby St. Terrace, B.C. . 695-2494 SUNDAY SERVICES 9:45 Sunday. School ’ THE SALVATION ‘ARMY | 637 Walsh Ave. . 635-26260r. - 686-S4ag SUNDAY SERVICES 9:30 a.m, — Sunday: Schoo! for all.ages. " 7th DAY - oe ‘ ADVENTIST. ~ 3206Griffiths Pastor Henry Bartsch’. 635-3232; 635. td Services — Sat...9:30 - a.m..— Sabbath School - (Sunday School). 11:00 a.m! — Worship “11:00 Morning Worship ‘11:00 am: — Family — ' 7:00 Evening Service =| | Worship “TERRACE roi —| 7:30 p.m. - . 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