of delegates at the World .Council: of __ snub by Nicaraguan officials,” . Stone would not say if there would’ be ‘further talks ‘with : I " Legisiative: ‘Library - “| Parliment Buildings to ‘Victoria, | B.C. VOV-1Z4 - A big splash for the belly flop contest. The wihner In’ the men’s division was Captain Kokane with Mr. Grad’ ‘84 - coming In second, The.’ Incredible: Twins: ; ‘women’s. division: swith ‘Esther, place. The most artistic flop topped’ the at ‘the event was’ The istuk taking second VANCOUVER (cP) —. The. world’s churches need to become: involved in a theological revolution aimed at testing their ' assumptions about the of th war, & group assembly was told Monday... Rev. Robert ‘Neff of the Chureh of the Brethren: in the. - -United States questioned whether membérs of the clergy . have become &0 préocculied with petitions, demonstrations _andother Political strategies that the urches' sixth - groups when they: come sogeth peacemaking tasks confronting the church’ today is a’ massive theological effort-on the problem of the nature of war and the implications of that nature on the possibililies for establishing an enduring peace,” he said. f “here> Recotnmendatiopis and’ proposals for policy and ac- ‘tion by: the assembly will be presetiied by. éach of the eigh twee: Hs septa acai = 3 . LOOK-AT. QUESTIONS... Manion Phantom. More pictures wages 4 and 5. “_ Neff was addressing one of eight issue ‘groups formed as: the council entered the second-week of its le-day gathering. ‘ «4, Nédf, who. addressed a: session. entitled - Confronting : 1 -Mbrents fe to Peace and Survival, said the ‘¢ounell, which has | Sap member churches representing 450 million Christians, must examine several questions.” = It should altempt! ‘1o determine’ if war is integral to human ature, like hunger ‘and sexuality, or if it-is brought about | b y human decision;:he'said. It should ask if war is a’social tervention ‘which ‘could become obsolete and whether war . nlght Vdisappeir’ as a major. activity of. civilization” ee cueratar it-ine “grou” Mettdpolitat’ Pailin Ma Gregorios’ ‘of the. ‘Orthodox. ‘Syrian Church of the’ ‘East: in: India;; told. the audience: at the’ University, of B & it is im-: ” said through ° an’ interpreter, adding that; science: and ~ Stone calls | Latin American. tour. quite useful: " WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. special envoy Richard Stone - returned home today, saying: his Jiday’ Latin Ameri¢an tour had been “quite useful’ but refusing to discuss his first meeting with a Salvadoran leftist leader Oran apparent, ee coors Jeftist-ruled Nicaragua, telling reporters at Andrews Air. Force Base:. “We have to preserve the confidentially” of the negotiating: process, . He sald. he expects to meet with Henry Kissinger, . chairman of. President Reagan's commission on Central "America, and also. will brief Reagan and State Secretary George Shultz. . _ We had a wide range’ of discussions and: they were auite "Libyan planes intensify bombing ‘N’DJAMENA (AP) — Libyan. pianés : intensified their - bombing of Faya-Largeau today, killing many civilians and troops and i destroying large parte « of the Chadian oasis town,” Troops killed - BAGHDAD (Reuter) —Traq said today its forces killed 1,200 Iranian troops and captured. many tanks Monday in some of the heaviest. fighting since the Persian Gulf war started nearly three years ago. - ; Official reports said nearly 6,600 Iranian | troops had been . killed in attacks on [raqi border positions 160 kilometres east of Baghdad since an Iranian offensive began Saturday. _ In Tehran, the official Iranian news agency IRNA said fierce fighting still raged in- the central sector of the war:. ’ front. IRNA said Iranian troops: killed ‘ or wounded 400: ‘Iraqis and captured two Lraqi-positions in battles Monday: hight ' near the Iranian border. town of Mehran: The: Iranians had driven back Iraqi counter-altacks, and were advancing, it. added. The agency said. a total of. 1000 tragis had been killed or’. wounded in the last 24 fours and more than 1o O Tragl, tanks . destroyed. - oa = AIMED AT HEIGHTS. pooyi -_ Irarrlaunched the offensive, the second major ftack In'a~ ‘week, with the stated alms of dfiving the Ini ig out of - Iranian territory ‘near. Mehran: and _capturitig atrategic border heights.” Official Iranian reports say . the Iranian ‘Torces hav ’ seized three border heights and two frontier pos sin : e the. operation began. . we A military spokesman “quoted. by Baghdad Aewepaipe 1S - said’ 1,200 Iranians were, killed in Monday's battles “and - many ‘taken prisoner, while a large number of tanks, 700. . rifles, four bulldozers and other. equipment were: eapiured. - An Iraqi military communique issued on Sunday, ‘anid 5, aes Iranlans were killed. in the previous. day's. fighting, which also involved Iraqi planes and helicopter gunships Reports issued iri Baghdad have. given no details, of Iraqi » caaualties, kan said Sunday - that more than 9,000: iragis’ iad been - killed or rf wounded: Meet, Fy ave. useful,” said Stone, who throughsui his trip: said. uttie about: his efforts to end the Central: American’ turmall. Stone's trip, his: third since becoming. special étivoy in. April; came at 4 time of growing terisions fuelled by troop . Movements ..along .the. . Nicaraguan-Honduran. -border,~...B -Teports of Soviel freighters sailing to- Nicaragua - with". weapons,’ and deployment of U.S.. Navy. ships off Nicaragua’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts. | -. On Monday in Managua, Stone had an hour-long rieeting with’ ‘officials of. Nicaragua’ s Sandinista government, in- cluding junta leader Daniel Ortega and Foreign Minister Miguel d’Escoto: © | _-D'Escoto and Stone both described the talks as “useful. " “In what t appeared to be a show of indifference toward the ‘Chad’s Foreign Minister Idriss Miskine reported, - “What is taking place i is a genocide,” Miskine said, He did not give a-casualty count and said he based his claims on - _Padio. communications with’ the government-held towii of 10,000 in northwest Chad.‘ ~The Libyan pilots took advantage of the knowledge that : < “we lack anti-aircraft defences,’ Miskine’ said. In Paris, the Libyan Embassy issued a statement denying. “it was a belligerent in-the battle for Faya-Largeau and - Calling the fighting an “internal conflict between opposing | Chadian factions for power in N’Djamena. ”: intervention.” “Also today, a group of. doctors: and other international “workers known as Doctors ‘Without Frontiers arrived. in N'Djamena from Faya-Largeau, Among them was-Mare -Frohardt of Colorado Springs, Colo; Rebels had held the “group and charged Frohardt with being a-US. spy. Tt was’ “impossible to confirnr. batile’ ‘developments in Paya-Largeau because the oasis’ 600 kilometres northwest ~of N'Djamena was declared off limits to the’ press. a () Paris, the French Forelgn Ministry : anounced the - governinent was adding aniti-titcraft weapdns: to, ifs daily “shipment of war-material to Habre loyalists.in the forme: _-eglony, an impoveristied landlocked couintiy south of Libya ” and west of Sudan. - \ “The U.S; State Department if! “Washington | issued a _ statement | demanding ‘thal Libya-“‘cease Its bombing raids dnimediately 4nd withdraw its milltary forces from Chad." -- ' The Reagan administration, which has poor relations . With the government’ of Libyan’ leader Col. Moammar ..Khadafy, - -has accused: him of intervening ‘in. the Chad conflict: to’ expand his’ influerice ‘in Africa. The-Libyans - claim ‘the. United States wahts to do the same.. ~ Libya’ 3 state-run news-agency JANA said Monday that Washington wante to “achieve direct military inter ntion jo'the Chadian war and: “push its agents for: furt er in- tervention.”) - The United States has given abou $10 million in mi itary aid: to Habre’s forees in. the clvil_ war, which: Intensified ~ several Weeks ago when Goukouni’ ‘9 Torces seized’ arge Sivek of, northern’ Clad with’ Libyan, help and gan advan : ang. ‘awake, N'Djamena. The statement urged the combatants to: “resolve. their ‘probleme themselves without any foreign influence | or Reagan administration, Ortega’ met ‘with a Soviet diplomat ’ moments after-Stone left the country, Ina subsequent ‘governmient radio broadcast, Ortega thanked the: Soviet Union for its support of the Nicaraguan’ government and regional, peace efforts, oc eee ees The highlight of Stone’s nine-country swing came Sunday in Bogota, Colombia, where he met for the first time.with a _ Jeader of El Salvador’s leftist rebels. Stone was unable to arrange a meeting with rebel leaders‘July 9 in Costa Rica - after they said too, much publicity surrounded the talks. For two hours, Stone met with Ruben Zamora, a, director. of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, the political arm of five guerrilla. groups fighting to topple the U.S. -backed Salvadoran government. soe Zamora, who arrived in Managua late. Monday alter Stone leit, said his talks with the U.S. envoy: should be . viewed, ‘ewith prudent optimism,” In earlier remarks, however, he said leftists do not conside> Stone or the United States as “mediators” between them and the government. He ‘also rejterated calls by the insurgents for a new provisional governmnent in El Salvador.that would initiate « talks for & negotiated settlement of the 46-month civil war. . Stone's’ trip coincided with renewed efforts by the so-— called Contadora group — Colombia, Mexico, Panama and’ | Venezuela — to find “a peaceful solution to. Cental American conflicts, including El Salvador and the threat of full-scale war between Nicaragua and Honduras. ‘Cuban President Fidel Castro told reporters last week he _ would help stop aris shipments to the region and withdraw his advisers from Nitaragua ~ whom the Reagan ad- ministration claims number 2,000 — if the United Slates : pulls its advisers | out of El Salvador @ and” Honduras. _ Poverty. increases: " WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Census Bureau reported today that the country' 5 poverty rate rose to-15 per cent last | year ~~ the highest level since 1965 — a4 2.6 million’ people, were added to the rolls of the poor. “Measured on-the basis of money income ‘only ‘ the '... number of people below the poverty level increased 8. per . . cent. ‘to 34.4 million,” the bureau reported. . Real median cash income of families was ‘down 14. per a cent in’ 1992, it said, as Americans continued to lose ground - to inflation. ._ Median cash income fdr families wenl up 47 per ‘cent to $23,433. between 1981- afid 1982, the study said, but_in the a - same, ‘period inflation grew by 6. Lper cent, resulting i in anet loss. “Even so, officials noted that the 1. 4-per-cent drop in real ~ family i income was ihe smallest in three years. Redl family income, adjusted for inflation, dropped 3.5 per cent belween 1980 and 1981; and 5.5 per cent from 1978 to 1980. * ‘And the buregu said its figures ‘‘refer.to calendar year ; 1982 and do not reflect the improvement in economic co ditions during the first seven months of 1933." But the 15-per-cent poverty rate reporied for 1982 is sLill «. the highest since 1965, the bureau said. The 1982 poverty . threghhold was $9,862 for a family of four. —.- ' The rise to 15 per cent had been ‘predicted by economist Sheldof Danziger of the University,.of Wisconsin’ “al LL Madison, who told the congressional joint economic’ Corn: mittee in April that culs in social apending would: force the rate back: upward. aos y . Ah, gang, that’s a whole lot ofa ‘water down there. : The- issye group prov ided simultaneous ttansfation for iis ; in fi vos, Germany said the. threat to peace by. war, and. the’ threat ta’ orld churches discuss more theological revolutions . portant that churches not confine themselves to simply analyzing the nature of war, but also attempt to develop concrete ways of dealing with it. . He said they should not look simply at ways in which war can be avoided, but also at ‘the fact that “the arms: race ip, * evil in-itself?” TWIN PEAKS ,, “Rev. Heine Falcke af the ‘Evangelical Church of Weal “Hattie byt -y are’ twin’ peaks of ‘en iceberg."..°*"_.” destruction of nature ‘coine.out ofthe same ‘thinking, "he technology are important in today’ 6 worl, but can become . intruments of violence. - “We must form solidarity with the weaker member of: the . cosmos — namely nature,” he said..." -Another speaker, Archbishop’ Kirill. of the Russian Orthodox Church, said the council should be-praised for its "The" ass’, destruction, of .huiman™ ‘beings: and. the / efforts to organize debates on the themes of war and justice; — a “It is evident that the problem of international: security 1a -+-4nd, contidence-building, concerns,.all . rountries.. and. all. regions, since in our nuclear age, any local conflict- can: grow into a world conflict and provoke a thermonuclear war,” he-said, |! He said the restraint of nuclear build-up means that both - the United States and the Soviet Union must reject the desire to ‘achieve superiority aver one another. “Therefore, the restraint would ‘weaken thé ‘main’ factor provoking distrust and suspicion in the relations between East: and West.” Churches, said Kirill, can play a ‘gpectat role. in bridgiig the gap between hostile'parties by. “Creating an atmosphere of confiderice and co-operation:” Christians‘have no right td passively contemplate the world as it moves to destruction, she added.. -.~. £ ’ The issue group on peace and. survival will continue ia meetings today, as will the seven other groups. The council’s last assembly. was ‘held | in Nalrob in 175. oe Woman. raped — . Herald Staff Writer TERRACE-; On Sunday, July 30, two- people estaped from the Terra correctional centre, but théy were caught shortly thereafter and police are charging, them with escape from lawful custody. . 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