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Page 16, The Herald, Friday, July 9, 1982

-. While world attention. was focused on se Falkland’ iin and Lebanon: ‘the civil war in El Salvador raged on: “Since the ‘controversial election of a right-wing coalition, in. Maret, ‘about % 700 people. have. died in political violence.

AL recent report by the office of the Ronian: Catholic ‘Arehs:

irges that-most of the. ‘victim ; were civilians “ThE: Feport. also. says’ the - parish: priest of: _Aguilares was: among the Victims, ~ ne “ae

“Inthe last six years in Ei Salvador, aight pricais, an arch

, - bishop. and four. American’ Catholic: nuns have been ‘lain...

Lay catechista have been killed: Parish halls and churches ‘ ‘have been searched, bombed or machirie-gunned. - - Inthe countryside, the government, with the help af the. army, has built up a paramilitary organization called . ORDEN;. In Spanish . orden, jeans. “order,” as in. the | colloquial ‘law and order.” Orden keeps tabs on possible revolutionaries, especially union organizers and priests.

years there was ‘a marriage: between the military, the. . ‘church, and the landowners.

“The traditional structure of Society in Central America ~

vhas depended for its durability on the unity of three pillars: “The army, the landed oligarchy, and the church,” says Rev. . Miguel d'Escoto, a priest who is miniater for external af-

- fairs in Nicaragua, El Salvador’s next-door neighbor.

-~-In the last decade, after the Second Vatican Council, and the 1968 meeting in Medellin, Colombia, of Latin American

:bishops, things have changed a great deal in E) Salvador. In 1968 the Latin American bishops urged the Catholic Church to involve itself with the struggle of the poor and “to adapt to a new situation. where popular demands increasingly. predominate.”

_ _ But theone incident which deeply affected and altered the’ ‘Saivadorean Catholic Church was the March 24, 1980, assassination of Archbishop, Oscar Romero of San Salvador. Romero was gunnel down in broad daylight

Climber will

_ PALKEETNA, Alaska (Reuter).—.A feisty Italian , climber, undeterred by being briefly jailed in Canada for making 4 solo attempt to scale an Alaskan peak, is going - piead with a solo shot at North America’s highest moun-

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This time petite, Dr. Miri Ercolani, 54, who was plucked from a mountain by an RCMP helicopter, is staying well inside U.8. territory as she makes her assault on 6, 194- metre Mount McKinley, ° : She is still fuming at her June 22 arrest 1 999 metres up on the Maiaspina glacier just inside the Yukon as she tackled - 5,486-metre Mount St. Elias. ©

-Ercolant, a physician from Florence with wide climbing _-experience inEurope, Africa and Asia, said She spent three hours in a jail in Whitehorse, ¥.T.

- “This is not a personal affront," she told reparters before

~ beginning her assault ‘on Mount McKinley. “The mountain -

itself has been hart. The freedom of climbing has been

- Hurt.”

Ercolani said she had been on Malaspina glacier two

weeks when a helicopter landed with an RCMP’ officer who ,

said he Waa lakidg her. off the mountain.

“"T asked him why and he. said ‘Because you' re in. - Canada’, " Ercolani said, ' “I told you you couldn't do it 89 0

~ Although Mount St. Elias is in Alaska, she was retracing the roundabout Malaspina glacier route through Canadian territory taken by the Italian Duke of Abruzzi who first ©

conquered the peak in 1897.

- Before starting. out Ercolanl said shé ‘checked with "

Canadian Rangers and was told Canadian rules required | climbing parties to have at least four people.

‘She asked what would happen if she went anyway,.and was told: customs officials she rang ‘didn’t mind at all. They | said it was dangerous, but it was my problem, not theirs.”

‘The five-foot two-inch,-100-pound climber.said she battled .

- bad weather, snow and avalanches for two weeks, reaching

3,000 metres’ before returning to her base camp on the glacier to ready. the final.assault on Mount St. Elias. 1 “It is a very dangerous glacier,".she said. But she,said the weather broke before the Canadian helicopter arrived and she hoped to reach the top in four or five days,

“E -olanl sald she had’an angry discussion on.the glacier before the Mountie and another an took down her tent and

- Quota imposed

: OTTAWA- (CP) — The federal government is restoring import quotas on leather footwear until November, 1984, Trade Minister Ed Lumley said al a news conference

today the decision to relmpose quotas immediately was...

prompted by the sharp increase in imports during the first few months of this year.. ~.It is a move which could result in retaliation by. Canada’ 5. . trading partners... i

; Lumpley said the import 8 surge had s serious implications. for the business climate within which the industry had been

irected’ to. modernize and ‘restructure operations, to.

- become, competitive at home and abroad.

:The restrictions, which -will allow 11.1 million pairs of

_ ahoes to enter Canada during the next year, apply to im- ports from all sources. The quola will- increase by three. per

‘ cent each year until November, 1934..

‘Laumley sald the quota was being introduced under an’

article in the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade _ * EGATT) which allows for- special protection measures in. - éases where increased imports either j injure or threaten fo ue

injure domestic industries. But Lumley agreed the move could prompt aome trading "partners to seek compensation under GATT, although he

* ..-would not comment’ on what the compensation might be.

Reintroduction of the: ‘quotas follows months of intensive

“jobbying’ by the ‘shoe-manufacturing industry, which had’ : complained foreign competitors, caused business to fall off

nd forced the layoff .of thousands of workers,

The lobbying, which Included a mass protest’ ‘rally. in "March on Parliament Hill, came in the wake of Ottawa's.

- decision in November, to lift | four-year-ald quotas on leather footwear imports. *

‘At thesame time, the government imposed quotas on non- Rather shoes, such those made of canvas.and rubber. This

followed on anti-dumping tribunal ruling that domestic.

dustry could compete with developed countries.zina$j quotas on non-Jeather shoes also expires in November, 1964. “Immediate reaction from, the.Canadian Shoe Manufac- turers Association of Canada was jubilation.- &'«] think it’s a great-day for Canada, it's a great day for the Canadian consumer,” Ted Rowe, association chairman,

fold reporters, & i!

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Salyador,: capital ofthe’ Central: American.

. ‘Violence to, impose their’ will én-the. people, -

presidential palace, a

university. radio station:

“The“Archbishop did”

and. the. ldndowners ‘of -being ‘bad.- Christians ho ‘uped

‘Almost’ overnight: Remero became the voice. at the op:

; position in El Salvador, Moved by his example, a growing. os “ numberof priests. began to question” whether social and’. economic injustice could be tackled solely, with good will,

and the word of God. a

On April 21, 1980, one month. after Romero’ 5 death, his - follawers established the National Co-ordinator of the.

_ Popular Church. Le In a’ meeting at ‘the Seminary in San. Salvador ‘of

~. representatives from all sectors of the religious com-- munity, the rebel wing decided to openly align the Popular |

Church with the peasant struggle against the ruling

. military junta. — . “In its first public statement, the Popular Church stated

that it would “defend at-all cost the rights of the poor." The

rebel priests went a step further, demanding that “the poor -- Should have the right to choose the path of revolutionary ;

violence, if necessary.”

But the mutterings of discontent at the bottom of the " ecclesiastical blerarchy met with resistance at-the top. ” . Arehbishop' Rivera Damas, ‘appointed after Romero's

‘assassination, and the other bishops in the country

disassociated themselves from the. so-called Popular .-

Church. In a pastoral letter, Rivera Damas said: ‘'We cannot choose rebellion as a Way towards a just regeneration of

‘society. We must distinguish our responsibilities from those - of the people who consider violence a | satisfactory

theology.”

stay in U. S.

bundled her and her gear into the helicopter. When the policeman, asked her for her passport, she ‘replied: “I don’t climb a mountain with a passport. And I

_ don't know if I'm in Canada. I didn’t see any borders.” - “Are you sure this

. Ercolani said she asked the men: crevasse is in Alaska.and this one in Canada?”

But the Mountie just read her her legal rights and said she could have.a lawyer. “Where could I Find a lawyer, ona glacier?” she replied.

: She was taken by helicopter and police car to Whitehorse

and held in 4 jail cell for three hours unti] Canadian im-

migration officials arrived.

She was released and later left to climb Mount McKinley

. where U.S. National Parks Service Rangers permit ex-

perienced climbers to. make solo expeditions.

Russ Bleackley; a Canadian immigration official in” - Whitehorse, said Ercolani’s case Was closed. “We were.

concerned_for her safety. A week earlier. some climbers

“were ‘killed in that area by a sudden avalanche.” . Three American climbers from Colorado died on nearby

Mount Logan June 11:)

-But Ercolani says. she considers her mid-elimb arrest, , which surprised some local climbers, part of a growing . ’ conflict, between climbers and government regulations.

“4 climber has the right to climb any mountain he wants," she said. “‘The danger, the threat of death, it is the

business of the climber, not. of any government or ad-

“ ministration. “If this incident is the first of its kind, as J am told, [ hope it is the, last.” "

while celbeitiod masy in a hore 4 few look from the

“paunere had a wide popular fotlowing, -eapecially. Among oe tn an ie wi oa eants, workers and poor people's ‘orgaalzations. ‘Byery”. |: Among Bind iv morning, hil'sermon was, broadeast by th Catholic.

Se, : parish priest in, th age of N me “maine word Sunday “after _ aes epates: : Suriday, he lambasted the regime, sccusing- the military 1... eyed. revolutionary,” He spent” his formatiy years: “at ">: weminaries in Europe and Central America and ar r Nepales in 1973 to. discover that his task in the pa mse -‘smounted to- missionary work, 9066) 4/8 |

_ were regularly squeezed for money in exchange’. for ber-— ~ ‘Two years after he started his. work in the: Nepales, a

. Organized by a radical peasant Broup with Catholic Hinks, ’ the strike spread like a bush fire, -

‘church. "I was not a troublemaker, I was only denouncing ’ injustice,” he says, recalling the events,

‘days later, at'dawn; the parish hall and ‘church were ate

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