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WORLD A12 NATIONAL POST, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2000 British store ends traditional display of wild game after running afoul of new food laws A traditional display of wild game hanging over a British country storefront has fallen afoul of new food hygiene regulations. The array of pheasants, rabbits and hares, bought from local residents, had been a tourist attraction in Bakewell, Derbyshire, since 1919. It was even featured in National Geographic magazine. But the Skidmores store SHOOTING GALLERY not only took down thegamehanging outside it stopped selling it altogether after being told it was contravening new food laws. Michael Skidmore, 69, and his brother Graham, 63, whose family has traded in the area for four generations, decided to concentrate on their fruit and vegetables business after being told they would need a special licence.

We cant afford the money and the time to get a licence for something we have been doing without causing anyone harm since the end of the First World War, Michael Skidmore said. The Daily Telegraph ATH NOTICES Chernobyl victims plead for assistance PROKOP, Mary (nee Schachtel) Passed away on November 23, 2000. She is predeceased by her husband Vincent John Prokop. Mary is survived by her daughter Wendy and two grandsons Jay and Scott. We will remember Mary as a loving mother, sister, aunt and friend.

Marys personal wishes for a private cremation have been honoured. A memorial mass will be held before Christmas at St. Claires Catholic Church, 133 Westmont in Toronto. Mary was able to enjoy a full and independent life thanks to the interest and generosity of those in her neighbourhood and community. We thank you.

1 177537 BENJAMINS PARK MEMORIAL CHAPEL SUNDAY SNIDER, Jennie -1 1 :00 Chapel BABIER, David Chapel MONDAY FEIGENBAUM, Eliasz Lucien Call for information PHILLIPS, Chapel TUESDAY BERGER, 5 Chapel band Boris, said, We want them the government to give us our dues. We have nothing to live on. Speakers at the protest called on the government to include more social spending in a draft 2001 budget. The government has been fight- ing to get approval for a lean bud- get, due to go before Parliament -tor a final vote on Thursday, in an effort to persuade the International Monetary Fund to resume -a blocked lending program. Chernobyls No.

4 reactor ex-ploded in 1986, sending a ra- dioactive cloud across Europe that has been blamed for thousands of deaths. On Friday, au-- thorities restarted Reactor No. which shut down automatically1 last Monday when bad weather 1 downed power lines and tripped the stations automatic safely sys-' 1 terns. 1 With the entire station due to down shut for good on Dec. -some experts questioned wh'6- ther engineers would bother te'1 starting the reactor, although -Ukraine depends on it for about 5 of its electricity.

Western countries have pledged i to fund the completion of two nu- clear reactors elsewhere to re-J place Chernobyl. But the pean Bank for Reconstruction and Development has not yet made a final decision about dis- bursing the required loans, and-some Ukrainian officials have' said they will renege on closing' Chernobyl if no cash is found. 1 Reuters The daughter of a woman who died fighting the 1986 disaster at the Chernohyl nuclear plant holds a photo of her mother yesterday. Trial sparks debate on Poles' postwar sins BABIER, David On Thursday November 30, 2000 in Mexico. David Babier beloved companion of Marlene Cooper, and husband of the late Beverly Babier.

Loving father of Daryl, Paul, and Joshua. Dear brother and brother-in-law of Risa and Mike Bedder, Ruby Swartz, and Leslie and Glen Stainsby. Service was held at Benjamins Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West on Sunday December 3. Interment the Community Section of Pardes Shalom Cemetery. Shiva 422 Bedford Park Avenue.

If desired, memorial donations may be made to the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation (416) 499-1417. 1 177951 GOLD, Sylvia (nee Ash) On Friday, December 1, 2000 at Baycr-est Centre for Geriatric Care. Sylvia Gold, beloved wife of the late Samuel Gold. Loving mother and mother-in-law ot Arlene and Alan Schwartz, Terry and Marvin Geist, and Howard and Denise Gold. Dear sister and sister-in-law of Mac and the late Bernice Shore, Thelma and Jim Vessey, Frances and the late Irving Waltman, and Irving and Roonie Ash.

Devoted grandmother of Evan, Peter, Suzanne, Michael, Benjamin, Cassandra, Jaime, and Samantha. Services were held at Beth Tzedec Synagogue on Friday, December 1 2000. Interment Beth Tzedec Memorial Park. Shiva 193 Upper Canada Drive. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the Samuel Gold and Family Endowment Fund at Baycrest Centre, 416-785-2875.

LAMBROS, Gregory Athanasios B.Arch., F.R.I.A.C. August 2, 1927-November 20, 2000 Age 73. It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of our father from complications of a cerebral hemorrhage in the Ahepa Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. Dad was a maritimer from P.E.I. He was predeceased by his parents, Amalia and Fotis Lambros.

Dad was educated in Greece. He also received his Engineering Degree (Dal.) and Architecture degree (U. of Manitoba). Dad served with the British Army, and as a Commissioned Officer in the Canadian Militia. It was in Winnipeg that he met his loving wife of 47 years, Mary Manos.

Dad established his own practice in Halifax in 1962. He produced an extensive range of residential and commercial projects across Canada, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He also taught at TUNS. Gregory and Mary retired in 1990 and enjoyed their family home in Rodohori, Greece until the time of his death. Dad was a very gifted human being with a dynamic personality that served him well in his professional career, his community and his family life.

He lived life to the fullest, with a zest and passion, which spanned many circles of influence in his lifetime. Dad had a warmth that made friends easily worldwide. Loving anything beautiful, he was also nostalgic. Dad enjoyed art, music, theatre, reading, the outdoors, travel and meeting people. He loved and admired the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Dad spoke several languages. He loved a good story, joke, party and a good wine gum. Dad loved to be called "pops by his children when we were growing up. Grounded with deep faith that guided him and a love for his community, family and many dear friends, he gave of himself completely. He enhanced the lives he touched, and gave and received many blessings in his life.

Dad was a designer of excellence, with a strong work ethic. He was a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He received this honor from his peers for excellence in his field and community work. He was a delegate of the Royal Architect Institute of Canada. He was president of the N.S.

Assoc, of Architects, the N.S. Multicultural and the Greek Community and was active with the Paraplegic and Home and School Assoc, and the Metro United Way. He was a member of the Saraguay Club, the Halifax Club and the Halifax Board of Trade. He was a Third Degree Mason at the Ad-Aslra Lodge 130. He leaves behind his loving wife Mary and children Athena (John), Daphne (Bruce), Alexandra (Robert), Fotis (Nancy), Danae and Catherine (Everett).

He is survived by grandchildren Christina, Victoria, Amalia, Aaron, and Everett and many relatives and friends. Burial has taken place as he had wished in the family plot in Greece. Donations may be made in his memory to the Metro United Way, Heart Stroke Foundation of N.S. or the Brain Injury Association of N.S. There will be a celebration of his life at Fort Massey Church (comer of Queen and Tobin, Halifax) at 4:00 p.m.

on Friday, December 8th, refreshments will follow. Family flowers only. Trisagon prayers will be held 10:30 a m. on Sunday, December 10th af SI. Georges Greek Church, 38 Purcell's Cove Road, Halifax.

Foreva In ax hearts. Men his memory be eternal AIOIA TOYHMM-MH aA444t DYING IN POVERTY Infamous nuclear reactor to shut down by Dec. 15 KYIV, UKRAINE Victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and their relatives marched through the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, yesterday, protesting that authorities were letting them die in poverty. Chernobyl is due to shut down within two weeks. Fourteen years after one of its reactors exploded in the worlds worst peacetime nuclear disaster, one in 16 Ukrainians is suffering from cancer and other diseases caused by radiation.

Many victims of the disaster now rely on small state pensions for their livelihoods, which are often paid late or only in part. Waving banners saying, We protected Ukraine, now Ukraine must protect us and We are dying, about 2,000 protesters joined veterans of the Soviet- Afghan war to mark an international day for the disabled. Widows wearing black shawls held up photographs of husbands who died after working on cleanup crews in the aftermath of the accident. They were joined by half a dozen children in wheelchairs whose parents had received large doses of radiation. Nina Kharchenko, who was carrying a portrait of her late hus The concentration camp was built by the Nazis to house Allied prisoners of war.

For most Poles, it is inextricably associated with wartime atrocities committed by the Germans. The trial is set to reverse those roles and portray a Pole as the villain, something unacceptable to many who lived through the German occupation and the deaths of about three million civilian Polish Jews and three million non-Jewish Poles through bombings and concentration camps. Piotr Radziwinowicz, a 72-year- WE NEVER DID ANYTHING LIKE THE NAZIS old pensioner whose father was killed during the occupation, said: The trial should be stopped. In view of what the Nazis did on Polish soil, it was inevitable that some German civilians would be killed in revenge. It was chaos at the end of the war, but we never did anything like the Nazis.

They killed millions of Poles. A museum at the Lambinowice concentration camp commemorates the many Poles and Allied PoWs who died there at the this is the best proof of that, the Minister said after viewing the deserted building, which appeared to have been untouched since the bomb hit it on May 7, 1999. The Chinese will never forget what happened on that day, he added. Mr. Tangs visit to Yugoslavia is seen as support for changes in the Balkan federation and for Vojislav Kostunica, the Yugoslav President, whom Beijing recognized two days after a popular uprising toppled Mr.

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In the decades following theAl-1'' lied victory, the communists -erased such events from their his-' tory, and young Poles today know little or nothing about the acts of 1 retribution meted out to German-1 civilians in Silesia and the former East Prussia. Dr. Maruska Svasek, a Central European specialist at Queens' University, Belfast, said, Hundreds of thousands of German 1 civilians across Central Europe -were raped, tortured, killed or died due to terrible conditions 1 after the war, but communist historiography was simply anti-Nazi and pro-communist, and disre- garded the truth about postwar, anti-German crimes. 1 Werner Scholz, a German Sile- '1 sian who was sent to the camp at the age of eight with his grand-mother and sister, neither of whom survived, believes real reconcilia- tion can never take place between -Germans and their Central Euro- pean neighbours until the crimi- 1 nals are brought to justice. Everywhere you looked in the camp, there were people dead or dying, he said.

If a person wasnt beaten to death, then he simply died of typhus, dysentery or starvation. A cold would be enough to finish him off. These were crimes, like Nazi crimes, and they should he treated in the same way ahd perpetrators brought to justice. Mr. Geborskis trial, which in-' volves 40 volumes of evidence and more than 300 witnesses, is likely to last up to a year.

The Daily Telegraph Yugoslav people for the development of their country, and we want it to have political and economic stability, as well as improving its position in the international community. Beijing has also offered in humanitarian aid. China, along with Russia and other non-Western countries, was considered a dose ally of Bel- grade during the Milosevic era. -Mr. Milosevic focused his for- eign policy on the two stated to offset international isolation.

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