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COPY AVAILABLE B2 The Edmonton Journal, Friday, August 23. 1393 Digest Joaomeys odd fflhie Saltan) Mlfcg ifoeidls Fraser recommended for task force JIM FARRELL Journal Staff irVriter i Fil Fraer. former hel of the Human Rhts Commission of Alberta, could soon bead a city task force on arcess la in formation. Fraser one of three peo ple being recommended by city administrators to sit on the committee. The group, consisting of 1 Lke the Balkan people a lot They have a beautiful culture except tor their wanting to kill each other." band manager Cameron Noyes three cituens and seven city department representaties.

will be charged ith developing city policies and procedures on acvess to information and reieumg Bill 61. the him-eif. Noves threw the hat a ay a soon as he parted company with the soldiers. Travelling with only one small bag containing a blanket, cigarettes, plum brandy and aae'Ura T-shirt. Noves met mercenaries from throughout Europe.

Some were serving with the Croatian forces. A couple of English mercenaries had served with the Serbs in Bosnia During his travels, Noves heard sme horrific stones. In Slovenia, he talked to a man who had left his pregnant wile one morning to get firewood When the man returned to his small village on the border of Croatia and Bosnia, he found his wife disemboweled and nailed to a road sign. In the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, near the Austrian border, Noyes encinintered (ierman, Austrian and Slovenian truckers in restaurants and nightclubs who laughed as they described some of the young girls who'd fled into Slovenia to escape the war. "They were starving to death, so these young girls started prostituting themselves for $5.

The truckers were laughing as they told me how cheap they could get thoe girls." The band entered Yugoslavia jut as the federation as breaktn up and bullets were beginning to fly Fighting had broken out in Sk-venia, near the Austrian border. The group ended up staving in a villa because the roais and the border to Italy were ckjsed. Noyes returned to Yugjnlavia in March 1992 with the Fdmonton band, Jr. iione Wild. After some shows were cancelled in Zagreb, Croatia.

Noyes attempted to get to Belgrade to get a booking with the Canadian army in Bosnia. That trip ended with guns being pointed at his head Despite that, he returned to Croatia on his ow n. "I'd started to get involved with refugees, helping them to get across borders." he says. Noyes estimates he has helped more than 20 people, sometimes buying bogus Cnxitian passports so his new-found Bosnian friends can settle peaceably in Croatia or Slo venia During one Bosnian trip, Noves explained to some soldiers that he was interested in picking up a few war souvenirs. One soldier gave him a brown peasant's hat with a bullet hole in it.

The soldier bragged he had shot the peasant province's Access to Information and Privacy Irotection Act Council will consider the Cameron Noyes dropped to his knees and put his hands on top of his head, just Lke the Serbian soldiers ordered. The Edmonton tour manager had just slipped over the border from Hungary into Yugoslavia. He was on his way to Beltrrade to get a gig for one of his Alberta bands. Since the Yugoslav border post was deserted, he just kept walking down a small road untd an army jeep pulled up. "I ended up with a gun pointed at my head." Noyes says.

"The soldiers were 17 or 18 really young guys and they were yelling for my papers." So muc for the idea of hitchhiking around the Yugoslav countryside because the local railway refused to accept his railway pass. Noyes gave up the idea of going to Belgrade and went back to Hungary confrontation with the Serb soldiers happened in July of last year. He has now made three trips into the former Yugoslavia Most have been for professional appointments next week. Jason's mom can't recover bail money Glenda Carpenter told court Thursday that she failed to ap ship with the Balkans. He plans to go back next month, hopefully to get some refugees out.

"I like the Balkan people a lot," he says. "They have a beautiful culture except for their wanting to kill each other." Noyes made his first trip into Yugoslavia in 1991, just before the country disintegrated, touring with some Alberta folk ami roots reasons touring with bands or travelling on his own to get bookings. Some have been strictly sightseeing. Lke the trip he made into Bosnia in June 1992 to see a Roman Catholic religious shrine. "1 got within 40 km of Sarajevo, hitchhiking and catching rides with the military." he says.

"It's all a matter of taking risks and trying to gft jobs." Xoves has a love-hate relation pear lor her own criminal charges because she was at the trial of Theresa and Rod Lenny. The Lennys, found guilty of Form of therapy mixes East, West BILL RANKIN Journal Religion Writer Edmonton East meets West in the form of psychotherapy espoused by Irish psychiatrist Dr. Brion Sweeney. Sweeney is in Edmonton to talk about a method of psychotherapy which blends Tibetan Buddhist psychological insights with traditional western ways of viewing mental health. He emphasizes, however, the form of self-study he is teaching beating Carpenters son Jason into a permanent vegetative state, were on trial last May when Carpenter was due to apfiear in court.

But Court of Queen's Bench Justice Doug Matheson rejected Carpenter's argument and wouldn't allow her to recover her $300 bait Carpenter. 34, is serving three months in jail after pleading guilty last week to six charges: failing to appear in court in May, possession of stolen property: escaping lawful custody; mischief and two counts of theft under $1,000 The Lennys, found guilty July 5 of aggravated assault and failure to provide the necessities of life for Jason, are appealing 16-year sentences. Man to be tried for robberies A 57-year-old man facing a string of robbery charges will stand trial March 21. Charles Warren Boomer, who wTestled with police and security guards at his preliminary hearing, appeared again briefly in court Thursday. He faces six counts of robbery and three counts of possession of a weapon in connection with two city bank robberies in 1991.

During his preliminary, the white-haired man swore repeatedly, spat at security guards and had to be physically forced to co-operate. His behavior so upset a witness, she burst into tears. Boomer, who is in custody. does not require anyone to give up ing, visual art, clothes-on massage, and visualizations to probe their personal histories. They spend the second two years integrating what they discover into their present lives.

Sweeney says the approach appeals to westerners' skeptical minds. It demands an inquiring rather than a submissive attitude toward learning. He also emphasizes that these techniques aren't being touted as the best and only approach to psychotherapy. "We're not claiming exclusivity. We're rather saying this is a method." Sweeney is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Britain and is a trained western-style psychotherapist.

He worked as a psychiatrist in Fort McMurray between 1989 and 1991. He continues to practise conventional psychiatry in Dublin when he is not touring to talk about this Buddhist-oriented approach to psychotherapy. He will give a public talk tonight at 7:30 at the Unitarian Church of Edmonton. Admission is $5. their original traditions.

"We would take people from all traditions. You can do this work and take what you wish with out having to make any commit ment to Buddhism, whatsoever. The techniques are based on a sthe real Canadian program developed by a Tibetan abbot now residing in Scotland after the Chinese invaded his homeland in the 1950s. Sweeney says the program is accessible to westerners because it uses techniques widely recognized in the East. -35 mm 24 exposure' Participants in the first two years of the four-year program use writ has elected to be tried by Nine-year term for robbery, judge and jury.

Bandit wore London Drugs $V24 shooting to be appealed garden gloves Two men, one wearing what -35 mm 24 exposure MARINA JIMENEZ Legal Affairs Writer appeared to be garden gloves and the other armed with a sa-wed-off shotgun, held up a South Side bank on Thursday. Edmonton Geoffrey Dochuk plans to appeal Service time may vary with work load. Prices in effect till closing Saturday, August 28, 1993. They entered the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce at the real CanariianOn his nine-year prison term for shooting a Domo gas station attendant 96th Street and 66th Avenue during a robbery two years ago. just before 3 p.m.

After grab Dochuk lawyer Terry Romaru- bing some cash and jamming it into a black backpack, they counts of possessing a restricted weapon. Dochuk took part in a 1:30 a.m. robbery at a gas station booth in northwest Edmonton. He and his co-accused Robert Young fled the scene. Dochuk was arrested later the same day at a West Edmonton mall hair salon, where he'd gone to have his hair cut and dyed.

The victim, Fleming, was not seriously injured because the bullet didn't hit any major organs. Young pleaded guilty to taking part in the robbery and is now serving a four-year term. Dochuk will be eligible to apply for parole in three years, his lawyer said. uk had suggested a four- to six-year sentence for Dochuk, who shot Ke drove away in a green Monte Carlo, said police. vin Fleming during a holdup on Sept.

26, 1991. Shortly alter, a report came Your BEST VALUE in Photofinishing But Court of Queen Bench Jus in that a car had crashed into tice Doug Matheson sentenced the pole in an alley at 97th Street and 66th Avenue. 19-year-old on Wednesday to nine years for a string of crimes: at Police found the getaway tempted murder, armed robbery. car in the alley. Witnesses reported the two men fled in a unlawfully using a firearm, possessing a stolen weapon and two grey Monte Carlo.

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