The Brandon Sun from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada • Page 5

THE BRANDON SUN, Tudoy, May 29, 1973 Nightlife in China is different but still has its surprises roughly, the small soldier attacks but never retreats. Such sedentary games, though, are pastimes of the night. By the time dawn breaks over the city, or shortly afterwards, the parks and building forecourts are alive with physical training jogging, calisthenics or tai chi chuan, the graceful and ancient art of Chinese shadow boxing that practitioners say develops not only physical fitness but tranquillity of mind. Certainly it is true that you seldom see an obese person in China and rarely see an outburst of anger or strong emotion. carter in from the countryside with anything from bricks to vegetables, often asleep atop his tidily stowed load while the donkey or horse, or both in tandem plod on by instinct.

The night will erase any image of the new China as a joyless place devoid of fun or laughter or individualism. Here, a girl and boy stroll hand in hand. There, a mother edged the bamboo baby carriage up to a closed toyshop so her child can enjoy the window display of dolls and colorful games. Outside a cinema, people come and go from a revolutionary adventure film, paying admissions of 25 fen for adults, 10 fen for by CARL MOLLINS PEKING (CP) Nightlife in China isn't much like neon-lit strips of taverns and showclubs elsewhere but Peking nights have their charms and surprises all the same. Start, for example, in an upstairs People's Eating Place just off Chlen Hen Way in the old city centre.

Or perhaps the place in the East Wind market, that serves a sort of hamburger a meal Pekinese families try for an exotic treat the way North Americans send out for Chinese food. Wander afterwards among the evening strollers, the crowding bicycles and the occasional a dice-like gambling game -played with bone or ivory pieces, is a thing of the evil past along with debt and usury. "That is a game for reactionary Kuomintang soldiers who cheat the people," explained a poo-kah player. You can often spot the villain in revolutionary dramas because the actor carries a bag that rattles with mah jong pieces. But cards aren't the only games that draw the men and boys to the light of streetlamps on hot nights.

There is Chinese chess, which has an army marshal instead of a king and pieces called cannon, chariots and footsoldiers. The rules include ma zou ri the horse moves diagonally and xiao zhu yi qui bu hu huan are shendi, meaning es calation, or xiatai, which roughly means overthrow. To the uninitiated onlooker, the rules are a mystery. Every so often, a player hurls down a card probably a trump with a great sweeping gesture cries sha or bi, both meaning kill. Poo-kah flourishes in the face of official discouragement, including an active campaign against gambling in the 1950s and a rule that forbids the sale of playing cards.

But well-worn decks or handmade cards are used in games up and down the city streets on warm nights. Players maintain that there is no more gambling for money, although one said that sometimes there will be stakes of a candy or a lump of sugar. All insist that mah johg, tionary struggles against imperial rule and foreign exploitation, beginning With the Boxer uprising and the Taiping rebellion of the last century and ending with the Communist conquest of Shanghai in 1949. Down beside the tree-lined moat at the edge of the Forbidden City, the sound of solo clarinet music thrills across the water. It is a young musician practising in the stillness, away from what is probably a cramped apartment and from the noise of bicycle bells and occasional taxi horns on the streets.

Then there are the more lively pastimes, the poo-kah sessions by the score under the streetlights. Poo-kah is poker, except that in China it is the general name given to card games. The most popular children about 12 cents and five cents, respectively. On the corner nearby, a group of young girls crouch in the light of a streetlamp playing a kind of jacks eight drived marrowbones to be manipulated while tossing and catching a small bean-bag. In the vastness of Tien An Men Square, people stroll or sit or gossip.

At the towering cenotaph honoring China's revolutionary heroes, a young sentry of the Peoples Liberation Army lets down the chain that guards the monument at night to give foreign rub-berneckers a closer look at the friezes sculpted around the cenotaph's base. He proudly gestures through the language barrier to the pictorial history of China's revolu Gay election coalition formed OTTAWA (CP) Gay Liberation groups across the country have decided to make their presence felt in the next federal election. At a meeting here recently, they formed a national gay election coalition which a news release said was intended to make federal candidates in the next election aware of the "discrimination and oppression facing Canadian homosexuals and discover the candidates' positions" on the matter. They hope to do this by questioning candidates at campaign meetings, by issuing pamphlets and by circulating questionnaires. The meeting also decided to hold a Gay Pride Week across the country Aug.

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Manness would be available to any individual or group at any time to discuss the ideas and suggestions. Andy Power, supervisor of physical education for Brandon schools, and Garth Manness, of the Community Research Branch of the provincial government, recently returned to the city from a five-day conference on The Child in Sport and Physical Acitivity at Queens University at Kingston, Ont. And now they are faced with a difficult task. That task is to get across to the public the values, of physical activity to children. "We learned a lot in those five days but it would be impossible to summarize it in a simple statement," Mr.

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