gGiant birthday fete et for ‘Queen Mum’ Paraguay militia harms peasants THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1980 Page 13 JJ's Wholesale Warehouse Featuring: icration wit; ion, with an cost to M with i ,000.” is not ned he council p it voter ap ii United Press International :re is peEMsLONDON — Her title is Queen juncil men pother Elizabeth, but her affection- ronvincefl ate nickname from one end of this eed asystapand kingdom to the other is liamson,afiOueen Mum.’ She is the most e toabide kfed woman in Britain. ECyril Smith, the biggest (in girth) he choiceelfcn in Parliament, suggested re- leycouldffftntly, in her presence in the House ever going af Commons, that her 80th birthday, et a referMpig. 4, should be a national holiday. 11 do not ho’The idea ignited an instant re pram. sponse, though Prime Minister Mar- rises: Iflmret Thatcher cooled it slightly with expected! A( sympathetic suggestion that ises, woulc per haps it would be more in keeping lortation I with the way the nation thinks of the ? queen mother to have local celebra- re wouldItions instead. WillamsotjlfOne thing seems certain — it will transit she the most warmly observed royal Transit [occasion of the year. he British have a natural rever- rady Bur.: Transpoitj iposed syst^ nd down’I ence for age, but that isn’t the only reason that her people will honor her birthday. The more they have learned of her, the more her former subjects have come to realize what a bargain the throne got when the shy, stammering Duke of York persuaded her to marry him in 1923. A biographer quoted her as saying: “It was my duty to marry Bertie. I fell in love with him afterwards. ” A lucky thing for everyone. When King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 for love of an American divorcee, and his terrified brother realized he would have to ascend the throne, there she was at his side, solid as the granite of her native hills. She coaxed him to take therapy for his stammer, helped carry the load of royal obligations, and sadly prepared her daughter, Elizabeth, to be a queen. The queen mother is energetic, enthusiastic, carries out more than 100 public engagements a year, almost always wearing a large hat, pearls and long gloves. Besides fishing and gardening, the queen mother has a stable of stee plechase horses. Her favorite read ing is Sporting Life. She goes to the races frequently and trainers recog nize her knowledge of the sport. The media like the small, round lady whose bright blue eyes have seen, sometimes through tears, so much of the British history of this century. She is always willing to pose and, unique for the royal family, will let photographers re-stage a shot they missed. History will list as her greatest achievement helping restore the monarchy after the abdication. If her grandson, Prince Charles, is a great king, she will deserve some of the credit. He adores her. United Press International LONDON — Amnesty Interna tional said Wednesday Paraguayan troops and police killed more than 20 people and arrested several hundred others to keep peasants from orga nizing to improve their conditions. The non-governmental human rights organization said the crack down by the Latin American govern ment “appears to be a renewal of repressive campaigns which have followed attempts by the peasants to organize themselves.” An Amnesty statement said the killings came “in raids in several parts of the country ” by an estimated 5,000 soldiers, militia and govern ment supporters. “Some 300 peasants have been taken to a notorious police torture center called Tnvestigaciones’ in the capital of Asuncion,” it said. “Among the prisoners is a wounded 12-year- old girl.” It said “an unknown number” of other peasants also was being held in Villarrica and Paraguari. “Among those killed or impris oned were peasant leaders who had RA bomb hurts six British troops lege Sti $454,0(1 vely on $76,091- . .. United Press International pem M^jBELFAST, Northern Ireland — A ■mb detonated by remote control JeStroyed a British Army armored B Wednesday, critically wounding vo stops MB soldier and injuring five others. 1 be noc&'The outlawed Irish Republican the tranSBny claimed responsibility for the slow dowBck, which was a virtual duplicate i compaayil bombing three weeks ago that n is up tilled a British soldier, i city, al: Police said a bomb planted in an pollmaytbandoned van on a roadside at come. Irossmaglen, near the border with stakesothe Ireland, was detonated by re- ce the toote control as the armored car said thisumed. osition. llf The driver of the armored car was ig right an# said. critically wounded and taken to a Belfast hospital. His five passengers were treated for shock and lacera tions. A military spokesman said the force of the blast blew the military vehicle fom the road. The incident occurred just hours after Irish police and troops found what they described as a massive IRA supply dump near the border. Irish police said rockets, mortars, grenades, blast bombs, parts of land mines, at least 20 high-caliber rifles and thousands of rounds of ammuni tion were buried in a concrete bunk er beneath a cow shed near Drogheda. ste| Chinese paper >lecritical of rights YOU ARE INVITED TO.. . 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