Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Norrie criticized for role in croatian fete by run Campbell two City councillors criticized mayor Bill Norrie last night for participating in the 40th anniversary of tin lived Independent state of Croatia last saturday. Coun. Abe Yanofsky demanded that Norrie in Ontario this week on Busi Ness provide an explanation to Council on Why he participated in the celebrations for Croatia recognized As a stale during the second world War by Naii Germany and fascist Italy. "1 think All members of Council Are entitled to know Why he did what he did and Why he ignored the advice that was provided to him in Yanofsky said. Croatia was founded april 10, 1941, and recognized four Days later by Ger Many and Italy. It fell in 1945 under attack from Josep Tito s partisans and was incorporated into the current state of Yugoslavia. According to the encyclopedia Britannica the croatian state persecuted and killed Many thousands of orthodox serbs jews and muslims. Yves a columnist Paul Sullivan informed Norrie of Croatia s history on april 8, but Norrie said he was already committed to the Celebration that there May be another interpretation 01" the Independent state of Croatia that the Oca croatian Community has a Pavilion at Fol Lorama and that Yugo Slavia is an artificial state anyway. Coun. Joe Zuken was the first last night to raise objections to Nome s participation in the event which included flying the former state s Flag in the City Hall Plaza and a banquet at the croatian Church on North main Street. By a strange the victims of the nazi holocaust will be commemorated sunday the 38th anniversary of the uprising of the jewish ghetto in Warsaw against the nazis in 1943, Zuken said. He look exception to the mayor s remarks reported in the Sullivan col i think it is insulting to a country Yugoslavia with which Canada has diplomatic relations and an embassy in he said. "1 think it is insulting to the survivors of the Deputy mayor Pearl Mcgonigal said Zuken s concerns would be brought to Norrie s attention when he returns from Ontario. Yanofsky said he was concerned that the mayor was told in Advance of the history of Independent Croatia. Norrie should give an explanation to City Council and not just civic executive policy committee because by participating in the Celebration he represented All councillors Yanofsky said. After kicking heroin habit jazz guitars Lenny Bream yearns to make music Cloudy tonight 2 Cloudy tomorrow 5 details 2 thursday april 16, 19810 press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Final 30c with supplements for Home delivery. 957-0550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 i offered new Deal pile up Ross Sundmark 37, was listed in fair condition in Hospital last night after he suffered fractured ribs in a five vehicle Accident at Harrow Street and Pembina Highway. His father Carl was treated for a fractured rib and later released. The Baltimore Sun Torun Poland an unprecedented meeting of rank and file members of the polish communist party has demanded sweeping reforms in the Way the country is governed in effect throwing Down a Challenge to the pol ish party s pro soviet factions. Meeting in this Northern polish City yesterday representatives of various grass roots Reform groups within the party directed withering criticism at the party leadership and called for political changes that would Lead to a level of democratization unheard of in communist Eastern Europe. This movement among the rank and file is an attempt to create a new party a new Way of leading the one of the meeting organizers told the 500 or so delegates. The fact that the meeting was held in the open and with the knowledge of the party leadership is a sign of How deeply the political life of Poland has been altered perhaps permanently by the pluralism forced by the Independent Trade unions. The criticisms directed at party Lead ers and the demands made for change in Poland s political life in a Public meeting open to both polish and foreign journalists were without precedent and where in the soviet bloc seeing As they were made by card carrying party members. Not Only did they demand greater political liberalization and a virtual end to press censorship but the dismissal or ouster of top level party members As Well some of whom Are widely identified As the pro Moscow element of the leadership. The changes demanded will not go Down Well in the soviet Union where As in other orthodox communist sys tems party directives go from the top Down and not from the Bottom up. It is certain to make them an organizer of yesterday s meeting said. Another meeting is planned for May and one for june As part of the run up to the polish communist party Congress scheduled for july. Reporter loses pulitzer prize after admitting Story a hoax the Washington Post Washington the pulitzer prize committee withdrew its Fea Ture writing prize from Pusl reporter Janet Cooke yesterday after she admitted that her award winning Story was a fabrication. Cooke s Stow. Jimmy s was about an alleged Fryear old hero in addict in the District of Columbia. It was said to be based on interviews with the boy his Mother and his Mother s boy Friend. Cooke now acknowledges in Ai she never met or interviewed any of those people and that she made up the Story of Jimmy based on a composite of information about heroin addiction in Washington gleaned from various so Cial workers and other sources. Her admission followed revelations that certain claims she had made in an autobiographical report to the pulitzer authorities also were false. Cooke had said she was a Magna cum laude graduate of Vassar College and held a master s degree from the University of Toledo. In fact she attended Vassar for her freshman year and received a Bachelor s de Gree from the University of Toledo. Cooke resigned from the Hwi initial punt yesterday. Ii is a tragedy that someone As talented and promising As Janet Cooke with even thing going for her Felt that she had to falsify the said Benjamin c. Bradlee executive editor of the the credibility of a newspaper is its most precious asset and it de pends almost entirely on the integrity of its reporters. When that integrity is questioned and found wanting the wounds Are grievous and there is nothing to do but come clean with our readers apologize to the advisory Board of the pulitzer prizes and begin immediately on the Uphill task of regaining our credibility. This we Are see pulitzer Page 4 Cooke prize Winner was hoax Ottawa up eight premiers offered today to withdraw court Chal Lenges of Federal constitutional propos als if prime minister Trudeau will agree to a different amending formula and abandon at least temporarily his charter of rights. Appearing on live television in what some premiers called an historic of the provincial leaders asked Trudeau to withdraw his proposals from parliament and agree to simple Patria Tion of the Constitution with a formula to Amend it. That s All the parliament of another country should be asked to decide for Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon said prior to a signing ceremony for the provincial Accord. Following six hours of negotiations wednesday night and two hours of last minute haggling today the eight agreed that an amending formula they tentatively endorsed last summer in Vancouver is the Best for Canada. The formula would require Parlia ment and seven provinces representing 50 per cent of he country s population to ratify future constitutional changes. The other three provinces could opt out of these agreements. Lith hour decision provincial sources said Quebec pre Mier Rene Levesque was instrumental in an Lith hour decision to water Down provisions that would have forced any province wishing to opt out to obtain a two thirds majority in its legislature. The formula they endorsed required Only a simple majority. Trudeau said last fall he would accept this so called Vancouver formula Only if the his cherished charter of rights. The provincial Accord therefore appears doomed. Neither Trudeau nor his two allies Ontario Premier William Davis and new Brunswick Premier Richard hat Field were invited to attend wednes Day s discussions and today s signing ceremony. Lyon however invited All three to sign the agreement at some unspecified future Date. The Accord was to be communicated later today to the prime minister but in was not immediately known if any pre Miers planned to meet him. The prime minister had offered to meet the premiers sometime before tuesday providing All 10 attended to discuss Patria Tion an amending formula and his charter of rights. Some premiers replied a full suck constitutional conference on easter weekend would be inconvenient and chastised Trudeau for imposing a tuesday deadline the Day when maps must table the final amendments in the commons to the package. As each Premier spoke briefly to a National television audience they congratulated one another for reaching what they considered a major agree ment. What we have achieved is a flexible see Trudeau Page j 11.3% Here from Canadian press Winnipeg consumer prices were ii i Pel cent higher in March than they were a year earlier statistics Canada said today. Nationally consumer prices were 12.4 per cent higher. That was just 0.1 less than the mod Ern Day record of 12.5 per cent annual inflation set in december 1974. In Ottawa yesterday prime minister Trudeau reversed an earlier decision by saying he is prepared to hold a conference of first ministers on inflation in Advance of the july meeting of the seven major Industrial nations. Trudeau told the commons i will meet them when they want after maps pressed him to focus government at Tention on a new assault on inflation. The latest Rise in the consumer Price Index a commonly used measurement of inflation was mainly due to higher housing charges and increased transportation costs the latter because of a Price increase in Energy fuel Oil natural Gas electricity. Gaso line and motor Oil. Changes in sales taxes in proct Edward Island and British Columbia also contributed to the Rise. Statistics Canada said. See pm Page -1 most stores offices closed Good Friday most stores offices and Banks in the City will be closed tomorrow for Good Friday. Winnipeg s two newspapers the pm and nun won t publish. However easter monday is another matter with some services operating while others will be closed. Winnipeg transit will operate on a Holiday schedule tomorrow and Sun Day but buses will run on a regular basis saturday and easter monday. Liquor stores will be closed tomorrow and monday. Beverage rooms and lounges will be closed Good Friday but will open for business on monday. Federal provincial and civic govern ment offices will be closed both Tomor Row and monday. Charter Bank and Trust will be closed tomorrow but open for regular business monday. Retail stores and grocery outlets will be open saturday and monday. There will be no mail delivery or garbage pickup tomorrow or monday. Special delivery mail service not available from the Posl office Tomor Row will operate on a Holiday schedule sunday and monday. Pilgrimage As thousands of pilgrims flock to Israel to commemorate easter and passover holidays israeli forces increase Security to Stop guerrillas Bent on Ruel quits Claude Ruel resigned As coach of the Montreal canadians yesterday and already speculation on his successor is in High pact in sight several factors preventing an Oil pricing agreement Are reaching Resolution and that would free Ottawa to raise prices to Levels that would have been unacceptable a few months uninformed a government sponsored study has found that . College students Are woefully ignorant on foreign Western Index Ann Landers. 29 answers. 41 autos. 65 Billinkoff. 7 Bridge. 30 business. 17 classified. 42 comics. 77 crossword. 23 deaths. 2, 12 editorials letters.6 entertainment Horoscope Jumble Pozzie Larty. 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