Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba I r Norrie blasted for his part in Croatia fete of by Ron Campbell two City councillors criticized mayor Bill Nome last night for participating in the 40th anniversary of the Short 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 state during the second world War by nazi Germany and fascist Italy. I think All members of Council Are entitled to know Why he did what he did and Why he ignored the advice that was sunny today 22 Cloudy tonight 2 Ull 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. Free press 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 of the Independent state of Croatia that the local 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 took exception to the mayor s remarks reported in the Sullivan column. I think it is insulting to a country Yugoslavia with which Canada has diplomatic relations and an embassy in he said. I think it is insulting to the survivors of the Zuken said before any group is Hon ored by displaying a Flag in the City Plaza a civic Honor it should be care fully checked so that we have no repetition of such a Dishonour to the in an interview Zuken said nor Rie s attendance at the Celebration see mayor s Page 4 Ter inching Nero habit jazz guitarist Lenny Breau yearns to make music thursday april 16, 1981 vol 109 no tie Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Dave Johnson Winnipeg tree press final 30c with supplements for Home delivery 957-0550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 court 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. Poles demand sweeping reforms rank and file communists throw unprecedented Challenge at leaders by the Baltimore Sun to run 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. Create new party 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 anywhere 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. Already the polish leadership has promised reforms in choosing Dele Gates to the Congress that would make the polish party the most democratic in Eastern Europe. Such reforms include a secret ballot and the possibility of contested offices for party elections. This would make it difficult for Many of the pro Moscow factions to retain their posts. One speaker said yesterday that under such a system perhaps Only 10 to 15 per cent of the current party leadership should be retained in office and they should be kept largely to insure continuity. See pole Page 4 from the Canadian press the eight provinces opposing Ulila teral Patria Tion of the Constitution received a Jolt yesterday when a Quebec court ruled that the Federal govern ment s Patria Tion plan is Legal. In a four to one Quebec court of Appeal ruled that Ottawa does t need provincial consent to Amend the Constitution. But All five judges agreed that the charter of rights which the Federal government proposes to entrench in the Constitution would encroach on several areas of provincial jurisdiction. Premier Rene Levesque fresh from his election Victory monday immediately announced that Quebec will Appeal the decision to the supreme court of Canada which is already scheduled to hear appeals of two other constitutional court rulings starting april 20. May be bad Omen the decision May be a bad Omen for today s meeting of the eight premiers opposing the Patria Tion plan but provincial officials said it would t affect their efforts to Hammer out an alternative package. Naturally we re disappointed to hear the results of the court in Quebec but that s Only one stage in the pro Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon in Ottawa for today s meeting told reporters yesterday. It will have no effect on what we the premiers the premiers were confident enough of sealing a pact among themselves that they announced last week the Accord would be unveiled today at 10 however hours after the meeting of the dissenting premiers started yester Day in Lyon s closely guarded hotel suite it was evident from the worried frowns of aides buzzing in and out of the adjoining Hall that the agreement would not be easily achieved. Six hours later a tired looking Leves que emerged from Lyon s closely guarded hotel suite and said the discus Sions would resume later this morn ing. We still have to meet but "1 think we have an reporter loses prize Job after confessing to fabrication by the Washington Post Washington the pulitzer prize committee withdrew its feature writing prize from Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke yesterday after she admitted that her award winning Story was a fabrication. Cooke s Story Jimmy s was about an alleged 8-year-old heroin 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 that 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 degree from the University of Toledo. Resigns Cooke resigned from the washing ton Post yesterday. It is a tragedy that someone As talented and promising As Janet Cooke with everything going for her Felt that she had to falsify the said Benjamin c. Bradlee executive editor of the Washington Post. The credibility of a newspaper is its most precious asset and it depends 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 Osborne Elliott Dean of the Colum Bia University school of journalism which oversees the pulitzer awards process said yesterday afternoon that the pulitzer Board after being polled by Telephone withdrew Cooke s prize and awarded it to the runner up Teresa Carpenter of the Village voice. See editors Page 4 Cooke prize Winner was hoax none of the premiers would provide specifics of the Deal that appeared to still need some finishing touches. Trudeau offered yesterday to Dis cuss the premiers agreement with them during the weekend provided his charter of rights was part of the Deal and his two allies Ontario Premier William Davis and new Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield would join the discussions. But As the premiers headed into the meeting in Lyon s suite they reiterated their opposition to including a charter see premiers Page 4 pm relents on talks Over prices Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau has reversed an earlier Deci Sion 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 yester Day i will meet them when they want after maps pressed him to focus govern ment attention on a new assault on inflation. Trudeau last week put off a request by Ontario Premier William for a con Ference of ministers at least until after the july meeting of Industrial nations. You will be aware it is my intention to review the global economic situation with the leaders of the major Industrial nations at a Summit in Trudeau told Davis. Following the Ottawa Summit i shall be seeking the counsel of my colleagues and provincial premiers on How we might Best proceed to ensure a concerted attack on world and Canad an economic problems including Infra he said. Davis requested the meeting in a letter dated March 11, saying there is growing concern about the rising rate of inflation and that the sooner such a meeting is called the John Crosbie former progressive conservative finance minister asked Trudeau to spell out the government s economic program in Light of his Refus Al to meet the premiers. Trudeau replied that he had not refused to meet them but that he Felt such a meeting would be most use fully held after the economic sum de Broadbent Leader of the new democratic party said the new Bank rate would set off a new round of Cost of living increases for Farmers Small businessmen and homeowners. Would t it make sense for the prime minister to consult with All the premiers to try to get a concerted National policy that could also influence the global Broadbent asked. Finance minister Allan Maceachen rejected Broadbent s suggestion that he Call in the Heads of the chartered Banks to Force them to work out Mort Gage programs that Are acceptable to the average Homeowner. 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