Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Winnipeg free press thursday april 16, anniversary March the 2nd butt will Mark the korean War Princess Patricia s Canadian Light infantry anniversary of the Battle of Kapyon in the with displays and presentations tomorrow and saturday at Kapyon Barracks. . . Jubin will watch the battalion s Honor guard and Roll past iof armoured carriers. The Public is Welcome. Offensive palestinian guerrilla strongholds blasted by jets in Southern Lebanon from the news services Beirut israeli jets blasted palestinian guerrilla strongholds in South pm Lebanon today israeli frogman blew up a cargo ship in the port of Sidon and two palestinian guerrillas were killed trying to balloon into Israel radio broadcasts said. Lebanese provincial officials said the israeli jets hit guerrilla positions and Supply routes near the Southern port City of pyre 80 Kilometres South of Beirut and 20 Kilometres North of the israeli Border. There was no immediate report of casualties or comment from Israel either on the air attack or the ship sinking. Lebanon s state radio said the Frog men paddled into Sidon before Dawn and set three explosive charges that ripped apart the Hull of the 350-ton freighter and Sank the vessel. Youths riot in Belfast Belfast More than 100 youths hurled bricks and gasoline bombs at Londonderry police yesterday after a peaceful protest March by sup porters of jailed Irish Republican army guerrilla Bobby Sands authorities said. Police fired Back with plastic bullets but reported no injuries or arrests. Terrorist Dies in Hospital Hamburg West Germany a convicted West German terrorist Sigurd Debus 38, has died in a local Hospital after a two month hunger strike authorities and Debus attorney said today. Fri officials pardoned Washington one of two former Fri officials pardoned by president Reagan for authorizing illegal break continued from Page 1 neither Trudeau Hatfield nor Davis were invited to the meetings yesterday and today. The Quebec Challenge was the third and last to be heard by provincial repeal courts at the Behest of the dissenting provinces British Colum Bia Alberta Manitoba Quebec Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia oppose the Federal plan but did t join the Legal Challenge. Manitoba s High court ruled for Ottawa by a three to two margin while the Newfoundland supreme court decided unanimously in favor of the provinces. Reaction from the Federal politicians to the Quebec decision was predictable. The liberals and new democrats were thrilled while the progressive conservatives vowed to continue fighting the Patria Tion plan. In its judgment the Quebec court of Appeal said that Ottawa does not need provincial consent to seek amendments to the Canadian Constitution. The five judges agreed unanimously that Trudeau s plan to Patriate the Constitution from Britain with an entrenched charter of human rights would in some cases infringe on provincial jurisdiction. But four of the five Wen on to conclude that the Federal government has the Legal Power to go ahead in spite of provincial objections. Pm agrees to meeting on inflation continued from Page 1 a Standard Basket of goods and services which Cost in 1971 Cost in March and in february. The buying Power of a Dollar today is 4-1 cents compared to in 1971. Statistics Canada said that the All items excluding food Index advanced 1.5 per cent in March up significantly from the 0.8-per-cent increase registered Between january and february. In Dollar terms it meant that excluding food goods which Cost in february Rose to in March. The Rise in the Cost of food in March from february was 0.7 per cent a drop from the increase of 1.7 per cent for the january to february period. The variation in Price increases from City to City was due to differing Price movements for food gasoline and fuel Oil. As Well the sales tax change pushed the Price Index up in Charlotte Tovin Summerside and Vancouver. Last week Trudeau put off a request by Ontario Premier William Davis for a conference 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 ins during an investigation of anti War radicals in t i a Early 1970s says he owes one to the gig per. And he says so does the entire . Intelligence Community Reagan announced unconditional pardons yesterday for Mark Felt 47, once the Obj s no. 2 official and Edward miller56, onetime head of the Bureau s intelligence division. Both men said they Felt vindicated. Coalfield violence flares new violence broke out in the West Virginia yesterday and Coal trucks were pelted with rocks in Ken Tucky amid5 reports that the United mine workers and Coal operators Are still far apart on ending a 21-Day strike by 160.000 miners. Louis gets preference Washington president Reagan has ordered that former heavyweight boxing Chanil Oion Joe Louis who died earlier this week be buried in Arling ton National cemetery officials said yesterday. Aiding As comi Nander in chief Reagan waived restrictions which normally would have barred the famed Boxer from being buried in the historic cemetery. Blast traps 15 miners Redstone Colo. Rescue Crews inched their Way along a mine Shaft Early today trying to reach 15 miners trapped by an explosion that swept through the lower limits of a Coal mine on Colorado s Western slope. Seven men came out of the mine in two groups after the blast yesterday afternoon. Fostir were uninjured but three were admitted to Hospital for treatment of Burns bruises and Shock. Executives dismissed London the top two executives of the in Britain lost their jobs yesterday within hours of police moving to shut three of its Lon Don casinos. Police said Tivey served notices of objection to renewal of gaming licences for the casinos based on alleged violations of gaming Laws. Hoaern care saved Reagan surgeon says by Victor Cohn i he Washington Posi Washington if president Reagan had been taken to the White House rather than to George Washington University Hospital after the assassination attempt two weeks agn he could have been killed by the Bullet that lodged an Inch from his heart and Aorta according to the surgeon who operated on him. Only because the president got prompt and highly skilled modern Shock trauma care was he in no danger of dying said or. Benjamin Aaron the Hospital s director of Chest and cardiovascular surgery. The operation to remove the Bullet was More difficult that he had anticipated and he almost gave up three times trying to find it Aaron said. In a three hour account of the events of March 30, Aaron has Given tin Washington i oat a Grimmer picture of Reagan s close Call than the Public received. Big trouble if the president had been taken to the White House after he was shot instead of to George Washington hos Pital or taken to a More Distant or lesser Hospital i think he would have been in big Aaron said. He could have been another or. Michael Halbertstam a noted cardiologist died on the operating table after being shot by a burglar at his Washington Home last december we found the Bullet no More than an Inch from his heart and an Inch from his Aaron continued. The Bullet s proximity to the heart was reported by one radio reporter but or. Dennis o Leary the Hospi Tal s medical spokesman quickly denied it and said the Bullet really struck several inches away. I had a hard time finding the bul Aaron recalled. Twice i Al most gave up. But i had a Strong feeling in my brain i should t leave that Bullet in the president an Inch from his heart. Explosive was As it turned out since it proved to be a Devastator Bullet whose explosive was toxic that was fortunate. I think there s no question but that we would have had to go Back into his Chest again and take it out because it might have ruptured and started the Aaron emphasized was never in real danger of death Here because he got first class care from the first minute. But he needed it. He was right on the mar Gin when he got the president was on the Edge of a precipitous drop in blood pressure and dangerous physiological shuck due to blood loss he explained. Did o Leary associate Dean of the University s medical Center mislead the nation when he painted the presi Dent As a joking in no Way dangerously Hurt Man to some extent. O Leary has admitted to some errors and sometimes having a Little bit less than Complete inform could have died i tried 10 be As upbeat As possible without damaging my he says. O Leary did accurately and successfully reassure the country that barring surprises it would have a live functioning president. Probably few could have done As Well in portraying the urgent care being simultaneously Given the president his press Secretary and a secret service agent All wounded by Devastator bullets allegedly fired by John w. Hinckley or. The president thought he had just been braised when shoved into his limousine by secret service agent Jerry Parr but Parr seeing blood on Reagan s lips changed course from the White House to the nearby Hospital. O Leary later said the president probably still would have been Okay if he had had to travel another 20 or 30 minutes to a Hospital. Aaron thinks that another 20 minutes and he might Haw Bem in Trou ble and could have died. At the Hospital he started walking into the emergency room. Pale shaky and Light headed his legs started to buckle. He was bleed ing internally very vigorously at a rather alarming Aaron explained and had lost 20 per cent of his blood volume closely approach ing a Shock he soon was getting blood. He ultimately lost More than 50 per cent of his own blood but the transfusions meant he was never Down More than 20 per cent Aaron said. At that Point however his blood was still rolling out of a Chest so he wheeled into an operating room Tor three hours of surgery. We did t know where the bleed ing was coming Aaron said. But we had plenty of time because his blood was being so an abdominal incision was made and the belly area was flushed. He said we could see the dark blood Welling out of the Hole in the lung. The Bullet s entry site in the president s Side was a Slit wound but the Hole in the lung was round. So the flattened Bullet which ricocheted before it hit evidently went into the Chest like a disc sideways then spun through the lung like a Ball turning. It Tore up a lot of lung. When 1 found it it was about an Inch from the heart and Aorta right against the heart s surface almost. Divine Providence i think there was some kind of divine Providence or something Riding with that Bullet. Because it still had a lot of zing and one can Only conjecture How much worse things might have he continued i wanted the bul let. You never operate to find a Bullet unless you have to. But it is Good trauma ology to remove any foreign body if you can. I Felt where i knew from the a Ray it ought to be. I Felt and i Felt and 1 Felt and i could t feel he ordered another a Ray for bullets move around a but it was still in the lung and i ultimately threaded a Catheter Down the Bullet track and i finally Felt but every time i squeezed it slipped and squished around. It was like Liying to find a dime through a sponge. I came close to giving up and closing the Chest a couple of pinched it with fingers but lie did not and finally i worked it around and pinched it to the lung s surface with my Fin what made the president s Emer gency care so successful is the High state of readiness training and technological skill of Many academic or teaching hospitals. Or. Aaron too is a new kind of doctor a combined surgeon and specialist in physiology biochemistry and the growing sub Pedalty called trauma ology the science of caring for the victims of violence. This science made the response to this injury very different from that when at least two assassinated presi dents died of their wounds. Many authorities think that Doc tors bungled she care of James Gar Field. He was shot in the Back and shoulder on july 2, 1881, by a disgruntled office seeker at the Balti More Potomac Railroad station Here. He could have says one authority but doctors let him lie where he was shot for nearly eight hours then failed to Drain his wound adequately. Mckinley shot in the stomach on sept. 6, 1901, at the pan american exposition in Buffalo was operated on right pm the spot by a gynaecologist who Jusi happened to near. He ignored another doctor s suggestion that he insert a Drain to combat bloating and infection. Mckinley died of infection five Days later. Indeed said or. Aaron the nut look would have been less favourable for president Reagan 2u years ago. Pulitzer prize withdrawn after hoax reveal continued from Page 1 Oshonie 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 Village i just think it s a very unfortunate situation to which the Washington i tit has responded Elliott said. "1 feel very sad that the talented Young woman s promising Ca reer has been damaged so needlessly and i Hope not in a statement yesterday Cooke 20, said the article was a serious misrepresentation which i deeply re Gret. I apologize to my newspaper my profession the pulitzer Board and All seekers of the Cooke s Story published last sept. 28, told of the life and views of an 8-year-old identified As Jimmy. The Story said he had been addicted to heroin since the age of 5, when his Mother s live in boy Friend first Al Lowed the child to sniff some heroin. It said the boy Friend was a heroin dealer and that Jimmy s Mother and grandmother also were heroin addicts. The Story quoted Jimmy As saying he went to school Only to learn math so he could be a better Ding dealer when he grew older. In the Story Jimmy compared life under the influence of heroin to going on every ride in an amusement Park on a single Day. The end of the article described a scene in which the boy Friend injected Jimmy with heroin. Pretty soon the boy Friend was quoted As saying you got to learn to do this for Cooke told her editors before publication of the article that she got to see Jimmy and his Mother because she promised them anonymity. Cooki told the editors l Mother s boy Friend had threatened her life if any authorities or police discovered Jimmy s whereabouts. Upon publication the article prompted a Strong and immediate response in the City. Mayor Marion Barry and chief of police Burtell Jefferson As signed a task Force of police and social workers to locate the 8-year-old cited in the Story and to obtain medical treat ment for him. In a statement Barry said i am concerned and will continue to be concerned about the accuracy of in formation disseminated to our Resi dents from the news the Learned that irregularities might exist. In Cooke s autobiographical submission to the pulitzer Board Early tue iday afternoon when officials at College called Brad Lee and told him Cooke had not graduated Magna cum lauds but in fact had Only attended the school for her freshman year. At the same time the associated press called 1 managing editor Howard Simons to report that a staffers in Ohio were being told that Cooke had not received a master s degree from the University of Tole do. As soon As they received these re ports Bradlee Simmons and editors on the Post s staff began a series of intensive interviews with Cooke. At first sine insisted her pulitzer autobiography was accurate. Slowly one item at a time she con fessed to the fabrications in the Auto biography. These confessions prompted the editors to question the Validity of the Story for which she had been awarded the pulitzer. For several hours Cooke insisted the Story was Rue that Jimmy existed. At a meeting Early in the eve Ning Bradlee and assistant manag ing editor Bob Woodward told Cooke they had serious doubts about the Story. Bradlee told Cooke she had to prove Jimmy s existence As soon As possible or admit that he Story was a fabrication. Cooke said she would attempt to prove Jimmy s existence. She and City editor Milton Coleman drove to he neighbourhood in South East Washington where Cooke had maintained that Jimmy lived. Cooke was unable to find Jimmy s House. Back at the several editors examined the file of notes Cooke took when reporting the Story and listened to several tape recorded interviews she had done with drug experts. There were no notes of Cooke s first supposed encounters with Jimmy and his family. But some of the notes and the tape recorded interview indicated that Jimmy s world could have been u composite 01 the lives heard about from the experts and social workers. When Cooke and Coleman returned to the i us unable to find Jimmy s House they met with Woodward and two other editors. The meeting lasted several hours with Annke insisting1. She would stand by her Story. Finally Early yesterday morning she con fessed that Jimmy tin not exist thai he was a composite of several Young drug users. The is investigating the Inci Dent ;