Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Jar tet Cooke s pulitzer lie Sparks intense self investigation it Washington is i f i re food parcel delays feed Polis by ant Homcy Barbieri or. The Baltimore Sun Warsaw at the Central Post of fice in downtown Warsaw As Welt As at the Airport outside the City there Are mountains of parcels from abroad that did not reach their intended recipients before the Start of the easter Holiday weekend. V the packages belong to people Lucky enough to have a Friend or relative in the West but not so Lucky As to have their packages processed before the Holiday by postal and customs officials swamped with work. The delays have caused a scandal Here and not just the Type of routine scandal about postal inefficiency that gets reported even in communist coun tries. People Are angry because the packages their packages contain food food from places like the United states France West Germany any place where there Are Large polish communities to a country where food is becoming More and More scarce. Almost nine months of economic disruption combined with two bad agricultural years in a Row have caught up with Poland this Spring to make this easter weekend the bleakest in the last 30 years. Long lineups the Long seemingly endless lines in anger the shops the shortages of almost everything the food rationing already begun or about to begin have All worked to sharply temper the Joy and Pride most poles feel in the momentous political events that Are reshaping pol ish society. It was better in 1945 than it is a 70-year-old Warsaw professor who lived through the nazi occupation said not Long ago. The germans took everything from us but still there was somehow enough left the shortages Are hitting especially hard Over easter because they Are depriving poles of the things they like to eat most the hams for which this country is so famous the sugar and Rich creams indispensable to polish baking the chocolate candies for easter baskets the tangy cheeses that used to be so abundant. In their place there Are lines lines that food rationing has done Little to shorten lines that begin Early in the morning on a Rumor and a prayer lines longer than anywhere else in Eastern Europe lines longer and More ubiquitous than even in the soviet Union where indifference to the consumer is almost a government policy. The Cost is tremendous immense in social and political terms As Well As see poles Page 4 sunny today 15 Clear tonight 2 Winnipeg free press monday Aoril 20. 1981 Sun rises . Sets Moon Riser a-r1 no Rnic r-9r final for Home delivery 957-o550 or 942-8161 classified 956-2330 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Lyon receives support in denouncing claim Ken free press an angry Premier Sterling Lyon denounces Montreal Gazette. Oil glut aimed to lower prices Yamani claims by James l. Rowe or. The Washington Post Washington an Oil glut engineered by saudi Arabia will continue until other Petroleum exporting coun tries agree to a lower uniform Oil Price that is increased gradually through a formula linked to inflation the saudi Oil minister said yesterday. But Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani in an appearance on meet the press said he doubted that such an agreement would come out of the next meeting of the organization of Petroleum Export ing countries May 25. It will take some he said probably until sometime in 1982. Yamani also said the saudis still expect to Purchase five advanced elec tronic surveillance aircraft from the United states As part of a package of military plane sales approved by the administration earlier this month. He said he was not aware of Reagan administration attempts to persuade the saudis to delay Purchase of the surveillance planes called Azacs in order to forestall a political fight Over the Sale in Congress. Opposition to the Sale has been Strong in Israel where prime minister Mena chem begin faces a general elec Tion june 30. The Reagan administration reportedly is considering putting off the whole package until Midsummer after the israeli elections or holding Back the Azacs while submit Ting the rest of the package to con Gress. The proposed Deal can be killed if both the Senate and the House vote to disapprove. Yamani said . Refusal to give the surveillance planes to saudi Arabia would be judged in the context of .-saudi relations but he did not suggest any possible repercussions. See stable Page 4 from the news services Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon has received support from the governments of Quebec and British Columbia in his denunciation of a news report which blamed Lyon and Quebec Premier Rene Levesque for scuttling chances of a Federal provincial Compromise on a striation of the Constitution. Quebec intergovernmental affairs minister Claude Morin told the Canad an press in a Telephone interview sat urday that the Story m the Montreal Gazette is completely false and a total Uke Lyon he said he suspects Federal sources provided information for the article. British Columbia Premier Bill Ben Nett said Lyon and Levesque would be right in calling for an apology from the source of the Story and from those who carried i want to categorically deny Bennett said in a Telephone Call to the Vancouver Sun. He said the premiers never even discussed the question of a charter of rights during their meeting in Ottawa thursday. Accepted charter the article dateline Ottawa ran on the Gazette s front Page saturday. It said most of the eight premiers who met in Ottawa were willing to accept prime minister Trudeau s rights Char Ter if he agreed to their amending formula but that Lyon and Levesque refused to go along. It said that while the premiers were angry with Levesque they could under stand his position to some extent. But they reportedly were truly furious with Lyon who was seen As dogmatic to the Point of pig headed Ness. The meeting then reportedly almost broke up with some premiers threaten ing privately to walk out and change sides joining Trudeau. Instead they went Public with their limited agreement on Canadian control and their amending for Mula knowing full Well that Trudeau would reject it out of hand. Dishonest reporting the Basic premise of the Story is a Lyon told reporters saturday. Calling it a blatant example of Dishon est the Premier said he is demanding an immediate retraction and apology from the Montreal paper. He said he has also contacted the offices of the seven other first ministers who attended last week s meetings. I have to wonder to what degree some people will stoop to denigrate the provinces stand on constitutional re Lyon said he May sue the Gazette Why not people can t go around publishing lies that kind of National enquirer journalism we Haven t had in Lyon said saturday the charter of rights was f. Discussed during the meeting. He said there was a Secretary present but that there was no written record of what went on. Lyon said the article serves the Case of the Federal government and its constitutional proposals which include the charter of rights. Morin supported Lyon s stand say ing it seems they Are intentionally misinterpreting the discussions which took place Between the pre the Quebec minister added that Federal officials had deliberately misunderstood the agreement. In Montreal a spokesman for the Gazette said the paper will stand by its article. To the Best of our knowl Edge our Story is said an see Lyon Page 4 Pope John Paul ii reads his easter message yesterday from the Balcony of St. Peter s Basilica. Violence flares around Globe As millions celebrate easter by the associated press As pilgrims of different faiths shared the holy City of Jerusalem on easter sunday Pope John Paul extended holi Day greetings from Rome in 43 languages and devoted part of his easter Blessing to condemning abortion. The Day of worship was marred by incidents of violence around the world several exploding hand grenades killed at least 11 and wounded about 155 in a crowded Church in the Philippines two youths were knocked Down and killed by a British army land Rover in Bel fast Northern Ireland following celebrations of the 1916 easter uprising against British Rule and a new round of artillery Battles and factional Vio Lence brought death and destruction to Lebanon. Shroud test results a Sunrise mass of the resurrection said by the latin patriarch of Jerusa Lem Giacomo Giuseppe Belt Ritti ushered in easter to the holy land with nearly people taking communion in the Church of the holy sepulchre traditional site of Christ s Tomb. The roman Catholic mass was Fol Lowed on a tight schedule drawn in accordance with Century old agree ments by a Palm sunday divine Liturgy celebrated by patriarch Deodorov. The greek orthodox under the Julian Ca Lendar Are just beginning the week of observances leading up to easter. Protestants celebrated outside the Jerusalem City Walls at the Garden Tomb a Skull shaped Hill which some scholars believe was the site of the crucifixion. At the wailing Wall a remnant of the Temple of Christ s time Early morning prayers marked the first Day of the jewish passover commemorating the israelite flight from Egypt. In Jeru Salem and elsewhere around the world saturday night jews began the eight see Pope Page 4 Alberta Happy Alberta teams were victorious in nil playoff action As Edmonton upset the islanders and Calgary edged Philadelphia. 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