Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press to reported View of Virgin Mary lures pilgrims firefighters examine wind damage in Tulsa okla. A Tornado that hit a Church in nearby Bixby killed at least 4 persons. Allegations of Iran torture denied from the news services Tehran president Abolhassan Bani Sadr s allegations of torture in iranian jails Are groundless a Mem Ber of an official investigating commis Sion said yesterday. Howato Heslam Mohammad Montazeri interviewed by the official pars news Agency after the commission met to finalize its report said it has not found a single Case of torture in the prisons. Without mentioning him by name Howato Heslam Montazeri clearly referred to the president when he said accusations of torture brought up by one of the country s authorities Are to tally police Battle vacationers Palm Springs Calif. A Battle Between police officers armed with clubs and smoke grenades and a Rock and bottle throwing mob of More than vacationers ended with the arrest of at least 13 people Early saturday. At least 10 More Young people were arrested saturday afternoon in another incident. Palm Springs is a traditional news Roundup easter weekend gathering place for Young people in California. Tornado smashes Church Tulsa okla. A Tornado smashed a country Church filled with easter worshippers last night killing at least four and possibly nine people. The twister also slammed into a nearby trailer Park police said. Police said Rescue workers were still searching for occupants of the Church in the suburb of Bixby South of Tulsa. Meanwhile tornadoes touched Down in Kentucky and Indiana yesterday damaging a farm and several Homes but causing no injuries police said. Sex presidents arrested la Paz two military officers who seized the presidency in coups have been placed under arrest by Bolivia s latest military government _ relatives and press reports say. The sex presidents Are retired general via service criticized Edmonton up passengers who paid full fare were forced to sit in the baggage compartment of a via rail Day liner on a trip from Calgary to Edmonton recently say two Sisters who were on the train. Mary Jane Ridley 22, and her sister Nancy 20, said about 15 people were forced to sit on the floor or stand in the baggage compartment because there were not enough seats for All the passengers. Paper towels were distributed in an Effort to keep passengers from getting their clothes dirty in the Dusty compartment. One Man was wearing a really Nice suit but it was just a mess when he got said Nancy. It was like a cargo said Mary Jane. No chairs no seats no windows no the Ridley said most passengers decided to Grin and Bear the inconvenience until the conductor announced an Accident further ahead would delay the train s arrival in Edmonton. I thought at the end of the trip they might be giving an apology or even a said Mary Jane but none was offered. The Ridley said they would Cash in their tickets and take a bus Back to Cal Gary stable open Price Oil minister says continued from Page 1 on the saudi Oil policy Yamani said the saudis were trying to Force the other 12 members of open into a uniform Price policy because such a policy is in the Long term interests of both Oil producing and Oil consuming countries. Saudi Arabia has been producing about id million barrels of Oil a Day since last year at a barrel. Until recently most Oil producers charged or More for their Oil. Normal saudi production is about 8.5-million barrels daily and the coun try s extra production has led to a worldwide oversupply of Petroleum. Several major producing countries have shaved prices in recent weeks because of the glut and lower gasoline prices Are showing up at pumps in the . Saudi Arabia s vast Oil reserves will last Many years longer than those of other open producers. As a result saudi Arabia wants to keep Oil prices lower than most other producers desire to ensure that Western Oil consuming nations do not move too fast in finding substitutes for Oil. However Yamani told interviewers yesterday that suggestions that nations would wean themselves off Oil Dur ing the 1980s and reduce the political Power of the open producers Are Wishful he said saudi Arabia would not re Duce its production or change its Price until other Oil producing countries come Down on their he said consuming countries must co operate with saudi Arabia by further reducing their demand for Oil. Yamani s remarks on Oil prices appeared to contradict an interview he gave to a Montreal newspaper in which be said saudi Arabia has not ruled out a slight increase in its Oil prices in the coming months. A retract Story apologize continued from Page 1 Zette said the paper will stand by its article. To the Best of our knowl Edge our Story is said an editor who asked not to be named. In a Telegram saturday to the Gazette Lyon said your Story alleging that the premiers of Quebec and Mani Toba conspired to Stop the other pre Miers from accepting the Federal constitutional package is totally untrue. It is maliciously damaging to the first majority Accord on the Constitution reached in the lifetime of most Trudeau and All 10 premiers agreed on the so called Victoria charter constitutional package in 1971, although then Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa announced shortly after that he would t ratify it. Lyon said that was different because unlike the agreement last week in Ottawa the Victoria agree ment was t formally signed. The Telegram also said without limiting any rights that i or any of the other premiers affected have 1 de Mand an immediate retraction and Hugo Banzer Suarez president from 1971 to 1978, and col. Alberto Natusch Busch who led a coup and pro claimed himself president in no vember 1979, but then stepped Down after 17 Days of Street demonstrations and riots. Bhutto names hijackers London Murtaza Bhutto son of the executed former prime minister of Pakistan was quoted by the bbl yesterday As saying members of his organization were the hijackers of a Paki Stani aircraft last month. Bhutto whose father Zulfiqar am Bhutto was hanged in 1979, said he had no knowledge of the hijacking before it took place the bbl said in a report from Bombay India. The younger Bhutto 26, is general Secretary of the a Zulfiqar organization named after his father and also known As the Pakistan libera Tion army. The 13-Day hijacking started March 2 Over Pakistan and in its stops in Kabul Afghanistan and Damascus Syria be came the second longest in history. Bhutto had been silent throughout even though the three hijackers identified themselves As members of the Al Zulfiqar group. Indian death toll lower new Delhi the official death toll in a wind storm that devastated 11 villages in the Eastern Indian state of Orissa on Friday was provisionally put at 36 saturday with about 200 injured. The press Trust of India said about people were left homeless. Earlier unofficial reports said More than 100 people were feared killed. In Dacca the official news Agency ass said saturday at least five people were killed and hundreds injured when two tornadoes swept through two districts in Bangladesh. By Stephen Kinzer Boston Globe culpa Nicaragua thousands of religious pilgrims have poured into this tiny Village since word began to spread about a month ago that a peasant named Bernardo Martinez saw and spoke with an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Until recently the Catholic Hierarchy remained silent on the matter. But in the last two weeks several leading clergymen have indicated that they Are not prepared to dismiss it. Bernardo is a simple said msgr. Bosco Vivas a top aide to nicaraguan archbishop Miguel Obando y b Ravo. It is difficult to believe that he alone could invent such impressive Beautiful and profound sister Ines Perez Cano who oversees the activities of nuns in Nicaragua told a reporter that the Story Martinez re lates is a very serious thing and cannot be taken archbishop Breaks silence archbishop Obando y Bravo broke his silence on the subject last week. He told a local newspaper that the Church must exercise great prudence in such matters but added the Virgin has never appeared to great intellectuals and thinkers. She has always shown herself to Humble at least one High official of the nicaraguan government ambassador to the United states Arturo Cruz has visited the rustic shrine Here and came away impressed. This Man is not a charlatan that you can be he told an interviewer shortly before returning to Washington. But some observers who Are part of the ruling sandinista movement Here scoff at the Story which they say is essentially a political message that opposes the leftist regime. The pro government daily Nuevo Diario published a commentary last week declaring that. The episode is an attempt to delude and divert Public opinion from the real problems that confront our country at this Catholic theologians who specialize in Mariology the study of the Virgin Are investigating Martinez Story. Meanwhile he greets pilgrims Here every Day and tells them what happened when he first saw the apparition last May. The Virgin was dressed in White and appeared to be about 15 or 16 years he told a group of about 75 people who converged one sunday on the Hillside where the vision took place. Her message was one of Christian love Martinet said. Fingered Rosary As he fingered a Rosary and looked into the emotion filled faces of men women and children who had come from All Over the country to hear him Martinez said the Virgin told him you must love one another. Build god s kingdom Here on Earth. Do not preach the kingdom of god unless you Are building it Here. The world is threatened by great danger. Nicaragua has suffered much and that is Why i am in subsequent apparitions Martinez who is 49 years old said he was urged to spread this message. The Virgin does not want nicaraguans to build a Temple to Honor her Martinez said. She told me that All people should build living temples within themselves. She asked for prayers for those who do Noi believe and for peace in the world. She said i am the Mother of All sinners and a Mother never forgets her children. I have not forgotten the peo ple of this Earth his words had a profound effect on the gathering. Some people clutched bibles some cried openly and others Sang hymns around the crude altar of stones and Flowers that townspeople have erected on the site. Many re moved pebbles or Small bags of Earth from the site to keep As objects of Devotion. This isolated Village is so Small it does not appear on the official map of Nicaragua. It lies at the end of an unpaved 15-mile-Long Road in Chon takes province 125 Miles Southeast of the capital. Villagers said Martinez a devout Catholic has never been More than a few Miles away. Anger poles food piles up in Warsaw Post office As lines form outside groceries continued from Page 1 economic prof. Boleslaw Struzek head of the polish parliament s agricultural committee said in a recent interview. The Cost of what it is doing to us As a peo ple after All those lines people not Only Start hating the government but they Start hating each other As the democratization and liberalization movement sweeping virtually every segment of society has made it More bearable but for Many it is Small compensation. Each Day is the a 68-year old grandmother said last week. You Start in the morning going around to see what is in the shops. You find the longest lines because there you find the things Worth buy ing. Pretty soon the whole Day is gone. Worst of All is waiting in sine then finding out that everything is there Are shortage jokes of course a Man tells his wife he is going to Krakow for meat. What makes you think there will be any meat in she asks. The meat is in he re plies but the line starts in Kra but the humor does not hide the fact that Little by Little Day by Day this is becoming a less pleasant place to live. The sign of it Are everywhere the delicious Jelly filled sugar donuts baked at a Small private bakery off Constitution place Are now made almost without sugar and contain the Barest hint of Jelly fill ing. No ice Cream the ice Cream parlor in the Moko Tow Section of the City that once was an after school meeting place for children has closed. It has no ice Cream to sell. The hot dog Vendor at the polka Street Market still has fresh crusty Rolls but now they Are filled with Fried mushrooms instead of hot dogs. It is a situation the government controlled press is not trying to hide. To the contrary the propaganda of communist achievement is being re placed by the propaganda of hard ship. Last week while the newspapers were running an angry expose about the fowl packages piling up at the Post office state television was doing interviews with people in food lines. One segment showed a woman weep ing in despair because she could not find milk for her babies. Government officials hardly speak these Days without calling the eco nomic situation in Poland a catastrophe or a disaster. Residents of Warsaw Poland stand in line at a downtown store to buy their rations of meat. Crisis now is too mild a word. Over the first three months of this year compared with the first three months of last year meat production fell by 15 per cent. Production of milk butter and cheese is Down by 20 per cent each. Cattle herds Are seven per cent smaller the pig herds have shrunk 13 per cent. There was a bad Harvest in 1975, but last year was even worse. The wheat crop was Down by about 2.7 million tonnes. The potato crop was a disaster in 1979, the Harvest was about 41-million tonnes in 1980, it was 23.5-miliion tonnes. Because potatoes Are commonly used As feed for animals the Short age has had a terrible Impact on the amount of meat available in the shops this Spring. Meat is the measure of Prosperity to poles who traditionally try to have some at almost every meal Ham for breakfast meat in the soup at lunch meat As the main course for dinner. In 1980, per capita meat consumption in Poland was 70 kilograms. This year the government estimates that will be Cut to about 65 kilograms. The . Average is about 91 kilo Grams per but those statistics do not Tell the whole Story. The real hardship for Many poles will come from the fact that Only 45 kilograms of the planned 65 per capita for 1981 will come from state subsidized sales or Price controlled rationing. The government assumes people somehow will buy the other 20 kilo Grams on the private Market for double and triple the Normal Price or eat in restaurants and cafeterias. But can everyone afford that no of course Struzek said. The prices Are too the sugar ration is about one kilo Gram a month compared with the pre rationing average of about 3.5 kilograms per month. Rationing of a whole Range of other products butter milk flour Ani Mal fats is expected to begin in a few weeks. As a result poles Are facing a shortage Economy for a Long stretch perhaps two years and everything that a shortage Economy Means Black markets panic buying Hoard ing ways to Bend if not break the rules. Pregnant women and women with infants Are allowed to go to the head of food lines. As a result some women have begun lending or rent ing their babies to friends who Don t have the time to do their shopping by the Book. Retirees have begun hiring them selves out As line standers. The fee ranges Between 100 and 200 zlotys an hour the average wage is zlotys a month about one government Survey has Esti mated that it requires an average of four hours a Day standing in line to buy the necessary products to feed the average family of four. The loss to the nation s Economy from such a waste of time is incalculable. One Warsaw journalist said it is now relatively common to see people checking into their offices in the morning then leaving immediately to begin the Day s shopping. I can t explain the patience of this the journalist remarked. Empty shops no food yet the peo ple go about their business As Normal As possible work normally. In any other place you would see disturbances. There would be trouble in the the journalist attributed the phenomenon to the political events Here that have captured the nation s at Tention ;