Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pay your Bills using the Telephone a division of com chef services limited 298 Garry r3c1h3 Winnipeg free press february 1988 pages 1324 sunday by Susan Levine Knight Ridder newspapers the Story line goes something like this theres this sister a kind of rebel nun she stands up to the who has locked a Church run daycare Centre out of its she sues the Bishop the nun is a too and helps walk a picket line at the daycare she sister Violet joins the state attorney generals office and becomes Well known for prosecuting con Sumer fraud she moves on to victims rights and the rights of the Shes Tough in her colleagues there Start calling her Attila the it she decides to for in the overwhelmingly democratic state of Rhode this Republican woman beats the incumbent Man and is elected the first female attorney general in the but sister violets Victory carries a High the Church forces her to choose Between her vows and her secular she renounces her sound like a Madero television movie or maybe a regular weekly series stay because one or the or maybe even could soon be coming at you Over the there really is an Arlene former nun and now a attorney who has already made the spotlight of 60 minutes and the pages of people she has Long had a Hollywood and Frank Cooper remains convinced that his client is hot even if the voters did turn her out of office after Only two critics amused the editors at ran Dom House think just this month Treyve published violets convictions my journey from the Convent to the the Book is already in its third and Violet is plugging it on her first National this delights her fans and some what amuses her and it causes Violet sitting in her nondescript Providence Law to Grin broadly and laugh Over which actress might play her life Story and to admit that its Nice to see yourself portrayed positively in the Media for a i think in one of the most Well balanced persons i to Tell you the she sitting amid her Legal diplomas and interestingly there Are no religious icons in i think i take life but i dont think i take myself too even if you dont live near Rhode even if you dont read the weekly gossip magazines or didst catch Morley safer interview on youve probably heard of Arlene excommunication she created quite a stir four years ago under threat of she quit her order after 23 years to Campaign a second time for attorney for some her Bishop had not pressed the Issue during her initial candidacy two years but then he said that it came Down to holding Public office or serving the Church and if she decided on holding she would never be Able to return to the Sisters of its important to be a sister of mercy in even if you May have to forfeit being one in she said in announcing her very painful she is not the Only member of a religious order who has been forced to choose Between religion and five years ago in when the going gets the Church gets going former sister and political activist is no shrinking Violet Agnes also a member of the Sisters of chose to leave the order after being told she must give up her Job As director of the state department of social which provided financing for abortions for poor hostile and in the Robert Drinan complied with a Church order to give up his seat As a member of Congress from Mas As she explains her decision Arlene Violet says that when the going gets the Church gets reforming what she considered a hostile and corrupt Legal system just be done from the she de she had to change it from what happens is that after a while you begin to feel like you own an she you dont expect somebody else to do it for the Bishop probably expected her to Back and if not for his shed still be a sister of mercy yet she made her choices and then came out her oppo nent tried to pin her As a Softie on criminals because of her religious her Campaign ads graphically detailed certain crimes and asked listeners to imagine How youd feel As the victims of those they discovered that the perpetrators had ple bargained their Way into reduced or suspended the radio spots were so Grueso Mely As one reporter later put that stations were inundated with Violet won the although it was so close that determining the Winner took four and she immediately made More she announced that her office would retry Claus von the Newport society who was accused of attempting to murder his heiress it took a Heck of a lot of guts to go Forward with the Violet von who was accused of injecting his wife sunny with an overdose of had been convicted at his first but that verdict had been overturned on technical she easily could have backed she and blamed her predecessor for losing valuable time by appealing the overturned but the new attorney general Felt it was a question for a were they going to believe our or were they going to believe the other doctors in the they believed the de fences and unfortunately for the von Bulow Case was just the beginning of a term in office that would be marked by repeated losses and High visibility court reversals or by her second this self styled Champion of the people was increasingly while she brought a series of charges against a state Agency that had illegally provided Low interest mortgages to influential state offi she also was forced to drop several cases because of purported prosecutor Al manipulation she beat she shot her self in the foot said Alan a Harvard Law school professor who helped represent von Bulow in his retrial and frequently tangled with each accuses the other of manipulating the press for publicity on the other i have grudging admiration for Dershowitz she was an out she was trying to fight the said Patrick a professor of history at Providence she is a highly principled i divid but she didst know How to play Ball she approached her Job As attorney Gen eral like a that was the whole just listen to How the jacket cover of convictions describes its subject a woman who courageously fought Public organized crime and Street battling Bankers and challenging judges on issues of conflict of even suing the Federal and All the while hav ing to invade the strictly guarded male world of Law enforcement to do two years in a gripping Battle to serve the an extraordinary combination of events forced her from Violet the Day you try to Challenge the youre writ ing your its a one Way ticket gregarious she expected her tenure to be she just didst expect it to be so Short i figured it would take about four years for them to catch up with Violet is a gregarious woman who has dark wears dark rimmed glasses and dresses she is not above describing the senior citizen she is representing As the Little i love her to the comes out As heavy on the Violet is a native of South Providence and its working class and she still Speaks As if she just came in off the her Book is titled convict she because it highlights the events in her life that showed her convictions and commitment nurtured by the Sisters of mercy to respond to unmet what is a shame is the Way the Book reads Long on gee Whiz and Short on that detracts from the truly unusual path Violet has from summer Stock productions in High school to the Convent at age from marching As a nun in sup port of Cesar Chavez Boycotts against grape and lettuce growers to living in Public housing projects in providences Shes a committed said sister Eleanor who has known Violet More than 25 her integrity is just Amaz a court ordered investigation of the office of attorney general that came after violets election defeat in late 1986 cleared her of any at she is enjoying life As a private attorney and trying to de cide whether to again seek Public Shes keeping her name in the Public in any every weekday she Heads Over to Kriam radio Sta Tion in West Warwick and hosts a radio Callin frankly speak i like talking with she Hollywood for its her Cross country Book which started last that keeps her by it May be shooting that to movie of her there was some discussion of Sally Field playing the but according to Cooper out in Holly Field didst want another nun i dont care who it Violet As Long As she can italian crimes revealed in files detail Italy War guilt by William Scobie London observer Italy War crimes War crimes ours dont be ridiculous such is the reaction of most italians when told of newly opened United nations archives containing the names of of their country men who stand accused of multiple atrocities in Al Libya and Abyssinia now Ethiopia during the second work capital offences committed by these High ranking military men and listed in lurid detail Are of e magnitude for which German anti japanese War leaders had to answer to Allied Justice with their lives 01 Long terms of yet for reasons of High policy the italian War criminals Escapee the charges were secretly notably on the insistence of Winston Mussolini after four they have risen to haunt a peace Loving Italy which believed it had Long since lived Down its fascist the prime Benito Musso was executed by partisans to Ward the end of the War before the allies could reach but his accomplices were never brought to the in now opened for scholarly were held under the Seal of the in War crimes whose in quiries resulted in the hanging of 10 nazi leaders four others cheated the Gallows by the archives highlight not Only the savagery of the italian supreme command in conquered territories even More shocking to contemporary the callous inhumanity of Good sol Dier Gino from Tuscany or genocide conscripts or regular they carried Mussolini Trail of Conquest and genocide from one invaded country to Vil Lages were farm Stock civilians often with painful Poison the reason Why is spelled out in the in Mussolini was overthrown by his own grand fas Cist Council when the allies landed in Sicily in july King Victor Emanuel appointed As his successor marshal Pietro conqueror of Ethiopia and then chief of the general amnesty to secure Italy surrender and make her change amnesty was needed for the who had backed fascism for 21 and for his military Sadoglio was sent to where the allies gave him a ceremonious Eisenhower put the terms of the agreement to with his word As a Soldier that the marshal and his comrades arms would have no regrets about the a new terminology was quickly forged the allies became Liber the germans the surrender an honorable Ca the Kings gang of fas Cist War criminals Sadoglio was to become 1 on the in list were recognized As Charleswood 4910 Roblin River Heights 580 Academy downtown Winnipeg Square East Kildonan 969 Henderson Garden City 2200 Mcphillips fort Garry 1166 Pembina fort Richmond 7 Killarney James 1850 Portage vital 491 marys South vital 4 Britannica Tuxedo 2090 Corydon West end 702 Sargent head office 743 Corydon cleaned on time and to your River Heights 1685 Corydon fort Rouge 414 Osborne fort Rouge 332 Nassau fort Rouge 743 Corydon South Dale 35 Lakewood mens or ladies suits sweaters 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