TN a AM RR NES A imine ema ne pe ak nm I a TR Te Re TT gee nfo ERT a EE a Fak mama are at me mn 8 nm nam me ems na Page 1 The ira, Friday, March 2, 1984 “Former leader recal WINNIPEG (CP) -— Maciej Oltarzewski, a former Solidarity leader, recalls his stay ina Pollah interament camp with a certain pleasure. Temperatures were so cold in the camp, “some nights we had to waik instead of sleep, “The best food waa simple bread, There were rata, mice, of course, cockroaches and 60 on. 4 “But even in such bad social conditions, it was, I guess, the best period of my life,” says the former adviser to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, + ; BEST IN JAIL - ; That was because the internment camps housed the best and brightest of Pélish nociety, hes says.” “Apart | froin: union leaders and workers; there. were doctors, lawryer®; séleni- tists, engineers and students. * The prisoners even started .an. undergrouta printing press, using carved linoleum ties for plates and a mixture of candle soot and margarine for ink. ORES ont With such equipment they printed newspapara that were catapulted from the camp outside toa nearby rallway yard. where workers: ‘collected and: distributed: them. : NOW IN US; a rag Oltarzewski, a Ss-year-old. lawyer. who was interned after Polish. euthorities imposed martial: law, arrived in the “united States as. a a palitlead exile ‘About a. ‘year: ago." Festival of Life and Learning. - A chain-smoking, aifable man; Olerzewali gave a vivid, offthe-uft account of his experience in Poland before and . Suring. the. height: ‘of the trade: unton. struggle, -* a He’ recalled. the day in- December. 1970 at: the seuport of - Szezecin, when troops opened fire on about 150,000 workers : staging | a peaceful demonstration: against consumer price -inereases, ‘About 180. were killed. - Paks Etched in his: memory is the scene of vorkers in hard hats -and overalls running with tears streaming down their faces. ; ashelicopters hovered overhead, dropping canisters of tear carr - Statues eyes flickered open say men CAP-DE-LA- MADELEINE, Que. (CP) — One evening in 1883 three men knelt in a stone church to pray before a statue of the Virgin Mary. Glancing up, they noticed the. statue’s eyes had opened and remained open for several "minutes. That event is one reason almost a million Roman Catholic pilgrims flock to this shrine every year. — This September one of those pilgrims will be Pope John Paul who will stop here during his 12-day Canadian tour that. will take him from St. John’s, Nfld., to Vancouver. Rev, Noel Poisson, rector of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, says Pope John Paul “has a great devotion to the Virgin,” and he visits the national Marian shrine in each country he goes to. HAS BASILICA . Pilgrims from all over North America and even Europe visit the 260-year-old original church with its plaster.statue _ of Mary which the three witnesses swore opened its eyes, A modern octagonal basilica was built nearby in the 19503 with the offerings of pilgrims to accommodate increasing crowds. Cap-de-la-Madeleine is adjacent to Trols- Rivieres, two waning industrial cities on the banks of the St. Lawrence River midway between Quebec City and Montreal. Their combined population is 90,000. Arriving from Quebec City by train on the afternoon af Sept. 10; the Pope will pray before the famous statue, then speak at an outdoor mags, to an expected crowd of 100,000, on the theme of devotion to Mary. The crowd for the papal mass will overflow the shrine’s gardens and across the adjacent highway. A two-storey About All PEOPLE | | Lr a Stan Obediac, publicity director at Maple Leaf Gardens, distributed the following gem to baffled scribes before the Leafs’ 3-1 triumph over New York Rangers on Wednésday. “The centreman Dan Daouat is 24 today. Some call him w. jsuungest player in the league as his birthday an- niversary falls on Leap Year day. Because of this, another distinction fer Daoust will be in the year 2000 when he will. be amongst the first people since 1752 (when the Gregorian ‘calendar was accepted by Britain and.the Empire from the Julian) to be able to celebrate an additional day in a cen- tury year. Although divisible by four, 1700, 1800 and 1900 . were not Leap Years, as they as century years also had to be divisible by 400, which 2000 is.” Federal Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan was “arrested” in Whitehorse and charged with entering the Yukon secretly and failing to wear a beard during the city’s annual Sourdough Rendezvous celebrations. Six whistle-blowing Keystone Cops nabbed MacGuigan as he was about'to make-a speech this, week before the. Canadian Bar Association. They wrapped a noose around his neck and threatened to hang him after the clean-shaven minister pleaded ‘‘not innocent" to the charges. A handful of lawyers raised their hands when asked whether hanging was the appropriate punishment and one. said a federal election would better fit the crime. In the end, the 200 lawyers bailed MacGulgan out by “dropping money into a hat to aid the Big Brothers and Whitehorse Society for Special Needs. A Kangaroo Court was set up in 1947 when Whitehorse held its first Winter Carnival to enforce its temporary beard-growing law. Any man found without at least a little . stubble was fined. The annual Eagles’ world championship smelt eating contest in Kelso, Wash., is going belly up — at least-for this year. There are no smells — fresh or frozen — to be found for | the event, in which contestants vie to gulp down the largest number of the greasy liltle fish. The Eagles’ area and auxiliary officers met Tuesday and decided to call off Sumday’s-feed, an annual event for at least 45 years, chairman Joyce Hickman said. Last year the feed drew about 300 spectators, who wat- ched the winner down 90 smelts. : A Vancouver couple’s dream of getting married March 17 in the 60,000-seat B.C. Place domed stadium is getting closer to becoming a reality. Victor-Paul Magnussen, 30, and Kathleen Luft, 25, chose B.C. Place because they want their wedding celebration to rival that of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales: Two florists, two bridal shops, the limousine service anda; tuxedo rental store have offered their services and some cash to offset the estimated $19,720 cost of the affair. And Magnussen and Luft have invited everyone who can pay a $3 admission fee to the affair. 4 They say ail the admission revenue will be donated to the Kidney Foundation, the Diabetic Association and the - Canadian Cancer Society unless it exceeds the stadium's rental fee. If it does, the stadium will take 15-per cent or 45 cents of each admission ticket. Richard Nixon, reported ‘disheartened by the furore surrounding his successful bid for permisston to purchase’ a $1.8-milllon Park Avenue apartment, said Thureday he won't buy after all. The former U.S, president — whose moving: plans prompted a lawsuit by a resident of the co-operative — Is among many celebrities to find that health and happiness aren't | the only thinga money can't buy, at least in New Yor! For the rich and famous, buying a Manhattan éo- operative, which can requiré approval of fellow ienants or- at least a tenant board, means personal Interviews, detailed . financial statements, the possibility of embarrassing publicity and, worst of all, rejection. Doors have been slammed on Cher, Barbra Streisand and Arab royalty. And Gloria Vanderbilt learned in 1980 that getting into exclusive River House was harder than squeezing into her tight designer jeans. 1 brick building alongside the road wil be demolished for crowd security. . us A New England bus company has ‘already reserved 100 : buses to bring pilgrims to see the Pope, but most expected visitors live within a three-hour drive, aa After the mass, the pontiff will tour ‘Trois-Rivieres, which is celebrating its 350th anniversary. this year, . Poisson said in an interview the shrine’s reputation isi based-on the incident involving the. statue’s eyes and another reputed 19th-century miracle, the ‘millléns. of - pilgrims it attracts, and “spiritual and physical: healings” that take place there. . From May until October, the shrine’ 's 40 full-time nuns and priests hire another 250 people to care for the shrine’s buildings, gardens and the up to’35,000 pilgrims a day. Visitors can have a special maag | said in their name for an offering of $3, or $10 for a musical mags. ‘The incident of the statue's eyes opening came just nine . years. after the first miraculous occurrence.’ ’ Parish priest Luc Desilets was avérseeing the building of anew church. Stone was quarried on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, at that Point more than « one kilometre. wide. MADE ICE BRIDGE . . The stone was to be brought across the ice inthe winter of 1878-79, but the river did not freeze. People began to pray and’ in mid-March currents from the St. Maurice River flowing into the St. Lawrence pushed ice floes together to make a floating bridge. - ’ Although the spring sun melted the ice during the day, the ice-bridge held against the current. Poisson said 150 horses . ' Mondale humbled Four of the five Democrats left in the shrinking presidential field converged on the Deep South today, in- . cluding a humbled Walter Mondale who is shunning his front-runner “burden’’ and promising a new, tougher style. Mondale, New Hampshire primary winner Gary Hart, Ohio Senator John Glenn and charismatic black preacher Jesse Jackson ail planned appearances in Atlanta tonight, where state Democrats are holding their annual Jefferson- Jackson Day fund-raising dinner in advance of their March - - 13 Super Tuesday primary. Only George McGovern was. avoiding the South. The former South Dakota‘senator and 1972 standard bearer remains in Massachusetts, where he says that state’s primary on the same day will “make or break” his presidential dreams, Similar dreams vanished in the face ‘of political reality. Thursday for two Democratic hopefuls. South Carolina | Senator Ernest Hollings bowed out after galning just four © per cent of the vote in New Hampshire. He was followed . hours later by the primary’s last-place finisher, former _ ‘Florida governor Reubin Askew. ‘A day earlier California Senator Alan Cranston quit. Askew, announcing his withdrawal in Florida, said he ‘was releasing his delegates and planned no endorsement. Hollings sald he would make his preference known by the South Carolina caucuses March 17. GOES ON ATTACK. . Mondale. vowed to go on the attack against | Hart, 2 a. Colorado senator, after weeks of virtually ignoring his Democratic opponents. “This is going to be a scrap," he told reporters. “We're in: a for a long, tough fight that could weil go right to the con - vention. We have to slug it out in every state." Mondale conceded that a leader's arrogance may have: hurt him in New Hampshire, where Hart beat him by 10° percentage points. Being the front ‘runner, becamé “my burden,” he said. “Forget all this front: runner talk,’” Mondale told his staff.” “It's all over. Stop acting like we're front-runners." Most of the candidates were focusing on Dixie becauge of - the looming Super Tuesday when nine states choose their *. delegates, including primaries in Alabama, Florida and . Georgia. Hart and Mondale both planned New England stops: earlier today, Hart in. Yermont and Boston and Mondale in Maine. Vermont has a non-binding primary Tuesday and Maine holds caucusés Sunday. . Glenn was in Georgia early today and Jackson in Florida: ° Glenn, Mondale and Hart scheduled appearances at the: Atlanta dinner, while aides to Jackson said lie would be in that city and that a Jetferson-Jackson appearance was - possible. . . TAKES CHALLENGE : Hart stumped across the South on Thursday, ending with ; 4stop in Tallahassee and answering Mondale’ ) s challenge to contest him in the region... - “Well, Walter, P'm here,” Hart said, : _ In Alabama earlier, Hart phoned Gov. George Wallace to. set up a meeting next week and said he was seeking... - Wallace’s backing. “I don't expect lo be rejected ‘in the. 4 South," Hart said. Glenn was in Montgomery, too, and also said he was after: ' . Wallade’s blessing, though the governor wasn't expected to, take sides publicly. . . “1 guess I'm what you call the new underdog today,” Glenn said. “I've been in tough fights before. We didn't — _ back off and we're not backing off in this ene,” Appearing before the state legislature, Glenn stressed his’ milltary record and space caréer, mentioning how it felt-as‘ an astronaut in 1962 sitting atop a rocket waiting to become the first American’ to orbit Earth. . ’ Jackson stopped in his native South Carolina and in. Florida, saying he would appeal to supporters of Askew atid - Hollings while aiming criticism at Hart and Mondale. “Hart has no history of struggle in this land,” Jackson . said. “Mondale wants to pick fruit from the trees he did not. 2 plant.”* 3 _ tour. pulled sleighs laden with stones: ‘across the: ice for ‘eight "nighta; ‘in the season when they. ‘were Rormally out, gathering maple syrup.” - ve! In thankfulness, ‘Destlets retained: the original’ chapel _ alongside the new church and dedicated. it to Mary. Nine years laler, thestatue, sculpturedin 1854, Was placed above . the main altar. and the shrine was dedicated. That evening, Desilets and another priest brought ina handicapped man to pray. When they lifted their eyes, all three said that. the statue ‘opened its eyes for. geveral minutes, . . . wo ‘The diocese of” ‘Trois-Rivierea. ‘ineludes. ‘ay rural : paristies and has retained its traditional Catholic character More than Montreal and. Quebec. City, also: on the Papal Gilles Leblanc; a local ‘priest who is an organizer for’ the papal tour, eald a survey last summer found that 22 per cent - of its population regularly attended church. Despite this, 30 - of its 97 parishes share prieats because of a lack of recrilts ‘for the profession: - Alarge charismatic renewal movemest which sprang up in the diocese during the 1970s is now integrated into the church. The diocese also includes the headquarters — at. Shawinigan — for Quebec’s wing of the Roman Catholic traditionalist movemeat;. whose spiritual leader. is Arch- bishop Marcel Lefevbre of France. busine He was a guest spenker at the : University of Manitoba's . ; “That re Solidistiy ineldent taught Oltarsewale, arid ‘other union wr the ‘importance’ of being organized, bein ‘prepared and-forming a united front. ot “Tn later years, Oliarzewski joined) Walesa in negation ~with government officials. —_. - Such negotiations often involved using information o on thie “luxurious ‘lifestyles ‘of Communist leaders to. embarrasr - them ‘into granting concessions, he said. For ‘example; ‘in February. 1981, Solidarity managéd o . perstiade officials in Jeleriia-Gora, a southern city near the “East, German border, to convert a luxury hotel used ex- : clusively by: prominent. Communist officials Into a ‘badly _ needed hospital. _ They did: it by threatening to incite public protests over : the’ ‘knowledge, that the hotel, ‘owned by the Communist party, had cost the equivalent of about $17. million, not the * $200,000 stated by officials.- _ Incompetence and corruption were common In the Polish -Communist hierarchy, said Oltarzewski. °°: * One reason the Polish economy. is In disarray is because ‘ party loyalty isoftenthe only requirement for top positions: Company directors offen have no training in economics, _. “To give money to them is like giving money to 10-year- old children. Such a child can buy toys ane candies but not “run a mega-business, * “Toys for them are tanks or aircralt.” Oltarzewaki said everyday Polish life we and au i rife with propaganda, “The only news about the vu. S.A. is bad news — fires, crimes, floods, crashes, hurricanes, Even if it ‘is true, ’ Polish people don’t believe it.’’. 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