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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, August 12, 1978

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 8 the stars and stripes saturday August 12, 1978 Britain incensed Over . Film on its race problem by de Blanche London a British government officials and legislators Are angry about an american made document Ary movie on Britain s racial problem which they charge gives a Homic View of racism Inthis  government spokesmen said thursday night that i aurence 0 Keeffe. Director general of the in ish information service in new York has complained to the we by television station in Boston. Mass. That the documentary gives a distorted View of Britain s soldering racial Issue the St minute i i. Blacks Anta uni Ca was commissioned by the we by educational foundation and made by Independent producer David Koff of Cali fornia. It was screened by the . Public broadcasting sen ice network thursday officials Here said 0 Keeffe. The British government s information chief in the us., has asked we by president David tits for equal airtime on the non Commer Cial net wok to put Forth other Points of View on race relations in Britain the movie has been clouded in Contro Wofsy since Koff finished shooting two months ago the lanky bearded producer was roasted by British critics at a preview news conference in London july 11 sever Al accused him of giving a one sided View rites held for 36 killed in Canada bus Accident Asbestos. Quebec i api a mass funeral service was held in this Small mining Community thursday for 3$ person Woodrum lied last week when the bus the were Riding in plunged into a , friends and residents wept As tit coffins were loaded Rve by one into muting hearses follow i an outdoor funeral mass attended by about 3,200 per is. It s finally  an elderly woman id As the coffins were put into the hearses four other victims from the aug. 4 Acci Dent described As the worst of its kind in Canada s history were buried wednes Day. In All. 40 persons aboard the vehicle most of them handicapped drowned. Seven persons the Driver and six volunteers managed to get out of the bus before it Sank. The bus plunged into the Lake after it brakes apparently failed on a Hill. It had left a movie theater at nearby  of the hearses drove to a cemetery outside Asbestos so Miles East of Mon Treal but some took bodies to nearby towns for burial it s True that governments have a ten Dency to act too  said social affair minister Denis Lazure. Who represented the provincial government at the  i will press for the inquest into this tragedy to move ahead rapidly and for inspections of passenger vehicles to proceed quickly " 5. Africa frees 11 Blacks Johannesburg Lapi eleven lacks held in prison without charge under a variety of South african Security Law shave been released newspaper reports said of the plight of Britain s 1 9 million non Whites off said the movie was his contribution to the str file against racism and and fascism he claimed the film reflects the increasingly militant or of within the Lack con i Unity to the Cut using attacks upon it. Both by organized fascism element son the streets and by the state  Koff also fought with we by Over the final version of the movie. The . Foun Dation at first refused to screen it unless remade some changes. Koff accused we by of censorship before the squabble was re  the movie Radical non Whites charged the state 4s deliberately exploiting and suppressing them. One Black in the version previewed in London commented there s a conspiracy against the coloured  the protests the movie does reflect growing racial tension in Britain especially among an increasing number of Young non Whites badly hit by unemployment and swelling hostility from White sex themist Dudley Smith a conservative party member of parliament and vice chairman of the parliamentary select committee on race relations protested to Kingma Brewster. The  ambassador in London following the film s showing on the pm network the movie he charged was alarming misleading and totally irresponsible and made no Effort to provide a balanced vie of the volatile racial  he claimed it portrayed Britain As a racist society which denies human rights to its non White citizens and dominate them by police  none would pretend that we have other than an extremely difficult racial problem  he said in his protest to  there have been definite improve ments Over the past 10 years and the a or pity of people Here Are far More tolerant of the Many immigrants settled  movie has been shown at a London movie theater for several weeks but Nei ther of Britain s two to networks have been offered it. Wanted in Yugoslavia reconstructing famed Experiment professor Michael Penu left i of the science faculty of Britain s open University and Canon John Collins of Lon which demonstrates that tales. A ass foot Long pen Dihna it i Iso Pound brass Ball at its tit it Don s St. Paul s Cathedral watch a Pended from the Cathedral done reconstruction conducted by the Niniver swings the Ball 3 feet acres tit sity of the famous Foucault Experiment Ings beneath. Apm germans will extradite croatian Cologne. West Germany a the Cologne Superior court ruled Friday in favor of  a croatian exile 16 Yugo Slavia after other courts this week blocked similar Belgrade requests to hand overthrew other croatians accused of anti re Gime terrorism. The Cologne court decided that Belgrad authorities had provided enough evidence to permit extraditing 39-year-old Stenan Bilandic if the Bonn Federal government Poland refused Pope Paul permission for visit Warsaw api the polish govern ment refused Pope Paul i permission to visit this communist country the year be fore his death. Roman Catholic primate Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski revealed the late Pope wanted to make his first visa to Poland to celebrate a solemn Massat Jasna Gora monastery. Poland s most sacred Catholic . The Cardinal said after conducting a mourning mass for the Pope gives its final approval. The ruling came two months after Bon requested extradition of four top German a sup facts captured in Yugoslavia last May. Belgrade responded by asking the germans to hand Over eight croatian including by Pandzic. In blocking the extradition of three of u a governments insist that their respective extradition requests Are in no Way linked to each oth Handl Rusi v or Thal Gern Brig. A tradition was approved by "l5 a court Friday of heading the w anti regime croatian popular group. He allegedly was involved in the ammunition from a . Any dump in West Germany in anti regime terrorists in Yugo Law Chowchilla bus kids App to Hove parole hearing san Quentin. Calif. Schoenfeld. Convicted in the r Nap of a Busload of Chowchin Gladren. Will have a parole hearing Community release boar said. Schoenfeld. 23. Convicted of kidnapping with bodily counts of kidnapping for bodily harm has been in Izaih a was eligible for parole after Ati is Der a Youthful offender s la effect at the time of the Jet Lar lion it has since been repealed  
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