Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 23, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday july 23, 1973 France presses for tougher monetary policies by Leo Ryan France is waging a big Diplo Matic offensive to persuade its partners in the european com Mon Market to Lake a much tougher stand on the feasibility of beginning Trade negotiations soon with the United states in the midst of continued disorder in the International monetary system. As the weeks by and the Dollar hovers Well Clow its second devaluation parity top French officials have found allies even among the political opposition to adopt a hard line. While a possible Boycott of the Nixon round of Tariff Dis mantling talks has not been publicly mentioned 1 Rance is at least implicitly brandishing such a threat. The non participation of one of the world s major nations would of course Render virtually can i n g 1 e s s the planned negotiations under the auspices of the general agreement on tariffs and Trade for the moment France has Only committed itself to attend ing the. Formal opening in sep tember of the Gatt talks a sequel to the Kennedy round of the mid Edgos. Beyond that the attitude of Paris seems closely tied to the evolution of the International monetary situation. President Georges Pompidou apparently feels that the Dollar has been battered far below any logical Exchange rate see ing As the . Economy is moving buoy Antly and has suffered less from inflation than Europe. He is said to regard it As absurd that the do Facto de valuation of the Dollar has been permitted to reach about 33 per cent within two years. In Brussels last week France s partners refused to endorse the French suggestion of hardening the joint Europe an approach on the upcoming Trade negotiations. The pre v i o european statement drafted in june stressed that commercial negotiations pre supposed Progress toward durable monetary stability. To shake greater action out of Washington France wants the european common Market to adopt a statement affirming that it would be unrealistic to Start off in Concrete manner the commercial negotiations if measures Are not taken to re store the parity rates of last As a former Rothschild banker president Pompidou i ports decided by Washington happens to be probably the Best financial expert among contemporary Western states men. He and his finance min ister Valery Giscard d Esta ing have warned that the world is heading for a collapse that could conceivably be As dangerous As the 1929 crash unless major surgery is per formed including a return of Dollar convertibility into Gold. The embargo of soybean sex syrian Hopes focus on euphrates dam revolution City North Ern Syria special owns leaving Aleppo along the euphrates escarpment t h Highway crosses Fields ploughed but not so because the Rains failed this year. Three syrians out of four depend on agriculture for their livelihood but Only a fraction of Syria s arable land is irrigated. Syrian peasants count on harvesting one crop three. To change that a soviet built Bulldozer rolled Forward on july 5 and butted Concrete cubes into a last splashing Channel damming the euphrates River for the first time in syrian history. A Low Earth filled Structure the two mile Long dam will impound a Lake 88 Miles Long Ca Pable eventually of doubling syrian s irrigated Are Cage to three million and boosting the nation s Power Supply five times to a million annual kilo Watts. Horns where the syrian fertilizer factory is located at present has to import electricity from since the River represents 85 per cent of the country s water a european dam is the Cornerstone of syrian develop ment. The dam will stand As a Monument to Arab soviet Soli Darity president Hafez Assad noted at the ceremony. Eventually it May but on july 6 it seemed More like a Bone of Contention. A thousand soviet experts Many speaking arabic Learned while building Egypt s Aswan dam worked alongside syrian engineers and technicians for five years. The .s.r. Advanced million half the dam s total Cost for foreign Exchange needs. Unsurpassed outside Egypt the dam is a showpiece of so Viet Aid in the Middle East. Yet none of the soviet top triumvirate attended. Tass Cor respondents were oddly absent in the press corps. Syrian officials were piqued. Soviet syrian relations Are currently plagued by Money. To capitalize on the dam s potential for irrigation and elec tric Power will Cost More than the dam itself perhaps As much As million. Middle Eastern sources say that the soviet leaders facing Domestic economic difficulties arc hard put to defend soviet leaders facing Domestic economic difficulties arc hard put to de fend fresh Aid commitments to Arab countries especially after the egyptian experience. This financial reticence feeds syrian suspicions that the Kremlin has sacrificed its Arab Alliance on the altar o detente. Syria s drive to establish a Broad based infrastructure now at a critical stage has been primarily assisted by socialist countries bulgarians have nearly completed a rail Way for instance to open up the euphrates Basin and link Latakia port to the farming and Oil wealth in North Easi Syria. With continued support in doubt the quest for economic Aid weighs in Syria s foreign policy. Aid seems the main Issue in negotiations on renewed relations with West Ger Many. Roger Balfour Britain s charge d affaires the first British Diplomat in Damascus for six years expects the most immediate effect of his pres ence will be increased Trade. British firms sold million Worth of goods last year largely machinery. That could be or. Balfour feels if we can get the credit problem ironed out. Syrians Are Good despite their Lack of diplomatic relations West Ger Many and the United states have already overtaken the .s.r. As suppliers to Syria. Nearly a third of Syria s Trade is now handled by by the private sector. Syria needs to mobilize All its resources particularly our says Economy minister Mohammed Madi and the revolution is Strong enough to afford some latitude about How we do Syria s new economic policy like a similar soviet expert mint in the 1920s, has produced a new class with Money mainly men in positions to facilitate deals with the cum i Creonte syrian bureaucracy. Their wealth is visible in the new housing some of it luxurious which has sprouted in Damascus. Politically or. Assad has Milt a National front Syria has lad elections or the first time n decade. Presidential photographs decorate every shop and office showing or. Assad n an ill tailored civilian suit a Stead of his old air Force uni orm. The facade has cracks How Ever. Many sunni muslims re sent the rising influence and affluence at All Levels of the minority to which Assad himself and most senior officers belong. Power remains Clannish Riyad Assad the president s brother commands special brigade equipped with Armor and aircraft. His brother in Law commands a similar unit. Or. Assad s Mother in Law and other brother sit in parliament. Of missionary Dies at 84 Hamilton up Anne Catherine Munro a Canadian missionary to India for 43 years died saturday at her Home. She was 84. After graduating As a registered nurse from Winnipeg general Hospital. Miss Munro went to India in 1919 As a med ical missionary with the Cana Dian Baptist overseas missionary Board. She was one of the few White persons elected to the state As Sembly of Orissa after India s Independence in 1947, and the British government through its High commissioner to India presented her with the Kaiser i Hin medal for meritorious Public service. While in India she made a translation of St. John s gospel into a local dialect and began a program to care for children whose parents could no longer look after then. Casio Nally or. Assad changes his sleeping quarters unannounced. Several dozen senior military officers were suddenly sacked last month including the air Force chief. Pro egyptian factions have been urging that Syria break with the soviet Union. Militar ily dependent on Moscow and temperamentally cautious or. Assad is manoeuvring carefully to avoid any abrupt realign m e n t s the party Congress later this month marking the 10th anniversary of the baath take Over in Syria will be carefully stage managed t o avoid any open dissension. Continued political stability is vital for Syria which has overwhelming development needs. In the Rural population around the dam for instance trachoma is endemic 99 per cent of women arc illiterate. Syrian planning is still disjointed. The dam will flood Rich land Farmed by Semi settled peasants but resettlement arrangements Are shaky tiny rooms in the first new Village Are too cramped for the open plan style of living which syrian peasants have transferred from their ancestors tents to their own mud Brick dwellings with their spacious Beehive shaped roofs. When the water starts to Rise next Winter some families will flee Back to the desert and re s u m c herding rather than move to government built farms. Physical ecology prob lems like the risk of salinity posed by unskilled irrigation receive scant action. No such doubts arise in the minds of syrian technicians in revolution City the dam Side town of High Rise Flats for inhabitants standing like Mirage amid swirling dust and shimmering heat. This fully collect sized Community will remain the focal Point of euphrates development. Our work Here has Given us a solid foundation for future says the euphrates authority s director general Subhi Kahale. Behind the dam on the Valley floor a dozen International teams of Rescue archaeologists Are unearthing nine Mill Nia of buried civilizations neolithic mesopotamian greek roman byzantine islamic before the Lake Waters close Over them for Ever. Richard Harper former assistant director at the British school of archaeology in an Kara is in charge of the dig at dip sch Farrag a roman Gar Rison town. Once it became the Imperial front line of defence against the persians the euphrates never recovered its ancient role As the commercial artery Between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean. The nearby modern Garrison Engi neers this time arc confident the future of Syria lies along this ancient Axis. Added new fuel to the growing hostility especially in France against or. Nixon s Dollar diplomacy. Solidly backed by French Farmers who rely on american soybeans for half of their annual feed agriculture minister Jacques Chirac said that recent developments have emptied the Nixon round of a Large part of its common sense and the interests of Europe demand an adjournment of the Nixon declared the spokes Man of France s powerful steel chamber French Industry in general favors a firm stand by the government. What seems highly ironical is that the most ardent defender of gaullist principles former prime minister Michel Debre and the late president Charles de Gaulle s most Vio Lent opponent socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand should suddenly be using similar Lan Guage to urge the hardest pos sible stand by France. Another influential member of the Polit ical opposition Jean be Canuck a Middle of the roader has urged the formation of a sacred Union to combat . Dollar diplomacy. To obtain a More muscular joint european stand France will have to convince in partic ular the British and the Ger mans. No doubt France s partners will play for time to see what the United states says at the committee of 2u meeting in Washington at the end of this month and at the Tokyo opening of the Gatt negotiations. But in the meantime there is increasing uneasiness in Europe As the watergate affair has begun to attack president Nixon s credibility. 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