Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 24, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Tuesday july 24. 1973 the soviet censor forbids publication of this article bad news makes bad propaganda by Koh Kkt Kaiser Moscow this dispatch could nut be printed in a so Viet newspaper because the official censor forbids publication of information about Hie organs of soviet censorship which discloses Llic character organization and method of their this is Only one of a great Many subjects that cannot be mentioned in the soviet news Media according to a partial list of forbidden topics that has become available Here. The list suggest the Gulf that still separates East and West in this Era of detente. The censor forbids reports on prison on Low morale in inc army on the activity of the secret police on he amount of crime in soviet society on accusations made by foreign states or states men against the soviet Union. It is against the rules to report on the number of fires and their or the number of illiterate peo or the correlation be tween the Cost of services for foreign tourists in the . And the Selling Price o f tourists trips to the ." the list goes from issues of slate no reporting is Al Lowed on the movements or stopovers of members of the ruling politburo to issues of entertainment and sport. For instance there can be no stories about the rates of pay for sportsmen about the Money prizes for sportsmen for Good results in sport of about the financing Upkeep and staff of in the soviet Union All ath letes Are considered amateurs i or a regular Reader of the soviet press this list pro Vides no new information. It is merely a compilation of Many of the subjects that arc never mentioned in the papers Here. Soviet journalists accept censorship of this kind with out evident discomfort. They regard themselves As propagandists a word that has no negative connotation in modern Russia whose Job is to support and sometimes to improve the status quo. Bad news makes bad propaganda so it Seldom appears in the papers Here. Air plane crashes Are not re ported unless foreigners arc among the victims. Floods earthquakes and other Natu ral disasters also pass Annot de in the Media Here. The other forbidden items on this lift cover aspects of soviet life that the govern ment regards As private not the business of any foreigner and often not the business of Ordinary soviet citizens i ther. A fail Pic to report some of these things openly docs not mean they arc kept secret. Any visitor to this country can easily discover for example that he is paying about for a hotel room that would Cost a soviet Citi zen no More than three rubles Al the official Exchange rate. The soviets believe in washing dirty Linen in com plete privacy in most in stances. Thus the censor for bids stories on the number of uncured for children and the number of people engaged in vagrancy or beg stories on the number of drug addicts in cities or re Eions or in the country Are forbidden. So Are reports on illness in the population from cholera and plague even isolated cases no news please about occupational the rules reflect official caution. They ban any Story about new methods and Means for treating and Early diagnosing of m a 1 i g n a n t tutors in humans without permission of the ministry of a soviet journalist once told an american colleague that a Story about a possible new cancer cure in pravda could Cuse tumult in the populace because soviet readers arc not used to the Stream of optimistic if unfounded forecasts of West Ern doctors and scientists. Not surprisingly the Cen Sor regards military topics As s c n s i t i v e he forbids stories about the Export to foreign countries of arms ammunition military techno logy there can be no reports on foreigners receiving military training in the soviet Union or about soviet military missions abroad. No stories Are allowed about bad morale in the ranks bad re lations Between officers and men or Large scale Issalis faction among military personnel provoked by Dis satisfaction with material con Dumoins and the feeding of the the censor rules out stories on prisons prison Camps juvenile trials and Many related matters. National Pride is protected by bans on stories concern ing economic credits the so Viet Union receives from for e i g n e r s the censor also bans specific reports on soviet Loreign Aid. The National and local budgets the buying Power of the Ruble compared to foreign currencies and other economic information arc not allowed. If a soviet citizen would like to try to learn something about these subject from foreign radio stations the local press cannot help him. The censor specifically pro Hibits information about the audibility of radio stations of foreign states in the territory of the ." tpn5 focus humane aspiration tempered by realism by .1. William Fullbright with a View to coercing the soviet government into re moving present and All future restrictions on jewish emigration. Sen. Henry m. Jackson Democrat washing ton has offered an Amend ment to the Trade Bill Pend ing in Congress which would deny most favored nation Trade treatment As Well As credits to non Market econ omy countries which is to say communist which deny or heavily lax emigration by their citizens. Most favored nation treat ment As you know is no i special privilege but simply a Promise not to discriminate against one country s Trade As against another a withholding most favored nation treatment is therefore a Sanction serving to injure or discriminate against a country s Trade. Ice Phasic this Well known fact so As to Mak i Clear that the Issue is not one of privileged treatment for the soviet Union which i do not favor but one of discrimination against the soviet Union which 1 also do not favor. I do not favor this Masur because the purpose it is meant to serve exceeds the interest and responsibilities of the United states. In .1 world beset with dangers and injustices it is to concentrate efforts on those areas which Are both important and tractable. Learning to live together in peace is the most important Issue for the soviet Union and the United states too important to be compromised by meddling even idealistic in each other s affairs. It is simply not within the legitimate Range of our for policy to instruct inc rus sians in How to treat their own people any More than it is Leonid i. Brezhnev s Busi Ness to lecture us on our race Rel Lions or on such matters As the Indian pro isl at wounded knee. We Mould quite properly resent it. And so do they. Consider How the american people would have responded if or. Brezhnev had can celled his recent visit be cause of the watergate or taken the occasion to lecture us on political corruption. We would of course Tell or. Brezhnev to get stuffed regardless of our own dismay Over the watergate. In fact the general Secre tary was the Model of Propri Ety. Before leaving Moscow he told a group of . Re porters that it would be quite indecent and quite unsuitable for me to intervene in that affair in any Way As to the Jackson Amend ment or. Brezhnev pointed out hat inc soviet Union had Chicago leads fight against Lunchbox blues by Monty ii Oyt Chicago has lunch Lime become a Brown bag bore is the noon hour Only a repetitious Hyphen in can commuting to work and heading Home it does t need in or. A very sunny Day Here in Chicago droves of adventuresome people in of their lowering offices of Glass and steel in the downtown Loop area Lor a half hour s or an hour s re spite. On the plazas and streets below they arc greeted with a circus array of free entertainment and activity that ranks Chicago As a Leader among cities fighting the lunch Box blues. Noontime attractions run All the Way from Carol Channing passing out Imi tation diamonds to promote a new musical to High school bands tooting John Philip Sousa. Part of the magic or Chi Cago s emergence As a City o f lunch Himic oases has been inc development of numerous plazas or pc Pic areas surrounding the towering n c w buildings. Acres of open space pro vide settings Lor fountains planted shrubbery and Flowers and act As an invitation to people to Stop and enjoy the cityscape. Unlike most cities that build to the sidewalk. Chi Cago s building code re quires taller structures in have More open areas at the base. Thus. Inc 110 Storcy scars Tower. Inc world s tallest building occupies Only one third of ils i w o b i o c k site leaving nearly two acres of Plaza space attractively finished i n South american red Granite. Chicago is a world s fair All year says col. Jack Reilly the City s director of special events. So much of what we do Here new yorkers would just turn up their noses at and say it s corny it s not sophisticated it s Siruc Chicago is just an Over grown country town. It s Friendly. It has t lost that a e w York and san Francisco have their spots of activity but Chicago because of its tight Down town area probably has More to offer than any other c i t y agrees Lawrence town sell entertainment editor Tor the Chicago Tribune. Three major plazas draw standing room Only lunch Lime crowds Wilh almost daily entertainment i n five years Iho civic Centre Best known As inc Homo of the hulking Chicago Picasso sculpture has become the Slago for the High noon perform ances. Programs run inc year round in Good weather. Ethnic festivals abound at noon Here swedish German scottish High lands chinese slovak greek Young croatian and you name it. Musical groups Large and Small Lake turns providing entertainment for the thousands who pass by every Day. Big bands. Rock groups. Thirty piece brass orches tras. Spanish dancers. High school marching bands. Everything under the Sun. The newest rival is the first National Bank Plaza which continues to celebrate ils May opening gala noontime in scr t a i n m e n t All summer. Ping Pong Popcorn acro bats gymnasts Lolk Rock Organ Grinders drum and Bugle corps Golf putting Flower shows sports celebrities and even a special performance by jazz great Duke Ellington and his or Chestra round out the list of events. Quincy court offers the big band sound from Dixieland to Rock Cipry Friday Al noon. Two major summer festivals liven inc regular Bill of Faro. July in to 21, the Szalc so Eccl Council la group of 100 merchants along one of the most famous shopping streets in inc world arc sponsoring their first peo ple week. Free double Decker London buses will carry shoppers up and Down state Street. Activities will Range from live fashion shows in store win Dows to shuffleboard bal i o o n sculpturing Square dancing Hula hooping and Folk dancing. Chicago s world famous Ibsh annual Lake front festival August 11 to 19, is to include a wide array of noon hour events including water skiing shows daily on the Chicago River and High wire acts at the civic Centre. Elsewhere. Scattered throughout Chicago s Loop arc dozens of lunch hour frighteners noon Carillon concerts All year at the Tribune Tower gallery talks on famous paintings housed in the Art Institute free Street theatre and weekly puppet shows and film festivals for children sponsored by the Chicago Public Library. In Winter t i m o the Library holds music concerts history and travel lectures and Art exhibits for the midday crowd. A striking Lemon and 1 i m c double Decker bus transports the thirsty to a 2 cent lemonade stand. Now in ils second summer this thirst quenching Oasis a promotion by a savings and loan association at tracts As Many As persons a Day. All proceeds go to Charity. For those fortunate enough to Lime it right one of Chicago s biggest attract t i o n s snarls Wilh Bells clanging warning lights mashing a n d barricades coining Down. This signals inc of drawbridge along Iho Chicago River thai lock like upended dominoes saluting some Behemoth Lanker or Barue passing in review. Yes. Of you Don t gel in Side at noon mice in a one fan remarks Yon Haven t seen this Eily in fact relaxed ils emigration controls. Although the extent of that relaxation is disputed it is acknowledged even by supporters of the Jackson amendment that the soviet government has in fact per melted the emigration of a great Many soviet jews. There is no limit to the mischief to be wrought by a policy of Basing detente upon sweeping standards of moral Ity. The Jackson amendment would deny non discriminatory Trade treatment to any non Market Economy country which denies or heavily taxes its citizens right of emigration. Why just non Market countries should a country be exempted from punish ment for confining ils Citi Zens simply because it has a capitalist Economy is the right of emigration sacred Only As applied to socialist countries the answer of course is that Many countries impose emigration axes and in order to enforce the right of emigration upon All coun tries we would have to renegotiate Many or most of our foreign Trade agreements or if necessary Cut off Trade with an indeterminate number of countries at in calculable Cost to our bal Ance of payments. In support of his Amend ment sen. Jackson invokes article 13 of the United nations Universal declaration of human rights which states that everyone has the right to leave any country including his own and to re Lurn to his note that the article refers not Only to the right to leave but also to the right to re turn. The later right is invoked by the displaced palestinians who arc denied re p a t r i a t i o n to i hair own former Homes within inc territory of Israel. Is the right of palestinians to re turn to Homes from which they were expelled any less fundamental that the right of soviet jews to make new Homes in a new land As Long As we Are to use Irac sanctions to enforce one part of the Universal rights Why not enforce an other part of it or All of it for thai matter Why not deny most favored nation Trade treatment to any country Market or non Market which denies its Citi Zens the right to emigrate or the right to repatriate or any of the other rights we hold dear speech religion press the works Why not Universal ize the Jackson amendment and make in n vehicle to redress a wide Range of the world s injustices Kvin if sen. Jackson were willing to broaden his amendment in these ways. I am bound to confess that i still would not support it. Al though 1 believe that the world can be made Heller and that Man is capable of aiding ils betterment i am equally a believer in selectivity of Means. Important As it is to know what we Hope to achieve it is equally important to know what we Are incapable of thieving which is to say that humane aspiration must be tempered by realism. This does not mean that we cannot sometimes pressure another country even a big country like the soviet Union into changing its Domestic policies. If the rus sians want our Trade badly enough they will Bend to the Jackson amendment they largely have already. But let us not pretend that this is a Victory for human rights Al most in is a Victory for the rights of a Smail fraction of inc millions of persecuted people upon the Earth and they by no Means the worst persecuted. Ii is a Victory moreover purchased at the Cost of in truding in the internal affairs of a proud and powerful nation a nation which can no More be expected to endure our intrusions that would endure theirs a nation and this is the Central Point whose co operation is absolutely essential if we Are to protect the most fundamental of All human rights the right of innocent people to stay alive in the age of nil Clear weapons. Washington poo for Sake seven farms milk available at these consumer conscious stores shop easy loaf to ;