Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 24, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Fri Hiss tuesday. July 24, 1973 Trinidad Aii s plea i just want a Job by William f. Nicholson port of Spain Trinidad a at Queen s Park Savannah jobless Black youths lounge on the Park benches. When you got no Money in your pocket you re in sighed Kenneth Clement 22, who had just been turned Down for a labor or s Job at a travelling car Nival. I know something about Clement said and 1 can get a Little work now and then. But there s nothing in april 1970 mobs surged through downtown port of Spain during several Days of Black Power inspired Vio Lence. Four persons were killed and a number of stores burned. Simultaneously a group of Young officers led an abortive Mutiny within Trinidad and Tobago s tiny army. A nation of 1.1 million peo ple Trinidad and Tobago like Many other Independent islands in the Caribbean has a Black government. But the complaint of Blacks is that Whites run their economics. The economic and political problems of 1970 Are still present but the bitter racial anger has begun to fade. This two Island min state and other English speaking Caribbean islands appear to be moving into an Era of introspection that rejects race As the sole basis of the re Gion s difficulties. I Don t have hard feelings against said Leroy Dover 23, another Habitude of Queen s Park. I just want a there is still violence in the Caribbean most of it a product of uncontrolled Urban growth and depressing unemployment statistics about 20 per cent Here. But the organized Black Power move ment is disappearing. Observed a White foreign resident the Black is Beautiful part of the move input has been Good for Caribbean Blacks. It has Given them a sense of identity. But i their blackness has now been established and they Are mov on to More pressing mat i for most of the islands Sun and surf Are the Only economic assets. Trinidad has Oil and has Bauxite which makes them somewhat better off. After a decade of Independence these outcroppings of Sand and volcanic Rock have Black men running their governments. But their economics arc predominantly con trolled by others. Confronted by burgeoning populations most of the is lands simply cannot provide enough jobs. The average Guy in the Caribbean these Days just finds the rest of the world passing him said Hakin Gordon a Black Anthropol Ogist educated in Britain. He can see in magazines that a Good life docs exist out there. But his government can t seem to provide it and the rising Cost of living keeps biting into his Little a Che the Cost of living is expected to increase by 19 per cent in Trinidad this year. The Normal yearly rate is nine per cent. I m a Black Man and proud of it but i sometimes wonder if we should t have remained colonies a bit longer until we got More practice for governing after Gordon said. Control of the National Economy has become a major preoccupation in the islands. In Trinidad . Investments alone principally in Oil production Are estimated to total half a billion dollars. Al most All imports Are funnelled through White controlled firms. A number of the islands have taken various approaches to developing their economics. In Jamaica the govern ment of prime minister Michael Manly has adopted a people strategy without id ecological commitments. Manley said recently we see the problem not As one of selecting from amongst Ideo Logies that May have been developed at other times in other places to suit other conditions but As one of devising through our native ingenuity the systems most appropriate to our on the tiny Island of do Minica the local government has decided not to tamper with its Basic farming econ omy but to develop a carefully controlled tourist Industry. Trinidad has been an Active participant in efforts to pro Mote regional co operation. Ii is one of the f o u n d i n members of a Caribbean common Market scheduled to j4o into limited operation in Trinidad Jamaica Dai Bados and g u y a n a is diplomatic relations late last year with Cuba. While Cuba s Economy is lied to the soviet Union there is a feeling that the cubans can demonstrate some useful accomplishments. Trinidad prime minister Eric Williams recently criticizing the University of the West indies for graduating too Many Liberal arts majors and too few specialists said of students at the University of Havana arc studying agriculture and veterinary science. At the University of the West indies which has campuses in Jamaica Barbados and trim dad Only 186 of students study these subjects. Williams said were studying education at Havana compared with Only 166 at Uwi. Berkeley radicals turning capitalist by Mark Brewer Christian science Monitor news service Berkeley one of the Best known centres of leftist politics in the United states is turning of All things capitalist. Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley Home of throngs of Street now has the air of free Wheeling Commerce. In place of political rioting and broken Glass the Street now Fea Tures the myriad colourful displays of Side walk craftsmen food hawkers and free Lance importers. Already established businesses Are not wholly in favor and Competition for sidewalk spaces is intense. But anyone walking the four blocks of the Avenue that leads to the University of California s Sproul Plaza can choose from handmade jewelry leather goods mexican sandals and asian miscellany whose eager salesmen appear unfettered by the usual conventions of leasing space. The average take among the 100 to 200 vendors who put in regular hours on the Avenue is Only about a Day but since most of them live communally _ to various degrees a lit tic bit is usually enough. Still like any Berkeley phenomenon this one is fraught with the political Legal and sometimes Prysi Cal conflicts of social change. It was not Long ago. Of capitalistic Enterprise was course that the notion of ill regarded around the Avenue. But As Many disaffected youths began finding vocations in various crafts they also began wanting to make a living from them. Through 1970, craftsmen of various types began to test the Prospect of simply Selling their stuff on the Street. At first they spread their wares on the sidewalks four or five blocks from the Campus in front of sympathetic stores but the few who ventured up the Street to try it in front of the conventional clothing and shoe shops were Dis Persed by police at the be la e s t of indignant Mer chants. But nothing slays the same for Long in this town and nobody knows that bet Ter than the Telegraph merchants who watched from beneath considerable overheads As the Street vendors grew steadily in number and Pepy parity and began freely enterprising their Way up the Avenue to Ward the Campus. Amid the mounting con s c s i i o n and popularity however. Telegraph s Street business is getting a Little rough. The Rigours of staking out a spot if it s a Good one usually includes a confrontation with someone who thinks it s his or who just wants it. In re cent months brawls have ceased to be a rarity. Thefts and robberies Are becoming More common. Although some Mer chants begrudgingly Felt that the colourful vendors were actually drawing business most were immediately antagonistic toward what they justifiably a Gard cd As a free ride on Public space in front of their stores. But the growth and migration of the Street Ven Dors became so elusive by Swift and their acceptance among the student and Street Community so wide spread that the Mer chants opposition could not be satisfied by merely get Ling the police to run them off. Berkeley merchants especially o n Telegraph Avenue know it is unwise and impractical to Chal Lenge the from Stark experience they know thai even a Brief uprising on the ave nue regardless of police reaction can to expensive in terms of plate Glass inventory damage and the temporary decline in Busi Ness Hal always Folinus i Rouille there. I my o n a h in isl store owners gradually began to Afree that the people who Luada their own wares had a vague to sell them in Public places they be came incensed when the Craft vendors ranks began to be joined by a kind of Street retailer which has become the Centre of heightening local controversy. These retailers Are bitterly referred to by merchants As cockroach it looks As if the importers will sooner or later be turned out of Berkeley s sidewalk marketplace. Last Christmas season when Telegraph was thick and teeming the City coun cil tried to act. It passed a ruling that at least feet of Telegraph s sidewalks must be Clear at All times and also created the mayor s committee on Street vending composed of eight vendors and eight merchants which was charged with hashing out equitable Means of regulating the new commercial surge. The result of the commit tee s unenviable task is four pages of proposed ordinances which if accepted by the Council would solid Al establish Street vendors As part of Berkeley s Busi Ness scene but in would bar the s o c a 11 c d cockroach in addition to recommending a fixed number of permits and strictly limit ing the number of employees and size of equipment which a Vendor May use. The committee proposed that vending be limited to handicrafts which Are made by Vendor or his employees from raw Materi als or mass produced parts Only if mass produced parts Are incidental to the Basic if the Berkeley Council adopts the recommendations As it is expected to do sooner or later the Onee Maverick Craft Ven Dors will have sided with the straight merchants to drive out those who could beat the system. A reaction to the com Mittee s proposals is typified by Ron Simpson seller of mexican and occasionally South american goods. I Don t like it. I Don t Tiki it any More than i like the term cockroach capitalist he says grim faced. "1 got jeffersonian ideals. I m just Boot strapping it copyright 1972 the Christian science Monitor publishing society mood jag jag a Winnipeg Rock group will perform at noon wednesday in Bonnycastle Park. The concert will be the sixth in a series of free shows presented in Winnipeg Parks this summer by the City Parks department and the Winnipeg musicians association. The name it pronounced mood jaw cubans unveil new Arsenal Havana up under the Eye of Premier Fidel Astro the cuban government unveiled its latest military Arenal sunday in a huge armed res Parade part of festive is marking the 20th Annivera Ary of Cuba s socialist revolt on. Mig jets r reviewing and a huge array of soviet rolled Down the Arade ground. It included the test Type of mortar eight heeled armoured carriers As squadrons of wept Over the food clothing and other necessities have increased and that they win continue to increase As Cuba grows stronger. How Ever in Havana Long queues Are still seen in the shopping districts where Many show cases remain Bare. But no one goes hungry officials say and everyone has a roof Over his head even to the Point where premises that once were shops have been converted into family dwellings. Amid these problems the spirit of the cuban people con Cuba s growing military strength has increased difficult haps half a million cubans gathered along the streets of Havana to watch the greatest to fight army worm at Dauphin ties for Yankee imperialism in latin America. I Cuba s history. Yet in renewing the military huge floats some four display with Fidel Castro at storeys High followed one by Hind filled his Side Raul Castro seemed relatively mild As he acknowledged that the soviet american and hundreds of lavishly dressed dancers. The floats. Detente has changed the em-1 ablaze with coloured lights and Phasis of the revolutionary i reflectors depicted the work of straggle to the economic Diplo Cuba s main industries malic and ideological fronts. So lavish was each product he said the conflict there lion and so meticulous the tends to get form and style of each danc foreign officials and correspondents Wilnes cd the spec Tacle which is to be followed later in the week by special ceremonies a t Santiago do Cuba which Fidel Castro con that observers concluded must have taken Many week and Many hundreds of thou Sands of dollars to produce such a spectacle. Parts of the City successfully attempted to storm Moncado Barracks near Santiago that the revolution hat changed the face of Cuba can. In that attack Many of Astro s followers were killed. Castro himself later was Cap Rcd and jailed. But for the bulk of the peo Ile there was no turning Back Laid Castro said As had Iris cd military graduates in he sunday Parade while a luge throng of spectators applauded under a hot Sun. The Cople realized he said that Fie hated Batista regime could not be eliminated without Mili tary action. In 1959, the Batista govern ment fell adding to american Dauphin. Man. Special problems As the new Castro Leavy infestation of Cereal i government swung firmly by crops by the True or common j Hind the soviet Union army worm is reported from Over the years. Soviet Mili armours in the Rorketon Wincn Ciuci Pasiro con siders the Birthplace of Tecl strict dances continued Al revolution. J night with thousands of couples it was july 26. 1953 when Vistins rhythmically to Stec Drums and guitars. While Many socialist coun tries sent representatives to the the cuban government picking up most of the of the most popu ochre River and Dauphin districts. Dave Hill Dauphin agricultural representative has advised All Farmers to Check their Cereal and Grain crops immediately to see if there is any threat of these damaging Worms. Spraying operations would be the Only Way to fight infestations at this stage of the grow ing season. Entomologists in the Manitoba department of agriculture recommend a Lalli Ion 50 and Scovin 4-Flowablc not the Wannale chemical used last year against the Bertha army Worms. The True or common army worm is a half to two inches in length with distinct Light stripes Down each Side. Infestation As Low As five to 10 caterpillars per Square Yard May be serious enough to plan spraying operations. Farmers in this District first noticed the army worm Type in their vegetable gardens during the weekend and then went ill and inspected their Field crops. These army Worms go through Field crops of Cereal i Grain or grass crops and strip i Hie leaves completely devour the Heads and leaving Only the seems standing. Tary and economic Aid to Cuba with this Aid. The cuban people find to licit lives dominated by the ration Book. Officials main Tain that the size of quotas in api the cily will close about a half Home s ,10 museums during july and August Peak tourist months to give the stalls time in go on vacation. Bruce w. Donaldson who was recently appointed regional representative for Canadian executive sen ice overseas a non profit organization formed by a group of Canadian business leaders in 1907. He spent three months last ear in Tehran Iran. Or. Donaldson of Virlon Boulevard Tuxedo is one of nearly 700 senior Cana Dian executives and tech n i e a i experts to have served As voluntary Consul Tants in it countries. Lar guests was Angela Davis the american Black militant. She received a special place of Honor during the carnival Dis play and was seated next to the Castro Brothers on the Mil itary reviewing stand sunday. Grain purchases to drop Washington Reuter the soviet Union May already have bought All the Grain it needs from the United states for the next 12 months and the Quantity will be substantially below its massive purchases of last year says United states agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. In a television interview on the National broadcasting corp. Meet the press program Butz said the russian purchasing Agency located Here had announced it already had made its Purchase commitments out of this year s United Stales crops and they were substantially below what they bought last year. Last summer the soviet Union bought 19 million tons of . Grain for shipment Over a 12-Monlh period. Those Pur chases Worth Over billion i comprised a surprisingly Large 12 million tons of wheat and were substantially larger than lad been expected. They triggered higher prices which since then have spread to most sectors of the food in Dusley not Only in the . But also to most parts of the world. Butz did not elaborate on i just How much More the rus j Sivali buying would be to meet its needs Over the coming year. J however agriculture depart ment statistics show american exporters already have reported they have Export sales con tract with the soviet Union covering a Little Over Mil lion tons including about millions Tiiu of wheat and nearly four millions tons of Corn As Well As moderate quantities of Barley and Rye. I. Eclipse has Impact on tribal culture n c c i c u Arn urea earners i me people con j Long Range artillery twin can tines to express the Long tra non tanks torpedo and of gaiety and Joy com-1 i seeking rockets. Ing to a head in the annual in lauding the russians for carnival i the help Given to Cuba. Do i i Fence minister Raul Castro i i on n she. The eve 011 Del s brother maintained that he want military Parade per a mar Sabit Kenya Spe Cial tons the total solar eclipse which swept across Africa several weeks ago was As most men know a wholly Natur ral event caused by the Brief alignment of the Sun the Moon and the Earth. But to some members of the Bora no a tribe of about africans who Range Over Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia the eclipse was a contrived event brought on by White men who As a result of having landed on the Moon now know its secrets. Knowing these secrets the europeans As the b o r a n a indiscriminately Call All Whites were thus Able to jockey the Moon about the sky that after noon of june 30 and shut out the Light of the Sun. The Bora a did not explain Why they thought the euro peans would stage such a spectacular show if indeed they thought there was a purpose to it. If the Bora a were the simple superstitious natives of an old Tarzan movie this reaction might seem quaint and in consequential. However the Bora a Are an intelligent people with a highly organized and ritualized life style in which astronomy plays an important part. And so the june 30 eclipse of the Sun already has had some social Politi Cal and religious Impact on the Bora a with the Prospect of still More to come. The Bora a regard total solar eclipses As ominous events associating them with various disasters in the past. Just before the turn of the last Century for example a total solar eclipse flitted across their lands. That eclipse coincided with the Conquest of the Bora a by the a Maras. Now the dominant people of Ethiopia and the imprison ment of one of their two Kallu the Coranas Politi Cal and spiritual co equal leaders. In 1935. Another solar eclipse passed Over their territory and the Coranas associate this with the Ita Lian invasion of Ethiopia and a particularly severe drought. The most recent eclipse has come at a time when a drought again lies upon the land and the ethiopian Branch of the Bora a Are chafing under the Rule of the government at Addis Ababa the country s Capi Tal. According to or. As Marom Legesse. An ethiopian anthropologist who has studied them for the past 10 years the Bora a do not draw cause and effect links Between eclipses and the various misfortunes which have befallen them coincidentally. Instead they Sec the eclipses and the disasters As a set of events which usually occur together. Moreover the firmly believe that history a creates itself in cycles of 56 and 80 years. These times Are reckoned by the cyclic appearance of cer Tain Star patterns at the time of a new Moon. It has been Only 71 years since the eclipse which coincided with the Ascendancy of the a Maras Over the Bora a. Or. Legesse who is associated with both Northwestern University in the United states and University College of Addis Ababa was not immediately Able to determine if the two years difference mat t e r e d to the tribe or whether they attributed it to the europeans new found control Over the Moon. The Bora a were frankly sceptical that anyone could predict the occurrence of an eclipse. Still they decided that caution was the better part of valor and took to their huts As the eclipse began. Once it became obvious that an eclipse was indeed taking place the Bora a reacted very defensively in or. Legesse s words. They shut them selves up in their huts covered their Heads with cloths hid their children beneath bedding and crouched behind their door ways with drawn Pangas the super Sharp machetes used in East Africa. As the Sun began to dim the Kallu was quite of v i o 1 y surprised and upset. He ran into the tavern his hangout and began talking excitedly and in great agitation with one of the Village s Wise men. He remained in the bar for hours after the eclipse drinking heavily and Sev eral Days after the event ordered a steer to be sacrificed a ritual usually performed at limes of trib Al anxiety in which the Bora a Hope to appease their god. Just How the different branches of the Bora a finally regard the eclipse re Mains to be seen. At the present time the ethiopian Bora a arc politicking for More autonomy from the Central government in Addis Ababa. Whether they View the eclipse As a bad Omen for their Hopes has yet to be determined. Conversely the eclipse seems to have enhanced the image and authority of the kenyan government in the minds of those Bora a. They told or. Legesse that they were quite impressed with the fact that the government somehow seemed to know that an eclipse was about to occur when even their a Bantu time reckoner and their Wise men could not say for sure if an eclipse would or would not take place. Pope names delegates to East German areas Vatican City a Ope Paul named three Apos Olic delegates to East German areas As part of a policy of opening up communist coun Ries the Vatican said monday. Bishop Hugo Aufderbeck was named apostolic Delegate to Erfurt mein oxen. An area in which roman catholics live. Bishop in Cirk a theissing i became apostolic Delegate to Scherwin where 114.000 Catho lies live. Bishop Johannes George i Braun was appointed As Apos Tolic Delegate to Magdeburg which includes about 328.000 catholics. Pope Paul also named it. Rev. Karl Ebert As titular Bishop of Brua and auxiliary to Bishop Aufderbeck. The three new delegates have been serving As commissars in the listed areas but All three were dependents of West German dioceses. I from now on Vatican sources said they will be Independent. Judge gets Boot shop stewards defied West Berlin Reuter a West German judge who went to Morocco for the trial of 157 men accused of trying to oust King Hassan said sunday he was kept away from the court and then ordered out of the country. I professor Werner sars Ludt. Presiding judge at the West Melbourne. Al Stra German Hish Federal court Lia a Ford automobile he flew to Rabat last workers defied their shop Stew tuesday but was not allowed Ards monday and voted to end 0 i nearby Kenitra. Where i hair strike. The irial is being held. He was the so Rick which started ordered out thursday. May 19, has Cost the Ford Sarstedt said he wanted to motor co. Millions of dollars in observe the trial on behalf of Var pay and conditions. J amnesty International and the lost production. The strike was International commission o f last month some workers jurists in Geneva acc pled a pay increase of five the moroccan defence and or cent instead of the 17 i per j t i c e ministers were in cent asked for and returned Toi formed Aboul his Mission be work. Forehand he said. Assim Boine credit Union m Nutter trim minor pays interest a Vics main office 300 Assiniboine ave. 943-86s8 Corner Smith Street Assiniboine Avenue downtown Winnipeg monday thru Friday . To . no term requirements Branch offices 5930 Roblin Boulevard 889-3345 825 St. Mary s Road 233-6356 monday thru Friday . To . Thursday evening . To ;