Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 13, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october 1973 racial distrust hinders Southeast asian cooperation by Dennis Bloodworth Singapore special owns political leaders in Southeast Asia Are becoming increasingly exasperated with the West not the West of the greedy White Monkey with us Paw stuck firmly in the asian Jar this but the beige and Black West to be found from new Delhi to returning Early and in some disgust from the recent sum Mit of nonaligned nations in Tun Abdul the prime minister of proposed that in future their leaders should meet Only on a regional he had seen the smaller countries bulldozed by bigger uncommitted Powers into accepting the seating of the Viet Cong and of the Cam Bodian government exile of Prince Norodom Sihanouk at the just As he had seen the africans filibustering their Way through common wealth conferences in the past in order to air their own woes at length while disdaining the problems of Sinnathamby foreign minister of echoed Tun Razak when he complained that at Algiers the delegates talked to much poli instead of concentrating on Concrete problems he nonaligned members have been More interested in High lighting their grievances against the developed world perhaps leaders find it easier to blame imperialists and communists for their Trou instead of recognizing their own it was kind of him to say but the asians themselves Are High on the list of Flagel lants when the West Ern whipping boy is on the Munich massacre last year was All the fault of the British for creating and while her country wallows in apparently terminal Indira Gandhi puts the blame on affluent nations that jealously oppose India Prosperity and having brutally thrown some asians out of president Amin can Send a delegation around this subcontinent to recruit a few Hundred More mainly doctors and when the Commonwealth parliamentary conference was held in London last Britain was not Only denounced for racial discrimination against coloured in but was still the Stock Scapegoat for everybody else communal and prominent among the accusers was senator Mah Athir bin Mohamed of Malaysia who hand on metaphorical that the policy of his own country was beyond re since Malaysia simply did not want immigrants of any we have enough problems with what has been left to us by the he explained the remark itself carried racist the problems Mah Athir referred to were the chinese immigrants whose for bearers streamed into Malaya in colonial and whose rising political Power provoked the malays into Start ing a bloody communal riot in the capital at Kuala Bumpur just Over four years much has been since then by moderate malaysian leaders to attack the agonizing economic Gap Between race and race in order to reduce but among Many the attitude towards the Young federations problems change this was demonstrated a few Days ago by a senior malay Sian who forbade a team of chinese lion dancers to perform at Kuala Bumpur air port in Honor of a departing minister with the fatuous words there Are no Lions in Only therefore Dale Carnegie classes now forming two completely separate courses Thi Dale a Mannii Croumi Sel Confidence communication leadership memory Nohman Buntz Amoc atm tit Shim Hook strut phone 7868729 residence 8378737 organization enthusiasm motivational Selling skills come Home to our come to come to trans Ona 22269n8 Valley gardens 6670929 the Maples 3397939 see our newly styled 1974 House design youll never want to youre the lion Danet u not part of our National in there Are neatly at Many chinese As Malaya in Malaysia chinese to and nothing is better calculated to prompt the Hothead among them to turn towards peking than to imply that malaysian nations culture must be exclusively the incident prompted the principal chinese political party to Convene an Emer gency meeting the More Erat Jfe Lay leaders tied to their own extremists in the three legged race towards the creation of True and equal for they cannot afford to antagonise in there Are still More than one million chinese in the country who Are not Citi Zens end therefore cannot according to the estimate of one Well placed and it is understood that Premier Chou Nglai has quietly told the malaysians that until they Are granted these chinese remain the wards of the Peoples he has nonetheless declined to take any of them this has placed the malay already plagued by armed communist in a painful although in numerous cases the chinese themselves have failed to it is estimated that cannot qualify for citizenship under the cur rent Law and the applications of another Are Semi permanently pending some asian observers therefore be Lieve that a drop in tempera Ture Between Kuala Bumpur and peking May partly account for the surprising Deci Sion of the malaysians to walk out of the executive committee meeting of the asian games federation last month when a majority voted for an iranian motion to admit China and expel honors saints me Nicory by Roland Hun Ford Stockholm special the 600th anniversary of the death of or the Patron Saint of Falls this and in this severely protestant country the event is being celebrated with pomp and ceremony in a the embattled Catholic minority in Sweden has that the occasion hat had ecumenical and has tempered the prevail ing such is the Power of someone dear to god and Man in the words of Bernard of Bridget is being feted in Sweden not Only As a but As a formidable woman in her own right and As a National but she is an Odd heroine for the militant rationalists and determined protes Tants of present Day swe she was born in 1303 in Central in 1317 she married a swedish no Bleman and had eight Chil one of them later honoured As a local Bridget became a lady waiting at where she unsuccessfully endeavoured to get the swedish sovereigns to take life More when Ier husband died in 1344 she founded the order of the holy Saviour or Bridge tines at Vastena on the Lake of in Western but Bridget herself never became a nun and her work was done in later years outside she was consumed with a burning Zeal to Reform the abuses of the in 1349 she left Sweden for France and to per Suade the Popes to return to Rome Avignon where they were then Liv i n she prophesied All manner of disasters if they did not obey justifiably As it turned warnings were and the Avignon exile led to the great schism with rival Popes in Rome and Avig and an ultimate con sequence of that was the Bridget had a com m a n d i n g Mere she was nevertheless allowed to proffer outspoken advice to the being paid the compliment of being taken but her real significance goes far beyond Church she made visions and mysticism re the medieval Church was severely visions and attracted charges of heresy they were certainly shrugged off As the unreliable imaginings of unlettered peasants or despised Bridget be longed to neither of these she was by no stretch of the imagination but she had or More precisely mystical educated and she wrote Down what she was taken very her influence was quite sex some of her visions concerned the life of she wrote Down details of the nativity and the Pas hitherto and altered the forms of religious when for began to paint the infant Christ on the stable floor instead of in the virgins arms it was As a result of the Bridge Tine she con tended that Jesus appeared to on the ground beside concepts such As verging on the met with ecclesiastical the revelations of Bridget were surrounded by Sharp controversy but the final opinion was that her visions were authentic and sound in she was canonized in Only 18 years after her for the Brid get has been a National Fig ure Ever that Prince of g u s t a f the swedish King who imposed the Reforma was moved to spare the Bridgetine when he destroyed the monasteries the Only order so Privi but eventually the Brid get Ines were banished from As catholicism was from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries conversion was punished remorselessly with Bat gradually toleration was extended to swedish today they number about in a population of eight they have had to Bear much p r e j u d i c e sneering and s Bridget has done something to alleviate their for decades she has been accepted by the swedish lutheran in the Bridgetine House in Rome there is a protestant at the Bridgetine there Are houses both of a pro Testant and a Catholic something in the a of the Saint has inspired catholics and protestants to drop some of their traditional in the Wake of her anniversary an ecumenical Breeze has blown across the swedish religious atomic guards told shoot to of Washington special tons the War in the mid dle East and the Rise in Arab terror ism have caused the Pentagon and the atomic Energy commission dec to Issue shoot Okill orders to their personnel handling nuclear the orders Are covered for the first time in written instructions sent by the Pentagon and the dec to their personnel directing the product shipment and storage of atomic the orders Are the direct re sult of the Middle East the Success and recklessness of the Arab terrorist movement and the fear that a terrorist group might attempt to steal an atomic the Gravity of this threat is sufficiently Strong to take the strictest measures of protect Frank assistant general manager for military application at the said in an if we lose a nuclear weapon through theft i hate to even think of what the consequences would there Are an estimated nuclear weapons in the Many of which move each year out of dec production plants to the Mili tary services and which travel Back to the production plants for servicing and the dec has the responsibility of protecting the weapons during shipment to and from its the Pentagon performs the same service for weapons on their Way overseas and in the depot nuclear weapons Are shipped under armed guard in military and chartered aircraft As Well As in drains and the routes and numbers of guards on these shipments Are strict but it is understood that a dozen or More guards accompany each travelling in convoys with the weapons and armed with the Pentagon sent its shoot Okill orders out three months while the dec instructions went out this five Days after the arabs and israelis resumed the eruption of War in the Middle East has made the orders that much More partly because of that Arab terrorists might want to steal a nuclear weapon to use against Israel and partly be cause the same terrorists might attempt to use a stolen weapon to blackmail the into not supporting there is also the part that Israel has its own nuclear which it might use against the arabs if the War went against the worry Here is that the arabs might want to steal nuclear weapons in the anticipation that Israel might use its nuclear weapons against nobody has Ever attempted to steal a nuclear weapon or even threatened to steal the closest the has Ever come to losing a weapon was the loss of a Gold plated part for a which the dec believes might have been Sto Len for the a stolen nuclear weapon would be extremely difficult to All weapons have triggers that pulled Only under certain a nuclear artillery for in will go off Only if it is Given the Shock of being shot from a the is Tak ing no the chief motivation for the shoot Okill the Arab terrorist move has been responsible for 23 terror attacks that killed 46 people in the last two remembrance set actors of be Cercle of have been invited to present poetry read Ings by French Canadian poets saturday during French week in commemorating the liberation of by the Regina Rifle regiment during the second world a Secretary of state depart ment Grant will finance the la Egeit c1aft Washington the Sara aircraft is feet in length and 252 feet the broadest Craft Ever she has been consciously adopted As a sym Bol of reconciliation by those working in the ecumenical for the first time in history a roman Catholic Cardinal preached at a swedish protestant ceremony on her feast Day on protestant ministers have also been participating in Catholic As for the rationalists and atheists who dominate swedish they have in their own Way also been celebrating the memory of for some of her visions were she foresaw what we would Call ideological controversy and the utopian Point of Bridget was a woman fighting in a mans Sven a swedish Catholic suggests she would be an excellent Model for the Dis oriented fighters for to mens rights in above she appears As a National rally ing for she was after All a such is the Power of a woman who died 600 years but then the Kernel of a Saint is Bridget was cast in the heroic Mould and even in an anti heroic age it would seem that heroes cannot quite be the decision was surprising because Malaysia has not Only been working steadily towards normalization of relations with the new but has sponsored a project for Southeast Asia to be declared a zone of peace and neutrality Guaran teed by the superpowers and most necessarily the chinese Peoples it was undoubtedly this interpretation of no alignment that made prime minister Razak recoil from the partisan and talk in terms of regional conferences in but the walk out at the asian games meet led by the malaysian min ister of was a slap in the face for peking that Cost whatever Goodwill the chinese might have Felt to wards the federation and its far reaching while leaders of underdeveloped states wring their hands Over their economic domination by the acquisitive and racial Dis Trust also saps at the foundations for regional cooperation that otherwise enable them to put up a stronger de the tendency to regard Singapore As a third China in a malay sea a Breeding ground for red guards Andor rapacious according to taste has consistently troubled relations be tween Singapore and they were once and they Are partners in the association for Southeast asian nations whose ultimate object is logically to create a South East Asia to match Europe yet they Are draw ing apart faster than the euro peans Are drawing immigration cards and Spe Cia car passes have been in t r o d u c e d Between the two and Malaysia has imposed restrictions on Trade with their joint air line has split into and in the past five months so have their joint Stock their joint rubber and their joint not Long ago singaporeans would drive across the causeway that links this Island to Malaysia just for a sunday picnic or to see a today it is in some respects easier to travel across All Western Europe even to visit China from Hong the countries of Southeast Asia that have been Given half a Chance have shown their ability to pull themselves to Gether under pragmatic Leader ship in recent years notably Indonesia sin and the but the commonsense coun Sel of the Razakis and Rajaratnam must still be heard against a chorus of threats and curses from those who insist that everything that goes wrong is the fault of someone else of a different living or it is a comfortable substitute for self criticism and positive it divides the Small countries of the it Bede vils their relations with the bigger and it is going to be interesting to see just How great and terrible an International catastrophe is required to silence Public notice the City of Winnipeg Transcona Community the Transcona Community committee will meet at october 1973 in the Council 401 Pandora Avenue West to consider any matters of Public con Cern brought before the included in the matters to be dealt with will be the adoption of a report on the application for rezoning Daz Duncan communications clerk Transcona Community Winnipeg Arena october october 20 celebrate oktoberfest in the grand old bavarian Holiday 150 bavarian dancers and clowns flown directly from Germany to Lively entertainment All evening Long for the adult dance to the rousing music of brass and trumpet sing the traditional songs of oktoberfest with that genial and enter Tainer Han Christian six Days of great entertainment for adults of All Ages Eins profit t the bands trumpet band pos Musik Kapelle Koblenz brass band Minderjahn Dusseldorf trumpet band Rie Lasinger brass band die Lus Tigen Rhei Taler brass band the programs evening monday through Friday to admission final Day october 20 to admission special luncheon program thursday and Friday Only to admission no seats reserved tickets at the Winnipeg Arena Box co the Ato fort Garry Lions Simpsons Sears customer Polo Park and Garden and United Cigar Polo delicious bavarian food and refreshments at modest prices fast attention ladies opening october is ladies night All with a Mayo scarfs admitted of off doors opon and dancing to 1 ;