Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 16, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published daily except sunday by the Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Carllon Street Winnipeg Manitoba. . Malone publisher and editor in chief Peter Mclintock Maurice Western executive. Editor Ottawa editor r. H. Shelford general manager Winnipeg free press Western canada11 National newspaper Winnipeg october 16, 1973 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights defence a Central problem of the new Era in National de Fence is the unsolved problem of the old Era How to protect the hardware budget from the inexorably rising costs of housekeeping. After the Long freeze and the slow melt we now have the lock in. For five years the defence budget Wil be permitted controlled increases of seven per cent a year. With this additional Money and some economies the forces will be maintained at present Levels and provided with new equipment for example Long Range patrol aircraft and surface to air missile systems required for their revised roles. V National defence according to defence minister Richardson will be unique among All the de in enjoying these automatic increases it a of course unique among department tin the years of the freeze and it is unique in being singled out now As a department whose Money needs can be foreseen and arbitrarily determined Over a Long period. In the conditions of the world today this is indeed remarkable. The exercise would be much More credible if we were not enduring an inflation rate of 8.5 per cent a year. Without an improvement there will obviously be less hot More defence hardware in year of the five year plan in fact the rate must drop sharply if much Money is to be freed for the modernization and renewal program. It is difficult to be optimistic on this score when new inflationary pressures Are clearly foreseeable for example in the much higher world prices which now seem unavoidable. Something is hoped from economies and the disposition of older vessels and other equipment. In this re Gard however experience couns Els caution. Large sums were spent on Bonaventure refits. But that Carrier shorn of recoverable items went finally for scrap realizing about presumably or. Richardson would be a happier min ister if he had extracted a guarantee in constant dollars from colleagues presiding Over civilian departments which had not been and Are not now subject to Long term restraints. Although defence is to receive More dollars it will account for a declining proportion of the Gnu. This Assurance May help to soothe the critics who would scrap altogether. Others May be More impressed with a table published by or. Richardson showing that in 1973 we Are spending even less proportionately than the tiny state of Denmark. Of 14 countries listed Only Luxembourg separates us from the Bottom of the nato list. Other countries Are almost bound to draw the unflattering conclusion that while we remain members of an Alliance we take a casual View of our obligations. Not the real answer the agreement Between Ottawa and the provinces arrived at last week on a new Canada pension plan formula which will provide higher monthly pensions with automatic yearly increases reflecting the rising Cost of living was necessary and justified and will be warmly welcomed by the canadians who now draw Canada pension plan cheques. The regrettable part of the whole business is that he increase and similar increases to other pensions is necessary at All. That it is stems from the fact that Ottawa has let inflation get so far out of hand that pensions that were being paid were totally inadequate to meet rising living costs. Yet the government has done nothing to try to remove the cause of rising costs pre Ferring instead to ameliorate their effect on those people on government pensions. Citizens on fixed incomes Are the primary victims of the Trudeau government s so called they include older and retired people. And it noted that while the government is increasing its pensions nothing is being done to help those people who retired on private pensions for which they saved All their lives. They see these dwindle in value daily and nothing is being done to help them. But while increasing the size of government pen Sions is needed and Welcome surely this is not the answer. It constitutes no More than the application of a sticking plaster on a running wound. Indeed it May even aggravate the Basic condition and escalate inflation. The individual citizen employer or Union is help less to do anything about this. Quite properly they look to the government As the chief culprit in the drama to bring a halt to the inflationary spiral. There can never be a. Just society As Long As thou Sands of retired citizens who have contributed toward the growth an d Protection of the nation Are being driven to the Brink of poverty by an incompetent govern ment pursuing a spendthrift course and financing its Fol lies by printing Tore Money and manufacturing More credit All of which robs those who have worked All their lives to provide for their old age. It is ridiculous that a country with Canada s wealth of natural resources and manpower should find itself in its present a Ness simply to wot vex government mis management and Lack of Corn ago to Deal effectively with the problem. Until or. Is ready to face up to the Issue and Ottawa stops that it is All someone else s fault info Eton simply increase until one Day the Economy Cui lapses in a serious re cession. When to retire he is indeed a Wise Man who knows when the time is right for him to retire. He is even More Wise when he has contributed in a most distinguished Way to his particular Field of Endeavor and when As he must know others would have him carry on. Thus one May fairly at tribute to or. John Deutsch principal of Queen s univer sity a Large degree of wis Dom in his decision announced this week to retire from this position next october 1. It is or. Deutsch s belief that having completed More than six years in what he Calls this very challenging but demanding it will be time to make Way for a younger or. Deutsch s retirement As principal in his 64th year will certainly be Queen s loss. But no t entirely. It is his intention to remain on at the University As professor of economics the Field in which he has made for him self not Only a National but an International reputation. They will be fortunate Stu dents indeed who have the Opportunity of studying under one of Canada s most distinguished economists. Public opinion poll1 a separate Quebec is up to us or. Levesque s first Harvest Montreal the parti quebecois As Premier Robert Bourassa is so fond of saying is a regional party Strong Only in Montreal s East end and perhaps the Saguenay River Lake St. John area. Or at least it used to be. But when pm Leader Rene a e Vest u e took off in. A Cream coloured wag on e e r Over the Plains of the St. Lawrence Valley the news men who in a battered bus found signs of More wide spread support. In the heart of the French Canadian Homeland where he Spires of old Stone Vil age churches Rise above the red and yellow leaves of Quebec on Back concessions with prosperous arms in Small Industrial owns Parish priests came out to Greet him with Village mayors. Small children were brought by their parents to Church basements and High school gymnasiums. The people As one Middle aged Man said Are no Onger afraid of the parti quebecois. We planted the seeds in he last or. Levesque told an audience of in Joliette sunday night. This one is our first x he was referring to the slow steady grass roots or animation work the party Nas been doing in most parts 3f Quebec since april 1970. Joliette is a Case in Point t is an Industrial town of people about 30 Miles North of Montreal where Here Are three serious trikes at the present time. The local candidate Ber Nard Landry who was a Trovi Ocial civil servant Dur no the Days of the quiet evolution of the 1960s has been working hard in his since he was Defeated by votes in 1970. He and or. Levesque asked about 1 local the strikes cases of Liberal patronage in the granting of government contracts Ottery concessions the involvement of local people in formulating pm policy. By Rob Bull we represent a real pm Mon front of real que or. Levesque told his audience. Easier at a farm near the Village of St. Roch d Achipan or. Levesque went through a Standard Rit Ual for any political Leader having his picture taken with a cow. Then he discussed farm policy with the local farm ers talking que Bec producers were fought in the Montreal Market by outsiders and How a pm government would replace the National food do minion stores and lob Laws with Farmers Coop outlets. Pm organizers sea them selves As picking up enough votes and seats in this elec that the Federal government Sells Canadian feed grains to foreigners for a Price which is 50 per cent less than Quebec Farmers have to pay for it maybe if Quebec is in dependent we can get to pay the same Price for feed grains from Western Canada that the Danes pay. Things certainly can t be any worse than they Are he s one Farmer g a b r 1 St. Andre said. F arm1 i Rigis expensive enough As it is and the Ca Nadian wheat Board does t seem to be interested in helping us very much., Only. Can Settle it is by pulling out of Canada. Farmers have changed you know they Are open minded and. They get More information than they used in credit Ste Leader Yvon Dupuis Home Riding of St. Jean More people came out to hear or. Levesque than the audience for or. Dupuis kick off rally a week earlier. Local party workers were petting that or. Dupuis come in third in his Home Riding. All weekend Long or. Levesque talked rationally Moscow s de fish ear the limits of detente by lot Eph Kraft w7ashington the new w outburst of lighting in the near. East shows the limits of detente Between the big two. The russians Are willing to co operate with the . Only on an opportunistic basis. As soon As chances for g a present themselves Moscow turns a. De fish ear to w of Stein g t o n so this country is justified in hold ing the russians to stiff conditions As a Price for de Tente. To gauge the russian Atti tude it is useful to compare what happened this time with what happened during the six Day. War. When ten Sion began to Rise then the russians actively sought to make matters worse one soviet Diplomat even egged on the egyptians to attack the israelis by falsely spreading the word that the israelis were about to jump Syria. In the thick of the fight ing the russians threatened to intervene against Israel with missiles. Only when president Johnson pointed the sixth Fleet in the direction of the fighting area did the russians stand dowry this time when the build up started the russians pulled out advisers and not Only from Egypt where they had previously been re buffed by president Anwar Sadat but also from Syria where there As a Radical re tool agreements putting a Jid on the most expensive weapons. But these prospects Are not Sweet enough or important enough to deter the so Viet leadership from rash actions certain to jeopardize big two co operation and peace in the world. I n these circumstances the United states needs to hold the soviet Union More strictly to account. One Way to do that lies in the Amend ment offered by sen. Henry Jackson to the administration s proposal for granting it s i a trading terms or most favored nation the. J a c k s on amendment pro Vides that most favored nation and eco nomic credits can be granted Only if the soviet Union makes Progress in freeing up internal emigration. For some time it was difficult to organize a position on the Jackson amendment the president argued that adding conditions to the Deal he had Cut with the russians would put his word in doubt threaten detente and cause a reversion to the cold War. But part of that argument is bogus. The Congress has always insisted in playing a major role in Trade agree general Ross in the death last monday n sask. Of Brig. Gen. Alexander Ross at the age of 92, Western Canada Ost. One of its most honoured and respected citizens and Canadian War veterans lost me of their most vigorous and determined champions. Brig Gen. Ross had a Long and distinguished career. A Awyer by profession he was admitted to the bar in Saskatchewan in 1901. In the first world War he was mentioned., i n dispatches even times twice won the so was awarded the most distinguished order of St. Michael Ana St. George and Osc to become commanding iffy car of the sixth infantry brigade. After tie War to was appointed District court judge or Yorkton a Post he filled Vith great distinction for Carly 35 years. A dauntless ight i or returned men to Capou to found the Canad n legion in 1926 and served n this organization in Many Apac tics including that of atonal president through to the end of the second world War. In that War he also served As commander of the Saskatchewan Security corps and As head of the air raid precaution Organiza Tion for All Canada. Veterans of the first and second world wars owe Brig Gen. Ross that can never be repaid. Both As a Champion of returned soldiers and As an Able and conscientious member of the Bench his was a Long life filled with service to his Fel Low men. Confidently his voice hoarse with the usual Campaign the pause at the right moment to Light a Craven a cigarette his left hand Jab Ding out As he made Points his left sketching vistas of a to become the official opposition and most observers of the Campaign to Date agree. They also agree that some of these seats will be won in close four Way fights e Ieie is a a Guicai regime not unfriendly to the soviets. As soon As the fighting was under Way moreover president Nixon and party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev exchanged diplomatic Back in .1911 the Congress passed a Resolution condemning Russia for harsh treatment of the jews the next year in Pursuit of that Resolution president William Howard Taft actually abrogated an ongoing fruit of that treaty with czarist the sons of former Union National premiers Daniel Johnson and Jean Jacques Bertra rid and former in and Liberal members of the National Assembly helped argue that an Independent Quebec was a logical conclusion of the quiet revolution. Independence or. Levesque said did not mean example is Iberville Riding where the local candidate is Marcel Pepin. It is split Between the in and the or. Pepin said. But we have been working pretty hard. H we our cards right the two conservative parties will cancel each other out and we will sneak in Between them in the debate at the United nations Security Council. While r6tating their views freely on the near East Russia and the United states did not slam each other. The reason for this accommodation was Plain. The russians believed that the arabs were going to lose the War and they did not want to be connected in 1962, president Kennedy wanted to broaden Trade rules so that most favored nation status could be extended to several East european countries besides and Poland. The Congress instead p Assed a Bill which eliminated Yugoslavia and Poland from most favored nation 1 break up of the marriage unless that was How the rest of the country wanted it. But it could Pepin is a tall slow speaking Man who used to be the agent for a As soon As that perspective shifted soviet behaviour changed. The the president had no right in the first place to make with Russia a binding a new arrangement Between equals a move from the double bed. Of in the area and now represents a French Book began urging Arab regimes from Algeria through Iraq to join the fray with involving Trade. Now on top of the tradition comes the evidence of the e in to the Beds of a new and still Strong i want to he said Over a cup of that Are now obvious. At the same time the Way the russians interpret detente. It was in Canada s is what the people not scruple to there can be to maintain a monetary provinces will Jbf air. Military doubt about the approx customs Union with a Are people in to Egypt and Syria. I a t e american reaction. Dependent Quebec. Out West going to this behaviour russians Are not offer sides needed each they see More that the. Elements the . The kind of re markets end opting for in detente Are that justifies import he told reporters Over to restrain the economic concessions. Ner in a Fried Chicken a Way what he. No Dovw ought to raise Tau rant in Marieville pm members Are Leonid Price of the detente. The of the Richelieu River is that an like to develop to do that is to a knowl the election was and the form economically the deepest human tar not Only As a Means of could largely be a from the United standards. It is to go at ing seats in the of How the rest of farm produce and part Way with sen. But As a referendum responds. In other know How. Probably in insisting that the province on the separate Quebec is up also like to pare progressively human for an Independent budgets by arms its regime. Or. Pompidou in France s week of the Long Pris future Leo limiting a president May very Well holding no More than two the coming seven Days or mandates except the week of the but beforehand to the Senate it cases of War. But show knives for president suffered a much biased towards n g his Auve gnat stub Pidoux. The French Leader loss in though its or. Pompidou has facing possibly the worst crisis of his presidential in last year s massive abstention in a can be unpredictable. The left Wing far refused to yield an Inch. Reer because of chiefly the Untim Liness of a project of constitutional Reform. Parliamentarians including those in the. Ruling majority Are divided Over the Middle East War and Small merchants threaten to " resort to violence if a Bill the enlargement of the european common Market. The indisputable arbiters in the affair Are the opposition centrists led by Jean Leca Nuet. For them it is Sweet revenge for their setback last Spring when they failed to compel the gaullist to form a favourable to a reduction of the presidential term wants the introduction of amendments which at the same time severely reduce the Powers of the Elysee. This would amount to a return to a parliamentary during the fourth Republic which tactic would seem unwise since parliamentary circles like Many citizens in France remain shocked by the recent statement of foreign minister Michel Jobert on the renewed Arab israeli does trying to put one s their favor is sabotaged in 1958 by a Back on Home ground seems with the National constitute an in three More years. To run he the term of president just five scats this gave an ail too Pidoux the upper and two fifths of the votes. Color to houses Are being a three fifths pro Arab policy in with some to in the lower House View of critics who Felt prove a Reform reducing will need the France should adopt a presidential mandate of the gaullist by open Neutra Listic stance in a seven to five Independent certain situation. Pompidou is taking the matter very personally and moderate allies in the government As Well like Michel Debre and Couve de Murville of the ruling majority revealed their Dinar moreover presenting it on of or. Leca Nuet s invited All when they found them take it or leave it basis to maps to lunch last applauding a More deputies Many of whom approve of the principle of a reduced mandate but years was too much stress for the president of a modern democratic a More pro Israel speech by socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand. Other amendments to the Constitution to be pushed through As Well reforms of this kind can be carried out either by referendum or through parliament with a three fifths majority required in a Congress of both houses. Preferring from Hamlet by William Shakespeare How should i your True love know from another one by his Cockle hat and staff and his Sandal Shoon. He is dead and gone lady to is dead and a fast changing world he told them in substance. And he appealed to their emotions by recalling How he was shaken during the May revolution of 1968 by anti de Gaule placards saying "10 years is despite his reservations or. Debra reacted finally things considered or. Pompidou would find himself on safer ground if he postponed his project for constitutional Reform or at least amended it in order to receive the indispensable support of tile opposition centrists. Trio Vole of Purlin ment alter the late general de Gaulle his head a grass Green turf at his heels a the occasion called for a closing of scripture downgraded t Pompidou now finds himself his shroud As the Mountain not to Couve de Murville who still seems people that walked in in Vii Sunn n err inf. Contingent the Union at the u. Of m. Came Down ten cents an hour and management refused to counter said their press release. But what they did not say which made the manage ment quite dour twas contingent on a with much More than a Lor Lai did Flowers tent on abstaining. Cost of living ten per cent increase. Malty. Intact to May have to in the end resort to a refer in a Liili be wept to the grave did go with True love showers t h e Reform Naters hint they would support the pro posed Reform if there was a Light they that dwell in the land of the Shadow of death upon them hath the Light shined Isaiah ;