Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 197 clipping the wings of those big Birds models of beings 7n7 and by John Mcmanus if airliners on the drawing Board Are an the supersize Boeing 747 and its Shorter jumbo the Lockheed 1 and Douglas dc10 will just to collectors items when we reach the 21st the which first came off the production line in is a great air plane a super achievement and one of the Crown jewels of aerospace tech ranking with space shots and manned Moon walks and Mars exploration simply be cause the big bid has the highest profile in civil this is not a requiem for he Ocean 350tonner it will ply the air ways for another decade or but airline demands of the future seem to indicate the huge double decked Collo mis Doest figure in the Distant fun Ilven though the wide bodied jets Are still exceedingly the de signers at All major manufacturing plants Are quietly plotting its last Days and preparing the succession of patricians of the airline engineers Are no longer thinking cemeteries for the Jet generation planes that came before the jumbos Are being seen with increasing frequency rows and rows of dc8s and there being mothballed with engine holes covered As though the burial Crews were reluctant to witness the end of an new generation the engineering Pride that went into the launching of the airline Jet age and the sleek models that shrunk the Globe and opened a Pandora Box of unheralded social and Industrial prob lems is already working on turning out different aircraft for a new Genera Tion of airliners in the engineers Are even working on aircraft for the More Distant future Craft the Industry thinks will use the fuel that will replace the Fossil fuels in use i talked to the people at the Boeing commercial air plane company about what the air traveller May expect in the based on what the airlines Are asking for to re ignite the air travel interest that seems to have declined As the worlds gasoline tank drops toward the past Boeing has been developing potential new models of air planes that would carry 120 to 200 Pas the approach seems much like that of the advocates of renovating and improving existing housing As opposed to the Boeing said the smaller design called 7n7 would be based on the 727 and 737 body and and other existing components to although the 7n7 would be a derive it would Benefit from advanced technology with improved Boeing said there would be a significant decrease in fuel there would be As Many digital Dis play advances As an airline is willing to pay Boeing is considering three general requirements in and performance about 120 passengers or 160 to 180 Al tourist with a Range of to nautical 150 to 170 passenger capacity firs class and with at least a variation in body length and Wing area to meet the passenger carrying All versions would have Only two or three Jet the 7n7 would be ready for airline service in the Early Long study Boeing said an air plane of somewhat greater capacity and longer Range has been under study for three its a new design and has been labelled the it has been a steady topic of conversation of people in the airline in air plane Boeing said Al though airline requirements for this design have been More the characteristics of this Type have shown recent signs of firming in Plain Means that some air lines have finally taken enough interest to make the project the 7x7 would be Able to carry 180 to 200 passengers a mix of firs class and tourist with a cargo compartment that could carry Standard airline containers Side by Boeing said a Large part of the mar Ket for this jetliner would be with United states trunk routes so the Range of the aircraft would be to for the 7x7 Boeing is repeating a successful partnership method used when it built the pan am airways ordered allowing the company to go ahead with production of the this time the Boeing company has a Ritalia As a joint partner in the Ven during the past three the Ita Lian Carrier and the Seattle company have invested More than million hours of win Tunnel testing and evaluated More than 100 designs in 7x7 efforts to for a number of new Wing technology has been one of the prime interests of aircraft builders and Boe ing said its air plane would use one of the new undoubtedly the project has been a godsend to the professions used in building they been hit hard by layoffs earlier in the design developments of Cabin flight controls and visual displays have kept More than 200 engineers at work for the last few a Ritalia has built a new kind of passenger door Al its Plant near Naples especially for the 7x7 and is designing a hew concept leading Edge and trailing Edge Flap for the Boeing said one major decision still open is what kind of engines will go on the new the types used will depend on whether the air plane has two or three the in like Are improving All the time As manufacturers try to meet the demands of the air the experts say the largest available Market for new airliners in the 1980s is in the medium Range and the desire and capability of the airlines to consider new air planes seem to be Canadian in the face of severe losses during the past two Are faced with a monumental aircraft replacement Bill during the next 10 there is great Hope that the new airliners now on the drawing Board will solve the economic woes of the air carriers and awaken hew interest in air j John Mcmanus is a free press staff medical schools miffed by Robert Rosin Zweig the los Angeles times last fall the United states Congress decided to require medical schools to admit a specific number of american medical students now studying on the face of the action seems innocuous but on closer look it is an for the most the students who must be admitted Are students who have previously failed to qualify for yet the penalty facing med ical schools for not following the Law is the loss of vital Federal Congress passed the requirement without debate or even Public practically guaranteeing that a firs class Donnybrook would a number of universities including Stanford Are urging the new Congress to repeal the crucial question comes Down to this does the government have the Power to order the admission of specific individuals to medical whether or not those students meet the standards set by the institutions involved by acting so aggravated the highly emotional prob Lem of medical school admissions practices by violating the Independence of academic and virtually holding for Ransom financial Aid for needy a number of universe Stanford among Are doing without millions of dollars in frederal funds rather than accede to such in recent years the number of College graduates who want to become doctors has increased with the Best of intentions and even if provided unlimited medical schools would have been unable to accommodate All while enrolments have nearly doubled in the last the number of qualified applicants who have had to be denied admission has grown at an even greater what has happened to those who did not win admission perhaps have turned to other highly motivated to become doctors and with sufficient Means to achieve their have turned to med ical schools in other countries for train the exact number is in but somewhere around americans Are now studying Medicine those students understandably wish to practise Medicine in the United the surest Way to do that is to receive the Quality of training offered by medical but that merely brings the problem full for they Are where they Are precisely because they did not gain admission to medical school in this these the answer to such a problem All too often is persuade Congress to pass a the Best one can say about this Parlick Lar Law is that the cure it imposes is far worse than the disease it is supposed to a provision of the 1976 health manpower instructs the Secretary of education and Wel fare to Tell every medical school to Reserve a specific number of positions in its third year medical classes for citizens who enrolled in a foreign medical school before and who by will have successfully completed their first two years and passed part i of the National Board of medical examiners if a medical school refuses to accept provision that it is unwilling to accept the con Gress and the Secretary of hew As to whom it should admit two things would happen the school would lose its eligibility under the Law for the so called capita Tion in Stanford that would amount to about per year for Many institutions the amount would be much the school would lose its eligibility to participate in a new program of federally insured student this Means that if a medical school refuses to accept this intrusion of the Federal government into its admission processes every student in that school would be ineligible to secure a loan for his or her the term Ransom is not by opposing the new american medical schools Are making no judg ment on the Quality or potential value of those who Are now studying medi Cine in some schools already have programs to admit such students As transfers that is the Way it should so Long As each school establishes and enforces ils own admissions Congress acted in an arbitrary in haste and without the testimony and debate that is so important for shaping Public policy in a the result was and policy that must be changed if the Quality of medical education is to be letters to the editor what does Trudeau want now Canadas sad and despicable role on the face of Trudeau would be one of the most unqualified persons to confront Levesque so the present in the first in was largely do to his policies thai the Silva lion built he is still in favor of these and is Only Loo ready to perpetuate which he will have to a to keep if Quebec splits the Liberal party will lose most of its so can you imagine Trudeau standing up against this threat in order to keep the rest of us Strong he will give away our already Trudeau is advising Ilie anglophones that they must make great concessions to keep Quebec w ill in so far As we can be has said not a word to the in the last virtually All the key non elected starting with and going All the Way Down the have been funded to what does Trudeau want now that we should make francophone tenure of these positions per manent it is High time that the English press am politicians woke hardly any of them say a and when one of them the remainder commence calling him names such As bigot Aud such an Altitude Only brings scorn from the and leaves them unit instructed about the True so that their yells for More and More keep Mccatty such tripe i would like to reply to the article in and places the Leisure Magazine of entitled defecting from the Virgin 1 was disappoint led Hal such iric should be primed on a Page which is something of a Church Page Why nol under Book review fiction Marina Warner claims to be Well travelled and Well read and 1 would presume Well educated so 1 am sur prised that she is capable of such totally mixed up she states Hal in countries w the Virgin is most the women Are the least publicly 1 am what about such places where the Virgin has made no Impact or never been heard such As Arab african tribes some time ago now like China and the women there were hardly leaders in she slates Hal celebrating the Ideal woman humanity women Are Deni grated she Doest state in nut surprised As this is not she slates Hal while travelling atone in Spain she was ogled by these Cash Olic How fortunate she want in Detroit or Chicago where the cult of the Virgin can hardly be said to be she would possibly have been her last paragraph is just More evidence of mixed up thinking the blessed Virgin has nothing to do with mans Marion of Wiete Winnipeg a letters to the editor must Bear the name and address of the addresses will not be published but Only signed correspondence will be names of writers Wim not be a letters May he edited for Genera in Terest and Good taste i have wrist ii the following letter to Bud minister of manpower and in addition to sending it to him i would like to have it published As an open it is unlikely that the minister will act on my suggestion but this is the Type of information that the Canadian Public should be aware and perhaps if others wrote to the minister As he might the let Ter i have just finished watching to nights Csc the fifth Eslave january 11 and 1 have been moved to write this letter to i Hope that you watched this program bul if you did 1 would suggest that you get a transcript of it to acquaint your self with the full details thai were made Public the program was Aboul political refugees in Argentina and Canadas sad and despicable role in this terrible although Canada has agreed to accept of these so far the Canadian embassy has approved Only a handful of United nations officials screen the and recommend Only Buna fide political refugees to the various embassies for emigration countries such As Sweden and the Netherlands have made special arrangements to process the applications quickly and they accept their quotas without any undue delay according to tonight in the vase of the Canadian although the ambassador insisted that Canada accepts the in he then proceeded unsuccessfully to explain Why the embassy has been rejecting most of the unapproved apply he denied any knowledge of uruguayan secret police officials visiting the following the inter the Csc was denied permission to interview the ramp visa officer although permission had been granted prior to the interview with the Ambas the Csc had evidence Hal various secret police officials do visit the Canadian the Csc report slated unequivocally Hal there seems to be no reason to doubt the truthfulness of the material and state ments made by in bul this could not be said for the Canadian in it was almost embarrassing to watch the embassy inter View it was patently obvious that you were watching and water Gate or outright 1 would like to know what is going in spite of Canadas official in seems that we Are extremely reluctant to accept political refugees apparently for the reason that they indeed Are political but of the wrong political Hue in after the coup in Canada started accept tug refugees Only after being shamed lilo in by world Public it is obvious that we Are applying a double minister there was no hesitation for us to accept refugees from Hungary and czech Oslo Vak abut Chile is another it seems Hal right Wing refugees Are perfectly i Jet left Wing refugees Are something might i remind you that they Are All human of political Canadas role in accepting refugees from latin americas fascist dictator ships is not something we can be proud surely you must be aware of decent people the Wiki old Over would hold Canada in much higher esteem if we played a proper humanitarian role in the present latin american Situa it it turns out that these allegations Are the first step in redeeming ourselves would he for you to use your influence to sack the entire lot of the Joe Mccarthy Type Canad an embassy officials in if it turns out that they Are simply following from you should have a Good look at the swamp Buck Lijin cent people caught in the political gears of history May be dying while 1 Atn writing this and while you Are Reading the time to act is not Mana abut associate department of i University of Winnipeg ;