Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed daily sunday by Winnipeg few press company limited. 300 Carllon Street. Winnipeg Manitoba. Richaro c. Malone h. Shelford put Etc got. Mgr. Peter Mclintock Maurice Western editor Ottawa editor r. S. Malone chairman Winnipeg free press Winnipeg saturday March 12, 1977 pages 47-70 of Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Plain absurd finance minister Donald Macdonald was doing no More than echoing the sentiments of most canadians outside Quebec and of quite a few within that province when he told a new York audience that the. Idea of a common Market or economic Union Between an Independent Quebec and Canada was Plain this is a Point which Premier Levesque has been stressing when he talks about removing his province from confederation. Although he hardly referred to separation in his inaugural message to the Quebec National Assembly this week he later1 said that his govern ment is looking Tor some sort of economic association. We re proposing to preserve that. We re going to study More concretely How that association can be defined and implemented As Well As our National if or. Levesque sincerely believes that the rest of Canada would Welcome that kind of association with an Independent Quebec he has sadly misread the feelings of canadians outside his province. He has been critical of prime minister Trudeau for not having come up with any substantive ideas on this subject. Or. Trudeau knows very Well however that any such proposals on his head the Wrath of non Quebec Canada. Or. Levesque s initial program for his government is a and heavy one. As noted by our Quebec correspondent in an article on this Page the other Day. It appears to be progressive and Well intentioned. As such it will have the support of All canadians As or. Levesque will have their support in its implementation. But separation is the other Side of the Coin the one which or. Levesque is not stressing at the moment. Or. Macdonald suggests that in his dreams of an economic Union or. Levesque is kidding the electorate. He May be kidding the Quebec electorate he is not kidding any one outside that province s Borders. And if he were to leave Quebec travel and talk to other canadians he would be quickly disabused of his optimistic notions. At any Cost transport minister Otto Lang should not sur prised that his latest statement to the effect that the Federal government will find new Safe ways to implement air bilingualism whatever May be the findings of the present inquiry commission professionals. However the professional has upset aviation aviation organizations patterns in petals Sas in the Irish night Ondon the Republic of j Ireland has delicately eased itself off an inconvenient Hook by its handling of a Case involving eight British soldiers that loaded with diplomatic military and political overtones. The result has re noved a ten month old irritant in Anglo Irish relations that was providing substantial Scourge of the provisional Ira. It has also cleared the air for More rational discus Sion of other current Dis Putes Between the two coun tries. Which oppose the government s plan to phase in a cond language in Canada s air control system should j tothe provisional not be too surprised that or. Lung is beginning to show the government s True colors on the Issue. These Are simply that Canada will adopt French in the air As a matter of policy no matter what the Price in air safety. The organizations Are beginning to feel that perhaps they were taken in by government promises to abide by the findings of the three member commission it appointed to Rule on whether ministry of transport plans for a second language were acceptable from a safety Point of View. These promises were extracted from the govern ment by a National pilots slake which received International support and threatened in cripple the olympics. What has happened in the meantime would indicate that the government s prime purpose in making these promises was to buy time and get the olympics Over without a disruption o scheduled air service. Although the government established the inquiry commission it became evident during the first week of hearings that the government was going ahead with its bilingualism program was Busy translating manuals and had produced a French English aviation lexicon. It also became evident that the ministry of trans port was taking no Steps to slow Down the bilingual nation of the air traffic control system. Although not designated a bilingual Airport operations at St. Hubert located with in the Montreal radar terminal service area have included an increased use of French in air traffic control without protest from the ministry. Or. Lang took no action when Quebec Premier Rene Levesque s Pilot in Clear violation of Federal regulations communicated with the Montreal control Tower in French while on an instrument flight. In fact it appeared that the air Cana but it could cause trouble in months ahead for the go verning labor Fine Gael coalition in Eire which is Al ready under attach by the opposition fianna fail party for being too cosy with the ancient enemy Britain. An election is Likely this year probably in the fall. The Case centred on a map Reading error that caused eight armed members of Britain s 22nd special air service regiment to be arrested last May for having strayed across the ill marked Border Between Northern Ireland and the South. Since being released on bail the eight men have spent most of the time serv ing on anti terrorist opera t i o n s among the Barren a Pilot who reported the violation seemed to be in More trouble with the ministry than the Man who broke the regulations. Or. Lang s most recent statement which seems to say that if the commission of inquiry finds what the ministry is doing toward bilingualism in the air does not. Meet safety requirements the ministry will not abandon the plan but simply find Safe ways of implementing it makes no mention of the fact that the simulator costs alone of the present experiments will run to More than million. If these do not work will the government be prepared to spend another million and another until it succeeds in getting the commission to agree with its established policy if this is the Case then it certainly makes the com Mission s work As voiced by Jim Livingston president rocks of Oman in the South arabian Peninsula where the Sultan has for Many years favored the unique skills of this highly trained Junit in fighting the Kab financed Arab rebels against his Rule. After trial in the Spe Cial criminal court in of the Canadian air traffic control association a mockery of the whole or. Lang has said he does not expect the commis Sion to decide thai French must be b a n n e d from air communications with airliners. It could hardly do so until All nations in the world adopted the stated policy of most International professional aviation organizations that of a single language communication system for world wide air traffic control. An editorial in the most recent Pilot the Magazine of the Canadian air line pilots association Points out that All organizations including the Gens de 1 air the Quebec based group promoting Canadian air bilingualism agree that one language is Best. But the editorial continues that As in any federally regulated Industry the government owns the Ball and for non tech Nical reasons it has taken its bail and gone off to play a different game under its own rules. The pilots state in atthe clearly that they do not want to be the focal Point of political strife nor do they enjoy being vilified. They say simply that they Are legally and morally hound to maintain the High standards of safety in Cana Dian aviation and Oan Noi commit mint. Do other than to Honor Liat Dublin under conditions of extraordinary Security each Soldier was fined for Possession of weapons and ammunition without firearms certificates. But All were acquitted on the More serious charge of possessing weapons with intent to endanger life in the Irish re Public. The judge decided that a map Reading error was pos sible even for such skilled soldiers after one Soldier testified that a Road sign they had passed meant Little As such signs Are often turned round in the. Area to confuse British soldiers. He w a s also noticeably impressed by the fact that an expert witness for the prosecution kept saying Northeast when the direction meant was obviously North West. The Case might have been quietly quashed last May had not the politically in dependent office of the director of Public prosecutions not decided to charge the men immediately. Unable to intervene after government squirmed As the Case kept coming into Public discus Sions of such Anglo British arguments As the ownership iof rockall stand which Dawt ment s dogged efforts to have Britain publicly branded As condoning torture on terrorist suspects in Ulster in 1971 and the continuing mystery of steady finds in Ulster of produced commercially in the Republic. A recent twist to the Tor Ture Case drags ing on before the european court in Stras Bourg the publication by the respected Irish times of watched for weeks was seized by an Sas Man As he left his cottage carrying a allegations that of Irish a special policemen were using methods on suspects in a variety of types of investigation that bore a marked resemblance to those used by British interrogators in Ulster in 1971 Arm described by the Irish in Strasbourg in 1977 Tor Ture. The political problem for the ruling Eire coalition is that fianna fail will be Able to exploit the fury of provi s i o n a 1 Ira sympathizers that the Sas men got off so lightly. The provisional Are choleric with rage As they had hoped for prison sentences which would have Al Lowed them the Chance to a s s a s s i n a t e their most feared and hated enemies while in Irish prisons. These i Isons Are notorious for having internal secret provisional Ira administrations Complete with a Range of offensive weapons. Such an arrangement would be far More satisfactory to the provisional who have kept their Heads Down in the notorious murder Tri Angle of South Armagh where they ruled the Roost until the Sas arrived in Jan uary 1976. Were carrying in their he tried to from the fact t another task was to spend hours at his captor and died of one Bullet wound. Film distributors or that there is no Point in Border Points in the such porno films through special night Sank to nil for which Lars for terrorists alone new Yoi across the Maze of eight men tried Street and elsewhere Border roads. One will probably . The Board to watched a single in Northern allow them to be show terrorist route for six now that their the cens without leaving the Are known. But moved with the tire Tion Little a few ago. Most of the intelligence gathered is passed along to the regular army units and the police. But the Sas presence is pervasive in their and Plain clothes Sas men will continue to prowl the Ulster Border by night presumably now Reading they Banne serious danish film wit couple of nude scenes cause the Public cannot allowed to see naked f i even from t Armagh that More let the Public see now walk in dread of girls from in for sudden Challenge in behind and from eve blackness in what was w. Coates Angle so Long their undisputed born Pomeroy behaviour is not Loo one terrorist who 12, More sensitive on religion israels film censorship r Etc shot Israel Fence minister Shimon e c e n 11 y promised attractive swedish lady who 1 Alt e 1 y entertained at several army could oddball jew Ben again be permitted to enter Israel defence forces installations. His Promise came in reply to a protest by the opposition liked party m e m b a g a i n s t the screening of the nymphomaniac from Sweden another sex film her feats in at army basis. These films had somehow escaped the attention the army s chief education officer responsible for educational and recreational activities at military bases he will henceforth be More careful or. Peres says. However the soldiers will still be Able to View the exploits of swedish nympho maniacs and their Busy Sisters from other countries at cinemas in Tel Aviv Jerusalem and Haifa several of which now special ize in sex films. This is not to say that the government appointed censorship Board whose stamp of approval is required be fore a film can be screened in Israel has stopped operations. The Board still bans several dozen films a year and orders cuts in several dozen More. This is quite that know Are Tor be girls they unas but the Board remains extremely sensitive on religious Mattefs. It took Many it to approve a censored version y of the Black made Here so much be cause of the lira s sex scenes As of them in a Mikva ritual Bath and involved a lecherous Young student at a Jerusalem y e s h i v a talmudic newspapers practise various degrees of self res traint when it comes to advertisements for sex films. While the evening papers sometimes allow suggestive shots to be reproduced on their pages the morning papers generally limit them selves to smaller and More i n n o c u o us photographs alongside the titles of the films. Most conservative of All is the Jerusalem Post which tends to paint on bras that were not there in the first place. Effort Are now made by various civic and religious groups at least to remove the Bra less ladies from huge outdoor ads for the sex films ads which Are seen by youngsters under 16 who would not be allowed to see the films themselves. But according to Justice minister Haim Zadok. Little can be done about them under present censorship regulations. This did not pre vent Ramat Gan mayor Israel Peled from forcing the removal of a titillating n o v i e advertisement that recently adorned a local Bill Board. Reasons however had nothing to do with morality. The billboard was at one of Ramat Gan s busiest intersections and on several occasions attention it of distracted the male Drivers. Who ended up cradling into other cars. Sexy billboards will hence Forth be restricted to the City s quiet Side streets. The Sas regiment was sent in after a week in which 15 protestants and roman catholics were Mur dered including ten protes Tants taken from a bus and machine gunned at Bess Brook. While Royal Marine com Mandos did the Public patrol work in South Armagh one Squadron of about 100 Sas men arrived secretly and faded into the Countryside for a patient month Long surveillance operation that Cut the death rate dramatically. Major Brian Baty com manding the Sas unit at the time lifted the curtain of secrecy on Sas tactics at the Dublin court inquiry. He explained that his men worked 18-hour shifts roam ing the Back roads of the 300-mile Border by night in unmarked cars with blackened faces two to a car. One task was to find and drive into terrorist Road blocks avoided like the plague by most motorists in this area. As the terrorist leaned into the rolled Down Side window to demand identification he would find him self looking at the business end of a sawed off Pujop a not o question for the government the noxious Weed Sublime tobacco which from East to West cheers or the the tar s turkman s labor rest is not a sentiment Likely to in dear its author to the ranks of increasingly militant non smokers. They would prefer to in the Black fume thereof no doubt hear that smoking is a custom Loath some to the Eye hateful to the nose harmful to the brain dangerous to. The lungs and stinking nearest resembling the Hor Rible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless Al though probably few of them could phrase the thought so eloquently. It can be seen from these two quotations the first by Byron the second by King James i that the Battle Between smokers and non smokers has been going on for a Long time in fact since tobacco produced into was first in Europe. And the reason that the Battle is Likely to continue is that both of these quotations Are Correct. To Many smokers tobacco is one of the great pleasures of life it cheers their labor and their rest and they will not be forced to give it up. There can be no question however that King James was remarkably accurate in his description of smoking. It is harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs As Well As being to the non smoker at least loathsome to the Eye and hateful to the nose. The charges levelled at to Bacco by James were based on emotion but even now when they Are based on scientific evidence Many peo ple refuse to give up their habit and others find them selves unable to so Strong a hold does the Weed have on them. The conflicting emotions it arouses were summed up Well by Graham Lee Himminger when lie wrote Liim it satisfies no Normal need. I like it. It makes you thin it makes you lean it takes the hair right off your bean. It s the worst darn stuff i be Ever seen. I like it. Ii Iii and therein lies the prob Lem that is at the Root of the eternal quarrel Between smokers and non smokers people who insist upon smoking bother people who would prefer that they do not. This irritation can take several forms. It can be a belief that smokers Are doing something morally wrong it can be the belief that smokers Are doing themselves an injury and that they need to be saved from themselves or it can be and this is perhaps the most common form the quite legitimate objection of the non smoker to being forced to breathe smell and be generally annoyed by the used smoke. Of someone nearby who is furiously puff ing away at a Cigar pipe or cigarette. In older rougher times this problem was easily dealt with if the local ruler shared the non smokers beliefs. A person caught smok ing would be hauled off by the police and put in jail or executed or lose his estates or have a pipe stuck through his nose the particular method used to discourage smoking depending on the preference of the individual ruler. Our time is a More gentle one at least in this re Spect and we use these methods now. Even on the m o St unregenerate Phasis is now placed on teaching people that it is bad for them to smoke. The Media Are full of stories detailing the horrible things that happen to people who smoke most of them unfortunately True and it sometimes seems As if there is hardly anything unpleasant which does not happen to people who use tobacco. Even if All the Adverse publicity should begin to have an effect and More vet eran tobacco addicts were to kick their habit it would not relieve the situation most irritates non smokers. As Long As there Are people who smoke and judging by present trends that will be forever they will continue to bother non smokers by blow ing directly or indirectly the stygian fumes in the faces of people who do not. As More and More re searchers claim that non s m of e r s suffer physical harm when they breathe in the smoke puffed out by the slaves of the noxious Weed non smokers become More m i 1 i t a n t. All Over North America the foes of tobacco Are demanding that Laws be passed which will protect them from this evil. In Ottawa a bylaw has been enacted which forbids smoking in All retail stores except licensed premises and certain areas of restaurants. It also bans tobacco from areas where there Are line for service escalators elevators and taxi cabs. Such a bylaw has been proposed in Winnipeg and although the City s environment committee has rejected it it will doubtless be proposed again in the future. One has to sympathize with the non smoker. There can be few daily occurrences that Are More unpleasant to have one s bestrides an Oil ton a two Shotgun such the the Eire govern Sas men arrest a last May i j smokers. This is not to say j stung one s nose offended tobacco is a dirty Weed. T however that the Battle has and one s lungs polluted by it conceded. Great pm i someone else s used smoke. This floes not mean however that this is a proper area for government action. A Man who owns a store or a restaurant or a taxi cab surely has the right to de cide what people May do there and what they May not if an owner wishes to lose the custom of non smokers surely that is his privilege and to business of the government s. Governments however Are always willing to stick their nose in where they have no business what is worse Are always being asked to. But what is called for Here is not government action but a bit of common sense and some consumer action. The common sense unfortunately we cannot rely on. People who smoke should know enough not to when they Are in the pres ence of others whom it will bother but our society is not a s Well mannered As it might be. Too object space with smokers however have a weapon at their disposal. They May refuse to patronize those places which do not set aside space where they will not be both ered by their smoking neigh Bors. Non smokers claim that they Are in the majority if there Are enough of them who feel strongly about this they can enforce their demands themselves without bringing about a further incursion of government Power into our lives. The final answer of course is either for Jig one to Start smoking or for everyone to quit. That would be to the Benefit of us All but it is easier said than done. Everyone who smokes has at one time echoed the thoughts of Charles Lamb this very night i am going to leave off tobacco surely there must be some other world in which this Union Shau be not this non smokers to sharing we Rabic purpose and if very night Well then to Morrow ;