Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 10, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mai 1978 Canadian Pica at k free Chafik tells soviets Belgrade Ca Nadian minister at the euro Pean Security conference has called on the soviet Union to release All dissidents and allow them to leave the coun Canadian officials said they were reporting on a meeting Between Norman Canadian minister of for Yuli chief of the soviet delegation to the Chafik complained specifically about soviet treatment of dissident Anatoly who is await ing and said that Canada is willing to accept him As an officials Vorontsov replied that so Chawansky is being tried As a spy and hot As a dissent the Case against him was Well documented and showed he had Clear connections with the Central intelligence of the Vorontsov Vorontsov demanded to know Why Western countries insisted on judging soviet society on the basis of dissident Chafik was reported to have replied that if there Are so few the soviet Union should allow them to leave the Vorontsov said he Hopes that International will be allowed to be present at the Shch Aransky expected to take place in two or three he also maintained that the including had spoiled the Belgrade conference by trying to draw too direct a link Between human rights and the Issue of human officials said Chafik explained there is deep concern in Canada Over soviet treat ment of he Drew Vorontsova attention in forceful terms to Canadian parliamentary resolutions on human while Canada had no in Tention of interfering in so Viet Domestic canadians feel that human rights principles transcend nation Al Chafik he also raised the Case of Danylo reported to Mol Gat taken Aback o by windbag9 attack a photo Prince Charles gets smiles from British school girls in Rio de Janeiro embattled Canadian hits armed forces in Germany London up Canadian soldiers and airmen and heir families in West Ger Man nato bases Are feeling the economic Pinch resulting from the devalued Canadian Dollar in relation to German despite a complicated indexing system designed to adjust servicemen pay in times of military families find their buy ing Power has the value of the Canadian Dollar eroded about 23 per cent Agai nil the Mark in one 1 dont think you can plead real hardship one officer said in a Telephone inter View from the Canadian Lair one of the incentives to serve Here was he Opportunity to travel and see the dollars just Arent there now for that sort of thing and its the lower ranks who Are hardest there Are canadians stationed at the army base at Lahr and the air Force fighter base at civilian workers and dependents bring the total Canadian contingent to were feeling the but its nothing like the horror stories were hearing from the the officer i heard a Story of one German lady giving a family because an american had helped her out during the reports that German civilians have been giving food parcels to these families arc disturbing military Canada transfers families intact and pays dependents by Ron Campbell All the Canadian state does is float wind bags like an Anonymous Marx is Leninist speaker told Manitoba senator Gil and Quebec Liberal my Dennis Dawson at a University of Manitoba National Unity forum the sponsored by Young Liberal has been going on since monday in the student Union building at demanding her right to the Marx is Leninist said progressive and democratic canadians denounce the Federal task Force on Canadian Unity and the Unity fraud of Trudeau and the Independence fraud of Quebec Premier Rene both Are flip sides of the same Coin that says the Canadian problem is a language problem and the people should rely on the state to solve she but the Canadian state is dominated by imperialism and serves Only the inter ests of the Rich while promoting Hitler Ite appearing taken Aback by her Dawson and Mol Gat said a few words about political freedoms in Canada that allow marxist Leninist to express their views and that it certainly int fascistic or Hitler Stic Lor politicians such As themselves to come and submit a problem to Public Manitoba Liberal youth coordinator Bob Axworthy rejected her claim that the progressive and democratic forces she represented were denied the right to speak at the he said the marxist Leninist group had been invited tuesday to make a submission but it should not have been presented in that Axworthy if they wanted simply to slog Aneer As they they might better have just put up a sign somewhere with the slogans on he four other submissions were More detailed and before the Mol Gat said there is a myth in English Canada that Quebec separatism is just a old ploy to get More Money out of the Federal there arc economic elements to the ques he but its much More an emotion Al one related to a unique culture which lately has grown he said he thinks most Quebe cers want to stay within the Canadian but in English Canada the attitude of let them go is and that because they actually May do the Basic solution is for individual canadians to accept the two founding cultures and the multicultural mosaic in the whole coun try As a positive element in National Dawson said National Unity is not just a Quebec its a Canadian in this he said he was disappointed at Manitoban disinterest shown to the Pepin Robarts National Unity task if Quebec is an Independent for the Lawrence on which the West depends to Export to the will be under the control of a foreign he he called on Young canadians to promote National Unity by intercultural exchanges Between French and English if Canada is to it will have to survive with the help of its Myron assistant executive director of the ukrainian Canadian made a submission calling for greater consideration for no English or French ethnic groups in any new National arrangement arising from the current Unity he said the Unity question should not re strict itself simply to French and English questions but to the cultural integrity of the entire Canadian Peter a Grade 11 student at Pauls High said greater Public education is the answer and the people should be Able express their will in National Howard another Grade 11 student at the approached the question from both economic and cultural Mary a director of the committee for an Independent said Quebec would be culturally better off within Canada than As a separate nation within the big English speaking Pond of North be held As a political prisoner in the soviet Union and pre vented from coming to Canada relatives in Vancouver had pleaded for his is reported to have spent 35 years in soviet Vorontsov replied that he has heard nothing from Moscow concerning the Situa Tion and that he figures that any comments would be conveyed through the Canadian embassy in Chafik raised questions re lating to concern by Canad an citizens Over families in the Baltic states and the de sire for free Dom of movement and human rights Vorontsov was reported to stated that human rights Are a matter of ideology and involve fundamental constitutional problems for the soviet he claimed that matters have improved since the 1975 Security conference in Helsinki and would continue to improve but that the soviet Union must be allowed time and not placed under Public pressure through a human rights Campaign designed to Force Vorontsov also suggested Canada s to a paid Norman Capik that in general problems in human contacts should be handled in a More Low keyed manner which would not require Public exchanges by governments and political Chafik was in Belgrade to deliver a speech thursday before the closing Confer expressing the Canad an governments disappoint ment that concluding document did not reflect the substantive con Cerns of participating up photo a prison work gang with pick axes and shovels works on digging out 28 half buried bus shelters and 244 hidden bus stops thursday in it is part of a program begun by Frank Ontario correction Al services who said prisoners would take on projects that Are not being done by legion civilian quota limited to relatives Ottawa up the Royal Canadian legion has been swamped by callers who wrongly think the legion is opening its ranks to All Rodney the legions assistant Dominion said thurs Johnston said in a statement that the legion now is seeking an amendment to its Federal act of incorporation that would make it possible for sons and daughters of legion members to become full members with the right to vote and hold if parliament approves the it would be up to the legions annual convention to decide specifically what new groups of people will be allowed to Johnston said resolutions extending the rights of sons and daughters to varying degrees will be debated at the june 1115 legion convention in he said May callers gained the impression from a Canadian press Story this week that the legion membership was being opened to All the Canadian press Story noted that the legion plan was not to the membership to More than sons and and the Story said the ultimate decision on what groups should be admitted was in the hands of the legions annual proposed changes to the Federal Law incorporating the legion would permit people who have never served in the air Force or ramp to join As full Johnston said this change is intended to Clear the Way for sons and daughters to about now Are associate members without the right to vote or hold of ;