Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 13, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba It us Ottawa Portage Avenue Bounce Winnipeg motorists who have recent and accurate recollections of past re paving jobs that were car ried out quickly and efficiently have every right to ask How Long they will be required to perform the por Tage Avenue Bounce because repaving Crews cannot keep up with those employees whose jobs it is to wreck the for weeks motorists using the North Side of por Tage Avenue have been forced to thread their Way or Bounce Over the Concrete supported manhole covers that were left pro truding several inches above the surrounding Street As Crews peeled off old Asphalt in preparation for a new some having endured the ordeal in is were pleased to see workmen appear on the ave along with huge a this past to their the workmen were not repairing the Street that was already but were destroying additional blocks of pavement that will also be perhaps by next it is bad enough that Progress demands that win Nipges busiest Portage Avenue and main be virtually closed for the it is entirely unnecessary to Peel off what Ever pavement is Only to leave the scarred subsurface for so Long before identity cards it is difficult to predict the reaction of canadians to the information that a Start has been through the issuing of social insurance num Bers to some citizens at toward a National identification card Only one province has been singled out As having adopted the system but the fright ening part is that an agree ment in principle seems to have been reached by bureaucrats at Federal and provincial Levels More than eight years 1 there is no doubt that such a system would be welcomed by these by police and by other government but the question that must he answered is whether canadians want such a system it would be unfortunate in deed if Canada stumbled into such a National identification system by or by purely bureaucratic it is a matter that deserves the full consideration of elected not govern ment Winnipeg free press tmum0ayt t 1978 Al reef pm Liberty the soviet trials the trials of Alexander a Naburg and Anatoly following harsh sentence inflicted upon another Yuri indicate that the soviet Union is battering Down the the Era of smiles and the final act of Helsinki is Western correspondents again Are being harassed and those soviet citizens who believed that the final act of Helsinki has taken oppression out of Domestic politics and into the International Arena now know How mistaken they and Are paying for their errors by the terrible suffering inflicted upon dissidents in the soviet the 41yearold after having spent 17 months Iti prison awaiting according to his like a Man of his hair completely one can Only speculate on the reasons for the Deci Sion that must have been taken at the highest level to put on trial these Tatien whose Only crime was to Monitor the fulfilling by the soviet Union of its International the trials imply a contemptuous dismissal of detente and constitute a personal slap in the face of president Carter who went out of his Way to deny any connection Between Shch Aransky and the the Anodyne statement by state Secretary Cyrus Vance that the Salt talks Are too important to be interrupted because of the Mer Bagatelle of human utterly it will Only serve to encourage the soviet Union in its persecution of and also prompt it further to raise its demands at the disarmament the Only inference the russians can draw from Vances incredible statement is that the talks Are More important to the United states than they Are to the soviet which had no qualms in Haz arding them by staging the present it is essential that the Western world show Unity of purpose and that both governments and private institutions make it quite Clear to the men of the Kremlin that their oppressive tyranny puts them beyond the Pale of civilized the question must be asked whether the soviet Union really is a fit country to Welcome the worlds athletes for the next the airborne regiment if the Federal government has in mind to use the armed forces As a solution to Canadas unemployment then the earlier musings by defence minister Barney Danson about dissolving the Canadian airborne regiment make if Ottawa wants to continue the madness of Complete then the elimination of any unit that is special because of its training or stale of fitness makes but if Canada wants to make the Best of its reduced military then the airborne regiment should not Only but should be duplicate the Canadian airborne regiment has developed into an elite unit of the Canadian armed it is highly and has a spirit that is often lacking in an army that has been at peace As Long As has Canadas it May have become something of a problem child in the but it is a Good example of what wartime armies made up of troops convinced that As were the Best in the Best in the Best company of the Best regiment in the the airborne regiment fits Well into the Canadian army borrowed from the of having regiments identified by name rather than this system has been studied by Many other and adopted in part by units that were a bit better than the general run of the the Canadian forces have been dealt Many severe blows by recent Liberal initiative went out the window when unification came and Little has been done to restore it or to rekindle the Superb morale that was part of Canadas military in Days whatever Ottawa does to reassess the role of the the government should Tell the members of the armed and canadians in what it Hopes to if the armed forces Are to be assigned the task of solving they cannot contain elite units that would not accept personnel merely because it was assigned to but if the purpose of the armed forces is to remain the defence of then the special units serve a double purpose in times of economic besides providing the country with the Means of meeting any they provide the Best Avail and most support for under the dome by Arlene Billinkoff i the critical years ii i How the soviets deter the deterrent Gold writes Robert Conquest in a recent is one of those phrases that Are prefabricated parts for pre fabricated and an As Sembly of them in varying shapes and proportions can give such a mind the idea that he is talking or even the realities of International the same applies to the term and the recent published collection of defending Ameri tries to dismantle such prefabricated parts and expose to the Light of the Day the reality for what it it is a Blu ribbon panel we encounter including such prominent thinkers As James Schlesinger who wrote an introduction to the Book Walter Edward Paul Eugene Leonard Schapiro and Paul within less than two dec Ades the from being a Western system with a communist enclave and with a vast hinterland of Western colonies that functioned both As an economic and military strategic had be come a beleaguered group of democratic states with a dwindling handful of third world allies willing to stand upon important issues of Western interconnections disappeared As rap idly As new communist ones were put into the appearance of irreversibility in soviet gains seems to in feeble one Side and stimulate the other All the More the bandwagon collects those on the writes Scott professor of politics at the Fletcher school of Law and Diplo in his essay on the projection of soviet the concluding essay by beyond be should indeed be read it explains How the concept of detente grew out of the turbulent Era of the when philosophers and social scientists had come to think began to teach the new generation that America was on the Brink of escaping from these were the Days of greening of America a slogan of which Henry fair lie once said that no British sub editor would Ever have accepted it As a title be would have asked what does it mean a question incapable of an the philosophers and so Cial and their numerous did not know what it meant they merely assumed that objective material condition had so changed that traditional constraints of hard self control were matters of the it was from the ranks of those who accepted these premises that the furies of the Lafils Seabury and u was the policy of president Nixon Henry to re by Manor Duce americas overseas commitments to ones which the new Domestic Circum stances would both succeeded but what emerged was the new lesson that the crucial question about soviet american relations is not so much the matter of soviet intentions and capabilities As it is the matter of american staying Power in a Long and obdurate game and that detente is As much an american Domestic prob Lem As it is a flawed super Power Paul Nitze in his Lucid essay on detente and Ameri can survival explodes the complacent theory of Over he explains the different requirements of counter Force and nuclear in the first of which the enemy attacks the nuclear missile whereas the second implies attack on population centres and for Politi Cal and because of the presumed destabilizing nature of counterforce Capa we forgone the accuracy and yield combinations which would give us High single shot capabilities against so Viet silos and other hardened megaton name is now so Low that it is possible for the soviet Union to plan a civil defence pro Gram which would make a far smaller percentage of their population hostage to a counter value particularly after it has been reduced in capability by an initial soviet counterforce than our population is to a soviet counter value the question is writes Why the soviets continue to test High megaton age i believe the answer is that they see the importance of deterring the the present civil defence program of the soviet Union estimates that in the event of an american counter value attack soviet casualties would not exceed three to four per cent of the Popula Nitze believes that the soviet manuals Are some what Over optimistic from the soviet they Are wholly out of the bail the usual Assumption that the senses vast population Over kill in without the critical years will he at the end of the present dec Ade and in the Early Nitze and to Cope with the immediate prob lems and retail sufficient urgent Atten should be Given to deter mining Quick and possibly temporary none of this is Lutwak in his essay european insecurity and american policy Points to the rapid strides with which soviet air Force has been overtaking the technical superiority of nato no other aspect of the Overall decline in the relative strength of nato is As serious As the slow but accelerating change in the air the introduction advanced aircraft Are providing the Warsaw pact with delivery capacity increases of 2400 per cent for each air unit thus at the same the crucial Quality Gap in air weapons and electronics is perceptibly decrease since new aircraft Are replacing the old at a much More rapid rate in the War saw pact than in the average Gap is closing quite and if soviet air Force can significantly disrupt ground move ments and lines of commune then an effective nato defence becomes virtually Leonard spa pro nails Down the misinformation repeated Day after Day in Western on to and that it was the Jackson amendment linking emigration of soviet jews to the according to the soviet Union of the mos favored nation treatment that caused the collapse of the american Trade the soviet Union went Back on the arrangement and repudiated the Trade agree ment with the United states Only after the Congress some months later had shown its unwillingness to extend extensive credits to the the premise of leninism on War As a continuation of policy by military Means remains True in an atmosphere of fundamental changes in military the attempt of certain Bourgeois ideologists to prove that nuclear missile weapons leave War outside the Frame work of policy and that nuclear War moves beyond the control of theoretically incorrect and politic ally this soviet updating of Clausewitz appeared in the november 1975 Issue of communist of the armed the leading soviet military Howe to repeat it in the West no bring angry accusations of reverting to the cold War and anguished cries that detente is in Dan America with an introduction by James Schlesinger 255 picker ing Fitzhenry White Side if the number of nations had As much value As individual the nip would have succeeded in kill ing the cattle producers As during the months the descriptions of the legislation have ranged from an insane document to a dangerous Between those extremes have been comments about a heavy hand of govern Dis Graceful absolute Embar and a loss of that approach Drew Little response from the govern ment in the latter Paft of originally Harry Enns had indicated certain amendments were but Jim the minis Ter responsible for the remained comments from the govern ment concentrated on the right of the nip to even criticize such a it was outland sanctimonious by about the Only time both sides seemed to agree was in their Mutual accusations about playing per haps it was a but no one was too certain about the instead he Rose to say that the debate was interesting and healthy and then sat such an approach merely added to the fire and debate continued throughout the Day this Bill was an attempt to buy charged Pete and was a measure of by telling peo ple they had to join a specific what had happened to the holy commitment by Enns to change asked Saul Cherniack some word was required from the govern were the Rea sons it was a remarkable noted Bill and the minister was a Dis Grace to his there was very Little relationship to the democratic this Bill called for the establishment of an Organiza Tion which would have rather extensive Powers without an form of government con while Downey had indicated outside the Cham Ber there might be some amendments when the Bill reached the committee he was oddly reluctant to say it the Transfer of so much authority to a private organization revealed a heavy charged de who wanted some form of it was rather ironic that such a Bill came from a party which was engaged in the rhetoric of free Dom and those rights did not exist in this there was a Lack of charged Sam Yuskiw and a direct intrusion into the lives of cattlemen by giving Powers to a private if a producers group was he it should be voluntary rather than the compulsory Struc Ture outlined in this hoping to gain a reaction from the nip introduced a motion for a six month the minister failed to use the Opportunity to contribute to some indications were Given that there might be called Frank Johnston from his but we hear retorted some response was you Are charged there were but in Howard Hawleys View they were being played by the govern that was sanctimonious retorted Warner by removing government from the affairs of this Bill was meet ing a but the nip could not understand the absence of government but it denied individual rights by forcing people to belong to an countered and it was basically bad Legisla while other new democrats agreed with that a the repetition of the arguments failed to make the desired Downey remained silent Al most to the and the few who did spent More time attacking than defend the Bill May be As bad As envisaged and perhaps amendments will be Intro there was no necessity for the tories to they were willing to go on Faith and their numerical birthdays Charles Winnipeg born july Marion Winni Peg born Mon july the Bonn l Ondon the British i government is hover has been so often the Case in recent memory on an economic just before it goes to join its Peers at the Summit meeting which is supposed to save the free the problem for Britain is whether to jump fully clothed into Europe or to shrink Back on the while the dilemma specifically concerns the new european currency scheme proposed at the pre Summit Summit i the european Community in Britain on a Brink by Frank butter Germany and France were ready to go ahead without delay but British prime minister James Callaghan insisted that the proposal he tabled for study and that consideration he Given to other Means of helping the weaker partners in 01 All the common ground in Europe the Prospect of a formal currency Union is most to key to have a Poten tial effect on British so dictating Good Deal of Domestic policy Deci u is difficult to a certain the Choice is also Between Europe and the United states and depend ing on the american posture at that is How things could line up u is also difficult because the common Market is not popular in Britain and an election is to be left out if the other Market members go along with the Franco Ger Man scheme could be disastrous for Britain in the Long run if it Means becoming a poor relation of Europe left to enjoy its own right to eco nomic the idea Laid out at Bremen was for Unk ing the various european currencies to a reference value for Exchange the Exchange rates would then he cont round within a narrow up or this is a new version of what has been called the Snake which has naked the Exchange rates of the Benelux countries and keeping them irom fluctuating More than two and a per cent either Sio of the the Aew version the Boa is one suggested name would allow greater latitude to weaker european perhaps fluctuations of up to five per for a limited period before clamping Down tightly on All of a would contribute to a new european currency amounting to some to support the Boa when necessary in Europe an currency the fact that this idea is being pushed by the French and germans is Only one Rea son Why Britain is suspicious of the idea originated with Roy the former labor party politician who has been the president of the european any notion of Jenkins has been automatic anathema to his sometime rival for party and personal Callaghan can expect criticism from both sides of the Politi Cal spectrum if he decides to be swallowed up by the Boa the powerful left Wing of his own party which is Antieau and the conservative free marketeers who say that to tamper with Exchange rates at All is until recently Caugh an has been More or less aligned with president Jimmy Carter in seeking a relation of the highly disciplined German Economy in the belief that a higher rate of inflation elsewhere will in crease Export but the joined by the would rather impose some uniform discipline on the More volatile and unreliable economies such As Britain and at the same time Lessen dependency on the Callaghan stalled enough at Bremen to per Suade the other europeans to study the scheme a bit but whatever happens at the Bonn the euro Pean foreign ministers will have another go around the end of july and a final Deci Sion is expected by the time the european Council holds its annual meeting at Brus Sels in it ail gives Gauaghan a lot to think not Only in the context of Britain eco nomic hut is As prime ;