Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 26, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fey Fife cart Tiv a door Sitt 6ff f of Espeto i pee left a so Fec lot Ottawa fed Ifor new foundation it wig 6h Sheffel Ftfe Tail of yesteryear they m largely but we have a new one store Ibidem to Siy in his states of the Union message Congress Oft he said it in a Stew the stirring i an Atlanta advertising1 mind addition to the Georgia his relatively Brief pet dem Tawi ised it 13 tittles v new the is to be Laid to help us build a nation and a less where every child is nurtured and can look to the future with where the resources now wasted on War can be turned towards human needs a Lovely Utopia Only sir Thomas Moore had said it All before in president Carters modern Utopia is to be based on Salt a very shaky foundation indeed on senator Edward Kennedy National health plan which casts an interesting sidelight on democratic the presi Dent trying to join the senator fro i Massachusetts he cannot beat him on a Strong disavowal of any United states intention to be the worlds policeman and on yet another Effort to borrow a Canadian slogan to wrestle inflation to the the new fool nation for the coming millennium is being built on found beset with time the iranian crisis has not abated and the United instead of a Reserve of one billion barrels of or 120 Days Supply previously Only has a weeks National Reserve of million barrels Titis at a time when soviet pincers Are closing on Middle East Oil inflammatory broadcasts from Moscow continue to incite iranian workers to strike and in the red the soviet Union has from its Yemen its military pressure on saudi a new soviet base in Eritrea is situated due West of saudi Arabia and close to the Sudan and the american people have become convinced that the Economy is in very bad shape and they accuse the government of being the prime perpetrator of yet there was very Little about the Economy in president Carters the Liberal has seized upon the modest increase in Arma ments spending at a time when soviet spending on arms has risen to astronomical and the West is retreating on All but Public opinion 54 per cent believe that the economic situation will get worse is convinced that expenditure on social Security not arms is the most in these conditions of International and Domestic crises one would have expected from the Leader of the free world some Clear Marks of a sweat and tears we got what senator Paul Tson Gas Democrat Massachusetts accurately described As a speech of the times Dull and an administration officer the president writes his own disappearing discounts it is possible that the attention of aut Opac officials will be riveted to something More substantial than the scanty clothing of the Model used to advertise the latest aut Opac special As offered by the Winnipeg Branch of a National Auto body repair the special is available to any customer who has an aut Opac claim form that Calls for 12 hours of body repair to be paid for by the Public if such is the the customer can have his whole car painted for an extra this special is in the Best tradition of free it is almost exactly what some automobile Glass dealers were offering when they told customers that they would absorb the deductible that applies to most aut Opac Windshield at that the Glass dealers were told in no Uncertain terms that they must Stop offering their customers such discounts that in Auto acs eyes constituted unnecessary if the Glass dealers they were threatened with the loss of their because aut Opac would tender All its Glass business to one the Glass dealers complained about government interference with Normal business none the stopped offering discounts to aut Opac says it will not threaten the Auto Bod shop with the same possibly because it would be physically impossible to tender All body repair work in Manitoba to one aut Opac put a Little pressure on the automobile trades Assoc a an organization that is presently negotiating for new repair by doing the government will possibly accomplish the same end the elimination of customer discounts without appearing As heavy handed As it did in dealing with the Glass but the customer will lose the primarily because the Promise by the present government to pro vide Competition in automobile insurance has not been As customers watch their discounts disappear Al most As quickly As they Are they should consider the remark made by a senior aut Opac official who observed that since the government got into the automobile repair not a single Bod shop in Manitoba has gone everyone knows that governments find it difficult to go but it would be interesting to Dis cover another business that has no government support with such an enviable record As has the automobile repair business in the matter of yes it has often been said that it is if not to legislate Good another example has just come to Light in where the county Board of presumably on the advice of its nutrition stepped ing French Fries with some school when fish and chips Are according to the boards about 17 per cent of the students eat at but when less meals Only Are on the the number drops to per cent and the Stu dents go put nearby Tau rants and lets they eat French Frits to their hearts or ass fret press f Jamar 3544 court rules car must pay is fumes on Lemons Montreal Toronto gain As head offices move Montreal that my wonderful town was the Way one radio Jin Gle confidently described Montreal in the business was indeed wonderful in the Boom years of Trie 1960s As Montreal forged a reputation As the Metropolis of today the optimism and exuberance of those years have been swept away in an outflow of Talent and ideas from the City that has turned Montreal into the weak spot in the Provin Cial the Statis tics speak volumes about How Montreal loss has been Toronto the tide of head office departures has swelled to the Point where in Montreal had Only 60 major head offices among Manu mining and financial institutions compared to 135 in Montreal still remains a Strong second to Toronto As a Centre of National eco nomic but a Conseil do Patron at study shows that the City places fifth behind Calgary and Edmonton As the preferred location for new Busin by Peter Hadekel the Montreal Stock sex which was growing twice As fast As the Toronto Stock Exchange in the Early today handles Only on seventh of the business volume handled by the Montreal is just about dead As a financial says one investment counsellor who is preparing a move to Toronto when All your clients you have to go population growth in Montreal is while metropolitan Toron tos growth races ahead at a rate three times As and the Standard of living in Toronto is going up at a much faster statistics in construction con tracts in Montreal were Worth about As much As in a year according to a Montreal chamber of Commerce construction creased by 24 per cent in Montreal while it went up 16 per cent Industrial construction in particular by 42 per cent in and other sectors such As commercial and residential Tion continued to decline in it is the same Story in search and Why it happened High taxes and labor linguistic tensions and Glis speaking communities and uncertainty about Quebec separation have All taken their toll of the Mon Treal Economy since the businessmen but the parti quebecois government refuses to acknowledge that these fac tors Are still contributing to the business exodus from minister after minister in the government Speaks about an inevitable shift to the West in North american investment trends that has been under Way since the any other diagnosis of the prob Lem is erroneous and subjective economic development minister Bernard Landry that basically a lot of replied Mcgill University management pro Fessor Donald the threat of separation was causing people to move in the 1960s a Wes Tward As a business consultant in those Days i know the kinds of questions that were being raised in the Board rooms professor Armstrong says the pm is using talk of a Westward business Drift As a great comforting myth its getting harder and harder for them to deny that a decline exists in the Montreal University of Montreal business school director Pierre Laurin debunks the pm theory of observing that cities such As new York and Boston have been Able to reverse their eco nomic declines through Vig Orous promotional Cam but Montreal business men have Little Confidence that the pm government is ready to work with them to save the head office Indus a deep schism of mis Trust separates the two Paul president of Ilasco i have a very Strong personal feeling that the government just Doest understand the implications of its policies on the business i think Many of finance minister Parizeau pro Grams will Lead to greater unemployment in this prov perhaps because they Are afraid to fight the Ern ment Over explosive issues such As the threat of Independence and language the business Community has rallied companies say if changes Are not made in this Springs they will have to we told this to Parizeau in september and again in says Pierre Cote of the con Seil do he was we thought we had it he said he would look into the problem but still nothing has been the head office Industry is the fifth most important in the Quebec the 110 largest head offices employ persons while administering total employment of per sons and business Worth but that is not the whole says Mcgill professor head of fice jobs Are High priced jobs with a multiplier effect of four on the Economy an other dependent so when you lose a head office another three jobs will go along with it the school teach the restaurant owner and the taxi its also the kind of Job that attracts Ballet to go with those who minimize Montreal losses Point to the fact that while Many head offices Are the same companies Are setting up regional head offices Here to Deal in French tax with their Quebec but Pierre Laurin admits the City is still suffering a net Job the Region ligation of Montreal Economy is being accompanied by the Rise of French speaking canadians in the cites Busi Ness Hierarchy and the in creasing predominance of French As the language of but while Quebec French speaking majority has Long complained about being denied entry into the Montreal business their arrival has not guaranteed business Suc a Montreal chamber of Commerce report put it this Way a Good part of our problems stems from a Lack of we have always placed Little value in Quebec on the spirit of entrepreneurship and individual after having Long preferred the Medicine and Law to the business the along with the Conseil do believes Montreal needs an economic promotion Bureau that can compete aggressively to bring in inter National Competition from the rest of the United states and Europe has never been As Strong and the advantages that once made Montreal attractive to International firms have almost All second of two articles Al military takeover for iran1 after the Shah by Joseph Kraft w the Iran the have left Chiffi out less gofi6 l6tt8 of touch with the live what has transformed for Iran into a Modem left in according to one the the Ayatollah Khomeini does kids i 1 army Are not even recognize the All but the most Ference Between a billion Likely eventual outcome is and a As to the most of the top generals clouding the minister of the kind of takeover de pends on what the and the commanders of the at the to be army and air and the the to h6ad of Sava remain Loyal to the they had to be persuaded to let the Shah depart on they be triumphant and ail the religious or aligned them selves in opposition to the would organize a coup on Shah with the famous his behalf tomorrow if he Ayatollah just Ayatollah Khomeini has just below the level of continued to oppose the re general the temper gency Council left behind runs much Many by the and the duly colonels blame the generals invested government under and the Shah for not crack prime minister Shahpur Ayatollah Kho Meini has called for an islamic which he himself would he claims to have a Cabinet in and promises to re turn from France at an Early ing if the generals one colonel or another will probably move toward a mutinous his own the Likely course of events in these conditions is a slow Bakhtiar will probably Limp along for a the Ayatollah Khomeini will probably make his bid for Power and then at that two weeks or the other religious Lead More from the hour of ers have not openly of the military will come posed prime minister the generals favor a kind of pronoun Cimmento or in they emphasized that under shiite the dominant Type intervention along the lines of the clergy is supposed to the turkish to re act As a Monitor on the not a if store constitutional the colonels and lesser Only because Ayatollah ranks want a mutinous Khomeini has the support coup that would install a of the Street Howe regime like those in Libya the other religious Lead or Radical in tone ers would have to go along and hostile to the its with him if he returned and friends in the West and its pushed for an islamic re chief Oil including but the moment he saudi Arabia and the per begins to they will Sian Gulf probably for such which is where the leaders As Ayatollah comes president Carter Staryat in the holy and Secretary of state Cyrus Vance have tended to City of oppose Ayatollah Khomeini on High doctrinal grounds on grounds that he is injecting Shi ism into and thus compromising its fun the Bazaar merchants objected violently to the Shah mainly because in his efforts to hold Down prices he set upon them the agents of the secret or they lined up with the Ayatollah Khomeini to bring the Shah and while Ayatollah Power runs Strong in the they have to stick with but already they have the troubles of the past few months have brought business to a a few who have recently been in touch with Ayatollah Khomeini have discovered that his Long years of exile years in Iraq and four months outside Paris in regard All coups As necessarily the same and necessarily bad necessarily like coups in through the military representative in Robert they headed off a coup the generals wanted to stage before the Shah left rightly so at that but if the president and Secretary of state persist in the Good Goody if they fail to recognize the urgency of the Circum stances and the nature of the if they sit on the they will and they will some thing far they will get Libya when they could have had and they will give the world the impression that the in order not to look like Woody slugging everybody on the Field feels obliged to go As Slack As Perry Russia tries to Jam Israel taxes in Quebec for Tal attack on the Quebec on jives earning Over Art More than per cent higher than those in Israel while the russians have Long stopped jamming the voice of the bbl and other Western stations beaming broadcasts to the soviet they still spend a great Deal of time and Money trying pre vent the Jerusalem based voice of Israel from being heard inside the this carried out with Ultra modern is particularly effective in cities of european with Large jewish populations such As Len Ingrad and Kiev but even there israeli broadcasts Cash orally slip through cracks in the Iron it was from the station that first Learned about the death of Golda Meir and the awarding of a Nobel peace prise to men ahem because news of this sort often by Nehemia Meyers for even when the russian papers finally reported on Meirs several Days after the they depicted her As a shameless warmonger and avoided mentioning that she had served As Isra Els first ambassador to the soviet perhaps be cause her arrival had sparked off the resurgence of jewish consciousness that eventually led to Large scale jewish emigration from the soviet their old Friend and then often return to ask for her help when they have difficulty finding an apart a Job or a local and regional poli tics Are also discussed by the but one subject is absolutely yet despite this some jews still remain in the soviet and does its Best to reach them with broadcasts that run from to seven Days a and not Tain jews of Azerbaijan and Daghestani and Buk Harian spoken by some jews in Central for the most pro Grams Are informal in avoiding the kind of propagandists approach taboo soviet internal to to which soviet citizens Jecies in order to prevent Only too thus complaints about israeli in Hanna who is on the Tererence in this sensitive air twice a May Tell what her son is studying in but the russian author school or How she is pre cities clearly regard any paring for the next round of broadcasts from without forgetting which by their very nature to note that rising prices strengthen links Between have forced her to Cut Down soviet jews and their on food purchases and to Brethren As in buy her husband a less sex Tererence in soviet inter pensive present than she Nal had originally that is Why the jamming she also in and Why it Contin forms listeners of the Many faced by russian immigrants As they often to a new Way of life in a new wite born this personalised be qty ii spwih9 Ihms pressed by the soviet Only does it address them in As evidenced by the Martha met nil or a Rasanan on Cian Bitsi Stan j at yrs 1hvw free marketplace and Many or presented very but also in yi4 fact that Many newcomers Winnipeg born Forest from the soviet Union in the language of the mediately ask tsp meet with ;