Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Pete March Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by publications Western limited Telephone 9439331 Donald Nicol acting publisher r s Malone chairman Peter Mclintock editorial Page editor Maurice Western Ottawa editor r h Shelford president general manager Riding the iranian Tiger the full benefits of the Ayatollah Khomeini vision of islamic Paradise Are now flowing to those iranians who marched and howled for it for so Many but now some of them do not seem to like the this is a conundrum that must greatly Puzzle the Ayatollah As he issues his Stream of diktat from the holy City of he is delivering exactly what he promised a society cleansed of the Western influence he he has instituted no policy that he did not describe his Ideal Iran will be one in which the clock is rolled Back 13 while the men Are Busy publicly flogging those who love outside the marriage and hacking off the hands and Heads of those who break koranic women will be wrapped in a Black shroud from head to known As the chador and having Only a Slit for them to peer women will revert to the traditional role in which they Cook and Are not seen and not this was not Only foreseeable but was loudly demanded by the same Type of educated Young women who joined the Tehran demonstration against the compulsory Wear ing of the these High school and University students marched through a snowstorm and were Dis Persed by gunfire in the name of a Freedom to dress As a Side door where they got on their Knees to the next step for women will be an end to co Educa that subversive Western idea so loathed by the then educational opportunities for women will Wither in keeping with their new degraded when the women marched for the Ayatollah before the Shah they gladly wore the it was a political statement by them that they were part of the Vanguard o they wore the chador Over their monogrammed sweaters and tailored jeans so that the Ayatollah could see that they shared his contempt for Western dress and Western Why should they now take to the streets to protest about wearing what they wore so happily a few Short weeks ago the reason is that they Are Only now beginning to understand on what kind of Tiger they decided to ride when they became sycophants of the they can see their own future in a Khomeini controlled Iran and they do not like having got their they Are now finding that it May be difficult to eat it these women Are wasting their time marching and in the eyes of the Ayatollah their concern that Iris they wish they themselves had campaigned against they May not be Able to Wear their jeans and enjoy the by demanding Rule by the the pattern of their Equality they were the Shah is an unimportant own future in Iran was implicit in the sexual separation he has As much concern for the rights of iranian seen on world television on the Day the Ayatollah returned women As he has for the lives of those soldiers and civil to Tehran men walked in the front door to pay homage to servants who Are lining up to be executed without trial by him while wreathed in their scuttled in the rabble that passes for the government in Iran not really bilingual the Waters of Israel the finding by Justice Cattanach of the Federal court that Revenue Canada taxation is nonexistent will cause a Good Deal More concern to the government than to citizens at there is a judicially recognized depart ment of National Revenue which takes an interest in the affairs of every citizen and will undoubtedly assume responsibility for our mis marked personalized in one sense Revenue Canada taxation is a victim of the which has been changing names with to obtain the authorization of parliament in this and in various other it has now been advised by judge Cattnach that the whims of individuals count for nothing with the Federal the origin of this particular whim was a quaint ministerial notion that names such As transport Canada and agriculture Canada have a bilingual this was always an order of words natural to one language group is unnatural to another and it is not through a shorthand to erase a Lan Guage if matters were so simple it would not have been necessary to proceed by whim there could have been but there has not been a general what is most is the fact that the so called bilingual names have not been accepted in French the basis for this assertion is the government of Canadas own Telephone directory published by the department of How do the no parliamentary whimsies appear in the French Section statistics it would does not fall tripping by off Quebec tongues it becomes Statis Tique Canada labour Canada does not seem to be a Winner either it becomes Travail health and welfare Canada appears As Sante it Bie Netre social Supply and services Canada is rendered approx vision events it services even where family resemblances May be problems of pronunciation or spelling have obviously thus environment Canada becomes Environ be ment being even less impressive from a Bilin Gual and that goes for the More or less lamented Revenue Canada its French twin was Revenue Canada which presumably has gone with the other there Are at least two Good reasons for taking such matters to parliament As nudged by judge May now the first is that legislative inspection often results in the avoidance of whether bilingual or the second is that change without parliamentary authority embarrassment and even trouble while inflicting additional Bills for stationery on unappreciative Crunchy canola a Rose by any other name would a Arteil As Shakespeare but would rapeseed by any other name sell better than it does now apparently the Canadian rapeseed association thinks it the name often shortened to the association bad connotations for some so it should be there of no connection Between rape the crop and rape the the former stems from the latin meaning a turnip the latter from the latin to take by in any it is doubtful if the new name chosen by the association is going to catch on for Canad an this is far too close to the Trade of a Cereal and one can expect rape buyers to be expecting Crunchy canola and being by Nehemia Meyers Israel is determined to have a say on the exploitation of West Bank water resources even after autonomy is granted to the Region within the framework of a peace this first enunciated by a committee of headed by Eliahu of the prime ministers and sub sequently confirmed by the stems from the fear that Israel might otherwise be deprived of a substantial part of her present water on third of this water 500 million cubic meters now Origi nates in the area slated for Auton it enters the water Cycle in the form of rain which Falls on the Hilly regions of the West Bank and then flows underground and downhill to pre1967 where it is pumped out of the ground and carefully divided among the factories and with the development of More sophisticated agriculture and Indus try in the Ara inhabited people there will demand More even if it be at the expense of the predominantly jewish coastal this is understood and israelis worried israelis Are worried about the possibility that very Large quantities of water will be taken out of the system by extensive pumping in the Hills not because the arabs need but Only to deny it to the this May sound but it is a similar situation existed along israels Northern Borders in the at that time the syrians began the development of an elaborate sys tem of diversion canals and dams to prevent water from flowing from the mount Hermon area and the Golan Heights into the sea of where it was pumped out and sent to Central and Southern commando raids they did this though they had no use for the water and Only when israeli shells and commando raids destroyed some of the syrian installations did they de to be sure it takes a very Long time up to 500 years for the rain which Falls on the Hilly regions to wend its Inch by to the coastal the prob Lem is an immediate because As soon As the flow is pressure is reduced and less water will be available at the other no less important from a Hydro logical viewpoint is the fact that any reduction in the influx of water from the Hill regions to the coastal aquifer will permit the intrusion of Salt water from the thus further reducing the Quantity and Quality of water total water resources could be increased by the construction of More desalinization plants along the or even by bringing fresh water from the titania River in most of which into the formula needed but it would still be necessary to work out some formula for allocating the always a problem in any semiarid area such As the Middle with Good a solution could be As it was in regard to divid ing the Waters of the Colorado River in the United the Rhine in and the Nile in Africa Good is in Short Supply Here that is Why the government of Israel is insisting that it will be party to All decisions about the disposition of water resources in a Region hydrologically must be treated As a single Nehemia Meyers is Public relations director at the Weizmann Institute at pointless self pity Mordecai Richler in weekend has indulged himself in the most insidious and at the same Bla Tant form of unnecessary and Point less inflammatory Many wars have been waged in which whole cities or races have been none is More nor less horrible than what is More horrible is to permit ones intellect to be eliminated at the same what can this article accomplish thirty four years a Canadian external affairs officer is assaulted by Richler own self poisoning inability to con duct himself men and women in Germany Are victimized by the authors apparent desire to permit the stain of the memory of a Gross act in to live on and agonize the authors everyday occurrences Are permitted to Well up like putrid liquor in the authors mind and infect even a Normal request for a cleaning prod Richler apparently is unable to cleanse his mind or even attempt to cleanse his the recollection of the destruction of so million people during the second world War is not a matter upon which a healthy mind among other healthy uses it is to be carefully held up for compari son to current events to ensure that a reoccurrence is not Yerex Winnipeg the Yemen in reference to the editorial entitled fragile Oil supplies in the free March several misleading comments were made in analysing the fighting Between the Yemen Arab Republic and the Yemen Peoples democratic Republic in establishing parallels Between the internal situations in saudi Arabia and in terms of the the editorial was noticeable for its it was not noted that so Viet colonization attempts have left South Yemen an impoverished land with High civil unrest and economic it is always a temptation for dictators to embark on foreign adventures when faced with civil especially when supplied tactically and and with armaments by a foreign in this Case the and East Ger it was correctly stated that in North the monarchy was toppled in 1969 by Republican insurgents backed by egyptian what is not indicated is that royalist strength remains in the situation for the republicans had so much deteriorated that it was reported that there were fight ing men ready to overthrow the re publican regime and in a report in the German Stern Maga Zine showed the royalists still con trolled approximately half the coun Only with the West aligning itself firmly with the forces of royalist legitimacy in North Yemen might the situation in the Yemen be Stabi while the writer is incorrect in reference to the Oil Rich lands of the Queen of he is certainly Correct in his adjudication of their strategic importance and that the conflict deserves More attention than no thereto it definitely the most misleading statement was that the Khomeini revolution has illustrated How in a particular such As exists in saudi Arabia As much As it existed in it is possible for the right and the far left to join forces in a successful Effort to topple the existing How realistic is the fear that the events in Iran May set wars of Politi Cal instability rippling through the traditional monarchies in the Arab Gulf let us first realize the Mon Archy in Iran was inherently unstable As the Shah father was a military strongman and usurper who set up a dynasty which his son turned into an Imperial Over the As corruption increased at the top and the condition of the Ordinary Man resentment turned to in in saudi Arabia and other Gulf the monarchies Are considered legitimate and lines of communication have been kept for the average living conditions have improved to state there is enormous disparity Between the poor and the ostentatiously Rich is every Man is not Rich in the Arab Gulf but scarcely anyone is hungry or economically unless for ideological reasons Iran had regarded the Gulf As within its sphere of with iranian instability Likely to con Iran will for some time not be in a position to destabilize its neigh Bors As it had earlier under the Shah attempted to that iranian preoccupation internally May reduce political tension within the Gulf Canada has a role to play in maintaining stability in the area by encouraging greater understanding and Trade Between it and the Gulf the press has its role to bring Correct information to us readers and not to spread alarmist opinion As informed gun Walberg president the Falcon group Winnipeg a decent weekend i was Happy to see the letter written by pastor Moorhead of Spra gue about weekends striptease Arti thank god for people like maybe we can still have a decent weekend Johanna Richter Shell game it appears that due to an historical Accident we will be discussing a truly important Issue in this namely a cynic might ques Tion whether we would be discussing this Issue at All had there not been an upheaval in after the Middle East War a few years ago and the Oil North America woke to the ticking time bomb of Energy depletion and even the City of Winnipeg turned its Atten Tion to some Energy conservation measures and Public since that of the City of for has again begun behaving As if the Energy shortage was merely a temporary there Are signs that the Energy Issue will not be discussed truthfully and the Canad an Public will be treated to a political Shell Joe Clark unveiled the pc Energy plan in Montreal on March among other he indicated that the conservative government would try to limit annual growth rate in Energy demand to two per the effect of that under current Circum stances is to indicate that his plan for Canada is one of slow strangulation As far As Energy is concerned rather than Quick More approximately a week Joe Clark was in Nova reiterating his constitutional stand which is the same As namely that the provinces should enjoy full control of their resources and be the exclusive beneficiaries of the first question that must be addressed to Clark is How he is going to implement All his Energy reallocation plans when Premier of each and More Partick the Premier of Alberta will have exclusive control of his Energy i presume that it is to this Issue that the conservative Leader addressed himself when he indicated in Nova Scotia that he would set up a Federal provincial Council to Deal with Energy i would Hope that if this plan is such a Federal provincial Council under Clarks constitutional proposals will have More Success in arriving at a decision than have other Federal provincial if this matter were not such a serious Issue it would be try to imagine a Constitution changed under Joe Clarks proposals giving the Premier of Alberta exclusive control of his Oil followed by a Federal provincial conference where Clark and the premiers of Ontario and Manitoba try to persuade the Premier of Alberta to reallocate his Oil resources at a cheaper Cost to the provinces of Ontario and Manito Morris Kaufman Winnipeg running the red did you know it was Legal for a truck Driver working for the City Snow removal project to proceed through a red traffic Light i did until i complained to the Man supervising the cleanup opera Tion downtown on March he in formed me that the Drivers were allowed to go through a red Light and that if a patrol officer saw he would turn the other i then asked if i would be responsible for the Accident if i collided with his vehicle while he was going through that red answer a Long drawn out this same supervisor also in formed me that the Drivers were involved in a competitive business and that the sooner they reached their destination and so the More Money they would being a taxi Driver myself i can understand but i cannot see myself going through a red Light to take a fare before my rival coming through a Green Light surely a police officer seeing this would ticket me on the that is unless he realizes that i am Only competing to make a Lisowicz Winnipeg letters All letters to the editor must Lxvi Hie writers name phone number and address addresses Are not published Tuv Sui Eft will de used a rivet nut lie will held lettered us beet to tinny illegal ban the City fathers May have Good but we do not think that legally they can prevent people from walking across the Corner of Portage and let me refer you to a finding Given some years ago by the most eminent authority on Law we Ever had in magistrate Gra of the Winnipeg City police court in his court work he used to Tell of and and the Law of old England was made and it is a Law of that if any path or or or can be proved to have been used by the Public continuously and every Day for every for 20 cons ecu no nor nor Law can prevent the people from passing Over cases have been fought Here in Winnipeg Over and May be fought George Hambley Winnipeg ;