Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free july 1979 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion sir i Ivy ii week Callun Finnipot pug 3ul by f p wus Lom limited Tolu Pirimi Bogonil class Nihil number v8b Donald publisher is Frler Mclintock editorial Pago tailor Murray c1urf i mail hic of Stern Ottawa editor r h Shelford Pfosi Dent general manager troubled gentiuy1 it is disappointing to observe that a combination of incompetence by atomic Energy of Canada and Price Chi Selling by Hydro Quebec May cause the permanent closure of a special nuclear reactor that could help Canada to earn millions of dollars in International the reactor is located 90 Miles Down the Lawrence River from Montreal and across the River from decl wants to close it As things the Plant May never gentilly1 is unique in Canada it is designed to operate differently from other Canadian Canadas own system is the Candy Short for Canadian deuterium Urani the Candy uses industrially produced deuterium called heavy water to distinguish it from Ordinary called both to Cool the very hot reactor Core and to moderate the nuclear reaction in the the fuel bundles at the Core contain natural other International systems use Light water to Cool and to moderate their fuel is so called enriched which is expensive to Canadas Best advertisement for Candy can be seen at where an Ontario Hydro nuclear reactor has been producing electricity reliably since it opened in gentilly1 differs from Pickering in that the Quebec reactor uses heavy water to moderate the nuclear reaction but uses Light water As a coolant in a boiling water gentilly1 contributes to Canadian knowledge about adapting Candy to use with inexpensive Light just As the reactor is increasing knowledge about Candy cooled by organic Tifis kind of research could make Candy More marketable abroad by giving buyers options on their coolant but the sad fact is that while Pickering and Pinawa Are Success gentilly1 has been trouble plagued since it became operational in almost no electricity has been produced for the Quebec Grid because the reactor has been either shut Down for repairs or operating at too Low a level of part of the problem has been serious damage to Cooling pipes caused by corrosive elements in Lawrence River but How is it that the Best brains in decl did not know what is known to everyone else who lives in that the Lawrence is polluted daily by Riverside industries and by raw sewage pumped straight in by Many including Montre Al when a new kind of material was used in the pipes to avoid one result was the secret spill of May 21 and when pounds of radioactive heavy water leaked into the could this not have been foreseen and forestalled by decl Hydro Quebec also wins no prizes in this the Public 200 of whose employees run gentilly1 for wants neither to buy the whole Plant nor to commit itself to giving the Plant a commercially realistic Price for its Hydro Quebec hides behind an original pricing agreement that could make decl sell its Power at a having originally welcomed the arrival in the province of this High technology Hydro Quebec now wants to leave the troubled reactor to somebody using the excuse that it does not need gentilly1 generated this is not Good the Canadian taxpayer put million into the design and construction of More has been spent on keeping it going through eight difficult now it seems that Large sums would be required to overcome past difficulties and make it As successful As Canadas National interest justifies these because we need to demonstrate that Candy can work with this alternative Cooling who would buy it on the basis of current experience but the taxpayer must be assured that decl will take a tighter technical grip on this facility in and that Hydro Quebec will reverse its negative and unhelpful without these the Federal government May As Well write off the project and bulldoze gentilly1 into the Lawrence change in India two years ago an 81yearold Man moved from a Dungeon into the office of prime minister of having without being free to make one Campaign a female dictator who had called an election that she believed she could not v thus did Morarji Desai arrive on Centre stage in Indian a position he has now vacated by resigning because of eroded support from his badly split janata the Surprise is not that he Felt it necessary to resign now but that he did not take this action almost a year the janata party is not a party at All but a coalition that was hastily cobbled together just Over two years ago so that the democratic elements in Indian political life could com Bine at the ballot Box to overthrow the despot Indira five parties combined to form the coalition and All contained Strong personalities who had clashed with the others Over the they put aside these differences to give India an urgently required democratic but such coalitions Are extremely vulnerable to internal strains once the main reason for their formation has but such coalitions Are extremely vulnerable to internal strains once the main reason for their formation has within a Desai was receiving criticism from various sections of the some did not like his Domestic others disagreed with his foreign he was criticized for travelling too Little in the Indian hinterland he was attacked for travelling too much in the territory of certain political Barons in the it was said that he was doing too Little about major problems others said he was interfering far too by last he was virtually in the position of Riding five horses at As senior coalition members ambitious for his Job outdid each other in a race to undercut his this was a time when a lesser Man might have but Desai is an old campaigner and he Rode out these what seems to have made his position intolerable is a combination of soaring hindu moslem Street riots and police All of which occurred together in the late Spring and Early this led to a series of defections by groups of janata maps whose cumulative effect was to place Deshais parliamentary majority at in these his resignation is but can the fractious janata coalition outlive the departure of the Man who spent the entire fraudulent emergency of Indira Gandhi in an honorable prison cell the Odds Are against such a collapse of the coalition could work Only to the Benefit of who Waits in the wings for a new Chance to grab Power and exact revenge on her political not for Canada it is entirely possible that canadians neither nor All the Protection they Are Given by their Federal one area of doubtful Protection can be found in the by the Canadian transport that prohibits United airlines from offering on flights to and from the Hal Price coupons that Are part of the airlines efforts to regain the business it lost during the recent any Canadian within Range of television Likely knows about the they Are distributed to passengers on United flights and entitle the passenger to his next ticket at half the scheme has caused some with passengers seeking Short flights in order to obtain a Coupon that can be used on More expensive but this is a problem for the not the they Are possible because airlines Are no longer burdened by the red tape of fare the coupons were offered to passengers on Domestic except to and from and to those travelling to Mexico and various islands in the the governments of the foreign countries were the Caribbean islands did not neither did but Canada said the reason is apparently found in the bureaucrats hand under the general Section devoted to discouraging original it seems that any airline seeking to advertise special fares is required to notify the Canadian transport commission it is entirely possible that officials of United when they were scrambling to recover the business they lost while their aircraft were never gave a thought to the bureaucratic for filling required in this the airline has complied with the Canadian and will not offer coupons to passengers on flights that travel to and from the bureaucrats have been apparently no in Ottawa thought to ask the passengers what they thought about the letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from the authors name will be and All letters Are subject to backoff boys this is an open letter to All Winnipeg citizens who attend beware there is a brain Squeezer in town this time it is in the form of the latest James Bond film pure artistic garbage describes it it is insultingly stupid and embarrassingly even for a spy adventure it is ironic that just up the Street from Moonraker is alien in which a woman is the sole survivor of a disaster which destroyed four including the Cap Tain of the space one by there is something else that is new and improved about this film no sex and Little violence it is to be hoped that the Success of alien will encourage other film producers to provide for the Public More a lot More heroines that Are As Intelli Independent and Strong As the character Ripley is in the Best science fiction horror movie in Primrose Whalen Winnipeg Vietnam refugees on starboard full steam ahead Joe who Joe of the Leader of the Federal backoff boys the tory party As we now see the whole Sale repudiation of their election a recent letter to the by Andy says Joe should i agree it is time for a but do not Lay All the blame for their Folly on during the election Campaign we heard Many say when asked who would be the Best prime minister thereto one for Trudeau but i am voting for you can fool some of the people All of the but not the majority All the Gunn Winnipeg Normal reunion in the Winnipeg provincial nor Mal school graduating class of 19291930 will be celebrating its 50th a few of us have been thinking it would be fun to get together As Many grads of that year As for a class re if you would like to attend such a please Contact the following As soon As possible Myrtle Lelonde Oak Rok phone 566 Laura Lovatt Grosse Roc phone Ethel Fisher Box rom phone Ethel Howard anti immigrants please answer the following questions 1 do i understand my hard earned tax already 43 per cent of every Dollar is to pay for the Viet namese refugees transportation their med ical services and food 2 with their prolific birthrate do i presume they Are assured Canadian citizenship with their vote being of equal value to mine 3 do those fellow canadians who Champion this influx expect me to share the footing of this immense Bill do they believe their desires qualify them to make decisions for me 4 would you Tell me in three generations will populate Canada when vietnamese refugees spread throughout Southeast asian Camps now Are increasing at a rate of approximately per week 5 Are you ready and willing to impose and advocate that these people by numbers alone and take Over this land from our descendants 6 they now inhabit one Quarter of this earths shall we give them our share of North America too Katherine Metz conspiracy while the boat people should be helped in every Way we should be careful about taking Steps which will weaken democratic countries in taking a stand against the chief the this conspiracy has been plotting against the and is losing no Chance to weaken the democratic one Way or Mccatty a silent and unseen by Bruce Hutchison to the free press in the political Pierre Trudeau is silent and unseen these so he should be when an apprentice prime minister is learning his Trade finding that things Are not what they seemed before his but Trudeau cannot remain silent much he must soon Tell his party what he intends to in his defeat he is still one of the most important men in the the others being Joe Rene Levesque and Claude Ryan Between Are struggling to master a governing sys tem now out of out of joint Trudeau own timetable is like Wise out of if the Quebec govern ments referendum on an unworkable sovereignty association had been scheduled for the he could Campaign against separatism and his Job retire to the serenity of private awaiting history verdict on a notable Levesque has disrupted this comfortable arrange ment by retreating in fear from ills earlier plans and postponing the referendum until As the Leader who dominated our politics for 11 years and swept Quebec in the last Trudeau has a duty to fight under any with All his resources and with unquestioned however mistaken he a been but if he retires before the referendum his As a private citizen and lame will be on the other he knows that Clark is Likely to dissolve a parliament of minorities and seek a working majority not Long after the the Liberal must know Well in Advance whether Trudeau intends to Lead it into the election or not if it must find a successor by Spring at the new Leader will need time to make himself known and time is run Ning unfortunately there is no obvious successor to no Liberal of his in the Shade of that Broad Oak no promising acorns no rivals were encouraged to one of Trudeau worst mistakes was his failure to train any heirs in his Oneman style of smile or scowl it was so in that no colleague truly knew or understood of did the behind the smile or the the profound insight or the paltry Wise the inner Man never the great human conundrum remains unsolved in opposition As in govern but the tides of politics await no mans Trudeau will have to make up his mind with Little delay since and All responsible face issues far More important than any mans nothing less than the nations future at this critical turning Point in Cana Dian history the Liberal party is Grap pling with its own like its Parent in it could be squeezed Between the righting conservative and the left Wing new democratic Par reduced to a Quebec Rump As in if things went wrong at the next that scenario has been written Al ready by some feverish pundits and it was always the Hope of socialism since the Days of coldwell and they expected the right and left to Divide politics eventually in due bring a socialist opposition to presumably de Broadbent shares the old watching his Clark surely realizes that the scenario is the approaching death of liberalism greatly such a pragmatic a Loose coalition of diverse a kind of expandable Gladstone bag that stretches without is not Des troyed in a and however a it is still the Only alternative for the moment it watches Clark As like his is forced to reconsider his own scenario and elec Tion in that change of plan lies the Liberal party main a rather dubious the governments whole reelection financial policy has been quietly re which is Lucky for All of the mistake of the israeli embassy is being defused by our Wisest elder Robert and the new minister of external affairs the Flora of conservatism looking smarter than the Early Days these Are Early Days in Clarks his necessary baptism of and he appears to be learning certainly he will not underestimate his enemies nor misconstrue tru Deaus silence As the prime minister knows that a summer Calm will be followed by autumn a hard possibly a North american a Spring referendum and then an election if he decides to Call it and seek his essential Bridgehead in for government and and for Levesque and Ryan As the timetable is Uncertain and for the nation the events of the next year will be for the Sphinx with a secret unknown to any perhaps even to the hour of final decision is not far Bruce Hutchison is editor emeritus of the Vancouver gunslingers in Israel by Nehemia Meyers special to the free press Israel recent Sui cide rocked the entire Little just outside Tel a highly respected who in recent months has suffered from severe bouts of grabbed hold of the automatic Rifle that his son had brought Home from the army and killed the doctor would almost certainly have taken his life but it will be extremely difficult for his son to come to terms with fact that he inadvertently provided the instrument of this was not an isolated fit of rage in a few Days a Young reservist drove Over to see his former girl also serving in the and in a fit of rage at her refusal to marry he first shot her and then and in Jerusalem last a 50 year old member of a civil defence smarting under a turned his on a group of killing one and seriously wounding another before he was Dis however shocking these they occur much less frequently than might be expected considering the number of arms floating around local cities and in israeli Are so accustomed to the tight of people carrying guns that they do not take a second look when they pass by a bus Stop or a Street Corner and see several soldiers stand ing there with weapons in one hand and a shopping bag or a Sandwich in the these Are probably men serving in the administered who Are required by army regulations o take their guns with them when they travel to and from their and in accor dance with a recent ruling by the chief of general Rafael officers in uniform must now always Bear arms regardless of where they Are Sta High school students also to be seen on israeli streets Are armed members of the civil volunteers usually High school Stu dents or people above the age of 45 who carry carbines while patrolling Urban and sometimes keep their weapons at quite apart from the arms issued to military and paramilitary there Are the weapons owned by private citizens who have been licensed by the ministry of the Interior to carry and the illegal Arsenal of the which has apparently Laid its hand on most of the rifles and pistols Sto Len Over the last 20 in Ordinary circumstances israeli officials would be making every Effort to reduce this enormous amount of fire but of does not enjoy Ordinary it is plagued by intermittent terrorist at when the Possession of a weapon May literally make the difference be tween life and death for the individual and for his this was demonstrated during the terrorist raid on nah Ariya a couple of months in the course of which Charlie a Young immigrant from South whipped out his licensed pistol and killed one of the attackers at the very Entrance to his in the Wake of this the commander of civil defence major general Yitzhak argued that there should be weapons in a maximum number of israeli his views enjoyed considerable sup but there were also among them army and police officers fearful of firearms reaching people who lacked training should Volunteer Shaul Deputy commander of the civil says that people who want arms should Volunteer for service in the which would eventually allow them to keep their weapons at Home if they so because we Are organized on a neighbourhood commander i Voli we Are in a position to keep track of what happens to these guns and the people who have and when one of our members proves unstable or he is removed from the civil guard and his carbine taken every Fatah attack in creases the number of people who buy firearms for As Well As the danger that these Amateur gunslingers will harm themselves or their fellow citizens Long before they get within Range of a Nehemia Meyers is Public relations director at the Weizmann Institute in ;