Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free july 1979 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six a week 300 gallon Winnipeg h3c jul by f p publications Wos Lern Imi Lod Telephone 9439331 class mail number Donald Nicol publisher r Mai one Ter Mel Fintock Erl Ilonne Pago editor Murray Burt i Maurice Western Ottawa editor r h preside no Oen Nril my by my 1mm re Jimmy on term Gerry press president Jimmy Carters announced initiatives to break increasing dependence on the political and economic whims of Petroleum exporters Are As much an Effort to secure reelection As to solve the american Energy Domestic Public reaction to his proposals probably represents his last Chance to affect the political climate in which he will seek renomination As the democratic presidential candidate and in which he will contest the state primaries in if he does not succeed in altering the country mood of cynicism and self doubt then he will a remembered As Jimmy his problem is that he has rarely managed to convince the american people that he is a decisive his action in asking his entire Cabinet and staff to resign May be spectacular but it does not address the Central problem of his own to be fair to the office of president is not at All As powerful As it is generally believed to if Joe Clark or Margaret with parliamentary majorities behind decide on a certain course of action then they can be sure of getting the necessary legislation an american president has no such in the american a president is elected by the whole country but he has no direct Power Over the members of who Are elected Only by sections of the senators and representatives May Bear the same party Label As a president but they Are completely Independent of answerable Only to their own there is no party discipline comparable to that found in the parliamentary the old Alliance Between republicans and Southern democrats was an example of the convergence of interests that bore no relationship to apparent party an examination of Carters proposals shows that most of them will not happen if he cannot persuade the two houses of Congress to pass needed the president has no Power to order Public utilities to Cut Oil use by 50 per cent by 1990 unless he receives it from he cannot launch a standby gasoline rationing plan without congressional legis there will be no Windfall tax on Oil profits to finance his plan to spend billion Over ten years on improving mass transit unless Congress there will be no Oil company Windfall profits to tax if Congress does not allow him to lift controls on prices for domestically produced crude his scheme to accelerate the developments of synthetic fuels by funds partly provided from Bonds sold to Ordinary americans to raise billion for an Energy Security corporation depends on congressional so his plan to create an Energy mobilization whose sweeping Powers to Brush aside Legal and bureaucratic objections to the building of needed pipelines and nuclear plants would raise significant constitutional ques what Carter can do is to enunciate a possible National Energy policy As he has he can also set limits on future Oil imports also done for 1979 and 1980 if the Secretary of the Treasury uses Powers granted by Section 232 b of the 1953 Trade expansion act to declare that existing Levels of imports threaten National Secretary Blumenthal made such a finding on March 14 concerning Oil beyond the emperor has no Carter can achieve his Energy program Only by two he must convince the american people that his program can work and that they should help to make it work by personal conservation of Energy and by telling their congressmen that they want it he must also convince a majority of the two houses of Congress that his plan is that the people want it and that it is in their own interest to pass the presidents track record in convincing the people and the Congress is if he fails to convince this he will not be seed Plant protest if the recent meeting in Brandon is any a Large number of people Are opposed to the provincial governments announced intention to seek a buyer of Mckenzie seeds while touted As an opposition the gathering of made up of firm local business labor representatives and nip supporters made it Clear to their representative in the de that a Sale any Sale would be met with loud in they intend to hold a demonstration in front of the misplaced credit How Sweet it is for a Federal Cabinet minister to be Able to demonstrate his political clout in Ottawa by claiming full credit for a new project that is being undertaken with Federal Money in his own Roch minister of Supply and tasted this sweetness to the full a few Days ago when he made it known in Quebec that million would be spent by Ottawa to dredge a Section of the Lawrence River near Quebec but the Hosanna of Praise were still ringing in his ears when the embarrassing fact surfaced that the company that got the sceptre dredging was fined in june in the Ontario supreme court in a bid rigging Case in which this company president and Vic president were convicted of rigging without a Lasalles special Jean Carol rushed to announce that Lasalle has no responsibility for the project and that the person at whom the Finger should be pointed is transport minister Don Mazan Quebec voters May be a Shade bemused by the rapid switch of the credit for the dredging contract to Mazankowski from it will All be Clear to them if they just remember in future that when a federally funded project in Quebec province is guaranteed to make the one announcing it smell of the name to remember is if the fragrance surrounding the sponsor should become More Akin to the appropriate name to remember is legislative building in Early to ensure that the entire government is aware of their it has become evident despite the Assurance of Mcgill and Bob Banman that the firm would not be sold without some guarantee it would remain in those in the know Are aware that such action can not really be guaranteed it is possible that the be it purchased by an outside group or even by Brandon would eventually be moved to the heart of the Market in Eastern critics have pointed out that the firm Only employs about 70 people on a year round basis and the much publicized 200 jobs exist Only the million payroll does contribute substantially to both Brandon and Manitoba while the government has stated that the need for More funds to expand the firm and make it More viable is a major reason for the it is conceivable that the province might provide that funding and ultimately help As the meeting not Only nip supporters Are As they passed a Resolution against Selling the firm to under any if that action has no perhaps the August demonstration will make the government reconsider the entire junk Art the moral to be Learned from an incident in last week is that Beauty lies in the Eye of the and one cannot expect City work Crews to recognize Avant Garde Art when they come across a local Guelph artist is unhappy because when work Crews were cleaning up heritage they also cleaned up his Art exhibit and buried it at the local How could the workmen possibly mistake an Art exhibit for a pile of junk according to the Parks when the workers went in to the they found old pieces of Cedar rail jammed in an tinsel wrapped around a a Bunch of primitive paintings on a piece of ropes with triangular pieces of pain splattered Canvas and Springs hanging from if this is an accurate description of the Art perhaps the City dump was the proper place for letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from the authors name will be and All letters Are subject to in agreement liquor at concert i am in total agreement with the sentiments expressed in Paul Sulli vans article published july regarding the vietnamese boat our inhumanity is a reflection upon what a sick society we live Cindy Dewit Winnipeg from the Senate i always thought i was sure i knew that a Cabinet minister in Canada had to be chosen from the elected members of the party in but apparently not so i find that Cabinet ministers can be chosen from the which is not an elected our government chose a Defeated candidate Robert de Cotret to be a Cabinet this makes a mockery of our demo cratic parliamentary it makes it a possibility that we can be governed by a Cabinet made up mostly of non elected Eph Portigal Winnipeg Robert de Cotret i am writing this letter to express my Shock and concern Over the serving of hard liquor and Beer at the super tramp Rock concert held at the Winnipeg convention tickets for the event were printed with a warning stating that people would be searched for drugs and Alco hol and would be denied entry if either were found on their the Poten tial threat of a i am made some people decide to leave their goo Dies at the availability of hard liquor and Beer at the concert was an unexpected and Welcome sur prise for these the fact that most of those in Atten dance were under the Legal drinking age did not seem to enter the minds of the concert who saw fit to run the alcohol and not once did i see anyone asked to produce proof of i see Many obviously pre18yearolds carrying As Many As four alcoholic drinks Back to waiting friends in a Day and age where alcohol abuse is such a severe the Conven Tion Centre concert organizers can now feel proud that they have done their Best to add fuel to an already out of control Blaze Minuk Winnipeg Happy 85th birthday Phyllis Field born july Happy 81st birthday Alfred babe born Jean july horsemen thanks As chairman of the Manitoba horse i would like to congratulate recreation minister Bob Banman on his progressive action by directly involving the Manitoba sports federa Tion in the activities and development of our Amateur sport the recent signing of the agreement Between government and the mss will provide sport with a Strong voice in respect to its own we feel that this partnership will be beneficial to All Gary Senft president Manitoba horse Council Winnipeg Man and pig i would like to say to Joe Borowski dear you Are making quite a Martyr of yourself Over this abortion i would like to enlighten i had a thick illustrated Book written by Ernst Heinrick the famous German biologist and writer which showed about two months develop ment of the human foetus and that of a pig taken from the womb and the two were if there is a god for there is a god for Robert Stephens Winnipeg Winnipeg White Shell when Gas runs Short by Claude Adams up news service a suburban Washington woman with less than two Gallons of Gas left in the tank of her 1979 Volvo drove around for an hour in a fruitless search for a Gas station that was when her fuel finally ran she was left stranded Miles from Home and a passerby found her sobbing helplessly behind the six lock queue a 72yearold woman in a giant White Cadillac spent the night sleeping in her car after parking it in a six Locklon Gas nine hours she filled her tank with 22 Gallons and let out a Hoot of a to cameraman shooting film on the lineups was run Down by a Motorist worried about losing his place in a in a Gas station owner was vilified by the his neighbors and the authorities who hauled him into court for Selling Gas at a but up until his he did a booming one new yorker took a photo of the pump gauge As his tank was being filled to show the folks Back Home that i bought the most expensive Gas in the the gasoline crisis is leaving a Mark on the National it is literally driving people to the analysts the psychiatrists is triggering serious self doubt and fitful patients Are showing symptoms that Range from extreme frustration bang ing the steering wheel in Gas queues that stretch to the horizon to what the experts Call classic panic behave most of what i hear Are fantasies of what they like to do to a person who Cut in a Gas says Washington analyst Edward dry tank the Prospect of a dry tank and reduced mobility is turning the United states into a nation of new York psychologist Nicholas Zill says the nub of the problem is that Many americans define themselves in terms of their the he is both a cocoon that offers privacy and a vehicle that represents Freedom and Speed and but the angry american is not about to leave his car in the polls show that 75 per cent of americans say they would like to Cut Down on gasoline consumption by sharing a ride to yet Only ten per cent join car one american out of 12 uses Public who consume one of every nine barrels of Oil produced in the refuse to believe there is a real and those who do Are convinced it is a temporary Aberra this View is expressed time and time again in Anont Estreet Daniel a researcher at the Harvard business says his studies have shown that no amount of Gas Price increases will deter the Motorist from filling his As Long As he owns his particular hell continue filling Yergin said in an psychoanalyst de Kirby says nearly All his recent patients have expressed some kind of action or fantasy related to the Energy he says they talk about helpless of being manipulated by the arabs or the Oil companies or their National leaders or their fellow motorists who Are conspiring to jump the Gas Many have even related to him their revenge but none of this is really startling or most humans Are irrational and selfish under Yale psychologist Paul Stern tells of a classic 1951 Experiment that Demon Strates this string and Cone Twenty people were placed around a Large Glass each held a string at the end of which was tied a Small wooden the string and Cone led into the Only one Cone would pass through the neck of the bottle at a water was poured into the bottle and the participants were told to pull out their Cones before they got in a All 20 pulled on their strings at they All when you get an anxiety says Georgetown University Psychia Trist Murray youre As vulnerable As a Herd of animals stamped cold Winter ahead Joe Borowski by Robert Jackson special to the free press London repercussions of this government will be a Defeated labor my commented to me Margaret thatchers new government will precede a decade of either tory or labor monopoly of Power in the recently announced conservative budget supports his Thatcher and her Chancellor of the sir Geoffrey Are attempting far More than the usual bit of economic Patchwork that observers Are accustomed to expect from Bud they have redirected Britain course away from egalitarian economic policies toward a freewheeling mar Ket their new guidelines Are the first step in what they Hope will change not Only the direction of the country economic but also the work ethic of the conservative values the economic incentives and penal ties of the budget Are designed to Reward the time honoured conservative values of hard work and risk that have been eroded through years of High tax penalties and egalitarian the approach is unabashedly the energetic inventive few Are offered tangible rewards for their the new allocation of wealth is to be determined by the harsh realities of Market the main thrust of the British budget is not very different from the spirit of the election promises of prime minister Joe Clarks in Thatcher can afford to be tougher in implementing her election promises because she is Lead ing from having been selected by a bigger margin than any other opposition Leader since the second world War she has a Clear five year term ahead of there will be time for her new economic direction to show results before she has to ask for a new the Canadian conservatives have Given the impression that they would like to follow the same general direct Ion As Margaret Clarks advisers can be expected to watch closely to see what they can learn from the British the new Canadian budget cannot Hope to be nearly As taxes Cut the British budget drastically Cut personal income the top bracket dropped from 83 to 60 per the Standard rates from 33 to 30 per higher income bracket thus Are expected to increase their output lost income tax Revenue is to replaced by the increased or value added on All but essential goods and now 15 per an extra tax on gasoline will raise its Price to a new High of about an Imperial the Banks prime lending rate is pushed up to 14 per the problems incurred by these deep cuts will make it hard for prime minis Ter Thatcher to maintain an even keel and not be deflected off unions Are already and will be hard to restrain As the inflation rate is expected to climb to per cent by labors Shadow Denis is predicting an even worse Winter of strikes than last year if that is health heat virtually no facet of daily life was left undisturbed during the dying Days of the Callaghan labor High unemployment and drastically reduced Community ser vices will also cause deep civil servant morale will dip even lower than it is labor party of Are aghast at the change in government they denounce the shift to direct taxation As and maintain that the tax cuts for High wage earners will not create Public they Are in that the Money might As Well have been thrown in the thames where it would at least have made a bold Leader the course of the conservative government during this year will be bitterly but labor policies were not it is refreshing to see a Politi Cal Leader act so boldly and if the policies then Thatcher will be in office for a Long but look for a dreary Winter in Britain As the policies work themselves out to a better or critical phase of British Robert Jackson is a political science professor at Carleton ;