Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 18, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba In ppm 8 la 11 copy Winnipeg free december 197ft f cabbage May mean jail by Kevin Kose Moscow one recent evening a Moscow housewife standing in a Long line at a food store lost patience and began doing what muscovites frequently she complained about Short suddenly a Man stepped out of the seized her and forced her out of the she was bundled off to a local where to her astonishment she found about 30 other shoppers who had been seized in other stores for the stunned soviets were harangued by an official for spreading rumours and falsehoods about soviet life on the eve of the 1980 Moscow when the woman she discovered the authorities had another unpleasant Surprise for her her internal with its vital permission allowing her to live in had been freshly stamped requiring an official review of her conduct in six months to be sure she behaves herself and should not be expelled from the the purge the Moscow olympics or is gathering momentum in the soviet capital As authorities prepare for the 1980 summer games and an estimated foreign the intent upon presenting their society As an Ideal unmatched elsewhere in the Are plan Ning draconian measures to cleanse the in the words of one of people whom the regime feels Are in they Are also taking Steps to sharply limit the Access by Musco vites to westerners in general and americans in in recent these examples have surfaced d some soviet school teachers Are Tell ing their students that american olym Pic tourists will offer poisoned Chew ing gum to soviet some teachers Are said to have warned if not the chewing gum will contain bacteria meant to spread Dis ease and the students have the Moscow olympics purge is gathering momentum As soviet authorities Are planning draconian measures to cleanse the City of people whom the regime feels Are been warned to avoid any Contact with foreign tourists and d directors of factories and enter Prises in Moscow have been ordered by local party officials to compile lists by april 1 of disorderly persons and jews who have applied to so the communist party can decide who will be sent out of the City during the they open july 19 and close nearly a d schools Are requiring students to fill out forms specifying where they will spend and those who plan to be in the City then will be sent to summer Camps away from d human rights activists and dissidents believe the Kab secret police will mount tight surveillance effective House arrest of certain Well known dissident similar to the House arrests made during president Nixon visit Here in d adult vacation spas and rest Homes and childrens summer Camps through out the country apparently Are being prepared to handle muscovites who Are to be sent out of the beyond its usual anti anticapitalist propaganda at there is nothing to be seen Here in the official press of these but unofficial sources unfailingly assert the veracity of these pre olympic they Sardoni Cally use the russian word Chastka or cleaning to describe what is going the word has dread connotations for soviets for it is the term used in naming the stalinist purges that swept millions to death in slave labor Camps beginning in the late the 1977 soviet which party Leader Leonid Brezhnev likes to Hail As one of the supreme achieve ments of his 15year guarantees a place to live for All soviet but where a soviet is tightly controlled by the state through Exten Sive bureaucratic checks on individual Freedom that Centre on the internal which every soviet citizen is required to carry from age the threat to the housewife undoubtedly to be repeated Many times Between now and the summer Falls into a Grey administrative area where internal soviet Security organizations exercise virtually unlimited Power Over the same Grey area seems to cover the lists of undesirables being drawn up by every Moscow according to knowledgeable the lists Are to include As disorderly per sons any citizen who has had at least two court appearances of any whether or not the incidents resulted in acquittal or the category of psychotics is thought to include not Only those who May have spent time in a mental institution or been treated for mental but anyone else the officials deem to be a further category will be used to any other suspicious or worrisome citizens who do not fall cleanly into the other the potential numbers could reach into the tens of it is being said Here that virtually every repository for soviets psychiatric rest sanatoriums and summer Camps in the Moscow area will be cleared and made ready solely for muscovites to be sent from the the undesirables will be Given 24or 48day vacations if space in rest Homes runs others will be dispatched on official business known As Koman Deroski elsewhere in the from provinces it is also thought measures Are being organized to bar the City to any provincial soviets without specific travel permission to enter either by establishing a new pass sys tem or by simply shutting Down incoming commuter bus and train the Washington Post Layup Day grits become to us boat govern party goes from indecision to Semi panic up photo the announcement that the new taxes on liquor and tobacco in last weeks budget would be rolled Back until after the 18 election could just As easily have been issued by a finance it sounded like those ads that offer no payments until next or like an offer of a Chance to skip the Christmas growing bigger but just As no respectable finance company would forgo its radians should not expect that their Short term savings on gasoline and other taxable items will reduce their Lon term that will simply grow the Rollback of taxes just pushes the time canadians have to Start paying their Bills a bit further into Neve neverland and that much harder to face for Many who filled up their Gas tanks or bought their Christmas Supply of liquor on the strength of the expected the lapse of the taxes Al ready represents spending that could have been put one Winnipeg Ger said John Crosbie budget had already Cost him in Gas and liquor he now discovers he need not have spent so he complains he could have bought Christmas presents this is More never never land think gasoline will have to reflect the Cost of finding and developing enough to Supply Canadian regardless of who is in whether gasoline prices also Nave to reflect either th6 greed of governments or become a prime Factor in the redistribution wealth is something about which we May expect to hear a great Deal before the liberals admitted the necessity of Price increases and put them in place with if somewhat annoy when they were in it is a bit late for Liberal Fred Cleverley Cromble candidates to Start talking about cheap what they really need to talk about is the Price they expect to have to impose if they Are Given Back the the who took Over the Job of running the country from the could find no Way to implement something As politically popular As a Price freeze on it would be idiotic to think the conservatives really wanted to bring Down a budget harsher than the new who cannot realistically expect to form a govern ment after will argue for Price even for Price knowing they wont have the responsibility of implementing such wild their de is talk ing about saving canadians 400 million by defeating the his main objective is to get As much nationalization into the Oil Industry As Possi he is ignoring the experience of government involvement in other businesses it invariably pushed costs up to the Point they had to be hidden from the Manitoban know full Well the Cost of government in a pattern the tax is Noth ing More than adherence to the pattern of the last 10 As canadians put off the Day of Canada is Al ready borrowing to pay interest on the interest on Public the present election Campaign is simply Canadas equivalent of the roman circuses once staged to take the Peoples minds off their instead of watching christians being devoured by a device designed to push out of roman minds the inevitable collapse of their canadians will be invited to watch the Odyssey of the three Jet aircraft carrying the political their encourages and their elaborate electronic communications equipment across the the it will be will come to All of us Courtesy of those otherwise sensible canadians whose minds seem to turn to Navel gazing soon after they first occupy their seats in Canadian voters will Long remember the time their lives their parliamentary representatives were obviously having As they voted commonsense reasonable planning and any semblance of responsible representation out the win Dow in favor of a uniquely Canadian form of Winter carnival Ottawa this was re party that was born to the Slick collection of professionals who sneered at the bumbling amateurism of the tories and the naive idealism of the nip remember this was the party destined to a party that has had a longer run in the throne room this Century than possibly in any democracy in the these were the the general motors of the chaps who combined the hardened Power brokers from Toronto with an unassailable base in Quebec and matchless patronage connections throughout the other re Gions to guarantee a generation of Power passing to another generation of floundering about at the moment a ship of fools lumbering from indecision to confusion to while prime minister Clark Jet Ted off yesterday on the first Day of a planned election Campaign and the nip operatives clicked into place their strategy the liberals Are still floundering about Ottawa in utter Dis the party of pros resembling a Herd of cows on it is a remarkable some thing resembling a French bedroom with supposed leaders popping in and out of the party brass simulating the Keystone kops in a mad car the party that has been Sloppy and essentially leaderless in the commons since May is now supposed to be think ing seriously about reinventing the Man who declined to Supply the Leader How almost Tornish in approach suicidal Mission there is the Point seeping through to an electorate that watches the Fum bling in some puzzlement that John made it Clear he didst want this party even though the pms chair was supposedly there on a plat then Pierre by his Coy pose As the reluctant debutant dragging the party into Bende knee reveals that he Doest think very much of the Given All could blame Don who was about to cast his awkward bulk on the funeral from deciding that he Doest need this suicidal Mission after All there is a certain breathtaking level of illogic combined with a Good dose of hypocrisy involved in All if Trudeau was perfectly sincere in his announcement a month ago that he wished to step Down and Why did he not Stop the nonsense last thursday once it was Clear Early in the Day what was going to happen that insane night in the commons Why did once the oppose Joe Clark hit the Campaign Trail yesterday while liberals wondered who would be their Tion benches had been counted thus ensuring the tory defeat turn around and shake hands in quiet Triumph with Tom Lefebvre there two journalists who were suspicious of the Trudeau retirement in the first on the Day after his the Vancouver suns shrewd Marjorie Nichols stated flatly in her column that Trudeau would Lead the liberals in the next Lubor Zink of the Toronto who is consistent in his steady anti Trudeau reported on 3 on persistent reports from Toronto that Trudeau would be the party itself seems mesmerized by its Why would it go for a Man who was the main reason Why u was dumped in the first place Why would the electorate be expected to go for a Trudeau who would stay Only through an election interim Liberal Leader is now known in Ottawa As ill and then pass to someone who might be Donald Donald Duck or Uncle Tom Cobbley its no wonder that the Liberal National being from at least a Allan Fotheringham some portions of the Tore strips on the weekend off the Liberal maps who you had to be there to appreciate it acted on thursday night like schoolboys on a hilarious no renewal nor action the last Issue of the Liberal House a Liu journal Cuie Sily called a lib says in its head line liberals on the move it has four pages Worth of the party renewal and action it is now Black there has been no renewal nor action mainly because the incumbent dishes the humiliation of opposition so much that his disinterest dragged the party Down with the party has now admitted openly that it went into the May 22 Campaign with no it still has no stated there has been no concerted search for Good such As those needed to replace Toronto sex ministers Alistair Gillespie and Barney Trudeau wanted from caucus a pledge that he would get total loyalty from the Ontario but they Are dominated they have been for years senator Keith Davey and principal Secretary Jim the two men who run How can you demand loyalty from those who already work for you expect or sack Trudeau is not a sacking he seems to be a Man who wants to get out for Sake of his family but wants to stay for Sake of his the once the party of Peerless grows More ludicrous by the while the two other parties carry on the business of an we Are into another Sobby chapter in the perils of the Only difference is that it is the party that tied to the ;