Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Of emf february if trat i rights Liberty of religion it Toi 4 ooy5 h own of 9w kirov it now of i Alrh Lafed 9439331 6lim Mart number 0236 a Alonje John bats be Tow Mutty in fat Pfeffer Mun trek fedrow Tiver this sh6lorb it fat Neil manage to forum etaugh Manitoba out of population than a figment Otsu Ristics cat are1 moving away Janyl or movers Stem Fig tym thai pit something More 1 t to f a Mew fact ought to inspire our govt rement to the reasons they Are moving it pretty Lack of Manitoba toothed existence of opportunities in the Pill evinces to the along t the fact that it lot of Manitoban still head to the West a Ltd biggest loss was to and it is a fair that most of those who Eft went to take the Vienna biggest was to British Columbia and that number was swelled by Manitoban looking for a warm spot one figures should inspire concern but Tot tradesman cannot find work i Manitoba during a Cimfe of National economic the Fol it is better that he up Tom find a Job in Alberta than remain unemployed Hereof Alberta were not having a resource Manitoba workers might be Content to stay put and sit the slump on since there available to the Many of them go and get that is r j i t the problem of Manitoba it the West can rely for economic growt i on Fich Oil or Manitoba chief fou fat remains i the skilled workers who will tilt Backbone of a growing manufacturing sector Cip Ulitt of the resource Boom among our of outfit numbers of those skilled workers have left to Tike jobs then Manitoba potential to capitalize will be to Cope with that the Manitoba government is going to have to overcome its Abhorrence opt Lublic sector involvement in the there Are things that the government can do to keep skilled workers in the an immediate possibility is cooperation with the City of Winnipeg to revive the nonprofit housing this would provide jobs for construction tradesmen at the same time As it responded to the desperate social needs of the cites Stock of liable housing and arresting downtown the government can find other areas for effective action if it puts its mind to this will not Stop All Manit Bahs from leaving the nor should it offer some opportunities to skilled workers Here to match those offered by our wealthy bandwagon of failure c7 a senator Edward Kennedy has shown surprising political Ess in his native new where ran second to ent Jimmy Carter in the Maine Section of the demo presidential nomination is a blow to his nomination coming so soon his humiliating 21 defeat by president Carter in the democratic caucuses voting for selection of delegates i Bihe National convention in it places More pressure him to show strength in the new Hampshire presidential primary later this in Kennedy has been caught by rhetoric and by the enduring myth of the political invincibility of the Kennedy he has talked too confidently As it turns of his Appeal to new England he has also failed to satisfy the Public expectation now shown to be unrealistic that not even an incumbent president could trounce a Kennedy in new however much of a Good face Kennedy puts on the Maine it is obvious to All that he was unable to Lead the democratic pack even though the president made no Campaign appearances in the state and the other governor Jerry Brown of made a very late what happened in Maine was Only the preparation for the state convention in at which the National convention in new York City will be but the Delegate proportions for the three candidates will roughly follow the lines of the jus completed vote of the town Only 22 Delegate voters were at which further reduces the real importance of this this matters than the Public that has been created around the United senator Kennedy could not take the Lead in an area of traditional Kennedy and that Public impression matters less than the perception of Kennedy weakness that will be absorbed by democratic state chairmen and democratic party activists in the states in which procedures for selecting National convention Dele Gates have yet to it is also no help in convincing Campaign contributors that their disbursements to the Kennedy Campaign will be a worthwhile and it is Likely to Cool the ardor of the hordes of volunteers who do much of the foot slogging for a candidate when he is seeking to Sway the voters of a Given thus does the bandwagon of failure for senator Kennedy increase the damage from tiny while the bandwagon of Success for Jimmy Carter is compounded by the recent memory of his pre Iowa status As a weak second to the senator in the opinion raises for doctors the new contract accepted by an overwhelming proportion of the provinces doctors should ensure that the benefits of medicare will continue to be available to Manitoba Citi that is not the Case in All in disputes Over fees and other issues have led to massive numbers of doctors opting out and the ultimate result of that process isto the Universal Access to care which ought to be m one of the Cornerstones of a state medical insurance x despite some threats and that has not happened in the government and the Manitoba medical association have been Able to come to reasonable agreement about fees and the vast majority of doctors have remained within the system and accepted the reimbursement it the fee schedule agreed to in the new two year agreement should help keep Manitoba doctors roughly abreast of increasing since overhead for doctors increases at about the same rate As the increase of 22 per cent Over two years is not out of v the controversy Over whether the Manitoba government is using All of its Federal bloc Grants for Medicine will no doubt continue without any firm the aim of the bloc Grant system was to encourage the provinces to save on health costs and to adopt More flexible approaches which would both save Money and offer More appropriate must remain the Cornerstone of any health care Universal Access to care by doctors must be a Basic Manitoba government deserves to be commended for ensuring that that principle is Dorothy Merton Dorothy whose sudden death last week came As a Shock to her Many friends and was for Many years a beneficial moving Force in this cites social ser she was actively the family Bureau of Winnipeg As was a teacher at the school of social and latterly was the first woman director of the John Howard and Elizabeth Fry society of her influence was not confined to for two years with her husband she worked in Tanzania where she helped the government of that country to develop rehabilitation programs for released prisoners and to plan the country social work education after which she returned to in her years of uns tinted Many underprivileged individuals and families were directly or indirectly the beneficiaries of and voluntary it was typical that she should die still returning from a conference on correctional affairs in rhodesian Whites Pizzey special to the free press Salisbury a year ago White rho meslans had just reluctantly accepted a new majority Rule Constitution with a blocking mechanism to Stop any changes they did not today those same Whites have All but faded from the political and now they sit nervously on the sidelines while Black politicians and guerrilla leaders who Only two months ago were consid ered terrorist murderers vie for control of the country the change has been startling both in its rapidity and in the fact that the who had held absolute Sway Here for almost a have accepted it so initial Shock the was not too since the government of National Unity formed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa did not make any startling then came the Lancaster House agreement and word that the two wings of the patriotic front of Alliance were coming Back to contest the elec v for a time Whites consoled them selves with the Hope that the or at least Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe Afri can National Union Anu Wing of it would pull out of the agreement or be excluded in some other but More men from his armed forces have gathered in the Commonwealth monitored the party is determined to take part in the elections scheduled for the end of and Whites Are epitomize no the new order they must accept is the situation at the Dormi tory of a teachers training College set in the suburb of barely three kilo metres from the City the College has been taken Over by commanders of the two guerrilla armies who sit on the ceasefire com and has been turned into something of an armed elderly Whites used to walking their dogs along the Green Downs beside the College have been stopped and interrogated by armed guerrilla the police have merely noted that while there is no Law stopping civilians from walking there in the Long summer eve it is recommended that they stay Lack of control or otherwise has done nothing to Settle Whites if the of Mugabe version Are elected there is nothing left for one senior member of the former White administration i am getting the hell out and most of my friends will do the and i feel sorry for the poor Blacks who fears of what life under my gabes marxist doctrine could mean have turned Whites eyes in the direct Ion of Veteran nationalist Joshua he has come Back from four years in exile preaching reconciliation and even if sceptics see it As is at least a Straw at which to Best Chance Muchas i hate to admit one White former politician to my mind Nkomo is our Best Chance id like to see a coalition with the Whites who hold 20 guaranteed seats in the 100seat parliament and Nkomo and one other minority probably the now that Nkomo has split from Mugabe for election the thinking is that Nkomo and the Whites can join with the Bishop and perhaps one of the splinter parties to keep out the trick will be keeping Nkomo alive Long enough for him to contest the since there Are Many Whites who still would like to see him dead in retribution for his having shot Down two air Rhodesia he will also have to gain enough support to give him a claim to the Job of prime thus demoting Bishop Muzorewa upstairs to the figurehead Nkomo is seen As a Strong Leader who can hold the tribes together and control a minority coalition govern he is also something of a capitalist who will allow Whites to continue running the a jaundiced View of the proceedings Here at the moment is that the British government also Hopes Nkomo will carry the Day and that they Are doing As much As possible to make life difficult for including ing his election be held up at the Airport and delaying his return from his base in Mozambique with recognizing the need to reassure the White Community whose skills All the Black parties say they want to retain the British administration has Given a considerable amount in order to keep morale the until the end of last of some 200 South Afri can troops in an enclave on the Rhode Sian Side of the beit Bridge Border crossing Over the Limpopo River was designed to give Whites the impression their escape route was the move angered almost every one even remotely concerned with the ceasefire but the British administration emphasized privately that the Whites were needed to make the new order and that they had Given in a lot to bring things this far and so needed and deserved such conces deployment of the rhodesian Security forces to counter recalcitrant guerrillas also gives Whites Confidence their military machine is still in even though it too Falls under the auspices of perfidious their favorite name for the but even with the army still in the and some Hope that Nkomo can carry the Day and make a place for tomorrow is a grim uncertainty for the White and yester Day is a Long time Allen Pizzey is a freelance correspondent based in save the Parks a recent editorial in the free press has praised natural resources minis Ter Brian Ransom for his newly announced Parks the author com mends Ransom for courageously tackling the environmental bullies by obtain Manitoba Parks to All Manito the proposed opening leaves room for the logging and mining industries to occupy areas within the Parks i take exception to the idea that Parks a Puld be developed on an even greater up Odate statistics reveal that lit if7l our provincial Parks Accomma overnight campers and 13 million vehicles on single Day out of these figures approximately 75 per a Cut were it seems apparent that Manitoba Parks Are already open to All my Quick glance at the Manitoba vacation handbook will show that Parks provide a wide Range of among the facilities Avail Art Frater Power Cross country As Well As again a wide Range of the Manitoba Public is the concept of providing More cot Tage lots also mentioned in the editorial in it has and still a Parks policy to provide cottage lots to the Public on a draw the lots Are inexpensive but can Only be seen As somewhat restricted to the Middle Dupper Middle class who can afford to build a Home away from it surprises me that at this Point in history contamination and consumption of natural resources Are increasing at rapid that a policy of further development of Public land for private interest could even be it is the governments responsibility to create Parks As Public recreation areas with land use policies that encourage preservation and conservation of a vanishing natural setting rather than creating waste areas from com Mercial logging and no person should be denied the enjoyment of relaxing in the peacefulness of a Mani Toba Park in 1900 because of the Short sightedness of a group of politicians in Richard Craig Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from the authors name will be and All letters Are subject to tired of Trudeau i am but Ive had enough of you my memory goes Back too far and that is a decided liability when listening to your tiresome tirades against the your accusation of broken promises by the conservative government with barely six months to implement is an insult to my intelligence especially when i look Over your own record of broken promises As Well As sins of strewn Over 11 years in lets look at your in you Rode to an easy Victory As a protege of Lester you inherited a Federal Treasury boasting a balanced budget because of the sound management of earlier governments who believed they should keep their spending and earning in what happened to that tidy Little exercise now we read that the per capita debt in Canada has grown to be the largest in the Western world totalling Over to one does not have to be an economist to know something has gone out of whack in these 11 you brought Down the conservatives on the Issue of Energy pricing yet you Fuddie huddled the entire matter As Early As 11734974 when toe first Oil embargo alerted the and should have alerted your to the urgent need of More realistic pricing policy to encourage canadians both to conserve and to work for ice Ysuf fic ency to quickly your Oil pricing Cushion Only served to wind canadians to reality and added billions w and inert were the far too plaguing and bedevil ing production our customers were kept waiting while strikes dragged on and creating shortages and rising your contempt for according to Ottawa you spent less time than any previous prime is highly Fine important questions concerning Energy and Unity were discussed More widely out of the House than in the House the Way to build the participating society you were always so fond of talking and what a downgrading our armed forces have taken from your govern ment the unification de working with obsolete All contributed to lowering the morale of the you have forced us into a Winter with its twin burdens of costs and inconvenience because you could not tolerate a budget which was forthright and honest in its approach to the perilous financial problems which now plague this coun Smith Winnipeg Monkey business Winnipeg is aiming for the biggest zoo in with the expansion of the Arena for football and and the expense of another for what would we be needing More wild is astr and bigger Monkey House Victoria Wallace Winnipeg doubts dispelled any doubts which May have existed about prime minister Clarks Leader ship abilities have been dispelled by his efficient handling of the american hos tages in the hostage incident was for Clark a True baptism of fire and he and the government have come through the ordeal by earning the re Spect of free nations throughout the not for Many years has Canada possessed the International prestige that it has in its Strong support of the United both in the Iran and the Afghanistan the Clark government has taken a positive position of Friendship toward our Southern neigh contrast this stance with that of the other two major parties and the differences almost despite Broadbent recent state ments of american support for which he has been openly criticized by Mem Bers of his own party the nip still to totalitarian regimes Bury your head in the Sand Ami pretend that the soviet Union has no aggressive re member too that the nip is still burdened by its in Resolution of withdrawal from nato and As for the Well hat party did Little to Cement Canadia United states Lions or to recognise the russian Dan while Pierre Trudeau was prime when the liberals speak of their and recognition in International Tansy Art bask ing in the fading glory of of their namesakes who could legitimately claim these plaudits Fjaler pea Flo the people of the void have seen Joe Clark to and Given him their Neo Oleo Canada a ppm f 9 Bof of will also judge him and his government not by How he smiles or but by How he reacts in a time of Kenneth Aleluia Winnipeg bad form i resided in Winnipeg for 11 i was also once a foreign service i feel that these Are ample qualifications for commenting on canadians smuggling of american Diplo Mats out of it was a deed whose consequences can Only be providing false travel documents to foreign nationals to put it diplomatic bad perhaps even worse is admitting Canada has worked for years to become an honest broker in the diplomatic one act could ruin 30 years of honest How can anybody anywhere avoid looking upon Canada As a Stooge for the americans one rash act has gained some plaudits from americans who May not realize its but Ito Canadian officials who conceived and executed it May soon Rue the Day they put expediency before rules and disc re John Wilde due South Carolina wound up you must remove Barbara casinos column from the Flut Section of your your words for in on toe newspaper delivery Vani Are most Caninos words get one wound up rather than i reverse As you Sung fat in your advertising i ;