Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 10, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Awa Kim Days my of Eirts Cal 3 by Freedom 6f Trade 6f civil rims lib iffy of Bonab mvg6l publisher John 6difbriar Page editor Murray Burt managing editor dealing with the Plo egyptian president Anwar on his official visit to urged the United states to begin dealing with the Palestine liberation organization As a participant in the Middle East peace the proposal is unrealistic on the face of but Corning from president whose credentials As a Middle East peacemaker Are it deserves serious state Secretary Alexander mail hastened to announce that president Sadat proposal had not altered the refusal of the to Deal with the Plo so Long As it does not not accept israels right to since the Plo is essentially a Loose federation of terrorist organizations and since it is formally dedicated to the destruction of it can hardly claim a place among governments seeking a basis for peace Between Israel and its but a indirect relationship Between Israel and the Plo is slowly through intermediaries and without Ever recognizing the others the two parties did conclude a ceasefire last month by which the Plo undertook to Stop attacks on Israel from Lebanon and Israel agreed to Stop its bombing and shelling of Plo targets in that that exercise established that the Plo can be dealt can give its word to the extent that it controls its keep president Sadat Drew attention to the role of saudi Arabia in passing messages to and from the Plo and to the Plo affiliation of the mayors of Arab towns on the israeli Ccu pied West Secretary Haig pointed out that the Camp David peace process anticipates a role for palestinian spokesmen and that there Are ways and israeli prime minister Menachem begin agreed from Tel Aviv that palestinians not the Plo could be included in Nego a Middle East settlement which is not accepted by the Plo will not Lead to if the Plo aim of destroying Israel is taken at face then there is no Point in seeking a settlement which that organization would but the Only Way to discover what other solutions the Plo could live with is to talk to that even if that must be done by indirect Means or by attaching some Olfier Label to the Plo the formal dispute Over who shall speak for the Palestine ians lends itself to Resolution through diplomatic a comparable dispute Over the place of the Saigon government at the Paris negotiations for peace in Vietnam was by resolved despite North Vietnam insistence that no such government the Core of the dispute in the Middle East at the moment is who shall control the West Israel naturally cannot tolerate transformation of that area into a for Plo guerrilla but the administration of the West Bank cannot be settled in a lasting Way without some kind of concurrence from the plenty of former terrorists have become respectable in Israel and apart from those who enjoy terrorism for its own they Are inclined to turn to More peaceful Means when these Are available and Promise to be president Sadat proposal Points to a process that would draw the Plo deeper into peaceful political and diplomatic which would oblige that organization to recognize that Israel will continue to exist and to establish achievable goals consistent with israels the Means to accomplish that Are slowly being the time is not yet but the objective is Worth time for a voters rebuke by All the Liberal party strategy in the two by elections which will be held in Eastern Canada next week is going to in which is supposed to be the springboard to the Cabinet for the prime ministers former adjutant Jim the Campaign has generated Little during much of the Campaign Coutts would not talk to at meetings or in the he is staying away from the issues of interest rates High prices which presumably Are of As Mich concern up the people of Spadina As they Are to most other in Many his no Campaign is a rep leg of one he devised for his Boss in the Waist general in the Quebec Riding of the fats of conservative Roch Lasalie is a matter Tif relative indifference to the a Gro Iii As newer As the present Bunch of liberals in Ottawa could hardly begrudge the opposition one seat in All in the entire operation displays All the signs of skilful planning and Clever manipulation which became Coutts trademark As the prime ministers political the Only people who can upset the neat scenario Are the voters of the opposition parties have not Given them much enc our the conservatives have nominated Laura who tends to be More shrill than effective the nip candidate is Dan an Earnest Alderman who exists somewhat on the fringes of the neither of them looks like the Type to pull an but voters can do funny and voters in by elections can do funnier things than it May be that the voters of Spadina have become a Little resentful at being patronized and taken for they May just decide that their purpose in life is not simply to serve the needs and ambitions of those in Power in it has happened in other the voters have rejected attempts to have foisted on them such prime ministerial cronies As Pierre Juneau and Maurice it would be a marvellous thing for democracy if the voters in Spadina would the if there was Ever a government due for some electoral it is the one in Power in Ottawa at the a defeat in Spadina would not necessarily inspire a change in government it provide a Clear signal that there Are some Depths of cynicism that the voters will not painful adjustments the education departments latest enrolment anticipating an eight percent drop in the Public school population from last fall to the fall of warn of painful adjustments to dropping enrolments eventually Force school which Are never working out which students will attend which schools is All the More difficult As More and More students sign up for specialized such As French which a division cannot offer in All its the difficulties will be especially acute in Boniface which operates French English schools and immersion schools and whose total enrolment is predicted to shrink by on Quarter during six like any of the enrolment forecasts Are no better than the assumptions on which they Are a change in birthrate will have no noticeable Impact since nearly All the children who will attend school five years hence have already been born and but the location of a housing development in one division rather than the opening of an aluminium smelter or some other Large Centre of employment or a publicly fostered reversal of the depopulation of Central Winnipeg would substantially alter the final school divisions cannot be asked to close schools in slavish obedience to enrolment forecasts which May turn out to be wide of the but the provincial tabulation does put trustees and parents in River and Transcona Spring Field on notice that some consolidations will probably be required unless unexpected growth comes along to justify altering the the government this year modified its system of Grants to school divisions to ease the financial pain for divisions with dropping divisions no longer lose Grant support in direct relation to Pupil in recognition of the fact that the removal of a few pupils from a school does not immediately permit corresponding Cost but the new Grant formula penalizes the few divisions seven Seine River and Garden Valley expect the Grant formula implicitly requires them to fit extra pupils into existing though that is often not practical where the growth is concentrated in one part of a divisions education minister Keith Cosens established the new education support rules to stand for three his departments enrolment forecasts suggest some revision for the Benefit of growing divisions May be needed even macs almanac s big business backs tories by Eric Dowd special to the free press Toronto Eaton May find it not to think of the Bay when it worries about its and do minion stores May sometimes feel that less than the Price is right at lob Laws but All four companies agree wholeheartedly on the desirability of Manta ing a progressive conservative govern ment in generous they were among the Many Gen Erous corporate contributors to the conservative party in when the three parties in the legislature were gathering All the Money they could in preparation for the general election which eventually came last March and was won comfortably by the conserva the figures on what was spent in the election Are not yet compiled but the fundraising in 1980 Points to the huge advantage the conservatives they were Able to collect com pared to Only for the Liber als and a surprisingly High for the new democratic the conservatives got about half their contributions from companies donors of or More have to be identified and the maximum contribution in a non election year is to the Central party and the same to constituency the strik ing trend in the statistics is that Many More companies gave to the tories their contributors read almost like the Stock Market some companies gave also to the liberals but not to the Ontario in Case anyone refuses to accept donations from but where they did were often much less generous Foster advertising which places much of the government for gave to the but could find Only a paltry for the probably what one of its executives spends on a Good Consumers Gas gave the conserva Tives but the liberals Only and the pattern of making the fat cats fatter was repeated Over and since the amount an individual company can donate has been limited and companies Are much less Likely to be hoping for specific favors than in the Early 1970s in two Wel Docu rented a Developer and a waste disposal firm made it very Clear they expected speedy rewards from govern ment for quietly slipping the tories and private Enterprise the Trust com transportation Dis insurance Oil Chain stores and Adver Tising and Public relations firms which Rush to press some of their shareholders Cash on the conservative govern ment Are undoubtedly motivated mainly by keeping Ontario Safe for private Enterprise of the William Davis Vari but is it possible to detect a More direct self interest among some donors the conservatives 1980 list is unusually to heavy with insurance agencies this was the year the Davis government brought in legislation to enable Independent insurance agents to govern their own something they highly nursing Homes also seemed particularly eager to fund the conservative party 1980 was the year the govern after years of threatening tougher finally brought in new standards for physical Nurs ing care and staffing standards in Nurs ing is it possible some Home operators May have thought a donation would make their View better under stood the conservatives even collected some Money from people working for which might seem contrary to the spirit of Ontario Law which forbids government employees from canvassing in provincial Kirk president of the provinces Urban transportation development chief Coroner cot Nam and Ernie director of the lotteries were among Public servants showing such partisanship it is doubtful they will receive any governmental slap on the Media donations even less supportable is the Media donating to one Inland publish ing which owned newspapers around metropolitan Toronto and was controlled by the Bassett family it was bought this year by the Toronto Star gave the tories the Multi Lingual which operates Channel 47 in and Huron broadcasting which operates to and radio in Sault found donating to the tories compatible with their responsibility to be the nip collected Only one donation frown the Canadian labor the nip also had the Only recognizable donors from the arts authors Pierre Berton and Farley the Ontario new democrats since 1976 have refused to accept donations from but could not recall being offered any last year any the message from the statistics is while Ontario has restricted the amount an individual company can contribute and the influence it can exert on an election it has not limited business collectively from exerting a Strong influence if business does not exert a Strong Why Are All those hardheaded businessmen Rushing to plonk Down their shareholders Money the next stage should be looking at ways of curbing companies collective elections Are better decided by individuals after would we give companies a vote overpopulation i am replying in response to letters by Eileen Molly Murphy and Sari to diver in regard to the world overpopulation Thomas Robert Malthus an anglican Man and political economist predicted in 1798 that population would grow geometrically beyond agriculture linear ability to feed he believed that unless population increases were poverty and starvation were in Evita in 1830 there were one billion people on and it took Only 100 years to reach the second in i960 the population had reached three billion and it took Only 15 years to add another billion by it is evident that the Earth with its limited resources cannot support such population increases inde the population Pollyanna of today state that the Earth can easily support populations Many times larger than today this is Many Scien Malthus Geometric growth lists have predicted that any attempt to increase food production dramatically would damage the fragile ecological environment and would aggravate the decline in the Quality of Norman father of the Green revolution received the Nobel peace prize in 1970 for his work on Miracle High yield in his warn ing in 1974 Borlaug stated it is going to take a tremendous disaster from famine before people come to grips with the population the stage is set for such a situation right now there will be no coming together of minds until a major famine brings people u is a fallacy to assume that Mankind has escaped the constraints of at a time when human population is increasing at an explosive the Early decades of the 2qth Century have recorded the most favourable weather recorded for agriculture in the last 500 we Are enjoying an unnatural High on a statistical we Are also at the same time destroying Many of our normally functioning ecological systems in order to increase resource especially he mass destruction of fresh fishing Fertile soil will inevitably magnify the coming climatic perhaps North americans should consider stockpiling Lon term food supplies for their own major crop Fei Liim to a site America or throughout the world caused by climatic Chang could bring famine to qut pwn Canadas foreign Aid should be limited to third world nations that efforts to control their population to believe that we have it capacity to produce enough food for All increased mature generations is Lolly at sip Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the authors name will be used and letters Are subject to tories lauded this is in reply to the letter Complete by Bert free july 27 the attacks made on our conserva Tive government Are totally out of con text with the situation As it Lingohr attacks the present provincial government for driving people out of the perhaps they do but he does not state How Many re there is no need to leave Manitoba to find work there is a multitude of jobs listed in the papers every but those looking for jobs expect their salaries to be handed to them on a Gold plate and to do As Little As possible to earn Lingohr misses the which is that prime minister Trudeau cannot or will not handle and who helped him to get Back into Power none other than his socialist countered Watn says Broadben and All the socialists was a hot High enough it is an impossibility to have a Strong Economy with interest rites soaring Over 20 per am still the unions which Gre the Teek Bine of Tbs nip Are striking Tor More and More ridiculous wages us fringe which in Ive Obi of its bus y in Jon were bus they hive Wal vet their usefulness and management should now form their own Union and refuse to listen to the demands made of enough is we All know that if a company cannot make a profit there is no use being in of the nip were returned to Power what would their solution be to buy up All the businesses that Are in financial causing us All to pay higher and higher taxes perhaps they would build another 250 Lowental houses and thereby decrease the value of the prop erties surrounding them Rose Maber sick society on july Prince Charles and lady Diana were wed in a expensive and much publicized hoopla known As the Royal what was Gall ing and disturbing about this ceremony was the dismal background of the Brit ish Economy stagflation in Britain is galloping like the four horsemen of the British youths and Immi Grant youths Are looting vandalizing and destroying themselves be cause of Stark hopelessness and British society is apparently and something should be done to cure this Why spend millions and millions of pounds to perpetuate ceremonies like this when same amount could be expended to improve the dwindling fortunes Pride of the once mighty British it is time to rethink the monarchy As exemplified by the fetish Ness and obsolescence of the Royal Magambo Winnipeg funny girl with regard to the review of funny girl by Reg i would like to ask a what percentage of funny girl consists of music ask and if he is up to Par he May have no or so it would i was appalled by his Lack of treatment not Only of funny girl but also of South one might easily imagine he or she was Reading a critique on a and not a not once did i even find the word music mentioned in the entire a grave injustice has been done to the musical people at Rainbow Why could not a line have been added to mention the brilliance and clarity of Bob my Mucins orchestra this group created the colors that painted the and then there was Gerry prices which completed the picture showing dynamic Range and the exuberance necessary to have the Audi ence humming no word on the orchestra and no word on the John part Tette Winnipeg no policy the sqrc3lle4 nip leadership has a curious set of policy at our recent National convention the nip expropriate and National ize that major Energy Impe rial Here in where we already own our major Energy Mani Toba nip Leader Howard Paw Ley has agreed with Deputy Premier Don Craik to give away part ownership typical plenty of futile philosophizing but not 3 single practical policy Herbert Schulz Winnipeg toxic agent As the province continues its Aerial spraying program against More people Are becoming concerned about the safety of the the substance used in the spraying is one Type of cholinesterase in there is no question that this group of chemicals is lethal to Man and other animals in sufficient whether smaller Over a period of May be harmful is not the risk would probably be highest in the foetus or unborn and in everyone must support the Aims of preventing but a potentially toxic agent is being used when there is no proof that it will in fact reduce the common sense Mea such As avoiding being bitten by mosquitoes by wearing suitable cloth ing and staying out of infested would probably be More Roger Grimshaw Winnipeg and How do you feel about sexual harass ment ;