Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ocus Gondi by Robert Foth los angelas times Washington the tide of cat continues to As the attempt 6n the Popes life and the planting of pipe bombs in new York antinuclear protests also continue at a High with increasing the two authorities Are marching toward a crossing Point that May usher in Mega terror with Clear the evidence is overwhelming that nuclear once Only the target of pacifists and now Are being targeted by political during the nuclear facilities experienced crimes of rising severity arson and theft and smug gling of fissionable even armed assault on a nuclear Plant under construction in this year the first Case of deliberate political murder the chief Engineer at a nuclear Plant under construction near was kid napped and murdered by Basque Ter the question is will terrorists use nuclear material As a threat terrorist danger Many people believe that when the next nuclear bomb is and they believe it inevitably will be it will be by terrorists and not a National Brian the Rand widely respected authority on terrorism Jenkins does not believe that govern ments Are necessarily More rational in this he argues that for politically motivated a nuclear bomb is too big to use for any commensurate terrorists want a lot of people not a lot of people he nuclear mass by bomb or by dispersing cancer causing plutonium dust Over a probably would backfire against their cause and them Jenkins and associates at Rand have concluded in several intensified Security at nuclear facilities also offers some reassurance against this ultimate terrorist As former president Carter called it More than billion has been spent to improve physical care and Safe keeping of nuclear material since says George the depart ment of Energy chief of safeguards and it is prudent to be concerned about the growing convergence of political terrorism and nuclear Weisz said in an but while you cant discount you May not have convergence of those trends in the United states for the next 10 or 20 threat elsewhere nuclear terrorism is More Likely to be tried first in another i but much More Likely is impossible to he insane not bound by rational goals and logical Are greater dangers than political both men a messianic crazy Man such As the late James mass murderer of his own could conceivably set off a nuclear weapon in a so might some members of the Baader Meinhoff gang in West Germany out of frustration that the terror weapons they have been using Are not producing the results they Jenkins specs Weisz said he worried most about the psychotic insider at a materials production or weapons fabrication the technically know Wedgeable he who received his Security clearance 10 or 20 years ago and then turns bad or joining a cult or being recruited be cause of financial or sexual hed be a real Security clearances of older employees Are being reexamined More intensively to guard against this uranium has been transported across state smuggled internationally and offered for Sale through according to a recent Rand study for the Sandia technically it is feasible for a Well financed group to steal material and build a Jenkins whether they will make this quantum leap in terrorism is it gets you into an almost theological those who tend to be Apoc Lyp Sian the worst can it will pitted against those who Point out that in 40 years of nuclear there has been no known at tempt to seize a bomb or steal a shipment of fissionable in that in personally an a Jenkins there May be a very Low possibility that a terrorist will get a nuclear but it is nonetheless frightening As Are nuclear a great Deal of fissionable material is produced an and enough has been lost in the to make threats lost plutonium about pounds of plutonium Are produced in nuclear Power reactors each Martin Goldstein of Widener has is about 13 pounds of plutonium is enough to make a Hiroshima sized most is completely but there have been enough so called mugs material unaccounted for at american facilities to make More than 20 plutonium bombs and half a dozen uranium about 60 nuclear bomb threats against cities have occurred in the last 10 years because of this missing could not be immediately in two nuclear emergency search teams always Are maintained on Alert to respond to such on the first Page of the classified and Section of the los Angeles times on ran what was probably the first personal notice to a nuclear extortionist we do not want fall out on please instructions Are not vision had demanded million Ransom from Union Oil for not detonating a 20kiloton bomb on its the advertisement was inserted by the Fri to imply that the company was prepared to the extortionist did not he placed a Call to a phone As promised in his to give instructions on delivering the the Fri had the Booth area under surveillance and identified Frank As the Man who made a Call from a nearby Booth at the same time As the extortionist had James lived on a Houseboat in los Angeles san Pedro Harbor i a slip next to a boat owned by a Union Oil according to James consistently denied his guilt but was sentenced to six months in the event caused the first full scale nuclear Alert in although was written about it at the personnel from the nuclear search disguised As janitors and discreetly and carried sophisticated nuclear detectors through company office buildings and Oil storage farms in search of a Wear a psycholinguistic team at liver More laboratories in California had Analysed the threat wording the establish though he misspelled the extortionist was the Money demanded in Small Bills could fit into two suitcases Ashe specs for the nuclear search teams one at Andrews air Force drawn from the department of Energy experts at the other at Las which Calls upon specialists from the nuclear Labora tories at los and the Nevada nuclear test site were created along with other emergency organizations after a nuclear threat was made against presumably the first against any on april a letter writer demanded and four airline tickets to which raised speculation that International terrorists were Dummy packages of Money were never picked up and the affair has been written off As a the incident profoundly Shook the government a nuclear regulatory commission official much stiffer accounting procedures for nude a material were instituted to prevent future losses and a variety of Emer gency strategies to Cope with bomb threats were fanatical terrorists could obtain nuclear materials with which to make due to slovenly Security at some nuclear Brazil does give civilians some say by Peter Smith special to the free press brazils army has controlled politics since but the govern ment is not a simple military dictator it includes and there is a functioning Congress As Ever since the military civilians have been in the cabinets of each president who has always been a the ministers of planning and of for have consistently been civilians the transport minister has been both military and civilian and the new minister of de bureaucratization perhaps Surpris a Only those ministries devoted to military affairs air Force always been headed by such a substantial civilian presence in an ostensibly military government is in surprising when one recalls the close Contact the two elements of society have had since the second world the higher War College set the stage by including Superior civilian students and instructors usually technical schools followed the result was Mutual respect Between a technocratic civilian elite and the More broadly educated a network of friendships also based on a common View of the destiny of that new civilian elite grew frustrated with its prior to to penetrate government its Way was blocked by traditional politicians and the new elite also became alarmed at the populism that characterized the last civilian which threatened to rather than National de the new elite would never take that civilian elite supported the 1964 Mili tary the Reward has been positions of Power at the expense of bureaucratic and political Congress has been emasculated real Power is in the hands of the which Means that Cabinet ministers run the yet Congress exists the popularly elected senators and deputies continue meet in the arresting Federal Cham Bers in Brasilia there Are state Legisla Tures and municipal also popularly but real Power similarly lies with appointed what does it do Why bother with if it has no Power Congress serves two purposes it con fers legitimacy and expresses Public in both its Freedom of action effect Are Congress passes into Law the govern ments attempts in the past to Amend drastically or hold up Bills have inevitably brought Swift retribution from the debate is now As is Congress amending the executive also May bypass Congress by decree although the government prefers to use Congress to get an element of popular Sanction for its a shifting balance of tension thus persists Between the congressmen May not go too far in voicing Public extreme criticism of the government brings punishment of both the individual and institution congressmen have been imprisoned parliamentary immunity notwithstanding and con Gress closed for inflammatory the executive also controls Congress by manipulating the party the army realigned the pre1964 parties into a government and an opposition party when it appeared that the opposition might win control of the executive allowed it to fragment into several ideological Par in the Light of such overwhelming control of government by the and of the executive by the army and its what does the proposed liberalization mean even though the presi Dent has announced specific no one really will know until it has of one thing is certain the army will remain deeply involved in politics and will continue to control the govern Peter Smith teaches history at the University of third of three articles Lyon provinces should keep Ottawa honest what should a provincial government do in the face of increased soaring interest rates and deflated dollars does it a role to play the latest unemployment figures provided an Opportunity to pose those As nip Leader Howard Pawley the statistics were symptomatic of a worsening economic situation throughout the since an increase in the number of Unev played in Manitoba usually provided excellent fodder for the the july figures were a because while the actual provincial labor Force had increased from in june to the number of unemployed Haj also grown from to those figures placed the current actual unemployment rate at per compared to per cent the Prev aus month am per cent last while it was better than the National rate of per Manitoba was one of four provinces to show in in after traditionally holding the third lowest level of the province now ranked the official nip later Jay those figures to provincial he saw the in crease As a condemnation of tory Job creation policies and urged the govern ment to take off its ideological blink under the dome Arlene Billinkoff ers and develop strategies to late the Economy and improve Job specifically he wanted training for the govern men sponsored work projects and re sumption of construction at the Lime Stone generating that was a traditional reaction to unemployment but As Pawley the problem had not been created by the provincial government because of tory poli Manitoba hat one of the worst Job creation records in the he but it was a direct result of the economic situation and Tbs Lack of initiative by both Levels of until recently Pawley believed Mani Tobas unemployment figures did not look too bad because Job seekers had the Opportunity to move to other prov ipe cause of Federal policies and the International the buoyancy which once existed to neighbouring had the dispute Over Energy Cou pled with High interest rates and other problems had tightened the Job sets throughout the he thus closing the escape and the Posedly responsible government was not fulfilling its for Ottawa Alicem wonderland inter est rate policy was no he the pank of Canada which is tied to the United states rates reached per cent last inspiring other Banks to increase their rates to As High As per Pawley maintained that Sylb a policy was creating a crisis for Small Busin esses and believed Manitoba Souid divorce itself from the Federal policy and examine such As the Saskatchewan interest rate abatement program or a debt moratorium the province should provide More aggressive leadership with programs to absorb the growing number of Unzem Pawley but As a he knew the province could not Sepa rate itself from Federal to Fere he called on the Premier to demonstrate leadership at the premiers conference this week in 3wt what kind of leadership As Sterling Lyon the prov inces can do very Little since interest rates Are under Federal but he admitted to a general feeling of frustration about the Federal governments inability to come to grips with the it had taken a simpleminded with All parts of the country facing the same the Premier Leved there was need for he while both provincial and Federal governments had agreed to such a policy at a previous Ottawa seemed to be suffering from a lapse of he and other premiers hoped to Budge that memory by holding a Spe Cial meeting on the while the provinces not have the final say in such be believed there should be greater cooperation in respect to borrowing with inces being consulted on such matters As interest unlike Lyon had no Faith in individual provincial schemes on inter est because u was beyond the competence of one province to handle the it would Only have a peripheral he said it was More important and relevant to bring the Economy under control after 10 to j5 years of Iner Etore he believed the new democrats and others who espoused additional spending As he were the problems could not be cured by going into More instead Lyon wanted True and while he did not like Canadas adherence to the interest rate he lived it might be Wise to follow other measures introduced by president Ronald Reagan which would Deal with the cause of the getting the Economy under control was going to be with no Short Terra Lyon but he was certain that would be the Only real while the provinces could not take Independent he was confident that they still had a role to play to keep the Federal govern ment that sounded like a difficult but if it cupid be the prov inces would have found proper doonesbury ;