Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free october 1981 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion six Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 x Winnipeg free press 1872 Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials Britain new contender there is great significance to be attached to the astonish ing scale of the Victory of the social democratic Alliance candidate in a British by election last at one the hard faced conservatism of Margaret Thatcher has been repudiated in a conservative the strife torn labor party has been humiliated and the new political Force represented by the social democrats has been confirmed As a serious contender for governing Power in the next British general All this has been achieved with one of the least substantial candidates for election that can be William a Liberal who stubbornly refused to stand Down so that the widely respected social Democrat Shirley Williams could be the Alliance is a seven time he has racked up four straight defeats in attempts to get into parliament he has lost three bids to become a municipal in he got per cent of the vote in the general election that brought Margaret thatchers conservatives to in the election for the greater London Council last he got per cent of the last running As the Liberal representative of the social democratic he took 40 per cent of the vote and won the Croydon Northwest seat the conservative candidate came with a vote that represented an decline from the 1979 election that the conservatives whose candidate came second in trailed in third with per cent less of the vote than this is a bad blow to but a worse one for labor Leader Michael it is not unusual for governing parties to lose by elections in midterm when economic conditions Are it is very unusual for the Victory not to go to the other major party in a political system dominated by two the message is that Croydon voters May be sick to death of thatchers zealous with its attendant catastrophic results for almost but they Are equally sick to death of the extreme solutions being put Forward by the far left militants who have almost completed their capture of control of the labor there is a cautionary note Here for the Liberal social democratic Alliance a full 58 per cent of those voting for the Alliance candidate told the Gallup poll that their reason was disgust with the two main parties rather than passion ate liking for the Alliance amid the euphoric forecasts of an irresistible tide sweeping towards a majority in the next cooler Heads in the social democratic Alliance would be Wise to pause and consider the danger of continuing to be perceived by some voters As simply a weapon with which to be labor major party it is time that the social democrats and their Liberal partners got Down to the business of drafting the main lines of their policy goals in the next vagueness about these goals has been understandable thus far the party was born Only this year and contains an amalgam of disgruntled conservatives and labor party Mem Bers fed up with the Rise of left Wing extremism in their the Alliance also is in the Early Days of providing beyond opinion that it really does Appeal to the moderate majority of the British social democratic luminary Roy Jenkins provided some evidence by almost winning a recent English Pitt has provided More in Shirley Williams May drive Home the message when she runs As a social Democrat in a Liverpool by election expected to take place very Little More evidence will be needed to convince doubters that the social democratic Alliance is not a Flash in the the need now is for a coherent explanation of what the party would do if it gained or if it did Well enough to hold the balance of Power in the next perhaps As the coalition partner of one of the major Finland loses a Leader the logic of events in this Century would seem to dictate at the end of the second world Finland should have suffered the same Fate As the other Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania and now be within the soviet Finland fought two wars with the soviet Union the Winter War of and the continuation War of 19411944 and escaped at the end of it All losing 12 per cent of its territory to the russians but maintaining its with the exception of which meets the soviet Union along Only a narrow Arctic Finland is now the Only nation in Europe that Borders on the soviet Union which is not controlled by that it has been Able to retain its Independence is in no Small to the efforts of urho who resigned As Fin lands presi Dent this week because of Kekkonen had been president of Finland since and he is one of the two chief architects of Fin lands policy of careful neutrality in its relations with the soviet that relationship has not been an easy one for the canadians Are fond of describing their relationship with the United states As being like that of a mouse in bed with an finns Are much More acutely aware of the dangers of such a because the elephant with which the finnish mouse shares its bed is a a and it has had to be a very Crafty mouse indeed to survive that for 35 Fin lands policy of accommodation with the soviet Union was created at the end of the War by president Paas Kivi and continued by in recent years it has become known As Finlan dilation and is sometimes misunderstood in the West where it has occasionally been regarded As capitulation to nor is its reputation helped by the avowed desire of the soviet Union to Fin Landize the rest of Western Europe and Leonid Brezhnev remarks that he regards Moscow relations Finland As an Ideal that should be emulated by Western for the Finlan dilation is not but a survival economic ally and Finland is a Western but it is geography that is the overriding Factor and Only through neutrality and accommodation can the finns main Tain their it is based on a treaty with the soviet Union that was signed in 1948 and renewed for 20year periods in 1955 and it commits Finland to take no action against soviet interests and to remain Neutral in world the importance of Kekkonen both in handling the sensibilities of soviet leaders and in guiding his nation along this narrow path is seen in Fin lands attempt in 1973 to sign an Industrial free Trade agreement with the european economic the plan was strongly opposed by which eventually agreed to it on the condition that Kekkonen remain As president for another four years to ensure that finnish foreign policy did not unlike the Kekkonen did not urge his policy on other it is not a Model for other but it is a fact of As unavoidable As it is for although Moscow has expressed some anxiety about events in the policy is not Likely to change with Kekkonen elections will be held in january to choose a and the leading contender is prime minister and acting president Mauno who has already pledged to continue Kekkor ens the role for research a Strong Case can be made for More generous financing of medical research in Canada and especially in John head of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Manitoba medical made part of it in a lecture this pointing out that Federal funds available to for medical research Are allocated to Manitoba researchers on the basis of the provinces share of the National Popula not the merits and requirements of their research the Case would be most if re searchers could show what they could be doing to tackle the Community most pressing medical for Manito these include the shockingly Short life expectancies of their High rates of infant death and of respiratory disease and the desperately under researched Field of Indus trial diseases resulting from exotic stress and radiation to which some workers Are exposed Tyson mentioned that Manitoba has the expertise to perform in Vitro fertilization for the conceiving of test tube that procedure will interest couples who Are unable to have children in the Ordinary but infertility among would be parents has to rank Low on any list of Manitoba medical those who devote their lives to Basic research Are annoyed by demands that they prove the social usefulness of their the general welfare of Mankind requires a certain number of unfettered minds left free to Advance knowledge for its own As a wealthy and advanced has an obligation to contribute to the general but the harsh reality is that funds Are most easily raised for research projects that capture the Public imagination such As curing snapping a clearer picture of Saturn or unleashing the Power of the the society that pays is entitled to ask its medical researchers to focus their minds to some extent on the most urgent medical problems of the it May be that poor health of Northern natives and the diseases that threaten workers result from economic and social causes beyond the Ken of medical if that is Worth so that medical research can be assigned to an appropriate place among Public spending Cable company on the line by Fred Cleverley sitting on a Sharp Fence without a during next weeks Canadian satellite television will be Westman Media the Brandon based Cable company that has been forced to walk a thin line of legality while satisfying the financial demands of the Manitoba Telephone system on the one and the television Appe tites of Consumers in More than a dozen Western Manitoba communities on the Nair crisis Westman Media got the nod from the crts to Supply Cable television to Brandon and 19 other Manitoba communities Back when the Manitoba Tele phone system had plans to link them All by buried coaxial it survived a rough Nair crisis when the Winni Peg Cable companies Cut the signals they claimed the Manitoba Telephone system was stealing from them to Send West to Brandon viewers were for a few to phone the general managers of the Winnipeg Cable and were on their television with the appropriate Home the Winnipeg executives retaliated by refer ring callers to the Home number of Gordon general manager of the dispute about How much Winni Peg Cable customers should pay extra in order to distribute Cable signals to Rural Manitoba has still not been settled but Brandon and those in Nee Pawa and now get the signals without Westman As the distributor of those is a licenced Cable however West Man provides its customers in Dau Swan River and Souris with satellite including three superstitions from new Chicago and this customers in Kil Larney and Virden will get the same and before the end of when the Canadian satellite package is due to go on the viewers via cuts i have noted that people who Are most vociferous at expounding a cause Are people who never or Seldom use the facility or service whose Virtues they Are the current Contro Versy Over via rail is a Good example and politicians being politicians will blow whichever Way they can sense a the politicians of another Good liberals burdened this country with a Millstone of debt with their handouts and guarantees to the Canad an grand trunk and grand protesting via rail cuts trunk Pacific when one looks at the debt Structure and fixed charges of the Canadian there was no possible Way that this system could have its the conservative government of sir Robert Borden realized the situation and after much juggling of corporations and funds came up with what is now the Canadian National under the present management the car has become a firs class opera if service is required and there is a reasonable Prospect of making it the car is willing to offer the passenger despite the cars Best does not offer much in the Way of i do not agree with the abandonment of service on the car mainline through Northern this is a Region ill served by roads and alternative Means of the car mainline runs through an area Well served by alternative Means of transportation so that a transcontinental passenger not up to the old car Standard of is an anachronism and should be via rail is presumed to have been set not so much to make but at least to break not to run up horrendous deficits to provide a ser vice that people seemingly do not if there is no demand for a service and it is being operated at a it should be As shown both in Canada and the United rail passenger traffic has a very Low to Mccarthy letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to not the answer in response to muellers letter to the editor make it free october 19 in which he advocates legalized prostitution As an antidote for rape and sexual assault this proposal exposes a common misconception about rape in our the misconception is thai men rape women because they Are sexually frus it is mistakenly accepted that men have extraordinarily Strong sex Ual urges which cannot be and that they Are therefore justified in forcing themselves on whomever is men do not rape women because they want to have sex with statistics show that 95 per cent of rapists had Access to willing sexual they rape women in order to dominate and humiliate it is a violent not a sexual i would question muellers claim that crimes of a sexual nature Are unheard of in european f this is perhaps the Low instances of rape could be attributed to other in some cities where attitudes toward women Are still very the Low statistics could be due to the fact that sexual assaults Are not legalized prostitution is not the answer to the steady increase in sexual crimes in our rape and prostitution Are not that far removed from each other in that they Stem from the same Basic Assumption women Are not human working at changing that Basic Assumption and general attitude of our society toward women is where we need to Loewen Winnipeg caesarean births since i have had two children by caesarean i was interested in the article of october births too often by caesarean study the number of such deliveries is compared with the perinatal mortality the mortality rate at birth is hot men i wonder if the reduction in those two rates might not equal the increase in caesarean births no mention is made about the rate of mothers who survive labor and Deli i did have one child by natural he was but i Hernor due to my previous i am grateful that i had an obstetrician who was concerned about me As Well As my children and refused to let me carry through either the study was very limited in scope or your reporter did not present an accurate Pat Cohen Winnipeg in Gilbert Plains and Rose will get the same super stations through Westman West mans general Terry describes the superstition service As being As close to our licence As technology and Cus Tomer demand will he has avoided providing his customers with stolen pay such As Home Box cinemas and the movie and provides three stations that he claims Are the closest signals available to the three american network signals so widely licenced in the fact is that and its were pushed into Satel Lite service by the Manitoba Telephone its had spent close to half a million dollars installing Cable in Dau in expectation of extending its Cable when it became apparent that the Cable would not be its in effect told Westman to operate a dish or the system would find some one who own dish Westman decided to service Dau one of the communities covered by its with Westman turned Down mass offer to provide the because the Telephone system wanted to recover the whole Cost in too Short a on the same basis As an Extension Westman has in stalled its own dishes and head end equipment in the communities it Westman has applied to Supply the Canadian satellite to ten communities Shoal a Pilot Minitonas and these communities will be offered the four Canadian superstitions on the can com plus Csc and both sky to and can div have filed arguing that the can com package will bring shows into Manitoba that they have paid for the right to can div in its that the can com package will make it More difficult for Cynd to extend its chauvinist i was and As a woman personally by the incident of Harry Enns such Gross behaviour is usually the last resort of a male chauvinist who has run out of reasonable arguments or plausible i sincerely Hope that the constituents of Lakeside Riding will now choose a representative who better deserves their support and Esther Stewart Winnipeg profanity service in and sky says that the presence of the Vancouver ctr will infringe on its program rights in the which once thought the satellite applications would gain Quick approval from the is now hav ing second but Westman has carefully separated its can com applications from its other satellite Ven it has not applied for the can com package for any of its present satellite serviced and does not intend to introduce american signals to any of the communities it has applied to service with proposed fees its proposed fees include a instal lation a Deposit on individual decoding devices refundable if the device is returned and a monthly charge of the fees Are lower than those of other but Westman says its Overall system will help even out the Westman has suggested to some communities that if a local such As a service is willing to undertake a project to guarantee an agree Don yearly it would be possible to bypass the Neces sity of coding and and to lower the monthly rates that have been in the Cable television Westman is neither fish nor other licenced Cable companies have been reluctant to get into satellite signals because the signals might put their operating licences in West Man has taken the position that three american stations Are three american whether the signals come through conventional Cable links or through the interesting part of this argument is by diversifying its operations Between strictly Legal and approved communities and communities that could be described As receiving Bootleg Westman has put itself in the position in order to shut it the crts would be forced to deprive customers who Are enjoying licenced and approved signals in order to get at customers who Are receiving the other second of two articles times in the vital without being a resident of the the first time was in the second on 1971 when he won a by election by 300 votes and the third was in the 1973 provincial Campaign when he was re during All three of those campaigns he lived outside the Riding in the wind Sor Par Radisson and the 1974 parliamentary guide still shows him As not living in his own do you think he might find this difficult to reconcile with his previous statement Ferguson Winnipeg recently i was watching the roast in Honor of Ai Vickery on there were some interesting comments but when John Robertson spoke i was appalled at his he took the name of the lord in How could a who is running for the conservatives stand before the guests and the vast to audience and speak in such a disgraceful manner Jean Rhynard whose Riding in the free press of october the nip candidate in Jim Wald was quoted As still other people Are not impressed by his John Robertsons because there is some resentment for any Parachute what Walding did not say was that he himself not but three smoking smoking ;