Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free december Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 the Kab capitulates the hunger strike by Andrei Sakharov and his Yelena has apparently achieved and forced the soviet authorities to Grant an exit visa to their sons Liza the Kab informed miss Alexeyev that she would receive her visa to the United states on and the soviet Academy of sciences has reported that the Sakharov have Given up their the Kremlin capitulation ended a remarkable Confron tation that pitted the Iron will of one Man and his wife against the awesome might of the soviet unions Iron that Sakharov was victorious is an indication of his unique position in the soviet in All the dissident there is no greater Thorn in the Side of the Kremlin than he is a Thorn that the soviet leaders would dearly love to remove but cannot without causing themselves even greater they have Only two ways of removing Sakharov to Send him into exile As they did Alexander general Pyotr Grigorenko and other dissidents or to ship him off to a labor Camp As they have done to countless neither option is really Sakharov is the soviet unions Foremost nuclear and although he has not had Access to nuclear secrets for Many his knowledge would still be of great value to Western military and Intelli gence on that he is unlikely to be sent it is equally difficult to imprison for two if he is sent to a Camp he cannot be made into a As has been done to other because he is too Well known in the soviet Union As the father of soviet nuclear and his books on the subject Are still published and More his imprisonment would cause such outrage in the where he has become a Symbol of the struggle for human rights in the soviet that Moscow relations with the West would be seriously damaged on both official and the private Levels if Leonid Brezhnev says one of them each night must surely be for Sakharov to expire peacefully and of indisputably natural what Brezhnev could not have was for Sakharov to have died during a hunger strike in protest of the soviet governments refusal to Grant the most Basic human rights to its citizens and its refusal to Honor the human rights commitments to which it bound itself in the formal International agreement known As the Helsinki that is the Only reason that the Kremlin has capitulated and agreed to give miss Alexeyev her exit the storm of International protest that was sparked by the hunger strike and without caused much concern to would have become a Tornado of outrage if or Sakharov had the soviet leaders obviously feared the harm that would do to their interests much More than the humiliation of it was the meanness of soviet officials that created the affair in the first miss Alexeyev in of no consequence to the soviet in the after the initial publicity has died it is that she will be heard from and then Only As conduit for messages about the her Only value to the Kremlin and the secret police was As another Means of torturing Sakharov and his a Way to add More pain to his internal exile in the City of they have now paid a Price for that cruelty in the humiliation of surrender and by making the world even More acutely aware of the soviet governments oppression of its they will now almost certainly attempt to take revenge on Sakharov in any Way that they and the people and governments of the West must be vigilant and unfailing in their support of turmoil in the pm Quebec Premier Rene Levesque and his ruling parti quebecois have much More to sort out besides his continued leadership of the with or without the party must resolve the contradiction Between its members clamor for Early Independence and its leaders More cautious with or without the party must decide what remains feasible in the idea of Independence now that the party has won two elections without advancing toward its original the spectacle of last weekends party conference wildly cheering Jacques a convicted accomplice in the kidnapping of Pierre Laporte in has left an indelible impression on the Quebec electorate and on the Levesque and the party leadership have always kept their distance from the front de liberation do knowing that the Quebec Public does not endorse terrorism and insisting that the events of 1970 did great damage to the Independence All that careful phrase making was virtually wiped out when the party conference treated the former terrorist As a hero and a Pioneer of the the patient work of persuading the Public that the pm has nothing to do with the Fly must somehow be started All Over Levesque had a Stab at hinting that the party conference had been manipulated by the he could not state it flatly because it is More than delegates attended the even if the ramp had sub orned some of them and it is possible that the Force would try it could not bring All of them against their will to leap to their feet and acclaim the appearance of Jacques but besides erasing that Public relations the party must come up with a presentable account of where it is Levesque has usually advocated seeking Independence through strictly democratic Means the party wants to effect Independence after the next election whether or not the majority of Quebe cers or Levesque has most of the that a politically Sovereign Quebec would require an intimate economic association with the rest of the party conference wanted to declare Independence first and let an eventual economic association be sorted out the party won one election by promising to hold a referendum before making any move toward Independence and a second election by promising no moves and to even with the Assurance that the proposed Independence would include economic the electorate rejected it in the the separatist move ment has played along with Levesques but the party conference showed that their hearts Are not in it must raise a doubt in the Public mind about How Long the party leadership can resist the pressure of the How Long a party that keeps postponing the Pursuit of its fundamental Aims can hold timely Protection the appearance of car payment insurance that protects a purchaser against the loss of both his Job and his car at the same time is a comment of sorts on the sorry state of the Canadian employment so buyers have seen fit to contribute in premiums to buy insurance against losing their cars if losing their jobs makes it impossible for them to keep up the the policies cover payments of up to a month for As Long As ten provided the purchaser is Laid off or involuntarily the whose balance sheets Are anything but Are demonstrating that there is considerable fat in today car rebates Are offered to customers who buy with the amounts ranging Between and depending on the Model car manufacturers Are leaning on their related finance compan ies to offer financing at rates that Are for Short periods of than the prime rate that companies themselves these rates Are designed to counter the increased Public at rates averaging near 20 per of the real Cost of buying now and paying it remains to be seen whether a big ticket item such As an packaged by including interest rates that have Only recently come to be regarded As less than usurious and protected by Job insurance in a fickle employment is something that can be sold in numbers sufficient to turn around the Canadian automobile the real problem appears to be that the Price at which canadians will renew their transportation has been it May be disguised by but it will have to return to the Point where it is Low with or without to persuade motorists to return to their old practice of trading More if the Industry is to Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials gallery Phil Mallette elite fights oversight by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa the new auditor Gener Kenneth seems rather shocked by some of his discoveries about the nature of the senior if it were not that the auditor general is about the Only True Friend the taxpayer has in the entire National capital Region it would be tempting to dismiss his Surprise with an unsympathetic so what else is new the role of the auditor general in our system is important enough to make that a highly inappropriate reaction a much better one is to urge him As fervently As possible never to accept the attitudes that have already caused him it is the Funda mental task of the auditor general to break through those smash ing his Way through if he but preferably using the arts of firm per Dye could not do better than reflect on an incident that stamped his deceptively Mil mannered predecessor As a potentially fierce not a Pussy disturbed and resentful Over the thoroughness of the fiscal scrutinise Jim Macdonell had made it Plain he was about to a Small group of very senior bureaucrats attempted to Tell him that he was exceeding his he retorted that he knew his mandate very Well indeed and that if they Ever again attempted to Challenge it he would become there is something about Macdonell that would make most men take such a warning from him and they there was a lot of grumbling after that and much High level Foo drag but no More open a few of the men who once tried to tackle Jim Macdonell head on were later won Over to his Basic concept that the taxpayer is entitled to value for Money that seems so obvious out in the real world that it is hard to imagine men of great seniority doing their utmost to reject but in the world of great special that the capital of this it does not seem Odd to the As Dye put it in this most recent auditor generals report intellectual arguments curiously in the Public there Are Nice intellectual sup ported by political science As to documents and information should and should not be available to the the attitudes which Macdonell had to Battle Are deeply entrenched in the senior he made some Progress against he breathed life into his concept that value for Money is a fair test of a mans handling of the Public funds and that the tools that go with that approach can contribute significantly to better government if they Are properly employed by the very powerful men to whom they Are Dye will have to fight Many of Macdonell Battles Over because a new auditor Gen eral will be tested ruthlessly i the Hope that he will be a weaker fortunately the audit office is a formidable organization now enormously strengthened in personnel and armory during the Macdonell if Dye is Tough and dogged enough even the senior officials who operate through exceptionally close ties to the two key Power privy Council office and the prime ministers office cannot resist the audit office in the but among them Are men who will try dyes Mettle to the utmost of their exceptional abilities in the pos session and exercise of it is Well if the auditor general is Mil mannered and skilled in the arts of but he must have a Core of steel because when he accepts his appointment he enters a world civilized in its but with the ruthlessness of the Jungle just beneath the polished it is a world of great Power and great throughout history men of privilege have had a common reaction to any perceived threat to their special they invariably seek to de stroy Macdonell escaped castration because at a critical Point he had been Able to bring a minister of conscience on to his despite the new strength of the audit office Dye one Day will desperately need a similar d to b How Nice it is to know that Winnipeg is the Home on the Range for a rare Herd of these Are the White tailed numbering about 275 and it is remarkable that they live in and around the some near Busy Thor others by the Din of the managing to survive even though their casualties Are we probably have the biggest Urban Deer Herd in North says Bill a provincial biologist involved with the management of the they like the its their love it or its it Speaks Well for Winnipeg that it White tailed Deer browsing for food at can be so in tune with nature that wild Deer can flourish within its it is singular that most of these 275 Deer reside in some Only an easy run from the heart of the White tailed Deer Are Beautiful gentle and a Delight to observe motionless or bounding through a they have elegance and Nice attributes for any City they Are not offensive in any they Are a credit to the and that is Why we must take precautions that the crush of development does not them from our three herds there Are three herds in the says of about ranges just West of the Airport an North of Assiniboia Downs the about in the Charleswood centred on Assiniboine Forest and around the properties of two Cement South of Wilkes Assiniboine Forest is a rare preserve of 700 Between Chalfont Avenue and Shaftesbury the Deer Graze and live in this Forest and roam into the surrounding the danger is the development around the Forest if it it will de Prive the Deer of their Normal Habi it is preposterous to suggest that development be banned to assure the existence of the the Deer can be accommodated in the growth of the for one thing the City is too spread out and should not be allowed to reach out Doug City naturalist takes a dim View that housing developments Val Werier have been allowed to abut the Forest on Chalfont he justifiably feels that no residences should have the exclusive privilege of backing right on to this natural there should be some Buffer he main wildlife corridors have been pro posed As one Way to protect the Deer and this has been envisaged in the master plan for Assiniboine says one such corridor would extend South of Wilkes and swing West toward the perimeter to meet up with the Deer South of Assiniboine another corridor would Lead East of the the corridors would Only be on half to three quarters of a mile Long and perhaps 200 Yards they would allow Access and Breeding with other says inbreeding can be a prob the corridors would open a path to More the corridors would be planted with Trees and and would serve a dual purpose a place for hiking trails and As Well As the Urban Assiniboine Forest itself would be Able to maintain a Small Herd of Deer without Access to the surrounding it would change their life style and they would have to be fed within the confines of the in a sense they would become domesticated despite their resilience and adapt the Deer face the hazards of trains and about 50 Are killed annually by vehicles and it is about time the Slaughter of these Graceful creatures was Deer Are killed by cars on Sturgeon Road and move at Dawn and dusk the Deer move at Dawn and they leave Assiniboine Forest in the morning and Cross Wilkes to feed in the sugar beet Fields and return at Dawn to Chew their cud and virtually none of them Are hit by cars in the dead of Winter because they Are ahead of the Rush says the visibility then is also it is a different Story in the the time of fatalities when Dawn and dusk coincide with the Rush and when it May be now experiments with new red reflectors have reduced casualties As explained by these Are Trian Gula shaped models which Are placed at headlight level alongside the Road on Snow Fence the headlights Are reflected into the Forest and appear As red flashes to the a red Light to Deer As Well As humans is a danger for a Preda tors eyes appear red in a Light at so the Deer Bolt into the the reflectors have been placed along sections of Grant and there were no fatalities in the area of the says in the Deer Are roaming out to forage by the Assiniboine River and by the Cement in the Winter for the waste Grain and bits and pieces of sugar in the they feed on grasses in the and such delicacies As Snowberry and Rose hips in we originally thought a number of the Deer went out some distance into the country in says but we found they rarely leave the City color markers were placed on about 75 Deer and this revealed that Only one left the it ended up near Pilot the Deer have their As Well As their in the owners of the Alfalfa products Plant make a Point of scattering Hay used to feed Friend another Friend of the Deer is Lily who moved near Assiniboine Forest 14 years because of the when her husband was they bought Oats to feed the now she feeds them Hay seven Beautiful Bales brought in from the country by her it Breaks my heart to hear of the Deer chased by dogs or killed by she the Deer come into her Back feed on the or her Orchard of crab weve had As Many As 30 at differ ent times in the says now would you believe that we should treasure such an association with the and retain this Lovely link with ;