Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 23, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Whf Tieg free november 1982 South Africa offers weapons for Sale by Spencer Reiss Newsweek the British government edly angered by shipment of South african arms to Argentina during the falklands War is currently study ing a confidential report prepared by the anti apartheid movement that details the involvement of More than 80 British companies in aiding Pretorias defence visitors to last months International arms fair in Greece were some what under a fluttering South african Flag stood eager officials from Pretorias state owned weapons for More than five a global embargo has banned military sales to the apart Heid but these South africans had not come to Athens As they were offering Battle tested lines in everything from High Speed armoured troop carriers to frequency hopping Field radios that defy interception to a artillery piece that experts rate among the most advanced Ever near the end of the week Long Greece socialist govern embarrassed by third world finally closed the but arms Cor chairman Piet Marais was jubilant we expect Good he said on returning to and it was especially satisfying that our first International show took place in a nato coun that boast underscores Pretorias continuing Success in evading the United nations arms embargo that was imposed in 1977 As a protest against since South Africa has gone from near total dependence on imported arms to be come the no communist worlds lot ranked weapons producer and is poised to begin exporting As defence analysts rate Pretorias sales prospects As they make practical weapons based on hard experience in the says Ian Butterfield of the Washington based heritage found South african officials boldly project annual sales of As much As million within the next and despite the potential for Diplo Matic the likeliest clients May Well be developing coun tries seeking Low Cost reliable alter natives to More sophisticated and Western european when it comes to arms or says political factors fade african defence officials have ample experience in Circum venting politics to fulfil military much of their recent Success in arms production is based on technical collaboration with other diplomatic outcast notably but reportedly Taiwan and Argentina As beyond Pretorias critics say that Many Western governments routinely turn a Blind Eye to South african arms especially its Clandestine purchases from private through loopholes in the South Africa has been Able to continue aboveboard imports of ostensibly Civijian products that have Clear military applications As the Export drive is a smoke screen and a Way to pick up a Little extra says one Washington based defence Arm scors most important overseas business will continue to be acquiring advanced weapons and by whatever that Reliance on imported technology belies South african government claims that the country is 90 per cent self sufficient in the vaunted g5 artillery piece shown in Athens uses a specialized gun barrel illegally obtained from a advanced Wea Pony firm and even its tires were labelled made in South african officials have also been Active overseas in acquiring More Mun Dane apparently for use by Pretoria backed guerrillas fight ing neighbouring Black in London last three British businessmen were Given prison terms of up to nine months for smuggling million in rifles and machine gun parts to an obscure Johannesburg company masquerading As a Brake repair invoices found in their London office bore the stamp of the South african and other South african government agencies have been More open in obtaining High technology by claiming that it was needed for civilian air traffic Pretoria recently purchased Britain Plessey ar3d Mobile radar which the British government report edly classifies As having military closer to South african subsidiaries of major International firms Supply dual use equipment ranging from computers and communications gear to Jet there Are already signs that pre Toria will be Able to open up Export markets with equal the current in embargo makes no reference to instead of disabling South a in embargo has made it an exporter of arms on a big arms exports from South and among Arm scors Early foreign deals was an alleged Sale of armoured cars to the resolutely anti apartheid moroccan one indication of the thrust of Pretorias sales drive is the list of countries that have publicly decorated senior arms Cor executives and South african defence officials South Chile and Western governments and nato would be unlikely to find any made in South Africa purchases Worth the inevitable Public but analysts Point out that the Roughan Dready style of most of Arm scors is better suited to the needs of developing countries and that South Africa lower labor costs give it a major advantage against High priced and european anti apartheid groups Hope that Brash overtures such As the Athens show will Hurt Pretorias arms sales greek prime minister Andreas Papandreou has ordered an investigation into the arms Cor appeals have been made to the in Security Council to extend the current cover South african weapons and the Congress has scheduled hearings next month on the question of military use of but the Odds Are that Pretoria having de fied most of the world to build an arms Industry will manage to keep it running and even begin to turn a social problems plague Alberta Edmonton spends Frione per capita on social services than any other which is entirely since it has More social the trouble is that the Money than billion a year for million people not doing much the big cities Are increasingly scary Edmonton leads the nation in and Calgary is noted for prostitutes who Knock their clients Over the head for a the provinces violent crime rate is 30 per cent above the National nearly everyone knows somebody who has had a bad in one nightmarish recent a couple Liv ing in a fashionable Edmonton neigh boyhood heard someone banging their door Early one when they opened it he tried to Barge but the husband kept him they called police while he stood on the step yell Jesus will get you for this friends of mine watched from a neighbouring window while police collected the deranged Young Man and took him everyone who had seen the episode breathed a sigh of it turned to horror later the same when they heard that the Man had been found in an apartment with the naked body of a Young woman who had been bludgeoned and police arrested the Man for the second time in less than 12 they had released him a few hours earlier because they considered him a harmless my Friend was badly with Good Only two weeks burglars had broken into her Home while she and her husband they used the family car to haul away a microwave a to and other police later caught the burglars and Learned that one of them had stood guard with a Butcher knife at the stairs leading to the in Case anyone woke the most sinister thing of my Friend was that both the accused murderer and the burglars were As neat and Well groomed As College they were Cut from the same deceptive Mold As the wholesome looking Young Man who said casually As he passed me on an Edmonton give me All your Money or ill kill while i stared at him in he smiled and walked other problems Are less spectacular but just As Alberta has Canadas highest rate of Alco holism and consumer debt statistics that May or May not be in the suicide rate is growing four times More rapidly than the popu eight six people killed them selves in the first nine months of compared to 72 in the same period of Don braid in Alberta economic woes Are part of the prob but not All of a deeper reason is the troubled aggressiveness that haunts the giving it a flavor More american than nearly every visitor notices the extreme hostility some Drivers show toward anyone or anything that gets in their a recent study proved there is even More family violence in Rural areas than in the none of this became an Issue in the recent election the governing tories merely waved at it vaguely by promising free enter prise that without Ever mentioning the Premier Peter Lougheed signalled that he will continue to throw massive amounts of Money at the trouble is that the Money is channelled through Albertas troubled social services which often seems part of the problem rather than the Albertas investigating recent complaints of abuse at an Edmonton mental found that one employee had ripped the clothes off the struck the and used unnecessary roughness at least three staffers participated in abuse which the ombudsman described in harrowing patients were threatened and insulted Over a period of months by certain staff members on that they were powerless to cry out for help because of their physical and mental Dis Abili faced with this the govern ment not Only refused to fire the offend ers but left them in the same the inaction want since the tories have not disciplined anyone involved in 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