Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 24, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Willii Jive 9tx trove Tibet Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published Days i at 300 ctr Fth Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Csc Tarn newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller dangers of dense pack Ai it is legitimate for canadians and others to View changing of the guard in the Kremlin As an Opportunity for the no communist world to explore quickly the possibilities of slowing the arms race and moving towards general especially in the area of nuclear the arms race is costly to both the Coril Tunisi and fio communist it is especially costly to the soviet and ame Ricail there Are More important things on which to spend this planets declining resources than eve better ways of killing the arrival in Power of Yuri Sandfo Jbv in the us Sec is Otte of those Brief historical moments that could to a it can be described As a window of a which is a phrase borrowed from the Jar Golf of who use it very defence hardliners in the United including some scientific use it to justify higher defence they say that the soviet Union has achieved such pinpoint accuracy in its aiming of strategic nuclear missiles that it could launch a sudden attack that would destroy up to 90 per cent of the land based strategic nuclear missiles of the United they is a compelling reason for producing and deploying the missile experimental known to be More accurate than any previous intercontinental ballistic missile and whose warheads pack the punch to destroy the most heavily protected soviet land based icbms in their they say that this capability would deter the russians from launching a first the my has been looming Over the strategic nuclear scene since its development was supported by presidents Richard Gerald Ford and Jimmy at Issue All has been How it should be based so As to survive a soviet thirty different proposals have been All with the rationale that a system that cannot survive sneak attack cannot be a credible president Ronald Reagan has announced support for one of the strangest of these Basing the so called dense he has linked this to a determined Effort to convince his own electorate that his main goal is peace and to be achieved through Tough negotiations with the russians on the basis of equivalent military he claims that his country is being outspent and out armed by the soviets and that this justifies deploying the my and in the Way that he has the russians respect strength and prey on they tend to negotiate More fairly with respected for two decades such negotiations have gone on Between the superpowers and there have been considerable such As the test ban Salt the Vladivostok accords and Salt Reagan bears some of the responsibility for the stupid decision of the United states Senate not to ratify Salt 2 after it had been signed by Leonid Brezhnev and both sides have adhered to the conditions of Salt 2 for reasons of Mutual one of the provisions of Salt 2 is that neither Side will deploy additional fixed icbms despite technical quibbles by the dense pack seems to be just dense pack would involve placing 100 each with ten Hydrogen bomb in silos feet apart in 20 Square Miles of land close to they would joint a nearby Field of 200 minuteman each with three nuclear warheads like the minuteman icbms Fields near at grand Forks and dense pack is supposed to guarantee the survival of each my because they will be heavily shielded by Concrete and and because the first soviet icbms to land will create so much dust Cloud and radiation that following missiles will either be diverted off target or blown up before striking the my this is called missile the theory is based on no test but on computer it May be completely the entire my Field May be utterly but what if it is destroyed the same arguments apply to dense pack As to the alleged windows Opportunity destroying the minutemen if every land based icbms is wiped out there remains an immense retaliatory Power in submarine based nuclear missiles and bombs and missiles carried in the b52 France has land based and submarine based nuclear missiles and Brit Ain has submarine based nuclear so Why does it matter if there is a theoretical possibility of the soviets eliminating minutemen and my Are the soviets seriously expected to commit suicide by knocking out Only one part of the defences of the Western Alliance there Are Good technical reasons for questioning the Slick claims by both sides of missile no one has fired a missile Over the North the Way that most them will be and an area of magnetic anomalies that might so distort delicate guidance systems As to make icbms turn round and Fly Back where they came no one knows if the electromagnetic pulse created by nuclear explosions will similarly affect every subsequent arriving no one knows it one nuclear explosion Over the dense pack Field will be enough to wreck my guidance systems and make them All whether or not they physically based on what is my represents billion poured Down the dense pack is no More credible than Jimmy Carters ludicrous racetracks in Utah and Reagan should abandon this unnecessary and worthless project he has All the missiles he needs and too Many for the worlds a fact that applies equally to the soviet he ought to face the truth that his country is Strong enough now and offer Andropov a genuine partnership in seeking Large reductions in nuclear weapon helpful daycare hints the proposed on daycare standards issued by Community services minister Len Evans is a perplexing mixture of helpful High ideals and fundamental it shows confusion about what a regulation is and what the regulatory process can achieve that confusion seems to reflect an about the Means the government should adopt to extend the Quantity and enhance the Quality of Day behind the regulation lies the threat that the government will close Down any daycare Centre that fails to comply with the extremely detailed standards set Forth in the the regulation will therefore set limits to the right of care Centre to remain in business and to the right of parents to Send their children to a particular Day some of the proposed provisions Are some Are not and a great Many might be enforced or not enforced depending on the Zeal of the the policy of the department and the general View the government takes of a particular Day care the provisions on staffing and staff training probably Are a daycare Centre that persistently refused to hire one employee for every eight children aged two to six or refused to hire a director with a diploma and at least some staff with a bit of child care training the transition period the government proposes probably ought to be the provision that parents must notify the Centre of the Childs dietary peculiarities is certainly not enforceable the government cannot revoke a Day cares License because parents failed to disclose their childrens the provision that where night care is the routines at bedtime should be consistent with those followed by parents at Home is unenforceable because it is nearly meaning but most of the provisions Are of a Type that might be enforced or not at the discretion of the depend ing on what can reasonably be expected in the Circum stances and on How successful the Day care is in satisfying the regulators that they should go the for for behaviour management policies that Indi Cate a positive approach to the requirement for integration of handicapped or special needs children into the regular the requirement for arrangement of play equipment in a manner which facilitates Small group interaction in areas free from interference and interruption All these and More Are matters of judgment would allow the enforcers to close a place or More or less the stipulations that the playground should be within 200 meters of the Day care and that outside play should be optional when the wind chill exceeds Watts per Square meter or the temperature is below minus 25 celsius Are inappropriate attempts to substitute quantitative precision for common is the government going to close a Day care because someone produces weather records showing that the children were sent out to play on a cold Day of course it is and so the provision should not be included in a regulation that purports to set Forth the Roc Bottom standards that Day cares must respect on pain of losing their a Large sifting Job is the government should express by regulation those requirements that it seriously Means to to the Point of closing Down a noncomplying it should express in other in circulars and training its definitions of Good practice which parents ought to demand and Day cares where to a Job is the High Quality Day care the government Aims for will come of its own Accord if daycare workers Haye the if daycare manage ments have the consultative and administrative if suitable physical facilities Are made available in All parts of the province above if the working conditions and career paths for daycare workers become a whole lot More attractive than they Are the necessary Money can Only come from the the other necessary ingredients can be provided through the Public school merely laying new layers of red tape on the existing daycare network will not do the still Lively after years Winnipeg is a great town for organi so it was quite True to form that the first women Canadian club was formed Here 75 years ago this Long before canadians embarked on their search for identity and a great fondness for patriotism was As natural As Apple the club had lofty ideals to Foster create an intelligent Public opinion on All matters pertaining to Public life conserving the traditions of the past while building to a greater future and uniting canadians for the welfare of sing with gusto they sing o Canada with gusto at their monthly luncheons and needed no prodding from the Canadian club when asked in 1911 observe a More attitude to wards the rendition of the National love1 and loyalty to ones country found adherents in the declaration of the american naval Stephen who said in her Intercourse with foreign May she always be in the right but our country right or today a True Patriot would insist that his country does not trample on the rights or do harm any peo there is no record of such discus Sions at the women Canadian for it has avoided taking a stand on issues and in the interest of remaining nonsectarian and it recommended 1912 that no action Politi Cal or religious matters be taken by the that was the year after the club asked for commutation of sentence of condemned murderess Anna to the women were so intent on displaying no that at first they even refused to invite the famous English emmeline Goulden the president at the time didst think it right because she might make a political says Edith Patter local historian and archivist of the Pankhurst did appear1 in there was no hesitation some 20 years later in invite Val Werier ing Nellie Canadas suffrage or in having Bertrand the outspoken philosopher and iconoclast speak his r the club was an instant Success when it started on november 1907 and has been Ever the monthly luncheons still attract several Hundred members and although they Are not As Hoit Stoity As earlier the first luncheon was held at elegant Royal Alexandra hotel in the year after it women vied with one another to appear in the fanciest skirts trailing tothe hats billowing with thereof members were requested to Wear Street dress at club patriotic in earlier the club sponsored patriotic and was instrumental in having valour Road rimmed be cause of the three recipients of the Victoria Cross who had lived on that it also sponsored Short Story contests and recorded for posterity local history in women of the red today a treasured Book on Cana in the Secretary treasurer enunciated the grand aim of the club to sponsor a High Type of citizenship by encouraging the study of the Trade literature and the resources of Canada by recognizing the various racial backgrounds from which have come the Canadian peo the club has always been a place for special dining with friends and listening to interesting and famous most women groups Call upon their members to support projects and activities of various Tjie women Canadia dub is differ there Are no demands on the Mem says i think that accounts for the popularity of the there is something to be said for breaking bread in a relaxed Atmo being entertained by Clever speakers without some special there have been Many illustrious speakers Over the and i was intrigued by their As revealed by their signatures in the guest Royalty Princess who spoke in has a modest script in the exclusive manner signed Only her Christian the dowager Queen of a granddaughter of que div who spoke in has a Signa Ture and with stylistic that it constitutes a John renowned editor of the free appeared As a guest speaker several times Over the his signature Strong and but Clear and in Fine it is unlike who one would assume were travelling under aliases to cloak their real so utterly undecipherable Are their one is that of Anton who spoke in whose signature is Sim ply a series of jagged vertical like a frenzied it has no Remote resemblance to his name was lettered in the guest Book by a club official for there others of that All lesser the like Bertrand Russell Are Sim pie and risk tells the Story of Frederick the Canadian whose murals adorned the Royal he spoke at the club in his signature is eminently legible but if he were not paid for a he signed it Challenor with an 0 instead of an e to 1t was not a then the women Canadian club re Mains As authentic As it was 75 years some women have joined the mens Canadian but the women Canadian club remains Pris show of chivalry i object to Barry Mullins censure of Joe Clark in his column pc attacks on women free no vember 17 for alleged indulgence in vicious Media bashing at the recent pc convention in this is quite amusing when one re Joe Clark Calls the scurrilous Clark has been subjected to by the Media Over the Clark has had an Opportunity to return some of the Spears and arrows to the Media in defence of his own Mullin has put Forth quite a show of bravado and chivalry in defence of his but surely As master they must be thick skinned enough to accept some reasonable rib Bing in Wilson Winnipeg sensational it seems that pc bashing is Defini Tely the favorite pastime of several free press in the article by Parry pc attacks on women free november 17 not Only we hear How Rotten these snakes but that they Are woman haters to they make venomous attacks on women journal not merely in i sup pose the fact you have a daily newspaper it your disposal and use it to sensationalize trivial bickering and slant your Bevi Owsley biased opinions on the Large is you repeatedly attack the progressive conserva Jye party still expect it to Bow at your description of your cohorts As respected unbiased reporters who ire for their View brings to mind an article by letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to Frances Russell which i read several weeks yes it was pc bashing this it was the plight of the poor French people in and How the conservatives were behind All their trials and Russell pointed out in the Job there Are no French people in senior positions in the Federal govern Pierre you is French and so is the vast majority of his nothing like Good objective responsible keep up the Good work it is Winnipeg humane act i wish to on the recent incident where a Moose inadvertently wandered into the and the subsequent letter by Brian Yokimas no free november 9 in which to Ytaas saw that the Situa Tion was handler baby by the police and wildlife a big bouquet to the police and wildlife officials who quickly organized themselves to remove the animal to obviously Yawp is has never travelled on Whf cosy the my extent or be would see not just 9 tired gaping Mouth of a Moose alive its body on the Highway after being hit by a far better for the Moose that it was Only exhausted and not Doreen Kadash Winnipeg no jobs lost Bill Howes of the communications workers Union writes when he discovered the deficit and 200 surplus employees at the Manitoba Telephone system might require a Small sacrifice of a two week leave with pay by the brother Sand Sisters so All cow remain he the government of Manitoba the for a sympathetic minister agreed there need be no or if Only the people of Manitoba would pay higher Telephone its got the in october i it increased Lon distance rates by six per the government Public utilities Board also got die a we Etc earlier it had approved fee increase the 200 surplus were and another prom Jse we no jobs were or Hijoe claims toe goo Jafes were saved because the million was Only a projected congratulations to Howes and the government for acting so but i have just a letter from the red River stating it has a projected deficit of million and is laying off 250 perhaps Howes could use his influence with the government to persuade John Buck Laschuk to do for the red River Coop employees what John Lohman did for the its employ or rear ionization mean that the Public trough is open Only to Public employees Herb Schulz Winnipeg pipe dreams with regard to Val Weiers columns new waterfront Park is no longer a fret november 6 and Winnipeg planner forget about win free november 13 please ask Werier who is going to pay for the Pierin Shesky pipe dreams he comes up my House taxes went up to this Logan Winnipeg lawful Hunter Guy in his letter bad Hunt free november 5 used two fatal instances to draw our Atten Tion to Winting he neglected to that these bad Hunters were poaching game out of and therefore cannot be excused for As a generally la abiding Hunter it gets harder to be one All time with so Many ridiculous regulations do not Lump me with a Bunch of poachers who care nothing for the game they nor the property where they do the Phillip Killeen Winnipeg in afraid that your request for a loan to toys to give away has been turned t i i ;