Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba J free november 1982 copy 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 est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller in his television address this president kudu us Reagan put Forward several constructive suggestions about improving the current Chilly climate for arms of these suggestions was to increase the Confidence each superpower has in the word and intentions of the it is Art entirely sensible borrowed the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe that Culfin Inaten in the 1975 signing in Helsinki of the so called final the final accords provided for what were called conf Dence building of betwee Flthe countries that face each other across the Iron curtain Eastern having agreed to Settle on the existing taef Evv which had never defied the close of the Seroj Ltd world it was Felt this improve Rients in relate bus in other areas would be helped by enhanced Mutual Confidence one was Mutual notification f6f military involving above a certain number 6f tool Bis arts the Tion of military observers to each sides it has been working reasonably Reagan proposes something very similar it the huileav1 weapons providing As his rationale the Folly win thought the More one Side knows about what the Otheim Side is the less room there is for Surpri Seand this intelligent which suggests informed and analytical minds Are at last having some influence on White House defence policy is Given body by four f Reagan says that both sides should engage in a Broa ranging Exchange of Basic data about our nuclear he Calls for Advance notification by each Side of All launches of land based and submarine based strategic ballistic missiles and of intermediate Range land based missiles that could strike targets in Western Europe and european he wants each Side to Tell the other in Advance of major military he wants All possible improvements to be made in the famous hot line Between Washington and Are solid they Are neither window dressing nor cynical they Are As Muchin the soviet As in the american they Are in the Canadian interest from the i Ekrom that anything that lessens the risk of accidental nuclear War is Good for Exchange of Basic data about nuclear forces is a require ment for serious arms when the difficult negotiations that produced Salt 1 some russian defence officials were staggered by the detailed information on soviet weapon stocks and deploy ment that was put on the table by was nothing beside the Surprise of several soviet civilian who had almost no idea what their own military had been one soviet general approached his counterpart and quietly suggested that there was no need for such detail to be made available to soviet were not cleared to receive such at one of the Salt 1 discussions Between Henry Kissinger and a Serif Tif soviet the official seemed have a seizure and was quickly removed from the room for several Kissinger later Learned that the official had temporarily ill because Kissinger was casually reeling off soviet defence statistics that the official regarded As the most closely held secrets of the soviet this is no in which to conduct fruitful arms talks and would ease that environment without compromising the National Security of either of test launches would improve the Aries talks although each Side monitors such tests now with satellites that make secret launches the same applies to major military the which actually in a telex link by submarine backed by an alternate satellite is an invaluable tool for direct communication without the need to posture in Reagan apparently has resisted moving to the voice link that some novelists think the hot line on the grounds that poor connections or unintended variations in speech pitch might cause faulty analysis and miscalculation of intent by either that is probably there has been such Little evidence of genuine thought and political will by Reagan concerning arms control that these suggestions should be treasured As signs that he is moving in the right they Are suggestions that the soviet government should solicitor general an Issue for the courts f caging a financial monster the statements by communications minister Francis crts chairman John Meisel and Blue bomber general manager Earl Lunsford on the subject of satellite television reveal warped thinking about the rights and freedoms of canadians that deserves to be straightened out in Fox has threatened Many times to use the police to put what he describes As satellite pirates out of Meisel has accused anyone who puts Forward thinking different from his on the subject of condoning criminal behaviour and Lunsford is rather desperately it for reasons Why by the stay away from his rather than sending in the police to seize the satellite if he is in As Strong a Legal position As he thinks he should begin court his past behaviour in other parts of where he seized dishes but never brought the alleged offenders to should persuade his present targets to begin court action themselves to deter mine the legality of their they should be encouraged by the fact that few Canadian courts seem willing to equate watching television criminal behave every time Fox Speaks on the subject he hints that canadians who install satellite dishes and then even though the Sale of food and for the privilege of watching what the dishes can Are breaking the Fox says at the same time that any Canadian wealthy enough to install his own dish is free to do and to watch whatever he the Canadian Law on broadcasting was written Long before any satellite dishes there Are bureaucrats who choose to interpret the Law and its regulations As prohibiting the use of satellite there Are also Many lawyers who argue that the signals emitted from satellites actually trespass on property and so the interception of them cannot be described As Fox is huffing and puffing about sending in the he is advising the Canadian football league to begin civil action against satellite equipped if this happens it will be interesting to discover will say about its acceptance of sizeable amounts of Money from an american satellite sports the right to telecast the if the league wants to ensure that its games Are not available to people who would otherwise have to buy it need Only cancel its television Meisel has denounced favourable comment on illegal satellites As somehow equivalent to condoning criminal if Meisel is convinced the dishes Are he does not have to wait for he can As chairman of the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission to bring the matter before the perhaps Meisel deep that watching television is not perceived by the average Canad an to be a criminal and is somewhat apprehensive about the View that can be anticipated from the the recent report from the Applebaum Hebert commis Sion takes a More sensible it suggests that nothing can Stop the flood of programming available through the use of new and advocates Canadian programming that can compete on the basis of rather than one of the quickest ways to determine just who is right about the legality of satellite receivers is to get the matter before the at the Behest of either Fox or his since Canada is unlikely to even from a Law that says what canadians cannot watch or listen the so called satellite pirates should not be top concerned about the take a letter the Federal cabinets rejection of Canada posts definition of what is a letter demonstrates that politicians occasionally listen to the Public rather than to their own Canada which is attempting to reestablish an image of efficient and reasonably priced was off the track when it sought Aid through the strengthened monopoly clause it wanted written into what Canada Post asked was it wanted the right to carry anything less than a Pound in weight that had to travel from a to that could include such items As greeting which could not be handed from person to and All the urgent material that is responsible for the growth of the highly successful courier services that provide Canada posts main the Competition would have been legislated out of the definition could have prevented municipalities from delivering Utility tradesmen from handing Bills for service to their and even friends from exchanging written except through Canada the Federal has sent the proposal Back for when it the Cabinet will be Wise if it examines the new definition As carefully As it examined the if Canada Post can get to the Point where it can provide reasonable Assurance of reliable delivery within a reason Able at a reasonable it will not need any definition of its monopoly at people will use it because it by Frank of taker Specula to the free press Montreal Quebec pension fund is in that happiest of situations for such institutions it is taking in More than it is paying the result is massive amounts of Money available for which is a Good thing for Canada and for Canadian the fund in the largest single investor in the Canadian Stock mar wide investments the fund its formal name is Caisse do depot it placement do que has a Stock portfolio of approximately billion and a total fund of which is expected to Rise to billion by years it has invested in a wide variety of including pulp and paper controls Dom tar a Forest products producer Tex tiles it owns More than 13 per cent of Dominion textiles natural Gas has More than 44 per cent of Gaz metropolitan which services this City aluminium it is a substantial Holder of Stock in Alcan and telephones and its holdings in the Ca Nadian Pacific railway company Are close to 20 per it is this last which has created yet another confrontation Between this province and Ottawa is Wor or says it that any provincial government might gain control of what is essentially a National institution and is legislating to prevent a pos Sibil Ottawa Bill s31 is designed to limit such provincial holdings to under 10 per which automatically puts an end to further purchases of car voting Stock by the an ugly controversy has the came regards car As a Good its Job is to invest Well and therefore any outside influence which circumscribes its activities it naturally views with there is Good reason for the reaction of the though not for Thelan Guage Jean Campeau who Heads the has used to describe Ottawa the stockholders of car in the most theoretical control that company but it is no More than real control of transportation in this whether by air or on the is held by the Federal govern even if the Coesse wished to act in some Way contrary to the National in for of que Bec it would not be Able to do Ottawa would still decide what the management of car no evidence that the fund wishes control Canadian which is Canadas largest Industrial Campeau has denied it and can to the remarkably healthy performance of car Stock in recent months 36 per cent As justification for his de sire to buy critics support critics of the Caisse performance and there Are Many in business support the Ottawa they claim that the Caisse has ceased to be a Neutral pension seeking the Best possible return on its the in the eyes of these has clearly chosen to act As an instrument of government these same critics cite the funds Purchase of shares of Gaz Metropolis where in truth the funds decision to buy and the policy of the provincial government did but there is no evidence much to the in fact to suggest that investment in a monopoly distributor of a major fuel in Quebec largest City is not a very sound As in relations Between the present government in Ottawa and the present government in every act must be greeted by one Side or the other with suspicion and Denuncio the Federal liberals Are not an Ordi nary National party As far As the parti quebecois is they Are direct and a contest for political Power in this prov it is the Federal More than the provincial whom Premier Rene Levesque sees As the ultimate political enemies standing in the Way of the party goal of separa traitors it is the Federal liberals from this province who Are the Accord ing to the parti who Des troyed the chances of a favourable vote in the referendum and whose political and Are designed to Block pm it would be foolish for anyone to think the Federal liberals Are not something when it comes to they Are part and parcel of the everyday political scene what is done is done to enhance the party hold on this province and the game is played the Ottawa Bill is drawn most it applies to any company engaged in an inter provincial or International undertaking which involves the transportation of goods or passengers by rail or this is a Broad net especially when it is applied to an area where Ottawa already has effective the Caisse is not to be compared with the Alberta heritage that fund is controlled by the Alberta government and is charged with carrying out government the Caisse is though certainly not in Friendly to its funds Are not in any sense government they Are the property of the Quebec whose Money it uses to provide pensions for if it cannot invest freely in the Caisse will invest outside and Canada will be the poorer for deploy cruise All the arguments against the cruise missile Are in reality based on and a Lack of understanding of the opposition move ment to the of Origi nates in is the communists who have most to gain and those groups in the West who Are trying to Stop deployment of the cruise Are certainly unwitting tools of the red Edward a realist and an idealist in cause of in a recent television interview on firing warned because of the Sive arms the West simply has no Choice but to try to retain or regain its he sees the alternative As simply surrendering to the forces of Teller cautioned that the danger of a sudden nuclear attack will be greatest until such time the West has the cruise missile in he says the sensing Western could conceivably be tempted to launch a sur prise nuclear unless we have effective deterrents such As the much As we All abhor the idea of War nuclear weapons we never not to be used As pawns for communist drive toward world for will sleep better once the cruise is fully Kruger Winnipeg film shocks we Are concerned about the testing of the american cruise missile in Al letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes Jetters from writers mus give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to deterrent or curse As soon As we became aware of this we decided that we cared much about our country and we would not let this we formed a pressure group consisting of Grade 9 students from Carman we Felt we must do everything within our Power to Stop Issue from endangering our future and Bur my class viewed a film entitled you love this the film showed us people from the Sec Ond world War who were injured the nuclear bomb in the film was shocking and we realized from seeing it what really if we Are not Day we will blow each other if not on purpose then because somebody pushed the wrong Sheri Mutcher Janet Wiebe Grade 9 Carman collegiate not objective on november a major conference was held in Winnipeg on nuclear it was under the heading nuclear War conference draw free november of the seven speakers at the six were very concerned with the imminence and horror of a nuclear the James University of Calgary International relations proves favored getting All the facts in before taking action against the arms the others All favored action your report devotes 25 per cent by word count to Keeley and does not even mention four speak the end of the report gives the impression that those in favor of disarmament Are november 16 ambassador Paul Robinson spoke a luncheon of the Canadian club of he once More made it his business to Tell Canada what to the article was published on november with a rather Large photo of the although he touched on several your report gave practically As much by word to his comments on the military situation As you gave to the entire nuclear War which lasted All Day and had worse you gave two big head lines to Robinsons urging Canada to spend More on his reasons for urging such action on Canada was the soviets have been engaged in a military buildup for 20 years and Arsenal outflank the West in several this is the typical Pentagon Why did you not also report Eugene Carrolls statements about the russian arms he has spent Over 30 years in the Navy and assistant director of the Navy in the Pentagon when he retired in his statements should contain some which is what Keeley Carroll said that Russia has kept every verifiable agreement on arms made with the he also said that the has been ahead of Russia at every stage in the nuclear arms and that whenever Russia approached the moved into the next More dangerous Cycle in this the present plans of deploying the cruise he would be by far the most dangerous step because their size and mobility would make detection nearly impossible and any agreement on control extremely two stories do not represent objective if you do this on your editorial your readers know that they Are dealing with you do this on your report ing you Are misleading your Jake Letkemann Winnipeg appalling Canada must refuse the cruise mis Sile the deployment of the cruise missile cannot be encouraged by a country with a or even by one with a of let alone a healthy capacity for Teyv tote be first strike weapons can Only make arms reduction talks More impossible the horrifying multiplication of nuclear weapons More rapid and and the con of our planet More cer the United states is contemplating nuclear War and prime minister Pierre Trudeau intends that Canada i am appalled and sickened by my country eve Danziger Winnipeg work for peace the free no vember 6 of Helen Cai dicots lecture in the threat of nuclear War omitted the Roost important part of her message that each of us must act to prevent the unfolding of the deadly scenario of the nuclear arms neither she nor Linus in his recent Winnipeg counselled we must recognize the potential for disaster in nuclear War and then put our energies into preventing it we need not be helpless Winnipeg coordinating com for disarmament brings together individuals and groups who Are determined to work for Cowie Winnipeg services it is not often that we acknowledge the everyday services of respect and kindness performed by Pur local we thank the Winnipeg police department for its assistance on vember in maintaining an orderly funeral process for our beloved Moth Annie we Are truly Clara Thor six Winnipeg i ;