Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 28, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg Fife monday March 1983 Winnipeg free press Freedom of f fade Fly 6wil Rig ifs Liberty of Days a Al 360 a Thoft wife Reg 3gt by Canadian of newspapers coif Pahy limited Zeleph fihe 9439331 Winnipeg free press i82 Winnipeg Tab Ute 1890 Oswald Nicol publisher j6wj Page editor must Fay by try managing editor controller an old outer space Story president Ronald reagans Star was scheme of defence against incoming soviet icbms faintly hallucinatory but has been afe und for before he picked it up last week and beamed it As the magical solution to the Tricky pro Bleff of North american survival in a global nuclear it had been peddled by a fringe group of conservative greedy defence contractors and retired generals of varying putting satellites in space that can watch identify and then destroy by death beams soviet nuclear missiles is the kind of Slick idea that makes one wonder Why it has not yet been the reason is that it at the present state of radar and beam an it is More important to wonder whether it should be should it become technologically there Are Good reasons for doubting its reagans borrowed idea is yet another lease of life for that great chimera 1960s and the dream of producing the perfect one of the Suilun realities of the nuclear age is an unavoidable similarity to marxist in which a thesis is opposed by an Antithesis and the clash of both produces a synthesis that is opposed by a new Antithesis that produces a new synthesis and so on production by one superpower of a missile aimed at destroying an enemy target with one warhead leads to the other developing a missile that is More or More or has a bigger nuclear warhead or has More nuclear or has All these capabilities another product of this Competition has been a search by both sides for the holy grail of missile technology dialectic an abm system that really the Basic fact about abm is like reagans space defence it does not now there is a system in place around Moscow that the russians think is an abm they have spent huge amounts of Money and Are spending More each year on special giant phased array specially developed nuclear tipped mis Siles and an elaborate command and control they think that this eol Lettien is so Good that it will locate and Daw edit of the sky any missile be orc it can get close enough to damage their capital cites Evarist they Are deemed to some of the Best scientific and engineering brains an this planet have been expending prodigal amounts of time and Money for years trying w Square the Circle of is the equivalent of stopping one Bullet with another Bullet by getting them to hit each other precisely on the if you get into the asm business there can be no question of accepting anything less than 100 per cent one medef Steed nuclear warhead is enough to do such property and genetic damage that it is one All systems so far developed in the soviet union1 and the United states suffer from the flaw that their makers cannot truthfully guarantee a kill rate for incoming one of the reasons is that a fission or fusion detonation above ground creates an electromagnetic pulse that Para lyres television and radar transmissions for an unknown the eyes of every abm system Are its Blind them for some minutes or hours and the missiles that they guide become As useful in combating incoming icbms As bows and the same depressing fact applies in detonate one missile close to the thousands of satellites that Reagan would have to have orbiting permanently above this continent and the satellites Are if not physically add to this the stupendous Cost of abm and killer satellite systems and idea begins to topple Over from its own except for people like Reagan who do not Hurt their Heads thinking about such paltry financial and technological considerations ought to be enough to strangle this unwise scheme at if there Are compelling strategic political reasons for discarding the idea that ought to be equally obvious to those around Reagan who Are paid to do his thinking for bad timing on fees Telli them openers who is running Oil prices they Cut yearning for a Quick fix the Pawley government has come to the realization that Manitoba universities need to raise More Money from their which is one step toward assuring adequate financing for higher education in the if the government would also make More Money available for student Aid and increase the amount of Aid provided to those students with the most difficulty covering their it would be Well on the Way to a balanced and intelligent higher education finance it has timed the thaw of Frozen tuition fees in the worst possible a year when the recession was still the government directed the universities to freeze the fees for no sound purpose beyond showing that its policy was different from that of the preceding govern now that unemployment has larger num Bers of people Are considering higher education but larger numbers also will have difficulty meeting the living and tuition and this is the moment the government chooses to raise the Premier Pawley congratulates himself for making million in Grants to universities despite the capping of payments to provinces nominally for pos secondary he warns that if next years Cheque from Ottawa Falls Short of the provinces the universities will have to find ways of reducing through the years when Federal payments to the provinces were increasing much More rapidly than Manitoba spending on the Public never heard that there was a relation Between the it was Clear that a province was free to spend As it saw fit on the amount of the Federal Grants was related to the wealth and population of the not to its real costs for pos secondary but now that the Federal Grants Are no longer growing so the Pawley government is trying to establish a relationship and to blame the Federal policy for its own or choices it May make in the on University there is in reality no More relationship now than there was a few years but there is a convenient Manitoba Grants to its like its Grants to every other dependent must vary with the general state of the provincial Federal handouts account for a Large part of the Manitoba provincial when they fall Short of All the spending has to be adjusted the payroll tax was supposedly for the Benefit of health and pos secondary education and supposedly compensating Manitoba loss of Revenue resulting from Federal Transfer health and pos secondary education have yet to notice the Bene the maintenance of Grants to universities at the level chosen before Ottawa announced the capping of its contributions is precisely the Grant to a University must depend of what the University programs Cost and what they Are Worth in relation to All the other things the province spends its Money not on the yield of a particular provincial Revenue if Hawleys government next year decides to freeze or reduce its Grants to it will have to assume full responsibility for that in too deep we have it on the authority of Muriel minister of economic development and of that Dave Freeman was head and shoulders above All the other candidates for the Job of supervisor of racing something the employ of the Manitoba horse racing that is Why he got the Freeman had not insured his own health nor had his employer arranged health insurance for him last he was stricken with rather than oblige Freeman to pay the resulting Hospital Smith agreed that the commission should pay it for Freeman confessed to difficulty sorting out the rules on health insurance for newcomers to the which everyone else who arrives Here has to i suppose i might not have been he i dont All this is Over my the honest and efficient regulation of horse racing in Manitoba will depend upon the mental alertness and acumen of racing enthusiasts can be grateful that these responsibilities were not Given to someone head and shoulders below by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa it is probably natural that at this Early stage of recovery from an exceptionally severe recession demands for an economic Quick fix Are the extent of joblessness in the coun try is deeply disturbing worst of the recession has gone on so Long that Many now exhausted their unemployment since the jobs Are not they have had to be shifted to the welfare Rolls even if their material needs Are that is a crushing psychological experience in itself for any one accustomed to make his own Way in the general recovery it is obvious that governments can not themselves create jobs no matter How much Money they throw at the problem the Hope of those who advocate massive government spend ing and huge increases in existing deficits is that this stimulate the Economy that the general recovery would be it is almost unheard of for the advocates of this course of action to address themselves to the problem of it is too inconvenient and difficult to answer so the spend now school of thought tends to sweep it under the the adherents of this Point of View also sweep away the entire question of the capacity of financial markets to absorb increasingly vast government borrowings and the inevitable effect on interest rates when Industry and com increased tax your editorial Page support boost the tax free March 12 of a National Council on welfare propos Al to terminate tax exemptions for dependent children is you justify your position on the basis of a rationale developed by the coun cil hardly an impartial you Point out in the editorial that a Selloff family in the 50percent tax bracket can save about on the exemption for a dependent child Over that is to be that child is probably attend ing school to get qualifications which should ultimately make him or her a More productive member of in such the financial Burden on supporting even relatively Rich can be very the present exemption Falls far Short of offsetting the actual Cost Canadas income tax system is sup Posedly based on ability to some one and support ing one or More dependent children at school is clearly far less Able to pay a child tax deduction vital particular amount of tax than a person who has no dependent but whose personal and financial situation is otherwise to remove the child tax exemption is therefore to impose a tax increase selectively on a group of taxpayers who Are comparatively poorly equipped to pay Public indignation about this propos Al has been slow in surfacing because the Many Middle income earners who will be affected have until now assumed that the whole idea would perish under the weight of its own sheer silliness and such is apparently not going to be the perhaps taxpayers should also reflect that a government which would accept this proposal by the National Council on welfare would not have to move very far ideologically to for exam a proposal that Small families occupying Large houses should have their property confiscated since they dont need it for redistribution to Large families which occupy Small apartments and do need extra Dave Wreford Winnipeg no free lunch i have been watching on to recently the indians and other native groups demanding Money and i see from Sta scan that billion was spent on natives last it says there Are natives in this works out to three and on third million dollars spent on each what Are they swimming in it now that they Are sitting at the highest table in i expect that prime minister Pierre Trudeau will Tell them the there is no free you want to Ottawa has por barrelled Indian affairs for the barrel is and the Farmer did not raise any Mary Pritchard Lynn letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to insensitive in reference to the very Brief article ski free March on March a Cross country ski race was held at the Charles country this race was billed As the provincial championships for the one of your reporters and a rather were assigned to cover this i understand that one of the coordinators of the Cross country pro Gram had been in Contact with the paper and had explained that this com petition was for Cross country skiers who were athletes who had a physical for visual impair loss of a cerebral your paper during the past few carried numerous articles on disabilities and athletes with physical i refer you to the february 26 in which an excellent article appeared on Diane who is a world class who happens to have one leg one would As sume that your reporters would tend to read other articles in the newspaper that they work if that is How can the reporter who was to cover the Competition on March be so poorly informed and insensitive As to Tell the coordinator that he wanted to speak to someone he could and not someone who was mentally retarded obviously this mentally retarded image was car ried Over to the picture that appeared on Page 3 of the same How could a newspaper with any class include a picture of an athlete that seems not Only out of focus but completely inadequate to demonstrate a competitor in the same Issue there Are three pictures of Canadian skiers who won International competitions on the week each picture shows the skier in doing what he does com Peting for competitions for athletes with physical disabilities Are not the special olympics our Best athletes Are ath letes who have competed against the Best in their class in the it is from provincial competitions that ath letes Are picked to compete at the National with the goal of being selected to our National our National team is then prepared for International Doug Allen president Canadian association for disabled skiing Winnipeg gift life is a wonderful gift which has been Given to All of us who speak on the Issue of we will never know what great or evil people we have destroyed in their first few weeks of put is there not a better Way to prevent abortion i refer to the forms sex education in our or should i say the Lack of sex Educa a growing fetus would be an ordeal for a 13or girl who has Little idea of what is going we need to educate children on this aspect of adult it is not entirely the fault of the Young girl who finds herself preg she is a product of the sexual revolution and of a society that is trying to shield her from if society would quit frowning on the responsible girl who seeks information on birth or the responsible adults who wish to educate our Chil Merce recover sufficiently to Start seeking new As matters the recovery in housing is somewhat tentative and the reason for that is the period when Many were forced to renew mortgages at very High rates of inter est is very fresh in the minds of potential a Strong ele ment of if not of is holding Many some past efforts to stimulate Home ownership produced by the Federal government have been so grossly and caused so much that this new element of caution is a necessary and healthy ave will not build a sustainable recovery the of Sand that has marked some of the past efforts at stimuli a critic such As Nelson Riis of the new who wants govern ments to pour an additional billion into Job creation schemes regardless of a billion Federal Are really asking for a return to the Days of soft yet it was the Trudeau governments consistent Choice of the soft option that did so much to intensify this even the wage and Price control scheme adopted in 1975 was a soft option because the formula for permissible wage and salary increases was the preference for soft options produced budgets at least in can be seen As dead wrong for the in an Effort to stimulate a sluggish they ignored the rapidly Tornado of taxes were Cut when they should have been then maybe there would not be an Issue Over it is easy for someone who is not in the predicament of an unwanted pregnancy to say choose but would it not be easier to instruct people so that the Choice can be avoided Teresa Miller Winnipeg standards needed it has been interesting to follow the running account of the Letellier fire truck we have the old truck being declared unsafe because the Road can be seen through the floor we have the announce ment of a new fire truck being Pur j would question whether the new truck is any safer than the old to what Standard is the new truck being constructed if the new truck does not meet the minimum Standard for fire fighting it is just As unsafe As the old fire firefighting is the most hazardous occupation in the world the death rate is 86 per and the injury rate runs at 50 per it is time that these facts Are recognized and the equipment supplied to firefighters performing the Lif Ethrea tuning duties of their Job is required to meet a Donna Bell executive director Manitoba society of fire service personnel dangerous game in the Short news item cruise missile testing free March 19 defence minister Gilles Lamontage is quoted As defending the testing of the cruise in he is reported As saying that the advocates of disarmament shout their protests out of Igno Rance about Western military Strate Lamontage knows better than by the end of the the govern ment was running a chronic huge by any standards except the vastly larger deficit that has been built up Marc Lalonde is not right when blames the current deficit wholly on the decline in revenues that has come with the recession this happened on top of very Large deficits which his predecessors had built up and done nothing at All to courage the voice of courage and common sense is still the one coming from the Bank of on telling us the unpalatable truths and there is a very Strong desire to shoot the messenger among those who do not like the warnings that Only the Tough options will the governors own can be challenged but Only subject to some important qualifications by any one who wishes to be it was the governments not to leave the whole problem of inflation to the Bank of Canada when Donald Jean Chretien and Allen Maceachen lacked the toughness to tackle Bouey always knows that monetarism alone would not the Point on which he can be criticized is that his monetary gradualism was a Good Deal too he too needed More toughness but unlike the Cabinet figures and two Deputy ministers of finance was always on the right neither nor his current Good silences his Crit he does not even believe his own words but since he has no credible Way to defend his he resorts to this Way of discrediting his this is a dangerous game that must not be the minister is discouraging the democratic system from working from the grass peace and Are not achieved by military Means or Milu tary the minister of defence needs to consult with people who study the Way of reconciliation and Menno Klassen Winnipeg too academic the subject is too too the death of Over six lion ukrainians by artificial famine 50 years ago is just one More that is Why you did not publish the interview with James Mace on this at least 300 people who heard his lecture on March 11 were anticipating the How come the jewish holocaust not considered too too his to be covered by the free press How Many articles were published on this subject where is your objectivity the free press blatantly Kowal Winnipeg its he has ten wives and seventy Pil Wells to ;