Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 6, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free april 1983 i i 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 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller an Issue out of control if Premier Howard Pawley had done the sensible thing 10 Days agreed that his ministers had behaved foolishly when they joined in a demonstration in front of the consulate which ended in a and issued a simple the whole Issue would be forgotten by by refusing to take that simple and by attempting to make the Issue something it is the Premier has ensured that it will continue to do political damage to whatever Pawley May the Issue has nothing to do with Freedom of Freedom of Assembly or Freedom in Central whatever opposition Leader Sterling Lyon May it has nothing to do with the marxist nature of the regime now governing the Issue is simply one of proper behaviour for Cabinet ministers and of their responsibility to work not the interests of the people who elected Cabinet ministers Are free to say any fool thing they want or to attend any meeting they they must that when they speak they speak for the govern ment when they act they act for the if they forget it is up to the Premier to remijid the is under the illusion that the episode has something to do with the indivisibility of the demonstration which the ministers attended was called to protest assistance to counterrevolution Aries in that is a worthy enough cause but it does not have much to do with Freedom As canadians know the sandinista government in Nicaragua is a vast improvement Over the brutal dictatorship it replaced but it is also a regime As described has postponed harassed dissidents and the and ruled with a heavy enough hand to inspire some of its citizens to take up arms against canadians in All political parties can and do defend the right of that regime to Protection from outside when they rally to defend that they ought not to imagine that they Are rallying in a simple defence of and when they join a March in front of the should not imagine that they Are participating in a simple declaration for a demonstration in front of a country consulate by its very a threatening and hostile As events on March 23 it can attract some who Are inclined to actions which Are More openly hostile and by taking part in that demonstration the Manitoba like it or associated themselves with that and those both planned and doing they involved the people of Manitoba not in a reasoned disagreement with the policies of a neighbouring country but with an open expression of hostility to the country by refusing to recognize Premier Pawley has allowed the foolish action of the ministers to Cloud Manitoba future dealings with the United an overblown invasion available evidence suggests that the sandinista regime in Nicaragua has greatly exaggerated an alleged invasion from neighbouring it is not hard to guess nothing helps an incompetent government More than an external Argentina provides one with its spectacular invasion of the Falkland islands a year ago that took its suffering citizens minds off the ruined Economy and the Issue of thousands of missing kidnapped and murdered by disguised soldiers acting on regime Nicaragua now provides the Economy is in poor partly because of the regimes planning and administrative partly because the regime has classified As ideological enemies the same private business men who backed sandinista overthrow of the dictator ship of Anastasio the revolution happened almost four years ago and now should be old hat but Fervour is being whipped up wasting Energy and needed to rebuild the International sympathy for the new system that was Strong in the Early Post Somoza Days has been except among those too Lazy to keep up with what has been happening inside the social the suppression of press arbitrary growing lists of class enemies and constant exhortations to War readiness Are at Odds with the Early impression of a worthy having rejected the unique Opportunity presented by the fact that the Somoza overthrow enjoyed Broa based do Nestic the sandinista leaders also discarded the Chance of a new relationship with the United states while it was still under the stewardship of Jimmy importing cuban wearing Castro style Olive fatigues and waving Kalashnikov while denouncing Yankee imperialism did a lot for sandinista egos but Little for Nicara Carter and his advisers became frightened and less generous in their an attitude that was confirmed and worsened with the election of Ronald Reagan and his advisers were Alert for a soviet threat anywhere and the sandinista provided sustenance for that a Hartline proconsul was sent to Honduras As ambassador with a Brief to strengthen its defences against any nicaraguan invasion and to coordinate Central intelligence Agency activities among those dissenting from sandinista Rule in due to sandinista governing the list of exiled dissidents swelled far beyond the former National guard members whose brutality rightly made them hated by sandinista harassed persecuted aboriginal threatened journalists and Ordinary nicaraguans reject the intolerant marxism of some sandinista leaders have fled to Costa Panama and even Al in fear of their they Are highly unlikely to make common cause with former National guard members but they do represent a potent Ial alternative it is possible that the sandinista regimes claim of major invasion activity in the North of the country has been made divert International attention from the regimes uncivilized behaviour when the Pope briefly visited Managua examination of the Region by foreign diplomats and journalists suggests that the purported major Battles never happened and that the invading alien hordes do not Small scale engagements Are happening but no Ina sign worthy of the if the wish to be seen As More than a successful military movement that has replaced one intolerance with they should be abandoning fictional invasion Healing the Domestic rifts that they have halting their meddling in Al Salvador tragic civil strife and creating the kind of society that the world would be Happy to if they did reagans silly meddling in Honduras would lose its like a Butterfly song like a open the Nevada books a saving for the Csc if the president of the Canadian broadcasting Corpora Pierre can save million in administrative costs primarily by appointing several new he will be breaking new ground in the Field of government until Juneau new appointees have been on the Job Long enough for their value to be discovered in the corporations balance the True Worth of a policy of savings by decentralization will remain Juneau objectives Are the Burden on the taxpayers created by the National broadcasting network is made More onerous by the tendency of in any to grow at a faster rate than if the Csc can find million in savings in its adm Nistra and invest this dividend of efficiency in imaginative canadians will be Quick to recognize the benefits of having Juneau at the the task set by the new president for himself is Many men who have sat behind the presidents desk at the Csc before Juneau have dedicated much of their time and Effort to the reduction of administrative costs most have subscribed to the theory expressed in an earlier study of broadcasting that the Only important thing in radio and television is programming that the rest is Only in the efforts made to trim housekeeping costs have included greater Juneau proposes to Cut the costs by decentralizing by at the very responsibility for and television in both the English and one result of this approach May be to Point out dramatically the differences in costs Between programming on radio and the difference in Cost Between using words As on Csc radios As it and words and As on tvs the which otherwise uses essentially the same will be revealed the next time parliament gets a close look at Csc the figures May be the approach taken by Juneau is Correct from an entirely different the Federal government has recently announced policy changes which will make it easier for television delivered by to enter Canadian Homes free from the threat of these changes will carry their own demands on the Csc for better and better As Many Csc presidents have argued in the carries with it a Price tag that Many canadians feel is beyond the ability of the Federal Treasury to the Hope in the corporation is for programming Good enough to sell elsewhere in the the amount to be saved by restructuring the administration of the according to is million a at today such a saving could create about 100 hours of primetime programming on not All the savings realized will go into television How if Juneau can save million annually in administration costs that can be channelled into program he will be Well Worth the salary he is being the Manitoba lotteries and gaming licensing Board does not feel it is appropriate to reveal to the Public the detailed breakdown of statements by organizations Selling the break open or Nevada now at a whopping annual Sale of More than i made a request to examine the reports of individual organizations to get a picture of How they allocated their funds to but the Board apparently Felt this was an invasion of the Board would prefer the information be obtained from the or from the Board after being authorized to do so by the suspicion my View is that when clubs Are licensed to sell their state ments should be available for Public particularly when the proceeds Are slated for charitable Pur there is always a whether justified or that every thing is not always above Board in the gambling opening the books for Public perusal would help dispel this there May be an inference that the Board has something to but that is not Garth general manager of the lotteries and gaming control is most cooperative and supplied me with a breakdown of the Gross operating net profit and disposition of funds of a sampling of ten organizations without providing their the sampling does not include the top Sellers who May distribute More than million in tickets some organizations hire people to sell their tickets at a commission on their others do it by but still there is a startling difference in operating expenses shown in the ranging from per cent to a Low of per cent of the Gross profit after it is also a misconception that the clubs use All the proceeds for Charita ble they can use them for the operation of their facilities or to renovate their or for whatever organizational there is nothing untoward about for the nevadas have enabled clubs to survive despite Lack of the result is that riot enough of the winnings go to charitable the terms and conditions of the lot teries Board states that a charitable object or purpose includes the Relief of recreation and cultural activities and the advancement of religion or any purpose beneficial to the these Are the objectives but there is no specific criterion for the use of and clubs can and do use the proceeds for endeavours Remote from charitable one club used part of the proceeds for a Christmas party for children of the there is no requirement to allocate a certain percentage of the proceeds to charitable neither has the Board made a detailed analysis of what proportion goes to maximum we Are really getting our feet into it says our goal is to ensure that the maximum amount of Money generated from the games goes to the charitable objects approved by the in the the organization with the highest percentage of operating expenses had this breakdown Gross operating sex net of which went to Curling club utilities and to the chamber of Commerce to help keep a theatre another organization had a Gross profit of operating net profit of which went to club maintenance and no Charity donations but another with a net profit of gave it All for teachers wages and repairs to a parochial the organization with the lowest operating expenses at per cent had a net profit of of went to building Assis Tance and 25 donations amounting to a total of to various charitable a disbursed is these Are not the big distributors of nevadas and it would be relevant to see How those with 10 times the proceeds Dis tribute their the regulations Are that unless expressly authorized by the Board the total expense in a Nevada shall riot exceed 10 per cent of the Gross re exclusive of the Cost of and License it should be noted that this is 10 per cent of Gross because prizes amount to 73 per cent in certain nevadas this works 37 per cent of Gross that is a Large proportion allowed for expenses for charitable three inspectors there is not sufficient accountability and control for there Are Only three inspectors to examine the Nevada outlets licensed last we need More people to thoroughly inspect the organizations and to make certain they Are keeping proper rec to account for the funds and where they have says Man More inspectors too Are needed to make certain there is no Hanky Panky in the Sale of Steve chief says Are dozens of complaints of Sellers break ing the a seller knows How Many winning tickets remain to be for there is a fixed number per he May buy the remaining tickets in col Lusion with friends because of the pay he is forbidden by regulation to buy it is difficult to says but theres no smoke without there have been occasions too when boxes of tickets have been licensed distributors May sell tickets to it is for a person to go to an unscrupulous distributor in buy the pick out the and Palm them off there is agreement that there must be greater control of the Sale of lottery there must also be clearer directives to funnel the proceeds to and the Public should know precisely How these funds Are allocate support arts i am appalled by the recent decision to Cut out the Art consultant from the Winnipeg school division one of that in hard times such frills As Art Are easy targets for Money saving it is Only when one considers the needs of civic Pride in our culture that one wonders about those administering educational being a product of Winnipeg schools Silver Heights collegiate i can think Back to the Little Art training that was available or the Lack of any serious direction one builds ones Faith in himself As a potential artist As much from his teachers As from a slow sculpture by Leo Mol growth in Sel Confidence Over the having returned to Winnipeg after further study in the United and teaching for the past 10 years at the University of it has become Clear to me that unusual Talent can emerge almost in my experience has suggested it is often found outside of the wealthier parts of the i Hope the school division will recon Sider its decision and will continue its support for our artistic William Pura associate professor school of Art University of Manitoba Winnipeg Friendly City on March 12 i flew into Winnipeg on a business a Winnipeg couple went out of their Way to drive me from the Airport to my hotel in the Centre of the City and provided me with a first class tour of your i would like to thank the wallaces for their i do not know their my perception of Winnipeg As a open City was certainly reinforced by Sandra James letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to disenfranchised How Many elderly britons such As myself will be disenfranchised by a new government edict although i have voted Ever since Manitoba women got the i am no longer allowed to vote unless i can produce a Canadian citizenship card because i was born in it is a lot of trouble and expense to obtain this card and Many May not be Able to do the phone number of the citizenship office is hidden in the Blue pages of the yellow pages you need two photos of yourself in a certain not Many photography studios bother with but i found after having the photos and armed with my birth certificate and marriage j went to the citizenship i was asked to sit Down and to fill out a Long form fortunately i remembered the name of the boat we came on in also the port of i tried to ferret out the English questions among the a very Nice employee helped me Complete the after a Short i was Given my identify card in this land of the free another As they have not asked me for my thumb prints Victoria Wallace Winnipeg circumstantial j have followed both of Thomas so Pho Nowy trials and Felt he was inno cent from the i am sick Over the guilty innocent until proven what a the Crown never proved that soph now was in the doughnut shop that How can anyone be convicted on circumstantial evidence the Crown never could produce a reason Able Thomas soph now should have his Appeal granted and get a fair Jones aspire to office in response to the letter by nip free March if Dorosh Job classification happens to fall in the Craft or Public service Cate it is self demeaning to question the competence of persons in like work who Are elected to a legislative Assem he states in his a school teacher is still a school a Union Boss is still a Union Boss and a clerk is still a i am proud that average working class citizens accept the obligation to serve in a Public surely it would not be in the Public interest nor in keeping with democratic principles were we to revert to the intolerant attitude that prevailed in in that Daniel Odonoghue was elected to the Ontario legislature the first labor the Ottawa citizen commented this result is remark Odonoghue is a poor me who has nothing to depend upon for support but his his election by an immense majority Over a wealthy candidate backed by the ministry shows How Little sympathy the people of Ottawa have with the party in individuals from All walks of life should have Confidence in their own ability and aspire to hold Public of Nels Thibault Winnipeg plan alive 1 noticed a request from Douglas free March 15 that i make a Progress report on plan i am most pleased to do contrary to some popular Misander plan Winnipeg is indeed alive and Well and providing a policy Frame work for the development of the City Council at its meeting of vember adopted plan Winnipeg As amended As interim Council policy in order to provide guidelines to mittens and the As the plan is now being used As the guiding document for the future growth of the discussions Between the cites offi Cial delegation arid members of the provincial Cabinet leading to approval of plan Winnipeg by Way of bylaw Are Bill Norrie mayor Winnipeg i i ;