Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 7, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free april 1983 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion a hard line in Paris 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 the expulsion of 40odd soviet diplomats and journalists from France on grounds of suspected espionage underlines an irony of the contemporary French political it is the fact that the current government takes a harder line on East West issues than previous governments of a far More conservative socialist Francois the perennial finally convinced the French electorate in 1981 to eschew the political caution that had kept it voting conservatively since the year that general Charles de Gaulle came to in the Days since the fifth Republic was and major new Powers allotted to the the socialists were on the unable to elect a Mitterrand changed that by Good skilful political strategy and an electoral Alliance with the communist changes in the French political climate including the decline of gaullist As a Force and errors of the Republican Valery Giscard those who saw the election of a socialist president backed by communists As a serious blow to French democracy and the West were As events have in Mitterrand is More ant soviet and pro Atlantic Alliance than any of his post1958 his pact with the French communist party is of the not the he needed the communists to the whose National electoral support declined from 21 per cent in 1978 to 16 per cent in needed Mitterrand if they Ever were to gain Mitterrand gave them four Cabinet posts unrelated to National he forbids discussion of defence issues in their presence and gives them no Access to intelligence or defence secrets although the communist party has tended to support soviet foreign policy in the Mitterrand Brooks no divergence from his own Stern line towards Moscow he gave powerful Public backing to the 1979 nato decision to deploy Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in Western despite the fact that France is not part of the nato military the despite Moscow violent aver Sion to the Pershing cruise have not disagreed publicly with Mitterrand Mitterrand attitude towards the French communist party is wary because he believes that the communists Are supported by workers who should vote for a Long time before 1978 he displayed open antipathy towards the a fact Well known in the soviet in threw its support behind Giscard Destain in hoping for the reelection of a president who had rushed to Warsaw five months after the soviets invaded Afghanistan to hold Friendly talks with Leonid Giscard saw himself As a major world figure who could Rise above such As the to bring peace by talking directly to the russian for this was a wonderful propaganda Bonus at a time when other Western leaders were treating him As a before Moscow did relatively Well with de who certainly developed Frances Independent nuclear deterrent aimed at the soviet Union but who so distrusted Britain and the United states that he pulled his country out of the North Atlantic treaty organizations military the generals prickly nationalism led him into clashes with other Western countries on economic policy and to treat the soviets As soviet strategic interests were Well served by this heading a socialist communist does not serve soviet strategic interests in any despite the recent Exchange rate Row with West he is a committed he supports Strong backs the concept and policies of nato and admires the United though not All of its of All current Western he is the least Likely to lose sleep Over soviet rage about espionage related sure Hope they get that satellite mess All straighten fogging for votes the Mosquito season will soon be upon Winnipeg once but the City still has not found a satisfactory basis for its fogging councillors believe that there Are More votes in fogging than in not fogging and in this election the Public can expect to be thoroughly fogged for the anticipated effect upon the voters More than for the Short lived effect upon the City councillors during the Winter made a great Todo about defending their right fog and fending off provincial the Manitoba clean environment commission had proposed that the City should have to seek a permit from the province and that the provincial minister of the Environ ment should have the Power to veto a fogging since the municipal authorities know a great Deal More than the province both about the techniques and about the politics of Mosquito fogging in the the proposed ministerial veto has Little to commend those who wish to change the cites policy should be invited to do so by persuading their and the City not by apply ing pressure to a provincial minister who need never answer to Winni Eggers for his the trouble once the Council has fought and won its fight to preserve its Power to it remains that the councils own policy is it needs improving to conform to common never mind whether the Provin Cial minister approves it or in the mid the City undertook to do no fogging within 100 metres of the Home of anyone who registered himself As a resident not wishing to be a couple of Hundred people registered themselves and their wishes were re growing concern about the safety of Bay on and growing scepticism about the usefulness of fogging to kill adult mosquitoes have produced growing opposition to last Over a thousand people registered their Homes out of the fogging in order to respect their the fogging Crews had to leave about half the area of the City the councils response was to reduce to 30 metres from 100 the a fogged Buffer though the City entomologist had told them the fog would Deriti across that 30metre that continues to be the cites those who Register their Homes out of the fogging can expect to be fogged halfheartedly enough to anger them and to interfere with their right not to be fogged but not enough to kill the adult mosquitoes their backyards May Harbor and whose elimination is supposed to be the object of the All Winni Eggers can wish the Larvic iding Crews Well in heir efforts Over the next few weeks to reduce the numbers in the seasons first crop of mosquitoes without threat to human but their efforts Are unlikely to get the Council off the a nuisance infestation of mosquitoes will probably develop before the summer is the municipality continues to hold out the false Promise that it can Stop such an though the Best it can really do is provide a few Days people who want to enjoy the outdoors and who believe that fogging does Stop Mosquito infestations will naturally demand fogging and the annual squabble will be on with its present Compromise policy of half fogging those who do not want to be fogged at the City Council is poorly prepared to weather the a Little late the ministry of transport decision to restore 24hour Snow Clearing services at Northern airports is even though it comes near the end of the Snow ministry spokesmen say the service can be restored primarily because april 1 Marks the beginning of a new fiscal and with the new year comes but not firm that funds will be available to keep airports usable seven Days a and not in the Case of the Northern As has been pointed out by those filing the the reversal probably comes in time to have an effect on service this it still snows in Churchill after Winnipeg warms the is attempting to put the Best possible face on its past it suggests that its policy resulted in Only one flight cancellation and argues that it never applied to emergency flights involving the airlines which have to use the Northern airports affected by the restricted service say that the delays and cancellations were More significant than the ministry is prepared to the ministry of transport decision to restore 24hour Snow Clearing services at Northern airports is even though it comes near the end of the Snow ministry spokesmen say the service can be restored primarily because april 1 Marks the beginning of a new fiscal and with the new year comes but not firm that funds will be available to keep airports usable seven Days a and not in the Case of the Northern As has been pointed out by those filing the the reversal probably comes in time to have an effect on service this it still snows in Churchill after Winnipeg warms by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa the conservatives May be facing a moral crisis As David Crombie insists but to most Ordinary canadians it is far More Likely to seem Only one More of their crises of compe they have those with depressing Reg unrealistic the first of those currently plaguing the party was the willingness to persist with an unrealistic Constitution that encouraged disunity and effectively gave to a minority of malcontents the Power to undermine the party Leader to a that has now been changed with highly improbable Only after the damage had been then sensible party members were unable to protect their Long Lead Over the unpopular liberals As the anti Clark United Only in opposition to the gambled everything on the Hope that out of the turmoil would come charismatic in Winnipeg in january there was no powerful tory ready or Able to speak for the which sensibly did not want to see the party enter a period of and insist that majority Rule must the tories Are in their current mess because of their sheep like submission to minority Rule at their last now they do not know How to avoid the unfavourable publicity arising from child members voting for leadership delegates and headlines like this one tories cant agree on curbing i ill it has been demonstrated that they do not because none of the party thought it a Constitution which lays Down voting qualifications at constituency no party wants to eliminate the recruiting possibilities inherent in such occasions As nomination of an election candidate by Overly rigid membership but presumably no party of adults seeking to elect a government wants Public demonstrations that 10yearolds can vote in their the tory Litany of incompetence does not end word is being spread from Toronto that Ontario Premier William who could not unite the party in any will finally and clearly take him self out of the leadership if he does the party will have demonstrated that it cannot attract any of its genuinely big guns to seek the National not encouraged a sizeable portion of those who worked so hard to undermine Joe Clark fed themselves on the notion that if they could just ruin him they could get Peter Lougheed or Bill Davis to move they were not encouraged in their Enterprise by either of those pre Miers and they had no basis for their conviction except Hope same sort of Hope As the Roulette player who throws his Money Down on a single number on the at this the Public knows All the wrong things about the conservative party and the leadership candidates and few of the right charming Brian i am sure Many supporters of Jack my for must share my disappointment at his decision to Des Ert us westerners and work for Brian Mulroney a Man who is simply More of the same of what we have had for the last 15 Mulroney is the typical Slick who represents Eastern business and political some observers have referred to him As shallow and lacking in sub it appears that the Eastern dominated National Media is poised and ready to promote Mulroney with the same soft sell Cha Risma treatment they gave Pierre Trudeau in it is too bad that westerners such As Murta should decide to sell out to the Montreal Mulroney this is Murtas second major the first being his mistaken conclusion that the port of Churchill ought to be maybe he has been in Ottawa too Long and is no longer aware of the wishes of Manito perhaps it is for him to return to his native province for a few Brian Mulroney years and get Back in touch with charming Brian versus charming Pierre what a obviously there Are some Fine men available from outside the Ontario Quebec Power i find it incredible that Murta and Manitoba must go to Montreal to find the next Leader of Henry Krueger totally inept the review by Jeffrey Anderson of local As demonstrated by his recent review of the i music con Cert held at the Winnipeg Art gallery on March is totally our City has been blessed with Many Fine com Bernard Ronald Gib Lawrence Ritchey and Michael Matthews Are Only a handful of the Many Worth the i music concert included a piece for winds and percussion entitled quis est Deus by Michael this work was recently per formed in new Orleans where it was Well i had the Opportunity of hearing it a few weeks where an enthusiastic crowd gave whole hearted Matthews has a keen sense of musical color which he successfully exploits through Subtle manipulation of timbre and instrument the performers All met the musical and logistical Challenge Given them by the in which each soloist was also expected to double on various percussion although i have Only singled out Matthews work in this each com Poser and performer had something musical to offer to everyone who Lis it is obvious that Jeffrey an Derson does not have the tools to listen to making it impossible for him to write an intelligent to use his i suggest that he needs to go Back and learn some Jamie Philp Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to untenable proud history the letters under the heading Poland and the free March 5 contain a number of Misrop contrary to the statements by Philip Weis and Poland has a proud history regarding the jewish Casimir the King of 14th Century became famous in Europe As the protector of under his jews settled in Poland in growing thus escaping from pogroms in Western jews prospered in to in my native jews owned Many of the Busin esses and Many jews served As judges and High officials in various government some jews might have been poor by Canadian but so were Many polish during the second world my father was one of Many who saved several jews from the unlike in Western the polish people suffered virtually the same Fate As the except that the poles were stronger in the nazis had planned to depopulate Eastern Europe to create More Lebensraum for the after the the polish people had been scheduled next for almost three million along with Over three million jews died in the nazi concentration Camps during the some jews Are obviously bitter about the Lack of help from poles during the defence of Warsaw knowing the brutal behaviour of the nazis in help was not easily available and poles could not help even them any direct assistance would have resulted in certain death for All professor Steiman claims that Hitler had shown More humanity to the jews in the mid1930s than did perhaps this should be substantiated with Poland was the Only country to open its Borders to jewish exiles from hitlers Germany just before the second world it is hoped that professor Steiman does not expect to be taken Odon Ostrowski gibberish the front Page Story Transfer May have Cost inmate his Fiancee free March j4 told us about a convict who had hanged himself in Millhaven the headline was written in English but the first Para graph contained a piece of gibberish that was incompatible with the rest of the the headline included the words Transfer May have Cost convict his life which is equivalent to saying it is possible that the Transfer Cost the convict his the word May is used As it should be used the opening paragraph then showed How not to use it said convicted murderer Roy Delmar Hoff Man May be alive if he had not been translation it is possible that he is alive if he had not been in the strange phrase can be converted to Clear English by a simple the replacement of May by try he might be alive if he had not been Arthur Williamson i was intrigued by some of the state ments by the Media concerning the recent suicide of convicted murderer Roy from the tone of these comments one would find it hard to suspect that this Man shot an innocent bystander in cold blood during the commission of an armed robbery As precipitated a hostage taking in Stony Mountain Penitentiary which caused untold mental anguish to four officers not to mention their equally untenable was the comment by hoffmans Fiancee who stated that transferring Hoffman to a special handling unit probably caused his the harsh truth is that when Hoffman chose a lifestyle which included violent he indicated that he no longer held any respect for the Sanctity of human his unfortunate end was merely a result which was inevitably set in motion the Day he committed his first violent Frank Filbert Winnipeg car policies i read with interest the article a matter of free March 8 a Story about Rick you have captured the experience in a very real and sensitive one part of the article bears com ment and the the kind of integration that Rick thrives on was a Point of in the Early to late the special olympics program was not promoting involvement in Community clubs or regular the contentious Issue was its emphasis on the single gala games once per year without any of the preparation work or Foi Loup that made the activities meaningful beyond the Dan Johnson and special olympics everyone for that the party is of someone More widely appealing than Joe but what does the party stand for except a yearning for ship Charisma Brian Mulroney is the leading personality one of the two whose faction is mixed up in the dirty tricks which Are so embarrassing to men like David but what does the Public i or rank and file tories know about Mulroney except that his faction believes he has Charisma is he left right or just adaptable no Surprise it cannot be Surprise to any conservative that his party has lost ground against the liberals since this farce got under that was inevitable the performance is not even Good it will probably not Surprise Many tories As the absurdities and publicity the next opinion polls show some further if anyone were asking in fact is the Basic qualification for being Ai tory these Days the reply could appropriately be this to be As self indulgent and ill disciplined As Pierre at his absolute the conserva lives Are behaving like a party of with none of the Charm or sense of purpose the present prime minister can demonstrate at his it is often said that a country gets the sort of government it like so Many old wives tales that is clearly no country deserves to have to choose Between liberals and conservatives to form the next people since changed the focus in Manitoba and Are accomplish ing excellent programs in sports churches with sports coordinating bodies and Community they have downplayed the gala games and concentrated on skill devel programs of skill develop1 ment have never been contentious with us and have in fact been the policy of our we still feel that development of sport and Leisure activities Are required in the following areas locations of Manitoba without people to coordinate activities in their schools in programs for severely and multiply handicapped and in greater emphasis on education of parents on How to use regular recce i Hope that further articles of person Al Success can be arranged and that a fairer treatment of the policy of car can appear in Dale Kendel executive director Canadian association for the mentally retarded Winnipeg whats this item under travel expenses May pieces of eight ;