Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 11, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free 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 Cor Topany limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald n1col publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller West Bank protest editorials the Case of a now serving his third term in a military prison for refusing to serve in the West Bank highlights one consequence of israeli prime minister Mena chem begins in the occupied Anatol Yablonky is a polish jew who emigrated to Israel 17 years ago with his a 29yearold he is being harassed by the israeli defence ministry because his conscience will not allow him to take part in the sometimes harsh actions required of israeli soldiers serving two weeks after he completed his second prison the defence ministry ordered Yablonky to report for military duty in the West when he they jailed him the sequence is Likely to if it does the main reason will be his mothers she has set up a table across the Street from the defence seeking signatures on a petition urging his telling signers i am proud of this is no isolated scores of reservists have been jailed for declining West Bank Are jailed once and then posted elsewhere for future Reserve Yablonky is receiving special his crisis of As with the reflects a relatively recent phenomenon in israeli no israeli institution is held in higher Domestic social regard than the Israel defence service in the if is As is annual refresher training and Reserve duty until late in it is that any israeli would have to be compelled to join an institution that is the guarantee of the states is a Model of effectiveness and enjoys a High reputation for honorable that reputation explains fury in parts of the army about former defence minister Ariel Sharon conduct of the Lebanon War and the Way in some soldiers he Hung the army out to dry in the Early stages of the palestinian refugee Camps massacre it also explains the agony being Felt by an increasing number of reservists when ordered to West Bank not much attention was paid to this phenomenon until the painful evacuation of israeli settlers from Yam it just before last years handover to Egypt of the last slice of the Sinai Peninsula As part of the Camp David Many reservists hated this task and began to talk openly of their loathing of West Bank last a Small group of reservists held a press conference to Appeal for government action to curb military brutality towards West Bank Sharon had ignored their prior Effort to go through military the result was a court Case in which it was shown that policy guidance from the top was to harass and intimidate some soldiers were reservists also have been repelled by the Lawless behaviour of some jewish settlers who Are in the West Bank As part of begins strategy to absorb to give them living some Arab land has been expropriated and inhabitants there have been rising tensions and violent Arab including fatal some arabs have been shot dead by new defence minister Moshe Arens has rightly demanded that settlers leave the Job of maintaining order to the that repels growing numbers of reservists and keeps Anatol Yablonky returning to his prison minister out of touch it would be reasonable to ask communications minister Francis Fox whether he has heard about the recession that is hampering the Canadian throwing thousands of people out of and which is adding to the Federal deficit at a rate that must worry his Cabinet from statements made by Fox to a Cable Industry it would appear that the recession has not appeared on his personal Fox has urged the Cable Industry of which is at present attempting to Cope with the massive capital investments necessary to get the Federal governments version of pay television off the to hurry into other Fox has that the Canadian radio television and telecommunication com Mission will move quickly to approve licences for Cable companies which want to introduce around Hemlock childrens and channels devoted strictly to what is Odd about Fox statement is that he is asking one part of the communications Industry to do what his department prohibits another part radio for must by Law include a prescribed amount of foreground in which voices Tell listeners what they have and what they Are about to radio stations in Canada cannot provide the around the clock Type of music programs Fox is asking the Cable companies to the Way radio stations do the Canadian broadcasting at least in its radio is trying its Best to provide exclusive news it is doing so to the extent that faithful listeners can be guaranteed to hear the same tape clips on the same subject three or four times on the Day the item first and at least twice on the following outside of the one project that threatens to Dampen the enthusiasm of the otherwise optimistic Ted of the first superstition is his determination to provide television channels devoted exclusively to news despite his which includes persuading Many of the younger hopefuls in the television business to work More for the of air time than for the Cost of this project threatens b sink if Fox wants Canada to have some of the services he has described to the Cable he need Only Back off from some of his present he might be surprised at the number of Good music radio stations that would Spring up in he rather than talking about the willingness of the crts to licence new news Only television take a close if he is at the budgetary requirements of the abcs main television news the combined National and the Mcdonald All Boss said was no 10minute dig up legitimate party members with a Lon term commitment and get pm to vote at the candidates selection Crosbie faces prejudice a new Power Deal Hydro Quebec Deal to sell its surplus Power to the new England Power Pool contains provisions which May become Standard in future Power sales involving Canadian and american the provisions reflect the build up of surplus Power in the dropping Price of Oil and the recognition by both sides that Power sales can be a two Way the Quebec Sale to new England provides for interrupt ble Power to be delivered during an 11year period beginning in the Price is tied to the world Price for and there Are provisions for Quebec to buy Thermal based Power from the new England utilities from time to time to enable it to fill its although the Deal is on a much larger it has Many Points which Are similar to the present plans by which Manitoba Hydro intends to link its system with that of the Nebraska Public Power this scheduled to go into operation in is often described As one whose main purpose is the seasonal Exchange of rather than the outright Sale of Power from Manitoba to there is in the executive offices of Hydro Quebec apparently no conviction that Energy prices Are about to return to their 1981 already customers of the new England utilities Are benefiting from the reduced Price of Oil to the extent where their Power Bills have dropped by close to 10 per these customers Are still paying More than customers of Hydro based a Factor which has persuaded the utilities serving them to tie into the renewable resource generators of Hydro Quebec with the Protection of comparison for its Hydro Quebec must View the easing of world Oil prices As a signal for it to sign up customers for its surplus generating in order to spread the Long term debt Load created by the construction of this capacity Over As Many customers As the Pursuit of additional customers is something that can be recommended to every Hydro Utility that has excess generating Manitoba Hydro by special to the free press Ottawa when John Crosbie announced that he would contest the conservative leadership he also emphasized his View that Canada needs an economic Alliance with the United that night a Csc newscast reported that one of the reporters present had then accused Crosbie of being pro american that word accused is from the whatever the re Porter in question May have National frenzy both the Crosbie View and the press conference reaction say Good Deal about contemporary on one we sell about 70 per cent of our exports to the United states and work ourselves into a National when Ever there seems to be any threat to that wealth producing flow of goods on the there Are plenty of canadians for whom a show of friendliness towards the United states pro americanism if you like would be the subject of accusation rather than like Canadian nationalism this attitude probably is stronger in Ontario than elsewhere in the with its centres in Toronto and although currently the Canadian government is seeking Good relations with the United the present Cabinet is certainly not free of the attitudes that marked the reporters question to John the motivations behind the National program for instance were including a Strong desire to dedicated group we accept with thanks the free press acknowledgement of the accomplishments of our various Community organizations in fort in the article Osborne Centre Grants top free March like we willingly give credit to those citizens who have helped bring them what is is your reporters too obvious solicitation of purely political mainly from outside our to comment on the benefits of our in fairness to your negative com it must be assumed that they were not Given full details of either the purpose of the River borne Glass blowing the Village development nor of the benefits of specific projects we have they for the fact that Many of the people for whom we have created jobs Are their own in attempting to level accusation of favouritism at one of our Community elected certain councillors chose to ignore that our work is a Community that our Board is elected in open democratic and that their criticisms Are levelled As much at Many of the citizens of fort Rouge As at our Lloyd Axworthy has for the past 10 one of the fort Rouge com members working for a better he has been along with Many in assisting the River borne development Assoc a any constituency tends to elect As its representative to government individuals who appear most Able to and Vance the interests of that it is the right of any constituency to expect to be served by an responsible and responsive elected representative As in the con text of your by Lloyd a i know of no other Volunteer group of citizens in Winnipeg that has demonstrated the kind of commitment to neighbourhood improvement expressed by the River borne development Asso i am proud of their efforts in promoting Job senior citizens employment Community cultural hous ing and in so Many other Vidal executive director River borne development Winnipeg birthday Albert Edward Manitoba born in april letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letter from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to poor policy As a dissatisfied customer of the i feel compelled to relate my on March 22 i invested two hours going to the downtown store and selecting frames for use in my Art when i went to use my tax exempt number i was refused because i had no certificate of this exemption number is issued to my cooperative gallery so that the Mem Bers do not pay tax on but collect the tax later when the painting or drawing is according to the taxation the Manitoba government not require proof at the time of on March i spent three More hours discussing the situation with the taxation department and the Bays the tax people were very the Bay people throughout the episode were ignorant of the government require arrogant in their treatment of a dissatisfied customer and confused about the originally they accepted responsibility and told me to order my frames by phone and receive them cod and not deny my request for a letter of in the i spent another hour going Down to the store and signing for my frames although they finally accepted my taxation we Are looking Here at a loss of six hours of my plus tremendous As a freelance Commer Cial artist and an arts and crafts my time is too valuable for since so much has been invested to i intend to make the most of a bad situation and turn my anger to where it May do some i am writing letters to the store the minister of finance and the Consumers to the downtown Bay manager i wrote mistakes Are acceptable if those in error accept responsibility and make to Date i have not received any Susan Gibson medea gallery Winnipeg thriller junkies salutations to Christopher Dafoe for giving prominence to the fact that the spy novel and the whole genre of suspense and thriller fiction Cater to a Public hunger for this kind of liter Ary output free March whether or not your cursory and Picayune so reviews of suspense fiction Are an expression of your literary snob we crass devotees of cloak and Dagger have Seldom been Given a fair shake in your Book Over the these superficial reviews have averaged six or seven lean but you will devote a Quarter of a Page to some mediocre prose soap opera which will gather dust in Book stores publication probably funded by Canada make on behalf of countless thriller i petition you to assign the task of reviewing suspense and spy novels to do and i will even Promise to Stop using Gordon Sinclair column As a sanitary catch All on the floor of my canards Reid Winnipeg i slow the flow of wealth to an equally intense drive to increase Feder Al Power Over the provinces and a highly developed taste for detailed interventions in the overlying All of was the economic nationalism that has As its obverse Side Strong John Crosbie is a Man of substance and a far More experienced politician than the others in the conservative contest but he faces serious barriers to his ambition to Lead his parly and become prime his sense of humor and wit provide the commonly accepted shorthand for the largest of expressed this Way by a Nova Scotia tory i wonder if the country is ready for a standup comic from Newfoundland As prime the word anyone could be substituted for the words standup comic and the Nova Scot ians remark would still this is a country of very Strong prejudices and the big problem facing Crosbie is hot his wit but his province of it will not be his conservative rivals but the people of the country and the press who will pin the standup comic Label on really meaning just that he is a responsible budget among the economic nationalists his views on the United states will not help him and this not be fully offset even by belated recognition that he presented the Only genuinely responsible budget the country has had since we would be vastly better off in Canada if John Crosbie had gone on at one planet i was deeply moved by the movie Mahatma Gandhi had the inner conviction that his relationship with god was a reality that offered practical and powerful solutions to move a nation toward Unity and free yet this Story has a direct link with today and another movie if you love this at the end of the movie these words Are spoken you Are going to have to change the Priori ties of your if you love this plan i wish we could All care enough to take that first step towards attaining inner and realize that we Are one one the principles of love and truth have always been Active on this planet and will continue to be the Only solutions for what ails the Elizabeth Martin Winnipeg surviving nicely in the five months since we have been we have read news releases about the horrendous inflation in mexi and have received letters from friends inquiring As to How we Are making when we the peso was quoted at 70 to the on Decem Ber the peso was floated at 148 to the herein an example of prices at 70 pesos to the Hiram walkers Canadian club 750 my costs add on a 15 per cent sales tax and a 20 per cent import tax and it comes to at 70 pesos to the Dollar this bottle costs plus 20 per which equals but Seagram whiskey made in Mexico under the same monetary situation costs 300 which equals Canadian for equiv Alent Quality and alcoholic in the following prices All in Canadian the finance ministry and never been replaced by the disastrous Allan Mac each Nian Stewart Crosbie View of relations with the United states is As realistic As the budget Overly Clever liberals were Able to turn against his party so effectively because it raised revenues when that step was desperately he says economic Alliance we cant have substantial economic growth in this country without a new economic Alliance with the United states but everyone is afraid to discuss this Issue because of the implications for Canadian in not afraid to discuss it because if someone Doest were going Down the the most attractive facet of Crosbie character is this willingness to tackle the necessary but unpopular no matter what offence it gives the economic Canada does need Good relations with the United that relationship is so vital that a healthy touch of pro americanism would do Canada no harm at All since that is where our interests before canadians could be frankly Tiey would have to get rid of their crippling inferiority Complex towards the United As the Best american Ambas Sador of recent Tom has observed there is no need for it because americans certainly dont re Gard canadians As John Crosbie deserves to be taken seriously in his Uphill Battle because he is a Man of Good dollars i have used the current rate of 148 pesos to the Dollar White onions 28 cents per garlic potatoes 23 cents a limes 42 oranges 14 apples bananas 37 tomatoes 42 cucumbers 14 butter 300 Grams eggs Large 48 cents a avocados Bacon beef tenderloin shrimp Kilos whole wheat bread 653 Grams 41 milk whole 19 cents per Cutty Sark scotch imported 750 Smirnoff Vodka 725 my White sugar two Kilos 46 cents a Well known medication for arthritis in Winnipeg for 100 tablets for 100 i have told my friends that we Are making out and not to about what is going on with prices in George Russell Mexico you dont like Crom you dont like you dont like Wilson who the hell do you like ;