Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 27, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free May 1983 7 Ottawa travel books thoughtfully distributed Here by the americans describe Williamsburg As a proving ground ideas and among George Washington and Thomas Jef named Virginias capital in Long ago and restored half a Century ago by John it a place where the was colonial and it is quite possibly the perfect locale for the kind of gathering the americans have planned for the seven Summit ers an unusually in formal with neither rigid Agen Das for half the time the clutter of aides and ministers As the political leaders sit Clown for their the other a Strong press will be even far ther Secretary of state George Schultz has said that the Hope is to bring the Summit gathering Back to its original for the leaders to get share their develop whatever com Mon thoughts they at least have a so that As they respectively went about making their own decisions about economic poli they would have in mind the thoughts and the perspectives of the other that seemingly modest Endeavor would not make Williamsburg an easy As senior officials Here were telling us the other economic recovery is now clearly visible in North America and appear ing spot tily in making this conference less difficult and less perilous than the two which preceded but it they be perilous All the it is accepted Here that All seven Summit leaders Fanfani and Nakasone plus dec president Gaston Thorn recognize that the durability of the present recovery lies in enlightened management of the Western economies in Wise fiscal and monetary the leaders also officials that an expansionary Trade strategy with determined resolve and clearly and explicitly expressed is also is by now it is unlikely that any major Western country has failed to make known in Washington its deep concern about the forecast for sustained deficits and their Poten tial effect in braking the world recon perhaps by next the concern was yet by ministers gathered at the Recd meeting in Paris earlier this and will be raised again with presi Dent Ronald Reagan in As the for have been pointing out concerns about this Defi Cit Are already having a tangible effect real interest interest rates with the inflation component remain at historically High Levels thereby dampening growth even now because of the expectation that a new bout of inflation is com the current official explanation in Washington that real rates Are in fact not High because of any current wants leaders attending economic Summit to understand each others Western seek Joan Cohen Ottawa editor but merely to make allow Ance for future economic leaves the canadians wondering whether to laugh or to of is precisely the problem the world wants it is recognized that the the administration and Congress Are aware of the problem and Are at tempting to solve though so far with no meeting of Williams of will not produce an in a reverse the Williamsburg meeting May see some pressure put on Japan and possibly the United King Dom to postpone further action on their and allow some growth in their economies to reinforce the delicate growth forces starting up on this Side of the officials Here talk about shades and nuances of difference in Outlook Between countries As they contemplate the on this comparing statements of Canadian and it is clearly the canadians who seem most concerned about the fragility of the current growth on Trade Canada counts itself with the minority wanting the seven nations not merely to pro fess their support to remove Trade restrictions but to make a firm commitment to Start dismantling them this country in the com Mons last prime minister Trudeau offered a Resolute but not categorical rejection of protectionist responding to a query about task Force proposals that would put up new restrictions against japanese car will he make that government policy canadians have not been specific about the target of their what has been noted in is that protectionist pressures did not become As serious or widespread during the economic slowdown As Many people had feared they would just a few months the main concern in Canada through this bad period was largely with proposed restrictive Laws threatened in or the buy american Laws invoked by local Canadas big and probably its chief contribution to the Confer will come in a separate area in a plea for attention to the plight of the developing our prime minister has resurrected the concerns of Montebello and Cancun in limbo since the recess Ion settled Over the world 18 months or so in a powerful speech the other setting the stage for his intervention at the the prime minister made an important Appeal for action on the Aid and Cash flow problems of the developing his speech was a reminder that the coming recovery should not just mean better times for the Industrial but that there should be a common resolve to meet the conditions for a global he promised to urge his Summit colleagues to address the need for fully adequate financial flows to sus Tain third world recovery and to alleviate the deep deflationary pressures now playing on those his proposals endorsed the Call by if managing director Jacques de la Rosiere for net new financial flows to the Nonoi producing developing countries to meet their 1983 balance of payments and he said that the special needs of the poorest coun tries Many of these too poor to be carrying Loans must be attended the in some of their pre Williamsburg commentaries have been discussing the devel Oping though their comments seem to focus on the benefits of Trade Access to the Market and important urgings to the private banking system not to turn its Back on the third what will come out of Williams Burg never anything quite As hard and firm As the world seems to but perhaps building up through the years and despite the quarrels a growing understanding of the inter relatedness of the Industrial worlds eight years after the summits it is hard to see How our world leaders could avoid facing up to this reality for one Little week end each nil Saskatchewan Regina to say that Saskatchewan people were outraged is to put it after five months of growing the Hopes of a National hockey league team playing in Saskatoon were scuttled in new the nil Board of by a resounding 153 voted to refuse the Sale and Transfer of the Louis blues to but this was no Ordinary sports it had become entwined in poli tics because of the role of the Provin Cial almost two months the final pieces of a financial package Worth approximately million were put together by a group of Saskatoon Busi led by sports entrepreneur and Confounder of the defunct world hockey Bill a Deal was struck to buy the floundering blues from with the critical piece of the financial Deal the governments Promise to guarantee a loan for construction of an the Devine government had put its stamp on the when the nil Board of governors met to discuss the proposed move of the blues to the government was part of a Saskatchewan entourage that trav Elled to new York to make its the official government representatives were Urban affairs minister Paul and government la and former Bank manager Tim it was Schoenhals who strongly supported the idea of an nil team for Saska Toon when the idea was first raised by Embury served As the govern ment member who sat through negotiations to strike a Deal with Ralston his task was to ensure the governments interest was when an agreement was reached for coliseum holdings of Saskatoon to buy the franchise for league approval of the Sale and its Transfer seemed almost after losing almost million a year for five Ralsto Purina had made it Clear it would operate the blues no when no local buyer came even though Ralston Purina waited to allow other offers to be there seemed no Choice but to move the blues to but at the league meeting it became abundantly Clear the other team owners did not believe the Saskatoon option was a viable a City of did not offer what the nil believed was a solution to a team that was suffering at the Gate in a City with a population of two the Saskatoon bid was turned Down for a number of the biggest stumbling Block in the mind of the nil governors was the financial Complete with the govern ment loan just two Days after the Edmonton oilers owner Peter pock Lington was in Regina searching for support in his quest for the Federal progressive conservative Dale Eisler in Saskatchewan Pocklington had said before the nil meeting that he would support a Saskatchewan but after the decision he made it Clear the nil made the right the reasons for the nil to turn Down the request were All the right pock Lington the major according to was the Lack of unborn rowed equity in the the package put together based on borrowed a Public Stock offering and a government it did not fit the conservative Mold of the nil was incensed with the treatment the Saskatchewan group received from the nil Board of a series of events in new York made it Clear the league had decided to turn Down the Saskatoon bid Long before it heard the groups official the decision was made prior to our and we were simply part of a Public Schoenhals we Are All disappointed that our bid was but i think what bothers Sinai bedouin prefer Rule by Israel to Egypt by Nehemia Meyers special to the free press Israel Friend Chava was brokenhearted when she returned from Sinai last during the period that Israel con trolled the Sinai a warmhearted and rather impulsive Young had fallen in love with the bedouin Way of she Learned the rudiments of bedouin arabic and actually lived with a bedouin tribe in the deserts and mountains of Sinai for some when the Peninsula was returned to Egypt last like All other was forced to abandon her Beautiful Sinai landscape and return to the drab Concrete can Yons of Tel at the same she promised her bedouin friends that she would return for a visit As soon As personal problems and Only this month did she return to her old haunts in doing suffer a series of Chava saw that the bedouin who had prospered under israeli Rule were now suffering under the this was primarily the result of the fact that tourists tens of thousands of whom would flock to Sinai each month before the area changed hands virtually and this has deprived Many bedouin taxi waiters and guides of their and even where there Are a few positions still As at the old israeli hotel in bedouin personnel have been replaced by workers brought in from medical care has also while israeli aided by israeli trained paramedics from bedouin had established clinics along the Sinai coast and also visited Inland tribal areas on a regular now there is no organized system of health even the bedouin Are not allowed to go for emergency treatment to the Josephthal Hospital in and Lack Access to any other so when a Little bedouin girl was badly burned in the course of Chavas the child remained untreated and Al most the traditional bedouin based on Rice and Flat returned with the milk products that had flowed in from the israeli Kibbutz of just North of Are no longer nor Are the formerly plentiful vegetables and canned goods except for canned for some Are still found on Sinai for More disturbing than anything else is the attitude of egyptian offi unlike Chava and her romantic look upon the bedouin with they tend to treat them like natives who have become too uppity because of israeli influence and now must be put in their for As Chava the appearance of an egyptian official on the horizon will prompt the bedouin to hide their Eilat purchased jeans and Don the traditional flowing disdain for the bedouin exists even in egyptian academic a re cent Cairo University study of the Sinai Peninsula clearly differentiates be tween bedouin land and civilized the world became aware of bedouin discontent when Sinai sheikhs took the unprecedented step of heckling egyptian president Hosni Mubarak during his visit to Al Arish in Northern Sinai last As Chava is Quick to this incident was Only the tip of the iceberg antagonism towards the egyptians runs far deeper than any outsider could in the bedouin regret the Camp David agree ment even More than do the jews who were forced by it to abandon their thriving farms in the Yam it to be the bedouin Are mos but this Doest make any differ As one sheikh explained to Chava we dont like the israelis yet we like the and while we like the egyptians we dont like the Chavas most poignant memory is of a bedouin song which her hosts Sang to her Over and Over again just before her it goes where Are you my Friend have you forgotten me even if you have forgot i will never forget you Hunter bid rejected i us most is that we were never Given a both Schoenhals and Embury recite stories of How the chairman of the leagues advisory committee never even bothered to show up when the Saskatchewan group met with the committee the Day before meeting with the full Board of they also explain How during the Saskatchewan Complete with details of the financing and even airline sched Ules in and out of one governor slept through half the address and others read in the final it was the presence of the Devine government in the proposal that was a major obstacle in the Saskatoon the last thing any team owner in the nil wants is a government close to the the Structure of the Saskatchewan Deal allowed for the govern ment to seize control of the franchise As Security should the owners while it was the governments loan guarantee that made the possibility of a team in Saskatoon take it also underlined the precarious nature of the venture in the first if the project was sound enough to stand on its own then a government guarantee and a subsequent assignment on the franchise by the province would not have been argues against this by saying that All Arenas used by Western Canadian nil teams have been constructed with some form of govern ment but what he Doest say is that most of those rinks Are losing Money on their yearly operations and Are not owned by the same people who own the hockey it was a situation the nil chose to while the rejection was bad the Way it was handled made it even for the politicians and the people of it amounted to a slap in the there is much Good about Csc mixed in with what is is much that is bad and much that is downright for years Csc radio has been striving to carve out its Niche in Cana Dian and at the same to increase its it has become mostly Wal Towall so much so that its main task on the hour is to change the often what is Best about Csc radio is pushed into time slots which guarantee the smallest possible a Good example could be listened to last Mon Day on the Victoria Day holi but Only by those who managed to get up with the it was Max Ferguson musical review of Queen Victorias seasoned with titbits of information about the Days of pm and magnificent readings of some of Rudyard killings i stumbled onto the program because i had some painting to do Early in the morning and wanted to be entertained while i 1 must admit 1 was a the bad and the awful on Csc rur Fred Cleversey bit thrown by the enthusiasm of a Reading of the charge of the Light and when it was followed by a brass band playing sol Diers of the whether i had tie Good old Canadian biscuit company on the although the Sun was barely peeking Over the i discovered that i had already missed half the it was Quality Max a Good example of How Well the Csc can do things when it wants the was Over before most people got out of bed on the one cannot but suspect that the Max Ferguson special rated the time Slot that it was assigned partly because it did not fit into the general theme of Csc which appears to be to laugh at traditional Fer Guson did not glorify the Victoria and took pains to Point out that the creation of the British which started out with High Christian to rapidly turned into one of the biggest land grabs in he managed to do so with some respect that is generally lacking the abcs attempts to rather than to Canadian lifestyles is not what is bad about Csc although it is bad from the Point of View that a Crown corporation has set itself up As the judge of Canadian what is bad is the determination to push a Good thing too the change from a mixture of talk and music to one of pure talk got a Good beginning right Here in when Herb Nixon and Walter Unger launched information they started morning programming which was three hours of straight it has spread across the because it was and be cause it had an initial the Csc decided to change almost its entire daytime programming to this for now there is morning information from six to followed by a three hour talk followed by two hours of information radio at and another two hours of the same Between four and which in turn is followed by four hours of More and More what is bad is that there just is not enough new news to fill All that so there Are you can learn some thing about your car several times a if you miss the first dont it will be some of the commentaries Are carried Over from week to no no mat Ter How Good a particular deliberately reprints it a week but what is downright awful about Csc radio is its inability to ask simple questions of people it persuades to share its this one caught my attention last the subject was the new Manitoba French language use and the question was would the conservative party be Satis fied if that agreement were debated in the legislature Here is How it was put huh there was a Point at which Lyon made huh about huh this could plunge the huh province into court ordered Bilin this seemed to be quite a concern to Lyon huh in Stead of the legislative process huh this would be going into the courts huh he huh speaking specifically that the proposed Amend ment gives the courts the Power to order huh government institutions to submit plans for meeting Bilin Gual obligations if you mentioned earlier this aspect of this committee of the standing committee of the legislature for re would that be if this were Given a full airing in the legislature of this would this satisfy the conservative party q d d sitting across the Street from the site of air Canadas new computer Centre instill in one the almost desperate Hope that Canadas National airline knows More about flying air planes than it does about building throughout the when every self respecting contractor was sitting on his hands because no one likes to pay Winter the Crews were work ing on the air Canada building with an enthusiasm of the Joy of any Winter work at Ever since the warm weather has when everyone else is build the air Canada site has been As silent As a has our National airline changed its mind about Winnipeg As a site for its computer Centre has a general con tract been let or has air Canada decided to save our Money to provide More Winter employment once the ground is again Frozen i i ;