Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 29, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free j August Winnipeg free press of Trade Equality of civil Liberty of religion Days a at 368 Eaf Wott 36 Fey saw dish Pree press 1872 Tribune esl 1890 West John Wapee edits iat Sufit managing cd lbt controller editorials Cable without Snow if we Are w believe the arguments being presented by Canadian giving Saskatchewan table customers the same Quality of picture already being received by More than two million customers in Eastern Canada will destroy the Canadian broadcast the major Canadian television which Are unable to agree on much presented a joint Brief this week that warned of such dire consequences if Saskatchewan viewers were allowed to see not different but a better Quality version of the programs they already the Canadian radio Ete vision and telecommunications sitting in is deciding whether television network signals seen by Saskatchewan viewers must continue to originate in nearby North Dakota or whether they will be allowed to come from such faraway places As Detroit and the Saskatchewan Cable companies want to change stations because the delivery of the signals via satellite produces better Quality they want to use the crts chosen satellite Canadian satellite to do Manitoban who watch the nightly Snow and other caused interference on stations every summer will be both provinces suffer from having to transport the signals from pickup Points that Are on the fringe of Good reception for the and to use horse and buggy systems to move these there is no doubt that the Cable television Industry will be watching the Regina decision with great an approval by the crts of signals delivered by satellite there will Likely be followed by a flurry of applications including satellite signals Are better than those transmitted through a series of microwave relays and Are far Superior to those moved through buried which has been the vehicle of Choice of the Manitoba Telephone in switching stations will give Saskatchewan viewers about 44 hours More programming per the pcs outlet in for remains on the air much longer than its North Dakota what is bothering the broadcast Industry is that a switch in origination Points might affect cables ability to carry out simultaneous substitution of where the Cana Dian commercials Are aired on All stations which Are carrying the same program same because of the different time zones in which the programs will the chances that Canadian outlets will show the same programs at the same time will be simultaneous substitution of commercials applies Only when the programs Are shown at the same there would be no for for Canadian outlets to Load a series like the winds of Whf with Many More commercials than were included in the the Canadian broadcasters Are also apparently worried about increased an argument that Falls Flat when anyone considers that it already exists and is being met in Eastern the opposition of the broadcasters is a classic example of what has become a defence of a position to the detriment of a captive there is More than better signals and More in Saskatchewan the Best the Cable opera tors have been Able to negotiate is two pickup Regina and with the balance of the province being served through the microwave system already owned and operated by Saskatchewan although it would be better and from the customers Point of to put individual dishes in other the provincial government has declined to do so in order to protect Telephone Manitoban can expect no different the Mani Toba Telephone system has a massive investment in buried Cable in this it was installed against technical advice that suggested it was obsolete before it was put into the it is not Likely to be even though better and cheaper methods of distributing television signals Are what will be lost is the close connections which now exist through viewers in Canada being Able to watch events in communities that Are their physical neighbors and the family feeling Winnipeg pcs fans have towards the North Dakota these do not make up the bulk of television the crts will be forced to As it always the financial Impact of its Here the convenience of the who Are paying for a service they often do not should outweigh the efforts of the networks to protect a relatively Small part of their in the the customers have come off second for years Winnipeg customers put up with inferior signals because the crts had said the companies could not use technology to improve it is crts policy that an acceptable package of Cable signals should include the four what the regulatory body is being asked in Saskatchewan is simply to approve the Best Means of delivering this just in Bob Hope has pencilled in Central America for his Christmas tour this year opposition leaders duty a federation for Chad president Francois Mitterrand has raised the possibility of creating in Chad a federation that would give Libya backed rebel forces authority Over the Northern half that they now leaving the government with author Ity Over the Southern part that it while mentioning he dismisses As unacceptable any partition of the these in an interview with be May reflect his own reluctance to extend the involvement of the French military contingent now deployed in the French supported by fighter bombers based in the have formed a defensive screen North of the capital and have been responsible for a temporary halt to the endless civil Mitterrand was not enthusiastic about getting involved because France has been repeatedly involved in that saharan former French the trouble such interventions have had Only a transitory effect on the fighting and on the Issue of who rules annoyed at the form of the current libyan Mitterrand overcame his doubts and complied with a request president his Sene he says that his troops Are there to defend and Calls for a negotiated settlement to the civil these Are More appropriate goals than a establishment of which presupposes political conditions that do not exist in the most obvious split in Chad is Between the Arab moslem Peoples of the North and the Black african animists and christians of the As in other parts of colonial an artificial political unit was this one Patching together inhabitants of the Sahara desert and the Northern fringes of the equatorial rain the southerners form the majority of the country four million the problem area has consistently been the it was often ungovernable under French Rule and has remained so since Independence in guerrilla movements there have fought the French colonial Southern dominated National Libya and each Libya Muammar a Qaddafi exploited chads misery by financing factions in the civil sending in troops in stealing from Chad the a piece of territory contiguous with Libya Southern Frontier containing uranium and other materials that would chads sole source of resource based a Qaddafi also dreams of an islamic led by that would embrace other saharan states and those Arab states bordering on the go Kouni Leader of the rebels backed by is less a Devil figure than a victim of chads revolving door at one he and both were close friends and fellow leaders of the nationalist guerrilla of Eddei was later president and Habre was his defence Habre then lusted for All Power and retreated to the desert to raise a he behaved like a ordering his guerrillas to put out the eyes of children in villages whose support was slitting open the stomach of a French officer sent to negotiate the release of a kidnapped he won Only after of Eddei had ordered the libyans Back in the desert of Eddei bought libyan support by conceding Libya right to the Sozou this Luedde Shabre Power accompanied by opportunistic libyan seems like weak foundations for any stable government in let alone a sophisticated form like Mitterrand should be Content to freeze the fighting for a to rally International support for yet another eviction of the Vora Cious and to push for Luedde Shabre negotiations that just might Lead to More civilized behaviour by these fractious by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa there is a great differ ence Between the detailed programs which a government backed by a big bureaucracy can put Forward and the alternative policies which can fairly be demanded of opposition parties seeking irresponsibility an opposition Leader who attempts to meet a government office on its own terms is foolish if he can be manipulated or frightened into the at he will be guilty of an irresponsibility that should make an electorate question his capacity to hold but unless he is cynically going to rely entirely on personality he must be ready to say Well before an election what his general positions Are and in what directions he would try to Lead the country if he were to be trusted with Brian Mulroney has been carefully avoiding any and All efforts to trap him competing with the government on he has shrewdly let Monique begin flounder in her Bellicose attempt to Start a general Donnybrook Over medicare and very sensibly the prov inces also have declined to bite the Hook she is flashing around in front of their now that miss begin has isolated with her challenges to Battle declined on All he has taken a Clear but not detailed position on medi he has been saying that medi in the first is a sacred Trust and that the government has been using a phoney Issue in its at tempt to lure him into a fight Over health then he has gone on to say that a government under his leadership in the first try to get the financing of health costs Back to the original 5050 basis would try to get Back to cooperative federalism in he has not except in the most general terms just How he would finance an increased Federal share of health costs and it would be unreasonable to criticize him for he is stopping at the Point where policies would change into programs if he went further and where the Bureau Cracy at its service gives any govern ment a huge advantage Over an out of office no More Nep Mulroney has also without going into any that a conserva Tive government would end the nation Al Energy program and under there would be no More it was essential that he should make Clear a conservative governments position on an Issue As controversial and Complex As the but he would be very foolish to go much further at this Point in saying How he would end the ending of the Nep be a Complex matter because it cannot Sim ply be wiped out with the stroke of a virtually every farmin and farm out arrangement for Oil exploration is now based on the Nep and the Petroleum incentives As they must abrupt abolition of the pips Grants would activate the Force a Jenir clauses that All these agreements in important exploration work would be thrown into confusion for a it is Likely that most exploration would simply halt until matters could be straightened some expert work will have to be done in devising a termination of the Nep that will not at the same time be it cannot All be done by the Industry itself and certainly the bureaucracy at the Energy department cannot do it for an opposition transition period while Mulroney is right to have said the program will be termin he should be very careful about anything that takes him much further than that for the obvious thing that a transition period of some sort willbe he could also usefully Promise that the Termina Tion will not be carried out in a Way that disrupts exploration work in he has said about defence policy that the forces will get a better equipment Deal under a conservative government than they have had during the last decade and a half under the so far so but Stop the Basic policy has been stated and that is what the electorate cares the trap would be to Start talking about either of equipment or those aspects of the policy Are the details to leave until a new if there is can Call on the bureaucracy and the service Stab Birds abound since the ground and Aerial spraying of chemicals i have read How it has chased or killed All our song previous to the spraying not Only was it impossible to sit out or to work in our it was a test of trying to escape indoors and not drag a horde of mosquitoes along with we can sit outdoors virtually unmolested and enjoy our few precious mornings and let me list some of the Birds which have frequented my and my neigh Bors Yards and gardens this past week a family of five bluejays on the garage probably feasting on the Olive tree several families of Robins they Are everywhere House of As Well As song mourning Grackles and something we have not seen for Many years a humming we were delighted to hear and witness the return of a pair of not seen since a beastly Crow ravaged their the Birds Are still Here i do not claim that malathion or other chemicals will not kill if such use of sprays clearly indicated that this was so then i would be the first to say but the past weeks experience has not proved this to be Saunders Winnipeg natures balance As the insecticide spraying plane droned overhead a second time this i wondered How we can justify spreading tons of Poison Over everyone in Manitoba when there is growing evidence linking birth defects and cancer to surely one dead horse and one sick person with encephalitis does not com pare to the hundreds suffering from if the health authorities were accomplishing what they intended kill ing mosquitoes it might not be so hard to but they Are they Are wiping out All flying in dragonflies All the Good after the first Aerial spraying the Only survivors i could find in the Garden were potato Grasshoppers and is that what we intended if we continue to upset natures balance we might end up having to import All our i suggest working with for How about taking of the millions spent on insecticide and build ing Martin and Swallow houses to encourage the Mosquito natural Preda tors i understand each Bird will eat up to 100 mosquitoes a it has worked in cities in Ontario and the United what better testing ground than Winnipeg we have spent More than Mil lion on insecticide spraying and it is obviously not let us try some thing else before next Henderson Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to red menace on August to its the United states apologized for having arranged the escape of Klaus the Butch or of Barbie is accused of the murder of thousands of jews during the second world this shameful episode of the Ameri can role is now and Barbie can go to but we ought not to let it close without two recollections that May serve the Public Barbie was protected by the because it was Felt he could be useful in the fight against the communists had been our allies in the but we had Deve loped the image of the red menace that we were prepared to and a nazi strongly suspected of mass on the grounds that he would be helpful against it was in the american interest to do All Over the world right but especially in latin other mass murderers Are being supported by the on the same anti comm it is the bait americans will always the world will be neither just nor Safe until this is no longer to say this is not to deny the need to be watchful it is Only to deny the legitimacy of paranoia Over comm and the guilty self righteousness which gives Rise to that neither is it to Lay All the blame for the worlds ills at the door of the the second thing we need to re Mem for our Public is the shape the Barbie Story took As it emerged last when he was arrested in Boli the headlines and nearly All the copy screamed the sensational account of the deed that had been done in Lyons during the Only after a few Days did a Small presence begin to creep into the stories about iwo Barbie had escaped american intelligence had managed it for the Media were full of speculative stories about the possible role of the bulgarian russian connection in the attempt on the Popes masses of copy on a speculative Possi and relatively Little on a now acknowledged fact Why it would seem that anticommunism is the bait that the Western world is still willing to no doubt the russians do the same in is it any with such knee Jerk irrationality that the world becomes More dangerous it would be an act of Public to remember clearly Why such deeds were done for which we ought to be ashamed and for which the has now they were done because we feared the enemy of the who existed then Only in our More than we feared the real enemy whose deeds were plainly evident in if this learning were applied to american policy in latin America it would mean great changes in that unfortunately in latin America the officially still not so much real communists r there Are not that Many of and there would be fewer if american policy did not produce them but the spectre of communism in the american real people die at the hands of the new butchers know ing Washington Wink and it is All done against comm Carl Ridd Winnipeg unthinkable i refer to the following statement in the editorial cruise support free August a remark Able fact about current Public opinion on the cruise Issue is that support for testing rises with education better educated canadians Are being persuaded by ratio Nal analysis that cruise testing is a greater contribution to world peace than forbidding such education level really has Little to do with when issues about Pov erty or environment one finds that the educated Trot out the same cliches and stereotyped history reveals that the people who have helped the world move slowly Forward have been from the uneducated to the highly War has always been regarded As an uncivilized Way of solving with nuclear annihilation a daily possibility it is Mcleod Winnipeg careless cyclists senior citizens should be Able to walk on the City sidewalks in but can they not while Bike Riding is prevalent All Over the and especially on Portage Avenue which is usually crowded with Small children on bikes Are even More dangerous than Young who should be old enough to show More consideration for the elderly and in the police Stop them if they see but they do not have enough men to control and supervise sidewalks All Over the it is against the Law to ride a Bike on any when is this Law going to be enforced i am not too steady in my gait but i believe i should be entitled to walk on any sidewalk without the danger of being knocked Mackean Winnipeg metric again in the letter oops free August 17 Harry Mitchell states that a pamphlet put out by the Federal government showing metric conver Sions contains he then goes on to give an example of one error converting to metric volume one litre according to my metric conversion calculator 1 litre Gal in rounded this would indeed be knowing that the quart contains litre approximately it can be quickly Guesstimate cd that must be very if the quart were exactly one then it would be equal to gallon or a Quarter of a Wolfe Winnipeg birthday Elizabeth Winnipeg born Grey a gust my advice to you get mar ried and then come Back and see ;