Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 1, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Taking out a Qaddafi is one option for americans Winnipeg free f focus a Qaddafi offers target by William Pfaff special to the free press Paris is reported that in White House and Pentagon the idea now is bruised that the time has come to take out colonel Muammar a Qaddafi of there will never be a better it is what would this were it to be attempted the superiority of Ameri can arms Over those of Libya is not in Libya military forces could readily be taken although As an act of aggression this would entail consid Erable political to do so would thereby take out colonel More would be and if he were taken who would take his place a nominee of Washington to accomplish what these Are relevant there is another what is All of this to the United states colonel a Qaddafi has for a decade been a proclaimed enemy of the United that has largely been meaningless because he lacks the Means to do serious harm to the United however fervently he May wish to do if verbal enmity were sufficient grounds in International morality or even expediency for one country to take out an or its United states government would have had Little time for anything else in recent colonel a Qaddafi has now installed his army in the Northern half of where he has persistently interfered for Chad is a country tradition ally under the influence of Benussi the Community to which khad Dali he is Active elsewhere in islamic attempting to extend his own version of islamic revealed in his Green he profess edly wishes to see a unified greater under his except that the maghreb Ian states of moroc and Algeria show no disposition to he has aligned himself with the soviet Union in International but he is not controlled by he is someone whose own ambitions at present coincide with certain inter ests of the soviet a Power not otherwise known for sponsorship of islamic for the Western Powers with Alli ances and interests in saharan Africa to assist Libya neighbors look after themselves is legitimate and if Khz Addavis larger ambitions were the United states would legitimately be con As they Are they would seem an affair the United states properly could Chad itself was Terra i cog Nita to All but a handful of North americans until a few weeks ago although not to All of the gov which was implicated in the coup which put president his Sene Habre into Power two years ago and deposed his present Gou Kouni Libya itself would be almost Asun known to americans were it not for the disturbing colonel with his penetrating preposterous accompanied by his Ama yet he represents continuity for his Benussi Community de Rives from shiite and has fought against foreign influence since european colonialism first appeared in North King Indris of whom a Qaddafi overthrew in was a grandson of the Benussi when a Qaddafi hires renegade american secret and finances european their very Avail ability to him is evidence of the corruption and disintegration which he believes Marks the West this West which checked islam at Poitiers in the year it has also been a practice among certain shiite extremist sects to Send murderers into hostile the one such gave their name to the president Ronald Reagan says that colonel a Qaddafi is the most dangerous Man in the former democratic president Jimmy Carter said that a Qaddafi is Henry Kissinger said that we should have taken him out a Long time there is a an extreme in these sentiments of american officials which seems disconnected from adequate cause from the Man what he actually and what he really has done to harm the United Why is a Qaddafi different from so Many others in Small who attack the United and present themselves As figures of International moment As maximum great teachers Why have soviet leaders not earned a comparable hatred in Washington Leonid Brezhnev certainly did More harm to other countries czech Oslo Afghanistan and to the International Community than a Qaddafi will Ever but no one in Washington seems to have proposed taking him nor do they talk of taking Yuri Andropov yet is there not a connection the policies of the soviet Union do Threa ten the United even its survival should War there is nothing decisive to be done about the anxiety it generates among american and in the american Public must be it is Neces sary to get along with the soviet there is nothing else to but a Man like colonel a Qaddafi is some thing could be done about i will do such things what they Are yet i know but they shall be the terrors of the Earth cries the thwarted you think ill weep ill not William Pfaff in a freelance journalist based in housing plans need research by Terence Moore housing is an afterthought in the Portage place scheme for building a retail mall where part of Portage ave nue now the planners have lavished their attention on the atrium and corridors linking Eaton to the but the plan does not show convincingly that the residential Block which appears in the pictures would be a Good place to one Square Block Between Edmonton and Kennedy streets would be expropriated and made available to residential the drawings that come with the plan show apartment buildings filling that Square the plan will come and live in those apartment five of the cites leading residential developers Are saying that will not they Are offering an alternative plan for the same number of housing units Over a larger space of land North of Portage of different shapes and the housing proposed for attachment to Portage in con be stacked up More dense with no attached houses to break the succession of apartment residential Island that dense concentration of housing on one Square Block of a residential Island entirely surrounded by com Mercial uses including the loading docks and Back Yard of the Plant which produces this May not feel much like a residential neigh boyhood and a place to it can hardly have a Community identity with its own neighbourhood it is Apt to feel More like the ill done Public housing projects of an earlier crowding the greatest possible number of dwellings into a Small area to satisfy Public policy purposes but with Little thought to the tastes of the people who Are supposed to live those who have a Choice in the matter Are unlikely to choose to live in such a if those who have a Choice move the new Down town housing May turn into a heavily Rentt income Public hous ing project by another which will not help trigger diversification of the Core area resident the five development specialists in suburban pro pose a different approach mow Down nearly All that stands from the East Edge of the University of Winnipeg to the West Edge of the free press proper give the resulting cleared land to the and give them a free hand to shape it into a residential subdivision As they have done hundreds of times before not Only in vital and fort Garry but in cities All across Canada and the United neither the Portage place plan Nof the plan of the residential developers is offering something that seems Likely to meet the requirements of downtown Winnipeg the planning should Start from the peculiarities of the site and the characteristics of the people for whom the housing is it should not simply reproduce what was built in another place and other circumstances for other part of the City downtown is not a residential sub Winnipeg is not Down town housing should be a part of the City around part of the District around if it has to be surrounded with the social and psychological equivalents of barbed either to keep the residents in or to keep the City then it is a failure from the some serious research would there must be few cities on this Contin intent where no Effort has been made to build new housing in downtown a great Many have tried the method proposed by the residential developers a big tract and building a residential suburb on others have tried the method that is proposed As an adjunct to Portage place Sho Horning the maximum number of apartment blocks onto one tight Little downtown residential is it would be helpful to know what the other methods Are and Why they May have succeeded in one Case or failed in the task Force of provincial and City officials did re search the grand strategy of downtown they compared experiences of other cities to choose among retail mall and housing As the Crow drawing Magnet that will bring in the customers who so the persistent theory support other they settled on retail de but there has been no sign of serious research on the specific requirements for downtown Winnipeg housing and the forms downtown housing has taken in other cities with comparable Cir it is not too late to Start new housing in downtown area needs careful begins exit brings West Bank Hope by Jim Klurfeld new Day Washington from the very be it was Menachem begins commitment to the West Bank Judea and As he Calls the territory that made him and now that he is leaving the scene it is the possibility that his successor will be less ideological or at least More practical on that that offers a Ray of Hope about future Nego for religious and historical begin has never accepted the 1947 United nations partition of he insisted he insisted As minority Leader of Knesset and finally As prime that the West Bank territory was an integral part of that position brought him into bitter conflict with israels first great David and it has been at the heart of the recent disputes with the United begins position on the West Bank made it impossible for him to accept the fundamental approach to the Arab Israel conflict that has characterized american policy since the 1967 War that Israel would Trade the territory it captured for that principle was embedded in in Resolution a Resolution that was supported by the labor governments of but begin never accepted the after a period of it became Clear to american policymakers that he did not accept Resolution the Short term Prospect is that any successor to begin will have to be As Hartline and As committed As begin no israeli politician can afford to be criticized by begin As not being Tough but in the longer the americans Hope they will be dealing with a More less when you say that something is a religious then there is really nothing else to talk sol Lin the former special Amba sadder to the you could not really Deal with begin on that there is a legitimate problem for Israel in giving Back the West the creation of a palestinian entity on the Highlands overlooking israels coastal Plain would be a Security night the Way in which the West Bank juts into Israel would allow a hostile Force to Cut Israel in two in a matter of and it would be Childs play to lob bombs from the West Bank Hills into the suburbs of Tel by mixing Security considerations with his own ideological feelings about the West begin has been Able to create the appearance of a consensus Over his most polls show that Only about 15 per cent of the israeli population believe the West Bank should be part of the vast say Israel must not give Back the West Bank if that would threaten its a More practical israeli Leader might be willing to Deal with Security questions without the ideological As Security can be arranged in different ways with changes in Bor with Security with Vari Ous types of and the Security question can be solved Over a period of the key element in the Camp David peace agreement was that there would be an interim period at least five years and probably much longer in which to find answers to the Security the concept of an interim period of autonomy for the residents of the West Bank was seen by some of Camp Davids authors As a Way to postpone having to Deal with the West Bank until after begin was no longer in by his settlements begin has complicated the task of a negotiated settlement on the West it will be More difficult for a government to withdraw from the occupied territory now than it would have been seven years ago before begin came to by creating facts people living on the West Bank begin has attempted to make the assimilation of the West Bank in Evita it is far from Clear that he has been successful in there Are arabs on the West Bank some studies in Israel indicate the real figures Are much Many who have been listed As settling have not or have moved out after a Short period of Many of the largest settlements Are just outside of israeli Popula Tion projections just do not support the plans to Settle 1 million jews in the West Bank by the end of the with begin in there was never any realistic Hope of coming to grips with the West Bank with him relinquishing at least there is the possibility of dealing with ;