Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 3, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Fate Senteff Lief Winnipeg press 6f Tracte qualify of civil rights Liberty of published six Days a week 366 by Catt Diart newspapers company limited Telper verve Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 66nalb meat pump fief John Bafut Fedi Tofill Page Murray 6uftt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials an indefensible crime acting prime minister Jeanluc Papiri got it exactly fight when he described the soviet destruction of a South korean civilian Airliner and killing of passengers and including As totally this outrageous act was pointless because civilian air liners present no threat that can Ever justify them being fired upon by military no weaker justification can be imagined than yesterdays claim by the soviet news that the korean air lines Boeing 747 was on an espionage Mission when it blundered into soviet this which it took the soviet government Many hours to was accompanied by the unbelievable statement that a soviet Jet fired tracer bullets near the plane As a then watched it Fly out of soviet airspace and Over the sea of in according to secret Intelli gence listening apparatus based in the soviets tracked the jumbo Jet for at the end of that a Pilot acting on orders from his ground controller armed an Airt air directed it at the Airliner and fired the plane went into a Steep dive and disappeared from radar screens 12 minutes this Means at the level of the soviet military unit based on Sakhalin Island and controlling the Jet an attack decision was made Long after the target had been positively identified As a civilian what makes this incident As Well As is the question of what level in the soviet system approved the it is inconceivable that a lowly commander of an air defence system on Sakhalin alone took the responsibility for this fateful the soviet military command system is biased against personal this reflects a paranoid society in which Trust is at such a discount that children inform on their it reflects the need for unquestioning obedience in one of the state institutions counted on by the communist party to maintain it reflects the absence of personal initiative that develops throughout All soviet controlled societies in which Central planning re moves the need for the individual to make any decision an example of this is the even shown by some immigrants to Canada from soviet bloc states when they find that they actually can decide where to where to what to read and who will be their personal the same phenomenon is seen in Israel some russian jews fail to adapt to the boisterously competitive nature of that it is certain that soviet far East naval Headquarters in Vladivostok was involved in the highly Likely that it passed through the siberian Headquarters of the Large soviet military forces stationed on the Border of the Peoples Republic of it is Likely that it reached the soviet defence ministry in it May have reached the governing politburo and Yuri Andropov if Andropov gave his permission to shoot Down the Airliner then it was an act of considerable for which he has not previously been in Exchange for the dubious satisfaction of deterring other civilian airliners from making what must have been an unpremeditated navigational he has risked Trade the temporary collapse of arms control agree ment annulment of a probable Andropov Rea Gan Summit meeting in a strangling of Trade credit by Western Banks and governments and the unanimous revulsion and condemnation of the entire civilized if Andropov did not order the murder of the 269 people aboard the Airliner he should make a Public statement of All the arraign those responsible in Public court and offer compensation to relatives of the victims of this atrocious israels new Leader the Choice of foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir to succeed Menachem begin As Leader of the Herat party guarantees continuity in the Hartline policies on palestinian National the West the Gaza strip and Lebanon that have been followed by israels governing liked Shamir is a courteous fluent in English and generally liked by International diplomats and fellow foreign but As rigid As begin in believing that the West Bank belongs to Israel forever and that no concessions can be made to palestinian National an indication of the inflexibility of his character on matters of personal principle is his decision in the 1940s not to join begins Airgun Vai then conducting a Campaign of terror against the British mandate because he thought it was insufficiently he prefer red a senior position in the Stern notorious for the assassinations of the British minister in Cairo and a swedish United nations As foreign minister he has gained close knowledge of the views of the International Community on begins controversial policy for All his warm diplomatic he has cared As Little about those views As he was As opposed to the return to Egypt of the Sinai Peninsula As Moshe now defence he believes that the occupied West Bank is permanent israeli property and fully supported the invasion of he was criticized in the Kahan commission report on the Sabra and shatilla massacres for having failed to act on information Given to him that the massacres were in he is a politician of limited it is not Clear that he can duplicate begins achievement in keeping together the Fiss Parous elements of the liked begins magnetic ability to Strong will and almost magical Powers of persuasion Are qualities without which Shamir will be approaching this formidable israeli governing politics Are Best understood As a Perma nent example of the circumstances in which Pierre Trudeau found himself in the Early temporarily dependent on the nip to keep his liberals in he had to concede the nip influence Over his the liked coalition is bewilderingly More with far More Small parties and interests to satisfy and if he can surmount that he will have the larger obstacle of his almost invisible attraction to the should there be a general according to an israeli opinion poll taken Early in Shamir achieved the incredible feat of appealing to fewer members of the israeli electorate than labor Leader Shimon the poll done for the Jerusalem Post showed per cent favouring Shamir As liked Leader while per cent favored the dismally unpopular Peres As labor As at per towered Over potential liked leadership David the moroc can born sephardic jew who got 302 votes to Shavirs 436 in the Herat party Central committee leadership had per just ahead of Ariel Sharon per at would have been a More perhaps More successful As one of the underdog Oriental jews whose anger at the labor alignment establishment propelled begin to Power in 1977 and kept him there in although a hardliner on foreign and defence policy he favors generous social this appeals to less privileged israelis but probably Cost him votes among Herat fiscal Shamir is Only a few months younger than he May have been selected As a Safe transitional unlikely to alter begin policies that have been successful perhaps Able to reassure coalition members who otherwise might jump to do a Deal with As an ashkenazic jew from maintaining the tradition of East european dominance in israeli political he May also have reassured those in the Herat not ready for the coming Ascendancy of sephardic jews like David the Outlook for israeli politics is which is helpful neither for Resolution of such questions As How Long and on what scale to remain in Lebanon nor for any International efforts to Advance the cause of permanent peace in the Middle the Harvest comes Early the blazing hot summer Sun that has reduced both the Quality and Quantity of some of the special crops like Corn and and some of the cereals like has also produced some of the highest yielding wheat the Prairies have on the 1983 which is half in the bins in will be slightly better than one of the More attractive byproducts of the hot weather has been the Early ripening of this years which has produced Early particularly in the Southern part of the agricultural experts who were convinced that the Cool and late Spring would push scathing into the Middle of september have seen most of the crops in the South already harvested if the warm weather will see the entire provincial Harvest finished by the Date they had predicted it would some varieties have not fared Well in the warm Barley yields Are Down As much As 15 per cent in some the Corn crop has been hit hard by Worms and the warm which has prevented High yields rather than encouraging rapeseed Quality and yield is for Farmers who planted this year has produced a yields in the 30to50bushelsperacre Range Are being and the plentiful Supply of High protein wheat this year will put Canada in a Good position to fill Export the Market for High protein wheat always and one of Canadas problems in recent years has been its inability to meet the protein requirements that the better markets in other High protein wheat was More common to Saskatchewan than but this year Manitoba crops fit this Bill better than they have for Many the hot summer has seeded things up to where most Farmers Are now Well into what is usually their fall rather than fretting about whether they will get sufficient dry weather to get their crops harvested and under a crop that has been harvested is easier to sell than one that is sitting in Fields waiting for Good this year is one in which the Farmers of Western Canada have better than most expected they gallery Phil Mallette you can go Home again by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press everyone said i was Why would anyone in his right mind leave the Lotus land of the Pacific coast and resettle in Winnipeg to my in Vancouver it was like leaving heaven and asking to be readmitted to Purga people do not return to they leave often with a Long sigh of no More cold Winters that seem to go on from september to no More no More Tabletop no seasons Vancouver is full of a Winnipeg but it was no use even to Why i had decided to go for one thing i missed the in one season is so much like another that it is difficult to detect the Subtle passage of the it Rains much of the in Only a few leaves have the Good taste to change color and fall to the you keep forgetting whether its october or i also missed the try explaining that to a confirmed Vancou the View from my House in Vancouver had All the magnificent Charm of a picture postcard or an effective piece of scenery for the oper Atic the surrounding mountains were but they were always there and always the it was like living in a travel eventually those changeless mountains begin to resemble the bars of a the Prairie sky is like a great Cyclorama of constantly changing Pic Tures and Clouds form splendid Mountain changing in shape and color from hour to the seasons four of in changing the landscape in dra Matic Winnipeg is rumoured to be Flat and treeless by those who have never really looked at it in a City built in a Forest More a Forest planted in a the great elms of Many of them almost a Century were planted by Winni Eggers and Are especially valued be cause of that there were reasons for returning to Winnipeg after 15 years of painless exile on the West part of it had to do with the need a writer occasionally feels to get Back to his roots and his the world is full of former Winnipeg Gers and the old place has left its Mark on All of even if they imagine the Rigours of climate and relative isolation imposed by a City that has endured for Well Over a Cen Tury in a landscape that is not always gentle and easy have touched All who were born and grew up to other however will occasionally seem somehow lacking in different City it of a different City to the one i left almost 15 years nothing stays the not even the exile to that one never can go Home there Howe different kinds of no Means has Ever been found of return ing to times past and it is probably just As it does us Good to return to our roots and find that they have grown and just As we have grown and 15 years is the same and yet much of it is familiar and welcomes the returned native in the old the streets of houses Are the the old elms and Oaks still Arch like Green tunnels Over quiet residential the red and Assiniboine still flow easily through the it is still possible to walk in the Street or go to the theatre and see faces remembered from school you find that you know a lot of people who Are now prominent in Public it is still a comfortably Small superimposed upon this is something different to highly Winnipeg was always considered a cosmopolitan but in the past 15 years it has been enriched and enhanced in this regard by the arrival and settlement of fairly Large numbers of asians and Blacks from the the Mediterranean element has also this influx of new population has made Winnipeg a More interesting and vital City than it fulfilling Louis Kiels old idea of making Winnipeg a Home for people from every part of the old better restaurants there Are now More interesting and better the varieties of food in the markets have there is a greater feeling of Contact with the outer Winnipeg is rumoured to be in decline and it is True that Many businesses have gone under and Many jobs have been i have a that Winnipeg is far from going it at the present a City in the old order is changing and some new role is being the Energy and imagination required to change and continue Are still to be the old Winnipeg and the new Winnipeg will endure the artistic life of the an important aspect of Winnipeg life through much of this has expanded and flourished while i have been there seems to be no decline in the production of artistic people continue to go out on cold Winter evenings to the the Winnipeg the Art the Ballet or the hockey they May have heard that Winnipeg is in like they do not believe one above a tremendous feeling of a breaking Down of ethnic the North end has moved to the South end and the South end has moved into the somehow the pot was stirred and the results Are i am glad to be Portage revival proposals ignore transit one glaring omission in the plans for the Jazzy downtown development is the fundamental question of Public the Tri government task which proposed the Glassen closed mall and other developments As a solution to the declining District of North has simply not addressed the Issue of it is some what like an architect designing an office building without provision for an in has happened with drastic the terms of refer ence to the consultants did not include it was simply the Glass covered Between Vaughan and Carlton is mod Elled after similar successful develop notably the Eaton Centre in this has six times the space of the projected Portage place and has been eminently but one Central ingredient is missing in the plans for Portage that is Eaton Centre draws patrons from All Over Toronto it is connected directly to the subway suburbanites can disembark i right within the shopping protected against rain or without the says Jack Toronto architect and plan Eaton Centre another example cited in the report of the North of Portage task Force is a mall More like the size of the contemplated Portage was located in the cites traditional downtown retailing mar Ket Street also losing Busi Ness to the the Philadelphia mall connects two major department As planned but Public transit is of such a Standard that it draws 75 per cent to 80 per cent of the in the emphasis is not on Public transit but on the private the plan is to provide about spaces underground at Portage plus two Levels of above Grade parking for the nearby housing underground facilities Are the least popular parking resort for Many refuse to venture into an under ground Portage the radio Highway in is a Val Werier ready overburdened with traffic in Rush enticing More cars will not improve the downtown the answer would be to discourage the car and give the preference to such As in the form of a downtown where passengers can arrive and leave under Coyer in so necessary for our Winter the keynote speaker in a conference Here last year examining Winnipeg As a Winter emphasizes that any major retail Centre must have easy Good transit and Good parking is he in his the most important ele ments to revitalize downtown Are a residential component and acce Sibili he questions the need for More office and retail space when there is already a Winnipeg instead should take advantage of the space available in the old spectacular Bank the Glass covered mall would have Square feet of retail space and Square feet of office the task Force quotes consultants who in Sist that innovative retail space is the catalyst to the the problem is that Winnipeg has a vacancy per cent in firs class office according to a study pre pared by the City administration in in response to the original Call for an Arena and office Winnipeg has a Supply of office space sufficient to take care of the next three and a half taking into account the projects on in the Light of a very soft says the this is clearly not the opportune time for a Public initiative that would add to the oversupply and extend existing it should be noted that the last publicly assisted office project Winnipeg Square is 28 percent this is the Triec supported by the City with an underground opened in the top ten floors Are not on the still to come in the future is a second office Tower on the As for commercial there is also an the amount of floor space available for leasing has increased by per cent from 1975 to while total retail sales increased at the same time by per downtown has suffered the most with the proliferation of suburban shopping some of them in the retail sales have plume Ted in the Central business in it accounted for per cent of the cites retail by it had Only 20 per downtown cannot compete with the suburbs in parking but it is still the heart of the City and has the fundamental institutions and cultural and artistic amenities on a grand it is questionable whether the Glassco Vered based on retail and com Mercial will spark a revive it does illustrate that there is at last a Public discussion on the need to design with a concern for people and our we need More human touches to make it More of a place for pedestrians than the there has been a lamentable indifference to our climate in the design of buildings and we must Block the wind and trap the make cer Tain that All new buildings incorporate protected pedestrian per haps in the Way of the Busi Ness Community and the City have been indifferent to the Comfort of Pedes Tri wide streets like Portage Avenue Are designed for not this strange idea of moving Portage and maintaining its traditional historic does not make it will be a Dandy Tunnel for the West there must be some new pattern of streets to serve the people and diminish the dominance of the and there must be an effective tie in with Public an essential element missing in All the plans suggested for ;