Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free january 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 company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Muf Iray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council a plan for a pullout editorials israeli prime minister Shimon Peres has shown leadership and skill in securing a Cabinet majority for the Long awaited proposal to carry out a unilateral military withdrawal from Lebanon in three troops would first be pulled Back from the Awali near to the Litany with Nab Atiye As a new that would shorten lines of reduce troop Cut casualties and save it would affect Only positions Between the Bekaan Valley and the Israel would give up its crucial position on Jebel a High Point straddling the Beirut Damascus Highway that Marks the Northern Edge of israels front line with the syrians in the Bekaan and puts israeli artillery within Range of downtown Israel would pull Back to the Haskaya Region of the Southern overlooked by mount if these withdrawals Israel would later pull this roughly straight line Back to the israeli reserving the right to launch punitive Cross order attacks if israeli settlements were Lebanon being it would be imprudent to presume either that the israeli occupation will end quickly or that other interest groups will cooperate in such a Way As to make the occupation end with its occupation army in the Bekaan Valley and the is a major Factor with Complex motivations and multiple none of which is designed to coincide with israeli Lebanon itself is a shattered Glass whose slivers no longer feel kinship with the the pathetic state army of Lebanon reflects that political it is a powerless Husk whose writ runs nowhere except by the graceless permission of this or that private army whose interest this week lies in seeming to cooperate with the Syria influenced government of hot tempered warlords in this fact has stymied the United nations sponsored military talks at a Agoura in South Lebanon Between the if and the lebanese which resume while trying to negotiate an israeli military the lebanese keep saying that their army can control the area when the israelis move the israelis Point out that this is a dream and they str Gest that the Job be done instead by the United nations interim Force in called they also want the Southern lebanese army to control a Buffer zone just across the Lebanon Israel set up after Menachem begins 1978 invasion of was bitterly criticized in Israel for failing to Stop Palestine liberation organization infiltration through its lines in Southern it was treated with contempt by the israeli government and swept aside when Menachem begins 1982 invasion army rolled into Only when it seems that it might solve a problem for israeli pos with drawl has uni Fil become this is incapable of meeting the new israeli its role is the traditional in peacekeeping meant to be in place Only where there is agreement on its role by All parties to a it is not a powerful military machine capable of performing effective Garrison duty in a contested there is talk in Israel of uni Fil moving into Sidon after the first stage israeli Sidon has been like Dodge City for policed Only by the most hard bitten israeli who move through its streets As British soldiers move through Belfast waiting for the next snipers too can be expected from the even under the late major Saad Haddad its effectiveness Lay More in intelligence gathering than feats of the withdrawal proposal has intrinsic it puts pressure on Syria and Lebanon to react in some Way that will encourage the israelis to go through with their it requires the in to think about the future of whose mandate soon will expire it gives Israel the flexibility of pulling out or at its own it May be imperfect but it is the Best proposal in Vav Hee Promise you wont posturing for Farmers Manitoba will get a Bird agriculture minister Bill Uruski May be Able to persuade the new Federal government to reintroduce and pass changes to the bankruptcy act that were designed to help he is certainly if he can persuade finance minister Vic to use Public Money to subsidize interest rates charged by the Manitoba Agri cultural credit Uruski is also providing he can obtain caucus to introduce farm debt legislation that will set rates of interest that can be charged on farm if he does he must understand that it is beyond the Power of the Manitoba legislature to compel anyone to lend Money at these legislated the Best that can be said for Ruskis most recent Appeal to private lenders to go easier on farm Loans is that the minister has finally begun to understand the seriousness of the problem of farm Manitoba agricultural Community will with considerable to see what the minister intends to do about the no one knows where interest rates will be six months from or a year it is reasonable to assume that they will be wherever the Market dictates they should if economic conditions permit Loans to be offered at the eight per cent Uruski has decided would be fair to the Loans will be if they do the Only Loans that will be offered at that rate will be from Uruski has called for More flexibility from the lending institutions but he has rightly criticized the recent Saskatchewan farm debt moratorium which was intended to write such flexibility into despite the Best of that Law is failing precisely because it attempts to permit borrowers to postpone their the one condition certain to persuade a Lender not to Advance Money is to make it possible for the Borrower not to Uruski is doing Little More at the moment than striking an impressive he is attempting to be seen to be helping Farmers whose debt Burden is becoming unbearable by asking lenders to accept less for farm Loans than they can get by lending Money those will be Only too Happy to lend Money to Ruskis government at going rates so that it can make subsidized Loans to those it considers in greatest benefits of a review because the Saskatchewan government held an inde pendent review of automobile insurance motorists in that province will Benefit by an average reduction in their automobile premiums of per and Drivers with Good records will be receiving Premium rebates of Between and in a few months the reduction and rebates have been proposed by the government to the Public utilities review which recon such action following hearings into the rates proposed by Saskatchewan government the lesson to be Learned by Manitoba from what is happening in its neighbouring province is the value of an Independent review mechanism to on the Consumers the rates Saskatchewan government insurance in the past few imposed Sharp Premium increases on motor partly to offset the Crown corporations losses in overseas these losses were quickly Reco and Sis financial picture improved in setting rates this ski recommended no Premium changes the Public utilities review commission thought it pointed out that ski did not need reserves which grew endlessly because its sales were guaranteed every it recommended that ski reduce its Premium income by million in the coming and rebate up to the commission took the same approach to govern men owned automobile insurance As was taken by those who sold the idea in the first the system was introduced in Saskatchewan and Manitoba ostensibly to ensure that most of the Money paid in premiums by motorists went to pay it could use the economies of a monopoly to keep administration costs Low and pass the savings on to the what happened in both provinces was that the govern ment insurance organization began acting like the private insurance companies that had been in Saskatchewan and in reserves have been growing at a rapid in the Public insurance corporation has an investment portfolio Worth More than a years Premium there is no guarantee that an Independent review of Manitoba rates would produce rebates like those in in an Independent review could decide that rates Are not High enough to serve the Overall purposes of government but without a Manitoba motorists will be left with the suspicion that they could Benefit from if Only the government had the courage to provide it appears As if the great Gray owl is soaring into first place to become the Bird Emblem of hav ing already won the support of such prestigious groups As the Manitoba naturalists society and the Manitoba wildlife Manitoba has taken its time about adopting an official but then it is a trifling period in the life of the great Gray which has been around for fearless the great the largest owl in North arouses intense emotion among for it is quite Beautiful and it is 4 on the american birding association list of 50 most wanted people from All Over the Conti nent come to Manitoba solely with the Hope of catching a glimpse of their first great Gray a few years birders from As far away As flocked to Amherst in the Lawrence River near be cause word had spread that a num Ber of the owls had been observed such is the enthusiasm generated by the great should the Bird be chosen it is largely because of the Devotion and infatuation for the species shown by Robert wild life specialist with the Manitoba department of natural he probably knows More about the owls than anyone else and has banded More within its Range around the Polar regions than anywhere else Nero has spent 16 years study ing the driving As much As Kilometres in a Winter in search of their some people say he is beginning to look like an this he no doubt would take As High the great he has is one of the most attractive Birds in the the owl lives in the mixed Woods and coniferous Forest from the Southeast Corner of the province to Riding Mountain National Park and North to the tree it is difficult to gauge their numbers for the owl is an elusive fond of deep secluded Woods and but when its food shrews is it Val Werier emerges from the nowhere else on the As in Southern Are its Breeding grounds so close to human Nero and his colleagues and friends have put the great Gray on the his the great Gray owl the phantom of the published in 1980 by the smithsonian is a the Book is illustrated with splendid photo graphs by Robert Nero is a biologist who writes with poetic a Bird of he Trie great Gray owl bears in its aloofness some of the remoteness of the vast its plumage the color of lichens and weathered its soft part of the the mystique of the owl is that it is an extraordinarily Wise but Nero says it is no Wiser than crows and who easily learn All sorts of tricks from the owl is he yet it exhibits a marvellous it has survived for Mil Lions of masterful flyer the owl has remarkable stamina and considering the male weighs less than three and the female with this Small it supports a Wing Span up to five it is a masterful flyer and can Glide for hundreds of unlike most they can look you straight in the they have round a Flat and Lemon coloured eyes fixed in their an owl has remarkable hearing and plunges into the Snow to capture a mouse or a completely hidden from owls Sun themselves for warmth and also for a special Rea an Oil secreting gland at the upper base of the writes provides a dressing for the when the gland is the Oil substance is transferred to the Bill and the the feathers in the course of it is a vital when the oily film on feathers is exposed to the some of it is changed to Vitamin through subsequent a Small amount of this altered Oil is thus provid ing Birds with a substitute source of this needed preening owls preen one another in Nero has such an Affinity with the Birds in no time at he has them preening his hair in the wilds after trapping them for band All i have to he is to get the Birds attention and then push the top of my head towards its the gesture of submission leads the Bird to run its Bill through my gently nibbling along the Scalp and often seizing and pulling a few Nero has also acted As a surrogate homemaker along with members of his family and Herbert has built More than 100 nests in the owls prefer secondhand housing and habitually choose an abandoned or vacant nest of Ravens or one banded 11 years has returned to the same Nero nest in 1978 and the most exciting aspect has been the support from the says who has received reports of sightings from 641 observers in the past 15 the Public has been fascinated with a baby owl taken from one of his nests near Marchand in june it was the youngest and Juniest of three because of the shortage of was certain to face death by the Grayl has now been touched by More than Manitoban in Public in More ways than the owl has touched an International symposium on the great Gray and other Northern Forest owls will be held in the Winnipeg of on track in his letter via rail must go free december 22 Jack la North Vanco Versey claims that we can Cut half a billion dollars from the Federal Defi Cit each year if we scrap via yet Davis does not take into consideration the fact by scrapping via we would be putting a lot of railway workers out of work and thus adding More people to the unemployment and welfare the idea today is to keep modernize via rail i i people not create More by scrapping we would be denying Canadian people a practical form of via does have its however those can be worked i would suggest that the Federal government find the funds needed to upgrade passenger rail service in this country from the rolling Stock now in use and look into Light rapid perhaps then we would see even More people taking the so lets keep via rail on track and keep our railway workers pm Geoff Jones Winnipeg a Public Issue on behalf of the citizens Alert i disagree with the Atti tude of a councillor Phil Rigutto when he free de Cember 31 to discuss the pension he now mainly at the expense of Winnipeg the Over Rich pension plan which City Council voted itself last february 29 is still a Public Issue and will continue to be until fairly such Resolution will be Only after representation by interested parties can be made before a Public the mayor and All councillors Are very much involved and i Tuttos pension is quite properly the business of Winnipeg Westcott Secretary citizens Alert committee Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to a Shock with regard to the article judge failed to get permission for salary review free december it is shocking that Justice he band of the court of Appeal acted contrary to the judges act when he reviewed the Winnipeg school trustees salary the pension and salary Levels of City councillors Are still a matter of deep political in his unauthorized review Justice Huband treated the City councillors pension and salary Levels As a matter of decided political by immersing himself in a civic political Issue without Justice Huband violated the statutory and common Law provisions that separate the judiciary from the political and legislative functions of Law making and the preliminary functions of unfettered debate of the issues by his involvement he demonstrated that he is still a political person and has shattered in the minds of the Public the Independence of the he has violated a further when a judge is criticized for his actions or the judge usually remains silent and allows his Superior to explain the judges Posi Tion question As to whether the Winnipeg school trustees salaries Are adequate or not is a civic Politi Cal Issue and not a question for determination by a commissioner or holding Winnipeg persecution i have been asked to write letters to certain officials to express my agreement with the Jurys verdict in the recent trial of Henry mor Scott and this i do with no i also would add that i am opposed to any Appeal of the i had hoped that there would be no further prose cution of the Morgentaler clinic per current events indicate i have used the wrong i should have said i hoped that authorities would refrain from any further persecution of the Morgentaler clinic can we not accept that Only the woman concerned should make the Choice in such a personal Issue As abortion she should not be restricted by individuals and institutions unfamiliar with the the Manitoba government should not be party to this persecution and should immediately withdraw All outstanding charges against the Morgentaler clinic James Townsend Winnipeg Law broken Winnipeg has bylaws which state that dogs must be on a Leash at All times while in a the Law also states should a dog the owner is to clean it Why do dog owners not have to obey the Law one has Only to go walking in the or Cross country skiing in to see dog fees All Over the it is not unusual to have some Large dog come lunging toward monopolizing the ski Trail and defecating wherever it i have yet to see a dog on a or one owner who cleans up the mess left by the animals Are Only As intelligent As their owners teach them to Webster Winnipeg questionable the article Security watchman faces mischief charge in incident free december 15 followed the report of a breaking at the cites Brookside cemetery free december during which a Secu Rity guard was injured and has been charged with Public mischief in connection with the the City owns and operates Brook Side cemetery for the most civic employees provide the cemetery Security ser Are contracted out to a private the above mentioned incident is further evidence in contracting out certain the City relinquishes its right to hire and to exert control Over its it seems at Best questionable that such work should be contracted out at All when one recalls the concerns expressed recently by City officials Over the Large number of employees on workers compensation Many of these while not physically fit to return to regular May be Able and willing to provide Security services for the this would Benefit the City twofold the cites compensation Bill would be reduced and the City would maintain control Over its work Paul Mist president Winnipeg labor Council Winnipeg another one for the Reagan ;