Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free january Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion in published six Days a week at 30tt Carton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council editorials Back on the track Don Mazankowski has Given the people what it appears they whether he has also Given them what they can Only time will there is no doubt that the new conservative transport reflecting the popular will when he put Back in business those major via rail lines which had been abolished by the stroke of a pen by the former Liberal Jeanluc there is no doubt either if Canada is to have a rail passenger service in the there is a need for modern and proven equipment and for a better Deal with the railways which provide the right of Mazankowski is providing what remains to be proven is whether enough of those people who claim to want the restored service will actually use it to make its Cost there Are some grounds to Hope that it rail travel has retained a hard Core of customers who have been willing to put up with erratic outdated and uncomfortable equipment and Long Waits on sidings while freight trains went roaring Many More will no doubt be willing to try trains again if they can count on comfortable and efficient the revival of via service will involve some substantial investment but a shortage of investment has never been the systems millions have been poured Down the Drain Over the past six years without any visible beneficial As a ministry of transport task Force reported not Long Vias rolling Stock is made up of two a Large one of old conventional equipment which is expensive to maintain and is unreliable and a much smaller new Fleet the so called Light rapid Comfort Able trains which is also unreliable and expensive to if via needs new and efficient it also needs a new Deal with in and up to replace the present one which appears to encourage the railways to give the passenger system bad service at inflated besides promising via new equipment and More clout with the Mazankowski has made it Clear that the new government is committed to a National passenger rail not simply one in the Dens Lypo plated Quebe Windsor the new policy will now have to prove itself by attracting customers and by providing a service which complements that provided by trains and it will have to be lean and efficient As Well As it will not be enough to argue that passenger trains must be preserved because they built the so did the Canoe and the red River the revived via Passen Ger service will have to claim its right to survival on its own not on the basis of there Are some hopeful there is a revival of interest in train travel in Many parts of the in some the trains themselves have become tourist in even in its recent inefficient and uncomfortable via has attracted Large numbers of tourists from Japan and the United properly equipped it could attract As Well As bringing Back Large numbers of canadians and visitors from other trying once again to revive passenger service across Canada without a Gamble but a Gamble Worth Petty interference the provincial government has an interest in some of the larger municipal Public works projects in Winni Peg those like the Kildonan corridor and Bridge or the fort Garry transit corridor which would significantly reshape Urban those like sewage sludge drying Beds and garbage dumps which massively affect adjoining those like the aborted Sherbrooke care Gor overpass which involve Large scale demolitions and social the province already gets to have its say on most of these sludge Beds and garbage dumps Are subject to the provinces environmental control the Federal authorities do not agree to railway Over passes until they hear the provincial one Way or the province is usually in a position to forbid or modify Large scale civic Public works it disapproves the Pawley government is not satisfied with the present provincial role in the cites capital it has announced that its million contribution this year to the cites capital spending of about million will be available after the City and the province have concluded an agreement specifying the capital works the City will carry out Over the next five the implication appears to be that if the City Council does not promptly lock itself into All the details of its Road sewer garage re roofing and so on for the next five it will get no help from the province with its works this that implication is absurd and outrageous and has naturally aroused anger among it is absurd because the province has no legitimate interest in the cites selection of Parks to Side streets to rebuild and sewer lines to it is outrageous because no Public authority anywhere can Tell for certain this year what works it will need to carry out three years much less the Council prepares a five year capital program As a planning to establish a rational order to the projects it undertakes and to keep them within the cites borrowing and spending but Small alterations Are con stantly being made in that program according to shifting needs and the internal political mechanics of the the Council cannot possibly bind itself now to carry out All the items that appear in its five year the Pawley governments demand that the Council tie its hands for five years in return for the provinces usual oneyear capital Grant invites ridicule More than it is simply the new minister of Urban affairs will have to begin by backing away from the Sloppy misstatement of the provinces interest and indicating More clearly what the government has in he will have to show in the the cites capital works projects have had important Impact upon provincial he will have to Point to particular items now in the cites five year capital program which the province is concerned about and wishes to discuss with the he will have to reassure councillors that the strictly local capital works which account for most of the City program Are of no interest to the province and will not be up for Neotia if it has the province can show now what is wrong with the cites capital works program and How it can be made if it cannot suggest improve ments in the its Job is to write out the Cheque and remain gallery Phil Mallette a dramatic flight French president Francois Mitterrand dramatic 24hour night to troubled new Caledonia in the South Pacific is a risky Gamble that the prestige of his office can restore stability to circumstances that seem to be spinning out of it was probably unwise for him to describe the purpose of his visit As being to give backing to the constitutional proposals of his personal Edgar on the spot since since the proposals have enraged Many on the an overseas territory of there is a danger of this rage being transferred to him As he attempts to restore political at the same he could hardly have repudiated the proposals publicly since they very Likely sprang from his own brain in the first he has supported them since they were announced by Pisani in new Caledonia on january the proposals Are designed to solve an apparently insoluble a French Possession since new Caledonia today has of whom Only 43 per cent Are the original the other 57 per cent is composed mainly of immigrants from French French Indochina and indo there is a militant melanesian group demanding Independence of the immigrants oppose Pisani suggests that a referendum be held on a form of Independence in july and that Independence could be granted next in the context of associated treaty status with France that would leave France in control of new caledonian internal Security and external if the majority vote were against things would remain As they including a recently granted increase in local this attempt to Square the Circle seems to have experienced a very Short shelf the militant Melane sians now Call it Independence in name militant settlers Call it surrender to disloyal sporadic violence in recent weeks has resulted in several the anxiety of Mitterrand govern ment not to seem like ruthless colonialists has led to a hesitancy to use police or military except after the melanesian militants have not been mollified and believe in a police conspiracy to assassinate their the militant settlers have been disgusted by what they see As appeasement of these an apparently Builtin majority against Independence and animosity from both sides against the forces of Law and order seem to Rule out any immediate Chance of acceptance for the Pisani propos Mitterrand May be Able to make More convincing arguments in favor of the proposals but it will be hard to create a tranquil climate for a Quick Man with a writ by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press there was a time not too Long ago when a Leader or prominent Politi Cian who Felt that he had been a mocked or treated in a Deri Sory fashion simply arranged to have War sent a sharply worded note or sulked in magnificent All that appears to have changed with israeli Cabinet minister Ariel Sharon decision to bring a libel action against time the litigious politician is asking for million in damages Over a Story printed in Tine Sharon feels that the Story tended to show him in an unfavourable diplomacy this new development in International diplomacy could have inter Esting consider the following news some of which might appear on the front Page of this newspaper a year or two from Moscow a for soviet president Konstantin Cher Nenko announced today that a suit seeking million in damages will be launched against president Ronald Reagan in Washington District court later this president Chernenko claims that he was personally labelled in a re cent Reagan speech in which the soviet Boss was called the Leader of an evil Comrade Chernenko alleges that president reagans remarks caused him agony and loss of it is also claimed that the soviet Leader was forced to remain in bed for three weeks with a severe attack of shingles after learning of president reagans com president Chernenko Lee has also filed a second suit in which the soviet chief claims million in damages Over remarks made offt Decuff by the presi Dent during a recent news Confer Reagan is on record As saying that he looks far younger than the soviet president Reagan in response to questions from that Cher Nenko looks at least the soviet Leader is Chernenko is expected to travel to Washington for the trial if a new attack of shingles clears up and he is said to have agreed to appear on the Johnny Carson show and in a Seg ment of in a Clear attempt to obtain an out court White House officials hinted today that the presi Dent May be willing to remove 10 Pershing missiles from Luxembourg if president Chernenko agrees to drop his officials at the soviet embassy in Washington refused to comment on the latest but it is Felt if president Rea Gan agrees to go ahead with the withdrawal of missiles the soviet president might agree to cancel his contract with Johnny London Reuter a spokes Man for Buckingham Palace announced today that her majesty Queen Elizabeth ii has launched a million libel suit against women Wear suffered grief the suit was filed earlier today in new York District court by her majesty Lee and claims that the Queen suffered Chagrin and a severe attack of dyspepsia after Reading a column in the newspaper in which the Royal wardrobe worn during her majesty recent visit to Canada was described As ill fitting and at least 30 years out of a hat worn by the Queen during a walkabout in Toronto was described As looking like a velvet covered soup pot with until the Royal policy has always been to ignore but a spokesman at Buckingham Palace said today that her majesty feels that this is the last she has had it up to she could use the the suit also cites a paragraph in the offending column in which the reporter alleges that the Queen is less Good looking than Princess the suit also mentions tiresome and wounding references to the size of Prince Charles ears and alludes to Royal displeasure Over references to an alleged recent outburst of bad temper by Princess in which the Queens daughter is said to have savaged a reporter with a Riding spurs and a it never said a Buckingham pal Ace spokesman he simply slipped on something and fell into a horse shot grouse it was announced at the same time that Prince the Queens Hus will launch a suit against Newsweek Over a recent report that his Royal a noted sports shot 98 15 a land Rover and a presbyterian minister during a recent Hunt at the Royal estate at the Prince is an official of the world wildlife the who to be his own lawyer when the Case comes up in new York next described the Newsweek reporter named in the suit As a jumped up Little anarchist who is looking for a fat Prince Philip is claiming million in Rome a his holiness Pope John Paul ii announced during an audience at the Vatican this morning that he will launch a million Law suit against president Ronald Rea the pontiffs Lee said in new York later that president Reagan made insulting reference to at least two members of the Trinity after being thrown from his horse at his California the Pope int going to take this one lying Bailey remarked As he filed celebrating Manitoba magnificent heritage i have travelled the length and breadth of from the West coast of Vancouver Island to the most Easterly at Cape Newfoundland and up to the i never cease to be inspired by the magnificence and Richness of our people and natural the River Road Parkway the distinguished american conservation Calls our country a virtual although it notes Many assaults on the in in terms of our Standard of living we Are 2 in the according to the organization for economic cooperation and devel we do indeed have so much to and so we should this year when Canada Marks a Centennial of the Observance is based on the National Parks system being 100 years starting with Banff in but the Celebration will Toast our historical and cultural heritage As canadians tend to understate the splendor of their we have the finest National Park system in the augmented by splendid provincial and Urban Manito the so called have not has fabulous resources of startling just 160 Miles North of Winnipeg is the Pristine blood vein a fecund habitat of plants and and gushing White forests and considered so worthy that it has been recognized As a world heritage Beaudry a Lush Forest along the Assiniboine just outside the where wild grapes scale Trees to a height of 45 is recognized As a rare right within the living Prairie museum of 40 acres is so outstanding that it has been included under the International biological it is one of the finest examples of tall grass Prairie on the there Are Many superlative Fea Tures in it has Rivers and lakes of global Oak Hammock Marsh is a household name across the United states and Canada for those interested in Bird watching and Hunting Riding Mountain National Park is the Beaver Centre of the lower fort Garry National historic Park is the Only intact Stone fort of the fur Trade Manitoba has the largest Breeding population of White is the Home of the greatest Polar Bear concentration in the and Garter snakes of such interest that researchers from the University of Texas spent several months studying them this past that Manitoba is an Eden was recognized by the icelanders when Val Werier they migrated Here and settled in a place they called Gimli meaning cold it but Manitoba has As Many hours of Bright Sun Shine As Northern Rich As the province is in re so it is in the Range of its originating with the Sborigi so descriptive in their language and at Home with in Manitoba arose distinctive settlements of ukrainians and other Manitoba has a greater mix than other renewed and stimulated with recent new Waves of immigrants from Central and South people who dwell on the Prairies Are coming from across the seas to find peace and Comfort and giving their new land a Fertility of customs and our character is our from this wide background has sprung a Heady providing festivals of a nature to attract Continental among them folklore the festival Duna tonal ukrainian festival at Dauphin and the Winnipeg Folk fes there Are Many others of including the trappers festival at the the Stampede at Morris and pioneering Days at in the eyes of a recent group of 900 delegates Here last Winnipeg is an exotic City because of attractions like Folk Winnipeg has a culture of some distinction and is so recognized by new York credit rating agencies which give the City an a our cultural and artistic institutions Are taken into account in rating the economic standing of the Winnipeg does have treasures in terms of its physical Winnipeg has a collection of distinguished a Patrimony of its dominant position in finance and Commerce around the turn of the As recently As a few years magnificent Bank buildings were under threat of demolition but they have been saved through the efforts of heritage groups and the three Levels of Winnipeg is now reaching a new plateau in the acknowledgement and Protection of this no longer will such Beautiful structures be Des troyed to make Way for there is a growing movement to adapt these old spurred by the example of old Market Square where exist some of the finest warehouse buildings on the Many celebrations Are planned to Mark 1985 As heritage the province too is participating along with Parks for it Marks the 25th anniversary of its Park sys some notable events planned in clude a Canoe pageant from Rocky Mountain to lower fort Garry on August reenacting the historic trek of the a fur brigade will travel from Norway House to York there will be festivals in Many and such ventures As the Manitoba historical society working with Fol Lorama to highlight the heritage of the Many ethnic groups which give vitality and distinction to the we have so much to ;