Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 26, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1985 pages 1736 radio Waves round the world major War of words rages across shortwave band by Kay Bartlett the associated press Albania radio Tirana is Broad casting to North americans what it says is a Canadian folksong called Rise Sung a Cap it assures the like minded that they will always be Safe in the arms of the communist the who like to disco fit those who live in Taiwan and leave not a Stone in they actually broadcast in an artificial language that linguists have been promoting for but in hardly anybody radio despite some excellent american comes on a Little although Veteran listeners say the soviets have made efforts to lighten its program with such offerings As Moscow a sort of write in listeners learn that it is extremely rude to whistle indoors in the soviet Union and that the reason the guards at airports come around and make people take their feet off the coffe tables is that soviets consider that practice insulting to the Host works of dissidents the americans Are filling the International airwaves by Reading the works of soviet dissidents to the russians in 15 languages spoken in the soviet Union the British broadcasting corporation is chiming the tones of big Ben and Reading the and radio Prague is broadcasting the voice of a Singer it says is Prague answer to barbra Canada has been on the International airwaves since Christmas and the abcs radio Canada International now chatters in 12 in Al two rebel radio stations stay one step ahead of the managing to transmit rebel news four hours a Day an anti Khomeini station is blast ing away in persian into Iran under the name of the voice of the libera Tion of its All part of the world of inter National about hours of verbiage and music fill the Short wave broadcasting channels each week in 140 languages at a Cost of at least 128 countries Reg ister their broadcasts and at least 46 Are Clandestine stations that dont admit to the origins of their every word of this International babble is monitored by the Cia and the bbl they share the info and by the soviets for others Monitor specific Geo graphic such As the Perpetu ally troubled Middle its an amazing War of words that most North americans Are not aware of because relatively few Are shortwave radio outside world but in countries where the press is tuning in on foreign broadcasts is a Way of finding out whats going on in the outside world or within the country As in Poland during the Solidarity Strug if you ask everyone in an american College who has listened to International maybe one or two hands would go says Bill a Vic Epresi Dent of radio free Europe radio if you asked the same question in Prague or Budapest or every hand in the class room would be editor religious talk shows and and readings of works suppressed in the Homeland Are All part of the clutter As nations seek to present world according to the soviets Are the broadcasting in 84 languages hours a week at an estimated Cost of million a those Fig contained in a 1982 Cia report to Congress on propaganda includes Clandestine stations the soviets the United states is the second largest with hours at a Cost of just Over the official government station is the voice of a part of the United states information it broadcasts world wide 990 hours a week in 42 languages and is mandated to give an accurate picture of american warts and it was founded on 79 Days after Pearl radio free Europe and radio now under the auspices of the Board of International Broad Are younger than the radio free Europe began in 1950 and radio As it was called began in both supported by the they were formally separated from the Agency in the Early but the soviets still accuse them of being the voice of the intent Canada broadcasts to world audience in dozen languages radio free broadcasting to five East european and radio broadcasting throughout the soviet Are supported by the but think of themselves As surrogate stations for the countries to which they radio Liberty is the voice of the conscience of says Gene director of planning and programming for the the Peoples Republic of China is the third broadcasting 395 hours a week in 43 including 49 hours a week in English to North voice of the Andes is the fourth Fol Lowed by West the United North Albania and voice of the a religious broadcaster based in next come South East aus a religious broadcaster based in the Nige Ria and radio Canada with an annual budget of broadcasts a total of 160 hours says a Csc As Well As English and Sci is on the air in Spanish and it even does a 20minute broadcast weekly in countries with closed societies go to considerable trouble to keep their citizens insulated from subversive the soviets alone spend an estimated million on jamming broadcasts from other despite a Lack of Large audiences in North America and pretty much in Western shortwave broadcasting has grown Treen it is estimated that the Power used in broadcasting has doubled in the last 10 among Western the abcs International broadcasts Are widely considered the most Credi with the Best general program that reputation dates from the second world says Gene Sosin of radio free when Ger Man claims of British plane losses happened to be too the bbl would promptly report the higher they have maintained that reputation for absolute says acting awards riddled with flaws by Mike Henderson Everett Herald Cliff Robertson 1968 once proffered that the Oscar mean much unless it was bestowed after careful scrutiny of five Guys vying in the same Dustin Hoffman Kramer 1979 accepted the plaudits but pointed out that an Oscar didst mean that one actor had beaten the other nominees out of George Scott 1970 thought the whole notion of offering awards for movie acting performances was so silly that he declined to accept that which the Academy of motion picture arts and sciences had so masochistic ally Given sillier Marlon Brando on the 1954 the god a 1972 refused to pick up his second and presumably last Statuette because of the Way american indians Are Refus denials and social non sequitur that part of the history of the Academy the awards Are utterly thoroughly subjective and often fraught with Politi Cal the Academy awards presentation re Mains the most prestigious of the Many annual celeb immortal Zers this despite the flaws that accompany the perhaps the most irritating Short coming is the fact that pictures released Early in a year often Are effectively forgotten when Nomina Tion time Rolls next for when the Academy announces its will anyone remember the late Ralph Richard son let alone Ian Holm from last Springs Greystoke or Wilford Brimley from the natural will Albert Einnes extraordinary work in under the Volcano be ignored in order to Jack Lemmon for the letters yearned mass Appeal even More annoying where Oscar nominations Are concerned is the tendency to Lump dissimilar perform in Light of Steve Martins having copped Best actor in the recent new York film critics Cir Cle its pretty much certain his slap happily manic performance in All of me will pull an Oscar Nomina it May Well be a Case of Academy voters deciding who was Martin As a walking sight gag Finney As dips maniacal Diplo mat Sam Waterston the killing Fields As a foreign correspondent Dustin Hoffman Points out that an Oscar does not mean that one actor has beaten another out of anything Mances into the same in 1965 for Richard Burton the spy who came in from the Laurence Olivier Rod Steiger the pawnbroker and Oskar Werner ship of fools gave what May have been the Best dra Matic performances of their screen that the Statuette went to Lee As a comic Buffoon in cat apples and oranges this years bes Tactor nominees May Well turn out to be a Case of comparing apples with a banana in the Jeff Bridges starman As a space or any of a dozen other actors maybe even Eddie Murphy in the fifth that despite their subordinate the Golden Globe awards to be distributed today Are More logically structured than the the film land fixtures since Are the Googash passed about by the Hollywood foreign press the group consists of no american journalists who Are based in los Angeles so that they can Send their constituents All the deathless news of show the which Many feel Are a precursor of the Oscar Nomina Are not without their Short com the foreign for finds room for Only one writing whereas oscars Are Given for original As Well As adapted screen worse past Globe ceremonies often have seemed like fan club con what with awards for most promising newcomer or Best acting debut or Best new Star of the year film oms con solution prize equivalent of base balls pre theres also a distinctive commercial aspect to the what with the bestowing of world Fil favorite designations but the globes make perfect sense in one Way they contain separate acting categories for dramatic roles and for comic or musical perform without assigning any value to one or the it seems eminently practical to group Murphy Beverly Hills Dudley Moore Micki and Bill Murray ghost busters and Robin Williams Moscow on the Hudson apart from water it could be argued that there is something less elite about being included in a set of 10 rather than but even the honouring of 10 performances inevitably ignores dozens of others worthy of Here remains a subject of some pet lacks Lampoon sponsor by Bradley Bird a Winnipeg theatre has been unable to find financial backers for a play lampooning Manitoba French language Colin of Prairie theatre says potential sponsors Are scared away by the controversial nature of Section 23 a French language the show is the Only one of the five play pet season that lacks a those might sponsor Are there executive producer of told a news conference Jackson says its normally easier to find a but groups and corporations perceive Section 23 As a play that might not Good will among the while there still is time for pet to find a sponsor before the which opens in French at Centre culture Franco Manitoban 8 and in English at pet the Lack of one Means the loss of which would have been used to hire another Jackson no problems Roland artistic director of be Cercle which is jointly producing Section 23 with says his theatre had no problems locating a centrals Crisses popu a credit is providing for the the French fact seems to be a very Touchy Mahe said after the press conference at Centre culture Franco Manitoban in says he understands the reluctance of groups to sponsor pets English version of Section 23 because there May be some people who Are so blinkered about the topic that the Mere men Tion of it gets their backs he that there is nothing tasteless or insulting about the written jointly by David Arnason and Claude he says the song and dance show lampoons equally the major French and English characters in the prov inces True nature an English professor at Kings College at the University of Manitoba and author of Many says with Tongue in Cheek that the play will reveal the True nature of the people behind the French plot to takeover he says it offers heart wrenching tragedy and seens dripping with followed by scenes of tender Dorge jokingly we and the cast All took out extra insurance because of the five actors and one musician per form in the cabaret style production because of its joint product Ion by French and English demonstrates the kind of cooperation needed for both groups to live in peace in the Jackson while members of be Cercle Moliere have thought about producing such a satire for the Confer ence was told that Kim artistic director of proposed the idea last summer to committee to assess four novels up the Peterborough county Board of education has decided a committee will review four controversial novels including three by former Nee Pawa resident Margaret Laurence As soon As an official complaint is Helen a councillor from nearby Burle Anstruther township who has renewed a Yea sold Book Banning drive in the said recently after the Board vote that she will file the complaint i Media Trotter has called on the Board to remove Laurences a jest of the diviners and the Stone plus Salinger Catcher in thu from school Book calling the novels disgusting and Burle Anstruther Council earlier passed a Resolution calling for the review but has since said it will not support Trotter in her efforts to have the books school Board chairman Eric col ton said the Board has received 58 letters supporting the books and four opposing the Board has also received petitions with 199 names in favor of keeping the books in the and a 610name petition calling for a ;