Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 28, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free january 1985 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion no Road to peace published 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 Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council editorials the nicaraguan governments amnesty offer to rebels seeking its overthrow appears to be a tactical Public relations gesture aimed at influencing International opinion rather than persuading any rebels to Stop what makes the offer so hollow is that it is placed in no recognizable context that would make it attractive to those who have been prepared to endure years of the hardship of guerrilla life in order to get rid of a regime that they regard As antigovernment guerrillas Are asked to Lay Down their arms and place their lives and futures in the hands of the sandinista National liberation front which rules through devices unacceptable in truly democratic nothing could be More attractive than the Prospect of National reconciliation in this amnesty offer provides no evidence that the sandinista yet seek if the sandinista really wanted their amnesty offer to be taken seriously by its alleged they would prepare the ground by changing the most offensive aspects of their they would want to Deal with their illiberal emergency their secret prisons in which civil rights campaigners say psychological torture has been their brutal interference in the preferred lifestyle of aboriginal their suppression of press free their restrictions on Freedom of their Bullyboy their harassment and deportation of innocent roman Catholic their venomous Campaign against the roman Catholic their harass ment of opposition politicians seeking to travel abroad their system of neighbourhood their rigged National there is no suggestion that even one of these unpleasant aspects of sandinista Rule is to be in Exchange for a surrender that would eliminate the military threat used by the sandinista to justify their internal the antigovernment guerrillas Are offered a new life in the precise circumstances that they have been fighting to it is about As attractive to the guerrillas As similar offers made by the late general Anastasio Somoza debayle when the sandinista were the guerrillas trying to overthrow his despotic the offer seems to be As cynical As the claims of the Reagan administration to be seeking peace in Central president Ronald Reagan has marked his reelection by unilaterally breaking off discreet talks held for six months with the sandinista in while he was seeking to persuade voters that he was a not a he favored the when they swallowed the bait and voted for he no longer needed to pretend interest in peaceful Resolution of now he has doffed his Nice Guy mask and donned his breathing fire about the need for More Money to finance the Central intelligence Agency secret War against flexing the military Muscles he has developed in his honduran invasion manipulating opposition to the Contador groups peace recycling the stale news of libyan and Palestine liberation organization involvement in Pep Pering the soup with claims that the sandinista now Are backed by that Darth Vader of the american conscious the Ayatollah Ruhollah reagans equal in sandinista president Daniel Ortega used his inaugural speech january 10 to propose the preposterous the National Assembly has passed enabling de spite these trappings of democratic process the Sandin Istas lineman joint National directorate continues to run the country in its accustomed announcing this amnesty consisted of putting the cart before the if the sandinista genuinely seek an end to the killing of nicaraguans by nicaraguans they must dismantle the authoritarian state apparatus through which they arrange free and fair elections and Welcome Back those who disagree with the Good news is the nip is up Iti the bad news is now were almost As popular As the financing Limestone in defence of Star wars Manitoba Hydro chairman Marc Liesen says that the new Limestone project is so tied As it is to the triple credit rating of Northern states Power of that it might be possible to finance All or part of it off the books of if Liesen can arrange such a he will soften much of the criticism of the governments decision for an Early Startup of the if there Are financiers who Are willing to lend the Money to cover the without the government of or Manitoba Hydro customers As final there will be less concern about the potential extra Cost of an Early Start on to accomplish such a financial Liesen will have somehow to reconcile it with the governments firmly stated previous position that Lime Stone was being built primarily for and not Export and that the Power to be exported to the would come from the Overall not from Limestone the usual requirements of project financing Are that the project can generate its own Revenue to pay Back the Lender the task of the government will be to produce an agreement with the lenders Attiat on the one that the Limestone project will get All the Revenue from the Sale of Limestone Power but on the other the Power sold to produce that Revenue will come from the Hydro system As a such an agreement will also cast a new Light on the profit the government claims it will make from the Sale to its claim of a billion profit from the Sale to Asp is arrived at by assuming that the main Cost of making the Sale is the million it will Cost to Advance construction of Limestone and other Hydro if financiers Are to lend Money on the Security of the Limestone project it is Likely that they will want to see How the Revenue stacks up against the costs of building the Plant As Well As the costs of advancing the subject of project financing is gone into in great detail in the feasibility study prepared for the wis Minto a a Deal by which Manitoba would build the next station on the Nelson and dedicate its output for 35 years or More to a consortium of Power companies in North Minnesota and the feasibility study states project financing cannot produce As attractive interest rates As those that can be obtained when the Cost of credit depends on the Overall position of the rather than the merits of the Liesen Points out that the credit rating of Northern states Power is considerably better than the present credit rating of the province of if Limestone construction can be successfully tied to the then More favourable interest rates May be of it would seem that it would take More than a 12year Sale from a Plant whose costs will be carried for 67 years in order to reach a Point where the bulk of construction costs can be financed on a project the wis Mintora study suggests several ways of project one would be the creation of a separate corporation which would contract with Hydro for the construction of the Plant and which would receive the Revenue from the such an arrangement would dovetail with the governments present plans to change legislation so that Asp Revenue can flow to the Manitoba Energy authority rather than to Manitoba this alternative May provide for a guaranteed buyback of Limestone by Hydro at the end of the a second scheme could see a separate corporation with no buyback while a third could involve Federal government guarantees or Liesen says project financing will be approved Only if it is cheaper and Only if the Loans can be kept entirely off the provincial presumably meaning that there would be no Short of declaring that Limestone is being built for something the government has so far refused to it is difficult to see How project financing can be obtained which would meet both by Wilson special to the free press Ott await is extremely in if not actually unique in the human that any governments proposal to explore new Means of defence after decades of concentration almost solely on offensive weaponry has created As emotional a storm of protest As the american strategic defence More moral if questions of morality arise in weaponry they for in in the Case of Poison Gas and bacteriological methods would be both logical and traditional to say that defensive arms Are More moral than offensive people who would firmly defend the Superior moral approach of concentrating upon the Means of defence Over those of offence in any other imaginable furiously reject it in the ski the dispute that has erupted in parliament on the question is far More silly than impressive because it has been conducted largely through sloganeering rather than by Means of properly Deve loped exactly the same flaw marred the buildup for then prime minister Pierre Trudeau highly publicized in Canada peace crusade in 1983 when he insisted that the world was teetering on the Brink of nuclear disaster without offering a shred of evidence that the International Situa Tion was substantively worse a year every Canadian politician of stand on his head on top of his House of commons desk scream ing for attention to his views on defensive As opposed to offensive weaponry without affecting the actual International situation in the there a quite different aspect to this problem the Canadian people Are entitled to hear their leaders discuss the matter in considered terms and not through there for a consid ered and thoughtful supported by some that it was the american announcement of the strategic defence initiative that in the end broke the soviet unions Boycott of All arms limitation negotiations and resulted in the agree ment in Geneva earlier this month to launch three track subgroups both of the superpowers negotiating teams will be split into sub one to argue Over limitation of Long Range strategic one to Deal with restrictions on intermediate weaponry such As the Pershing and cruise and the third to consider defensive including the strategic de Fence ant satellite weapons and the ground based anti ballistic missiles and the Liberal John has been insisting that All relevant subjects be put on the he does not think that the Geneva meetings Between Secretary Schultz and foreign minister Gro Myko achieved this despite the state ments in the it would be Well if he expanded on his at the same when he insists that ski is or would be destabilizing in the he should Deal with the evidence that it was this develop ment that persuaded the soviet Union that the blockade of All arms negotiations was wholly counter the most telling piece of evidence is when the soviet Union opened a chink in its it proposed new negotiations dealing Only with the new american develop the United states insisting that All arms questions must be on the disagreement there is disagreement on that Between Secretary Schultz and the powerful Pentagon men like Richard Perle who hate the thought of discus sing the so called Star wars approach but at Geneva it was the state Secretary View that pre when the two foreign ministers met in Gromyko did not repeat the previous position that no talks could proceed unless the United states removed its Pershing and cruise missiles from nato he accepted their pres As the West has had to accept the massive soviet deployment of ss20s and other intermediate Range and went on from there to agree to wide ranging on the face of whatever comes of the ski in the it has so far proven to be an extremely effective lever it is not of negligible importance that the soviet Union has come Back to the bargaining this is a very real aspect of the Issue and it deserves More serious political at Tention in Canada than instant Dis Missal by time to move i wonder How Many like Are contemplating moving from Winnipeg upon retirement it is not an easy decision to make when one was born Here in 1920 and has lived Here a you do not have to be hit in the face with a co Flap to realize that there is something haywire How dare City councillors vote themselves such a lucrative pen Sion How dare school trustees vote themselves a 63 per cent raise in pay Why should taxpayers subsidize sports who pay themselves a year that is More than most of us earn in 10 it used to be that any profits made by Winnipeg enterprises Corpora Tion were turned Over to the City As a dome for Winnipeg unless there has been a change in the sub Sidy to the jets would have a positive effect on our property if we get a million domed who will pay for it even san Francisco knew enough to reject and it must have five times our our provincial Deb Load is for every woman and child in does anybody out there really care Hind Winnipeg never on sunday i read with much concern your intention of publishing a sunday Edi after careful consideration i have reached the conclusion that the Only logical reason for this is to do harm to the other local newspaper which publishes a sunday i would have thought that the free press could survive without stooping so i have subscribed to your newspaper for More than 30 and find that the Content has deteriorated in the last couple of there is not enough coverage for six let alone another consideration is that you Are continually harping about the High costs of publishing and seeking higher rates from the i am sure that a sunday edition will add considerably to these costs and you will be asking subscribers to cover i for and i know Many have no intention of contributing nor do i intend to take your sunday i would Wager that if a Survey were conducted in the a mini mum of 75 per cent would be opposed to a sunday if a business the size of the free press cannot abide the limited com petition it gets from the then you should move Over and let it take Guyader Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to crop insurance not a disease not a fit place i have been interested in the actions taken by health minister Larry Desjardins pertaining to the closing of two nursing Homes in Cornwallis nursing Home and the Sunset Haven nursing in the article closing order upsets owners of nursing Homes free de Cember 26 it was indicated that the owners were told to made line owner of the Cornwallis nursing was quoted As saying that most of the residents lived in a dormitory with shared bathroom facilities and she further indicated that the province requires a maximum of two to a room with their own i suggest to Desjardins that he clean up his own Back Yard before arbitrarily putting people out of in As chairman of the Winnipeg municipal Hospital com i brought to Public attention the terrible living conditions that our seniors were forced to endure As residents of King Edward which is not a Hospital but a nursing More than four and a half years seniors Are still living in conditions Way below the indicated government there Are still people tucked away in Ante rooms with no doorways into the there is still Only one toilet for at least 19 senior and heaven help us if a fire should Start during the when there is a staff ratio on the King Edward Hospital was considered obsolete by the Federal government years and should have been demolished the new building which i fought so hard to acquire for the municipal was they did not replace King Edward Hospital and instead built a building for support there is the Start of provi Sions in the City of Winnipeg five year capital budget for the rebuild ing of King which 7i was pleased to but do the seniors living there still have to have 19 people waiting in line for one toilet and Many not two to a but seven or have to wait for another five years if Desjardins is sincere in his attempt to modernize our nursing let him take a look at King Edward George Provost Winnipeg Why me it was with interest that i read the maintenance order system called Money Saver free january my problems with the enforce ment Agency have not in the i have been Back to court and have obtained another judgment for maintenance ordered to be paid to me through the my a husband refuses to make pay ments through the in conversations with the Agency i am referred from one supervisor to but to no they know where my a husband and where he is but no Effort has been made to obtain a Garnishee order and no summons has been issued to Date ordering him Back to court to explain i will agree that the system has probably been improved consider ably for and is saving Money for the but what about the 15 per cent it is not helping i would like the answer to a ques Tion that 15 per cent of us would like to ask the Agency Why me Judi Collison Winnipeg in spite of the fact that your Fred phoned to clarify our position on certain aspects of proposed crops insurance the editorial comment Why premiums vary free january 10 completely ignored the i would like to set the record it is True that Manitoba has 15 separate risk areas wherein Premium rates Are established solely on the loss experience within each Sepa rate risk on the other has one risk area for the whole premiums per acre Are the same for the entire Manitoba is not proposing to adopt the Ontario Model As indicated in the we have proposed to broaden the base of the insurance Pool in the interest of Premium Sta but Are not proposing a single Premium for the entire As indicated in the this would not sufficiently recognize differences in risk in various areas of the we have proposed a blending of Premium our proposal was that a Farmers Premium would be based on 90 per cent of the risk area rate and 10 per cent on the Al prov Ince this would achieve some increased Premium stability while at the same time recognizing differences in risk in various areas of the it is with respect to this proposal that we have not As yet received agreement with the refer ence to the Ontario program was made Only to indicate that a Broad base for establishing premiums Al ready occurs in other provinces and that Manitoba should also be Able to take this same Fred Tufford chairman Board of directors Manitoba crop insurance Portage la i wonder what Henry Morgen tales definition of fanatic the idea that i get is that of tremendous Zeal and and i must admit that these qualities describe the doctor he has gone to great expense and devoted tremendous Energy to a cause he firmly believes i of that his Zeal is misguided and certainly not in the spirit of the hippocratic oath which states in part that you will exercise your Art solely for the cure of your and will give no perform no for a criminal even if far less suggest the Law May debate the criminal Ity of abortion but the fact remains that pregnancy is not a it will be terminated naturally in due the in most is a developing individual whose life should be preserved and not heal Ken Seburn first Baptist Church flin and if we meet any Ameri All saucers will form a ;