Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba We Nieng Pratt May the Piess welcomes letters from give Rit few and the authors name will used and Fetters Are subject to readers forum Annig makes no sense your editorial no policy for Winnipeg free april 3j prompted the to it is sad and True that our City plans in lurches to the left and my special concerns arc How this Lack of planning with a sense of direction destroys the Good that is achieved at the grass rooter and is wasteful of precious financial As a resident of the Core who would like to see people living Down town i had to fight very hard to receive the assistance supposedly available to residents to renovate and restore a derelict House of Victo Rian style in the Osborne Village the House is now a heritage asset to the instead of the ratan cockroach infested Eye sore of two and on half years for my trouble and my taxes were raised 38 per cent in one and Are now comparable to some River Heights my property is Only 25 feet by 110 feet and is situated at present in a bad environment next to derelict houses and three Storey walkup we suffer a constant litter noise from hotel patrons and Lack of parking and an apparent disregard for How the neighbourhood is to be reshaped by the two neighbors and myself have invested considerable Money and Many Hundred hours of labor to redevelop or build better Homes to help generate interest and infuse the area with some positive vitality and at the same the City pro Vides millions of dollars in mortgage funds to Quick Buck entrepreneurs to slap together unsightly one residence formerly they Are in Complete conflict with Thi existing architecture the with the help of our incentive turns a healthy profit in three to five this Type of develop ment devalues the restoration of existing Homes and kills interest in High Quality residential construct this mixed bag approach will get us no place and the Impact of Core area incentive to renovate Homes is nullified if these Low Cost subsidized beehives Are allowed to be built these types of build Ings Are More and More in evidence throughout the but especially in Osborne downtown will never be repopulated unless there Are attractive and exclusive areas for people with the Cash to enjoy living downtown to live in close proximity with the night life and work the increased density of Popula Tion contests even further the exist ing grocery aggravates Park ing and increases transient the already Low sense of Community sinks and the owner occupy ers of give up and move away in How can we prevent this final scenario from occurring and con Vince the City to plan More effectively Winnipeg deserves a Crescent Street or Robson Street where Young professionals and seniors alike can enjoy the excitement of downtown Alan Blanchette Winnipeg nuclear insanity it was encouraging to read that Fred in his column so Viets keep quiet about their Star wars plan free april realizes that stockpiling weapon upon weapon lends a degree of credibility to Calls for reductions in nuclear i would disagree with his explicit suggestion that the proponents of disarmament Are weak ening our system by hampering our leaders As they zealously guard our Best interests by maintaining the balance of terror at its workable that these sane and rational voices can be heard is a sign of the health and vigor of our i question the assertion that the strategic defence initiative is not a great Deal More from a technical Point of View than putting a Man on the there is no agreement among scientists that this system is i interpret the intentions of president Ronald Reagan differently than if the americans Are planning to concen trate on a purely defensive Why do they find it necessary to embark upon an unprecedented up grading of old weapon systems and the deployment of new weapon sys tems through to the end of the Cen Tury i am astounded that Reagan finds it strange that Many of the 200 soviet scientists who signed a letter protesting Star wars have spent their lives working within the soviet military there is a great number of former members of the american military and Industrial Complex As Well who have spoken out clearly against the development of that these knowledgeable individuals question the Utility of developing a new technological generation of weapons gives credence to the Case Cleverley column heading itself and the comments about soviet ant satellite and anti ballistic sys tems leave More unsaid than there seems to be a suggestion that these systems represent some form secret and Clandestine ant satellite weapons were Deve loped concurrently by the soviet Union and the United states in the 1960s and Early the soviet Union understandably views the new research on Star wars As contrary to the provisions of the abm once the ski bandwagon is in High the research experiments that would mimic the Way the system was to be deployed would scuttle the abm Why is a so called defence system such a major destabilizing Factor in the arms race in the strange world of nuclear a defence sys no matter How be comes the ultimate offensive Wear this Point was recognized when the abm treaty was framed but the Reagan administration is deter mined to forge ahead with Star i also take this Opportunity to i commend Val Werier for his col it is refreshing to see a sane land rational appraisal of the nuclear arms i Stanley George Stubbs 1 Winnipeg not nazis j i am concerned with the possible repercussions the present Hunting in Canada can have Oil the budding relationships in out theft Are Stilt Many holocaust survivors among us whose painful memories do not allow them to separate an emotional from a rational re while few will disagree that True nazis and collaborators must be punished and that there is no Tim limit on the crime of genocide is unfortunate that present definitions of Nail collaborators could include people who were caught up in the web events for nationalistic yet were in no Way implicated in murdering jews or other the second world War provided opportunities for certain National groups to attain Independence among them croatians and those who led these National liberation move ments had to manoeuvre Between Complex alliances to achieve theft this did not make All of them nazi what is dangerous in this context is Broad being a holocaust survivor my i feel a moral right and obligation to broach this sensitive subject in a positive i am alive because of some marvellous people among the slovaks who risked their lives to hide my Mother and my during the nazi regime my father was de ported to Auschwitz before we managed to hide and perished there in a Gas the slovaks who saved us were neither our friends nor our just honest and moral people who cared for three persecuted human regardless of their such families also existed in to in in Ukraine and even in under the very searchlights of the obviously not All people behaved that if they had there would have been Many More the second world like air brought out the Best and the worst in peo with most people being simply top scared to act in accordance with their the danger of an emotional response to nazi Hunting is in the casting of collective it is not easy for a jew who saw his wife or brother killed by a ukrainian nazi Collaborator to remain objective towards other it is even harder for a victim of Ger Man nazism to absolve some Ger mans from collective yet most ukrainians were not collaborators nor were All germans the situation is even More com plex since some German soldiers were Antinazi and some ukrainians fought equally the German and the soviet occupiers of their coun try and May have killed soviet jews in it is important that we in Canada open a new Page in relations among ethnic relations not based on historical atrocities but on a common goal to build this country to achieve one does riot have to absolve nazi criminals from just but their identification could be achieved through a cooperative venture Between the affected communities rather than through one sided we Are not at Liberty to forget what happened but our future should not be forged merely by our Baruch Rand Winnipeg some Eastern europeans fought for the but Many others were nationalists who fought for their Independence against both the germans and the eager to accuse Israel Ludwig is an sensible Man of his Arti Cle on War crimes free May 5 emphasized while War criminals should be brought to jus they should be brought to Canadian that evidence from behind the Iron curtain is suspect and that whole ethnic groups should not be tarred by the alleged actions of from what i have read and heard in the i get the impression that Ludwig is in the minority in his Community and May even be criticized for his moderate Posi the Littmann Wiesenthal who get excellent coverage on whatever they pronounce Are the vocal representatives of their com they Are eager to accuse publicly without providing Evi an individuals and that of his can be destroyed by one pointed even though later those allegations Are proved to be this is not it has already happened in the United Frank Walus is a living based on evidence provided by Simon the office of special investigations of the department of Justice prosecuted Walus for being a notorious Gestapo trooper in eyewitnesses from the and Israel testified that he took a per Sonal hand in atrocities against the jews of his he was convicted and stripped of his Citi but the Case was quietly dismantled after six be cause his lawyer proved after trav Elling to Europe that Dat age Frank Walus had been taken from Poland to Ger Many As a farm labourer d he had never been Back to Poland during the War d his height of five four inches was too Short to have Ena bled him to join the Gestapo d As a and a lie did not qualify for the Al German elite is unit to which he was alleged to have belonged d the eyewitnesses remembered him As Frank Walus even though he did not change his name to Frank from Franciszek until he arrived in the such was the airtight Case against him by the based on evidence provided by Simon Wie How Many such cases will there be in Canada How Many lives will be destroyed Melnyk Winnipeg outrageous the letter by Frank Schone not criminals free May 7 calling for respect for former nazi Germany and the Waffen is by its former enemies at the same appealing to German speak ing people in Canada to identify themselves with Neo fascism by equating anti fascism with anti is not Only outrageous but also insulting to most while it is True that not every German Soldier or citizen was a the majority went along with hitlers War of aggression and president Ronald reagans visit to the Pitburg cemetery in West Germany was not an act honouring the millions who gave their lives fighting the nazi War but paying respect to nazi Germany and its atrocities against plats Chick Winnipeg Gutsy president i Admire president Ronald Reagan for going to Pitburg Ceme West in order to show reconciliation Between the people of Germany and the at the same i sympathize with the victims of whether jew or and understand their those americans who demonstrated against the Pitburg who do this great moral should better look at their own not moral his tory 200 years of negro the slaves were in whipped to raped and their bodies mutilated males were castrated to Calm them there was 300 years of govern men sponsored segregation in the South stopped Only 20 years remember it was America at one said the Best Indian was a dead genocide of whole Indian tribes or nations took the German people do not Ven Erate Adolf americans venerate their first George who brought Liberty to Whites but still kept his Robert Schutz jewish values on May president Ronald Rea Gan stuck to his decision to Lay a Wreath in bit erg where some former is germans Are the outcry of indignation grows As far As what i know of the he is a Man who likes to be liked and the visit to the Ceme Tery was an unfortunate he did not foresee the ensuing protest and does not seem to understand Many would have respected him if he had admitted his Reagan seems to have no understanding of especially for the the jewish race is very old and Wise and from old testament times has Given evidence of understanding the human a Long history of suffering and survival has opened jewish jews should Tell their children that jewish values have survived the holocaust and will live on through Katy Simons Winnipeg Hydro Export Deal Hurt provinces credit rating Manitoba might have saved its a credit rating with Moodys investors services if it had raised taxes or not signed a major Power Export this seemingly startling assessment by one of new Yorks major Bond rating Agen cies is confirmed in its 12page credit report on Manitoba and Manitoba Hydro issued May Moodys downgraded Manitoba and its provincially guaranteed Utility to an comparable to the a status assigned the province two years ago by the other new York investment analysis Standard and the reason Moodys gives for the rating drop is the Prospect of continued heavy borrowing for operating and capital purposes in a climate of Only modest economic dilutes credit Quality and results in a rating Moodys believes the province has lots of room left to revenues have increased modestly a though the province still has considerable flexibility in its future Revenue options As the tax Burden remains below that of Many other the report it notes especially corporate income have not grown the province still has some flexibility in its future Revenue options As its tax Levels remain moderate by National while opposition members and members of the provincial business Community May he chagrined to hear that Moodys regards Manitoba As a relatively Lowmax the App government was equally unhappy about the Agency decided Lack of enthusiasm Over Prospect of major Power Sale to the the report was prepared before Frances Russell Manitoba Hydro had received approval from the National Energy Board for its billion Sale to from the tone of the it is doubtful the nebs Blessing would have changed Moodys a decision to resume construction on a major hydroelectric project will necessitate heavy commitments for Manitoba Hydro and potentially for the but timing and Structure of this debt Are Uncertain at pres although Low Cost hydroelectric Power is presently the Lon term feasibility of the financing must be especially when its magnitude is considered in Light of the provinces own borrow ing needs and potential foreign Exchange the report in an finance minister Vic Schroeder confirmed that the Asp Sale and resumption of Hydro development was part of the downgrading of the credit even though Moodys cited Hydro construction As one of Manitoba Strong Points for the were just starting a big new project and they have had bad experiences with big projects tothe Schroeder was critical of the fact the new York rating firm didst wait to see if the Power Sale would be approved by the neb and so never looked at the neb which the province sees As an endorsement of the they Are less thorough than some May the minister Schroeder insisted that the rating loss would be insignificant for the Cost ing it less than million this year in higher debt charges since Manitoba debt is widely dispersed As to currencies and dates of the minister estimates that it will take 10 years before the credit decline will reach its Peak Impact of million not All of Moodys analysis was the report notes that Manitoba has generally avoided major upheavals in its econ due in part to the lesser presence of cyclical components when compared to other for this the recent recession was less severe in Manitoba than in the rest of Canada but the recovery has likewise been unemployment has remained Low compared to the National average because of a relatively diverse and stable employment agricultural per Sonal income and construction Snow consid Erable although minerals and manufacturing exhibit persistent Moodys Doest share the oppositions View that the provincial governments spending is out of the report is sprinkled with comments like these the expenditure growth trend has been similar to that of the Economy in recent have grown at Levels similar to the Economy in recent years and debt service Levels remain total expenditures have generally grown at Levels similar to the provincial Economy remaining about 2021 per cent of Gross Domestic product Gap in and in common with All health and education Are primary items of comprising 31 per cent and 18 per cent of total expenditures debt service moderate at about seven per cent of total average for All the per capita personal income level of Manitoban is currently per cent of canadians As a the highest since in it was Only per these positive assessments offset by Moodys concerns about sluggish Revenue growth in the provinces failure to raise a 32 per cent increase in net funded debt since the weakness of some sectors of the Economy and continuing High operating doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Hosit in my ;