Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free october 1985 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council soviets in the cauldron there could be an interesting Sid effect to the Kidnap Ping of four soviet diplomats in West one of whom was soon afterwards murdered by his islamic extremist soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev May decide that longstanding soviet policy towards the Middle East requires new greater flexibility and a spread ing of the Kremlin this could Lead him to seek wider influence by improving political relations with no Radical Arab he could increase his manoeuvring room by restoring diplomatic relations with severed in 1967 because of the six Day War but the subject of recent tantalizing hints of a possible he might consider such moves because his embassy staff in Lebanon became a target for reasons having nothing directly to do with any act of his islamic fundamentalists in West Beirut kidnapped soviet diplomats to put pressure on the soviet ally Syria to take the pressure off islamic fundamentalists in the Northern lebanese port of Tripoli is part of the area of Lebanon under syrian military a novel touch in this first Ever Lebanon kidnapping of soviets is that the perpetrators Are not left Wing moslem militias Loyal to Syria have been fighting a fundamentalist sunni moslem Lawheed or islamic unification for control of Syrias interest in this gangster style squabble Over turf has been sharpened by the fact that Lawheed is Friendly towards the sunni moslem Palestin ians Loyal to Yasser syrian president Hafez Assad loathes arranged a rebellion in the Palestine liberation organization to give himself control of one has arranged attacks on Arafat loyalists in palestinian refugee Camps at Tripoli and tries regularly to have Arafat Syria gets weapons from the soviet Union but tries to keep its relationship from being seen As puppetry because of assays regional Panaras leadership the connection is which was enough for the Beirut sunni extremists of the islamic liberation movement to perform an action designed to humiliate Assad As much As to put pressure on the Assad is dictator of a country with a resentful sunni majority whose privileges he has transferred to members of his own minority Alawize sect of Assad also is a close regional ally of shiite moslem which he supports in its War against neighbouring sunni moslem despite belonging to different sides of islam great sunni shiite Iran and Lawheed share a fundamentalist Fervour and get on rather that is Why which hates atheistic soviet communism As much As do the sunni fundamentalists who kidnapped the soviet has been mediating the Tripoli crisis at the request of these swirling currents Are not under soviet the kidnapped russians Are simply a most unusual position for a state that is far More accustomed to using others As Gorbachev could react by unleashing a Kab revenge he could permit a temporary Kab Cia regional he could Send his own equivalent of the battleship new Jersey to fire 16inch guns uselessly at unknown he could shrug his close his embassy and give up on More useful to him would be a political appraisal of the entire Region and implementation of a less sterile soviet he already has achieved the Little coup of convincing strategically located Oman to agree to diplomatic this gives him a presence right on the Straits of Hormuz through which much of the free worlds Oil Supply must it embarrasses the United which has recently replaced Britain As omans close military and political Gorbachev has shown a readiness to move quickly on personnel changes since becoming he has seemed less daring about most policy the attack on his diplomats could be his Cue to try some political skills in the Middle moving to the Midland All coining in from the cold one of the questions that will be put before the Canadian radio television and telecommunications hearing that is scheduled to begin Early next month is whether Winnipeg will get yet another television Western Manitoba the owners of the Brandon television have applied for a new station to be operated at Portage la while a Winnipeg group wants a station to be established at the University of Manitoba in order to provide additional educational programming to the the crts would have an easier time deciding on whether to authorize one of these or or to deny the applications altogether if the reasons stated by the prospective owners were the Only ones on or under the the Brando based application for a station at Portage la Prairie has the much larger audience of Winnipeg in while the educational television station application has behind it the Hope that its if located on Channel will effectively Jam the signal on Channel 12 that is expected to be on the air from North within a few the station at Portage la Prairie is not a new the Brandon group put such a proposal before the crts but was told in effect to rework its ideas before making another the University station is entirely having been born almost immediately it became known that a fifth operating outside of the jurisdiction of the intended to Start broadcasting a signal that could be received easily in Winnipeg without the Benefit of it is not Likely that the crts will be much interested in hearing the preferences of Winnipeg customers concern ing the in the past the Federal regulatory Agency has shown More interest in the Likely financial Success of a prospective and in his support of the principle of Canadian Content than in whether what was being offered would fill the requirements of the people expected to one of the Side effects of approving one of the applications is that Winnipeg will move into the mainstream of Canadian television by getting into Midland most television sets in the other than the Cable ready have one selector covering channels 2 to and another covering channels 14 to television manufacturers Early on determined that the second selector would cover the ultrahigh frequency channels most Likely to be used once the Basic channels were the Industry did not go along with the manufacturers thinking and chose instead to open up the the space Between channels six and seven on the main dial where an additional three dozen channels Winnipeg Basic channels Are if either of the present applicants is then one station on the Basic band will have to be moved to the the station most Likely to be moved will be one of the since the crts prohibits giving foreign stations a place on the Basic band if a Canadian outlet has to broadcast the positive Side is to be found in the of Winnipeg out of the Basic when most people own the adding of new stations will not create the expense to the set owners that is necessary when a converter must be a test for the wheat Board this years Prairie Grain crop will certainly test the marketing skills of the Canadian wheat with Only about half of the total crop the Board is already facing the problem of what to do with Large quantities of Low Grade Grain on its complicating matters Are the near record yields of Grain As Good or better than the Canadian crop elsewhere in the it is difficult to remember a year that has developed so Many crop problems As the past the earliest forecasts were for a Good crop of High Grade but As the summer progressed both the yield and the Grade came under attack by a combination of insects and then a surplus of filling current orders will not pose much of a the Board has a carryover of about million metric and this Grain is largely made up of High Quality the real problem will come when the Board attempts to Market this years the marketing of the Canadian Grain crop is never too difficult As Long As the Quality is a drop in puts Canadian exports into exactly the same category As most of the Export Grain available anywhere in the while the demand for Lowe Grade wheat is much larger than the demand for top Quality the Competition is much Canada has never been too anxious to get itself into the mainstream of suppliers of Lowe Grade and to fight the Competition that is simply because its Supply of higher Grade Grain gave it a privileged entry in a More exclusive sales this years crop is giving the Board Little Choice but to slug it out with competitors who Are quite used to playing in their own particular Ball the Canadian wheat Board should be Able to compete with the Best of and to move this years crop in spite of its lower the Board does have the time to work on the it knows approximately the size and the Quality of the crop that is now being it must find the markets that can absorb this amount of Lowe Grade by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press it was a warm Day in october and All the clocks were striking m had just finished dusting the roses when he heard his wife voice Call ing imperiously from the Kitchen blast the woman he crushing a slug under his Ever since he had left mi5 he had been Little More than a slave to his he yearned to be Back in retirement sat uneasily on his Broad he wondered what James Bond was up to these probably Rogerino some no escape m Ducky it was his wife there was no Honey buns she probably wanted him to walk Rover or drive Over to the Village for a bar of its a Man from the sunday his wife wants to talk to you about your old i cant see what interest a posh paper has in the import Export Busi m turned and headed toward the compost but he was too a notebook in was Al ready striding across the dodging the plaster gnome and skirting the ornamental m blast the a Clive Mur got right to the youve read the sensational i m looked at him about what about mi5 and the i recall some yellow press speculation about Kim Philby and these German the yanks i dont read the Murdoch m noticed that he was wearing Odd his Trilby was on could it be it had been too m regarded Murdoch through Nar rowed what do you want he Murdoch moistened the tip of his you were at were you not m what of it Murdoch just the fact my paper is about to blow the whistle on a new Batch of russian we want your com m gave him a hard Blunt and i simply Sang in the same there was nothing More to it than we hardly knew each As for Kim Philby we know All said yesterdays what about Bond m James and i were like father and one of our Best a bit of a of Murdoch let off his he worked for Smersh m Felt the ground shift under his he clutched a plaster Flamingo for i dont believe it Murdoch he left the country last probably in Moscow by you know he was a shoe fetishist that How he was Poppycock m suddenly realized that he was sitting in a bed of Young his Arm around a gnome for he stood up with great poppy cock he Murdoch handed him the the headline did not mince words 007 was red m leaned against the Birdbath for i must Call George Smi he forget Murdoch Smiley crossed the albanian fron tier this he with be in the Kremlin by now drinking Vodka with inspector miss Ted Kennedy and sir Richard Han m sir Richard Han nay Murdoch wrote something on his the Kremlin oldest and most valuable met Lenin in Geneva in hit if off at but i thought Hannay was m so did everybody slipped off the Orient express one Day in june for years he ran Joe Basil Rathbone and Bernard still working at age a fair m did you say Mccarthy mole the Murdoch one of the Best moles Smersh Ever raised a lot of diverted m swore can i quote you on that Mur Doch was taking m Drew himself you certainly May youve got the wrong the Only moles i Ever dealt with Are the moles i killed with a shovel on the front Murdoch can i quote you says they should be killed with a we can use m you can do no such get out i have no com Murdoch Felt the Bamboo Rake Bounce off his he ran for his m sat on the wet grass for an dusk was falling As he took a notepad from his he wrote a Brief note folding it with placed it under the plaster gnomes he went into the House and began to shortly after Rascal in alias slipped into the moist the note was where he expected to find he read it by the Light of George smileys escape plan Raskolnikov the old mans going soft in the he didst recognize me and i after wearing the Odd socks and my hat was on Bond will be a Small minority in his letter objections free september 12 Baron Dis Parages the Deschenes commission and sidetracks from the real in doing he presents false and misleading statements and alleges that ukrainians Are being singled out As War while hitlers former allies Are being the fact is that War criminals from and Vichy France when dealt with by Allied tribunals or by their own in the Case of nazi collaborators from to Many fled with the retreating nazi armies and dispersed from Europe after the some settling in Canada and Justice Jules Deschenes some settling in the United in his haste to divert the Baron relies on falsehoods by stating that nazis did not allow no germans to kill in in the past year the United states has extradited a number of ukrainian War criminals to Israel and including Ivan the terrible who operated the Gas equipment at sending tens of thousands of jews to their ukrainian guards assisted in driving people into the Gas another Treblinka the Fedor was also As was ukrainian nazi police executioner Bohdan to other than serving the final solution in certain the nazis used the mainly galician nationalists in outside Lucy Dawidowicz Book the War against the 19331945 cites a message from the jewish bund underground to the polish London government identifying nazi use of ukrainian fascist paramilitaries to murder jews in Stanis zoo cow and Bree while pogroms in at least 13 other towns Are said to have taken if and those sharing his have clean hands and a pure heart on this then surely they have no need to feel threatened by evidence from surviving witnesses of collaborationist no matter which country the survivors Tottle Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to doubts raised David Matass letter not a farce free september 4 relating to the United states experience with soviet produced evidence in the War crime trials is misleading in several Matas states that none of the people accused were Well known in fact if not of the accused actively opposed communism Sev eral have been Active in that fight throughout their Bishop among others of the named have opposed the communist control of their native coun tries in a particularly open and vociferous contrary to Matass most courts and immigration tribunals have exhibited great scepticism visa is soviet which has been of two types documents and video depositions of alleged eyewitnesses who currently reside within soviet con trolled while it has been argued that the evidence in question is being provided by the soviet government through its ministry of jus the soviets themselves in admitted in matters relat ing to War the notorious soviet secret the is in full although no court has yet held that any document was actually forged by the Kab or otherwise tampered enough irregularities and inequities exist to raise serious doubts As to the propriety of relying on this the Kab directs which documents will be produced at the documentation presented always favors the prose cution not one document has yet been produced for the Benefit of the no Westerner is allowed the Opportunity to determine whether the documents have been presented in logical whether the method of selection was proper or whether any exculpatory materials Are held in the Kab the originals of the documents Are at All times within the control of the Kab and May be examined by the defence and the prosecution Only at the so Viet embassy in the great majority of the accused cannot afford even the most elem tary forensic examination of the in the several where forensic Examina Tion was numerous irregularities were to the courts have Given Little weight to soviet documents and have instead relied on other evidence in reaching their the depositions of soviet Eye wit on the other Are taken in the soviet Union or its occupied territories with soviet procurators Kab controlled the Federal rules Are not Fol Lowed in or so vital to our system of is curtailed to the Point where no one has the ability to determine the identity or the background of the alleged wit except for the Kab agents who produced and prepared him for the the defences ability to expose any inconsistencies in the witness testimony or to shed appropriate Light on his is denied for All intents and the two Federal appellate courts which have considered the Issue of soviet witness testimony found the evidence to be tainted and the experience with soviet evidence to been entirely based on prior per we can Only expect that it will continue to be evidence procured in a manner which allows for an interpretation that it has been coerced or otherwise improperly obtained should have no place within the Justice system of any free and civilized no matter How horrified we May be by the memory of the we cannot selectively ignore the Basic principles of Justice upon which our respective nations were founded without betraying those principles for All Paul Zumbakis Zumbakis and associates attorneys and Counselor Chicago get on with it i protest the total Lack of action in the House of important legislation such As that affecting the divorce Laws was stalled when the House took a summer Hun if not of canadians Are waiting for this legislation to be reintroduced and passed so that they can get on with the rest of their what do we have instead members of parliament Are so Busy tuna fishing they cannot attend to their prime function governing the can the and get on with Marilea Weir Winnipeg birthday Gisli Manitoba born october Vij sorry about the someone marked it express1 by i ;