Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 4, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pay your Bills using the Telephone 947 a division of com chef services limited 298 Garry r3c1h3 Winnipeg free press january pages 17214 sunday tomorrows news predictions for 1987 flushed by the accuracy of our forecasts for the free press is again publishing predictions for 1987 made by the foreign correspondents of the sunday times of London if the scribes Are right 1987 will be the year of the while the United states grapples with its iranian Mikhail Gorbachev will be bolder than and the politics of Western Europe will be enlivened by a minimum of four United states by Jon Congress flexes its Muscles the United states is heading for an inward looking investigations into the Iran affair will continue during the first half of though the Public interest will Flag unless there Are some dramatic new is bound to grow weaker and the democratic run Congress will increasingly exert its muscle perhaps most dangerously in favor of protectionist Trade there will be no sum Mit meeting Between Reagan and Gorbachev and no appreciable Progress towards any agreement on arms by the end of the president reagans health will have become an increasing worry to with the president going into Hospital in Early there Are suggestions in washing ton that he is not As fit As his staff would like the Public to the operation next in which Reagan will undergo surgery for an enhanced prostate is a fairly minor but some White House observers believe that he is now ageing rapidly and fear that his health May Worsen steadily this year especially As the investigation into the Iran Nicaragua crisis takes it worries about the presidents health go hand in hand with in creasing worries about whether he is still up to the though Reagan has Long been famous for his Handoff style of leadership and during his first to be it served him some of his staff now report in creasing difficulty in getting his full attention at his mind wanders More than it used they and he finds it harder to con for Short his mind even seems to go reports of this nature will steadily become More frequent and More and by the end of 1987 the press will have begun to make much of but while it will not be a Good year for nor will it be a Good year for George has fallen victim to the iranian crisis and his chances of winning the Republican nomination in 1988 will continue to perhaps the one statistic which might be of albeit rather Comfort to the Vic Epresi Dent is that every president elected in a year ending in Zero since the year 1840 has died in office seven in if Reagan died in and Bush was the incumbent president in his chances of winning the election in november of that year would look much better than they do in any Case some new Republican faces will be stealing the limelight by the endow the one name to watch for governor Thomas Kean of new he scored impressively among Blacks and democrats when reelected last no and he could emerge As a candidate for but it is the democrats who will Benefit most from the Iran by the end of next year Sam the new chairman of the Senate armed services will seem Well placed to win the demo cratic by americans May feel they want a More hands on president in the White which should be Good news for and because of foreign affairs will loom larger than usual in the 1988 Good news for because foreign affairs is his the Millstone round Nunns neck is that he represents Jimmy Carters but the Dis closures about reagans handling of Iran have made Carter seem a less awful president than he did and a clutch of Southern Pri Maries Are now due to be held Early in which will also be helpful to for and for some the iranian crisis May yet yield its Southeast Asia by Alexander Macleod Vietnam forced to Retreat the political map of Southeast Asia will begin to undergo drastic changes Early in the key development will be a reluctant decision by Vietnam refurbished leadership to scale Down its Mili tary commitment in Kampus vietnamese troops now there will be halved by the end of the this move will be forced on Hanoi by Mikhail Gorbachev conveyed secretly to the Vietnam Ese party Congress earlier this month by his Yegor Liga that Russia is no longer will ing to underwrite a stalemated Mil itary Campaign that is costing the Kremlin billion a another compelling reason for Moscow withdrawal of support for the occupation is chivas insistence that there can be no improvement in relations Between Moscow and peking until soviet support for it Gorbachev pressure will cause ill feeling in where Kampuchea is seen As a historic since the defeat in the Viet Nam Hanoi has assumed that with soviet support it can be the dominant Power in Southeast the vietnamese will at first try to Tell Gorbachev that the soviets can no longer enjoy full Access to the former american bases at Cam Ranh Bay and a the so Viets will reply that by staying in Kampuchea Vietnam is destroying its chances of economic in the end the vietnamese will have no option but to Bow to soviet Gorbachev will Tell them that soviet economic Aid will be kept at around billion a Yar so Long As the soviet Navy and air Force can use the two in another attempt to sweeten the Gorbachev tells them that if they withdraw from Kampuchea they will secure better Trade relations with the West and the six countries of the association of South East asian the effect of these developments will include a resurgence of pol pots Khmer Rouge in which the vietnamese military presence has been Able to contain for the past eight where the vietnamese military presence of troops will be Cut by will begin to enjoy a better relationship with its neigh tensions in the re Gion will begin to the new leaders in mean Are obliged to Settle for a future in which Vietnam political dominance of Indochina is no longer they can be con with the thought that its economic influence in Southeast Asia is Likely to been handed As the Vietnam Economy recovers and Trade with the non communist world begins to Eastern Europe by John Miller Kremlin old allies make Way Eastern Europe will suddenly Bounce Back into the news in when the changing of the old guard begins at for two Mikhail Gorba Chev has concentrated on his Domestic Eastern Europe was not a foreign policy As Long East Europe geriatric leaders came up with familiar tub thumping declarations of unswerving the Kremlin was con but Gorbachev youth and dynamism will make his allies because they Are reluctant to hand Over to their the Young upwardly Mobile party Appart and the More ind dependent minded economists and academics who feel it is time to tackle a decade of serious define in growth rates and economic the Kremlin will have to the shakeup in Czechoslovakia is Long Gustay has headed an immobile leadership Ever since Moscow crushed the communist Reform movement of Alexander Dubcek some 17 years Moscow will find it hard to decide whether he should be re placed by Lubomir the present prime or by Milos who is responsible for the it will probably plump for the there will be no tears shed for husks departure from the Todor Zsivkov of Bulgaria has also been too Long in aged he is fairly described As the Doyen of Moscow East european Boot having been in Power for 32 after continuing to ignore Public soviet criticisms of bulgar is he will be re tired on health some Nasty infighting in the bul Garian Complete with a mysterious death or can be expected to follow before the Kab restores and Chudomir Alex a Deputy prime minis emerges on Hungary political establish ment will behave in a much More gentlemanly fashion when they get the message from Moscow that it is time for Janos to having led the country with skill since the 1956 he will accept that Hungary minor eco nomic Miracle is at an the soviet comrades will agree to Gyorgy the present prime replacing twinkling out Erich who has been East Germany party Leader for 15 will not be he has presided Over the most successful Economy in the yet he will dare to flirt once again with West Germany and complain about defence costs and that will undo Gorbachev likes the look of Egon who has responsibilities for internal Security and youth Poland and Romania will be left alone in general will continue to improve soviet polish relations and keep the lid on the pressure and the Krem Lin has no successor in and Moscow Long ago decided to ignore Nicolae Ceausescu Maverick be see tomorrows Page 19 Charleswood 4910 Roblin River Heights 580 Academy downtown Winnipeg Square East Kildonan 969 Henderson Garden City 2200 my Philllps fort Garry 1166 Pembina fort Richmond 7 kill lame James 1850 Portage vital 491 marys South vital 4 Brit Annoca Tuxedo 2090 Corydon West end 702 Sargent head office 332 Nassau 4523611 cleaned on time and to your River Heights 1685 Corydon fort Rouge 414 Osome fort Rouge 332 Nassau fort Rouge 743 Corydon South Dale 35 Lakewood create your own upon w we at quintons that the weekly specials we dont 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