Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 4, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free january 1987 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 Cress 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 my my m my my Mhz democracy in China chivas student demonstrators Are making demands for increased democracy that Are unexceptional in Western that could be expected in View of recent reforms that Challenge the concept of the marxist command Economy but that Are unthinkable to Many powerful interest groups in the country starting from particular resentment in one University in one Region about one set of rigged elections for the 1987 party chinese students in at least 11 cities have developed a general thesis that it is time for greater political in so they have put a Finger on a Central illogical Ity of chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping program encouraging economic free Dom while insisting on the communist party restrictions on Independent the communist regimes worry about this develop ment in some universities is increased by the fact that the country economic difficulties could cause other elements of the population to join the that May explain the reports of arrests of workers said to have carried out acts of such As overturning and burning it May have something to do with the ironic in a communist that agitators have been travelling the country fomenting discontent by fiery perhaps As fiery As that once delivered in the Finland station by Vladimir Ilyitch the economic problem is that prices of Staple goods Are being gradually increased As part of the move towards a chinese form of demand because More increases were expected this panic buying of such items As sugar and cigarettes occurred in several cities in november and the hoarding of goods by some convinced Many others that the Price increase rumours were leading them to clean out shop shelves by panic buying of their when it was announced that the common residential heating Coal would go up in Price in the reaction was in government posters announcing the change were ripped Down by angry posters were being ripped Down in other parts of but by the these ones had been put up by students demanding More political the student posters seem to strike an Ultra sensitive nerve in the National leadership and there have been Many references to the parallel with the chaotic period of the cultural the decade following 1966 when Mao tse tunes first so called big character poster launched a reign of disorder and terror by Young red As with today the red guards were seeking although their goal was what they called purer maoist including Deng who survived the excesses of that period of mass psychosis and vindictive May fear that today demonstrations could spread like a Prairie igniting popular anger with Price increases and creating a firestorm of hysteria last seen during the cultural the tolerance shown by the authorities in the Early Days of the which began december May mean either that such a fear is not predominant or that it but a new method is being tried with an Eye to the negative foreign reaction that would follow a harsh the moderate first reaction of the authorities to the disturbances was a Gamble because there Are still Many in senior positions in the the army and the bureaucracy with Little enthusiasm for the new emphasis on modified these unreconstructed maoists Are suspicious of what they see As tides of they would like a return to undiluted they not Counte Nance any political change that would reduce the Power and monopoly of the communist Howe would Deng and his who need that Power and monopoly to Force through their reforms and to entrench the succession that will ensure the Continua Tion of Denis policies after he in terms of his political Deng has More to gain from blunting criticism by maoist Shell backs than from making major concessions to student Demon he has probably gained As much credit As is available for showing tolerance to the the tolerance will now probably begin to political phone rates a Little late in the Gary the new minister responsible for the Manitoba Telephone is beginning to come clean with the people of Manitoba about what its is up last the Public utilities Board of in granting its a rate increase of three per cent on Basic service and one cent a minute on Long distance warned that the new rates might create a longer term negative effect on its financial the Board was referring to the fact that its had the previous for rate increases which would not allow the system to pay its Bills and to pursue its stated policy of improving its Deb equity in a provincial election was expected and the three percent request clearly looked More politically palatable than the 11 per cent which was actually the Independent presented last week to recommended substantial rate increases in order to enable the Utility to meet its legislated doer made it Clear immediately that he did not necessarily agree with the doers statement makes the most recent application by its to the Public utilities Board for a rate increase of eight per cent nearly As suspect As was the last application for a three percent last year the Telephone system needed 11 per but asked for and got three per cent for rather obvious political in the time that has passed since that the details of a potential loss by its of in saudi Arabia and elsewhere have become the provincial government originally tried to fool the Public into believing that this loss would be made up from reserves and would somehow never have to be paid by the customers of the has now confessed what was obvious from the beginning the Cost of the Max scandal will be paid by users of the Telephone in the same confessional doer now concedes that the rate increase to subscribers will be 11 per not the per cent that its had that newfound spirit of openness should now inspire the minister to reveal How far Short even that increase Falls of meeting the financial needs of the Telephone in the Wake of the Max the government has announced there will be More political control of Crown that announcement offers Little cheer for the overcharged customers of those political meddling in the affairs of Manitoba Public utilities has proved every bit As damaging to their financial integrity As the ill advised foreign adventures of their a ministers word health minister Larry Desjardins is quite right to seek ways of cutting the costs of medical care in one of those should not be to go Back on his word to the provinces Desjardins is by agreement and by to settling fee disputes with the medical profession by a process of binding the arbitrators have brought Down their first pro posing an annual increase in fees of per not that sum amounts to a lot More than the government thinks the doctors Are Worth and a lot less than the doctors think they now the minister is talking about Chisling on the arbitration either by passing special legislation or by cutting Back the increase to make up for what he regards As unjustified either action would Compromise the integrity of the government and of when Desjardins and the doctors agreed on both sides should have understood that they had not achieved the perfect Way of establishing medical arbitrators have no source of Superior Wisdom about what doctors ought to be they look at what doctors have been paid in the past and what they Are being paid elsewhere they look at changes in expenses and in the Cost of living and they come up with a rough and ready figure which strikes them As by its very that figure is Seldom Likely to please either crude though it May the arbitration system is better than extra Billing and better than the confrontations which have characterized relations be tween doctors and governments in other arbitration was part of a negotiated quid pro quo Between the government and the Manitoba medical it is going to Cost the government a Little More this year than it would like to but the govern like the rest of should be expected to live up to its a rare event Tafese Dalton Camp jumped Thuc prime minister adm behind but what was the question by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press the usual loud groans and lamentations greeted the publication in yesterdays free press of my annual Christmas Cracker quiz for this year the of campagne Cork this annual As i keep telling is not aimed at those who enjoy easy those who play Tennis with the net Down should look for other the annual quiz is for those who relish the impossible the great leap into the All Canadian All the quotations in the great beginnings Section of the quiz were from books by Canadian authors or from books inspired by see Naples and then which began the first did not Spring from the pens of Robertson Pierre Berton or Alice the quotation was from the Golden a Romance of old Quebec by the 19thcentury Ca Nadian author William the Long novel the original version runs to 678 pages is set in circa 1748 and deals with the decline that leads to the fall of new the second which saw a Man ascend the Side of a t Little Mound or Hillock on a Beautiful summer evening is from Ballantyne away in the wilderness or life among the red indians and fur traders of North published about a Century ago to inform and Ballan Tyne also among other celebrated the epic called the red mans revenge a tale of the red River Ballantyne knew the value of a Little human Elsie the heroine of the red mans revenge is not a perfect As the author informs us although a Elsie was exceedingly she been the she would not have been Worth writing quotation number in which a voice rang through the Forest like a Silver testifying to lungs of Jeather and a Throat of is also from the pen of the redoubtable in this instance his thrilling Ungava a tale of the Esq Mau land frontispiece of the 1901 edition of Ungava shows a Hardy gentleman in furs despatching a Large Polar Bear with a very Small this is a big year for quotation number about Wil Liam Osten and his beloved mess mates bunco and is from another Ballantyne epic called Over the Rocky mountains or wan Dering will in the land of the red skin the frontispiece shows Larry being knocked off his horse by a crazed ask for them All at your local lending in the next Section we encountered bad verse from a variety of poets including in order Charles Wesley an admirer of dead Henry Wadsworth Excelsior Longfellow and the unfortunate and vague William Nathan Stedman who left us to decide whether his head or the bosom of his mistress was More soft than Emily Dickinson had Good Days and bad it was one of her bad Days when the Belle of Amherst sat Down and composed a dying Tiger moaned for shame on anyone who thought that Emily was referring to anything but the tigers big Brown orbs when she wrote of his mighty Emily never the final triumphant stanza was from Queen of cheese by James Canadas celebrated cheese still regarded by Many As the greatest poet that can Ada has and that includes Margaret who said that the Clarion cry against free Trade came from the True Blue lips of John Canadas great conservative prime that sound you hear is John turning in his grave As Brian would i lie to you Mulroney woos the the backhanded compliment to fair Toronto was written by the lamented poet Rupert Brooke who passed through Canadas Metropolis on world tour Early in this Cen the demand that Winnipeg be made Canadas capital did not come from Sterling we can thank old Bennett of for that Brooke again Canada is but not kicking that rat Rupert Brooke Canadian cities have taken their knocks Over the in lady wife of the governor Gen wrote of Regina no one lives Here who is not obliged and its absolutely treeless surroundings do but typify the life of the names and the Metis Leader Cuthbert who kept a Mill out on Sturgeon Creek for about 10 minutes Early in the last was called the Warden of the Plains by that wretch Grant by Cora former Agri cultural editor of this was called calamity Cora when she predicted crops infested with rust and the hanging judge was none other than judge Matthew Begbie who became chief Justice of British Columbia in 1870 after an eventful career on the colonial old As everyone was John the Pope of methodism was 19thcentury on Tario religious Leader Egerton Ryer one final this one from the highly quotable John Macdon the question How Many pounds of powder put under a bulls Tail would blow his horns off i leave you to Ponder the answer to that one until next court orders i am pleased that my letter injustice free december 4 has provoked such a i however that the emphasis placed by Lisa Keller in her letter spouse ignored free december 18 on the role played by Lothar Pettus in the events leading up to the Sui cide of Rosa misses the Issue which must be addressed by those of us in the Legal there is no question that Pett Kuss behaviour toward Becker was the supreme court of Canada came to that very Rosa Becker what is How is that although the Legal Deci Sion was it was never pro Perly once courts become involved in the affairs of they have an obligation to ensure that the orders they make in carried if an individual fails to comply with a court it is the responsibility of the system to ensure that the individuals delinquent behaviour does not go if a court order cannot be it is of Little value to the individual in whose favor it is Laws in the abstract carry very Little i am pleased to Point out that Manitoba boasts one of the most successful programs in Canada in the area of the enforcement of family maintenance it is to be hoped that the Legal together with the will follow the example set by Mani Tobas enforcement of maintenance orders program and will take pains to ensure that court orders Are car ried out and Justice is ultimately Sherri Walsh Winnipeg poor Brian Brian Mulroney must think we live in the Boondocks and cant figure out that the cf5 contract if we get it is Only Worth about on Quarter of the cf18 contract that Bristol Aero space won but that went to can he insults the wests Intelli gence As poor Brian i feel sorry for Jos stack Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to race relations regarding the article delays in race committee december the criticism levelled at the race relations com Mitte system by Abe executive director of the Manitoba association for rights and liberties smacks of when the debate raged prior to the passing of the bylaw establishing the makeup of the new Marl had none of the concerns it is now voicing about the domination of the committee by Only the Manitoba intercultural Alliance Mia opposed the pres ence of the institutions to the exclusion of taxpaying i am perplexed Why the representative of Marl at the june 11 Council meeting did not reflect these worries Marl now had Marl at that time supported our arguments As they belatedly do now it is Possi ble that City Council would have debated the i and the Mia were accused of being ant police and anti is Marls concern now genuine or is it a matter of Marl wanting to be an entrenched representative on the committee the logic of the argument that Arnold now sup ports was there in and that was when it should have been argued at City As was the Case with the use of Detector testing in the hiring Marl supported a politically motivated Council proposal and has come to too that it has been it is a strange policy that the free press seems to follow in not relaying the concerns of the Mia to taxpayers before councillors decide How to spend Money on the race relations your paper had no trouble publishing Marls crying of Wolf now that it no longer matters to the free press would better serve the immigrant and minority communities by reporting their con As voiced by the before councillors enshrine their backroom buddy deals in Martin Boroditsky Secretary Manitoba intercultural Alliance catering to vanity i support Toronto furrier Paul Marders claim that he is being discriminated against in his desire to remain open on i Deo the existence of his a fur coat is Clear evidence of the death by torture of a number of wild simply to Cater to the Van Ity of the this crime against nature not sunday open Ings is the immoral act that must be legislated out of Charles Bennett Patent Laws in the debate Over Bill c22 to restore Patent Protection in the drug most people have ignored what i think is a most important Point the Patent Protection should never have been removed in the first As a modern Industrial a Canada should be defending and protecting the International sys tem of Patent and copyright instead of encouraging in Singapore it is Legal to retail pirated copies of any North Ameri can and in Taiwan i under stand that they sell photocopied ver Sions of copyrighted books and canadians would be prosecuted for such activities because we see it As both legally and to deprive the artist or the publisher of the royalties they de serve for their original the Consumers association of Canada cac supports the present system of generic drug manufacture because the generic drugs can save Money for consume if the morals of copyright infringement Are to be can we expect the cac to support the legalization of generic records and tapes because of potential savings to the consumer some would argue that Canadian Patent Protection should be withheld from drug companies because they should not be Able to make a profit in the health care largely at the expense of the in that now that we have discarded the principle of International Patent should we not save More health care dollars by setting up a generic electronics Industry to prod uce clones of innovative Hospital diagnostic and patient monitoring equipment patented in the United states and Europe additional Money could be saved by the purchasing of Only one vol ume of each medical with additional copies produced by Xerox As one problem would be if our trading partners followed our Canadian inventors and publishers would soon be put out of business by foreign copies of original Canadian the proposed restoration of drug Patent Protection is an honorable course of Ted Greenhalgh Winnipeg of Csc you can come out of the we know youve broken your ;