Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Date a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company 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 editorials variety for viewers the Canadian Cable television association regularly publishes the penetration on a regional its members have achieved in the Sale of discretionary this is Industry jargon for the number of people who Are subscribing to pay television in addition to their regular Cable the latest which give totals to last october show a albeit slow growth in the popularity of pay this popularity appears to be not to the number and variety of extra Chan Nels the Industry Cable communique in part discretionary service sales Are closing in on the one million Mark regional Penetra Tion rates Are up by two per cent in per cent in and nearly one per cent in the Atlantic Quebec and Saskatchewan continue to enjoy steady nowhere in the text is Manitoba in the accompanying table the province does while the percentage of Cable households buying extra services varies elsewhere from a Low of per cent in Quebec to a High of per cent in Manitoba continues to have the lowest rate in the at per one reason May be that the thinking of the Manitoba representative on the Industry regional Videon general manager Jack is sharply different from other members of the same Baigrie does not seem to have grasped the connection Between greater variety of programming and higher Hugh representing the Atlantic says our perennial need for More programming Choice is still with Diane from says a major Issue will be revamping our lineups to meet demand for More programming Larry from Ontario says adding specially programming but not on a compulsory is another and John representing British Columbia and the says a top priority is reevaluating service packaging and pricing to boost discretionary service Penetra All Are talking about adding More programming from which their customers can and from the companies can make More not so in who gives the View from Here to the Cable says in our Cable companies and program distributors together must tackle the vexing problem of decoders unlawfully being distributed in Canada to de scramble services on if Baigrie thinks about he will realize that Manitoban Are not buying pay television at the same rate As other canadians because they do not think there is enough variety for the he May also realize that his complaint is based on the fact that Manitoban Are paying considerably More Money to get that through devices Baigrie describes As than other canadians pay for More satisfactory Cable ser Baigrie company by a monopoly in the distribution of service to the majority of Winnipeg Cable Baigrie concern appears to be the Protection of that monopoly regardless of and the enforcement of the regulations that serve his primary rather than having the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission use its Legal Powers to Hunt Down Manitoban who have taken their own Steps to improve the Choice available on their television which Baigrie seems to be suggest the crts should use its considerable Powers to persuade Baigrie to provide More variety on his covering up a murder israels ugly Shin bet affair has just become uglier with the Issue of a report whose essence is that no one will be held either politically or criminally responsible for the brutal murders of two helpless attorney general Yosef Harish says he is closing the file on this Case because prime minister Yitzhak Shamir neither knew about nor sanctioned the murders and subsequent coverup and because presidential pardons granted to 11 members of Shin bet mean that no prosecutions of the guilty could these findings will satisfy Only those who seek to end Public discussion for political reasons and who believe that the murder of captured prisoners can be justified by the requirements of National the status of the victims at the time of their deaths is crucial to this it is the reason Why what happened to them is a crime for which All at every should face criminal it is the reason Why a coverup was launched immediately and has continued up to and including this so called definitive four armed palestinian arabs hijacked a civilian bus travelling from Tel Aviv to Askelon with 35 passengers on the evening of april they ordered the Driver to drive to the egyptian Border but allowed a pregnant israeli woman to go she tipped off the Israel defence who stopped the bus by shooting out its tires near the egyptian ten hours of fruitless negotiations just before if soldiers attacked the killing two of the hijackers and capturing an israeli woman passenger seven other passengers were during the the four arabs had the status of terrorists threatening innocent the two dead hijackers were lawfully killed by soldiers risking their own lives in a dangerous Rescue after the firefight was Over and the surviving Hijack ers were captured and their status changed to that of entitled to decent that is not what they they were led into a nearby Field for interrogation about whether they had left a bomb on the this was a reasonable in the tense the problem began when the la abiding if handed Over custody of the prisoners to waiting members of the Shin bet secret who had not risked their lives and who now acted As if they were subject neither to Law nor to precepts of human the prisoners were tortured to extract then Shin bet Boss Avraham shalom ordered his agents to Batter the prisoners to which they he then directed a coverup of the whose basis was that All the hijackers died As a result of the attack and that Shin bet was not even on the because the israeli Magazine had Ashot published a photograph of one living Hijacker being dragged As the Magazine a Olen Hazel later published a photograph of the other surviving two military inquiries were established that smeared the reputation of the while shalom and his killers went not until when three senior Shin bet officers decided to Tell the did the roles of shalom and Shin bet become that was when Yitzhak Shavirs responsibility came into the reason is that Shin bet reports directly to the prime the office that Shamir held then and holds shalom said that Shamir had authorized the murders and the coverup As part of a general authority to kill captured prisoners and hide the the sad consequence was that no Independent inquiry was set up to get the As was done by Menachem begin when Christian lebanese militiamen massacred palestinians in Beirut in israeli president Chaim Herzog pardoned shalom and 10 other Shin bet although they had not been charged with any israels supreme court upheld the this establishment justified in the name of National continued with the eventual decision to allow a police inquiry of limited scope with limited Powers that has now produced the unconvincing re the israeli political with honorable except says the matter is now this is True Only in the sense that a code of silence is being for those committed to moral behaviour and the Rule of this matter will remain open until an Independent inquiry reports and the guilty face reminds Hes opening his Mouth in Public phone Dawon canadians right to feel uneasy by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa a pair of opinion polls just published nicely illustrate the positive role real political leadership plays in a nations affairs when it is both polls reveal the uneasiness canadians feel about the country economic the level of real ism in the country would be Low if this Factor were not there is Good reason to be one of the polls showed that most people Are optimistic about their own situation it is the National future that worries rather than their personal still Strong according to one of the support for the governments free Trade initiative towards the United states is still although Down from the level of a year this finding conforms to others which have shown up in previous polls and it is Here that the connection with real political leadership is prime minister Brian Mulroney decision in september of 1985 to seek a free Trade agreement with this country Best customer showed a Flash of genuine leadership even if Only it must be de scribed As temporary because since the initial the prime minister has Given Many indications that he has become nervous about while he defends his policy quite strongly at some at others he leaves the impression that he wishes it would go away and disappear into political never to be associated with his name support for free Trade with the United or very much Freer Trade than exists is a natural enough companion View to the Gen eral fear that the Canadian Economy is not doing Well and that its future prospects Are the Trade initiative is the Only proposal that has come from either the government or its opponents that at least carries with it Promise of a stronger economic base in it is positive and the alternatives put Forth Are canadians seem to understand what Many foes of government Trade policy do the economic status quo does offers a poor it justifies the fears troubling so Many people in the it seems to offer no escape from slow and in even economic weak markets for traditional High unemployment and the threat of More to come if fears for the future of the automobile Industry should be justified by events during the next few uncertainties the government obviously knows that its most positive and decisive policy has evoked a positive response from a majority of Canad that is not what is causing government two Seri Ous uncertainties lie ahead and administration politicians know they will have to be faced d will agreement be reached with the and if a satisfactory one is will the Congress accept or reject it d if a free Trade agreement does result and is accepted by american will the adjustment period in Canada be dominated by optimism or will it prove so painful that Mulroney and the conservatives will not be forgiven for years no Safe ways it is hard to accept the harsh reality when the status quo be comes there Are no politically Safe ways of governing a All courses then have Dan the prime ministers difficulty in coming to terms with this harms him More than anything not excluding his wastefulness with pub Lic if the present level of Protection ism in the United states has not subsided when a far reaching Trade agreement with Canada must be placed before american assuming that there is very Little Prospect that the Congress will accept the forces against ratification Are simply too Strong in this on the other the Sharp de valuation of the american Dollar not obvious to canadians but real to people like the japanese and Ger mans must improve american Trade figures in then intense protectionism will probably will the change come soon enough it is As impossible to answer that As it is to say How canadians will react politically to the period of major economic change which would follow a free Trade Cecil Rhodes i Learned from Reading the outline below a photo free Decem Ber 20 that there is a Cecil Rhodes school 1 in Winnipeg on checking the phone i see there is also a Cecil Rhodes school history books Tell us that Cecil Rhodes played a leading role in the establishment of White minority government in the area that is now the Republic of South he is also known to have piled up a massive personal derived from Dia monds and Gold mine part of which went to make up the Rhodes scholarship we can say then on the one Rhodes was one of the architects of apartheid on the that the Rhodes scholarship fund originates from the stolen resources and the cheap labor amounting to slave labor of the Black people of Southern it seems hardly More appropriate to have a Cecil Rhodes school than to have a Botha this is especially True in the inner Cecil Rhodes inhabited by Many by skin color would be excluded from full participation in any society that Cecil Rhodes Ever dreamed if these schools Are going to be named after individuals who have been important to South african May i suggest that Nelson Mandela school or Winnie Mandela school would be better As for the Rhodes it should go exclusively to Black Stu dents in Southern their ancestors paid for Many times Friesen Winnipeg welfare program the article frivolities Cost Wel fare family free de Cember 22 documents yet another Scummy incident in the administration of the welfare program in Mani it concerns a family in Portage la Prairie who took their child re Bate Money and squandered it on what were called unnecessary per Sonal the Federal government is allow ing people who live on less than a year to collect their child tax credit supposedly to assist them at a difficult time of no provision was to protect these families from Middle self righteous it provided every mean minded social assistance worker from Vancouver to Johns with yet another Carrot to Dangle in front of the hungry Mouths of thousands of to those of us who regard All canadians As human beings with real deserving to share the resources of this Rich this and the administration of the welfare must be viewed with change is write to our members of parliament and other decision makers and demand fair treatment for All canadians who Are forced to live on Lynne Gibbons Winnipeg k letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to United Way As one of the 75 member agencies of the United Way of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind would like to thank the Many thousands of Winnipeg individuals and organized labor who took part in this years United Way while the average citizens con tact with the United Way May appear to be a once year Appeal for i wonder How Many per sons each Day Are assisted by the Many hundreds of different services provided by these 75 the Canadian National Institute for the Blind recently opened a sight enhancement Centre in Winnipeg As part of our expanded mandate to serve not Only persons who Are Blind but also those who have Low while we Are indebted to the Winni Peg foundation and stir own women auxiliary for major Capi Tal and the Eye care tract toners in Winnipeg who work at the United Way dollars have enabled this program to become a this is just one of the Many services which the United Way of Winnipeg supports within the crib and one Only has to look at the Mas Sive Volunteer Effort which must be mobilized each to be thankful that each of the 75 agencies does not have to go through that same our expertise is in providing ser vice to our clients and to the general Public because of the United we can concentrate our efforts on what we do without being burdened by running individual fundraising efforts to meet our Basic i am sure that the thousands of volunteers who worked so hard to meet this years goal of Are pleased with the results of their but Are perhaps disappointed to a certain extent that they May i fall Short of their target by to those who have not yet Contri buted to the United Way there is still lets help these volunteers to meet their George Aldous divisional Board of management crib Manitoba Home party sales regarding the article Home party sales big business free de Cember i fail to understand Why friends and neighbors can do such things to one another for the Sake of a few the article says Mary Kay knows How women operate and How to get to As a i am ashamed of that it is sad to see women taking advantage of other women As if there was nothing in life but making id like to Tell you about another kind of House you make sandwiches and invite a group of people you sit and Chat and get to know one another you dont make Money this Way but you do make you might not Wear a fur coat but you will Wear a big Rose Kowalchuk Winnipeg poll results regarding the letter defending the polls free december politicians have always been anxious to know How voters see in repoll trusted it was astute party workers in various parts of the country provided this pollsters do both methods Are whats worrisome is not the publicity some polls attract but the Lack of publicity on i refer to those polls commissioned by governments and paid for with tax payers the results of these should be made Stewart Winnipeg medical school having read the article u of m loses cardiology program free december i Felt a need to express my As a on the impression of our school created by your although denied the budget of larger schools in the University of Manitoba still succeeds in providing a solid foundation in medi Cine for Ooth students and in an unpretentious Many staff members serve As excellent role models for the physic Antobe and have made Many unique contributions in Many areas of including the school needs no finer Monument than the vast number of first rate graduates bearing its to maintain such Quality education and medical care in the face of severe budget limitations requires great dedication and in the department of Medicine at the u of m has an enjoyably ample Supply of Wayne Winnipeg Indian claims the tactics of pegu is chief Louis Stevenson and his supporters might make for interesting but surely the chief must realize sooner or these same tactics May who will soon be pay ing higher Telephone and a topic May begin to View chief Stevenson constant claims of government underfunding with increasing although the chief has evidence to support some of his taxpayers will wonder How the pegu is band can spend More than each year to service its debt and still insist the Indian affairs department is totally to blame for Peguise financial Many citizens will agree with Indian affairs that the band must provide a sensible financial management plan before More funding is chief Stevenson May soon find that other struggling to make ends will insist that whatever debt was owed native peo ple by Canada has been paid in Public support for Indian self gov Ern ment might be growing but not if it is financed by the Canadian trea Mel Schwark encirclement recently a number of letters and editorials have concentrated on the activities of the soviet Union in what has been Over looked is involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan and other asian including the Philippines and Paki since the Early policy in the area has been based on an attempt at encirclement of the soviet Union by establishing a string of pro american military dictator ships from Pakistan in the East to Turkey in the this policy crumbled when the Shah of Iran was overthrown and when Afghanistan appealed to the soviet Union for military assistance to counter the threat of an Ameri can sponsored invasion from Paki Goray Winnipeg its to buy guns to give to Iran in Exchange for ;