Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free february Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights a Mission with Little Hope d d r published seven Days s week at 300 Canton Winnipeg r3c 3ci by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council editorials rarely can a diplomatic Mission have begun with As few chances of Success As can be realistically ascribed to the attempt by Secretary of state George Shultz to generate a solution to the palestinian unrest in the Israel occupied Gaza strip and West making the Effort is a responsible act by the Reagan but it is a sudden change of late in the for an administration that dabbled so ineptly and so disastrously in Lebanon in 1982 that it lost All taste for trying to achieve peace in the Middle the political landscape in which Shultz is operating is decidedly there is no sign that israels divided coalition government could agree on a common there is no sign of any coherent political strategy on offer from the there is no sign of any fresh political approach by the Arab states on his itinerary Jordan and the outline of the Shultz plan is an Exchange of land for to be achieved on an accelerated negotiating timetable and to be supported by key Arab israeli prime minister Yitzhak who opposed the Camp David accords that led to peace Between Israel and is still an obstacle to he makes tactical suggestions of personal flexibility at times to gain Short term goals but is fundamentally opposed to ending the 21year military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza the status quo pleases although outright annexation would please him foreign minister Shimon who always looks like a statesman when compared to his doctrinaire coalition government has a commonsense understanding of the need to Trade occupied territory for he would not sell out israels Security needs any More than would but he does have the political vision and solid military background needed to grasp the essential Lon term danger to his country interests of trying to Rule forever by military might Over a subject the palestinians themselves As displaying an inability to present themselves in an acceptable fashion and with a realistic negotiating after weeks of throwing burning truck Yelling slogans and closing their own food they have precisely nothing to offer Shultz beyond insults and the disturbances began whatever Reagan May since leadership and Organiza Tion have come from within the keeping the troubles going Long after the spontaneity islamic fundamentalists sing a Siren song of revolution in the the Plo plays catchup Ball by sending in written exhortations to resist and by broadcasting from Baghdad and Damascus orders to murder palestinians declared to be they Are All too Busy fomenting violence to take the time to develop a negotiating Arafat verbal obscurity when Given television platforms in Canada and the United states has provided nothing As the basis of a realistic his refusal to confirm forthrightly israels right to exist and his refusal to divorce the Plo from terrorism eliminate him and the Plo from consideration As a direct partner in political since palestinians keep saying that Only the Plo can represent them in such Neotia the sterile Circle is Egypt has peace with Israel and wants the palestinian question settled but has no apparent assistance to offer to achieve Jordan wants the question but has had no new ideas since King Hussein became enraged by Arafat refusal to stick to one agreed negotiating Syria could not care less about the palestinians or about peace but would like the Golan Heights Back without giving a guarantee not to resume shelling of israels Galilee Gulf Arab states want the question settled but they have no ideas to offer and Are too timid to say aloud what they if George Shultz can make peace bricks from so Little then he will be one of the first statesmen Ever to deserve a Nobel peace the integrity Issue lives on Grundy is Back in action former Cabinet minister Andre Bissonnette can take every satisfaction from the end of his yearlong ordeal and his acquittal on All charges in the Oer Likon prime minister Brian has no right to present his former minister As a victim of Witch Hunting tactics by the press and the parliamentary opposition or to imply that the acquittal puts an end to the Issue of integrity which has plagued his government since it was it was not the opposition or the who fired Bissonnette As Junior minister of it was the not the opposition or the which Laid charges of breach of fraud and conspiracy against him and his trustee and political organizer Normand those charges were dealt with in court in a Normal the court heard evidence that Ouellette had made on a Sale of land in to Oer Likon which won a contract to build a new Low level air defence system for the department of National at the end of the the jury accepted the claim that Bissonnette was unaware that Ouellette had made the profit or that he had invested half of the proceeds on behalf of Bisson Nette and his the jury found Ouellette guilty of that process involved no unfairness to Bissonnette or to the government of which he was a he was Given his Day in court he was accorded the same presumption of innocence Given anyone else accused of a crime in the he was found not Bissonnette personal vindication should not persuade Mulroney to invite him Back into the at the very his Choice of agent and trustee raises serious questions about the Quality of his Ouellette told the court that he thought it would be fun to make a profit on the Sale of the land to this unloving approach to the spoils of office has been displayed by too Many in the tory party who found themselves in a position to Benefit from Mulroney landslide Victory in the 1984 general the prime minister has still to demonstrate that he has purged that attitude from party members and an investment for Churchill contained in the Federal government spending Esti mates tabled in parliament this past week is a notation that a million payment to Benefit Churchill made last year would not be repeated this the omission in Good last years expenditure was an investment that could produce Lon term the Money spent last year was to install cold pumps alongside a Section of the in rail line near Gillam to determine whether such treatment could stabilize parts of the line that Are built Over the Experiment is part of the Northern development agreement Between the Federal government and Manito now that the test Section has been it must be monitored to see if it if it it will provide a simple solution to the perplexing problem of instability on the Northern rail one of the criticisms of the Churchill line is that it is incapable of accepting full loaded Grain and must be serviced with older which Are rapidly or with Par till full cars that represent a loss in the test is of a series of sealed each containing an inert driven into the ground along the rail the upper parts of the pipe Are left during the the Gas that is cooled above ground drops to the Bottom of the in effect pumping cold deeper into the ground and freezing the Muskeg if the Muskeg can be Frozen to a sufficient it will not melt during the summer months when the rail line needs to be used to carry Grain for if the Experiment proves the Worth of the then the process could provide a relatively inexpensive Way of stabilizing the Churchill line and removing one of the arguments against the continued use of the Manitoba port to ship a stabilized line would also carry cargo other than possibly opening a door to the future that Manitoba and Churchill badly by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press As the second world War Drew to a the British writer Wyndham after a bitter exile in the Toronto departed for the motherland with the snorting com ment that he had been living in a sanctimonious his View of Canada and canadians is one that has been shared Over the years by a Large number of observers from Home and Samuel after a Canadian visit in wrote a highly critical poem that ended with the lines of god of Montreal gormless stare during the Early years and in up to the present Canada has frequently been regarded by foreigners As a nation of Petty and Small minded shopkeepers and Bea Hunters under whose gormless stare the naked figures of the artistic muses retreated in conf from time to time during our Busy history we have Given evidence that this View of our nation might be the Correct even today there Are those who might suggest that Canadas sym Bolic figure might Well be represented by an outraged Grundy armed with a hockey we Only have to think Back to last Christmas in order to recall the last time that a work of Art in which sexual activity was depicted was removed from a Winnipeg gallery Wall and recent and not so recent history is Replete with incidents of censorship and Lack of nerve in the it is not All that Long ago that nude paintings were removed from a Gal Lery Wall in Toronto and who can forget the incident in which the Toronto police descended upon the Dorothy Cameron gallery to hang crepe Over an exhibition of sculpture devoted to modern love in recent years we have prided ourselves on the fact that most of this nonsense took place years thirty years have passed since Van Couver police raided a production of tobacco Road and it is almost 20 years since the same Gallant body of men arrested a group of actors for uttering several rude words on it happened so Long ago year was 1931 that we Only Blush slightly to recall the comment of the French artist who was lecturing in Toronto tonight i give lecture to the Art students i want a picture of a horse to show that animal is Beautiful because every part is made for without or in i would show but in Toronto i show a several decades but not All that Long a police chief in Calgary was telling reporters that he would be there to arrest the first woman in the african Ballet who stepped onto the stage without a of god of Calgary a Long Way we have come a Long Way since books Are no longer films Are no longer chopped to bits As a kind of knee Jerk we can read More or less what we like and almost everybody agrees that erotica of the Best sort is there for us to take or leave As we see we can look Back at the silly old Days of Grund ism and stiff necked prudery with a tolerant those Days gone forever we have Learned that mature peo perhaps even immature peo can read the racier novels of Lawrence without running look at an erotic film without going into a moral decline and serve the und raped human form without turning into a slobbering behind us we have put them All behind us the embarrassing court cases of the 1950s and the heart ache and soul searching about Tri the police raids on bookshops while Banks were being robbed Down the the films reduced to meaningless images by the censors we got through All that and went on to More important the Federal with its ridiculous new ant porn seems prepared to turn the clock Back to 1931 and under the new carefully concocted by what we can Only suppose is a committee of Stern faced Grun deists armed with smelling salts and Fig almost everything will be either illegal or obscene or no bookseller will be Safe from the Art galleries will think twice about displaying even the immortal classical the most innocent films stand in grave peril of under the new definition of an image showing a Mother with a child at her breast could be ruled Why Are they doing this for us who asked for this legislation that seems designed to make Canada a laughing Stock among the nations of the civilized world we All supposed that Grundy had gone to her but Shes at my front door demanding my copy of Fanny she will have to shoot me the old unusual stand Pat the Republican presidential has said South Africa was strategically important to the West and that if the political Power in that country was transferred to the Black majority it would mean a Victory for comm he said that Black Ameri cans who regard the struggle against apartheid As an Extension of a civil rights struggle in the United states were simply this appears to be an endorsement of it is rather an unusual stand for the candidate who claims that his main concern is to restore moral efforts designed to bring about a majority government in South Afri Ca Are not Only democratic but moral As thus a move directed against these efforts is Insen Pat Robertson t Stive and the claim that the tip of Southern Africa must be protected from communism on be half of Western interests is a South african fabrication intended to Sway world this fabrication has met with outright rejection through out the including the United states which has imposed its own economic sanctions against South Africa to protest the policy of apart one must conclude that politicians like Robertson May be guilty of failing to appraise the Public mood and the modern trend of to insist on giving support to South african policies is an invitation to indulge in rather than exercising common sense and reason in judging the world Paulino Kon Majok Winnipeg editors note an error occurred in the transcribing of Dave Taylors letter nuclear waste free february the second paragraph should have read atomic Energy of Canada limited and the worlds nuclear industries Are looking to the Canadian shield As an Ideal location to store its nuclear in the before they Deposit it in some granitic mine decl continues to advocate nuclear Energy articles praised thanks for the excellent articles by Lovell Clark on free i refer to the articles tories turn their backs on tradition free press february 5 and major threat to Canada free february they should be required Reading for All i am tired of hearing Only from people involved in Inge Heck Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to Nicaragua Many of us Are getting a bit weary of the conditioned pavlovian responses of readers such As Menno Klassen free february 20 the moment any articles appear in your paper which Tell the truth about the communist controlled govern ment of it is strange to see How these readers ignore the most documented facts whenever Nicaragua is exposed for what it really a Quisling puppet regime of the soviet it is a typical communist where poor people Are exploited to further their ultimate objectives of defeating the free these apologists for marxist totalitarianism in Nicaragua consistently choose to ignore facts such As these d Nicaragua guns before bread resulting in a massive so vie sandinista buildup of Over 000 ground forces supported by huge imports of russian ships and other expensive tools of d that Nicaragua is not threatened by any of its Small country latin most of whom have no military forces to speak of and there must be some other ulterior perhaps exactly what president Ronald Reagan is warning us d that this unprecedented military buildup near the Back door of our ally and the United is a real potential threat to our Freedom and Security because it a soviet that a combination of Gigantic expenditures for armaments plus a typical socialist marxist mismanagement of the Economy is the Root cause of galloping inflation and in creasing poverty in As the free press pointed out in its editorial economic illiterates free february 13 free Market forces Are not allowed to operate and for Cotton production has fallen by 50 per these facts and their Clear mean Ings should be obvious to any Clear thinking but in the land of the the on eyed is Henry Kruger Winnipeg priorities in his latest budget finance min ister Michael Wilson predicted that our Federal debt will increase by about billion Over the coming this Means the National debt will have increased by almost billion since Brian Mulroney and his government came to we Are spending billion to billion on nuclear submarines and billion More on other new the cf18 fighters Are costing us billion to billion for maintenance and financing and we Are spending another billion on the Dew All this is in addition to our regular military expend these outlays provide us with very Little in the Way of and have a negative Impact on our econ the Federal portion of Overall health and education costs has been steadily local and Provin Cial taxpayers have had to make up the All Over the it is High time we considered which has a higher guns or social Loeb Althouse ignored after Reading the account in your paper of the meeting on free Trade at Portage recently sponsored by the farm women i found it hard to believe i had attended the same your reporter goes to great length in describing the presentations of Sharon Carstairs and Charlie Barbara Macdou who enlightened us with such facts As five million people in can Ada change their jobs every also got on the other nip my and agriculture critic Vic who provided the most comprehensive outline of How free Trade will affect the Farmers and answered by far the most questions on the never got men this is just another example of the shoddy righting journalism we have come to expect from the free at least you Are Bill Zettler Portage la tax exiles the nip partially completed its policy goal of eliminating the disparity of income Levels Between Rich and poor in it has achieved this by creating a new class of Manitoban who might be called tax they have devised what might be the most effective form of opposition to the nip pro As Long As we stay in finance minister Eugene Kostyra will have his Way with better than half of our income and rather than attempting to Reform the the tax exiles disarm the party by withdrawing their in calculating the provincial tax rate on income of More than it is apparent that the including the new Manitoba net income tax and Manitoba is Well above the average provincial tax rates of Between 50 per cent and 55 per the rate in Manitoba can reach As High As 70 per cent of Federal what Howard Pawley and Kos tyra did not consider in the last budget was that one of the privileges that goes with a High income is wealthy individuals can live elsewhere in Canada without giving up anything except a High tax you May think this would have no effect on the Ordinary Manitoban but remember that the Money to fund Hawleys bizarre concepts of governing must come from some we will soon discover that the nip is looking to our income to make up the after most of us do not enjoy the mobility that the higher income former Manitoban Ordinary Manito bans Are trapped with the political monster they have Michael Swistun Birds and if theres a doctor in the id like to get my Arm ;