Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free March free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by newspapers division of Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 a member of the Manitoba press Council Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 editorials upgrade Pearson Airport because canadians who live either East or West of Toronto Are forced by their airlines to use that cites Airport if they want to travel to other parts of Canada and the the question of improving capacity at Pearson International involves most Canadian tra and not just those resident in the planning of improvements to service and safety at the country busiest Airport must include consideration for the eardrums of those living close the Small group of people who live in the Vicinity of the Airport should not be permitted to delay unduly the improvement different groups have different opinions about what is wrong with Toronto the nearby residents think the Airport is too noisy and Are firmly opposed to the Extension of its operating hours it is now closed for regularly scheduled nights Between two Oclock and seven Oclock every morning or additional runways to handle the increased traffic during the hours that it is the scheduled airlines want most of the nonscheduled traffic diverted to other they want More runways most they want the number of air traffic controllers increased to the governments stated Ontario transport Edward appears to see pearsons problems More in terms of transportation Between the Airport and the he is talking about improved ground possibly a Light rapid transit link Between Pearson and the City such links usually carry substantial National Public the travellers from other parts of Canada Are understandably concerned about their safety in the Light of an increasing number of what Are popularly known As near misses by aircraft using the they share the airlines concerns about the shortage of air traffic passengers from other parts of particularly those who must pass through Toronto on their Way to their final Are Likely to Side with the airlines and with the Federal minister of transport Benoit the minister has called for More and possibly a whole new second Airport at the site which the Federal government abandoned years ago after assembling some of the necessary these Pas through passengers would appreciate being Able again to believe airline they would like to avoid boarding an aircraft Only to find themselves still sitting on the ground an hour if airline economics dictate the use of Toronto As one of Only two Hub airports in Canada the other being Vancouver then the airports capacity should match the noise problems will exist at airports for longer than most people will want to endure quieter jets should make it possible to operate More without increasing the noise More runways would make this the problem with most residential complaints is that the people living near airports would prefer to have no flights at in the interests of travellers from across Pearson International Airport needs to be upgraded to handle More flights in less this should be the basis of any Federal government e in the Sudan starving Christian and animist refugees in the South Ern of whom have walked into Uganda in recent Days to escape the civil May soon Benefit from the decision of the moslem prime Sadiq to form a broadly based government that he says will try to end the this is a Sharp change in direction for the prime who personally torpedoed a peace plan Deve loped last november by the Sudan Peoples libera Tion army and the democratic unionist then in his governing the plan was based on a previous successful autonomy to the Black african population of the South that had been in rebellion against the sunni moslem arabic speaking Northern majority since Independence in the a decade of peace after the 1972 Addis Ababa agreement ended in the Early 1980s when the Khartoum government began to impose including a takeover of Southern territory in which Oil had been the sense of Mutual distrust was deepened by the decision of the Khartoum government to impose islamic Law on the entire for six the state army has failed to subdue the Southern this is not since they Are supported by the entire population of the which sees the fight against subjugation by the moslem North As a fight for and personal the War could have ended last november but the minister wanted it to he was unmoved by the human tragedy of hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the seeking food and he refused permission to International Relief agencies to deliver humanitarian his mind has not it has been changed for the sudanese army presented him with an Ultima Tum february 20 telling him either to come up with a peace plan or to provide it with the weaponry it needed to reverse a string of humiliating defeats in the his mind also was made up for him by opposition political they told him to Stop the War or get out of until he surrendered to this he was politic ally his umma representing moslem of three was governing in coalition with Only the National islamic the political Arm of the Suda Nese Branch of the fundamentalist moslem brother the fronts influence will be reduced in the new it will contain parties of All persuasions and Trade Union it is committed to seeking a dropping the state of emergency in effect since freezing the Extension of islamic and establishing a constitutional conference to discuss new Power sharing arrangements Between the islamic majority and the Southern if the Broad based coalition works and the fighting Dies refugees will be Able to return from Uganda and it will become easier to justify the roughly million of Aid that Canada sends to the Sudan to help the needy throughout the not just in the it will also become easier to raise the extra funds that will undoubtedly be needed to repair the ravages of a War caused by greed and Western woman As the crowd of potential candidates gathers to Campaign for the leadership of the new democratic some members Are setting standards for the new Leader which could thin the ranks of Many party members from Western Canada think it is about time a Westerner got the Job they Point out that Western Canada regularly provides the party with most of its elected but that the last two leaders have come from the that complaint reflects More than just regional it stems from the fact that the Eastern preoccupations of the Leader tend to dominate party thinking rather than the Western con Cerns of the other party members Are arguing that the new Leader should be a they too have considerable logic on their the nip claims to be in the forefront of the Battle for women women have Long played a prominent role in the in a Campaign which is not Likely to produce an obvious a candidate who could claim to be both a woman and a Westerner could make a serious claim to such candidates do the newest is Audrey the caucus chairman and my for the her credentials Are at least As Good As those of any other is the party up to the Challenge Japan still seeks place in Sun by William Pfaff special to the free press Paris the scale and Politico religious significance Given the funeral ceremonies for emperor Hiro Hito demonstrate that Japan has yet to find its equilibrium Between East and japans search for balance has gone on for 120 the Byblos inspired revolution in both China and japans effective annexation of and Swift and decisive defeat of a decadent Manchu chivas armies and Fleet in led to chivas its even briefer and More sanguinary defeat of Imperial Russia at port Arthur and rout of the russian Navy in the Tsushima Straits in 1904 produced the russian revolution of pref Ace to the bolshevik Japan caused the overturn of Western colonialism in it ejected the nether lands and the United states from the Western Pacific in a matter of weeks at the end of 1941 and Start of Asia could never be the same again even if the substituting their own for the Western made themselves hated in turn and were finally special destiny nineteenth Century Japan at tempted to establish itself As a nation equal to the Western Powers by adopting Western Liberal ins Titu distancing itself from Asia and reinforcing the popular Conception inside Japan of the nation As a unique society with a special Des shinto religion political ceremonial that had been largely abandoned by the Early 19th Century was deliberately revived after the Meiji restoration of there has been a distinct Echo of this at Hirohito the european political Model that was adopted by 19thcentury Japan was Liberal that of Britain but also intervention in Manchu China emulated Bri gains previous intervention in a Mogul India in equal status Japan wanted equal International status with the european it sought the same extraterritorial rights in China the european Powers and the United states the Western countries were unwilling to accept Japan on such they opposed japans 20thcentury claims in the United states and the other Allied Powers rejected japans proposal for a declaration of racial Equality in the Versailles in 1919 after Japan had sent a squad Ron to the Mediterranean to help the allies win the first world in the league of nations refused to recognize a pro japanese coup in the Liberal wests hostility to Japan contributed to a political Cri Sis inside that country that produced what a contemporary observer called government by assassination during the the old Liber Al political figures were killed or the japanese found new Western models in fascism and Mili the War Japan looked for revenge against the West and assuredly found even though this ended in still another adaptation to the lib eral West this time to the capitalist United it has proven a great once the Success of Japan is provoking rejection from the Western Europe is reluctant to see Japan As a legitimate great americans Are increasingly inclined to see Japan As an ungrateful protege and unfair in there is fear of japans Japan today is experiencing a Domestic political and crisis of on party to the accompaniment of the Imperial Suc but beyond and below that serious questioning can be heard again about the significance of japans role in the and about the costs of its accommodation to the isolated nation Japan remains a culturally and morally isolated solipsistic in its it is Brilliant and yet still lacks political what is its proper place in the contemporary world and its responsibility what does Japan owe other nations what should it expect from them there is too often incomprehension on both sides and a sense of there is a potentiality in this for badly to end reserves response to Fred Cle Vermeys article Fles Erues Are key to re vamped army free february his claim that pay for re serve service is less than a Young Canadian can make flipping Ham burgers is a Check with two National and prominent hamburger As Well As the student youth employ ment verified that both these chains pay minimum wage an hour in Manitoba and that almost All employees Are which Means that they May not work More than 20 hours per a new recruit is paid daily for the first two and a half weeks of training and then receives while initially he May earn slightly As a private Basic after two and a half weeks of training he earns More per hour than a hamburger Cleverley has implied throughout his article that Money is the main element in attracting and retaining Young canadians to the soldiers get Good while it is not the major the major drawing card is the uniqueness of the reserves Opportunity to fire drive Man equipment and simply do soldierly in other it is Good training that retains Cleverley also claims that seven Reserve soldiers can be trained and equipped for the Cost of one regular Force and indeed government funding estimates Indi Cate this it is virtually impossible to delineate Many costs associated with direct and in direct support to the Crabbe colonel chief of staff Canadian forces base Winnipeg Nam calling words Are usually and to the extent that they interpretation of their meaning this is clearly reflected in the letter name calling free february 19 in which the writer comments on the terminology used by Oldham in his letter of february 3 concerning hockey the words at Issue were Wasp and these two words Are qualitatively different in their in the former individual Seldom encounters because of in going to a or vocational Pur the latter when i first worked in the i was often referred to As a but my Only reaction was slight amusement at the enunciation can use of the words elicits a decidedly different kind of Nam calling of any sort is unfortunate and to this extent i would agree with to the extent that differential psycho logical reactions occur to different and Oldham seems aware of i would most definitely agree with Marcuse Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and tetters Are subject to Advance regarding Couch potato free february while i agree that Manitoba at least the City of Winnipeg vice squad is imposing tougher standards than the rest of i disagree that the Manitoba court of Appeal in the last tango in Paris Case pronounced the movie bereft of redeem ing social value or artistic or in chief Justice Freedman As he was then held in his majority it would be particularly unfair to proscribe last tango As in doing he accepted the evidence of the several defence wit Nesses who acclaimed last tango As a film of integrity and artistic Merit and who declared that the sexual portions played a legitimate role in he went on to state that indeed the legitimacy of sex in the film finds some support in Crown Testi Mony and concludes that evidence of Arnold Edinborough comes close to an acknowledgement that sex grows out of the internal necessities of the he went on to i am loathe to believe that Manitoban Are less less or More in need of protective shelter than other perhaps your correspondent or his source looked Only at the minority judgment of As he then with the advancement and enlightenment occurring in Manitoba Between 1974 and 1987 when video world was last tango might suffer a different a 1987 decision of our Manitoba court of Queens Bench Over the prosecution of Penthouse which held that it was not indicates there has at least been some advancement in some areas of our the Law on obscenity is confusing enough without your reference adding to the Booth Winnipeg reservations the editorial carefully Back to free february 14 raises some critical apparently the Winnipeg school division 1 will spend an estimated a person on about a dozen or so asian male the pro Gram offers them an hourly wage and intensive language training and employment training to get them Back into school and into the regular Job i have a great Many reservations about the like so Many other programs this one will Likely be judged a largely by the people responsible for is any objective evaluating component built in to the program should the program be will it be made available to asian female dropouts will it be made available to All dropouts if the program is surely every dropout should have the right to participate in it is this not the Canadian Way the divisions approach is consistent with so Many efforts of a wide Range of our Public and charitable a True Story illustrates my a Mother on welfare with two sons is blessed by one who he is no the other is a candidate for the Divi Sions dropout guess which son conies Home with tickets to a jets which were provided by a social the mothers when is somebody going to Reward Billy he is doing Well in school and never causes me any Vic Pruden Winnipeg fair play my sense of fairness is outraged by David Matass polemical and grossly exaggerated comment re ported in the free press Law meant to february differences of opinion and critical comment about Public policy Are the Lifeblood of our system of govern vigorous debate is one thing resorting to the use of words like Deport peo ple on a potentially deadly hurry up basis and railroading of Refu gees is something else there Are two stages to the pro Cess of refugee determination the initial hearing which determines whether the claim has a Credi ble basis and is eligible to be and the full hearing which determines whether or not the claim is sufficiently credible for ref Ugee status to be statistics to february 9 adequately demonstrate that the comments by Matas Are totally without of 883 initial hearings initiated 34 were withdrawn at the request of the claimant or the claim ants lawyer 560 were referred to a full hearing and 249 were Only 40 claims failed to meet the eligibility or credibility of the 185 full hearings which had commenced As of that 97 Deci Sions were rendered which resulted in the confirmation of 89 claims while Only eight were not sub Stan these numbers hardly lend them selves to a charge that the new determination system is Railroad ing in Only five per cent of All cases which have commenced were deemed not to have sufficient under the Gen Eva convention definition of a Refu gee this is hardly a system which terrorizes after the system has been designed to give refugee claimants the full Benefit of the doubt at All stages of the determination before a single deportation takes the minister of immigration reviews the file to ascertain if there Are any humanitarian or compassionate grounds to justify Why a deportation should not take in other the entire emphasis of the system is placed on providing Canadas Protection to those genuinely in need of that in this regard Canadas record is Sec old to the immigration and refugee Board was created by its rules and procedures Are of to scrutiny by the the fairness and efficiency of the process Are essential ingredients in ensuring fundamental Justice Long delays Only add to the anxiety of the Matas is Well known to Many of us Asah advocate of human an industrious member of the Legal a senior officer in Bani brith and a member of am Nesty both his professional interests and his member ships would Lead one to expect that he would exhibit a commitment to fair play in making comments about other even those of us who Are classified As Fairweather chairman immigration and refugee Board of Canada i cow All ashore that going ashore ;