Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 23, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free april consumer Al f corporations enter Era of cooperation by Marilyn Ronald the Canadian press Ottawa the Era of us versus them Battles Between consumer advocates and business is a senior analyst at Price waterhouse consulting firm confrontation was the mood of the said David nation Al director of consumer affairs con the 1990s will be a period of cooperation Between consumer corporations and govern i see that As the main strategic change in the evolution of the con Sumer Price waterhouse has organized a conference in Toronto wednesday that will bring together Environ lawyers and finance Industry representatives to discuss consumerism in the throughout the consumer organizations and corporations were constant Mckendry that confrontation was Neces sary because it forced companies and governments to recognize con Sumer organizations As a Force to be reckoned both the private and Public Sec tors Learned that ignoring consumer groups turned out to be bad Busi its not that business now does everything consumer advocates want it increasingly takes their views into in the consumer groups had their noses pressed up against the Glass but the door was never now it the issues Are changing con Sumer organizations in both Canada and the United states Are increasingly shifting their emphasis from products to consumer advocate Ralph Nader became famous for battling corporations especially major Auto companies on product Safe what Hes worrying about now is Access to and affordability of car its symbolic of the shift in Mckendry its gone from the relatively simple issues like car safety and product Labelling to issues involving Finan Cial the emergence of a service Economy has changed consumer and in the companies will work with consumer groups to head off problems before they rather than responding Mckendry this is partly because corporations can no longer compete solely on Quality and successful Competition will depend increasingly on corporate based on the company perceived commitment to social and environmental respond companies Are trying to appear environmentally but they May face further pressure if environmental and consumer organizations Campaign to lower Overall where Green consumerism goes is a big people Haven stopped buying paper there just buying different Mckendry tide May be packaged differently but stores Are still Selling As much an actual drop in consumption would be More difficult for the corporate sector to adjust to because it would mean a drop in More information in a competitive service businesses will also have to gather More information about the buying habits of consumer organizations will be monitoring whether corporate use of this information respects individual but Mckendry Doest think these issues will result in greater govern ment corporations will step in where governments used to for when Bell Canada applied to the Federal government in 1988 for a rate the application was rejected but the company was told it could reapply if it came up with a program of subsidies for Low income that was significant because the government was telling a Large corporation to design and administer what in a social Milken Deal feared Wall Street runs for cover from the news services Michael the financier who agreed Friday to plead guilty to six felony charges and pay million dollars in is not required to provide evidence of further wrongdoing to the govern ment As part of the people who have been briefed on the Deal the former Drexel Burnham Lambert junk Bond wizards Money raising innovations fuelled the takeover Binge of the mid1980s and earned him As much As million a has been targeted by Federal prosecutors in Manhattan since he was implicated in securities crimes by Speculator turned informant Ivan Boesky in resigned position Milken resigned from Drexel after the investment Banks 1988 agreement to plead guilty to six felonies and pay and he was indicted last year on 98 counts of securities prosecutors had set Friday As the deadline for a expanded indictment if Milken didst agree to a plea As the plea Deal is Milken will probably face no More than five years in Al though a longer sentence is Possi All charges will be dropped against Milkens brother and Lowell currently a co defendant in the racketeering and Michael Milken will not be required to testify against the sources the Deal will be officially announced next week after a lot of paperwork is said one but no substantive differences another source cautioned while Mil Ken had indeed bitten the Bullet on a unpredictable break Downs Are still possible until it is in a spokesman for attorney Otto Obermaier said she had nothing to announce and re fused comment on the plea the pending indictment Pri Marily based on allegations from Boesky charges Milken with Milken holding Trumps insider Market Manipur hiding the True ownership of Stock and other securities the new indictment was expected to strengthen the governments hand be cause it was less reliant on convicted Felon Boesky and based on testimony from at least a half dozen Drexel insiders and Milken As a the government investigation of wrongdoing on Wall Street that bloomed in 1986 appears to be drawing to a the possibility of such a cooperation agreement had created concern among lawyers and securities Industry fearing what Milken might Milken was closely involved in takeover deals with Many of the leading financiers of the and there had been widespread speculation that he might be in a position to reveal details of illicit activities surrounding those while the absence of such a cooperation agreement is viewed by some securities lawyers As removing the possibility that Mil Ken might provide evidence against he could still be compelled to provide testimony under a Grant of immunity to a grand new subpoenas but concern Over that possibility does not compare with the fears that a new flurry of subpoenas would be issued on Wall Street As a result of the Milken who created the High yield junk Bond Market that fuelled the big corporate take overs in the has been at the Centre of the investigation that has rocked Wall Street since Boesky agreed to Settle charges of insider trading and pay million in As part of his agreement with the Boesky was required to provide evidence against other Wall Street principally marshals carry Model guns at a rally yesterday for Anc Leader Nelson Mandela who visited Anc seeks tougher sanctions South Africa Reuter Mandela said yesterday he will Appeal to British prime minis Ter Margaret Thatcher for tougher sanctions against apartheid when he meets her in probably on july the african National Congress Leader said at a Homecoming rally near his Birthplace in the nominally Independent Transki Homeland that Britain partial lifting of sanctions has been we deeply regret the unilateral decision of the British government to ease sanctions against South Afri he teamwork in both National and International affairs is of crucial individualistic action can Only serve to disrupt and frustrate the realization of common this matter will be High on the Agenda Mandela to Appeal to Thatcher when i meet hopefully on the 6th of Mandela did not meet Thatcher when he attended an easter monday pop concert during his first visit to Britain after his release from 27 years in South african jails for plot Ting to overthrow the White minority Thatcher broke ranks with the european Community after Mande Las release on 11 to Reward president de Klerks Reform initiatives with a partial lifting of Mandela and the which was legalized in insist sanctions should not be lifted until apartheid is about xhosa tribesmen listened to mandelas speech in a Field near the Transki capital of Many had slept in the open to be sure of a Good Mandela condemned righting violence against and said it is too soon to disband the Ancs us Shonto we size Spear of the the armed struggle must be in but in a disciplined Way to ensure that the government does not backtrack from the path of Neotia he when arrived in us tata saturday chiefs draped an Ante Lope skin Over his shoulders and gave him a xhosa fighting stick and he said saturday that when the Anc meets the government in Cape town on May 2 it will be from a position of de Klerk has initiated moves to dismantle apartheid and has invited Black leaders to negotiate with him about political Power for the Black we have been asking the govern ment to talk for the past three years and at last they Are going to have to look into the face of the Mandela he also confirmed unofficial re ports that he has a hotline to de i am always in Contact with de he if there is something i am not satisfied with i phone whenever i talk to him i find his responses ambassador blasts distorted editorial Washington up Canadas ambassador to the United states has lashed out at a washing ton Post editorial that expressed the View that the breakup of Canada was inevitable be cause of the Meech Lake constitutional in a letter to the ambassador Derek Burney says the newspapers resigned acceptance of the alleged Prospect of several can Adas is other elements of your editorial Are More Burney said the april 12 entitled one Canada several contains historical errors such As its statement that the British North America act was imposed on Canada by he also accused the newspaper of misunderstanding the issues by trying to place them in an american false american terms Canada in May a said Burneys which was released by the pm our stems from Unity in not in what you see As the insistence of the French speaking minority on being Sepa rate but you not Only miss the Point but distort it in false american the phrase separate but equal carries heavy historical freight in the United states and but it is grossly out of place in the context of the constitutional debate now taking place in Burney the Post one of several commentaries on the Meech Lake crisis to appear recently in the news said the breakup of Canada would be but it would finally end decades of corrosive sparring Between in Gli Shand French speaking the ambassador concludes his letter by saying the Post is entitled to its opinion about Canadas prospects for but your position would be More compelling if you had your history and your context South korean environment dying by Patrick Minn Agency franc Presse Seoul South Korea is today one of the most polluted coun tries in the world air is in breathable and its water is not Safe to experts still they is that the government is doing Little to Check the destruction of the president Roh Tae woos govern ment elevated this year the office of environment to ministerial rank and declared 1990 the first year of environmental the new environment ministry policy priorities indicate just How Basic the problems Are it says it wants to Supply water which people can drink safely and improve the air Quality by using cleaner burning South koreans were shocked last August when the construction ministry said tap water in major cities was polluted with ammonia and heavy they took Little com fort when the health ministry later added that it was still Safe to drink tap particularly in waste in Reservoir the government then hurriedly announced it would spend about four trillion won the equivalent of billion can by 1996 to improve water treatment and sewage processing throughout the newspaper reports subsequently accused the government of not pro Perly protecting the Padang Reser which supplies water to the adding that nearby plants were dumping untreated Industrial waste into worried citizens started boiling tap water and rushed to buy companies bottling natural Mineral Waters Are doing brisk Roh has ordered the arrest of factory owners violating Antip Ollu Tion but Many factories still refuse to install costly ant pollution equipment and prefer to pay heavy fines if they Are some firms were recently fined for turning off their installed Antip Ollu Tion equipment to save professor Kim of Seoul National University graduate school of the environment says souls air is polluted by Sulphur dioxide from by briquette Coal used for Home heating and by nitrogen oxides from the exhausts of one million trucks and the opposition party for peace and democracy charges the govern ment with pointing out that the Sulphur dioxide Content in souls air has failed to drop below the permissible level of parts per million in the last 10 Kim says souls crowded Shansul Dong area has an alarming parts per million compared with parts per million in the party for peace and democracy charges that although souls air contains 41 different carcinogenic the government has not put any controls in the government is also criticized by specialists for failing to publish information on the one report published by the National environment Institute recently listed the heavy Metal pollutants found in South Korea Industrial waste and agricultural it found quantities of Copper and other our environment is we must one television commen Tator said this month As he launched a weekly program which last week showed a Plant manager dumping Industrial waste into the sewage system at ministry ignored the governments economic planning Board admitted last week that there has been Little improve ment in air and water pollution As environment authorities Are ignored by other Public expression of concern Over environmental represents a major step in this coun where any such criticism was banned under the military regimes of the 1970s and Early former president Park Chung Hees government argued that pollution could be ignored As the country proceeded with its rapid Industrial one minister branded critics of Industrial pollution As communist Merck Frosst Canada Shaw Cable systems dividend notice the Board of directors of Shaw Ca ble systems has declared the following semiannual dividends of the company payable on june 1990 to 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