Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May Page 7 or India and Pakistan have gone to War before Over disputed territory of in urged to Avert new War in Kashmir by Jonathan Power special to the free press London we have to Stop War erupting Between India and if India and Pakistan go to War Over Kashmir it May be just the antidote the world needs to its exaggerated sense of euphoria Over the end of the cold containing communism or Bury ing capitalism was the obsession of one Corner of the planet most of the rest of the world has its own fish to Fry Good old fashioned Boundary Reli racial and ethnic rivalries and Macho contests Between men and increasingly women of if we really want peace in the world we have to work for not bask in the glow of the removal of the Berlin Wall while we Burn up our intellectual Energy on the Fine print of How to Cut East West missile armoires which Arent going to be used let them rust in their silos if need be the world out there is hotting up and needs a Good bit of Beautiful country Are India and Pakistan going to War Over this astonishingly Beautiful piece of Himalayan real estate they did in 1948 and again in the events of this year Are following the exact pattern of 1965 India accusing Pakistan of sending in irregular soldiers Pakistan denying this but insisting loudly on a free election in Kash Mir in which it knows the moslem majority would vote to become part of Pakistan and India Ada Mant that Kashmir belongs to India and threatening War if Paki Stan insists on rocking the status the original division of British ruled India into moslem dominant de Pakistan and hindu dominated India resulted in an appalling car nage and Laid the foundations for the enmity and mistrust apparent it was not Britain finest the latest flare up in this one unresolved area of dispute occurs just As a new study of partition by an Indian has appeared in London to excellent it is the first authoritative study on the Transfer of Power since Britain opened up its official Servai contrary to received that the Unity of India was not sabotaged by Mohammed Jinnah of the moslem league but by Jawaharlal Independent India first prime who constantly miscalculated by refusing to take Jin nah there was a time when Jinnah would have gladly kept India whole As Long As mos Lem sensibilities were today India is again on weak ground it still refuses to allow a free saying this must be left for the future and it still relies on its overwhelming superiority in numbers and in weaponry to As Sert its recent return yet will make a foolish mistake if it pushes too War with India could set it Back a right now it needs to concentrate on Consoli dating its own recent return to to find a Way of Send ing Home the fighting men of the afghan to Deal with the growing menace of heroin addiction that has swamped the country As a result of the afghan refugees bringing their crops and business with them and to Deal with its own ethnic being right in As the lithuanians Are Doest always mean that now is the Why is the rest of world sitting so quietly these two if they find themselves in a Corner with each in the course of Large scale conventional bring terrible economic grief to hundreds of millions of at they May reach for their nuclear in 1965 the world did wait too Long and did not activate the United nations Security Council until full scale War was Well under then the panic Secretary general u Thant was sent by the Security Council to try and broker a unsure if he had been successful he returned to new York Only to hear that chinese troops were reported to be massing on the Indian Border in support of Paki in the Media there was even talk of a third world War if the soviet Union As India Long time arms to come in on the Indian Wisdom prevailed in the end Wisdom the soviet prime Alexei engineered a ceasefire and withdrawal of the in for its part redeployed its Long standing observer Mission to Monitor the ceasefire line through the Middle of Twentyfive years later it is still in observers a Mere 39 of them today Are not they Stop what happened in 1965 and they cant do much about what is happening except to keep us what is needed is a full scale International peacekeeping As in with soldiers patrolling along a dividing corridor of no mans with every move ment of local Farmers and opposing soldiers being watched care fully from observation in Cyprus this has kept the hostile turkish and greek communities it has lowered the tempera Ture so the fighting is at last becoming a dim Binazir prime minister of and Vishwanath Pra tap prime minister of both honorable both in Power with the Peoples mandate in free need to assert their authority Over their Mili tries and their political associates and jointly Call for if they wont then the outside world must soon take the the present talk of War in the nuclear armed Indian subcontinent is dangerous studies medicare Model As health care costs skyrocket Washington by fits and from different directions and with differ ing a number of influential people and groups in the United states Are moving towards a conclusion that Canadas National health plan May provide a Model for solving the health care two of the most discussed prob lems Are the crushing costs of the existing system and the inability of about 37 million citizens to get any form of health one reason that costs Are High is that Medicine is on the leading Edge of medical Able to provide very High Levels of care for More and More ailments because of the availability of sophisticated machinery for diagnosis and treat High technology Canadian provincial health sys tems tend to aim spending in other with the result that High technology is less available than in the United this is a Point frequently made by opponents of Universal health most notably the formidable american medical the am a was making it a few Days ago As it absorbed the Shock of hearing the american College of physicians conclude publicly that nothing Short of Universal Access to a level of Basic health care will be fair in the Long this is the largest organization of specialists in the it has it spent three years debating internally the health care crisis before reaching its Conlu the conclusion is remarkable in View of the fact that most of its members began the process by agreeing completely with the Amas unshakable opposition to the concept of developing a Canadia style health system open to the has arrived at a conclusion similar to that already reached by some major Busi Ness such As Lee Iacocca of while the specialists de scribe the current situation As in tolerable for their families and the business Lead ers find it intolerable for solid Busi Ness la Coccas Point is that the soaring Burden of health insurance for employees and their families makes companies less competitive than they should be with foreign Given his his main concern is japanese Automo bile other business leaders Are beginning to agree with profitability for a broader spectrum of Busi Ness the Central Issue is Cost and its effect on they face annual Premium increases that Are often very introducing into their financial plans an unpredictability that they cannot some companies have become so frustrated that they have stopped paying they have taken on the financial risk hiring health insurers solely As technical plan adm Nistra the companies collect premiums from their employees and at tempt to have the plan operated partly by setting High an Nual deductibles that employees must pay before receiving any Bene another Cost control measure con David Macdonald Washington editor lists of cutting Back on health cover age formerly yet another consists of having elaborate prior permission requirements before care costs will be operated by staff trained to take an attack dog approach to requests by the sick for a most effective extra method is straight refusal to Payfor certain deeming them to be not covered by the Small companies do not have the option of absorbing the financial risk and cutting Back health coverage to their they either can or cannot afford the employers share of health care premiums and a sub Stantial number of them conclude that they lower rates the upshot is that their employees cannot get health insurance cover age at group which Are much lower than individual the catch22 is that these employees usually find that they cannot get individual coverage at any such workers for Small business and their families make up most of that figure of 37 million americans without health it is not a question of whether they can afford High insurance premiums but of whether insurance companies will Grant them the privilege of paying premiums at health insurers refuse to take the blame for their High they Point to department of Commerce figures that estimate 1980 National health care costs at while 1990 estimates Are transplant costs the kind of separate costs driving those figures up were illustrated by a new York times article on a Case in a woman who received liver and kidney transplants in one opera Tion and who later had a cumulative medical Bill of the insurance company of the husbands employer is disputing the the Hospital has refused to make the particular Bill Public but explained that a liver transplant without complications can Cost included in this amount Are for Hospital and intensive cafe rooms to acquire a donor Organ for an a inter nist and neurologist for Ous tests such As ultrasound and cat scans to administer blood for use of the operating room for phar Macy charges for anaesthesia services for pulmonary kidney average costs throughout the United states in 1989 for the liver including care and drugs for one were Given by the new York times As for the heart transplants they were for the kidney trans plants they were the Case in dispute involved prior and following tons and a family history of heart another Cost that finds its Way into health insurance premiums is Mal practice this Cost is High because litigation is much More prevalent in the proposal by the organization of specialists lacks suggestions about How to pay for a single nation Al but it does make the Point that Universal Access to health care would Lead to better general health and avoidance of diseases whose treatment helps to Force up health care payment Issue James executive vice presi Dent of the called the its group irresponsible for fail ing to address the payment he said the implication of funding by government through taxes would Lead to the drawbacks of such sys like he defined those drawbacks As less effective shortage of new medical technology and waiting lists for District of Columbia internist Robert Berenson counters the irresponsible claim by saying that the Ama says nothing about Taining one of the act Powals he argues that the time for trying to plug holes is because you still have a inequitable health care system that is serving doctors or their millions of americans have no health Conaw Applan hinges on environment review when Premier Gary Filmon announced that Manitoba Hydro would be constructing the Conaw Apa generating he said a development of this magnitude demands a firm commitment by government to ensure All areas of environmental concerns Are due to a recent Federal court the degree of commitment will be tested because the province knows that environmental con Cerns May curtail the last Filmon and Ontario pre Mier David Peterson signed documents authorizing a billion Power Sale to starting in the year that ceremony launched construction of Conawa with a net capacity of would be the largest generating station in there would also be a High voltage direct current transmission line run Ning Down the East Side of Lake total Cost is estimated at in another such projects would have proceeded with Little official recognition of potential environmental that was the situation in regard to the grand rapids generating station in the 1960s and the Churchill River Winni Peg regulation projects in the while Public outcry led to some modifications in the latter there was no automatic process requiring a full As a substantial damage was Over the past 25 Hydro develop ment flooded some changed the water Levels of Rivers in others and disrupted the lives of local Hunting and recreational activities were hampered and drinking water was in a Northern flood agreement was reached to provide compensation for those who had been negatively a 1987 under the dome Arlene Bill Koff Federal report estimated unsettled claims were Worth in late when Northern affairs minister Jim Downey turned Over million to Northern bands As partial he admitted it May take years before the 146 claims filed under the agreement Are no amount of can repair the Environ mental of there is More recognition of the need for such although Hydro had been viewed As a Safe form of it still has a potentially negative a rigorous environmental review is expected for All new hydroelectric facile that is As it should the Premier the process in regard to which was expected to take about 36 started More than a year ago with the preparation of a plan outlining How Manitoba Hydro intends to study the Impact of the project on the it would be followed by an environmental assessment by qualified who would prepare an environmental Impact detailing anticipated Impact and proposing appropriate measures to prevent or reduce any Adverse effects of the develop when the assessment advances sufficient Hydro would apply for licences under the environment act and the application would be meanwhile other departments would review and assess the at every there would be opportunities for Public including hearings by the clean environment which could make recommendations about granting according to the the first deadline would be december Mani Toba Hydro must go through a Public utilities Board review of capital plans while Ontario Hydro undergoes a review of its demand Supply if either Utility fails to achieve its goal on it can Back out if so it is an optional safety noted Manitoba Hydro chairman Brian ran when that stage is an Environ mental licence is realizing it May not be the two parties have agreed to a process whereby Manitoba Hydro would pay a penalty for every three months the project is although there is no set Ransom indicated that at a certain time such As 1992 the parties might conclude there would not be Environ mental approval and pull it was one More indication that environmental concerns would be taken seriously and could halt the on the other even if the licence is not yet granted at a certain there might still be sufficient Confidence about the out come that the partnership would when the agreement was a time Frame was the addition of another layer of environmental review by the Federal fisheries department May complicate the if it determines significant Adverse environmental Impact or Public the department could refer the Issue to a Federal environment assessment panel for formal Ransom did not envisage a problem with Federal involvement and believed Hydro can meet All the it would simply be a matter of determining whether the two Levels of government work together or inde he nevertheless there May be a problem because the Federal court ruling has made a number of projects subject to similar re views and assessments and there is no Assurance when Conaw Apa will be screened or How Long the review will to its the province is not complain As Ransom we want them to Tell s the rules and we will it May Hurt the province in the Short but there seems to be new awareness of the need to protect the everyone has come a Long doonesbury by Garry Trudeau in the absence fan Yale thousands still anti All Ive done for thi5 ka1 Chart hip Call it a mana65p to billion those arrival left trim ;