Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 18, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press september 1992 a Winnipeg he Ujj Juji editorials Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion m Equality of civil rights John director director Craig director de resources director Stephan production manager Premier Gary Filmon and Winnipeg Industrial promotion office Are hard at As they should showing the advantages of Winnipeg As an administrative Centre for Canadas amalgamated National the committee of top officials of air Canada and Canadian airlines International who must design the new entity have to make a few decisions quickly about the Cen trial organs and where they will be from those initial Many More will flow As the new entity takes one Rumor circulating this week made Winnipeg the Home for a new company that would run the regional feeder airlines of the two National Winnipeg May indeed be a logical Home for such a but the head office of such a company is unlikely to amount to the provincial government and the City economic development promoters in Winnipeg 2000 should keep pitching for the head office of the holding company that will control the entire corporate the strength of regional feeder airlines is their flexibility and their relatively Small they mesh service with the National but they respond mainly travel demand within a narrow Market that responsiveness is Apt to be lost if manage ment authority Over All the feeder lines is concentrated in one National head the authority and the management Talent Are More Likely to remain in the regional head of fice of each regional a single company created to run them All for the Benefit of the amalgamated National Carrier would have Little to the National Carrier would control Broad policy and the individual regional carriers would most Logi Cally control their own top management of the holding company would be a More Welcome addition to Winni pegs aviation if the chairman and the president Are their immediate sub ordinates Are Likely to find More and More reasons Why they should be work ers gather around the Queen Bee and soon the hive is the airline executives have to build the new company to accomplish their internal they cannot let regional or Paro Chial ambitions dictate their the most Winnipeg and Manitoba can do is make sure that they know what a Fine Centre Winni Peg is for a National talk of the feeder subsidiary should not Lull Winnipeg 2000 into relaxing the vigor of its sales Cam the Campaign should recognize the limits of Winnipeg most of the customers and most of the aircraft movements Are else where and most of the airline departments should probably be there no better place for the Central administration and the top and Winni pegs Horny voters should not be shy to say rejecting Union 0 in France votes on the maastricht an agreement that was designed to bring the member nations of the european Community into a much closer economic and political maastricht was to be a big the a even penultimate step towards the new an economic and political powerhouse that would be a new superpower on the world that scenario seems More unlikely by the the treaty requires unanimous support by the nine members of the the people of Denmark have already rejected it by a Nar Row margin in a recent eur ropes leaders appear to believe that this is a minor setback that can be overcome without too much that the Danes will re consider rather than change their status within the european Community after All the other members have approved the that May yet prove to be the after Denmark voted All eyes turned to Ireland polls another close vote would the voted yes by a comfortable now All eyes Are riveted on before polling was shut off this week in Advance of voting the surveys indicated once again another close the French vote is critical to the maastricht France and Germany Are the two driving forces of the european comm and Paris has always had influence Over dec policy disproportionate to its economic if either of those two nations were to say the concept of european Union would be set Back a Long sundays has be come More than just a question of a common european currency and another step to wards in France it is complicated by the unpopularity of president Francois Mitterrand and his socialist government who have been in Power since 1981 like Long serving governments Are Given a Large portion of the blame for hard the announcement this week that Mitterrand had cancer May mitigate that Ani but if French voters do indeed re Gard it As a referendum on his government rather than the agreement maastricht May Well be in the British have never been enthusiastic about maastricht under Margaret thatch ers leadership they were downright truculent in their opposition and serious doubts about the treaty also appear to be surfacing in further complicating the Situa Tion is the financial crisis that has seized Europe this week and pretty much made a mockery of whatever common monetary pol icy there already there appears to be a of something deeper artwork the com Mon Market worked Well Over the so in that it has led now to the maastricht treaty and threshold of one big eur but the europeans themselves Are pausing at that the main Stum bling Block now seems to be the common cur the which would replace National As the Day Many French find that they like their Ger mans their Marks and britons their pounds and Money is a More emotional thing than economists and bureaucrats might choose to believe those inclined to a particularism View might argue that Europe is Fine As it and just needs a Little tidying those with a More global View might argue that a unified Europe gives a better Chance for a better in the Long it seems inevitable that the latter View will Triumph on the French will gives us an indication of whether or not that vision is still a Little pre improving the schools football fans furious your marking schools free 2 makes some valid Points about the need to focus the mind on education it also attempts to simplify Complex issues with platitudes that Are ubiquitous in local press coverage of your remarks paint a Bleak picture of Edu cation in exhorting readers to embrace the notion that a return to traditional up Pil teacher relationships will provide the pan Acea to problems involving questions of Community support of the school learner expectations and and increased teacher workload and social responsibility is a disservice to the serious issues at if there is no room for exotic educational is there room for rigid discipline and imposed by any one pow Erful socioeconomic or ethnic group on All students in Public schools a close Examina Tion of traditional education would reveal much about the group which controls the sys including its tools of evaluation and its standards of the need for a valid Way of determining expectations and standards of behaviour is one that deserves focus in the Public must be taken to avoid a a misted attempt to reduce human learning and growth to a set of discrete Steps that appear tidy on a diagram in a bureaucrats office or on a political but that ignore the continuous and dynamic nature of the Community has expressed the desire to change the French Heri Tage language programs and alternative pro Grams Are the result of concerned parents exercising their opinions to change the you fail to see the contradiction in your adv Jacy of Community input when you term these Yery on demand programs As being part of the Hodgepodge of in Case you a event our province is a sort of of communities it does not Fol Low that it is in diversity one of ten finds let Manitoba use this strength to improve its Donald Winnipeg further to Scott Taylors column Csc vetoes bomber telecasts free septem Ber i would also like to speak out on behalf of All those Winnipeg football fans who were upset at being during the labor Day of watching the Winnipeg Saskatchewan game in Saskatchewan fans we rent too Happy to learn that they see the two teams when they met again in Winnipeg on september not Only Winnipeg the most stable fran Chise in the Cal and the site of the 1991 Grey cup considered by Many the finest Canadian final in Many years but football fans across Canada were excluded from witnessing one of the classic rivalries in Cana Dian the Csc and which hold the rights to the Cal gave us instead world league Volley Ball finals on Csc and the third and fourth round open Tennis tournament on this is close to being an insult to football fans across perhaps Taylor could take a Little time to Tell us How the Powers that be arrived at this the in gropes for a Mission in Bosnia by William Pfaff special to Tho free press Western Powers now Are get Ting precisely the intervention in Bosnia they most those who blocked the idea of a limited objective Politi co military intervention to punish aggression and reassert the rules of respect for frontiers and Protection for successfully argued that this would really produce a bogged endlessly escalating intervention a new Ulster or political risk they won the argument and now Treyve got just not that there was much of an a Britain was against a military intervention and so was the French Germany was inclined to favor it but could not take part in the government saw in it Domestic political risk and told the europeans that Yugoslavia was their the leaders of the United Britain and France had to placate Western Public greatly agitated by images and accounts of the sieges of Dubrovnik and and Testi monies of ethnic cleansing and the heartless abuse of civilians victimized because they were of the wrong religion and historical com they did so by mounting humanitarian mis Sions under in sponsorship to open the Sarajevo feed Rescue and protect but the forces sent on these missions were strictly precluded from taking sides or until from taking any offensive measures to defend themselves to secure their the result was an ineffectual whose Security had to be purchased through appeasing the interests of the local militia commanders of All three As Well As placating the paranoia or political fantasies of Zagreb and the intervention now has also proved an escalating letters which lacks a coherent and achievable Mili tary and which increasingly has be come the target of misinterpretations and attack by All three of the yugoslav parties to this the italian aircraft carrying blankets to Bosnia held in anticipation of the Winter that soon will set according to All credible shot Down september 3 by bosnian the uns regular Convoy from Belgrade to carrying supplies for the in forces was last week also attacked by bosnian forces according to the United nations with two French in soldiers killed and five the bosnian Are presumed to have thought that in this Way they could intensify pressures for an International intervention to end the War thereby saving Independent Bosnia Herzegovina from the serbs and they actually have sacrificed much of the International sympathy they recently have the result of these presumed bosnian actions More or less what the bosnian in Secretary general Boutros has asked that the in forces in Bosnia Herzegovina be More than to a total of to with substantial and with the right to an enlarged Sel defense in the course of escorting humanitarian that puts the International Community into this War on a much bigger welled but dead it also puts it there with a Mission commit ment far less clearly defined than the Politi co military interventions previously demand while a three sided War goes the United nations now undertakes to Clear Logis tical fighting its Way when Neces to deliver supplies to certain selected besieged civilian populations so As to permit As the bosnian bitterly have to welled when we no direct military pressure is being placed upon the warring parties to Stop the certainly nothing will be attempted so ambitious As to punish aggressors in seized territories and the authorities who sent them or to try War or to reestablish frontiers and return people to their meeting hostility nor is any Effort being made to Block this wars Extension to Kosovo or or to hence this in intervention is by its nature if not it will presumably go on until lord Owen and Cyrus Vance persuade the bosnian and croatians to make peace with one another or until the countries supplying the in forces become unwilling to have their Young men killed in such the latter eventuality is Likely to arrive Well before the for there now Are some in troops deployed in croatian regions seized by the serbs or otherwise in and with the new forces to be deployed there will soon be close to foreign ground troops in the Eyu nato studies speak of an eventual need for at least men on humanitarian missions if the three parties to the War Are to be brought to the negotiating that scenario is a very dubious this number of troops is larger than the total some previously had estimated for a military intervention to halt the exactly because these in and those to Are without a definite political mis Sion or operational program for halting the they Are meeting hostility from All three of the warring yugoslav a guerrilla Campaign against their presence is the next thing to this outcome is a lesson in the consequences of running away from the real prob Lem while attempting to appease Public Opin wide is the Matthew warned and Broad is the that Lead eth to destruct the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to i am convinced that Winnipeg and Canadian football fans could have been accommodated in at least two All that is needed is the will in the first i have been assured that the Csc has sufficient Mobile equipment in Western Canada to be Able to cover both the Winnipeg Saskatchewan game in Regina on sunday and the Calgary Edmonton game in Calgary on the second covered in Scott Taylors was to permit Hornby and associates of Winnipeg to Broad cast the the excuse put Forward by a Csc spokesman that the Winnipeg producers Are incapable of doing Justice to the game is a feeble excuse to cover up further evidence of the Lack of sensitivity by Eastern officials to wards Manitoba and Csc bureaucrats responsible for scheduling to coverage last Spring could have booked the Regina game instead of the Cal Gary game and avoided a but they would have had to take into consideration the Hue and cry that would have emanated from Alberta fans and could have brought Don Canadas Deputy prime minis Ter and Don Albertas a for Mer Eskimo Down on them like a ton of this was probably a Prospect too Horri ble to one can sympathize with the Csc for find ing itself Between a Rock and a hard place but one cannot excuse their refusal to allow a Western producer from filling an obvious especially since Hornby and associates Are prepared to broadcast the game without the Benefit of my purpose in writing is to the outrage expressed in Scott Taylors perhaps those who Are responsible for next years scheduling and i am including the Cal negotiators As Well As the will be More considerate of football fans in Manitoba and fan loyalty is a precious the Cal can ill afford to alienate its staunchest supporters who every one knows Are More numerous in the Western Leonard Remis Winnipeg treason Manitoba should use its diversity to strengthen the Public school system i cannot comprehend Why Lucien Bouchard and members of the bloc quebecois can sit in our draw big benefits and accrue huge future All at the expense of the Canadian the bloc quebecois advocates the breakup of Canada and Are being paid by you and me to expand this their actions constitute treason and they should be ejected forthwith with loss of All now and in the As legislation should be so this cannot happen of september the bloc quebecois open the Unity referendum stating its a waste of in other your opinion on the future of Canada As a nation is of no do you agree if write your member of parliament to Winnipeg into the Ashcan Preston mannings rejection of the constitutional agreement comes As no he had no other the whole basis of his support and his party membership is the ant French and ant Quebec syndrome that has festered in Western Canada for a Hundred support for the no Side in the National de Bate can do nothing but hasten the demise of this latest political burp from the Alberta extreme Western voters will eventually cast the Reform party into the political Ashcan As they did Bible Bill Aberhart social credit Delmer Dobbin Winnipeg test the elderly i am writing this letter to inform you and the Public of the Road hazards that can be by elderly licensed this is an important matter that needs immediate attention and As some of us Are As we get older our reflexes slow Down and we Are unable to react quickly enough in dangerous i have seen Many situations where an eld Erly Driver is driving under the Speed and therefore is causing impatience in other what better Way is there for them to avoid such Drivers than to go around and in the Cut someone else this is very and has caused Many Acci i have also witnessed elderly Drivers rolling through Stop not coming to Complete and causing trouble at so therefore i conclude that elderly Drivers should be retested every two to ensure both their safety arid the Public Gloria Perez Winnipeg ;