Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 january Pha Macare cuts a serious concern there Are approximately people in Manitoba who have As an organization representing these the Canadian diabetes association is deeply concerned about the recent cuts to the phar Macare the cuts were implemented without any input from health organizations such As ourselves or any thought to the ramifications they will have for the person facing the daily challenges of this seems to demonstrate a Lack of forethought of the resulting con diabetes is the underlying cause of 50 per cent of All heart attacks and 75 per cent of All people with diabetes Are 17 times More Likely to suffer from kidney failure and five times More prone to diabetes increases the chances of blindness by 23 per diabetes costs our Canadian econ omy about billion per in Manitoba during the 199293 fiscal diabetes was the Pri Mary or secondary cause of Hospital stays that Cost the Manitoba health care system the diabetes control and complications trial a study of historic designed to test whether persistent Elevation of blood sugars is related to the development of complications in people with was released in octo 1993 to International the results clearly demonstrated that intensive treatment of individuals with insulin dependent diabetes delays the Onset and progression of Lon term reproducing these results will re quire individuals with diabetes to follow the intensive health care regimens tested in the but the Cost of this therapy May be beyond the reach of some the average yearly Cost of Intel therapy is upwards of per person a staggering Cost to the but a Small Price for the health care system to pay to forestall the huge Cost of complications resulting from the duct results sparked Hope for Long term health for people with allowing them to continue to live an Active life and maintain their productive role in will these major cuts to pharmacy Are lifeline of for in blood testing products and Dia Bete related Dize their health and in their very lives Garry Giesbrecht Board of Canadian diabetes Manitoba division bring Home peacekeepers i am writing to you about the United nations peacekeepers in the former i do not believe that they Are being treated these men and women Are risking their lives to help another country and their living conditions Are As bad As those of the peo ple who live prisoners have it better off in jails Here in my suggestion to the prime minis Ter is to pull the troops out of the for Mer Yugoslavia in april when their term is if the croats and muslims Are Able to treat the in peacekeepers badly with snipers shooting at them and taking them hostage they should be Able to fight Back to protect the United nations peacekeepers Are risking their lives with no thanks in let them come Home be fore someone else is injured or Staci Neufeld Winnipeg Why difference in Price Bruce Beatson is his letter to the editor of january 10 contends that it is not Premium gasoline that is priced unjustifiably but Rath it is regular gasoline that is priced unrealistically Low in the beat sons statement is like claim ing that police should not ticket speeders because it is the police cars that go too not the Speed ers too unfortunately for the police have Speed limits As Bench equally unfortunately for Cana Dian gasoline some markets Are fairly close to competitive so that we can compare and declare glaring differences not justified by but Beatson wants the free press reporter who broke the Story Larry Kusch to bypass Fargo and Goto Switzerland or England to make his to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters maybe edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax number what is wrong with comparing Winnipeg to Fargo does it Cost More to sell Premium gasoline Here for some reason that escapes us or is it Lack of refiner Competition Here the differential Between regular and Premium unleaded gasoline is a Story of the thin Edge of the which goes Back to the introduction of the Middle Grade gasoline in the Winnipeg differential be tween regular and Premium Gaso line has gone up cents a from cents per litre in 1988 to seven cents per litre in in the wholesale Price differential was two cents per litre in cents per litre in cents per litre in 1992 and cents per litre in it does not Cost More to sell higher Grade gasoline so Why the Dif Ference the free press reporter was right on the Beatson tells us that other costs of car operation Are much higher compared to gasoline so we should be prepared to pay More for i since other costs of own ing and operating a House Are much higher than the Cost of the Young boy shovelling would Beatson be prepared to pay double for this service since it costs so Little in com Parison Winnipeg Russell missed the real Issue regarding the article Reform misses real issues in the free press on january it would seem to me that Frances Russell is the one who has missed the real Reform party maps Are in no Way attempting to trivialize Canadas financial woes by rejecting a num ber of unneeded and expensive Perks that other politicians Are More than Happy to if she had stopped to think for a she would have realized that when trying to save Money the first things to go Are the luxuries that Arent a to prove my ill use Frances russells own example of the haircut at the parliament Hill bar ber if All 52 Reform maps got a haircut every six the Cost would be per after four that nearly its absolutely scandalous that a political party would want to save its country by paying for its own imagine the storm of fury that would arise if All the parties elected were to do the How Are your math skills rus sell Francine Maxwell Baldur Hope rests with m Anness As soon As education minister Clayton manness dared to mention the awful word basics a Cloud of defensive smoke began to arise from the educational i suspect it is Only the manness can expect to be at tacked on All fronts his Reading political competence and personal manness will be subject to Orfus derision and he can expect to in everything except a direct answer to the question Why Are so Many of our school graduates functionally illiterate and mathematically incompetent ignore the proselytes of feel Good education you Are our youths Only associate professor retired faculty of University of Manitoba Vrr Whitewater has been in the spotlight during president Clinton appearance on the world stage this Whitewater engulfs Clinton Washington this was to have been the week in which president Bill Clinton Savoured the Sweet taste of a starring role As a nonpolitical National hogging the spotlight on the world there was an unstoppable surge of Domestic beginning with a Call for his it continued with a demand for congressional it concluded with a White House surrender to what became bipartisan demands for appointment of an Independent special counsel to investigate his connection with an Arkansas company called Whitewater development attorney general Janet Reno announced on presidential she would select a lawyer to investigate the Whitewater superseding an investigation already under Way by Renos Justice Republican Senate minority Leader Bob who had been demanding such an then said that even the appointment should not preclude establishment of special congressional committees to investigate the astonishing that followed the Call for impeachment of Clinton made earlier by Iowa House Republican Jim who is on the House banking it was an astonishing series of events occurring in parallel with what the White House hoped would be a strengthening the presidents weak foreign policy the Clinton White House is almost entirely responsible for its own the White House staff has handled the Issue Bill and Hillary Clinton compounded the problem by refusing to face they refused to acknowledge that you cannot live in the goldfish bowl that the White House has become and simultaneously say that your financial affairs Are none of the Public because of the president had to stand on a Windy Bridge half Way round the world and smile As lbs news Anchor Dan rather unctuous by declared it to be my responsibility to ask about a Money losing Arkansas real estate Reno is selecting a lawyer to investigate Washington editor David Macdonald in Clinton said in not going to talk about that on this trip while holding a press conference with ukrainian Leader Leonid an interview with Abc news disintegrated after Only two questions because his Arkansas land dealings came displaying anger and Clinton said he Felt he had been backed into a Corner and called it a situation without precedent in american i All these people say we dont believe this mans done anything theres no evidence that Hes done anything theres never been a credible charge by anyone that Hes done anything so no evidence has been presented of any wrongdoing by Bill and Hillary the White House has created an impression that there May be something to hide by vigorously resisting disclosure of information about their Arkansas financial the Clinton formed a partnership with James and Susan Mcdougal in a company called Whitewater development in when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas and Hillary was a partner in a leading Little Rock Law the idea was to develop and sell cottage lots on a parcel of land in a Remote part of Northern As an it was a the Clinton say they lost As David Letterman said on his late night show this is no Letterman show the reason Why it was being discussed on a network to talk show by Letterman and White House correspondent Sarah Mcclendon was the subsequent collapse of a financial institution bought by taxpayers had to foot a million the Clinton did not invest in the Madison guaranty savings and loan association but Whitewater had an account Hillary did Legal work for Jim Mcdougal did political fund raising for Bill and state regulators appointed by Bill seemed to be unable or unwilling to Stop Mcdougal behaving As if he could do what he liked with these interweaving connections have raised Republican Hopes that something politically damaging May be waiting to be political embarrassment already Jim whose handling of Madison affairs seems to have reflected the anything goes atmosphere of the has been acquitted of Madison fraud once but soon May face new who moved to California and filed for is being sued by orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta for alleged embezzlement of after being hired by him to be his nothing politically damaging to the Clinton May emerge from the new Independent investigation but the Issue will continue to command attention because the Clinton did not Deal with it quickly and forthrightly weeks nobody business in a repeat of what happened during last years presidential they chose to say it was nobody business and that there was nothing of interest in their personal financial records of that White House staff attacked the motives of those raising questions but displayed ignorance of even the Broad outlines of the asked specific questions on National vice president Al Gore had to say i dont know those former president Jimmy Carter summed it up for Many in a radio interview that is widely perceived to have been the last he said i think that president Clinton would have been much better off had he directed the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor at the very beginning and make All the information and data available to the Public on his own Treyve mishandled i think in the White doonesbury by Garry Trudeau 7hatis a600p special of lighting 5f ;