Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba R Dave Sinclair 6q7p4 focus g Frap press a 7 thursday Mavi 1994 crowded City a catalyst i am writing in response to Peter Hildebrands letter take a look at the facts in your april 25 is in which he criticized Val wer Ier and Frances Russell for linking rising crime with poverty and Unzem when a lot of poor people Are concentrated in an Urban the frustrations of being which can be vented in countless ways in the in Ner will inevitably conflict with others who Are either looking to re Lieve some stress themselves or just trying to go about the business of Liv these frustrations can be the struggle to live off puny wages and welfare the Lack of funds for adults and children to participate adequately in the the Lack of Safe expansive areas for children to be the High traffic and the used syringes and condoms lying the Hope less All one need do is to look at almost any major Centre where poverty co exists with High population density and one will see a higher crime rate than where wealth space exist or to live As i other catalysts abetting poverty Are the expectations of a better with which the poor Are constantly especially in a wealthier communities Are usually close by and their cars drive through and Park in the inner magazines and billboards constantly remind the poor of what they do not you can see a lot of seemingly mindless aggression and vandalism in the inner when you live there and poverty May leave no Choice it can change perhaps into a frustrated and trapped beast who feels like striking out at some this is not to make any valid excuse for criminal activity but in there is an emotional Point of no after which no Valida Tion May be Many Call the poor weak or Worth less degenerates or welfare which does not help poverty or the crime much self esteem is required to beat the poverty intelligent intervention from both the Public and private Norman Winnipeg spend dollars in Canada one cant help but notice the animosity Many politicians from the Northern United states have against Canadian this is primarily due to these Farmers Selling top Quality durum wheat to the Market for pasta a senator from North Dakota has even suggested Retar getting nuclear missiles in he to get our attention at yet All our advertising Media bom Bard us with the importance of canadians and their dollars to Northern states As vacation they state they love canadians and we love them shades of you know i am sure our dollars Are a Large part of their economic Suc May i suggest More canadians get Dollar for Dollar value at Home in Canada this Manitoba and the rest of Canada will Welcome you and youll be amazed at How great our country and its waiting for Winnipeg plea for social sanity Trust administrators Are meeting in desperate attempts to maintain our educational cos cutting proposals Are to close Nursery schools and fire cleaning staff and crossing Send teachers Home on fridays and freeze their reduce Middle and everything except close schools they thought of every cos Cut Ting measure except the recently our provincial politicians committed As much As million to establish a parallel system of Educa Tion French school in Manitoba established French As a language of instruction in immediately a tiny minority demanded More on the grounds their race entitled them to special what was intended to allow immersion in the French Lan Guage led to divided then separate schools and now a new school Board based on we were told this gave canadians an Opportunity to speak More than one but in fact most canadians do speak More than one Lan we were told this would letters to the editor t in free press welcomes letters from readers letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone number names will be published but not addresses All letters May be edited for style and length Short letters Are less Likely to be condensed please address letters to Etters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x 3b6 letters can be sent to our fax letter maybe submitted through the internet at letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone number make Quebe cers feel at Home in but do they feel More so now than then we were told this would improve relations among our racial but do we have More or less social cohesion now than 25 years ago and has All this improved the Quality of our education if indeed we want to maintain this socially suicidal so be but let us at least recognize the this is just the our official languages commissioner has proposed our aboriginals must also have their own school system to save their 55 languages then we will have three parallel school systems based on and the City of Winni Peg has announced More services in How Many in Manitoba need this because they speak Only French for 25 years anyone who dared question the direction our politicians were taking us was damned As a bigot and considering their latest derelict perhaps this letter will be seen not As an anti French diatribe but As a plea for so Cial Hugh Hamilton Winnipeg article a platform Liana Simons article dietitian slices into nutrition nonsense free april 20 is nothing More than a platform offered up to the Dairy Industry under the Guise of nutritional featured in the article is Helen Bishop a author and of course Vic president of nutrition communications for the Dairy Bureau of throughout the Mac Donald systematically Levels every one opposed to the consumption of Dairy products on ethical or health related including vege Tari authors and animal rights while Macdonald is Quick to admonish powerful animal rights and vegetarian lobby she fails to mention that her own Organiza the Dairy recently lob bied successfully against the reduction of Dairy products in the Canada food she pays lip service to the need for a High Fibre yet fails to acknowledge that Dairy products generally fail on All these when she Calls for a Well balanced what she really Means is one where the inclusion of Dairy products is an absolute Given and beyond rational on the one Macdonald takes the moral High ground by criticizing the trivialization of nutrition is sues for yet she apparently has no qualms about slogging butter and cheese products under the Guise of nutritional Joh Youngman Winnipeg Public support was powerful the nigerian association of Mani Toba wishes to thank immigration minister Sergio March for helping the Olarewaju Many thanks to Lloyd Premier Gary Filmon and All the other political members who most of our thanks go to the general the outpouring of support actually changed things around for this to the schools and Mae utile who looked after the the the director and staff of the International institutions and Indi we extend our thanks and for Schwimmer nigerian association of Manitoba Winnipeg an israeli Soldier guards the scene of a car bombing in Israel last peace process at risk Hamas War against Israel Issue on which everything hinges by it Ltd Davis special to the free press London the wave of euphoria that might have swept israelis this week at the Prospect of ending their Long festering quarrel with the palestinians has been overshadowed by dark questions hanging Over the future of the West Bank and us Over their own will the emergent autonomous entity be born in peace or will it be come a cockpit for violence against the jewish state will Plo Leader Yasser Arafat make the transition from terrorist Leader to authentic politician or has he been fatally flawed by the negotiating process and will he succeed Only in failing to satisfy the expectations of the palestinian Street will the palestinians embark on the path of nation building or will they turn in on themselves in a bout of fratricidal pit Ting Plo supporters against their islamic extremist Hamas rivals will Israel find itself with Leba no style sectarian strife in its suicide bombers and radicalized israeli Arab citizens and out of control jewish settlers these questions not Only go to the heart of the peace process but also to the future Security of the state of and the frightening truth is that no one has answers or even educated what is certain is that an end to chaos and bloodshed is the key to the Success of the self Rule plan for palestinians in Jericho Down the the rest of the West Safe havens above the War which Hamas is currently waging against Israel is the Issue on which everything if the Hamas militants continue attacking israelis within the prefix Day War Borders and use the autonomous palestinian areas As Safe Israel will expect Arafat Fatah loyalists to Stop them by at that Fatah will have to choose Between confronting their palestinian Brothers or the israe either option is a recipe for i optimists believe there Are signs that Hamas will halt its at tacks in the Wake of a Deal that was struck Between Fatah and Hamas leaders in Gaza last both sides pledged to keep their Hothead in Check and not allow them to fight each other both agreed to suspend for one month the killings of those whom they consider to be collaborators with israeli As Hamas leaders now everything is subordinated to the principle that there can be no internecine strife among the palestinians and the Plo is committed to halting the violence against Isra then there is Hope that Hamas terrorism can be if not actually one of israels Foremost commentators on the Danny believes that Hamas is playing a far More nuanced he is Likely to refrain from using the autonomous areas to launch actions against but he warns that it has not abandoned the military struggle and will continue to strike at jewish settlements in the Terri tories and at targets inside Israel major Effort Arafat is unlikely to make a determined Effort to Stop but he will make a major Effort to demonstrate that Law and order will prevail in those areas where he has wrote Rubinstein in the israeli daily it May even suit Arafat for Hamas to continue hitting at israeli be cause this will increase the incentive for Israel to give up the rest of the West Bank of the if that is indeed his the Plo Leader is walking a tight Fatah leaders in the Territo More attuned to israeli real concede that continued Hamas violence against Israel could represent a threat to their National aspirations and that they will face a serious problem if Hamas Vio Lence not one senior Fatah official in Gaza declared this week we Are doing everything we can to bring Hamas into the Frame and make them full part ners and full participants with us in the new palestinian despite the fanaticism displayed by their suicide bombers in Israel Over recent he said Hamas is pragmatic and it is determined to safeguard its religious but equally it does not want to be left on the margin of one Hamas who was among those exiled to Lebanon for a illustrated the ambiguity of his move ments position this week no to the plos agreement with the is no to the self Rule authority that is part of the he but yes to sharing in All of our National Hamas appears to be playing both sides against the Middle it is determined to stand apart from the self Rule Experiment in Case it but at the same time it wants to be integrally involved at the grassroots in Case it Hamas ideologists speak passionately of their regard for the will of the people of following rather than they claim they pm Plo Leader Yasser Arafat is walking a barked on their suicide bombing Campaign Only in response to pub lic demands for vengeance follow ing the february 25 Hebron mosque massacre by Kach activist Baruch Ahmed an adviser on Security to the believes it is now in the interests of Hamas to Cool the passions within its ranks in the initial period of the palestinian Hamas will face the risk that anything it does to undermine that authority will be most palestinians Are looking for Ward to a period of stability in which their economic welfare will in the very Short Hamas will have to be care Ful not to be seen to be upsetting the not All israelis Are so sanguine about the Hamas Plo pact or the Pacific intentions of the islamic israeli chief of staff lieutenant general Ehud Barak warned the parliamentary foreign affairs and defence committee last week that the Plo and Hamas had the same Lon term strategy regarding in my he was quoted As we Are talking about two faces of the palestinian National whose Lon term goals Are very similar in every thing connected to although they have different approaches Over How to achieve these i be surprised if we see Hamas people integrated into the Var ious administrative systems in Gaza and said Cit ing institutions such As schools and important test at the same i be surprised to see a different Branch of Hamas trying to continue terrorist As a i think the Plo will have an incentive to prove that terror has decreased in the areas under their Respo Sibili this is an important test for them and they will put pressure on Hamas to Lessen their activity in Gaza and they want to expand these areas and keeping control will give substance to their political claims that the areas that have been Given to them Are being run relatively according to israeli Deputy for eign minister Yossi an architect of the Deal with the continued violence and terrorism at current Levels could destroy the fragile process and cause the talks on the final status of the territories to he added 1 believe that once palestinians control Gaza and they will be Able to control but in not we have to test As is and palestinians Teeter on the Brink of their first real Experiment in the time for that test has doonesbury by Garry Trudeau about Why Hent Younany thin61dm6 50ktofrat in66 i ;