Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 6, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba F d or David Sinclair r9701 focus Friday may6 1994 a 7 focus the Law on exploiters i read in your paper on april 25 that numerous men Are Advocat ing the establishment of Legal houses of prostitution in this How quaint they claim that prostitution has always been with us and is therefore do these men not have wives and Moth ers just what poor creatures do they want to employ in this debasing and misogynistic Trade by the same we should legalize murder and robbery since these Universal impulses have likewise always been with we should move As a society against this unacceptable Vio Lence towards women by eliminating this vicious How do we achieve this end a Long first step would be to focus the Law on the exploiters of prostitutes the so called Johns by charging them in by publish ing their names in the at present our society blames the victims and rationalizes the Preda Tion of the real perhaps because Many of these Are highly placed in our class Structure and even Winnipeg fee increase wrong move As a concerned coach and i have difficulty accepting the pro posed sport facility fee in crease for our youth sport participants in the City of the Pursuit of sport and fitness has Many benefits for our in addition to the recognized health re lated benefits it we know where our children Are when they Are on the playing pools and sport provides an alternative to the increasing and disturbingly fre quent scenes of youth crimes and delinquency in our the Ages be tween 1319 Are hard years for our they Are put under enor Mous peer not All of which Are positive and we should encourage our youth to remain in sport and recreation pro Grams and such participation should be financially affordable for All fam Ilies of sport provides opportunities for our youth to participate in structured activities which can teach important social and Leader ship increasing fees by enormous leaps every year will Only teach that Only the Rich can i understand the additional reve Nues to offset escalating costs but these additional revenues could per haps be attained by other Means such As additional Casino property taxpayers have already been affected by a property tax Amateur sport is faced with an increase of Al most 40 per cent for Arenas and competitive Pool norber Collette Winnipeg forum should have been covered 1 awoke sunday morning with Coffee in opened your newspaper eagerly looking for a report from saturdays parents when education minister Clayton manness announced he was arranging an event to hear the opinions of parents on How the education sys tem should teach their i thought it was a great everyone knows changes Are needed and who better to ask about those changes than parents i could not find the Story on nor could i find it on do you not think it is Worth report ing on an event where 400 people get together to discuss How our future leaders will be taught or is it such a Good idea that your papers obvious political Bias pre vents you from talking about it the people who read your paper should be made aware that they May not be getting All the news that worthy of there Only getting the news that fit to print that makes the lib eral party look trevo Sprague Winnipeg an Issue of two Laws it has been reported that Winni Peg taxpayers Are faced with foot ing the Bill for bureaucratic errors on property assessments but no where is there mention of retribution against the employees who Cre ated this horrendous letters to the editor the 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 All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be condensed please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x3b6 letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the internet at letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone number Heads should be rolling and jobs there is no Way in private Enterprise that an error of this Magni tude would be this is just another example of in government has the right to abuse taxpayers with misuse of our funds and commit horrendous errors with no on the other let the tax payer try to do anything without the proper permit or License and its a Nightmare filled with and Karen Lalonde Dugald the role of probation services in response to the article done fault the police free april 19 i wish to add correction to an Over sight or an the articles John makes the Point that society tends to blame the police for the unchecked escalation of criminal when in fact the the penitentiaries and probation services ought to be held accountable for being lax and indulgent and setting criminals i wish to Point out that Parry is in Correct when he states that Proba Tion services plays a role in releasing incarcerated a Federal corrections the National parole service is involved in these release planning and super vision of persons who have been sentenced to terms in provincial and Federal institutions across it is my to Correct parrys statement concerning the proper role of the probation Servic which is to supervise persons who Are ordered by the courts into Community supervision prior and in lieu ear Norlander acting assistant director Community and youth correctional services Justice Manitoba role Model for women this is in response to the Gordon Sinclair column role models status bruised in the april 18 Issue of the free the column stated because Tina keeper called the police and Laid a charge against a Man who allegedly hit she has somehow bruised her status As a role Model for the native in this Community too Many women Are hit or beaten by their friends or too Many of them do not Call the police in the mistaken belief that they themselves will be embarrassed or the if it is some one they care will be publicly the Community May not be aware that the police and the courts will be a support to women who have the strength to take Legal action against those who assault rather than bruising her Tina keeper stands As a role Model for All women in the Community by having the courage to take the action that she columns in daily such As that of Gordon Sinclair can play an important role by congratulating Tina keeper and by urging All women to Call the police when they have been the foregoing comments Are those expressed by the Winnipeg Safe City whose Man Date is to promote the personal safety and Security of women and children in All areas Over which the City has jurisdiction and to promote Community participation and cooperation in making personal safety and Security a councillor Glen Lena Community Winnipeg Safe City committee double trouble for Cia secretive Agency feels Public humiliation Over spy episode Washington when Aldrich Hazen Ames made a Chalk Mark on the Mailbox at 37th and r streets last telling his Kab paymasters that he would soon meet them in he was in the final stages of a betrayal that has put the secretive Central intelligence Agency in double there Are the potential effects of the Dent made in its reputation at abroad and on Capitol Hill by the fact that senior Cia operative Ames served Moscow for nine betraying and Allied there is the bureaucratic humiliation of being forced this by president Bill to surrender sole control Over the Cias own apparatus for sniffing out spies inside its under terms of presidential decision directive a new counterintelligence policy making reporting to the president through National Security adviser Anthony will set up within 90 Days a National counterintelligence Centre that will be chaired for the first four years by the that humiliation was for Cia director James when he faced his own interrogation before the Senate select committee on intelligence this in a rare Public Woolsey took direct hits from democratic chairman Dennis Deconcini and senior Republican John a furious Deconcini called the Ames episode a disgrace and said he favors a Law to give the Fri control of All counterintelligence Warner told Woolsey that Senate support May grow for a Bill sponsored by new York democratic senator Patrick Moynihan that would abolish the pressure Moynihan wants to give the Cias mole Hunting capabilities to the its analysts to the state department and its Covert operations task to the claiming pressure from Deconcini made an implied threat that the Cias budget May not remain secret for much the of affects Only Ames told the Kab about the staff key morale and strategic targets of the Cia and other such As the defence intelligence a week ago Ames and his Maria Del Rosario Casa pleaded guilty in District court in to conspiracy to commit espionage and tax their 198592 joint tax returns left out the Moscow supplied million that paid for their Hal million Dollar House and swollen Bank accounts in Switzerland and although Ames did not know of her husbands treason until when she found a note with russian writing in his old she then became his spy for last september they attended a Pat meeting together then drove to the Corner of Garfield Street and Garfield near Washington National where he got out and looked for a russian Chalk every move recorded by the clicking cameras of the a week ago Ames was jailed for life without possibility of his wife will be sentenced in a delay designed to keep Ames singing to his Cia and Fri interrogators about exactly what he already known is his responsibility for the arrest of at least 11 soviet military and a handcuffed Aldrich Hazen Ames is escorted into Washington editor David Macdona intelligence officers who had been working for the Cia and Allied Ames disclosed Early on the said the government of sources codenamed a tickle and the Washington Post identified Sta chord As general Dimitri a red army intelligence officer recruited by the whose 20 years of usefulness ended in arrest and the Post identified a tickle As London Kab station chief Oleg who had been turned by the British but who was ordered Back to Moscow and arrested in the snatched him Back from the Kab and took him to safety in until Ames was the Cia had steadfastly denied to the British secret intelligence service any role in the mysterious betrayal of listening Ames disclosed what the National Security Agency was listening to through its signals intelligence which include those of Canadas communications Security establishment in while stationed in Rome he told the Kab about double agent operations aimed at them and told them which Kab double agent operations in the United states were he betrayed recent Cia recruits Maria Del Rosario Casa Ames is led into doonesbury european Security officer and a soviet one result is Likely to be diminished enthusiasm by foreign nationals for Cia offers of part time potential recruits will have to weigh the risk of a Bullet in the Back of the head or being fed feet first into an electric intelligence organizations in Britain and other Allied countries May hesitate to share with the Cia the names of their Best a reduction in Public Confidence in the Cia is Likely to bring political pressure to make Public the governments annual intelligence estimated by informed sources Here to have been billion in it is also Likely to face new pressure for at the same Congress is Likely to push for fewer closed intelligence hearings and ask for the justification of counter spying and its costly technology in a Post cold War in his arrogant and unrepentant statement to the court after pleading guilty last Ames raised some questions of a kind that have also occurred to some in espionage he said he did not believe that interests had been much damaged or those of the soviet Union or Russia much helped by his he said he had come to believe that espionage was and is a self serving carried out by careerist bureaucrats who have managed to deceive several generations of american policymakers and the Public about both the necessity and the value of their there was no rational need for thousands of Case officers and tens of thousands of agents working around the the espionage he differs hardly at All from Many other Federal having transformed itself into a self serving interest immeasurably aided by one question remains after his Story is if he did so much damage and the Kab Learned so Many Why did the soviet Union collapse instead of the United states by Garry Trudeau i half the atone pm its own ii have family that a ;