Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 10, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus Winnipeg prop my May provide Power to United nations in the last few years we have watched on television and read in newspapers about human tragedy going Hack to genocide in Bosnia and lately in Rwanda after Long debates at the United and in each Case much too the in sends food and troops to mediate in these armed forces Are composed of contingents provided by different nations and their mandate is usually each country sending their troops insists that their soldiers Are not to be exposed to even in peaceful countries every policeman is exposed to danger and that is taken for Why then should professional sol who Are Well paid for their be an exception i can see Only one solution to this the proper solution to this prob Lem would be for the United nations to have under its authority a professional army of its along the lines of the French foreign this under single com would be sent to trouble spots with a single Mission to maintain or with the Best of Good will no Quick and effective action can be taken if the decision making is left in Multi ple hands of the United Moscow and scores of Power should be Given to the United nations otherwise we shall witness human tragedy for years to Lech Fulmek Winnipeg double Standard does exist when cars Are stolen by the Young in Pur the police Are hot on their and this is How it should when so called Law abiding adults take Home Gro Cery which dont belong to no one tries to Stop this is a classic example of the double the adult grocery cart thieves Are the generation which raised the Young car thieves and yet one group gets punished for their misdeeds while the other group the thought of a night in or a would go a Long Way in stopping the grocery cart and would set a Good example for the Young and the for whom adults Are their Only Winnipeg a need for teaching there has been some interesting discussion recently with regard to crime and it is suggested that Corporal punishment is some thing thought up by Man in past if we take the time to re search this matter we find that Cor poral punishment was established by the maker of psychologists Tell us that spanking a child is actually and in fact leads to this is an interesting thought considering the fact that even though we have sought to abolish Corporal punish violence appears to be on the it is True that some people Are Abu Sive in their dealings with this does not mean Corporal punish ment needs to be abolished As a Means of it Means there is a need for in order to do we need to come Back to the Bible and see what god has to we find that when done properly actually shows it Means that i care enough about the other person to try to help them Stop their bad and do what is Force in and of itself will not be it needs to be accompanied by Good Good teach ing finds its source in the word of and is accompanied by exam if i As a Parent am not willing to obey whether that be my the Law or the i cannot expect my children to obey we need to remember that our children Are not any More difficult to raise than we if we look at past we find major improvements in society connected with great revivals brought about due to the obedient preaching of godly men whom the spirit of god could work pubs were and prostitution took a nose to name a fathers came Home after mothers found Joy and satisfaction in being Homeak we can expect the same results if we would be willing to con Sider opening our society to the by 1 would urge us consider the 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 addresses All letters May be edited for style and length Short letters Are less Likely to be condensed please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x 386 letters can be sent to our fax number 6977344 letters maybe submitted through the internet at letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone number need to first of All submit ourselves in obedience to the instruction Given in the secondly we should be teaching our children these same we also need to set standards in our Homes that can help them to know How to behave and mature into responsible that can truly be an asset to our Walter Bartel u of m meets Community needs Raymond in his letter to the professors owed an apolo april 27 expressed indignation that a free press editorial would claim that the Roblin reports aim to make the University More responsive to the needs of the Community and less protective of their own interests will be achieved by squeezing the professoriate until their eyes i agree with Currie that the image is i also reacted to the notion that Power whether monetary or applied efficiently and de can make the University or anyone else More responsive to the needs of the on april you stated that the Roblin in its december wanted selective tuition fee increases to raise University reve nue and tighter management to make the professors work is less time six Days unpaid less support elimination of ses signal lecturers and term appoint less Money four percent reduction to department budgets and a heavier work Load u of m to Cut 100 jobs going to make the University More responsive to the needs of the Community i am sure that tighten ing the grasp or even pinching the professoriate will not increase the Quality of education or make the University More accessible As a re source within our the fact the University of Manitoba is accessible to our commune Terry Dick demonstrated this when he responded to an elementary school Childs science fair a Call to the University of Mani Toba led us to Dick in the zoology he was willing and Able to help us with the specific problem we in his Deal Ings with my went beyond just meeting a spoken my daughters focus shifted from the simple pleasure of doing Well in her school science to entertain ing the possibility of becoming a to this is meeting the needs of the squeezing the professoriate and making the professors work harder could in fact leave professors less time and less inclination to share their expertise with the com Charlotte Lazaruk Winnipeg books bound in Canada regarding Tom Ole sons april 24 i would like your readers to know that Well Over 99 per cent of All books published by Hurtig publish ers Are printed and bound in Many of these books were produced in Manitoba by the excellent Friesen who always did firs class work for Hurtig books have been printed and bound in five different province very Early in our publishing company history we did a few very Small joint ventures with a company in but after 1971 we made a decision to produce our books exclusively in this for the Canadian encyclopedia and the Junior encyclopedia of Canada were produced entirely in Canada using Canadian a cloth and other materials produced in this some canadians were directly involved in these two Mel Hurtig Edmonton the Falkland invaded by Argentina in Are still in dispute in the organization of american change spares the Oas hemispheric body slumbers through a turbulent Era Washington annual meetings of the Organiza Tion of american states take too achieve too Little and demonstrate the resistance of the institution and much of the membership to this is Given the Sharp political and economic changes that have swept the Western Hemi sphere in the past states that featured dictatorships and heavily regulated economies have switched to free markets and open there is a new atmosphere of Opportunity and in Novation among several of the 35 member at the that atmosphere is harder to the general Secre or permanent exhibits hardened arteries in Sev eral aspects of its the permanent the governing body of member state Amassa does its committee work in secret in a City dedicated to open whether behind closed doors in committee or in its open meetings As the permanent this body talks too much on the same topics in the same year after duplicates As an it duplicates work done by other oper ates inefficiently and is jealous of its addicted to habits of thought and poor at motivating its a yearlong Cash flow caused by member state arrears and member state decisions to re strict annual budget increases to no More than has kept Oas staff pay Scales below those of comparable International Orga this happened in concert with a harsh downsizing that was sup posed to save Money of Cost Money for years to come in final next the pay comparability is sue will be discussed by the Oas general Assembly at steamy the Oas does do some Good and useful work and has the potential to do some change is Hap often at glacial the key to better Oas performance is a More energetic attitude by Mem Ber state governments and a More modern approach to management in the Oas general such changes Are needed if the Oas is to seem relevant to the peo ple of the solving some of the Many hemispheric problems about which the Oas talks would go a Long Way to earn ing Washington editor David Mac Donaj next in the Oas will wrestle again with the prob lems of social human rights Trade bar drug drug territorial undemocratic behaviour and excessive military known As the general Assem this annual meeting brings for eign including Canadas Andre together to provide Overall direction to the Oas for the coming the trouble the meeting lasts for five or six although for eign ministers usually Clear out fairly quickly and leave it to their it costs a lot because it is held in different capitals each meaning Oas staff and mountains of documents have to be flown Long it lasts a Long time because too Many items go on the each of which must be discussed and debated be fore agreement on a two Hardy annuals Are the Mari time problem of Bolivia and the question of the Malvinas landlocked Bolivia has no outlet to the sea and would like to have if Peru or Chile would give up some the also known As the remain a sovereignty years after the falklands because Argentina continues to claim ownership de spite having lost the War it fought with Britain when Margaret Thatcher was prime two issues each the Oas solemnly Dis cusses these two solution of which has evaded diplomacy for a very Long since direct discus Sions Between the involved parties Are the most Likely Way to find a mutually acceptable it is not easy to grasp the usefulness of annual Oas the Oas does have issues on which it could reach decisions and make a it has done its Best on trying since the sep tember 1991 military coup de Tat to return president Jean Bertrand Aristide to since making its Effort joint with the United the goal has not been achieved any More than it was when the Oas was trying recent policy changes within the Clinton administration and a stronger in embargo May make a Canadas Reform efforts since becoming a member state in 1990 have had some often in Oas supports exiled haitian president ways that have not produced identifiable achievements immediate Canadas work can be marked Only in changes of wording of resolutions that go before the annual such can Lead to changes in Oas this Canada has been continuing to work on issues of hemispheric Security that Canada first put Forward at the Chile general Assembly in resisted at first by some member the Canadian push for More agree ments on arms Confidence building measures and reductions in the sizes of armies and weapons has become a mainstream Oas another Canadian sup ported by several other is the need to examine the existence of the inter american defence Board and its relationship to the set up in the it is a kind of planning and coordinating organization whose chief purpose was related to the Rio a Mutual Security pact under which an at tack on one Oas member state would be considered an attack on Canada declined to sign that treaty on becoming an Oas Mem Ber state in so is not a Mem Ber of the budget contributes to the boards Upkeep because its budget comes out of the Oas regu Lar fund or main that financial As Well As the question of the boards contemporary has ensured a spot for discussion of the Issue in Canada is also interested in moves to increase hemispheric environmental Protection and in a draft convention that would try to wipe out the use of violence against such conventions can take years to years to get ratified by member states and More years to be implemented within Public discussion of the Issue can Start a process of education that May change attitudes towards violence against which is even More important than what a Law May Canada has strongly backed Oas a topic that will be Dis cussed again in Given the modest scale of reforms that such general Assembly debates have delivered so the arrival this sum Mer of a new Oas Secretary Gen eral May do More to improve How the Oas does its daily colom Bian president Cesar who takes Over at Oas Headquarters 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