Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Frt or focus w r pct f r a7 without the arts we lose our soul i would like to thank Jim c Arr for his article on the editorial Page regarding past glorious moments in Winnipeg musical history the visits from the likes of Yehudi Menuhin and Artur Rubinstein As Well As last weeks Dame Kiri the Kanaka Are indeed moments to re we must realize the events were held in such esteem be cause and the rest of have supported local artists to a Point where audience sophistication has enabled us to appreciate world there Are Many local per formers who have gone them to world such As Tracy Henrietta Schellenberg and Loreena there has been a growing danger of this situation seriously funding has been though supporters have tried to Appeal to deaf ears by increasingly speaking of the arts As an they approach the Issue by Point ing out the number of people who could be employed and the Ripple effect of funded Money remaining in the this is All very True but the Point without the arts we lose our soul and our it is up to the Public and the government to strongly support the arts from the Community level on up it is not the big names who drop by for a few hours that give Winnipeg a reputation As a cultural it is the nurturing of our own Gar Den that makes it Muriel Hogue Winnipeg doctor Schwartz was dedicated after nearly 40 years of serving the Community of James and the greater Winnipeg Ben Jamin Schwartz has retired from the general practice of As his Many patients will he went beyond the Call of duty in his dedication and care for their Well and in his readiness to make House Calls a rarity in this Day and not Only did he inspire Confidence in his patients with his competent and conscientious but also be came a real taking a sincere interest in All aspects of their we personally wish to pay tribute and say thank you to Schwartz for looking after three generations of our family Over a Span of 30 we also recognize his faithful ser vice to hundreds of his other a we have always been most especially impressed in spite of his extensive knowledge and expert he never hesitated to refer us to other medical experts a Mark of an educated and open As a he will be missed by so Many of us who have benefited from his he remain a True Friend to those with whom he has shared both humor and sorrow and on whom he has been a positive in Gwenda and Bill Vandenberg Winnipeg Centra Gas official was available your May 1994 paper asserts that officials from Centra Gas could not be reached for comment on the question of the average refund to you May want to examine How that statement came to be made since i had Given instructions that i should be called out of a meeting to speak to the and either our Public affairs people or my Secre tary would have done i did speak to the Sun and to the electronic Otto Lang president and chief executive Centra Winnipeg hand of god was at work it has been exciting to follow the history making process of firs time elections for All in South i have been involved with african in a ministry of reconciliation with a Centre in founded by Michael Cassidy Over 30 years a has worked consistently to bring various racial group Ings even in Apai their Days their meet Ings were always open to All one of aes programs has been Bridge building encounters where Black and White Young people or adults can come together for a 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 May be submitted through the internet at my Ca letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone weekend to share life they leave the weekend year a number of weekends were held at private Hunting lodges for political leaders of All parties for the same since Over 70 per cent of South africans of All colors say they Are prayer has been another with a countrywide round the clock prayer Chain for Unity and a new South Africa in operation Over the last on april 17 of this year a prayer rally was held in Durban where people from the volatile Natal Wazul re Gion came together to declare peace in the face of violence and Alle Giance to the Prince of peace Jesus chief but Elezi was and shortly afterwards agreed to the entry of the inkatha party into the elec Tion Many lives have been lost in the Battle for a free South i believe the hand of god has saved the situation from becoming the blood Bath it could Ruth Reid Winnipeg big thanks to teachers i would like to comment on the article teachers plan to skip out on april in the free i would like to make it Clear that not All teachers in Winnipeg have an attitude about helping with extra curricular activities As those de scribed in the in my teachers Are always willing to help the students in extra curricular activities for the Benefit of the not teachers Are people who educate the students but they also want to communicate with the i display those those teachers who help out for the Benefit of the students deserve a big thank you for their strenuous and time consuming Jaime Toews Winnipeg organization exists i am surprised and dismayed by the apparent Lack of research done by Jerry White consulting help april in his article he states that professional certification that is affordable and accessible in the prac Tice of consulting does not seem to be generally had he simply looked in the Yel Low pages he would have found that our organizations sole purpose is the certification of professional management founded in the Institute of certified management consultants of Manitoba i Mcm is the professional organization responsible for accreditation and professional Stan Dards for management consultants in i Mcm Grants the certified management consultant Csc design a provincially legislated designation that ensures holders have met High including University three years of management consulting expert and eight exams administered by the members must and Here to a nationally accepted code of professional Manitoba is one of seven Provin Over members including 77 in practising in manage ment consulting firms of All from Solo practitioners to Large International provide consult ing services in Canada and internationally to businesses of All All Levels of and the not for profit sector in every area of and b Kabaka Csc executive director and past presi the Institute of certified management consultants of Winnipeg angolan endless agony two decades of civil War taking a High toll by John Dayton n y times news service Angola when the Sun goes darkness descends and this City disappears into an eerie void no one stirs on the there Are no no not even the Barking of a darkened hulks of crumbling buildings lie silent under the stars angolan second arg est is Headquarters of the rebel movement that roams across two thirds of the like the coastal capital held by the it is a place to measure the havoc and suffering wrought by nearly two decades of civil War in this country in South Western Huambo has no electricity and no running it has one but the shelves Are practically Selling Only vegetable and four types of Beer somehow ferried in from in the Central looted in the course of an excruciating 55 Day siege by the rebels last patients lie on steel bed frames awaiting treatment by doctors who have almost no Medicine to Dis a single Blanket is so hard to come by that it can Cost pounds of were it not for the almost daily flights of emergency food Aid brought in by the in world food program and the International red at times reaching a Mam Moth 900 tonnes a people would face starvation within a tossed into planes life is not much better in Luan it is estimated that Chil Dren live on the Many Are War others come from provincial capitals in the thick of the tossed into the holds of cargo planes by desperate Par dressed in they spend nights in the Sandy strip along the Bay and their Days begging and foraging for food through Mounds of Luanda million people also Lack a month the rebels severed a major Power line from the Cam Bambo and now aging diesel turbines Crank out just enough Power to feed the Central District with rotating angolan agony is one of the Long est running wars in and the Only remaining serious conflict in Southern now that South Africa itself is about to embark on multiracial like other conflicts in Africa notably the re cent massacres in Rwanda tribalism plays a role but it is much More complicated than the fact that Angola has so much potential wealth perversely allows the conflict to con the government has Access to Oil to buy its and the rebels smuggle out diamonds through like is being equalized As the War Ever since Independence from Portugal in november government forces of the once marxist popular this Young victim of War lost his leg to a land movement for the liberation of million went for the Angola have been locked in a million for and million struggle for supremacy with the for National Union for the total Independence of known by its portuguese the popular movement has the crowded and Unita is Strong in the Central the government of presi Dent Eduardo Dos Santos is sex and ideologically it is meekly subservient to world Bank dictates to try to strike up a pulse in the moribund Unita is More disciplined but ruthless and in the Thrall of its charismatic Jonas now beginning to show his age at both sides spend huge sums on no one knows How Many weapons Unita is buying on the illegal but its main in from diamonds mined in the Lunda Norte is thought to be Over million a the government buys much of its military hardware from one done for the British based research Institute for the study of conflict and said that in its 1993 after a peace Accord was signed in Portugal in May Hope reigned that after some 30 years of beginning with the guerrilla bands that attacked the Portu Guese peace might finally come to one of the continents richest Angola is steeped in and but the Hope was be fore elections scheduled for sep tember tensions Rose danger the two sides traded accusations and voter registration was in observers were ill and Short of Money million was set aside for the Angola opera Tion compared with billion for demobilization of the two forces was never Unita scaled Down the estimates of its Force from to and let Only a Small proportion the government troops and i underpaid and scattered to the but some were transferred into a Paramil a tank rumbles through streets of Luanda at the Start of the civil tary police which Unita saw As a threat by the time the results were announced on oct giving Dos san tos a plurality but requiring a Sec Ond it was almost a fore gone conclusion that Sav Imbi would reject them his supporters say he is imbued with an almost messianic sense that he is destined to Rule the country within Unita forces attacked the Airport and in turn were being hunted Down and killed in with arms caches throughout the country and Superior Organiza Unita quickly overran much of the by it held most of the major forcing government troops into besieged provincial capitals and forcing Ever More people onto the already heavily populated the fighting was More ferocious than and the toll on an exhausted land was children perished at the wars height last in officials estimated that peo ple a Day were dying from Warre lated mostly in the worst hit around the Provin Cial capital of where re Lief workers found children with limbs no thicker than 250 children perished every Day in of Relief officials no one knows How Many people have died since the fighting began 19 years but figures up to Are commonly the laying of Between 10 and 15 million mines has made farming Hazard Ous and created amputees Esti mated to total rebel soldiers embarked on a scorched Earth even in their own ethnic the Central they blew up downed electric destroyed and carried off Young boys to turn them into child having lost its major the United states and South and placed under an arms embargo that has remained largely Unita declared a cease fire seven months the fight ing has lulled somewhat since with the two sides engaged in protracted negotiations in it is the fourth attempt at Settle but combat has flared in recent along with on again off again reports of a breakthrough in the the government is press ing three counteroffensive More or less one is through the Centre of Ben Guela aimed Al control Ling the route to a Sec said to be undertaken with the Aid of scores of South african Mer is in Quanta Norte and Maranje and is directed at retaking the vast Diamond area to the the third offensive is along the Northern where Unita has seized a major Oil producing in the the suffering goes in Luanda main the mens trauma Ward reeks with the stench of infected fifty patients Are packed some of them stretched out on blankets on the floor or on strips of filthy card Many Are missing they had stepped on land often while working the and had been flown to the capital for others Are local victims of armed skyrocketing in Luanda now that thousands of guns have flooded in and fallen into the hands of much of the Medicine they re donated by International re Lief has been diverted to the thieves Market of Roque Santeiro in the Thicket of the if patients do not have relatives to buy it for they go without and lie curled in in doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Kim try v Hotton Haas att ;