Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 5, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 october Freedom eludes gambling addicts government paid commercials keep reminding us that we too could be Rich and live a life of just imagine the Freedom the captivating voice sings and encourages us to find this Beautiful life of it int until you get to the end of the commercial that you find out that this glorious Freedom is being promoted by the Manitoba lotteries is the Manitoba lotteries com or the Manitoba govern really interested in helping the citizens of Manitoba find free or Are they simply enticing Citi Zens to Gamble and lose their Money and their Freedom in those posh Casi nos this same As Well As most other at one time listed gambling As a a punishable of now our government is promoting is leading the pack in seeking the profits from the gambling regardless of the harm created by instilling and promoting the Gam bling instinct in it of made palatable by informing us that proceeds from gambling will be used to assist Chari table free press Gordon sin Clair wrote several columns this summer in which he addressed the question where Are today moral guidelines one response to Sinclair ques Tion could be when governments jump feet first into something they at one time listed As a then whatever moral guidelines Are left in our society have indeed become murky or its hard to imagine those who have become addicted to and those who lose just singing along with the commercial just imagine the As the citizens of Manitoba go about their business of trying to pay their Bills and balance their the persuasive tones of a govern men paid commercial fill the air Waves you too be playing the plus Bill Lassen Winnipeg tickets unfair to Public quite on weekday of 1 find policemen parked in front of my Home on Waverley handing out traffic tick ets to innocent Drivers who Are unfortunate enough not to notice the no left turn signs on Academy i say innocent because no one does it intentionally we each take our turn of paying having Learned a we use some other Street that Doest yet have a no left turn does our River Heights councillor Sandy Hyman take up arms against this Gross injustice and waste of police officers time she does on the she instigated this silly after a Cam Bridge Street group caught her at Tention and sought to have traffic diverted from their Busy some say this is a deliberate Money grab by the if it they should Stop if it is they should still Stop it serves no useful purpose in regulating traffic and it is grossly unfair to the unsuspecting Donald Ross Winnipeg leave smokers alone the letter to the editor from Kostecky is right How Long Are these governments going to stay on the Back of people who wish to it is not against the setting up Berlin Walls Between provinces is a is this a free Canada any More or not the last War was to Stop dictator it looks like it did not what will they try to do next like am a non smoker but do not like discrimination against those that i wonder if some of these things Are not against the Edward Wright Winnipeg City should not Rush on Arena there Are Many people in Winni Peg who would he greatly Sadden pm by a decision to Arena com letters 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 m 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 maybe submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone plex at the Forks site and Many More who would be greatly we would be saddened by the Lack of vision implicit in such a decision and angered by the attempt to Hijack the Public Public input such As it was in and Vance of phase ii consistently provided the Forks corporation with the feedback that the Public did not want to see Over commercialization at the the Forks renewal inasmuch As it plans for the entire has no mandate to proceed in this direction without further Public to suggest that an Arena on the City lands would have no effect on the Forks site itself is there Are a number of interesting elements to watch As this drama plays itself from the Point of View of the it is Surpris ing that councillors would Chance missing the Opportunity to secure the viability of the convention Cen the implications for prov Encher would need to be taken into As would the question of whether a Forks Arena would in crease the pressure for the Exten Sion of Mary which would catastrophically bisect the Forks its surprising that the group of 44 would risk the Public support and consensus their project requires by exposing themselves to the fire storm of Public outcry that will surely Greet the selection of the Forks mayor Thompson has remained consistent with her com ments at the mayoralty debate prior to her election that the Forks is not the Best it remains to be seen whether other councillors Are foolish enough to risk the Forks site and we wait to see Gary Filmon and Lloyd Axworthy declare which location they pre the senior Levels of government have the most to gain from any new Arena initiative properly planned and executed with Public the City should not allow itself to be Sig laser Winnipeg Reynolds blast was off target Lindor Reynolds blast at Cuba would have done any cold Warrior of yesteryear the rafters Are leaving voluntary and therefore the horrific conditions we have lately seen on have been imposed upon them by no body but to suggest that conditions in All of Cuba Are similar to those of the Raf ters is Reynolds seems to say that Pov erty in Cuba is caused by the Castro How about the sense less and cruel embargo imposed by the americans 1 have travelled through Cuba As Well As other countries in the carib bean and have found that there is More social Justice in Cuba than Al most anywhere abject poverty does not even though the coun try As a whole is Reynolds displays the mindset of Many who Start believing their own she refused to believe that anything Good can exist in the Placid Waters and Virgin and the world class re sorts belong and have been devel oped the people and the govern ment of Cuba and nobody however according to Reynolds contorted there is something evil about these things of Beauty that also exemplify business soon a up who dumped despots disappear by it Enki Khlil Chicago Tribune Washington when Raoul the haitian Steps Down from Power with the rest of his military he May or May not leave his Small Caribbean Homeland for some cushy but he will definitely take up residence in that Hall of historical the pantheon of fallen Given their most else promos yearn to follow the exam Ples of Spain Francisco Franco and the soviet unions Josef who Hung on to Power into their decrepitude going into their Graves Only after they had seen to it that nearly All their enemies had gone into their Graves and certainly Many dumped Des pots would happily Settle for the Fate of Egypt King who was tossed off his country throne in 1952 but allowed to maintain a Well heeled Riviera life in exile de voted to the conspicuous consumption of Strong Nymph ets and other fleshly pleasures until he sated and in 1965 at age Given their the constituents of overthrown dictators tend to favor a Low Cost tyrant retire ment plan amounting to a Quick walk to the nearest firing squad the Fate that befell Italy Benito Mussolini at the end of the second world War and Romanias communist Boss Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 at the close of the cold but for most failed life after absolute Power offers a bit More even if Post dictator Hood is a mixed heres what has happened to just a few terrify ing tyrants after their suns set q Jeanclaude baby Doc do with Haiti in the one must recall baby the bumbling by bad boy heir to dictator Francois papa Doc famed for the Cru Elty of his fiendish to tons a routes baby with the help of As sorted greedy some of whom deposited american eco nomic assistance cheques directly into their personal Bank managed to preside Over the Hai Tian government for 16 when tossed out in 1986 at age he was flown into exile on the French Riviera by air Force with some million in per Sonal funds having preceded him into various Swiss Bank France offered Only temporary Asylum but got stuck with Duvalier for Good when no other country would have with the help of his shopping crazed and free spending baby Doc ran up enormous debts and ran through much of his ill gotten for Cedras will take up residence in Hall of historical Banks have now Frozen whats he now lives alone in a seedy House in Cannes far from the and it has been reported that he cant even afford a j Idi the onetime Brit ish army sergeant who became a general in Uganda armed forces first seized Power in he threw All of Uganda asian residents out the following had himself declared president for life in 1976 and was driven from Power and Uganda in 1979 by the tanzanian whose country Amin had several times tried to in while master of he amused himself mostly by torturing and killing of his Esti mated thousands were fed to one unfortunate female american travelling involuntarily accepted an Amin dinner according to after he had his Way with he had her tossed into a Dungeon and beaten to Amin had initially gone into exile in saudi Arabia in but was picked up in Zaire in apparently plotting a return to his Home he was sent to which in turn put him Back onto a plane for saudi now he is believed to be under a Loose form of House arrest in saudi which tolerates his presence because he is so unpopular and because Ugan Dan authorities fear he could come Back and cause trouble if allowed to travel q pol in terms of sheer Hor ror and wholesale mass few despots in this Cen Tury compare to Cambodia pol the communist Khmer Rouge Leader who took Over his country in 1975 in a maoist revolution so ruthless and absolute that its goal virtually be came the elimination of All civilization within Cambodia at least one million and Proba Bly substantially More cambodians perished at pol pots demonic command about on fourth the country driven from phenom penh in 1979 by vietnamese communist armed chilean Augusto Pinochet is a despot who won International Allied with anti Khmer Rouge cambodian pol pot retreated into the Bush and protected by cambodians still Loyal to his communist now he is believed to be Liv ing with his second wife his first reportedly committed suicide along the thai Border in Western moving from place to place in the midst of a Stealthy Khmer Rouge army still j Jea Bedel a one time French army Captain who won the legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre fighting in Viet Nam when it was French Indocci Bokassa was asked by Central african Republic president David Dacko in 1961 to become com Mander in chief of the country armed Bokassa took the and then overthrew Dacko in Assum ing the an obsessive admirer of he decided to emulate the legendary French Des pot by declaring himself emperor and his nation the Central african Empire in his Coronation reportedly Cost his country trea sury in excess of million and bankrupted when Bokassa had his Imperial guard kill 100 schoolchildren reportedly for making fun of his French paratroopers moved in and helped his countrymen overthrow Bokassa fled to the Ivory then accepted exile in though he was sentenced to death in absent a in he for some reason returned in he was convicted of mass murder though acquitted of cannibalism and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and later re last the feeble 73yearold was released from prison in a Gen eral amnesty granted to All imprisoned Central african Republic criminals by outgoing dictator an Dre Koling a in a gesture of con tempt toward the democracy that since has taken Over the j Augusto chilean the kind of torture chamber despot Hollywood movie makers really love to won International scorn in the violent 1973 coup that led to the overthrow and murder of Chiles freely elected leftist presi Salvador after the which was believed to have been backed by the Pinochet ruled absolutely until when he stepped Down after losing a 1988 plebiscite on Mili tary Rule and a 1989 presidential though a 1991 International report attributes some deaths to Pinochet the 79yearold Soldier has been Al Lowed to stay on As army chief of staff and recently made an official trip to the czech Republic that stirred enormous controversy in j Anastasio another pedalled latin american Genera Somoza did not fare so he became president of Nicaragua in succeeding a dicta Tor father and dictator older brother before he followed family tradition in using the nicaraguan National guard As a per Sonal roman legion and in using his office to fatten his pockets and beat up on his the leftist sandinista drove him from Power in compel Ling him to seek exile in dictator Friendly but Somoza just leave Well enough he fell in love with a Beautiful paraguayan night club dancer who also shared her favors with a powerful and Well connected Asuncion newspaper the editor reportedly was responsible for an attack on two of Somoza Mercede Benz luxury cars with a construction Bulldozer that flattened shortly after gunmen believed to be in the pay of Somoza shot up the editors shortly after Somoza was blown up with a doonesbury by Garry Trudeau toanoht7hi5 Chi Sihto that John Hup spirit Ali and 5amantha t ;