Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january stopping the settlers keeping doves and Hawks at Bay is the constant Chal Lenge for israeli prime minister Yitzhak yesterday he offered a Little something for both by halting a major expansion of a jewish settlement in the West Bank while approving the construction of a smaller subdivision on a Hillside a Short distance Rabin was forced to intervene when settlers Hief a jewish settlement located 20 Kilometres South of began bulldozing a Clearing the Way for an expansion of 500 Homes on 75 acres of land a group of left Wing israelis and outraged palestinians demonstrated their opposition last clashing with israeli to fifty people including several israeli peace activists were the Way i which the future of jewish Settle ments in the occupied territories unfolds is crucial to the Success of palestinian autonomy in the West More than jewish settlers still live in houses built by the former israeli administrations of Menachem begin and Yitzhak they were encouraged to set up communities by liked governments i the not surprisingly the settlers believe the land belongs to palestinians say the land has been theirs for if the Rabin government expects palestinian democracy to take Root on the West Bank and the nascent pales Tinian entity to develop its own institutions peacefully and with International the expanding settlements Are an obstacle the government can hardly there is still a powerful minority of israelis who oppose the peace who Are suspicious of palestinian territorial including the right of return for Palestin ians living expanding jewish settlements has Al ways been a favored Way for the israeli right whig to make territorial concessions More difficult for israeli rabins approval of a smaller housing development recognizes the currency of that both i the Knesset and i the population at great strides have been made since 1993 when Rabin and Plo Leader Yasser Arafat Shook hands on the White House Lawn a peace Accord Between Israel and the a peace treaty with diplomatic relations with several North african a thaw i economic relations with Gulf nations and continuing talks with the stubborn syrian regime of Hafez All of that Progress could be threatened by militant settlers intent on sulking deeper roots i the West Rabin knew the major expansion had to be the stakes were too High to do anything one More ceasefire it is difficult to recall the number of ceasefires that have been negotiated in Bosnia i the last two years there have been so and so Many violations by so Many different there Are some reasons to that the agreement reached Between the bosnian serbs and the bosnian government on sunday May at least longer considerably previous agree the reasons Are but they Are also self serving for both there the Best Hope the Accord Calls for a halt i the for a serb pull Back from bosnian strongholds and unsafe havens such As most the free movement of in peacekeepers and Relief convoys and deployment of in troops Between the opposing both sides f hid themselves isolated and appear to real ize that they cannot count on any major intervention from outside both sides need to replenish the supplies and restock their that Factor poses a definite threat that this is Only a Brief respite be fore War resumes in so does the worrying fact that neither the croatian serbs nor Muslim rebels who have been fighting alongside the bosnian serbs against the bosnian government Are parties to the the greatest lies i the division of Bosnia by ethnicity and unless it is reduced to even More desperate Straits than it is i the bosnian government is not Likely to agree to in its own inter that makes eminent but it also makes sense for Europe at Europe finally showed that it under stood that the implications of territorial divisions along ethnic lines Are dangerous throughout the continent when the european parliament voted for the removal of lord David Owen As one of the chief negotiators in lord Owen has supported the ethnic since the end of the cold Europe has had too Many ethnic some czechs and the slovaks extremely such As in the it sees now an ethnically based War i Chechnya in the principle of ethnic division needs to be resisted and As Long As the ceasefire holds International pressure should be concentrated on the serbs to Compromise for peace and limit their lust for Winnipeg free press Winnipeg fret press my tin Winnipeg Tribune eat1890 Rudy Duncan Mcmonagle executive editor John Dafoe editorial Page editor directors John Bardawil marketing Stephan Majorki operations Perry Nixdorf advertising Glenn 91995 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson newspapers company limited published even Days a week it 1395 Mountain Manitoba r2x pm a member 9 the Council my Mem editorials Freedom of Trade m Liberty of religion equally of civil rights editor John 6977044 there just like Bills except you can Only pass them in Quebec the confines of Freedom we were startled when the blonde swatted the sergeant with her but after a while we could see where it came my wife and i and eight other extended family members were flying from a san Francisco Christmas to a los Angeles new years we had pretty Well eaten up All the food at my san Francisco nephews there were that my Pasa Dena Nephew and his whose baby we had not yet still had a Well stocked fridge so we were All heading South Midway Between the two the flight was my wife and i got up when the blonde aglow with to claim her window this took some time As she crammed one suitcase into the overhead bin and then filled the leg room of her seat with a huge Canvas we greeted each other she was slender and made for the California beaches and the califor Nia her Long legs were sheathed in designer her pretty Torso hugged by a Roll neck Blond locks cascaded about her As the flight got she carefully read the Glossy Magazine she had with a cover Story promising 30 easy ways to re shape your body and another one about turning passion into love that i doubted that she needed much advice on reshaping her but she was wholly wholly that until the passenger in front tilted his seat she protested immediately and told him she had no room for her legs if he tipped his seat the passenger in front was in his words were i decipher More like Parade ground barks than coherent his Short greying hair seemed to Mark a military the blonde repeated her peremptory demand that he keep his seat upright without Actu ally mentioning that she had filled up All her legroom with the ser Terence Moore Geant barked and grumbled a bit More and then pushed his seat All the Way presenting the top of his head be fore her she immediately raised her self Magazine and swatted his close cropped he said no More for the his seat remained i cant believe i hit that Man Over the she told me a Little while later when i sat beside evidently not a sensitive i re she was returning from a visit to new York where she had gone with the basketball player who was now her he had preceded her to los Angeles but would not be meeting her because he had to watch an important basketball game on she knew about Canada because a former Boyfriend had played for a series of National football league teams before finishing his career with the she had been a cheerleader at High school in Oregon but went to College in los now she sold voice mail she had been deeply moved by the 1992 los Angeles riots sparked by the getting to the Beach can be a tight Rodney King she vividly remembered from the rooftop restau rant of a downtown los Angeles hotel where she lunched with a the smoke from burning buildings in the riot when our flight the ser Geant stood and she had been mighty lie told the that he was in such a Good mood because the next time he might not be so pleas ant to she hunched fussing with the Luggage in front of Are you listening to Young lady he might not be so pleasant next you were so she As sarcastically As she if you want to make an ill be Happy to discuss it with a flight Joo a flight Loo tenant the words just come a flight Atten we filed off the plane and went our separate As Alexis de Tocqueville noted 150 years americans Are terribly proud of their rights and their free Doms and defend them this system works Well while the Ameri cans Are spread out Over a wide coun try with a lot of space Between it works less Well when they Are jammed together inside an every sergeant has a constitutional right to tip his seat Back As far As he wants every blonde has a constitutional right to bring All the Luggage she can carry to her seat on a if american society sometimes seems to canadians to be insanely litigious and pathologically that May be just the obverse of the National obsession with rights and where would the lawyers and the gun Industry be without people who have to defend their rights most americans manage to travel on planes without assaulting a fellow Pas for excellent the air lines dont let americans take their firearms aboard a rolled up is the weapon of social issues taking a Back seat Canadas maps talk about punishment and the deficit Al most 10 times More than they talk about education and interest its a bizarre Agenda arising from the bizarre composition of the House of the majority Liberal government is Able to evade most of the is sues upon which it was elected in 1993 because its opposition is composed two single Issue the liberals traditional the conservatives and the new demo were humbled by the electorate in a controversial ruling by coir Mons speaker Gilbert All but shut out from parliamentary the Canadian Centre for policy alternatives recently released an Analy Sis of the first year of the new Parlia it found a total of Hansard debate entries on just five issues Young crime and penitentiaries and the that compared to just 185 on the major mat ters of social and economic for there were 680 Han Sard entries on Young offenders and the Young offenders but Only 57 on child poverty 60 on but just one on schools 332 on crime and parole but not even one on homelessness on the but a Mere 17 on Plant closures and 217 on Unzem Frances Russell the Chretien government has been Able to escape accountability on issues of fundamental concern to the people of Canada and in the people who voted Liberal in says University of Manitoba economist John who Heads the Ccpas alternative budget Given the political mandate of the Liberal government to create it would seem reasonable to expect some evidence of this priority in the debates of Veteran Manitoba nip my Bill Blaikie says a ruling by the speaker last june has All but blocked the tories and the new democrats from contrib uting to he acknowledges that a partial redress by speaker Parent last november May improve matters next Capa analysis shows up two the makeup of the House Cre ated by the election and the conduct of the House which has made a bad Situa Tion the nip caucus chairman there would be a different distribution of topics if we had elected More members to begin but if we were Given our fair share of things would be somewhat the october 25 Federal election turned Canadian politics on its the once mighty conservatives plunged from government to a Mere two the new democrats plummeted from 43 seats to two new regional parties were propelled to the bloc quebecois with 54 seats and the Wester based Reform party with Blaikle says both the nip and the conservatives were excluded from the meetings that occurred at the opening of the first session to apportion party shares of debates and daily As a re the As official was granted seven questions and seven the Reform six questions and six supplement Aries and Liberal two the nine new democrats and two tories were All designated As ind Epen not allowed to use their party names and not even allowed to sit to needless to they Seldom got to participate in in a Point of order raised last the nip my said the House and t speaker were violating numerous precedents on the recognition of Small parties dating Back to arguing the two historic parties Are More than Mere parliamentary Blaikie said the parliament of Canada which Only deals with the funding of should not be used to decide their very the act says a party must have a minimum of 12 members to qualify for financial sup parties present themselves to the House As parties and Are not created or disposed of by the House Blaikie speaker Parent rejected Blaik ies saying it is the not that determines who is or is not a political Blaikie puts smaller parties at the mercy of their larger last after not one new Democrat was recognized for two Days in a Blaikie accused the speaker of treating the party speaker Parent is allowing the new democrats and the tories to sit As members of their and the nip maps have been getting a question a if the Capa does its debates analysts again next it May see a significant ;