Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 6, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 january throwing Money at our problems on 19 a Deal was announced Between the three Levels of government on a Winnipeg development this agreement proposes to solve a number of the difficulties experienced in the from rising crime to once again Lloyd Axworthy has flexed his political muscle and attempted to appear to solve All of our problems by throw ing Money at the proposal to increase Urban safety is a Case in the Winni Peg police service is suffering under a 30 per cent shortage of patrol the Urban safety portion of the Worth spread Over the five years of the will provide for Only 11 new not counting the added costs for this hardly addresses the safety needs of Winni at million spread Over five will provide no More than two or three Homes per though sounding these numbers do not in fact do much to increase the Quality of life in Winnipeg or go far in solving our Many they get Axworthy picture in the paper and make reporters gush All Over in million is a Small drop in the bucket to pay for such what is most insidious is the proposal to build an air cargo port and establish Winnipeg As an air cargo this will produce at Best a few Hundred lows killed once these people Are hired there Are no spinoff benefits which would come from focusing on manufacturing or once freight is moved it is end of manufacturing or technology spins off Many new Compa Nies which service the emerging in manufacturing and technology continually move freight handling during the last Federal i warned the electorate that the real danger of the fat and Naftal was that they would put an end to the economic diversity which provides so Many this air cargo Termi Nal is just another step in the Prear ranged Naftal plan which is de signed to turn Winnipeg from a diversified economic Centre into a warehousing the twinning of Highway 75 and the improve ments to the 129 provides a continuous four Lane Highway All the Way to Mel Hurtig said that the fat would turn Canada into a Low wage warehouse 1 it seems we were Paul Reid Winnipeg problem shared by both genders this is in response to David Rubys letter time for men to end violence free 16 and the myriad of other articles that have called for the re educating of men in Light of the massacre of 14 women by Marc while it cannot be denied that we Are surrounded by violence in Many it amazes me that so Many have bought into the notion that the behaviour of one crazed individual is somehow representative of the con duct of on half of the the behaviour of Marc Lepine is no More indicative of the behaviour of men than is the behaviour of Susan Smith indicative of the behaviour of if we were to extend the same logic to women that has been applied to then it might be suggested that All women Are in need of reeducation with respect to child i would Hope that this exam ple illustrates How ridiculous it is to hold All men accountable for the be Havior of what is fortunately no More than a terrible aberration of we must not lose sight of the fact that people in general Are and in spite of some often Seri Ous most of us Lead decent and honest yet at the same there is a significant number of men and women whose violent conduct poses serious threats to the rest of in spite of the efforts of women lobby we can no longer ignore the other truth that both men and women share in violent acts toward each other and their instead of blaming one segment of the population for a problem that is shared by both we might better spend our Energy in trying to prevent the transmission of Vio Lence from one generation to the University of Manitoba right to feel singled out Roxanne Shuttleworth is right to complain when she singled out 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 All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg 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 and made to feel different in univer sity because of her ethnic Back ground racism echoes in lecture free info Stu in our society we single peo ple out All the time because of their skin color or ethnic origin by programs with High sounding names like affirmative through these programs we at tempt to promote but they separate the United states supreme court 1954 said there is no such thing As separate but groups segregated from the majority end up being less than affirmative action is separate but better the privileges conferred Are assumed to overcome the disadvantages of separate Sta they do they Only More effectively enforce Shuttleworth is Correct to re sent being made to feel As far As being a citizen is each Canadian is the same no bet Ter and no worse than anyone Gordon Pratt Winnipeg Why the Cost for Churchill we Are told that it is costing the country million a year to keep the port of Churchill in Why the loss when we could easily be making a profit out of our North Ern port the stumbling Block is on Ontario is a landlocked prov and cannot see that it can profit from the port of Ontario Only outlet to the sea is through Quebec by the Lawrence and railroads and this explains Why Ottawa seems to favor and accedes to Many of Quebec the port of Churchill is a Deepwater Ocean ships can use it to take goods All Over the there is no real reason Why this could not be a port for import and Export of an icebreaker could keep it open All not Only would this Benefit the three Western but it could also be used by North and Western on shipping through Churchill would be profitable for especially if the port was open All our biggest Benefit would that we would no longer be dominated by the two Central which in the have been Able to control the Western because they controlled our Trade the Western half of Canada has a big and if we Are Able to exploit it we have outlets to both and the worlds Eastern Canada has an outlet to Only Clayton Killarney responsible for safety regarding the Story on air safety bad inspections tied to free i spent three in the Craf As an Airframe my responsibility was to inspect and repair if possible any defects that i if it was a major prob Lem we sent the aircraft to maintenance for major we were responsible for the safety of the we signed the log Book when we completed our if we overlooked or missed something we could be reported for our mistake to our commanding offi cer depending on How serious was the we were held respond transport Canada or some other body should take the responsibility for the safety of our or it May be impossible to watch Over All the but some one has to take the responsibility for the safely of the passengers and be Raber Winnipeg Yeltsin revolutionary role sputtering its time to Call it quits by Leon Aron special to the free press As Russia winds Down its first year under a pos soviet Constitution and the attention of the world is focused on the misbegotten invasion of but it is Only a symptom of an important that development is the passing of the Yeltsin phase of the russian Public opinion surveys Are unambiguously where russian president Yeltsin leadership is in the polls conducted by the highly respectable Public opinion foundation a month 59 per cent of russians think democracy is being Defeated in of More than half blamed Central and local with a whopping 32 per cent assigning the blame directly to Yeltsin and his in Yeltsin loss of popularity May reflect the widespread perception of venality and incompetence of the political whose individually and Are daily raked Over the coals by the russian news there May be a deeper Yeltsin May be a victim of his own after he won the in the last Russia has gradually emerged from behind the the people Are no longer afraid of communist and the Economy has passed the Point of no As far As Central planning and distribution Are although still seriously sick and the russian society is getting More More moderate and less myopic in the political choices it the support for the Radical irreconcilable is diminishing and the offensive of demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience they planned has fizzled the ideological Battles of the last four years appear to be in the eyes of the revolutionary which has been the main source of Yeltsin popularity and is no longer a synonym for they have come to understand while it was it was not a sufficient condition of successful democratic As Russia gradually entered a new Between revolution and institutionalized Yeltsin began to fall Yeltsin handling of 1996 elections will be unable or unwilling to abandon the he has cleared the ground of Rotten stumps and monstrous he has protected the first shoots of he seems to be increasingly at a loss on How to till and husband the Yeltsin has fundamentally reshaped russian political choices they Are no longer Between past and Between communism and but Between present and Between a democratic revolution and institutionalized yet like Mikhail Gorbachev before has written himself out of the the Yeltsin phase of the russian which began with the communist Putsch in August 1991 and culminated in the defeat of militant leftists in october 1993 and the first pos soviet parliamentary elections and Constitution two months is coming to a Yeltsin life had begun to lose a Man who was addicted to the political equivalent of the spic Iest Indian a Man for whom the intoxication of Battle and the popular adoration that comes with it had become the and increasingly pleasure in Yeltsin suddenly found his popular support after devoting his entire adult life to at slow and painful but indefatigable and inexorable climb up the Greasy pole of he found himself at the very with no worthy enemies in with no peaks to strategy began to be lost in Petty Power a regression to the court politics of his formative years As the first Secretary of the provincial party increasingly erratic anger and alcohol began to take like Many a waning russian ruler before Yeltsin must have decided a Little victorious War was the he will be misbegotten and the Chechnya operation is almost certain to turn into a War Moscow cannot either militarily or politically he can Only lose with greater or lesser it above another piece of evidence of Yeltsin rapid political and physical yet Yeltsin still can Render the russian democracy one More invaluable this would require winning might be the last and most difficult Battle of his Brilliant political career a Battle with he can leave politics in an Well prepared fashion in the unite the pro Reform democratic forces behind one presidential in whose selection he would play a Given the stable 40percent plurality polled by the pro Reform parties this would virtually assure their Victory in the presidential elections of if Yeltsin decides to run in All bets Are his candidacy will certainly begin an internecine warfare among the other democratic leaders will run As again splitting the democratic electorate and opening the Road to the Kremlin to the candidate of the hard left or a populist demagogue like Vladimir in the worst Case Yeltsin might decide to scuttle the elections decision that could unleash a civil Yeltsin moment of truth is advancing his Choice is Between when the dust will surely anoint him As the father of russian and a few More years in the the latter would be a bitter and sad for him and his in the whenever truly momentous choices presented Yeltsin almost invariably has made the and often let us Hope in what is Likely to be the last such Choice of his exceptional he will again choose for himself and for los Angeles time Washington Posl news Leon a resident scholar at the american Enterprise is writing a biography of chechen disabling of russian tank illustrates How attempt at a Quick War to bolster Yeltsin status is doonesbury by Garry Trudeau nev0 about off Ioctl crack my what a tvs 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