Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 january Russia should leave Chechnya the government of Russia should not be sending any troops into the who want nothing to do with should be left the chechen seek Independence from and their wish should be granted for the Sake of Why have a bloody civil War in a country which already has enough economic and political turmoil an other Bosnia is not sending underpaid troops into Chechnya is a big mistake which could Lead to a Long and bitter islamic holy chechen Are willing to die for their russians killing their own people Doest make any sense to the innocent civilians Are the ones who will suffer the the air raids Over Grozny Are inhumane and in civilians who Are in the wrong place at the wrong time Are this will Only Lead to More anger and hatred towards it is time the russians let the chechen have the Independence they have always the chechen have always been treated they have even been exiled from their chechen have a valid reason for being upset at Russia needs a Leader who will pull the country together in a humane and peaceful not in a warlike i Hope cooler Heads will and the russian troops will move out of like they did from of hopefully much sooner Peter Makus Winnipeg Arenas Cost plenty the 27 free press noted the Cost of new Arenas in Canada and the United the minimum Cost of Arenas in Canada is while the minimum Cost in the United states is million the Likely Cost of a new Arena in Winnipeg is somewhere Between these two with Cost it May exceed this does not include the land and the new infrastructure needed to support an entertainment that Money would refurbish Many houses in buy lots of Library books or build Many new wading pools and Arenas at Community the figure quoted for a new Arena in Winnipeg is now three years out of this inaccurate figure is Likely used to persuade Winni Eggers that taxpayers can support the mortgage necessary to fund a new interest on such a Mort Gage will Likely exceed million a if this is in addition to the More than million in losses we now Are taxpayers and All of Winnipeg will Barry Hammond Winnipeg to the editor seek practical projects now that the truth is finally perhaps our civic leaders will turn their attention to determining the most worthwhile and practical projects on which to spend the Mil lion which will not be spent on the Kenaston i am sure there Are any number of among the Many proposals submitted for assistance under the infrastructure for their i am also sure the residents of Winnipeg would very much appreciate having much needed sewer and Street repairs and renovations carried inasmuch As time would appear to be of the surely it is not too much to ask that they accept reality and act it takes courage and strength of character to admit when one has made an let us Hope our leaders Are Able to meet this if these monies Are it will not be the fault of the citizens of Winni who have questioned the Wisdom of building the Kenaston in but the fault of vacillating officials who Are either unwilling or unable to admit they May have made a president Public works in the Public interest pm mares not pampered i appreciate recent comments from Arvin Jones pm mares Are free 27 Sug Gesting there is no shortage of work to be done in our cities on Ani Mals i do appreciate or concur with Jones suggestion that pm mares and other farm animals Are while perhaps people who use Ani 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 maybe edited for style and length 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 Mals for food or farming need to convince themselves that this is a natural and mutually enjoyable a i cannot say enough to emphasize the deplorable conditions in which the horses of the preg Nant Mare urine Industry the mares Are confined for six standing virtually All the while in stalls smaller than the aver age horses they Are usually deprived of sunlight and often deprived of water and suffer a number of abnormal ail there is a High incidence of spontaneous stocking painful swelling of the and internal horses Are not Well suited to standing in confinement for a Long does any animal deserve to be largely deprived of such Basic necessities As mobility and exposure to in order to produce a product hormone replacement pills available in Many non pm forms do the mares Many As Young As two months deserve to be shipped off to Slaughter for Sale As meat in Europe and Asia have seen pm farms first and have been consistently alarmed and outraged by the Busi Ness driven Way in which the operations thrive with Little concern for the ultimate Well being of the producers the hundreds of mares who May be confined in a sin Gle added to the Long list of feminist and Wom ens health concerns in the debate Over systemic cruelty to Ani Mals is Only one of the Many Well founded and important reasons to be critical of the Elizabeth Carlyle Winnipeg Power rangers Are a crime no intelligent life forms it is in the Best interest of the Ca Nadian viewing Public that mighty morphine Power rangers is being pulled from the not necessarily because of its violent but because it is a crime to sit through Cornball mundane plot Hokey special lacklustre choreographed martial arts sequences and an uninspiring synthesized a phrase that Don of by has cornered the Market on aptly de scribes the Power for it appears the kiddies have mistaken Energy for Lann Cooke Whyte Ridge Keanu fantasies he Steps off the plane on 9 and suddenly Winnipeg lives and breathes Keanu before he even he was seemingly commanding More attention than the International fighting going newspapers were plastered with his to news blurbs focused on he is an Well known actor and this is a big thing for this is a great thing for it certainly deserves some but what other Well known people Are going to want to take up work or even just visit Winnipeg when they see How we Chase after Keanu like a pack of mad wolves starving for just a taste As for All these 16yearold girls who think they Are so special and that Keanu is going to marry they Are All every one of but Keanu is Here for at some we All would like to meet him some to say they love his some to say they hate some just to Brush shoulders with a some want to marry and still like just want to Chat and see who Keanu re ally it was Nice to acknowledge him and Welcome him to but now lets let him relax and peo is Jeanni Tomko Winnipeg Columbus Odyssey changed course of history voyage Shook up world by Mario Vargas Llosa reason Magazine just about 500 years ago Christopher Columbus caramels first set sail and arrived on what would be called initiating Waves of european and african Columbus its Root to just about everything and some of the that has happened Ever it Shook up morality and the imagination of and it changed the course of history like probably nothing before except perhaps the biblical in modern Many spaniards and portuguese have raised angry voices to claim there is nothing to celebrate in the arrival of Columbus to America because it was an imperialistic and recent celebrations of the event appear to have been burdened with hidden feelings of guilt and bad this should not Surprise our age May be one of tremendous but it is also one of intellectual it is an age that has witnessed the collapse of the bloodiest regimes in history and the eruption of Liberty in societies where it never existed but it has also witnessed the perversion of common sense and the ass ailment of values and reason by on both sides of the Many intellectuals fear praising the moral or material achievements of our democracies and thereby losing the politically Correct credentials so necessary for Success in the cultural Shadow of doubt prominent intellectuals continue to cast a Shadow of doubt and scepticism on Liberty and but this is an Liberty is nothing to be ashamed it ought to be cherished with the Fervour of those who have lost or just regained like the Young people of the former East Germany who in 1989 Tore Down the Berlin one of the tasks for men and women of the new generation is to tear Down the ideological Walls of the prison houses of thought and culture still prevalent in so Many free the arrival of europeans in our us say it without an inferiority or superiority and without bringing in historical the greatest event in the history of even the modernity began with the Odyssey of Columbus three fragile and legendary boats and with the handful of adventurers who sailed uncharted Waters in search of a new route to they boggled the european mind by stumbling into a fourth continent with highly developed after 1492 the histories of people scattered and isolated from each other in All Corners of the world became one interconnected and inseparable the grandiose and irreversible March of humanity toward Universal civilization was set in by South americans tend to have portuguese or British Many have ancestors stemming from More recent european migrations from Central Europe and for 500 years the europeans and arrived in America with the Spanish mixed to such an extent that most individuals descend from different Columbus trip changed our perceptions of the limits of this As we Call it in been faster in countries such As Paraguay and Mexico and slower in Peru and it has been extremely slow in the United states and but it has been occurring throughout the in South it has been so systematic that All european families who have settled in America have some Indian or african background by the second or third it would probably be impossible to find pure indians because one would need to search for them like a Needle in a Haystack in the roughest and most Remote areas of the or in the Jungles of Central and South they but they Are a very Small whether we Are mulatto or when we peruvians or mexicans we Are enacting the the direct and indirect forms of interaction of the aztecs and other pre columbian but the indians have also adopted Many customs and beliefs that the europeans brought to in the 1920s there in the aftermath of the mexican a polemic throughout Spanish America Between in pianists and european its a sorry example of reciprocal and since then academics have been itemizing every single crime committed by europeans with remarkable but they have not shed a tear for the for the hundreds of and perhaps millions of Indian men and women who were sacrificed in wars of Conquest and in Chicha or Toltec ceremonies resembling human surely they would agree one cannot be selective about moral cruelty must be condemned wherever it is and it is not fair to elicit sympathy for the victims of a subjugated culture while forgetting the cruelty for which it was also it is one thing to remember the arrival of the spaniards As a bloody period of history in which countless and inexcusable brutalities were it is quite another to jump from moral outrage about historical events to the utopian sometimes becomes an explicit we must somehow reestablish pre columbian civilizations As the europeans found As though it were possible to defy the course of it is a proposal that leads invariably to actions that make us recoil with such As the atrocities of the shining path movement in it is unrealistic to forget that All americans in the North and regardless of color and Are products of this Europe animation Saga and its for better or for and mostly for the because those greedy and sometimes fanatical men brought along to America not Only a hunger for but also a culture that has been ours Ever a culture that makes us heirs of Shakespeare and Adam Smith no More and no less than the inhabitants of Madrid or a culture that introduced to human civilization those codes of politics and morality that allow us to condemn powerful nations that abuse the to reject imperialism and colonialism and to stand up for human rights wherever they Are with a few pathetic democracy is today the system latin american nations have made their to revive an absurd polemic Between in pianists and european its is to set up a smokescreen of pseudo problems in front of problems that Are truly there Are Why Are indigenous cultures marginal after so Many years Why is their integration so slow How can we promote their development and modernization is westernization of indigenous Peoples a or is it the fastest Way to overcome the backwardness and exploitation they suffer today can these cultures become modern and overcome oppression while conserving essential elements of their beliefs and tradition these Are the issues that should be considered instead of empty polemics that pretend 500 years of history can be forgotten and that the people of America would be happier if the pre columbian world were reestablished As it once distributed by new York times special this published in a longer version in reason is an edited version of the 10th John Bonython Given at the Independent door Lesbury by Garry Trudeau Youfu Numy costa80ut406mhp ;