Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 11, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 january using averages can be misleading i am not a but it seems to me the Media and peo ple who submit pieces to the me Dia have been using and abusing averages far too either to exaggerate a Point or to hide consider average life expectancy As an people on average do live longer but to hear and read what some people have to few old people were around in roman when they kicked off before and women didst worry about Meno pause a Century because they didst live Long i have Trou ble believing average life expectancy is the life expectancy of a life expectancy increases throughout our lives it is not a 40yearold has a considerably greater life expectancy than a for exam and an 85yearold male obviously does not have a life expect Ancy of it must be greater than his the single biggest Factor that kept average life expectancy Low Many years ago was probably the extremely High child and infant mor the same thing is happening today in poverty stricken visit an old such As an Drews on the red and you will be appalled by the disproportionate number of child and infant life expectancy must be calculated from some age Long after childhood to get a True picture of How Many truly old were walking around a Century or More average annual income can of ten skew the it hides the shrinking Middle class and the growing Rich and consider one person making per year and five making per the average annual income is what a Rosy Norman Winnipeg stay in business the rallying cry of investment i am tired of is government out of the phrase carries three one stresses the desire of business peo ple to be less taxed and less regular while i sympathize with individuals who seek private i also perceive the dangers of unrestrained when considering the second that government owned business is a bad i find myself As a Canadian i have i have a however broadly in How tax dollars Are collected and the Benefit and beneficiaries of such spending Are Public More or and when such dollars Are spent in my country or to the Benefit of other Canadian i am reasonably what is the problem with canadians choosing to share ownership of a and to also share the Bene fits if investment capital opposes Competition from Canadian citizens and their then i must wonder is it not fair to wealthy individuals or Are we common Citi Zens far worse at business than the upper crust the latter is an paternalistic employee owner ship has a proven Success Crown corporations survive races and canadians Effi in usually Means moving Headquarters and profit taking by the already businesses Rise and fall like the sails on a govern ments Are intended to have continue that we Row them where there is no the third meaning of the phrase government out of an unintended one that our government is bankrupt and we Are witness to a Ness if there is any truth to then who was minding the store when it went under David Henry West Broadway another form of violence i am writing to comment on shred profs say free 19 and Karen Busby and Anne Mcgillivary letter to the editor using counselling records to Dis credit a survivor of abuse is simply another form of violence against women by the Justice women who have been As children or As Are naturally their Dis Tress can now be used against instead of being used to support the reality of their destroying valuable records is a drastic and unfortunate and yet seems appropriate As women act to protect themselves from More Jeff Gindin said destroying rec ords would undermine a fair trial for 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 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 r2x 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 the that it Borders on obstruction of what Justice there is Little Justice for women in our adversarial court i am privileged to know Many courageous women who have been abused As adults As some of these women have braved the believing in this so called too often their serious con Cerns have been dismissed or Belit i am fed up with our trying to fit into a system that degrades by its time women demanded a Femi nist or women system of Justice within the its time we started speaking up and fighting for Delaney Earth dancer heading Ley a plea for redress As a British immigrant i read with interest Lubomyr Lucius plaintive ethnic on behalf of All the ethnic groups against whom Canada has allegedly i wondered if i should take up the cudgels on behalf of All my fellow englishmen of the 1920s and 30s who faced those help want no englishmen need i suspect that for the majority of those in the targeted they if they thought about like that Canada has done More for me than i have done for Alec Herbert Winnipeg Peculiar Standard i appreciated Hal Sigurd sons column give us the whole truth on Arena As an objective analysis of the jets Rena his comments re Garding our were in accurate and annoying Winnipeg is a City in this is not a sup position it is a in a single life time it has gone from the country third largest City to seventh or to equate a cites rate of growth with its Progress or decline is a Peculiar Standard of since when except perhaps in Texas has bigger been necessarily better when i brought my family to Winnipeg from the in Winni Peg was a delightful City of about at it is still a wonderful place to live and with All the big City advantage yet lacking High big City costs and we have modest controlled a stable great my sports and res and a 20minute drive to if this is a City in decline let us thank god for Small we can afford to live anywhere we wish in the but Winnipeg be and always will be our Fame Lys Joh Doole Winnipeg girls not in custody on behalf of the adolescents and staff at i am writing to voice our concern regarding your Story girls foil drinking free the article re fers to two Young persons being in custody at mar Mound is a residential and Community based program which works with adolescents and their Many of our Young women View mar Mound As their Home for a period of a place where we can work with them and their families in a spirit of Hope and Young people Are referred to our programs by child and family caring and not through the to refer to them As being in custody is an unfair the two girls the Story referred to were living with us in an open set they were not incarcerated or in Wall Baergen mar Mound director of treatment old ghosts haunt new world by Leslie Gelb foreign affairs Magazine almost 50 years ago and Al most 75 years our fore bears exulted in their Mili tary triumphs and wrote of end Ings and filled with Hope and they sketched new International maps and idealists and realists most made the same Basic most assumed the world had changed More than it really the danger today is that we May commit the opposite name that we will think or at least act As if the world has changed less than it really and by so we will exaggerate old minimize new ones and become overwhelmed by the Al corrosive danger that stares us Down daily Teacup wars filled with countless bodies and the Scourge of civil and ethnic if we fail to ameliorate and Check this both the Vic Tims and the unpunished killers will undo much of what we value and undermine efforts to Mould a just and stable International without such an there can be Little Hope to tend the nurture More tolerant sustain economic Progress or con Tain the perilous spread of military and nuclear even As the physical traces of the old world Many still cling to its intellectual while the new world surrounds us and pounds for we answer though far More soft with old fears and old Strate though the soviet Union lies in we almost expect and plan for the emergence of a new rus Sian though Germany has evolved As one of the most stable democracies in the we secretly dread its reversion to authoritarianism and though the United states has never before been As entangled in the world As it is we fear a return to most policy experts still lean on the Central strategy of the cold War keep the russians the americans in and the germans we want to execute this strategy on the at bar gain basement the cold wars worries should not be tossed on the con we would be naive and irresponsible to ignore the possibilities of future russian expansion ism or German brittleness or the chaos of a world without american but we must examine these con Cerns with fresh eyes and judge anew whether they should remain at the Core of Western strategy or be placed in different Russia As the soviet Union probably has greater potential to disrupt and endanger the International system than any other by economic military and nuclear ancient ambitions and new Russia could reconstitute itself As a eurasian and even world size but it would be rash or worse to assume such monstrous or assume that the proportions of a new russian threat would rival the old soviet one More that containing such a possible threat should occupy the Centre of a new Western no one envisions a Western style democracy in russian near but the collapse of the so Viet Empire has unleashed and Cre ated political and economic forces that will not Bend easily to dictator and while Many of these democrats will be infected by historical russian nationalism and seek to muscle their they Are unlikely to be old fashioned Milita in other even assuming the worst happens in it would be Many years before rus Sia could pose a serious threat to americas vital superpowers Are trying to find what direction to take in a new and different another 50 million displaced persons hover within their own lands far from their own some civil wars also create vacuums that suck in and entice larger russian troops in geor Gia and elsewhere Are for the United states and the these wars present a con Stant Challenge to their de manding attention and drawing off time and funds from important Domestic there is an even More damning Cost to stable the failure to Deal adequately with such to do something about mass murder and Cor Rodes the essence of a democratic if democratic leaders turn away from genocide or merely pretend to combat their citizens will drink in the hypocrisy and sink into democracies have a Large prac As Well As moral in finding reasonable responses to wars of National the Range of responses is no mystery stronger multilateral or standing peacekeeping and peacemaking preventive action above More Clear sighted and courageous National nato needs to be re moulded and strengthened As a regional or Washington also must nurture a greater sense of cooperation among latin american and african regional groups for their United nations the very Long process of shaping a More effective and responsible United nations must this will require some sacrifices of Sov but sovereignty has Al ready been compromised in the new it is impossible for Washington to contemplate unilateral military action in most consequential Situa the persian Gulf War is a prime example tiny Haiti is Aneth for Good or almost always requiring american has descended on the it is a fact not to be but absorbed into american Strate the United states must develop strategic plans for multilateral action to Stem civil wars without drowning in and do what it reasonably can to give victims of these wars a Chance to live in peace without making them per manent and not a bargain base ment strategy to contain old is what our leaders must refashion from the bricks of the fallen Berlin distributed by new York times special Leslie Gelb is president of the Council on foreign this is adapted from a longer Arti Cle in the 94 Issue of foreign a new plan must Rise from bricks of the fallen Berlin during the cold the fear of a resurgent Germany remained so alive and potent that West and East Long colluded on a Central line of policy to prevent German now the deed is Germany stands again As one should it be feared As before should the and the East for that continue to weave vis Ible and invisible ropes of Friend ship to bind the German Gulliver and prevent him from once again trampling his neighbors if but it is not German leaders Are dealing with the problem them selves by weaving their own webs to Europe and Bonn leads in proposals to bind the Ger Man its arms and Aims into a larger Western and to restrict its own military nor should the West be preoccupied by the Nightmare of Germany succumbing to another bout of a everyone will be but As far As the Eye can Ger Many is and will remain a stable that is As True of United Ger Many As it was of West Germany in Post cold War nuclear Ger new chinese ambitions and Trade wars All must be addressed As serious but the Core problem is wars of National a steady run of uncivil civil wars sundering fragile but functioning nation states and gnawing at the Well be ing of stable the stronger states tend to mini Mize their stakes in stopping or containing internal such it is Are ruin Ous to the combatants themselves but not to or outsiders can do Little or nothing to quell these Domestic it is except at unacceptable the costs of trifling with these wars of National debilitation could prove while some of these wars would erupt in any Many Are fuelled by a copycat by seeing that guilty parties elsewhere get away with murder and haitian and rwandan kill ers shout Somalia and these wars also have a spillover their victims 50 million now across International Bor Ders and become expensive and disruptive wards of their neigh the Balkan refugees flood ing into Germany Are a Case in doonesbury by Garry Trudeau a Chain ;