Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May editorials editor John 6977044 smoke screen Federal health minister Diane Marleau is trying to push generic cigarette packaging As the Best Way to curb smoking among but her own depart ments study of the released last has concluded what common sense should have the Cost of cigarettes is the biggest Factor in dissuading Young people from the study did find that distinctive cigarette packaging has an Impact on ninety per cent of teens could identify popular youth brands by color and graphics alone when the Brand names were but Only per cent of teenagers surveyed said Plain packaging would keep them from in per cent of Young people said in creasing the Cost would be the most effective while per cent said making it More difficult to buy tobacco would the problem for Marleau is that her government has done the the liberals made cigarettes More affordable than Ever by slashing tobacco taxes in february 1994 As part of a Campaign to deter since health groups say theres been a Sharp increase in the liberals tried to appease critics by launching a multimillion Dollar antismoking Campaign to Tell kids they Light that Effort quietly fell victim to the Federal budget axe two months ago when its funding was Cut in Marleau is now trying to whip up support for Plain a move which tobacco companies have predictably vowed to they have threatened to launch Trade actions under the North american free Trade agreement if use of their trademarks is restricted or out printing and packaging companies also warn of Job losses if Plain packaging is made cigarettes kill at least canadians each if the Chretien government is serious about curbing the number of Young people who Are lured into this deadly and it should not Stop with a watered Down proposal like Plain the Only Way to regain any credibility on this Issue is to boost the Price out of reach of most the path to the pole if you want to climb mount whatever cannot simply buy a pair of hiking boots and an ice axe and set off up the you have to Register with the government of you have to get in line behind All the other people who have registered to climb mount Everest and you have to go about it one of the reasons for this is that there Are a lot of peo ple who still want to climb the worlds highest even though it has been done Many times and it do to have them tripping All Over each other when they get up to or another reason is if things go the Rescue costs a lot of Canada has a similar problem in the Canadian there appear to be an awful lot of people what Ever to go to the North or the big As the bemused Eskimo used to refer to the fabled goal of the 19th Century in the big Nail was an elusive goal for european explorers for in the Early Days mostly in the latter Days least most Success and most of them but All of them added to the sum of human no one is still really certain who reached the pole first there Are conflicting now Many people have been to the North but there is always a new Way to get by air by perhaps even by crawling naked on ones hands and Knees across the ice at the a Canadian and a russian Are trying to become the first people to reach the pole on skis without being resupplied by Airdrop or previous they show a commendable sense of a spirit that can be admired by the rest of us armchair travellers in a world that is increasingly reverting to Grey they Are serving any purpose but their own pleasure and they Are not Roald Amundsen or Fridtjof Nansen or Vilhjalmur or any other of the recent Polar explorers who added so much to our but if something goes wrong with their if Canada has to mount a search and Rescue of it will Cost canadians a great Deal of Money to try to Rescue everyone wishes the two adventurers Well on their dash Over the much travelled path to the but they Are not they will add nothing to our body of in the future it would not be it would not be too terribly if the Canadian government were to require other adventurers on the Arctic ice Cap to acquire a licence and make some useful justification for their there is really no longer any reason for Ca Nadian taxpayers to get nailed because others want to visit the big Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Rudy Redekop publisher Duncan Mcmonagle executive editor John Dafoe editorial Page editor directors Verne Kalichuk human resources Stephan Majorki operations Perry Nixdorf advertising Glenn 01995 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson newspapers company limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain Manitoba r2x pm 6977000 a member of the Manitoba press Council t Good i represent two yet so co and i can see by it set of your shaking hands and thai you Are a scrim Inmaung 1ls10p the quest for woman Dom the article had an attention grabbing title a rugged greek Island ruled by it sounded like a delicious Haven in a world where women still have too Little Reading the islands idyllic Aura faded somewhat As the from the Londo based weekly newspaper the explained the nuts and bolts of How this matriarchal coup in the Mountaintop Village of Olimbos has been the key has been to banish men for the balance of the there expected to work offis Send their Money Home and re turn Only at festival that leaves the women to raise the till the build Homes and run every aspect of the Community on their the sight of a woman going off to work carrying a shovel and a baby Slung Over her Back is common the Price of Power for women in Olimbos has meant doing it As is so often the since the Village began in the ninth property has been handed Down from Mother to eldest ensuring women grip on How the winds of change Are stirring up trouble these the Headstrong younger generation is Balking at the tradition of mothers choosing their Ruth Teichroeb daughters if mothers lose this who knows How Long it will be before they Are dethroned the Olimbos Story prompted reflection about less ways females have sought to create Small is lands of there were the quilting bees of our grandmothers when women managed an afternoon or night out to do some communal at least As important As the quilt itself was the Chance to share ups and Downs with other women talk of babies and Hus crops and Community for the women of the 1950s and neighbourhood Coffee Tupperware parties or Church related associations filled the Bill settings that men were guaranteed to be men had their own forums for same sex bonding at the hockey rink or Corner until their girls were encouraged to join female Only clubs like go to Al girl play on female sports teams and indulge in a Jama it was Only during the dating years that dumping plans with a Girlfriend in Exchange for an evening with Bob or Bill became accept Long before feminists sanctioned women Only females sought each other out for support and commis it didst occur to them that this was a political then came the women with its consciousness raising groups that deliberately excluded Sud getting together with other women turned into a Radical men became suspicious about just what was brewing behind closed Hus bands we rent so sure they wanted their wives even women argued among themselves stung by accusations of selfishness about the pros and cons of shutting men in Many these groups were different than the innocent gatherings of they evolved into revolutionary scrutinizing and questioning women traditional car taking roles and exposing their inequality with drawing parallels Between what happened at Home and in the outside the personal had indeed become Uncertain of How to women leaned on each other for Confidence and enc our to do they needed their own a couple of decades the urgency of those Days is Long Al though the struggle is far from women have made significant strides in winning a place beside whether at the boardroom table or on the fac tory As in that Progress is not As apparent on the Home where the Burden of cooking and clean ing and child raising still Falls mostly on women what has not changed is women need for places of their after focussing so much Energy on making it in the Many Are rediscovering the simple pleasures of gathering with other women to talk babies and jobs and women Are planning annual weekend getaways with their organizing women networks and conferences in their professions and mothers groups in their Al girl class rooms and schools Are in even quilting bees have made a comeback in some in that we have come full As essential As it is to claim those they Are no longer there has been a sea change in what we will Settle Teichroeb column will resume next year when she returns from mater nity Israel arabs need new peace plan by Stanley Blumberg Baltimore Sun there is a growing recognition in Israel that the declaration of principles agreement signed by Israel and the Palestine liberation organization in september 1993 is fatally the flaws Are so deep that even the coauthor of this israels prime minister Yitzhak is be ginning to realize that the agreement May be impossible to this is largely because of Plo chairman Yasser Arafat refusal or inability As he revoke the sections of the Palestine covenant calling for the destruction of the jewish it May be possible to achieve a better degree of peaceful coexistence Between the jews and the Muslim arabs by possibly modify and implementing the Allon peace plan of that plan was designed to break the deadlock with the Arab i Gal Allon was a member of the israeli Cabinet and a general in the under his the areas on the West Bank with larp1 populations would be self gov Security would be the responsibility of the israeli army and the Jordan River would remain israels in it is difficult to under stand How two seasoned israeli Politi Rabin and foreign minister Shimon Peres could enter into an agreement with a Man who did not disguise his ultimate aim the destruction of the stationery of the Plo lists Arafat As president of the map of the chairman state is shown to encompass All of is the palestinian covenant is Arafat version of Adolf hitlers mein the nazi chief outlined his strategy for world domination and blamed the jews for All of Germany article 6 of the covenant Calls for the expulsion of All jews who came to Palestine after the remaining jewish would be allowed to live As a Arafat still claims the right to All of israels up photo minority in the Palestine As Long As the covenant remains in the policy of the Plo and the pal Estine extremists of calling for the cleansing of the jewish presence from the holy is a there is Covert cooperation be tween the Hamas operates terrorist training Camps in the Gaza strip with the full knowledge of the Plo the strip provides a Safe Haven for the since the israelis Are denied the right of hot this cooperation serves to mask Hamas growing Power and its ultimate the Well educated leaders of this terrorist group in us ing Arafat in the Hope of gaining territorial concessions from the they figure it will be time to eliminate the chairman and reap the rewards from his in Rabin has pre pared a new and unrealistic Panacea to Deal with the growing he would build fences to separate the israeli jews from their Muslim there Are about jewish settlers in 140 settlements in Samaria and the for the past a 33mile Fence has been under construction around already the palestinians have been sabotaging this Barrier by stealing thousands of the Iron Fence the credibility of among the is eroding As More and More jews Are they question his pledge to protect the settlers at the same removing the israeli defence forces from the highly populated areas of the West the slogan land for peace rings israelis with Long memories re Call that the original British mandate for Palestine encompassed also the Eastern Bank of the Jordan the jewish Agency was persuaded to vacate its claim to the Eastern to make the arabs this not Only made them Happy but it also whetted their appetite to claim All of the jewish during the Middle East War in Jordan joined its Arab Brothers with the intent to occupy All of the israelis forced the jordanians Back across the Jordan and the River became israels new Eastern Jerusalem then had two issues to the israelis had no de sire to Rule Over a hostile but their primary responsibility was to provide for their nations they looked for ways to Deal with these two the labor government of Israel offered Jordans King Hussein Territo rial specifically the re turn of a Large part of the land he had in return for a peace the Monarch refused Jerusalem probably because he did not want to As sume the responsibility for governing his rebellious subjects on the West some variation of the Allon plan could be unilaterally imposed without years of As to the question of whether the arabs would accept the alternative is the unmanageable situation brought about by the current Rabin Arafat its flaws make it a rather than a Salva for the Allon or a variation of promises a greater de Gree of ;