Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 30, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 May drive doctors to Rural practices 1have followed the shortages of ads in Rural and Northern Mani Toba very closely during the last few until governments have tried the Carrot to get doctors to the Rural and Northern now its time for the about 90 per cent of tuition fees for medical students about is picked up by the tax these students then thumb their noses at Rural and Northern they head for the big Canadian cities where there Are too Many of or they go to the the Rural and Northern taxpayers requiring them Are left without proper medical the solution is constitutionally Correct and sensible Stu dents entering medical school will sign contracts in Exchange for the taxpayer picking up 90 per cent of their they spend five years in Rural or Northern areas upon for those students who refuse to sign this their Slot will be Given to the next potential candidate one who More interested in patients than Gerry Finkle Winnipeg barriers to immigrants Dan Letts recent article and your subsequent editorial highlighted the misguided thrust of the Federal governments recent changes to Immi Gration policy in there can be no doubt but that the new application and Landing fees in the thousands of dollars for each potential immigrant will act As significant barriers to family class Immi especially those from poor the new bonding requirements announced by the Federal govern ment recently simply aggravate a bad situation and underline the shift away from the principle of family reunification which has been a Cornerstone of immigration policy for while the government May Point to abuse of the immigration system by some family class immigrants As a justification for these there is Little evidence that this is a real while it has been suggested that 15 per cent of immigrants living in Toronto who entered Canada under the family reunification program end up on this figure does not reflect experience elsewhere in Canada even if it is which is by no Means in any if some family class immigrants Are going on social As a simpler solution is Avail Able Force sponsors to live up to the undertakings they Are required to give to support family class Immi the Federal government has been reluctant to take this instead it has moved to restrict family immigration in these Steps have negative ramifications for the family re unification program has brought Many immigrants to Manitoba Over the these immigrants have contributed much to Manitoba eco nomic health and any reduction in their numbers will not be Good for this Joseph do Winnipeg new cold War from old Quarter your editorial a sneer from Yeltsin May 14 seems to imply the Russia the West hoped would emerge after the collapse of communism in stalinism is not yet the Russia we Are nor is it the Russia we promised billions of dollars what we really need to realize is that Russia is a criminal state that is neither democratic nor less than four years after the so called second russian Russia is awash in of and democracy has been replaced by which Means no it is the ability to do whatever one whatever it takes to get Rich and at any today in we have a new establishment composed of sur Surprise former members of the communist a new class system has Arisen composed of the former communist apparatus the so called Nomen Latura which controls the administration of most of the assets of the former soviet the new political establishment Yoroski thieves society or rus Sian mafia has joined with the together they share a distaste for and Domi Nate the new economic order of rus 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 maybe 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 just like the mafia did in the Usa in the 1920s under a system of primitive Russia now resembles the 19th Century american Frontier with the and Vor Oskoi pushing their new ant Western ideology of nationalism and xenophobia and ant Western the real question Here is the nature of in we Are heading for a new cold War a fundamental shift from Russia having at least a sympathetic Western View Point to a ant Western View that enables it to carry out genocide in this does not Bode Well for future relationships Between the East and the Nick Ernette Winnipeg Stop ripping apart the military i am writing in regard to your Arti Cle military beatings got trial told free May when is the Media going to Stop ripping apart our military the Media Are always so fast to re port All the wrongdoings in the Mili How about reporting some of the positive things that the military does there Are a lot of no one reported about the Sunset ceremony performed at veday celebrations on May there were four military bands performing and the 2nd battalion Princess Patricia Ca Nadian Light infantry had a Preci Sion Drill team it was done to Honor our second world War who Well deserve but once again there was no coverage on the remember those sol Ders Are the ones who will put there lives on that line to protect our coun maybe if the Media would Start re porting More positive our military would finally get the recognition and thanks it so Cath Sargent Winnipeg like a Fine i refer to Lee Strasserr article May 5 on the University of Mani Toba and the Issue of mandatory re it is a pity Strasser wishes to revive the antiquated notion 6s is somehow a proper and necessary retirement the age 65 was chosen for usual retirement 100 years ago when lifespans were considerably Shorter than they Are nowadays demographers and other social scientists Are saying openly and some politicians Are saying quietly society can no longer afford to regard 65 As the usual retirement in what we and Prin Ciple and self interest Are often in it is a pity Strasser did not acknowledge mine i am 65 and in Good i carry out All the Normal duties of a professor teach committee work and Community i particularly enjoy my interaction with this year 35 per cent of my Stu dents ranked the Quality of my teaching As Well above and a further 40 per cent As above average the two highest categories on a five Point it May even be that in my modern and recent my life experience is an asset in helping my students understanding of the mod Ern fre Stambrook Winnipeg correction the letter speak up Over Arena Cost published in saturdays read ers forum carried an incorrect Sig it should have read Kamin a photo to Cave in to gain release of these French up Rotor and would display serious weakness by the bowing to hostage threat will yield grisly results by Anthony Lewis new York times news service by taking in peacekeepers hostage and using them As human Rado Van Karadzic and the other bosnian serb leaders have defined themselves As outside Law and Civi but that should not have been a Surprise to anyone who knew their Karadzic and his after presided Over the first at tempted genocide in Europe since Hitler the systematic torture and rape that constituted ethnic their idea of reprisal showed up recently when bosnian serbs responded to ser Bian defeat in neighbouring Croatia by blowing up Catholic churches in the town of banja killing a priest and a the in commander in Rupert Smith of Well knew the serbs might Retali ate against his men when he asked for nato so did Brit French and officials who supported the they decided to go ahead anyway because inaction against Ever bolder ser Bian violations shelling Sara seizing sequestered heavy making the in position the serbian retaliation was characteristic in its the bosnian serb forces not Only took hostages but directed intensified shelling at Sarajevo and killing scores of that was one More War crime deliberate targeting of civilians has been that for what can and the politicians behind do in the face of the hostage taking the first step has been taken making Clear to Karadzic the Price that he will pay if the threat to kill the hostages is carried in an Ion Perdi was kidnapped near Tangier by a local chieftain named Ras Teddy Roosevelt Secretary of John sent Rassouli a Cable saying the United states wanted Perdicaris alive or Ras Souli Perdicaris was re life is More complicated and Bosnia much More but the essence of the message is the same if a single hostage is Mur Karadzic and everyone else in the Chain of command to that killing will be held responsible for murder and relentlessly Pur but we know by now that Little things like the Law against murder Are not Likely to bother do Smith and nato and the in Cave in to the serbs in order to get the hostages Back the Price of that weakness would be the final shattering of the in Protection with grisly consequences for it and for the bosnian up Rotor would almost certainly have to be probably under with Large numbers of american and other new ground troops sent in to protect the Many More bosnian muslims and croats would be subjected to serbian eth Nic not in mood the signs Are that the countries involved Are at this in a mood to both the British and the French have sent additional forces and weapons to take More aggressive action if necessary to secure their mens if up Rotor toughs it its commanders will try to avoid hav ing their men in situations where the bosnian serbs can again pick them that May mean abandon ing isolated bosnian government enclaves in Eastern where Small numbers of up Rotor Diers Are now essentially defence would the civilian populations then be moved How the human problems would be at the same a More robust and defensible up Rotor would have to secure its position in and around for one it would have to seize full control of the so it would not be subject to constant serbian harass whatever is done will re quire a Large amount of resolve and collaboration among Western those Are qualities that can hardly be taken for president Clinton has and in a curious position deter mined not to have forces on the ground because of the political risk to yet pushing those who have troops there to be tougher to Ward the serbian it does not give him much moral or political for the the Cost of staying the course in Bosnia May be be but we can see Ever More clearly what the Cost of yielding to evil would be a terrifying Prece Dent for the peace and Security of blockade shatters Economy by Duranko Kolendich Deutsche Presse Agenter Serbia the million citizens of Rump Yugoslavia Are poor and writes the Belgrade newsmagazine that just about sums up the social state and morale of Serbia and Montenegro three years after the imposition of a United nations the Security Council approved the total blockade of Rump Yugoslavia on May with the aim of punishing the country for its involvement in the conflict in a recognized member of the a year serbian president Slobodan Milosevic these genocidal sanctions cannot move us even if they last a thousand the serbs Are Rump yugoslav finance minister Zarija Martinovic our country has survived blows that even the economies of Japan and the United states could not have through moral boosting words like the government is trying to convince people that the serbs can put up with everything and the world will soon be forced to lift the unfair and unjust the sanctions have exacted a High Price from the people of Rump Yugoslavia Serbia and the countries Gross National product plunged from billion in 1990 to billion in the blockade has caused losses Worth according to the yugoslav red Cross general Secretary Rad Dubajic said million people were million were were on the verge of starvation and were Only million people have jobs in stat owned and private some Are on compulsory receive Only subsistence the sanctions and the serb involvement in the Foury Earold bosnian conflict have caused the destruction of the moral decay and a mass exodus by the Young and estimated to have reached illegal Trade about a million people Are forced to earn their living through smuggling and illegal virtually everything is particularly gasoline and i earn More with Gas in a Day than in a month in my former said one 30yearold sanctions and War have deformed said Belgrade social psychologist Dragan the sanctions Are like nuclear radiation and destroy the social fabric without people noticing he what used to be considered criminal is now acceptable with officials often turning a Blind criminals Are said one social nor have the sanctions achieved their objective of ending the War in if Milosevic has been strengthened by the Trade his opponents claim he and the War profiteers around him have Little interest in lifting the at the All the country problems can be blamed on the said a government critic in if not for the the government would have to find scapegoats for the misery among its own doonesbury by Garry Trudeau 6ramm of Nahting through to mme aka it we thought Hoez hands thu the always ;