Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 14, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press August f i communications impede Ukraine by Sergei Nirenberg and Shlomo Weber special to Knight Ridder financial news Vasyl Tureev is a Young Man on a As Ukraine Deputy minister of he is entrusted with developing the Energy Industry of his new Ukraine natural Gas and Coal facilities must be pipelines distribution and other infrastructure no one knows How Long rus Sia will continue to provide Oil to Ukraine at a fraction of the Market Tureev realizes that his Best and Only bet is to attract direct investment in Ukraine by businesses in the United states and to this he and other government officials have begun hosting visits by delegations of business ambassadors from around the but when asked about Concrete prospects that he would want to be funded by Western Energy Tureev let them first express real he Why should we show our cards first this attitude is not due to a language russian and ukrainian Are used freely in this the sad fact is that Tureev does not even understand the incongruity of his can it be this Between Busi Ness practices and those prevalent in that is the crucial obstacle on Gure evs quest at a recent meeting of Amer ican and ukrainian business people and the establishment of a Vari Ety of International joint ventures including an International Centre for direct investment in Ukraine was Dis this meeting proved to us that the Western delegates and the hosts failed to communicate even As they used first rate As veterans of old soviet but with Over 20 years of work experience in the we were Able to understand both it took us about 10 minutes of patient explanations to facilitate successful communication Between the ukrainians and the of this is just one what if a framework is put together to build More and broader Bridges to a country of Over 52 million peo typically highly skilled and Well educated in Many Ukraine seems closer to the West than despite the Well publicized separatist movement in the Crimea and the Large russian minority in the industrialized Eastern the situation is much quieter and More stable than in volatile Boom offset there Are no Chechnya in Many ukrainians believe that the rela Tive development Boom in Russia is More than offset by the Rise in crime and the destruction of that country social though traditionally Many ukrainians believe that the turning Point in their country course has already been signs of renewed economic activity Are evident at the local the Central government now relies on Malchik russian for Young and enthusiastic technocrats like Tureev or his Deputy prime minister roman to revamp the soviet Era eco nomic infrastructure and to Cut through the legacy of communist red one May of that there is already an International framework in companies have a including such giants As general digital equipment and businessmen in Ukraine report enormous bureaucratic difficulties and frustration in dealing with their ukrainian these difficulties Range from the inability to schedule and hold meetings with to prank officials and uncertainty i interpreting the eve changing tax codes to such mundane matters As arcane rules for currency there is no shortage of recent emigres who come Back to Ukraine to steal a Quick Deal in their former Home their May predominantly help the Grey should american companies invest in Ukraine if what kind of framework would be the most suitable when these questions Are put to Yuri a senior aide to president Leonid he there is no doubt that investment in Ukraine can opportunities abound in the sectors of Agricula transportation and the catch is effective Western interests need help in Choos ing the investments and in being whisked through the red ukrainian recipients need practice and knowhow in inter National business there is so much All of us need to learn about each come Back and help us do it after seeing the it is impossible to disagree with As the saying goes faced with a some see the precipice and others think of building a we will be Back to build that Sergei Nirenberg is director of the computing research Laboratory and pro Fessor of computer science at new mex Ico state University in Shlomo Weber is chairman of the depart ment of economics and director of the Johnson Centre for economic studies at Southern methodist University in give the kids a break letters to the editor our band was playing in a garage one night about 10 and someone phoned the police on we we rent break ing any and we we rent play ing that there were about nine of us sitting in the garage with the door opened at the Bottom to let some air drinking soft drinks not booze and eating potato and a policewoman said we had to shut Down because of a complaining whoever called the police is wasting the time of the because All they had to do was come Over and could you turn it in going to and we would would they rather we were out slashing their tires or shooting their windows or shoot ing each other since there is no place for 14and 15yearold kids to play our last resort was the and we cant even do not even in the maybe those same adults who Are concerned about their safety and Well being around adolescent gangs and vandals could show a Little tolerance for a group of Young people whose Only crime is playing music and not hurting anything except maybe their own surely the police Are better utilized fighting crime rather than breaking up a group of Young people doing Noth ing to harm Ryan Nash Winnipeg at least Boychuk had an idea perhaps it is time to put Rick Boychuk idea of imposing a curfew on youths into Noth ing else seems to be not too Long Boychuk was scoffed at for raising this if his idea was enacted by Council at that Joseph who was shot while out at 2 might be alive curfew is not an unheard of Many cities in All countries have used this in various to control violent outbreaks such As we Are experiencing in Winnipeg give Boychuk his and consider the alternatives to the gang wars and before Many others lose life and lets be Realis its getting late in the Hilda Winnipeg Latimer did not deserve 10 years i am disabled and disabled bureaucrats cannot and will not speak for no knives or daggers David Martin has decided that his Opin Ion about the Latimer disabled feel Robert Latimer deserved free 3 is the one the disabled through out the article Martin refers to the disabled As but we Are not All Justice was not Montreal police officers walk free after beating a taxi Dri ver leaving him in a Karla Homolka gets a 12 year prison sentence for dismembering and sexual abusing 2 Young Robert Latimer gets a 10year prison sentence for quickly and peacefully terminating his severe How to reach us 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 by handicapped daughters Latimer is not a threat to Humankind and a six month sen tence would be but the David Molgaard Case identified the competence of the Saskatchewan Justice Ca Rolfe Winnipeg nuclear lessons a necessary after Reading the editorial a nuclear necessity free i could not help but wonder at the sort of logic used to justify the two atomic bombs dropped on even though the free press suggested that both bombings were regretful they were Neces sary because they hastened the end of the War and they taught us a grim lesson about the outcome of a nuclear the first Point at Debat Able because Many months before the bombs were dropped the japanese had made it known through diplomatic channels that they desired with the Reser vation that the emperors status be As for the second Point of the that both bombings were in some Way justified because they taught us a grim Les it seems to me that the same sort of rationale could be applied to the concentration Camps that the allies found in the Slaughter of millions of and pos was a terrible thing and regrettable inso much As it taught us a lesson leaving unlimited Power in the hands of a that Slaughter is in some Way even its a pity that in the years since these events took we Haven taken these lessons to Michael Winnipeg dont abandon animals Why do some people still think they can treat animals like trash one we saw the Secu Rity and at a mall debating How to keep a stray dog from wan Dering Back into the being relatively civic we turned Back to suggest they Call the Pound or the humane society to come get Twenty paces i thought about going Back to help them but continued on my later after calling the animal service and then the mall Security i discovered they had just turfed it out in the Street i realize malls Are not set up to care for and that not every one can take the time to care when its so whats my Point animal owners cant expect the Public at Large to care for their pets when they dont have them contained or trained Well enough to stay or come Back when if the dog was just its better off taking its chances on the where hopefully somebody will find and care for it Hemsen Winnipeg Cpl stresses pipeline safety your an explosive Issue free says the process used to test a pipeline for stress fractures actually causes existing cracks to As a Tran Canada pipelines is faced with the dilemma to test or not to test in we Are not in any dilemma regarding hydrostatic testing and retesting As a Means of precipitating controlled stress Corro Sion cracking Sec failures and thus preventing them during nor Mal extensive research has validated that course of action in dealing with Tran Canada pipelines has undertaken studies which demonstrate that repeated hydrostatic testing neither con tributes to significant crack Exten Sion during tests nor results in accelerated crack growth rates Fol lowing the 1994 transportation safety Board ignores this scientific one of the studies was conducted in and thus was not published until after the Tab filed its final no one at Tran Canada pipelines would argue with your suggestion that efforts must be redoubled to find the solution to the stress corrosion cracking prob i can assure you and your read ers that we at Tran Canada pipelines take the problem of stress corrosion cracking very Robert the real message in Chechnya do Western values differ from those of Yeltsin in your editorial Yeltsin War free i fully agree there would be no need for a ceasefire in Chechnya today if he Yeltsin had not gone to War in also it is As you the problem with chech nya began when he resorted to Force As a Means to resolve a contrary to the Resolution of the Yeltsin does not stand alone in using Force As Means of solving a it is equally Dis played in the Western although Force is the ingredient we in Canada use when supporting harsher jail sentences or Boot Camps in order to reduce our crime Force is the component in our military which is maintained even though the cold War has Force is displayed when we Call out the military during the Oka or when shooting across the Bow of a Spanish fishing or when we support the Iraq there Are the nato air strikes on bosnian indirectly we in Canada promote Force and violence in our military Export sales which exceed million All these Are forerunners to a chech and so the primary lesson to be Learned May not be As you Indi in reducing Aid into Russia it is for us to learn and remember that using invariably leads to More Richard Thiessen Winnipeg a northerners perspective As a frequent traveller to Winnipeg from Thompson i have to wonder Why downtown merchants Are not up in arms Over the num Ber of panhandlers and idlers especially on Portage Avenue and inside Portage place i am constantly bothered for spare change by Able bodied peo usually Young there should be More measures to involve these panhandlers in productive Volunteer or paid work so they Are not bothering Winnipeg needs More beat cops patrolling the downtown to mini Mize our Contact with these i can just As easily buy the same goods and eat in ethnic restaurants and attend movies in the suburbs As Down As there is free Park ing at malls but rarely for All these the Down town is deserted and the Only Bright spots Are the Mas Sive Flower Beds and Green space at the University of Shelley Wright Thompson tourism Industry is booming i read with interest the editorial Selling Manitoba free july panhandlers in Osborne Village threat to tourists the article suggests that the provinces tourism department is not aggressively promoting All of the wonderful attractions which Manitoba has to As an Indus try which directly employs approximately Manitoban and contributes More than billion to the provincial Economy each the Manitoba government regards tourism As one of our key sectors and is working with the Industry to realize its full Progress made in the last year demonstrates How Well Manitoba tourism Industry can compete and in 1994 the number of file photo american and International tourists visiting Manitoba increased by seven per other indicators of tourism performance were also very room demand was up per cent in Winnipeg and up by per cent in Rural with occupancy rates in the mid to upper 60 per cent please be assured that we Are constantly beating the Drums about Manitoba vacation oppor James minister of tourism Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Pont Knout at Bennion user you Call this capacity reboot when youre ready Pont make it in me new operatih6 hours it look trhn6 to my Harp ;