Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus a11 Winnipeg May 2000 writers Arent words Are by Michael Olesker t a 7e went to new York the other Day to look for a Community f of the new yorker Magazine was celebrating its 75th so we figured this was a Good place to get up a search party since novelist Salman Rushdie would be and musician Paul Simon and critic John plus Broadway types such As George Wolfe and Betty Comden and Adolph and Tom if half those names throw that part of the words Are the front men for the signals we Send out that a brain is in but the damned things keep getting or or used for the most insignificant words translate Market trends instead of and the people who use words so Well that they take our breath away tend to become afterthoughts in the Post literate for just two Comden and they were part of a new Woras Are yorker discuss dosed to Ionon Sifein u about about the human condition the modern All Treyve done is collaborate for 60 you heard of singin in the rain they wrote the you heard of on the town they wrote there is a currently Dis that knows their names and delights in the memory of their Abun Dant and another currently filling the Earth with their Stock Market portfolios and their com that Hast the time or inclination for for these clock watchers and Cross fertilizers of communication consists of the Well articulate de the shrug of the the culture is and weve heard for a couple of decades now that the written word is that not since most of the people saying this Are saying it with written and the precious computers Are filled with words to be but words Are supposed to Tell us Sto Ries about about the human and the world seems to move too quickly for that the rapid fire line of the to sitcom becomes the Symbol of our our attention Span is supposed to last longer than the political sound so Here was talking about becoming a songwriter i want inter ested in any of the music i heard As a i was essentially interested in nothing but the then i heard by the and Earth Angel by the i never forgot any of those when i started listening to South african music for my Graceland i that but i dont know its the South african harmonies that had such a big effect on our its the african after the Sec Ond world the mingling of the they were influenced by our and we were influenced by Here was the author and the atre on Broadways huge Finan Cial Success million in revenues last More than double All the new York sports but its dearth of serious dramas is Broad Way merely a show shop can we make Art As Well As Money the skill goes out of the unless you do the it spectacle in other spectacle replaces its the modern in the those get noticed who shout the who dance the who turn on the brightest we forget How powerful Mere words can then there is the famous playwright want part of the new yorker but a revival of one of his the real just opened on Here is what one of his characters says about Lan Guage Are standing or describing meaning the so if you look after them you can build Bridges across incomprehension and but when they get their Corners kicked there no Good i dont think writers Are hut words they deserve if you get the right ones in the right you can nudge the world a Little or make a which children will speak for you when youre East asian politics historic korean Summit May hold key to peace in China by Tom plate it could prove the ultimate East asian geopolitical Bank Kim Dae Jung of South Korea and Kim Jong ii of North who have never met but have a historic Summit scheduled for next May hold the key to peace not Only in Korea but in that because China has made it very Clear that any new missile defence system in East Asia that included the military involvement of Taiwan was Beijing regards Taiwan not As a legitimate government but As an offensive illegal Politi Cal its very existence is a continuing affront to the avowed aim of realizing a greater which also includes Hong Kong and Macao As Well As notwithstanding chivas advocates of an ambitious regional missile especially in the Congress and the Point to the need to protect the Neighbours of North this failing stalinist state owns a few nuclear bombs and has tested a few including one last year that flew alarmingly right Over while the North korean threat should not be min if it could be properly managed and some How be cooled the arguments for a missile defence system would begin to lose and Cooling North Korea Down is precisely what Kim Dae Jung of South Korea has been try ing to since his inauguration in his administration has aggressively advanced a Sun Shine policy of engagement with the Kim has virtually staked his presidency on conservatives in the Congress and in South Korea have criticized the Effort As yet in reality theres Little alternative to kims Basic plan other than some sort of military Rete Sioning that few so now that Kim Jong ii has accepted the invitation for the first Summit of the two Korea since the tragic 1953 division of the Kim Dae Jung stands to win big though North and South negotiators seem to be having a Devil of a tune simply getting the summits procedures and Agenda onto there is no doubt that the rest of the Region would Benefit enormously from a assuming it actually takes place june that reduces Penin sular a Region wide missile defence system might then begin to look More like a risk than a chivas fear that the missile shield would be a smoke screen hiding the wests desire to increase military ties with Taiwan would vanish were the system actually never to be current the suspicion of Western ill intent erodes Long Range stability in East Asia a hostile if convinced that Japan and the United states were conspiring to Cook up a taiwanese separatist would probably throw All caution to the wind and take dead aim at the islands formal Independence is the one world development Over which the Mainland chinese authorities have said they would go to i believe its probable that Chen Taiwan presi does in his much anticipated inauguration speech on May this shrewd lawyer and former Taipei mayor will skirt Beijing demand for outright obeisance to the one China but will avoid taunting the Mainland Tiger in the foolish and risky manner of his Lee the outgoing 73yearold president absolutely infuriated Beijing by demanding that any Cross Strait negotiation be conducted As if Taiwan and China were equivalent that wholly unnecessary diplomatic Blunder set relations Chen can save the because he represents the associated pre8 North korean stands facing his South korean counterpart at a Border party that once advocated a stance from which he has since distanced he could elevate Taiwan diplomacy to a new level of sophistication and world he should forcefully engage his counterparts in Beijing in a vigorous new Cross Strait diplomacy that somehow satisfies the letters desire for theological affirmation of some notion of China someday under one theoretical without Selling his people out to the Rule of an alien commented chinese american Leader John Fugh attired army at the annual conference of the committee of an influential chinese american Public policy recently in los Angeles a lot will depend on what Chen says May True but the Success of Chens diplomacy will also depend on the willingness of the Peoples Republic of China to take the Long View and realize theres no Way it is going to be Able to shoot its Way into the hearts and minds of the people of theres no military solution for the Beijing regime that Doest risk toppling it from Power As Long As the United states is even Over that cute Little baby democracy in that Why the smart play for Beijing is to Degoti negotiate and negotiate some More otherwise it puts itself behind the eightball at the very time South Korea Kim May be ginning up a More sophisticated korean dialogue that could spill Over onto the rest of the Region As the ultimate peace reinforcing plate teaches at the University of los this article first appeared in the los Angeles letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone letters May be letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email bombers gesture truly touching i was elated to the Point of rapture upon learning of the touching gesture made by the new super Board of the Blue bombers in the May 5 edition of the free press bombers Selling pieces of they have truly bestowed upon Manitoban the Opportunity to make a real difference for those whose needs Are i Trust that Many will be moved to make including an administration fee donations to the Sto ried Winnipeg football perhaps this Avenue of communal enrichment will even be seen As a real alternative to such less exciting local ventures As Mossbrook the society for Manitoban with disabilities and can cer Dave Pinsky Winnipeg fas column insightful Lesley for your insightful and revealing editorial on fetal alcohol Stop alcohol Assembly us that spawns violent criminals May As an i have met so Many of these it if a frightening we Are so tragically poring the needs of our children and their ends and we have been using teat twill ing in Une for your keep us Susan Fonseca hog pollution concern ironic in response to the article on april talk on hog bams tougher than i applaud this government for the initiative of trying to clean the Environ ment but i also have some the article quoted Premier Gary doer commenting on a proposed barn operation in the pm of Hanover we have just started our first move to Stop a hog barn in an area that was not sustainable for the sewage and Lagoon that has it happened before from the Provin Cial government we kind of left these fights to the the timing of this statement by the Premier is since the Day before i received a letter from conservation minister Oscar dismissing environmental concerns for the Lorette Lagoon being located six kilo metres South of not far from the proposed hog operation in not Only have the environmental concerns of the residents been but so have the concerns of Western economic which required that a cumulative effects study be done before any fed eral Money be allotted to the this is similar to the study Manitoba conservation is requesting for new and expanded hog because the Rural municipality of tache refused to do the they lost the infrastructure this assessment May have recommended against not what property developers would the project now May go Over budget unless the municipality at Large pays some this will be the Lith Lagoon Dis charging into the Seine River diver second largest after to not one environmental Public hearing has been called on the Geloca Tjie environmental study by the proponent consisted of a water Sam ple from the Seine River diver Sion in july 1994 and six bore Hole samples at the new Lagoon with disregard like one could wonder Why people at Gull Harbour got sick Lake Winnipeg in a study of All Wastewater management should be development should not take priority Over the envy As is now occurring in this does not help our credibility when we ask the governor of North Dakota not to pollute our Rural municipalities Are ignoring their Resi dents and see dissidents As a Nui one of my Neighbours is having to defend himself because the pm of tache is suing him for costs when he appealed a municipal Board ruling allowing the Lagoon relocation near his the provincial government has taken Only one Small a Long Road Barry pattern Lorette doonesbury by Garry Trudeau ;