Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 5, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus a11 Winnith Fri 2000 what to Wear to husbands mistress funeral by Howard Kleynberg London the lady wrote in she had been to the funeral of her Hus bands longtime and very Public mistress after debating a whether or not to go and b what to in Retro Spect she wondered in writing not about her presence at the funeral but of her in her query to the miss manners Type columnist for the weekend times of name and address with held asked if her Choice of Navy Blue was appropriate inasmuch As it want mourning Black or celebratory the response was More astonishing than the request was sincere a delicate Grey would have been the Ideal wrote the Man from the weekend there also was the almost admonishment How if of you Good manners quite excuse a wife attendance at such name and address is there of was breaking no new nothin9 in ground in attend ouf Ilves that ing a tryst tainted does not have did not the widow of 3 sexual tone French president to it Francois Mit Ter and acquiesce to a graveside appearance by her late husbands mistress As Well the table had been set for such Atten what we were dealing with in this most recent event was despite her Choice of Navy the let Ter writer All eyes present still switched from the deceased to thus prompting her letter to the news paper As to whether she had the appropriate i would have considered that a not an to have the old mistress not be the Centre of the show at her own funeral should have been celebrated As id have worn a hawaiian shirt and White shorts How the world is it is almost acceptable on the european Side of the Atlantic that mistresses Are a Tol Erable part of daily there is some crouching but reality is reality to on the mistresses and other things while still raising some apoplectic Are becoming More we give Europe Star Bucks Coffee and Mcdonalds and they give us mistress Rudy Guliani withdrawal from the Senate race in new York was accepted More to be based on his prostate cancer rather than his fooling the tearful discourse by wounded wife Donna Hamilton played a secondary role and allowed Rudy to Retreat almost protectively into the empathetic arms of his mis Tress number that also note How quietly Newt Gingrich recently married the woman with whom he had an affair to break up his second were sort of getting attuned to these things certainly not at the Southern Baptist but else just look at what has filled out plates in recent years the chronic Bill Clinton and retrospective revelations about lbs and Ike As Well As the fully named Henry Dan Burton and Helen throw in a Man Gen eral hitting on a lady a school teacher having her students and a female air Force Pilot having a Verbout ten penchant for enlisted and were a nation in is there nothing in our lives that does not have a sexual tone to it do we titter or grumble when we read that liver lipped movie actress Angelina Jolie Calls out for More sex before i i Wanna taste everyone in the i wonder what those dozens of betrayed wives will Wear when Angelina is ready to be buried sex it Sells in at movie in in on just about some think americans Are too were we just Haven been As Public about for fear of what our Neighbour will led by european some of those barriers Are beginning to crumble not so much by Choice but by the Sim ple fact that everyone now knows every one else private and that which we dont we always can ask by writing to a miss Man Howard a former editor of the Miami is a columnist for Cox i v turkish kurdish relations Turk presence overpowering despite reduction in fighting by Brad Bird Turkey Here in the heartland of kurdish Militancy the pkg guerrillas Are quiet their imprisoned Abdullah called for a ceasefire last August and they Are their foes in the turkish military have followed army checkpoints still exist but instead of inspecting identification cards with a soldiers Are handing out sugar cubes with a the government has put into effect new measures not military measures but social and economic said Turksel the Young dentist who told me the Story about the sugar finished its completely he says of the fighting that has plagued this Southeast Region of Turkey for 15 years and taken at least but an assistant professor of dentistry at Tigris University Here who was interviewed in his is not a he grew up in the Rich West of Turkey near the Aegean sea and showed an anti kurd the pkg is one Mer chant in the streets of Diyarbakir told others i met in the streets Here thought the pkg still enjoyed wide the turkish government has made key concessions in recent such As allowing the free use of the Kur dish language and launching a Multi billion Dollar hydroelectric dam project called Gap that has doubled the income of thousands and bettered the lives of million thanks to a vast system of irrigation for cot ton and wheat and there is talk about a new kurdish political debate but the kurd Are still unable to have their own stat funded schools and to though these issues Are being debated in the and charges of human rights abuses linger Here like the odour of dirty if they keep hurting the fighting will promised the pkg who said he has three nephews in the guerrilla move one of whom is in prison in an acronym for Southeast Anatolia is so big it dwarfs Manitoba Hydro Limestone dam and other at billion with 22 dams and 19 generating stations envisioned by its scheduled completion in Gap is among the worlds most ambitious feats of Engi i saw Many Kilometres of i1 it o Iii ii 1c unknown Soldier Symbol to All Canada we listened and watched with sad yet the ceremonies that honoured the interment of the unknown Soldier at the National War memorial in the moving tribute Given by the governor general was an Eulogy that i am sure touched the hearts of All who heard a fitting tribute to those who fought and died in the forging of this Only god knows the ethnic origin of this unknown but this is of Little consequence because he is a Cana As we All Are in this nation of this Young Canadian Soldier has been brought Home to but leaves behind so Many that made the supreme it was at the terrible carnage of Vimy Ridge and the costly Victory by the Canadian corps that forged Canada into ceasing to be an appendage of the British let us Hope and Pray that this sol Dier who has been brought Home is not brought Home to a nation that is danger of being but it seemed fitting and symbolic that Earth from each of the provinces and the territories was scattered Over the casket that Canada is Home to All bed Rook Winnipeg hockey hero played for Joy after the emotional funeral and trib utes to Maurice rocket and hearing yet another journalist Peter with Dick Irvin remark that most people there had not seen Richard i wanted to 8urhan 02bilici press file a group of pkg rebels Man a Mountain hideout in Northern Iraq near the turkish Concrete troughs that carry water from the huge Lake created by the Ataturk built in Gap very very said Halil headman of the ancient town of Harran near the syrian Bor with one of his eight sons inter this Arab Farmer told me that five years ago his family lived in poverty and Rode a four years ago water from the dam now he rides a lat Model Toyota truck and and his sons cultivate 200 i was told some Farmers work five times the Fields resemble those of and i saw Barley in its Early wheat is also grown in years when Cotton White Gold is Cotton feeds the thriving carpet government support for farming in the Region is Only common said fourstar general Cetin who from 199799 was in charge of the army Happy people who Are Busy farming and raising families do not become he we have Many ethnic groups up to but All Are identified As Turk ish Dogan told me in an interview at a nato conference in when you speak to the peo they dont want they want to live that is Why we say there is not a kurdish prob there is a development there is a terrorism the problem is that Turkey is a develop ing country and the most underdeveloped area is that Southeast military Man who now commands turkeys Aegean one of four with a total of men in uni continued you i am a Mili tary How can i win my combat with the terrorists without the sup port of the people most damages Are inflicted by the not the that is villagers have been terrorized by both sides and have fled to the relative safety of cities such As this with the Lull in fighting prompted mainly by Abdullah Ocalas imprisonment and position of some Are returning to the in both the country and the the turkish military is clearly an Over powering in this i walked past three army compounds in the space of Only five Large every five or 10 minutes an army vehicle passes by some Are flatbed trucks with four soldiers sitting in their weapons leaning against armoured vehicles with heavy machine guns Are commonly in a stretch of some 600 kilo metres Between Mardin and i passed More that 20 checkpoints and was taken for questioning at two of then there Are the secret police and informers who work Handi hand with the they can be the Shoeshine boy or the Man hawking warned a pkg supporter i the night i left i was visited by three plainclothes police who interrogated me for 15 tense min when i produced a dozen water Colour paintings of turkish towns and they deduced i was a travelling artist and not an arms dealer Allah a Turkey is a Beautiful i told a Young woman who asked about my Job and purpose for visiting this is not she this is kurd Brad Bird lives on Turtle Mountain he is a former free press staff 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 . Remind those Winni Eggers who May have seen him play As i did on in an old timers he was retired Only nine and was a member of the Montreal nil old timers in a game against the Western Canada i was eight years old haunt played organized hockey yet and this was my first exposure to the Winnipeg Arena and big time i was in my getting autographs from red Butch Frank Gerry even Jack Wells though my dad was certainly a canadians i know he was not particularly fond of Richard and his fiery style of he preferred Jean Beliveaux gentlemanly and often encouraged me to make him my hockey when in an almost confrontational manner he called out to the rocket to sign his sons i didst know what to Richard put his bag and Over coat and spoke to my dad while signing my what they said i cant As i think i was in some state of embarrassed i still have that program in another five my son will be i Hope there will still be some hockey heroes left who play for the Joy of the and thanks dad for taking Bill Peters Winnipeg skateboard Story positive As a Grade 8 class containing several students who Are we were Happy to see a positive article about skateboarding appear in the free Eva Wei mans skate boarders full of passion Hay 21 addressed the Issue of How so Many adults hold negative stereotypes about groups of especially when that group people judge skateboarders by what they Wear and not by who they by placing these judgments upon we Are More Likely to turn out the Way they expect us to believes Matt being really Good at skateboarding takes a lot of hard and these Are qualities that our parents and teachers Are trying to encourage us to but when we show them through for some reason the Public Doest see it that some of us feel that society is encouraging us to develop our own interests in life but then at the same time there trying to push us Down the path that they think is right for says Ryan we think that a place like the Edge is a really Good but its downtown location makes it inconvenient to get our parents dont want us taking the bus late at but its our Only making skateboard Parks in residential areas such As would Benefit the teenagers in the area and solve the problem for Busi Nesses who dont want us skating in their parking suggests Riley we Hope that the article helped to change some Peoples opinions and will hopefully increase awareness of the need for More indoor skate class John Middle school Winnipeg doonesbury by Garr Trudeau anal think answer hot Leo so of Jet Jsse ;