%__ Castlegar News resrvorys, ss MORGANTALER: WHAT DRIVES THIS MAN? By JOHN MacKINNON Press MONTREAL — The man at the centre of the bitter, often inflammatory abortion debate in Canada is revered, reviled, complex and no stranger to challenging authority. To millions of Canadian women, Dr. Henry Morgentaler is an inspiration, to opponents of abortion he's a man who kills babies for profit — Morgentaler eludes easy labels Anti-abortion forces routinely denounce him as a Nazi, yet Morgentaler is a Polish-born Jew who survived the death camps at Auschwitz and Dachau. In 1975, the year Morgentaler served 10 months of an 18-month jail sentence in Quebec for performing an illegal abortion, he was named American Humanist of the Year. Otto Lang and Jerome Choquette, the federal and Quebec justice ministers of the day, dismissed his a’ » which had previously gone to people like Linus Pauling, Sir Julian Huxley and Dr. Benjamin Spock. Morgentaler, whose personal worth was once estimated at $500,000, much of it in real estate holdings, has spent hundreds of th ds of dollars ina ingly endless series of court cases. He has said he has no regrets. “Conspicuous consumption is not something I'm addicted to,” he once said. “I'm into causes, not things.” Morgentaler ‘tearned about causes in his brutally painful childhood in pre-Second World War Poland. IDOLIZES FATHER The eldest son of socialist, atheist. Jews in Lodz, Poland, Morgentaler, born in March 1923, has said he felt ‘Morgantaler's commitment has taken a staggering personal toll’ unloved by his mother, and that he idealized and idolized his father. Morgentaler’s father, a locally famous union organizer and member of Poland's Jewish Socialist Bund, was kidnapped by the Gestapo and never seen again. His mother was also killed by the Nazis. In 1950, he emigrated to Montreal with his first wife, Eva, to study medicine and, he hoped, establish a general practice and “live the good life.” Haunted by his wartime experiences, Morgentaler entered psychoanalysis after 10 years of private practice to try to come to terms with his painful past. In a 1984 Saturday Night article, writer Wayne Grady suggested Morgentaler’s “grief at this father's death, and his own guilt for having survived, are un questionably the wellsprings from which his current opposition to authority has been drawn.” Morgentaler’s challenge to the established view on abortion came in a brief he presented to a Commons committee studying the existing law in 1967. He voiced a startling demand for abortion in the first three months of pregnancy “not as a privilege, but as a right.” His east-end Montreal office was deluged with calls and with visits from women seeking abortions. Surprised by the response, and unready to risk losing his licence and a possible jail sentence, Morgentaler sent the women away. The next year, prompted by horror stories of women who had suffered badly handled abortions, Morgentaler began doing abortions. He imported the first vacuum aspirator from England in 1968 and introduced the suction currettage method, which has since become the accepted procedure TAKES A TOLL Morgentaler’s commitment has taken a staggering personal toll. During his first court battles in the 1970s his first wife left him, apparently unable to cope with his commitment to his cause. He racked up $200,000 in legal fees and was barred from practising medicine. At the same time, Revenue Quebec was after him on a charge of tax evasion. While serving his jail term, he suffered a heart attack, and he battled depression through the legal proceedings and prison ordeal He is now separated from his second wife, Carmen Wernili, and has four children, including a son, born Jan. 9 to his current companion, Arlene. When he opened his Toronto clinic in 1983, he was accosted by a man wielding a pair of garden clippers. He | had opened a clinic in Winnipeg the same year and both were the targets of raids by police who seized equipment as evidence in legal proceedings Morgentaler has said the stress and strain of his battles also produced a profound sense of accomplish ment He told Saturday Night's Grady: “I have a vision, a dream that all people should be treated in a humane, compassionate way, not only in the area of abortion but in all areas. Maybe I'm crazy.” AWARD WINNER . . . Mike Kalesnikoff (right) receives Cariboo College Foundation Landscape Maintenance Prize for 1987-88. Award is one of two the Cariboo College Foundation makes available each year. Meeting today over breakdown in talks VANCOUVER (CP) — The ruling must still be nated under the same terms Newborn amazes doctors MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, (AP) — Doctors say it is amazing that a baby born nearly 17 weeks premature and weighing less than one pound has survived her first week, but they remain cautious about her future. “It's just very difficult to say until she’s 4% pounds and ready to go home,” said Dr. David Brasel of the Chil- dren's Medical Centre. Ashley Lynn Cunningham was born Jan. 27 and weigh- ed just 15% ounces. 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A panel of the General Agree ment on Tariffs and Trade — GATT ruled late last year that provinces discriminate confirmed by a vote of the entire GATT membership. The B.C. Liquor Control and Licensing Branch marks up Canadian wine by 50 per cent and foreign imports by at least 110 per cent. Spokesmen for the B.C. wine and grape industries said they didn't know the details of the breakdown but suspected that Canada’s in sistence on a long phase-in period for competitive pric ing may have triggered the walkout. Canada offered to elimi nate wine price mark-ups in equal steps over 12 years in the three provinces — On. tario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia — that grow grapes for their wine indus. tries. Mark-ups in the other as in the proposed Can- ada-U.S. free-trade deal — over seven years and with half the mark-up coming off during the first two years. But the Europeans de- manded all the mark-ups be eliminated in only two years. 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Being part of your community gives us a unique advantage in designing and introducing new ideas and services that are right for the Kootenays. We've been doing it for years. We'll keep on doing it. Because the Kootenays is where we belong. URT CAMPBELL Publisher Every fall, in the Hohenfels area of West Germany, Canadian soldiers engage in war games. They spend up to 100 days in often rainy and cold weather, going sometimes for several days without sleep, eating irregularly, seldom being able to wash properly, and bouncing around in cramped, armoured vehicles that are noisy and dirty. What they are doing is fine tuning their combat skills. Under war-like conditions, Canadian soldiers are ensuring that they remain among the best trained in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This past fall, I was one of a group of media repre- sentatives who viewed the field exercise Rebel Saddle, part of a larger exercise code named Rapid Thrust. To be followed by Raging Stiletto, Real Stuff and Royal Sword, Rapid Thrust was a series of small field manoeuvres designed to exercise combat units of the Canadian brigade in the conduct of defensive and counter- offensive operations. It also allowed logistic units of the brigade to practice their resupply of combat units under a variety of war-like and weather conditions. It is a basic NATO principle that logistics support is a national responsibility and each member nation is expected to support its fighting forces with its own material resources and logistic systems. Prior to our arrival in Europe, 1 Canadian Air Group ~ (1. CAG) had also participated in an exercise. Nicknamed “Cold Fire 87,” it involved our much-envied CF-18 Hornet aireraft. Flying up to 36 sorties per day, the CF-18s were involved in air-to-ground operations engaging army units. Besides 4 CMBG (4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group), in-theatre formations, bases and units assigned to Canadian Forces Europe (CFE) include 1 Canadian Air Group, two bases (at Lahr and Baden-Soellingen), Canadian Forces Hospital (Europe), and the CFE Communication Group. Stationed in Canada, and ready to move to the theatre in times of tension or war, are the Canadian Air/Sea Brigade Group, a Rapid Reinforcement Squad- ron, a battalion group, and individuals with special abilities. In the event of war, 4 CMBG is totally designated for transfer to NATO command. On the other hand, while the three fighter squadrons of 1 Canadian Air Group will transfer to NATO, the Canadian airbases and their personnel will continue under Canadian command. The staging area for the war exercises was an impressive sight. Over 600 tracked vehicles were transported from Lahr by train supported by about 1,200 other vehicles (including 40 new 12-tonne trucks) which arrived by road. Weapons included everything from small arms to 155 millimetre self-propelled howitzers and Leopard tanks. There were 80 tonnes of training ammunition transported as well as 400 tonnes of regular ammunition. Leopard tanks, huge and formidable looking as they are, can just about turn on a dime, but they're a prime target in battle. Moving into battle ahead of other forces, the 60-tonne beasts are vulnerable to destructive missiles that can be launched against them by a single enemy soldier. And they are not comfortable inside. The driver sits cramped at the bottom right, the soldier who will load and fire its cannon is in cramped quarters to the left, the commander sits in an elevated stool with his head usually stuck out of the turret (a prime target for a sniper) but almost the only way to be guaranteed of knowing where the tank is going. Inside, the driver is seldom looking straight ahead but usually down into the ground or up into the sky. Other viewing apparatus provide equally useless sights. Tanks, they say, can last 20 years in training. In battle, they add, they sometimes last only three minutes. The Hohenfels training area,-where 3,995 soldiers were involved in training, is rented at a cost of $8 million, but all the practices don't take place there. The exercises continue out into the surrounding countryside, and into the villages and towns that abound in the region. Some manoeuvre damage cannot be avoided if meaningful, realistic training is to be conducted. Thus, long before the exercises begin, arrangements are made with municipal councils to handle problems. Damage control teams, equipped with vehicles, radios for reporting damage and equipment to carry out minor repairs, rove the area. Compensation for damage is quickly arranged and friendly co-operation with towns people is paramount. As to what residents think about military personnel and i invading their i Maj. Wayne Stuart, a public affairs officer, described it as a “good news/bad news” situation. “The bad news,” he smiled, “is that a tank just ran dver your front lawn. The good news is it wasn’t Russian.” And this emphasis on good public relations is stressed by CFE. All monetary transactions, even on Canadian bases, are carried out in German currency; many Canadians — including all the married personnel — NATO outnumbered Warsaw Pact has a 3-2 advantage By BURT CAMPBELL The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a defensive alliance of 16 democratic nations in North America and Western Europe acting collectively to deter and, if necessary, defend against aggression, particularly from member nations of the Warsaw Pact. And, contrary to public belief, the United States was not instrumental in the push for its formation. Prior to its founding in 1949, Great Britain and Canada exerted great pressure on the U.S. to join. While the Allied countries had demobilized and sent their troops home after the Second World War, the Soviets had not and Canada and Great Britain recognized the threat this posed. As a member of the Alliance, Canada must, individually or in concert with other members, take such action as it deems necessary in the event of an armed attack against one or more of the member countries. NATO operates on a consensus basis and has no supra-national authority. The bulk of military forces remain under the command of their respective countries in peacetime, but in times of crisis or war, command authority over designated forces would be progressively transferred to the major NATO commanders. 7 Canada has 7,200 troops in Europe, France 50,000, the U.K. 250,000 and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) 485,000 (with 770,000 reservists). Commander of Canadian Forces Europe is Maj.-Gen. John L. Sharpe, for the d outnumbered in just about every department. Con ventional wisdom is that an invader needs a 3-1 ad vantage to take and hold ground. Currently, the Warsaw Pact has a 3-2 advantage in manpower, 3-1 in main battle tanks, 4-1 in artillery and a 2-1 advantage in the air. There was a time it was believed NATO's superior technical ability would make up for the numerical difference, but Maj.-Gen. Sharpe says the Eastern Block (which for all intents and purposes is Soviet technology) is catching up and the edge is progressively being taken away. The Soviet Union remains committed to becoming the world’s predominant political, military and economic power and has been expanding its capabilities in every category of military force. The Warsaw Pact ground forces, with over 3'% million men in more than 200 divisions, are trained according to a tactical doctrine which demands that whole fronts, comprising approx imately 350,000 men, be capable of advancing up to 100 kilometres a day under nuclear warfare conditions. NATO’ preme decision-making body is the North Atlantic Council, which can meet at heads of state/gov. ernment level, but normally meets at foreign ministers’ level. Alliance defence ministers form the Defence Planning Committee and concentrate on defence planning issues while the same ministers, meeting as the Nuclear Platning Group, determine policy on nuclear issues. Paralleling this civilian structure is the Military Committee which provides military advice to the civilian authorities and also conveys civilian policy guidance and instructions to the three major NATO commands. Defence planning involves reviewing collectively the of all Canadian in-theatre combat forces assigned to Allied Command Europe. There are not nearly as many NATO forces in Europe as there are Warsaw Pact personnel agit NATO is defence and plans of member nations participating in the Integrated Military Structure against the 2" of a coll of the threat facing the Alliance, The Nuclear Planning Group focuses on developing live in or around Lahr; and joint involvement in such ity functions as skiing are ged. Commander Barry Frewer, chief of public infor. mation CFE (and brother of Max Hedroom of television fame) spoke proudly of the high level of co-operation that exists between the native people of the area and military personnel. In the field, every vehicle is heavily camouflaged when stationary and “cam” can be put on quickly when required. On manoeuvres, men and equipment are outfitted with an alarm system. The helmet and chests of soldiers as well as the tanks and all the armoured personnel carriers (APCs) have receptors connected to audible alarms and, in some cases, flashing lights. Ifa lasar beam strikes a receptor then whatever was carrying it (man, tank or APC) is deemed “hit” and is dropped from action to be assessed by referees and returned to battle a bit later for more experience as the exercise continues. * Cost of CFE is about $1 billion a year, about 10 per cent of our national defence budget. Maj.-Gen. John Sharpe, commander CFE, points out that if we were to withdraw from Europe, our saving would be “maybe” $200 million. He points out that armed forces personnel pay and AT THE FRONT . . . CasNews publisher Burt Cam- pbell (second, right) at the staging area at the start of Canadian Forces Europe fall war exercises. Exercise Rebel Saddle was just starting. Part‘ot a larger exercise called Rapid Thrust, which was a Alliance policy on the strategic and tactical use of nuclear weapons and associated problems. While Canada's most visible contribution to NATO are the land and air military, personnel stationed in Europe at Canadian Forces Bases Lahr and Baden-Sol ingen, Canada assists in advancing arms control and disarmament, reducing regional tensions, and improving international peace and security. A Defence Department “Backgrounder” claims Canada’s active pursuit of “meaningful consultations” ON THE MOVE .. . Huge tank equipped with tracks that roll over and detonate mines before the tank itself passes over them. However, technology has now improved ond mines have been developed that wait five seconds after being activated, thus ensuring they're under tanks when they explode. allowances would continue, there would still be daily operating costs that would continue in Canada, and if the returning forces were spread throughout Canada, installations would have to be built or expanded at huge cost. The most significant threat to our establishments in Europe is espionage, followed closely by terrorism, with other areas of concern being criminal acts, subversion, disinformation and sabotage. Armed forces and civilian personnel are continuously screened and briefed on espionage and terrorist threats and installations are secured with physical barriers, compounded with military police,-armed civilian security guards, and additional military response forces. In the transition from peace to war the two bases would prepare for intensive air operations. Concurrently, 4 CMBG (4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group) would be prepared for combat operations, our UN forces in Cyprus and the Middle East would be withdrawn, military augmentees from Canada would be received, and dependants of military and civilian Canadians would be repatriated to Canada. Although there are some problems, our forces in Europe appear to be a proud group of hard-working, dedicated Canadians. They know why they're assigned to their NATO role, and are a credit to our country. ™ “NX s of small field manoeuvres designed to e: combat units of the Canadian mechanized brigade in the conduct of defensive and counter-of- fensive operations. within the Alliance, particularly on arms control and disarmament issues, “serves not only the objective of enhancing national security and international peace, but also the objective of reinforcing sovereignty and Canadian identity.” It adds: “Such consultations give Canada an equal voice in discussions involving all but one of the major Western powers and also helps to provide balance in our bilateral relations with the U.S.” — ere ee