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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday September the HERALD OUTLOOK is published each Saturday by the HILLS HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited at Street Georgetown Ontario Second Class Mail Registered NumberOMJ Outlook PUBLISHER K Robert Malcolmson MANAGING EDITOR Colin Gibson AD MANAGER Dan Taylor STAFF WRITERS Ben Dummett Lisa Rutlcdge SPORTS EDITOR Rob Risk ACCOUNTING Jennie Haplchuk Shier CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Joan ADVERTISING SALES Valois Craig Teeter Roberts Kim Haryotl PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT Dave Hastings SuptMyles Stu Robertson Wilson CIRCULATION Marie Shadbolt Rail policy questioned TORONTO Airlines are raising trices because of rising fuel costs People may soon be wishing they could take the train instead But our shortsighted federal government shelved transcon tinental rail service in favor of planes trucks and cars Current events in the Middle East show what a mistake this was Indeed Via Rail is said to be br inging back some of the routes it cut in Ontario Why it dropped them in the first place is a mystery Is it too late to rethink our national transportation policy Lets look at what is happening Automakers have not done much since the 1979 energy crisis to make it cheaper to drive a car The fall in oil prices in the mid1980s dispelled the crisis atmosphere and allowed the industn to sink in to Big cars grew in popularity again Even a modes car is expensie to A would to a month to own and operate a Ford Tempo a recent study prepared Runzheimer Canada for the Canadian Automobile Association shows That does not include an an ticipated in gasoline prices SALES SLUMP With a nse in gas prices likely automakers fear their already dismal sales will slip further Meanwhile airline executives say the cost of jet fuel has risen per cent since Iraq invaded Kuwait Air fares already were poised to increase because of lessened competition in the in dustry The fuel price rise could push them out of reach of some people Price is one factor arguing in favor of trains Pollution is another Arguing against a revival of Via Rail is the fact that few peo ple used it That could change if air fares and gasoline prices rise Your Berrys World WEAPONS by Inc Who loves ya baby The airline industry has been warning of big fare increases for some time The effect of non business travel could be dramatic Travel within Canada already is expensive with the exception of the occasional seat sales If fares much further it will be dif ficult for people to visit relatives in other parts of the countn It is not too late or too soon to restore Via Rail service With perseverance we could end up with a new improved rail passenger system Chances are though that nothing will be done Ottawa will point to its mounting deficit PASSED ON Ottawas problems are of its own making Unfortunately politicians are making problems for the rest of us Were in dept up to our ears our interest rates are among the highest in the world after subtrac ting inflation and our economy Is grinding to a painful halt Chances are we will escape serious recession thats an euphemism for depression But if depression comes and come it might we will be even poorer than the folks were in the Dirty 30s Back then the unemployed could ride the rails from town to town looking for work If depression strikes in the 1990s there will be few rails to ride mOHAWKSM THE ROAD GOOD FOR TOW RAIL LINES IN EC ARE NOW BARRICADES TOTS THE BRIDGE IN NOW INDIANS GOTTA POINT CN RAIL LINES IN ONTARIO ARE NOV THE FEDS TOST ACT SOON INDIANS MUNBBff TO SETTLED TALKS IN OKA CALL IN Art RAIL LINES Kuwait battered on all sides TORONTO Poor Kuwait Not only does the country get overrun by the Iraqi army but countless Western commentators have since added insult to injury The nation is run by a sheik who has even less claim to power in democratic terms than Saddam Hussein himself at least he is head of a political party is how Canadian commentator Walter Stewart put it Other analysts have played variations on the same theme that the Kuwaiti government isnt real ly legitimate Some go further suggesting that if the Kuwaitis didnt quite deserve the Iraqi occupation at least they bear partial respon sibility for the crisis After all they were pumping oil in excess of OPEC quotas thereby driving down the price and hurting Iraqi income Subsidiary negative themes ac cuse the Kuwaitis of not sharing their oil wealth but stashing it in Swiss bank accounts They are also a feudal society not modern and progressive like Iraq in matters such as health education and womens rights And besides they were British- created and really belong to Iraq SURROGATE TARGET Frankly there is something deeply offensive about this kind of reasoning And a little puzzling unless Kuwait is simply a sur rogate target for the real enemy the US It seems as if the existence of Kuwait can be made questionable and if Iraqi actions can be made at partially supportable then the S role can be called into question Stewart illustrates this nicely He called the S military build up the action of a bully While he conceded Saddams actions were blatant international aggres sion he labelled the U S response more of the same Its true that Kuwait isnt a Westernstyle democracy But then no Arab land is or is ever like ly to be given the power and im portance of family and clan rela tionships over Interest group politics But It is beyond ima bow anyone can compare the people Amnesty International considered were unjustly imprisoned in Kuwait to the thousands in Iraqi jails and Saddams bombing gassing and shooting of whole towns and villages inside his own country Its noticeable that Saddam Hus sein won power in through a conspiracy and immediately massacred his opponents This is want Stewart calls a political par ty The Iraq that Saddam rules In cidentally was far more a British creation in 1920 than Kuwait The At Sabah family has ruled Kuwait continuously since the 1600s even when nominally under first the Turkish and then British protection On at least two occa sions it was the Sabah who gave the Saudi royal family sanctuary during years of civil war ad jacent Arabia In fact by most any comparison the easygoing familyrun welfare state that was Kuwait even housesywere free for citizens was a superior place to live than the Arab socialist dictatorship of Saddam Husseins Iraq INTO WEAPONS Iraq is broke not because Kuwait was selling too much oil and what if it was it is Kuwaits oil but because Iraq has poured most of its oil wealth into weapons of war Kuwait meanwhile has in vested much of its profits in the Western world not Swiss bank accounts aiming for a steady cash return from those in vestments in the days after the oil runs out For such foresight Kuwait should be punished It was no accident that the Iraqis couldnt find a single Kuwaiti of note to serve in the puppet govern ment they set up and which lasted only a couple of days prior to Iraqi annexation There are many reasons for op posing Saddams conquest There are a few for allowing it to go un challenged but one of those isnt and shouldnt be any moral am biguity about Kuwaits right to ex ist Poets WITH OR WITHOUT LITTLE BOY OK MINE You can read without writing For that little of mine Without reading you Oh the sun has got to shine He rocs off to school each You can look without seeing And his work should be like Without looking you cant see play You can listen without hearing Must be and wear Without listening you his life Is to be worth while You can feel without touching Should haw love grow in his Without feeling why touch mind You can love without lusting he Is to grow up kind Without love you should Would like to do things for you You can receive without giving When boy Id like them too Without receiving you There are things In lire to do Live life thats good and true You can love without hating Oh that little boy of mint Without loving yon wont htle He don make the sun to nine You can leave without going On world we nave to stay Without leaving you cant go Make the beat of every day You can live without me As In lite we and wind Without you dont know a Job tor you to find By Albert Branca Acton ae Mi