Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday March 8, 1978 briefly minor surgery for Broadbent Ottawa nip Leader de Broadbent is raring to get to work following minor surgery tuesday a spokesman in his office said today. Doctors operated on the 41-year-old new democratic party Leader monday for a hernia. The spokesman said there were no complications and that Broadbent is resting comfortably in Hospital. Spanish actors jailed Madrid in a decision sure to damage Spain car5 fully wrought democratic image a military court convicted four actors tuesday of insulting the army and sentenced them each to two years in prison. The court a Council of War under Laws dating to the dictatorship of the late Francisco notice of acquittal on some counts and conviction on others to the defendants in two Barcelona prisons after 13 hours of argument and testimony monday about a pantomime the army charged insulted and injured its reputation. Cloning causing concern new York worried about the possibility of production line cloning of humans three scientists said tuesday they will sue to find out what the . Govern ment has done in the Field of genetic engineering. The suit was prompted by a forthcoming Book in his image cloning of a Man by science writer David Rorvik which claims that a boy now 14 months old was created from a cell of a wealthy unidentified unmarried Man. If it has t been done already it will certainly be accomplished within the next 10 said Jeremy Rifkin a co plaintiff in the planned lawsuit. This tech Nique should be outlawed it s cloning involves the introduction of a single cell into a female egg cell from which the nucleus has been re moved. The hybrid egg is then implanted in a female uterus where the theory says it develops into a human fetus and has Only the characteristics of the cell donor. Governments plan tax cuts Ottawa the Federal and provincial governments Are trying to identify taxes they can reduce or eliminate in an Effort to boost the Domestic tourism Industry Trade minister Jack Horner said tuesday. Lorn or appearing before the commons finance com Mittee said an inter governmental study on the Indus try should be prepared by the end of june with the of presenting recommendations to next november Federal provincial premiers meeting. Man suspected in 200 rapes los Angeles a Man who forces women to submit to him by threatening to kill their children May be responsible for As Many As 200 rapes during the last three years police said tuesday. Sgt. Rudy Ticer head of a seven member unit established to find the Man said the rapist apparently struck again tuesday raping a 2-l-year-old student in the Wil Siire area after first putting a Pillowcase Over her face and then threatening to kill her if she did not submit. Ticer said the Man a Black has been assaulting women since 1975, mostly in los Angeles southwestern and Southern suburbs. In All but six of the cases that might be attributed to him Black women were the Vic Tims Ticer said. New Grain facilities pledged Ottawa Grain handling facilities at Prince Rupert . Are to be upgraded by the Federal government As part of efforts to improve Grain shipping to Pacific rim countries agriculture minister Eugene Whelan said tuesday. Whelan said in a statement that million would be spent installing a new Dock and High capacity ship Load ing facility at the Canadian government elevator. Smoke detectors termed Safe Ottawa Energy minister Alastair Gillespie said tuesday the radioactivity in Home smoke Detec tors presents no safety Hazard. Replying to a request from Martin o Connell Scarborough East that he investigate the Labelling of these devices the minister said he and consumer affairs minister Warren Allmand would review the procedures used in manufacturing and Selling smoke detectors. Energy Export taxes changed Ottawa the Export tax on gasoline and heating Oil will drop by 50 cents a barrel and increase by the same amount on heavy Oil this month the National Energy Board said tuesday. The Board said the tax on gasoline and heating Oil will drop to a barrel from while the Levy on heavy fuel Oil will Rise to from the rates went into effect March 1. The tax on partially processed oils will remain changed at a barrel. Sex mountie jailed extra year Montreal Robert Samson the former ramp officer whose testimony at a 1976 trial revealed for the first time the ramp had participated in an illegal break in in 1972, was sentenced tuesday to a year in jail for a fraud conspiracy. Judge Emile Trottier of sessions court imposed the sentence after the 32-year-old Samson pleaded guilty to using four cheques signed by his lawyer to get Money from a suburban Branch of the Bank Canadian National in 1975 when there was no margin of credit to cover the cheques. Compiled from dispatches persecution Here tops Franco my by Manfred Jager a 34-year-old Winnipeg general practitioner from Spain said tues Day he is being systematically persecuted and run out of Manitoba in a fashion unmatched even by Franco. He said the reason was his Way of practising Medicine does not seem to sit Well with one or More very powerful people Here whom i Don t even the physician or. Carlos Rojo Huurto said in an interview he is throwing in the Towel and will close the practice he has run for several thousand spaniards chileans Fili pinos and italians from the Boyd building Over the last four years. Huerto who was suspended from practice for a month and fined almost by the College of physicians and surgeons of Mani Toba last year for Gross profession Al misconduct in the treatment of a patient and threatened with another charge by the College this year confirmed tuesday he asked the College to agree not to Lay renewed charges in return for a re quest from him to close his office. I know i am finished said Huerto a naturalized Canadian Cit Izen whose 1977 office records were seized by the ramp in january. He said he has no plans to leave Winnipeg after he is erased from the Manitoba medical Register after next tuesday. But he acknowledged the efforts of a committee of his patients and Community organizers to petition the College of physicians and surgeons of Manitoba to allow him to continue his work. I am grateful to these Huurto said. My worry is for my patients Many of whom speak Only Spanish. Who will look after them when i am he said he has not had admitting privileges at any Winnipeg Hospital for some time but did at one time have such privileges at Misfricordia general Hospital. Huerto look his Case to the prov Ince medical appointments re View committee when Grace Gen eral Hospital denied him admitting privileges late in 1976. He told the free press tuesday the committee at the time found in his favor and said he had been denied natural Justice by the Hospi Tal but the Hospital ignored that pronouncement because the com Mittee is not an official judicial body under Law. Huerto whose wife is still in Spain said he came to Canada when Spain was still a dictatorship because of the blend of democracy Huerto said he never billed any one for performing the surgery which landed him in trouble with the College. That Why i say it was an injustice that was done me. I did not perform the surgery for gain. I was punished and i Don t know what he said he got into renewed Trou ble with the licensing Agency be cause he Practised obstetrics de spite being ordered not to. He added Ever since 1973, i have been doing obstetrics continuously working with a consultant obstetrician always. We have Deli Vered a Large number of babies Over the years of them were delivered by myself he said he was never told by the College Why he should Stop practising obstetrics. The operation for which 1 got into trouble had nothing to do with obstetrics. It also had nothing to do Wilh paediatrics by the As for any suggestion of fraud connected with the current ramp investigation of Herlo office rec ords the doctor said he has not defrauded medicare at All and that this will be revealed by the investigators. He said he has a House and debts of partly stemming from the Fine and trial assessments As Well As Legal costs he incurred last year when he was charged by the College of physicians and surgeons under the Manitoba medical act. Free estimates in shop in Home . Service service hot 786-5583 1300 Portage ave. Pm. 786-6541 attack called unprovoked rhodesian troops make raid on guerrilla base inside Zambia forecast for Winnipeg Bissol intr Blakc and red River re Gions occasional Cloudy periods today South wind at 30 to 10 mainly sunny thursday. High Oday near Zero Low tonight near High thursday Zero to Extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba Cloudy Friday. Sunny saturday. Temperatures near Normal. Cloudy and Milder sunday. Northern Manitoba sunny Friday and saturday. Snow Likely sunday. Cold Friday. Milder on the weekend. Northwest Ontario Cloudy Friday. Snow Likely especially in Northern areas. Mostly sunny Over the weekend. Temperatures following arc the minimum temperatures for the 12-hour period that ended at 6 . Wednesday and the maximum temperatures for tuesday. Salisbury a Tho rhodesian army says it killed 38 Black guerrillas and lost one Man in its first admitted strike into neighbouring Black ruled Zambia in years of War with Black nationalist guerrillas based there. The military command said it made a self defence raid on a guerrilla Camp at Langwa 16 Kilometres inside Zam Bia after learning that guerrillas of Joshua Nkomo Zimbabwe african people Union were planning a major attack into White ruled Rhodesia. Zambia said that the rhodesian strike was unprovoked and Indis Crimi a government spokesman in Lusaka said that zambian troops shot Down six rhodesian planes but the Rhodesia is said no zambian troops or civilians were in the Vicinity of the Camp. The raid was announced As the in Security Council continued debate in new York on Black african demands Ilia it condemn the agreement last week by prime minister Ian Smith and three Black moderate leaders to give the Black majority control of the rhodesian government by dec. 31. Nkomo and Robert Mugabe the Leader of guerrillas based in Mozambique were scheduled to speak in the Council debate later today. They oppose the Smith agreement because it shuts them out and they contend that they alone Are entitled to control the future Black government of Rhodesia or Zimbabwe As it is to be known. Bishop Abel Muzorewa one of the Black signers of the pact with Smith was in Washington to Confer with . State Secretary Cyrus Vance. He said he Hopes to defend the agreement in the Council debate and a Western member of the Council said he gave the Bishop an even Chance of being heard. But the Council refused to hear a representative of Smith another Diplomat at in Headquarters said. Zambia made the first announcement of the rho Deslan attack reporting rhodesian forces attacked Langwa Wilh jets helicopters and ground troops. No casualties were reported. Lulu the Thod asian command issued a communique that said its troops Cap tured several guerrillas who revealed the existence of a Large terrorist base across the Zambezi River in Zambia. During surveillance of the area the communique said Nkomo guerrillas were observed rehearsing crossing the River in boats and one group started across the River. Once in rhodesian Waters they were destroyed by the rhodesian Secu Rity the statement said. It became apparent that this group was the forerunner of a Large incursion which was in the process of being mounted. In consequence a self de Fence operation was launched against the terrorist the rhodesian government has admitted attacking guerrillas bases in Mozambique in the last 18 months but Hud not previously announced any strikes into Zambia. The zambian government also has said nothing about any previous raids although zambian sources reported one last month in which 20 guerrillas were killed. Victoria Vancouver Ca Narv Edmonton Regina Winnipeg Thompson Kenora Brandon Dauphin Thunder Bav Toronto Ottawa Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami Minneapolis new York Phoenix los Angeles Boston Amsterdam Athens Berlin Max. Man. 13 4 13 6 Helsinki Honolulu Lisbon London Madrid Moscow Paris Rome Stockholm Tel Aviv 20 13 15 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean .2 -14 March -4.2 -21.2 25 21 last year 3.0.3 -11.3 -42 2 -13 Normal -5.6 -17.8 -11 7 2 -5 highest on record 23 11 17.8 in 1878 19 14 lowest on record 3 -7 -37.2 in 1939 9 2 precipitation 18 12 nov. 1 to March 8 65.0 Millimetres b 4 Normal 99.6 Millimetres deaths Boulet Dominique 61, of Montreal husband of Louise Boull. Buchanan Thomas Archibald 60, of 760 Atlantic Avenue husband of Edith Buchanan. Campbell Isabella Ross 86, of fi56 Minto Street widow of Ewen Campbell. Capel Mary Ann 76, of 45 Lydia Street suite 3. Epp Rev. Jacob Peter 86, of Dogwood Manor for Merly of Steinbach Man., husband of Margaret Epp. Gibson Margretti s., 60, of 1275 Burrows Avenue wife of Harry r. Gibson. Johnston Henry c., 85, of 778 Mcmillan Avenue suite my husband of Henrietta Johnston. Karst Adam 58, of Winni Peg. Leakey Charles Edward 77, of Penticton ., Hus band of Gladys Leaney. Luczkiw Nicholas of 245 Kimberley Avenue East Kildonan husband of Annie Luczkiw. Mccaine Gordon Robert 57, of 11 Greene Avenue East Kildonan husband of Olive Mccaine. Miller Agnes Mccarns 65, of 103 Helms Dale ave nue East kill Conan wife of Gustav Miller. Milne Mary a., of North Palm Beach fla., wife of . Alastair Milne. Pattinson Grace Elisa 91, of Holiday Haven for Merly of Gladstone Man., widow of Leathley Pattin son. Peters Anna 77, of Stein Man., wife of Henry Peters. Raeside Morley 43, of Valley Centre calif., son of Juanita l. Raeside. Robertson or. David of Naramatta ., formerly of Richmond ., Hus band of Mary Jean Robertson. Holland Robert 71, of Winnipeg husband of Cecilia hol land. Shirtliff Lewis Henry Man., Hus band of Elsie Shirtliff. Slater David 82, formerly of 221 Wellington cres cent suite .husband of Leda Slater. Smith Robert Vernard 79, of Coquitlam b. C., for Merly of Manitoba Hus band of Roseanne Smith. Sorensen Harold Lykke 82, of 33 Edmonton Street. Spence Virginia 35, of 64 Boyle Avenue. Stannard Lois Mary of Vancouver. 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