Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 19, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 50 april lust for senator unhappy at Money spent e drives scientist to andean brothels the Washington Post Washington when Tefre Van Den Bergev a gave his research partner Green Light to spend some evenings in a peruvian Brothel with tax he knew there could be but Van Den Berghe and his George Pri decided their lust for knowledge would have to go before the so the social sciences marched with an assist from their Federal research As Van Den Berghe and Primov focused on Brothel life in the andean Village of san a Broad spot in the Road outside of one of the results of their work was an written by called the peruvian a sexual dispensary and social it was published in the archives of sexual behaviour last As part of a larger study of ethnic and class relation ships in peruvian Mountain the research concentrated on the nonsexual functions of the bordello As a male gathering place for drinking and storytelling As an attraction for Gringo As Van Den Berghe put the repercussions came raining Down monday on Van Den Berghe and Primov and their the National Institute for mental William Laid his monthly Golden Cambodia paying Price life and developments in Vietnam and Cambodia Are still largely hidden from the but yugoslav journalists recently visited both Here is a review of their Belgrade a three years after the end of the Indochina Cambodia and Vietnam Are carving out communist societies from but the Impact of a generation of combat is still that is the picture presented by several yugoslav journalists Back from a rare tour of Vietnam and its neighbor they believe they were the first foreign reporters allowed inside Cambodia since the 1975 Khmer Rouge take Dragoslav writing in the Belgrade newspaper reports that cambodians drafted for the govern ments massive resettlement program to the Countryside Are paying a very High Price for the in there Are no indications things May Start in Rancic said of Hanoi attempts to integrate the North and South and impose food rationing programs to com Bat crippling Northern despite the country still need a special permit to visit the More westernized an interpreter escorting the yugoslav journalists told them enviously you waited half an hour to go to i have been waiting for 30 the souths the is valued More than that of the victorious the reporters Southern Dongs cannot legally buy anything in the but Are prize on its Black agriculture oriented in a stubborn Effort to put its Economy on a totally new has done away with currency and its reel is used Only in the reporters nothing is bought or sold on a free and cooperatives Supply All the yugoslav travellers said they found the system and confusing even to the cambodian officials most familiar with unlike capitalism has not been entirely rejected in Vietnam and some Small businessmen operate with out government the reporters they viewed the South As a promised land where consumer goods filter North Black Market along with such frowned upon customs As Long hair and the once bustling cambodian capital of phenom penh is a Shadow of its former the reporters traffic signs have been painted Over and Gas station pumps stand their brightly coloured signs in full Only pedestrians and bicyclists Are in the the journalists said the capitals which peaked at two million during the now was Down to no More than persons mainly factory hands and communist and military in the North has a car carrying communist party membership of million in contrast to the souths but the South counts two million television sets to the norths the South has a population of 20 the North 30 Mil but the yugoslavs said they believed things May get worse before they get any better in Vietnam with the steady flow to the South of Northern bureaucrats to Foster the communist ideology and government plans to resettle 10 Mil lion southerners from populated areas to Virgin in most of the people have been resettled to the Fields to build As Many dams As possible in a Rice Orient de massive irrigation the journalists said the cambo Dian goal is to provide each of its eight million inhabitants with 688 pounds of Rice the Farmers work with a shovel for at least hours a sleep in Sheds and forget about such luxuries As watching listening to the radio or Reading their three Days off a month Are spent mostly attending political indoctrination resettlement seems to be an additional and very High Price for the Rancic Vietnam biggest problem is food shortages which the yugoslavs blamed partly on careless Ness and the North vietnamese have been put on a slim one journalist a farm manager needs the equivalent of his entire annual pay to buy a bicycle and half his monthly pay to buy Chicken to food rationing has been imposed in the South As Well As the there is no hunger Rancic partly As a result of the Fertile Mekong Delta which could feed about 100 thousands of Small japanese tractors still operate in the and plants Are kept going despite a shortage of spare frequent Border clashes continue to Strain relations be tween Vietnam and and ideological variances rather than territorial disputes seem to be at the Root of the the yugoslavs they saw the fight ing As a Moscow peking struggle by the soviets Supply Vietnam with arms while Cambodia receives its military Aid from casualties were estimated in the hundreds for both sides since the Border clashes flared As Early As fleece award a recognition of the most Lous or most ironic waste of taxpayers on nigh for the Grant it gave Van Den i do not object if academic especially of Van Den Burghes or Phi move generally High rep want to study peruvian brothels or even ancient inca Vestal Proxmire what 1 object to is the Federal government paying for it with Federal research budgets so tight and the needs for mental health research Here at Home so it is unbelievable that nigh would give this project such priority and fund the Field trip to he who handled the primary research at san is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Missouri in Van Den Berghe is a full professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of washing ton in he happens also to be the author of one of the most explicit How to books of our time a Tome entitled Aca Demic which tells the scholarly How to tap the Federal Treasury for Grant that Little irony was not on who railed at nigh for a record of mismanagement and Lack of control of taxpayer funds once the Grant was nigh Grant managers could not be reached for comment last but Van Den Berghe was in his office in actually Loving every minute of his new in flattered by All the amazed at How fair Proxmire is is above his usual Standard for he in sure the senator gets some electoral advantage from but my reputation in the academic Community will be six colleagues already have come in spontaneously to congratulate me for the Golden he the Brothel study was Only a tiny part of the 18month project in my associate Primov proposed this to me and it was done with Complete i was aware of Poten tial but i gave Kim the Green Light to do on his own Van Den Berghe he said that Primov spent about three weeks of eve Ning work on the making 20 visits to san Tuti and spending Grant Money Only for fifty dollars would be a High estimate of what it Cost the american Primov has made a significant contribution to scholarly in terms of Dollar it is damned cheap he Primos article reported that 21 prostitutes were for Mally interviewed and that Many More were inter viewed informally prostitutes were also observed outside the by visiting the Brothel at various it was possible to obtain a Good idea of its every Day As for the Overall Van Den Berghe said he and his associates actually returned about to with receipts and vouchers for we accounted for every last in clean on the Money and i have a Clear pharmacy Fra wifi mowers pharmacy operated by Jack Austin drugs a division 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