Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, May 06, 1978

Issue date: Saturday, May 6, 1978
Pages available: 271
Previous edition: Friday, May 5, 1978
Next edition: Monday, May 8, 1978

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 6, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba How to keep Good professors 3 poor dont get to University 9 Sweet smell of Success Leisure inside 96102 for 33 Jumble 17 52 weather report from sunny Low High 23 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press 184 May 1978 15 cents with coloured comics final edition by wave Glowacki the Young drum majorette Doest look As if she thinks she needs her teachers after All Friday was the big Day the annual shrine circus Parade along Portage the bands were the crowds were its time to step girls eyes Forward and keep those Batons a spy ring reported exposed by South korean defector Toronto up the Star says a South korean diplomatic official is in hiding after defecting and exposing korean Central hence Agency activities in the newspaper says Yungman vice Consul at the South korean consulate has applied to Canadas employment and immigration department for refugee Sta Tus for his wife and three related what he said were Inci dents of harassment of critics of president Chunghee Parks righting dictatorship and attempts to Divide the Kore an United Church congregation in the newspaper also says in hiding along with his family since March has been interviewed by ramp Security officers and has been examined under oath by a senior immigration Yang lawyer had been advised by the ramp that Yang and his family May be in danger because four korean Central intelligence Agency men had left South Korea for Toronto on april Moro death note sent Rome a police stepped up their Hunt for ado Moro today after Anonymous callers said his red brigades kidnappers have carried out their death sen tence against the political several newspapers said Moro wrote a goodbye let Ter to his but Moros office withheld hundreds of agents from the police departments political Branch began a sweep in and around the nine persons were but detectives did not say the searchers fanned out across 100 kilo metres South of in response o at least three Calls saying Moros body was hidden near the Small fishing they combed houses and cars and boats and also searched the Beach House where Moro used to spend summer vacations with his the Hunt began Friday after callers directed report ers in Turin and Genoa to the almost i Multan Ous discovery of four copies of communique 9 in which the red brigades announced we conclude the Battle which began March 16 by carrying out the verdict to which Aldo Moro has been the typewritten text was regarded As authentic by but it did not say specifically that the 61yearold president of the governing Christian democratic party and five time been cancer agents detected just How Safe is our water by Steve Pona substances thought to cause cancer in animals have been detected in Winnipeg drinking says a report from the cites waste and disposal the measured in parts per billion have also been found in the chlorinated water of most Canadian and United states the report called they Are created when chlorine used for disinfectant against disease carrying organisms reacts with organic humus compounds prevalent in surface samples of tap water tested by the Federal government last year in Winnipeg found them in concentrations of 75 to 87 while tests concluded last january by the City discovered 38 to 79 and tests Are continuing the to be discussed at a meeting of civic works and operations committee says the environmental Protection Agency has its concern by pro posing an interim maximum of 100 in drinking the fact that at the pres ent time Winnipeg water does meet the latest proposed regulation in regard to Halo methane Content does not mean there is no the report continued see cancer Page 1 syrians intervene As Battles erupt in Beirut streets Beirut a lebanese moslem and christians traded mortar and Bazooka fire in Southeastern Beirut Leav ing four persons dead and 25 police but syrian tanks and artillery positions intervened with heavy barrages and stopped the fighting As the christians and moslem accused each other of shooting a in spokesman reported a senegalese member of the peacekeeping forces in Southern Lebanon was killed and another wounded by a Cluster the spokesman said both were examining the unexploded bomb dropped by israeli planes during the March invasion when it went off christians nine apartment buildings caught fire As rocket propelled grenades and tank cannons pounded their Low income residential area of Ain rum Maneh Over the Christian voice of Lebanon radio Sta Tion said the Midnight Daybreak shelling came from Eastern and Western where syrian peacekeeping forces police the adjacent moslem residential Quarter of thousands of Beirut families in neighbor ing areas were jolted out of bed and Many residents of the two neighbourhoods spent the night in basements and air raid residents reached by Telephone in both neighbourhoods said the clashes died Down to occasional volleys of machine gun fire and sniping by All roads in the area of hostilities were closed for civil most shops in both neighbourhoods also were tension that gripped suburban Beirut also forced a cancellation of the weekend horse the track is on the so called Green line that divides Beirut into moslem and Christian saudi arabians and sudanese contingents from an Arab league peacekeeping army have been forming a Buffer zone be tween Ain rum Maneh and the syrian peacekeepers ended 19 months of civil War in Lebanon in november but there have been serious outbreaks a fight Between the two neighbourhoods last month grew into a bloody clash Between syrians and Christian Gauthier resignation accepted Coop Deputy quits the genetic connection by David ii ending and Joan Marks first in a series if you plan to have then you must understand the genetic the health and Happi Ness of your family May very Well depend on medical genetics is the fastest growing and perhaps the most commonly misunderstood area of Medicine today it also May be the held of Medicine most critical to your you can clearly grasp the importance of understanding the genetic connection when you listen to the parents of a Newborn child who has come into the world with an inherited birth defect ask but Why us tvs answer to their question lies in i the genetic con the problems and potential problems Are so Why have we not better understood their costs in vast majority of babies Are but the mathematical ances of any family being victimized by a genetic disease Are Large enough so that any adult contemplating having children ought to know the Basic facts of genetic we can reassure you by noting on the each genetic disease occurs Only once in every live in the incidence of genetic disease is quite some million canadians today carry True genetic and about three to five percent of All live births Are affected by one or More birth defects some some those of you who Arent used to Reading about the statistics of disease might not think that five percent or five in every 100 sounds like much of a that even in the last big epidemic year for there were cases of that dreadful disease in the United that comes to cases of polio per million Ameri describe genetic disease in the same terms and five cases per 100 live births becomes cases per million live scientists doubt that they will Ever find 3 vaccine to halt genetic but this major Public health problem could be significantly even with the in Tiftic and medical information Al ready if Only we could acquaint More people with the Here Are some More of the Statis tics of genetic As Many As half of All miscarriages Are caused by Gross genetic at least 40 percent of All infant mortality results from genetic fac about a third of All patients admitted to Hospital paediatric wards Are there for genetic Rea each human being carries be tween five and eight recessive genes for serious genetic defects faces the possible Lily of passing on a serious or lethal condition to each and these statistics dont even take into account the Many conditions that have recently been shown to have a genetic or others which Are strongly suspected of having these include heart certain forms of diabetes and As Well As the most common mental schizophrenia and depressive if these problems and potential problems Are so wide Why is it that so few of us have been aware of them Why have we not better understood their costs not Only the medical but the moral and social costs As Well although history and scientific development have no doubt been prime reasons for the relatively Small amount of attention we have Given to hereditary problems for so another More significant Rea son May Well be our collective and Gigantic human people subconsciously rebel against the notion that genetic Dis ease is so very says Ian director of the Thomas Hunt Morgan Institute of genetics in Dar win the human being considers himself gods most perfect creation even the evolutionist considers himself evolutions finest and it goes against the Grain to admit the huge num Bers of flaws ones loins can prod newspaper Enterprise association quit Lang tells my by Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent Ottawa a conservative my has been told by transport minister Otto Lang to Stop asking questions about Northern air safety because the inquiries simply cause worry to peo Lang told the commons Friday that the air safety record in Northern Canada compares favourably to similar areas in other the minister admonished my Dan Mckenzie Winni Peg South Centre for reminding the commons that there had been 24 deaths in Northern Ontario aircraft accidents be tween 1975 and along with nip my Cyril Symes Sault see quit Page 4 open not Likely to raise Oil prices saudi Arabia a ministers from 13 coun tries that control half the worlds Oil production Gath ered in this Cool Mountain resort Friday for a meeting on longhand Short term pricing but they Are not expected to raise the representing the members of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries will meet informally today without an Agenda and observers say it is unlikely they will vote to change Oil prices by David Lee cooperative development ministered Mcgill of Mani Toba has accepted the Resig nation of his Deputy minister Maurice govern ment sources said while Mcgill and Gauthier be reached to con firm the sources said the civil ser vant decided to quit in response to a recommendation by the governments task Force on Economy that his position be although Many conserva Tive Las have referred to Gauthier As a highly capable he is one of at least four Deputy whose positions will be eliminated if the task Force recommendations Are the task which was headed by minister without portfolio Sidney Spiva Kand Winnipeg businessman Conrad urged in ils final report in Early april that the cooperative development department be Dis mantled and its functions assigned to other the report urged that the departments staff be immediately Frozen at its existing level of 41 pending its de the departments act it seemed 10 be of questionable who has served As Deputy minister since the department was established seven years had been considered a certain Candi Date for dismissal last fall after the election of the conservative the Deputy had campaigned in the october elec Tion for former cooperatives minister Rene who was soundly beaten by pc candidate Bob Anderson in Springfield ;