Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 6, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba V i i51 ii a i How Good professors 96 102 for a music feast poor dont get to University 9 Sweet smell of Success Leisure Jumble 17 52 weather report from sunny Low High 23 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 85 184 May 1978 press 15 cents is with coloured comics final edition Calls say Moro dead Rome a police stepped up their Hunt for Aldo 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 see Calls Page i Oil prices to stay 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 pric ing but they Are not expected to raise the represent ing the members of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries will meet informally without an Agenda and observers say it is unlikely they will vote to change Oil prices the Young drum majorette Doest look As if she thinks she needs her teachers after All Friday the big Day the annual shrine circus Parade along Portage the bands were playing the crowds were its time to step girls eyes Forward and keep those Batons Price fixing allegations revived by John Sullivan for the third straight Winnipeg City Council has to choose Between identical contract bids from the cites two Cement Inland Cement industries and Canada Cement la Large have each bid exactly for the cites 1978 the prices offered arc also identical to the Penny in each of the three Supply categories Normal Portland be sulphate resisting Cement and Early High strength civic works and operations commit tee will be asked to name the successful tenderer monday after the cites Board of commissioners again refused to recommend either firm for the a Stream of City led by Joe have openly attacked the companies for collusion each year since Zuken has continually demanded an investigation by the fed eral combines Branch after years of identical or near equal bids and several requests by the Noth ing has been the combines Branch has told the City based on court identical bidding Doest necessarily presume the existence of the City must come up with some More evidence see Federal Page i the genetic connection by David Hendin 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 Field 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 the answer to their question lies in understanding the genetic con the vast majority of babies Are born but the mathematical chances of any family being victimized by a genetic disease Are Large enough so that any adult contemplating having children the problems and potential problems Are so Why have we not better understood their costs ought to know the Basic facts of genetic we can reassure you by not ing on the each genetic disease occurs Only once in every live in the incidence of genetic disease is quite some million canadians Toda carry True genetic and about three to five percent of All live births arc affected by one or More both defects 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 thu last big epidemic year for there were cases of that dreadful disease in the United that comes to t cases of polio per million Ameri describe genetic disease in the same terms and five cases pet 100 live births becomes cases per million live scientists doubt that they will Ever find a vaccine to halt genetic but this major Public health problem could be significantly even with the scientific 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 o at least 10 percent of All infant mortality results from genetic fac about a third of All patients admitted to Hospital pc Dalric wards Are there for genetic Rea each human being carries be tween five and eight recessive gents for genetic defects faces the possible Lity of passing on a serious or lethal condition to each and these statistics Donl 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 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 Aee used 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 said 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 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 Ore of at least four Deputy ministers whose positions will be eliminated if the task Force recommendations for govern ment reorganization Are the task which was headed by minister without portfolio Sidney Spivak and w i n n i p e g b u s i n e s s m a n Conrad urged in its final report in Early april that the cooperative development department be Dis mantled and its functions assigned to other agencies of the report urged that the departments staff be immediately Frozen at its existing level of ii pending de the departments act it seemed to 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 Mckenzie told to drop query by Paul Vahit Elave staff correspondent Ottawa 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 safely 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 2 deaths in Northern Ontario aircraft accidents be tween and continued see maps Page 1 Angola says Africa escalating Border War United nations Reuter Angola charged in the Security Council late Friday that South african troops which raided its territory thursday still Are there and Are being angolan ambassador Elisio de Figue Irei do told the called into session to consider charges by his government of South african that the claim the troops were withdrawn after a limited action is a the troops show no sign of the latest information received from an Gola Figueirido South african troops Are still inside an giving the lie to the myth of a limited action by the fascist government of he reinforcements Are still being brought even and the troops show no sign of the bombardment has been a draft Resolution proposing that the coun cil strongly condemn this latest armed invasion perpetrated by the South african racist regime was circulated As the Council the prepared by nonaligned also would warn South Africa that the Council would have to consider applying sanctions in Case of a repetition of the attack on Figueirido urged the Council to approve the Resolution and adopt the economic sanctions including an Oil embargo against South Africa that were recommended by the general Assembly last struggle continues Victory is cer he sum president of the Southwest Africa Peoples organization also called for South Africa said its target in the raid thursday was Swap guerrilla he promised that Swap will intensify its political and armed struggle until the South africans Are forced to end their occupation of or South West Nujoma said the South african invasion Force used French Mirage fighter bomber British Buccaneer bomber and helicopter he charged that their attack on inside was aimed at killing thou see Angola Page 1 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