Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 29, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sports no Gasser now John Bubbs becomes member of Curling s select 5 see Page 49 split second win Salvino s swish louder than final Buzzer for 67-65 Triumph see Page 52 booze in the Gas tank would you believe cocktails for your car tests show mixing alcohol and Gas boosts mileage see Page 33 Cloudy Low -24, High -14 monday january 29, 1979 i5ci-1nts a Lovic vol so to 101 wife Given Ltd Iny 50s As part of secret Cia research a j by Claude Adams free press correspondent Washington startling new information about Cia funded experiments carried out in Montreal in the late 1950s, involving the lavish use of Ltd sensory deprivation and electroshock to induce amnesia in mental patients is contained in a Book soon to be released in the United states. Among other things the Book details the research carried out by the enigmatic or. Ewen Cameron director of the Allan memorial Institute on the slopes of mount Royal who died in 1966. His bizarre treatment of dozens of patients mostly women was subsidized Possi Bly without his knowledge by a Cia front investigating mind control or among or. Cameron s patients in the late 1950s and Early 60s were a number of Well known Canadian women including Val Orlikov wife of new democratic my David Orlikov member for Winnipeg North. Mrs. Orlikov who has avoided publicity until now recently related her experiences with or. Cameron in a lengthy Telephone interview. Under his care for severe depression in 1957, she was Given varying doses of Ltd a total of 14 times with results that were absolutely she says. Mrs. Orlikov was also subjected to a Peculiar form of therapy called psychic a kind of mental programming through repeated use of taped messages. As a result of this treatment she says she still has difficulty concentrating and feels uncomfortable in crowds. The Orl Kows have written to . Intelligence director Stanfield Turner complaining about the Cia role in her treatment. Or. Orlikov has also discussed the matter with the Canadian external affairs department which he says is keeping a watching Brief on the matter. He says he has Learned that the . Justice department has directed the Cia to compensate surviving victims of the experimentation for any Long lasting damage if the cases can be documented. According to documents procured by the Book s author John Marks or. Cameron a world renowned Psychia Trist subjected 53 patients to what he called de pattern ing in effect Flushing out the mind through the use of Shock therapy and prolonged drug induced sleep. One of his ambitions was to cure schizophrenia by Means of inducing amnesia in disturbed patients. He also experimented with sensory deprivation on patients. Among his medical notes was found the Case of a 52-year-old woman referred to As Mary c., who was placed in a special Box for 35 Days. The treatment failed to cure her mental he wrote. See my s wife Page 4 Puebla Mexico a Pope John Paul repudiated Church Mili Tants in a major address to latin american Bishops sunday saying so Cial Justice must be sought spiritually and not politically. He said laymen were responsible for improving temporal matters using a Christian approach. The Pope cheered by millions As he travelled to Puebla encountered opposition from a group of rebel priests. They organized a dissidents conference to demand that the roman Catholic Church take a More Active role against oppression. John Paul delivered his address before almost persons in a soccer Field at the Palafo Xian Semi nary after his motorcade had inched its Way past an estimated 10 million people along the Highway from mexi City. His speech opened the working ses Sion of the third latin american Bishops conference which is expected to determine the Church s future role in the social and political life of latin America. At a Parish Church across town the rebel priests rejected the papal directive saying the Pope did t consult with priests who know the in View of the Pope s support of a document manipulated by the Bish Ops who do not represent Steps of advancement in the struggle of the Church for the poor and oppressed we will hold meetings to present the divorce Between the Hierarchy and the Catholic a dissident spokesman said. In his address the polish born Pon Tiff cautioned the Bishops against depicting Christ As a political figure involved in class struggle. The idea of Christ As a political figure does not tally with the Church s the Pope said. The 58-year-old pontiff spoke out a against violence to achieve social see militants Page 4 score Board hockey nil sunday Atlanta 7 Detroit 2 Toronto 7 Washington 2 los Angeles 5 Boston 3 St. Louis 7 Chicago 2 Minnesota 3 Buffalo 1 wha sunday Edmonton 3 Cincinnati 0 new England 8 Winnipeg 4 saturday Winnipeg 4 Quebec 2 sports 49-54 inside anytime.7 horoscope.34 bridge.38 jumble.30 comics.22 letters.13 crossword.34 movies.39 television.37 finance.18-21 weather.5 for people. 33-39 Sun. Rises 08a.m. Moon rises 8.j51 m. Sets looking for a fish tank this want and is under pets 41 fish tanks various sues lights and squid. Pm 224 m28 after 6 o m. It is among 1he hundreds of bargains in classified starting on Page 27 Tehran a troops firing machine guns and anti government rioters armed with firebombs turned Central Tehran into a bloody flaming Battlefront sunday in the iranian capital s worst violence in months. At least 27 persons were reported killed and More than 300 wounded. The Street warfare exploded As Iran s political crisis reached a new and dangerous impasse. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini spiritual Leader of the anti Shah move ment rejected a proposal by prime minister Shahpour Bakhtiar for a meeting at Khomeini s exile head quarters in France. The moslem holy Man demanded that the prime minister resign to prove he is on the Side of the Angels and not of the Shah. But official French sources said Bakhtiar would travel to Paris today anyway and this led to speculation that the prime minister under in creasing pressure from Khomeini s legions of militant supporters in Iran might he going to Paris to resign. A French weekly journal de i Manche reported sunday there May be a Deal afoot for Bakhtiar to step Down and then be reappointed prime minister. This would circumvent a key Khomeini objection to Bakhtiar s government that it is illegal be cause it was appointed by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In the Tehran violence one of the reported dead was a Soldier said to have shot himself after assassinating his colonel. Major rioting also broke out in the Northern City of Rasht on sunday. The tension and violence Here had been mounting for Days As the Bakh Tiar government continued to Block Khomeini s plans to return to Iran and transform the country into an islamic Republic. Thousands of pro Khomeini protes ters hooded Tehran streets sunday chanting death to Bakhtiar and one Large group tried to storm a police Headquarters flinging Gas Oline filled bottles against the build ing. Troops rushed to the scene and opened fire with machine rioters dived for cover. A photos Pope John Paul ii standing under a painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe celebrates mass in Mexico City saturday. Thousands of people gathered outside the shrine of our lady of Guadalupe to see the pontiff. Gives a Xebec one year to hold sovereignty referendum Montreal up the Federal government has Given Quebec a one year deadline to hold its referendum or face a vote organized by Ottawa. Justice minister Marc Lalonde issued the warning sunday saying that if the parti quebecois government does t hold a referendum by next fall they have indicated they might want to do it in the Spring of 1980. If they reach that time and Start saying Spring think it would be understandable for the Federal government to go and ask the people of Quebec what their views Quebe cers must vote on whether they want to stay in Canada before they go to the polls in the next Provin Cial election Lalonde told the Bainville Deux-Montagnes Liberal association. It s impossible to indefinitely delay the Resolution of this Type of debate the political instability cannot be allowed to continue he said. If we get to the Spring of 1980 Only to find the pm still in t ready the Federal government at that time would have to seriously consider going to the people of Quebec to ask what their views Are even if the que Bec government is afraid to ask but Lalonde rejected a suggestion at the meeting that Ottawa ask All canadians what they think of the possibility of Quebec Independence by including an extra ballot in the forthcoming Federal election. By David Johnston and Sylvia Townsend the los Angeles times new York a 49-year-old Divor Cee eager for the world to learn of her new concept for a Universal religion based on a technological heaven on Earth following a massive solar explosion is scheduled for arraignment in new York today in connection with the commandeering of a United airlines jumbo Jet flight. Irene Mckinney who told Fri agents she was an unemployed writer but whom acquaintances said was a los Angeles area factory worker was in Federal custody in Manhattan following the hijacking of United flight no. 8, with 131 persons on Board from los Angeles to new York. Authorities said sunday it was unclear whether she could be charged with air piracy for the 10-hour Inci Dent since the plane did not deviate from its scheduled course. Saturday s events followed weeks of statements by mrs. Mckinney to friends and acquaintances that she had some mysterious plan to make the world aware of her new concept in religion. She had this idea of a heaven on Earth and the Sun exploding and she had All this technological stuff which she seemed to understand just per recalled Frank Godfrey a 33 year old Cypress calif., real estate agent who had rented her his two bed room townhouse in Orange county near los Angeles since oct. 2 for a month. Mrs. Mckinney s terrestrial heaven Godfrey said included an end to disease and criminal wrongdoing the elimination of death and electronic devices that would improve bodily functions. Godfrey said mrs. Mckinney asked him to meet her secretly 10 evenings ago in the parking lot of a doughnut stand to discuss her plans. She gave him a four Page scenario for the future based roughly on biblical prophecies of the Earth s cleans ing by fire in which two thirds of the populace would be destroyed. This personal concept of life eternal " was written in 1970 and Speaks of Earth consuming fires due to the extensive net works of Oil Gas and electric lines see woman Page 4 provincial winners 1675463. 8421008, 1929487, 3744224. 2376616 personal bankruptcies up 130% in Manitoba by Allan Wilson personal bankruptcies in Manitoba have increased by 130 per cent from 1973 to 1978, according to a University of Manitoba study. As Well the study shows that those declaring bankruptcy Are not Only getting younger but include a growing number of women and Rural residents. The study says this is happening because of easy credit and ignorance of How the credit system works. The study by Tahira Hira of the University s department of family studies was concluded in 1978, but concentrated on 146 of the 464 per Sonal bankruptcies from 1973 to 1976. Personal interviews were done with 22 of the people involved. Hira concluded that mandatory Money management courses at the High school level May be one Way to teach people How to avoid the major causes of bankruptcy. Over Extension of credit appears to be one of the major she said. People borrow too much and Are unable to keep up with the pay ments. Major factors of Over Extension Are Lack of understanding of the credit system and Lack of Money management bankruptcy is a process controlled by the Federal government where an individual badly in debt can Clear himself and make a new financial Start. After bankruptcy those who were owed Money have no Legal Way of getting it Back. At the same time however the financial reputations of the individuals involved Are damaged. While most bankrupts Felt grate Ful for the new Start Hira said it should be recognized that a High Price is paid by the individual and by society for this new the study said excluding mortgage debt to 50 per cent of a person s annual in come is the most he can be expected to handle. He generally needs the other half for food rent and income the average bankrupt in Manitoba lives in Winnipeg has 3.3 Chil Dren is a Blue Collar worker and has an average income of his average debts Are and he largely owes this to a finance company Bank department store see personal Page 4 ;