Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, August 09, 1979

Issue date: Thursday, August 9, 1979
Pages available: 93
Previous edition: Wednesday, August 8, 1979

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 9, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free August riled scots Call whisky cancer tie red herring Mush Anne Taylor of near cuts Down on Gas using them to pull the remains of an old it keeps the dogs costs and keeps her sled dogs in shape during the summer by in shape and is the Only thing that will get the car Japan fears soviet foothold Tokyo japans defence director said yesterday that the soviet Union has gained a foothold in Vietnam that would allow it to Cut sea lanes linking the Indian Ocean with the West Ern Gan i who will leave saturday for a visit to the United said use of bases in Vietnam by soviet military aircraft and Navy ships will have a great Impact upon the present strategic system in the Western it was the first time Japan has sex world pressed concern that sea lanes in the Western Pacific through which most of japans Oil imports and a huge portion of its Overall Trade pass might be threatened by the soviet the statement came Only 15 Days after the defence Agency issued a White paper expressing unprecedented con Cern about soviet military buildup both in Asia and the White paper also said that the United states had lost its superiority Over the soviets in both air and naval use of bases in Vietnam has dramatically increased the ability of the soviet Union to maintain a presence in the Indian Ocean and the South China this Means that the Indian Ocean could be separated from the West a which is a dangerous sign for Western countries including these moves will have great Impact upon the present system in the Western the defence China confirms defection of Hoan peking a China confirmed today that Hoang Van a founding member of the vietnamese communist party and Vic chairman of Parlia ments standing has defected to was reported by Hanoi radio sunday to have fled to China after feigning fatigue at Pakistan Kara Chi Airport july 3 in route to East Berlin for a medical chinese officials withheld comment until today announcement by the offi Cial news Agency Xinhua said to be one of the pro Chi Nese members of the vietnamese communist had been his country first ambassador to Xinhua it said Hoan arrived Here breaking away from the political persecution of the vietnamese author chivas relations with Vietnam have deteriorated since their years As allies during Vietnam wars against France and the United last chinese troops invaded now an ally of the soviet director said through an Yamashita toned Down his remark by saying he did not think that the soviet Union would obtain Perma nent bases in Vietnam As a predicted that the Indian Ocean would not be Cut off from the Western pacify despite the alarmist tone of both the Agency White paper and Yamashita the defence director said Japan did not intend to step up defence spending beyond Levels set Forth in an outline approved by the Cabinet three years defence spending throughout the five he would remain less than one per cent of the nations Gross National and for fiscal 1980 might be even he said that despite his Agency criticisms of a relative decline in naval and air Power in the he would make no special requests to Secretary of defence Harold Brown when he meets with him in Washington on the los Angeles times London a officials of the scotch whisky Scotland big Gest and most famous foreign Exchange were infuriated yester Day by reports that some brands contain traces of cancer causing somebody seems to be out to de stroy the scotch whisky said a Londo based Export manager in response to reports by the National Sci ence foundation and the food and drug administration that some brands of scotch contain tiny amounts of Nitro these sort of people can cause Ter Rible the whole thing is an absolute red quite possibly we have grounds for Legal Scotland exports four fifths of All the whisky it produces and the United states takes slightly less than on third of the last year exports totalled the United states took million of minute amounts present the science foundation said tuesday that minute amounts of cancer causing agents called nitrosamine have been found in six brands of scotch whisky plus 18 and foreign Beers none of them it said the amounts ranged up to two parts per the foundation said there is no direct evidence that nitrosamine cause cer in animals tested but it said animals Hae been affected in Laboratory and lists feel nitrosamine should be consid ered As if they do cause cancer in the food and drug administration named the brands of scotch containing nitrosamine As chivas Black and Sandy Scot and Cutty no nitrosamine were found in a seventh Brand whits the 18 Beers containing Nitroso mines include Lowenbraun Schlitz Pabst extra Miller Lite and Michelob All made in the United states the Netherlands and Newcastle Brown the Export manager one of the whisky firms concerned reflected the general anger in the the who declined to be identified or have his firm said the whole thing seems to be look at the brands 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