Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 24, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free March particle beam system sought Reagan proposes futuristic technology to overcome threat of soviet nuclear missis continued from Page 1 continue to pursue nuclear arms negotiating from a position of strength that can be ensured Only by modernising our strategic at the same the must take Steps to reduce the risk of a vent ional military conflict escalating to nuclear War by improving our nonnuclear he in announcing plans of the new weapons Reagan said he recognizes that defensive systems limitations and raise certain problems and ambiguities if paired with offensive they can be viewed As fostering an Sive but with these considerations firmly in 1 Call upon the scientific Community who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great ends to the cause of Mankind and world peace to give us the Means of ing these nuclear weapons impotent and search for a plan in a briefing before the a senior administration official said the research will be aimed at parti Lebeam weapons and other futuristic technologies that might be used to shoot Down incoming the generic technologies Are by no Means but they have been there for said the who spoke on condition he not be what is being launched today is a search for a the official said the United states now is spending about billion a year researching various types of antimissile the official said the new research Effort was endorsed by the joint chiefs of staff last the administration official insisted the program would not violate the abm noting that it permits research and during his Reagan displayed four Blacka Edwhite photographs taken by spy planes of soviets up plied weaponry and installations in Grenada and Reagan said the pictures Demon Strate the soviet Union is spread ing its military influence in ways that can directly Challenge our vital interests and those of our Reagan used a series of charts to document the existence of a huge soviet military virtually All of the material has been used previous we pay a great Deal for the weapons and equipment we give our layoffs expected weekly president Reagan poses for photographers in the Oval office last night prior to speaking to television Bush says cruise missile testing s National i military Reagan there has been some waste in the he we now Are pay ing the delayed Cost of our neglect in the 1970s signal of decline that is Why i am speaking to you tonight urge you to Tell your senators and congressmen that you know we must continue to restore our military if we Stop in Midstream we will not Only jeopardize the Progress we have made to Date we will mortgage our ability to deter War and achieve genuine arms and we will Send a signal of of lessened to friends and adversaries Reagan is pushing for a defence budget 10percent in crease in Pentagon spending after Dis counting for House democrats want to limit the increase to four per while Senate republicans Are talking about a five percent continued from Page 1 emphasized strongly it wants the talks to but he said if the sits still and leaves the soviets with the new mis Siles in would be no incentive for the soviets to prime minister Trudeau told the commons after his talks with Bush that Canada was not asked to test the but under intense he turned the tables on nip Leader de Broadbent and asked him Why he had not protested the soviet arms we never heard from him when the soviets were testing and putting in place the of which 350 Are deployed in Europe each with three nuclear Trudeau we never heard the Demontra we did not see the nip leading the masses with signs to protest Bush said it is no secret the Hopes to test the cruise someday under an umbrella arms testing agreement recently signed with he said he believes such testing is in the Canadian National he said Canada is a Good member of the nato Alliance and that Europe safety is based on the we sometimes forget what this Alli Ance is All about Freedom and rights and the right to which we tend to take for granted in Canada and the United asked whether Canada is doing its Bush claimed it i cant picture this Alliance without he Canada is Funda mental to he said the relationship Between Canada and the is Canadas military contribution is generally criticized As inadequate and Bush avoided the citing instead Canadas Devotion to Freedom and its contribution in the second world external affairs minister Allan Mac Eachen said the two sides discus sed reagans soviet pre Mier Yuri Andropov proposal and several he said reagans plan is Ideal because it would result in no inter mediate Range nuclear weapons in eur the soviet proposal is unacceptable because Britain and France have rejected under that propos the soviets would be limited to the combined nuclear strength of Brit Ain and Maceachen said the Federal Cabinet had its eyes open when it agreed to sign the umbrella weapon testing agreement with the it knew perfectly Well the would want to eventually test the testing would require a further Cabi net from Pige 1 development minister Muthel Smith will be meeting to discuss ways of addressing the including the possibility of work but she held out no great Hopes for the employees Short of getting contracts for More there int much we can there have been periodic layoffs within different sections of the inter City bus production but nothing like this proposed Plant wide said Union business agent Mike the employees were thrown out of work for about 45 Days in the fail when motor coach worker sin went on the bus shells produced Here Are shipped to Pembina for installation of motors and transmissions and the strike prevented Malcolm said orders had been can celled and the company failed to receive other contracts it had competing for work motor coach Parent greyhound which normally orders 400 buses a is not ordering any this said motor coach is a subsidiary of Grey he and it is competing for orders with a similar Plant in new Mexico which finds itself in the same he said the number of people Laid off could be reduced if orders but he was not aware of any new business prevent the first Layoff Macisaac said another 30 people Are expected to be Laid off in april and the rest roughly on a weekly basis throughout May and the first week of the company notified the provincial labor department eight weeks ago of the first Malcolm and then a week later sent another letter saying there would be More the Union received copies of the letters As notification of the the employees ratified a two year contract in november giving them wage increases of 10 per cent in the first year and eight per cent in the the contract was ratified while most of the employees were Laid off As a result of the strike in Pembina which halted production Desjardins says Misc unaware of problems at flin flon Hospital a report two weeks ago to the Mani Toba health services commission gave no indication of any staffing problems at flin flon general health minister Larry Desjardins said yester Desjardins told Las the report showed there were no unfilled positions at the including the intensive care he was responding to questions from tory health critic Bud Sherman about the death of Alvin who died after he get into the Hospi tals intensive care it was closed March 1014 because qualified nurses were not Desjardins said the commission was not informed of the units and added his department is investigating the Sherman Garry wanted my sought for Eriksdale so Hospital can reopen continued from Page 1 dozen other communities now look ing for More Mccaffrey but he could not name our people have met with the Hospi Tal in Eriksdale and we All realize its not the easiest thing to attract medical services to Rural communities or to get replacement medical services when a doctor he in this Case there is nothing to suggest to me that there will be problems regarding a Cess to medical services for the people of Mccaffrey Hopes Eriksdale prob Lem will be solved by the end of next Gibbings said area residents have been made aware of the Eriksdale problem is not he adding that a Lone doctor in a Community will Burn there is now no Active treatment of patients at the although the attached personal care Home is functioning John executive director of the Manitoba medical which represents the provinces Doc said there Are 101 reasons Why it is difficult to attract physicians to Small and it is a problem faced across the he suggested the overriding reason for the reluctance of doctors to fill More Remote Points is the Lack of amenities compared to Urban Loca As there is not the same professional support in smaller its very difficult to keep in touch with your he the shortage of doctors is a con Cern of the he adding there is no easy solution to this assurances from Desjardins that Northern hospitals be partly crippled by nursing and asked for the ministers guarantee a similar incident would not but Desjardins said he give that guarantee because his department cannot know everything that is going his officials cant be at every Hospital every he there is no Way that the govern ment is responsible for every single he noting that Community health professionals Are responsible to report such Sherman countered that the closing of an intensive care unit for four Days in a major Urban Centre is not a province rapped flon mayor Nazir Ahmad criticized the province for not adopting Strong enough measures to Deal with the shortage of qualified intensive care nurses in the the government appears to be stuff ing off the Nystrom tragedy As one of those incidents that no one can do anything Ahmad he said the province must take Steps to make working in Remote Northern areas of the province More financially rewarding to qualified while stressing no one is to blame for Nystro rns Ahmad said he is angry because the province has been aware of the shortage of qualified nurses in the North for some he said the not the Northern must Lead the Way toward improving the situation because health care funding is a provincial artificial heart patient Dies continued from Page i heart and vessel functions was in the physician the heart had been pumping six to eight litres of blood a but shortly after 1 Cost it dropped Sud Denly to As Low As litres a in the past he has been sick in single now we Are dealing with a Man sick in multiple Peter son told the evening news Confer Peterson had indicated earlier that the decision by doctors on whether to place Clark on kidney dialysis would depend largely on the reversibility of whatever was causing his kidney thus justifying one More attempt to prolong his both Clark and Bis Una would be involved in the Peterson said asked about the attitude of Una Clark concerning Peterson said All the Way through and Clark and the doctors have Dis cussed whether to their unanimous decision has been to Contin at some there May be a contrary the need for such consultation and decision making was not Peterson had said earlier yester Day no one Here is interested in maintenance of an undesirable asked whether it was As ethical and As Legal to pull the plug on the artificial As it is under certain conditions when a patient is on a Peterson replied we Are in decisions about health and death due to a patient having received an artificial heart will be new ones for All of us the medical team and Clarks we will move As wisely As we can and consult with including since receiving the artificial heart on in an operation deemed necessary to prevent his death from chronic heart Clark had sur Vived Leafs in air sacs in his brain a broken valve in his artificial chronic nosebleeds and aspiration to Addi be continued to suffer from advanced and irreversible Emp Hyse hot Wax special and with car get a car Wash at any participating Gulf location this saturday or March and Well throw in a hot Wax for Only 1 p Gulf washes More cars than anyone else in we use Only modern equipment to help 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