Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 22, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free november 1987 sunday file k living in Thi hos loneliness roots Early chronic loneliness has very Little to do with being alone and a great Deal to do with feelings that go Back to people who cannot remember a time when they did not feel lonely probably came from a family whose members were unloving or unable to show according to an article in the current Issue of without people tend to grow up with scant emotional katrina a new York thera said Many of the Young women she sees need help in breaking a Cycle that began with which led to feelings of which made them feel lonelier and More theres a tendency to let the problem just to she its better to in going to Force myself to be with to grab hold of this before i become too gourmet ice Sellers just go with the Floe designer ice will soon be Mak ing its Way from the glaciers of Northern British Columbia into the trendy drinks of Cool califor its different from regular Frozen says project manager Jack Lott of ice age ice Lott says the Glacier ice is free of and its clarity and crystalline Structure make it at it also will fizz and pop when put into a the Vancouver based company harvests ice that has calved or broken off from Salmon about 50 Kilometres East of this Perrier of glacial ice will retail for about a asthma May trigger death in adolescents asthmatic youngsters suffering from depression Are More Likely to die of their illness than their Hap More Well adjusted counter according to recent studies by doctors at the National jewish Center for immunology and respiratory Medicine in Denver indicate that Many of the deaths May be one of the things that int known about asthma is that it is a disease that said Bruce who Heads the Pedi Atric treat ment unit at National which affects an Esti mated seven per cent of the popu Doest kill very but its lethality seems to increase when linked with Miller advises doctors to consider depression in asthmatic patients who do not seem to be managing their condition asthma sufferers Are not particularly prone to yet asthmatics May be More Likely to suffer severe physical Sid effects of emotional especially during the rather turbulent adolescent Miller German Hung up Over expensive Call an elderly West German woman who failed to replace her Telephone receiver properly after a five i Nute Call to a relative in received a Telephone Bill for because of a fault in the Kenya the connection was not the meter ran 10 the 86yearold woman asked the West German Telephone Agen in vain to excuse the she then petitioned and was told to pay Only one third of the Bill for her Light activated drug helps fight cancer a drug activated in the body by Light can destroy cancer without harming Normal say doctors who experimented with the therapy in in a report in the England journal of Doc tors from Massachusetts general Hospital described their use of photo dynamic therapy to help pie with bladder doctors first inject patients with the drug tumor cells Latch on to the compound while Normal cells pass it according to George who directed the after waiting two the physicians use a slender Fibre tube Shine laser Light on the can Cerous exciting the Remato porphyrin that remains in these this kills the cancer but Normal cells Are physicians in China have used the procedure on More than the doctors treated 19 patients tutors were eradicated in nine of Couch potato habits May begin at school its a fact Many would sooner not like to know your general fitness level begins to decline about the time you first sit at a desk a school one conducted at the University of found that aerobic capacity peaks at age its All downhill from making matters school systems have scaled Down physical education programs to put More emphasis on the three is critics defusing the naturally Active child and imply ing acceptability of a sedentary parents also place More importance on academic skills in the schools and Many of them dont contribute to a Childs activity at according to Dan Cooney of the Canadian association of physical education and recreation in but parents Arentt entirely to Many teachers prefer to maintain order which is easier to do that in a classroom than in a no physical release May contribute to Early boredom with Cooney kids dont run to math but they will run Down the Hall to phys to toasts being raised to no booze drinks people Are raising toasts without raising their Al Cohol not manufacturers and importers Are turn ing out an increasing number of products that look like wine or Beer but contain very Little or no the growing variety of choices come in the Green bottles and pop top cans similar to traditional products and also resemble them when feeling of isolation can be traced Back to there is not so much similarity in although sometimes pleasant and few of the ersatz wines and Beers match the taste of their the Beers seem to come Deal Coho lived Are often crippled by too much both Are Best served very ads propose plan for Newborn organs physicians and ethicist at Loma Linda University medical Center in California Are drafting proce dures to allow More brain dead Ane Cephalic babies to be used As Organ Leonard the pioneering infant heart sur said during a symposium at Loma Linda at the same Bailey flatly ruled out us or anyone else in the near future utilizing Ane Cepha Lic babies who Are not brain dead As Organ a Prospect that has triggered an emotional medi Cal and ethical debate Over the last several several thousand Ane Cephalic babies Are born in the United states each year missing the higher brain centres that control human thought and feelings but with an intact brain Stem that sustains such Basic functions As heartbeat and they usually die within hours or Days of under the proposed apparently the first of its Loma Linda physicians would have the with the permission of the baby to place a Newborn Ane Cephalic baby on a Respirator for a prescribed time and thereby try to preserve transplant Able big Apple selects less lethal devices new York City police in an Effort to equip the depart ment with something More Power Ful than a night Stock but less deadly than a have chosen five devices to be used in dangerous these include a handheld electronic gun called a laser that shoots two discharging a mild electrical Shock to the a canister similar to a fire extinguisher that can immobilize people with water a plastic riot shield that can withstand blows from a Sledge Hammer or other Blunt critics of past new York City police actions Are cautiously opt alzheimer process May get Early Start alzheimer disease usually is diagnosed among the but a Florida researcher says his Stu Dies with Laboratory rats show the process of mental decline May Start during Early Gary a scientist at the University of South said the Lon term effect of Chemi Cal lesions on specific brain Sites in rats resulted after 14 months in physical and mental symptoms that mimic those of alzheimer disease in in rat the animals Deve loped the full blown alzheimer symptoms in an advanced but the process that led to the symptoms was started while the rats were in Young this May suggest that the destructive changes in alzheimer May be under Way for several dec Ades before memory loss or other symptoms Are Arendash said in an article published in the journal celery May produce rash of skin woes grocery produce workers risk contracting a skin disease from handling Cut govern ment researchers the researchers studied 19 supermarket workers in who suffered skin rashes after they handled celery and then were exposed to ultraviolet the workers1 skin became in flamed and developed dark a condition known As according to a report in the november Issue of the archives of dermatology j the disease is triggered when skin contaminated by the chemical found in is exposed to ultraviolet rays from the Sun or sources such As tanning grocery employees can get Psora Len on their skin while per forming Ordinary duties such As carrying packages to customers said Toby a researcher at the Institute and an author of the researchers Are unsure of the extent of the problem among Gro Cery workers or even among con but if it could happen to a worker in a grocery Heck it could happen to a House Mathias compiled from news services Cracker deadly Ira arms cargo seized by French customs the sunday London the telex message to the Small ship broking company in Kalmar on the Baltic appeared do you know of a 250tonne Shal Low draft cargo freighter suitable for use on the Rivers of West Afri Ca inquired Bengt a reputable swedish shipping Mer chant acting on behalf of a foreign Hoglund Brothers knew of just such a vessel the 237tonne Eksund had spent most of her 50 years ferrying Grain but was now Laid up with Bruno her heavily in he asked Kroner about can for the some Kroner More than she was despite the excessive Adrian the buyer from seemed on May 2 he flew to Stockholm to Complete the Hopkins told me he planned to ply general cargo on the Rivers of the Story struck me As a bit Odd particularly when he spent can replacing the ships navigational instruments with a sophisticated satellite sys said Ocean crossing hed Only need that kind of gear if he wanted to Cross the Atlantic or Indian Hopkins had a special Crane installed on he told me it was to Load provisions but i didst really believe i suspected wherever he was it would be somewhere without nor Mal Harbor but grateful that his asking Price for the vessel had been saw no reason to repeat his suspicions to the it scarcely mattered two weeks after French customs officers seized the Eksund with 200 tonnes of arms and at least three Ira on it became apparent that British intelligence already knew about Hopkins and his arms dealing circles the 49yearold father of three from county whose travel company crashed seven years ago with debts of More than a million was Well known in arms dealing circles and was rumoured to be involved in a big Job for the he was also a suspected marijuana there was nothing about the Eksund to warn Iain Kerr a professional delivery what was afoot when he flew to Kalmar in july to take the vessel to he was the ship was to be sold to a group of Kerr Hunter had worked for the irishman on two previous Occa in he delivered hop Kins 35metre from Malta to Falmouth and it received a thorough going Over from Cus Toms officers and special in he skipped another hop Kins yacht from Ireland to Kerr Hunter raised an Eyebrow at some of the charts of the libyan coast he found on the Bridge of the Eksund and questioned the sophisticated navigational but he presumed that Hopkins had in stalled it to raise the asking Price of the the Eksund left Kalmar on july 30 for it was a difficult six Days in the North the Eksund engine Cooling system broke Down and the already underpowered and capable of just eight made for they left Lowestoft on August 12 and made immediately for Shore Ham in Sussex where they had been May 12 Cora Spring buys sails july 30 Lor Malta Eksund puts in for leaves aug 12 aug 13 takes on Board two rubber outboard engines and lifting gear oct 30 French arrest 2 00 tonnes of arms found on vessel taken to Brest he debt France am 27 Eksund Hopkins flies in next Day to join ship auf 22 stops for fuel and leaves same Day oct 12 leaves did it visit Libya instructed to pick up a Container from waiting in a Ware House were two rubber three outboard motors and Block once the gear was on Board neither Kerr Hunter nor the Crew were told its purpose they set sail again but were still dogged by mechanical after a Brief Stop at Gibraltar for fuel and Nigeria Story struck me As a bit Odd the Eksund arrived in Valletta on August 27 and Kerr Hunter flew Home with his Hopkins had flown out to inspect the vessel soon after she berthed and then returned Home while a local Marine firm tried to repair Early in october he this time with an Irish and on october 12 the vessel set sail ostensibly for Kiel in West Ger she sailed to Libya where she was loaded with Arma the Eksund was soon head ing North to the Bay of Biscay under observation from spotter customs plane at on tuesday in the Gulf of some 60 nautical Miles North of la a French customs plane flew in to identify the at customs regional Headquarters in Alain director of consulted a nautical Register he claimed last instantly became sushi it is very strange for a coaster of this age to be making such a journey and we decided to follow in the French were tipped off by British As the vessel changed initially heading for the Scilly then swinging round towards the Chan Nel before eventually making for the French coast just North of Nicolas and his team dubbed their surveillance task operation at about 2 Friday another customs plane spotted strange activity on Board the Elk we saw some movement on the the hold was open and the Crew were preparing to launch a said there the French two possibilities either the Dinghy was to rendezvous with another or it was preparing to make for the As soon As the vessel entered French Nicolas it would be three of the Crew were dressed in diving suits and were clearly pre paring to launch the a boarding party asked to see the log Book and cargo Manifest when told they didst ordered the Captain into at 9 the search of the ship when the hold was 12 bundles of plastic explosives connected by wire to a Detonator a potentially lethal Booby trap were on the buried beneath five loaded and cocked Kalashnikov rifles and an Erst Al machine gun were it was Only later that the real prize was revealed 10 soviet heavy machine rpg7 antitank launchers and rocket propelled Gre Nades and 20 sam7 had it reached Northern the haul would have provided the Ira with a devastating ;