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Rare disease
kills three

officials, said a physician with
the U.S. Centres for Disease
Control.

Even before this year's
three deaths, the illness,
called Creutafeldt-Jacob syn-

drome, stuck an average of.

about twice a year in Tucson,

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roughly four-ti the world
average, records at Tucson
Medical Centre and at Uni-
versity Medical Centre
showed.

Worldwide, the disease
strikes an average of one
person in a million each year,
federal statistjes indicate.

The disease; attacks the
nervous system, and is usual-
ly fatal inless than a year.

This year’s three deaths
occurred among workers at a
Hughes Aircraft Co. missile
plant, but officials said there
seems to be no connection to
the workplace.

“Whatever you do, tell the
Hughes people to relax,” said
Dr. Clarence Gibbs, of the
National Institutes of Health
in Bethesda, Md. “Tell them

there appears to be no way

based CDC who will- work
with state Department of
Health Services, said he sus-
pects there may be some
danger in eating raw or rare
meat, ‘or in handling animal
by-products that have been
contaminated with the dis-
ease.

Gibbs said there are no re-
ports of family members
passing the disease to each
other.

“If a member of my family
had this, I would not hesitate
to kiss that person on the
cheek, and I would not
hesitate to give him or her
full supportive care,” said
Gibbs,

“But I would be very cau-
tious in drawing blood, or in
having anything to do with
the patient's blood or any-
thing contaminated with it.”

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trying to sell high-tech to the Chinese; the next week

she’s handing out cheques to Canadian al

“Her friends are so pleased she's where she is,” says
Camp, a close friend. *

MacDonald's current pet project is designing «
telecommunications policy to define the government's
approach to information technology — the whiz-bang
world of instant data transmission.

“No question, this is the area which is the frontier,

"She's like the best
alderman you've ever
seen’

the cutting edge of the new technologies,” she said in an
interview.
SHE'S LOYAL

Keeper of the Tory flame in Kingston, Ont., for 15
years, MacDonald's fierce loyalty to her constituents is
legendary.

“She's like the best alderman you've ever seen,” says
Michael Vaughan, a longtime associate who ran her. 1976
campaign for the Conservative leadership.

“People’s basements get flooded and they call Flora.”

In another few years MacDonald will tie the 19-year
record for longest-serving woman MP, set by Agnes
MacPhail who in 1921 became the first woman elected to
Parliament.

“She is a monument to the barriers that exist for
women in Parliament,” says Louise Dulude, president of
the powerful women’s lobby, the National Action
Committee on the Status of Women.

ONE AMONG PEERS

Camp agrees that MacDonald's career flourished to
some extent under a shadow of tokenism. But he sees her
as an equal among her mainly male peers.

“| don’t think anyone feels they have to defer to
Flora nor does anybody patronize her,” says Camp,
appointed last year as cabinet adviser for Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney.

Camp's ties to MacDonald reach back to John Diefen-
baker's turbulent reign as Tory leader. She was national
executive director of the party for nine years and was
banished in 1966 in the fallout of a party plot — led by
Camp — to depose Diefenbaker.

In 1972 MacDonald seized a Liberal stronghold, the
riding of Kingston and the Islands, held for 10 years by
Edgar Benson.

Once voted one of Canada's worst-dressed woman by
Chatelaine magazine, MacDonald, 60, now favors
richly-styled outfits in bold colors.

Her parliamentary office, dubbed Flora’s Room,
oozes warmth and quiet charm with its pink and blue
decor.

MARK CAREER

Three framed items hanging near the door mark her
passage through political history.

One is a photo: the class of "79 with former prime
minister Joe Clark and his beaming new cabinet.
MacDonald, the only woman in the crowd, had supported
Clark three years earlier in his bid to lead the Tories. She
was rewarded by being named the first woman to run the
External Affairs Department.

MacDonald backed Clark after her own rising star
was shot down in a political twist known since as the
Flora Syndrome.

for politics

- never have been foreign minister and nothing has been

large|

“if ehe'd been a male, she's be prime, minister,"
Vaughan says. She d true to Clark, .
‘actively for him in the 1963 leadership race that Mulroney
‘won,

NOT IN OTTAWA

Her most bitter moment came the night Clark's
government fell in February 1980, MacDonald was
stranded in a hotel in Braseels, far from ‘the political
‘action in Ottawa.

“The real heartbreak is that she had External Affairs
for niné months and/had it all fall away,” said Camp.

Alongside the photo on the wall is a pastel drawing
by Bruce Wangen, entitled Hostages View from Foreign
Ministry. Wangen was among six American hostages that
Canadian diplomats spirited out of Tehran in 1980 while
MacDonald and department officials kept things mum at
hi

ome.
“If I had won that (leadership) convention, I would

such a tremendous joy in my life as that brief period of
time,” she said years later:

BACK IN CABINET

The photo of Mulroney's 40-member cabinet hangs
nearby. MacDonald is joined by three older women in
cabinet this time.

Jean Pigott, former adviser to Clark as prime
minister, knew MacDonald long before the two sat in the
Commons as the only elected Tory women in 1974.

MacDonald, she says, earned her spurs.

“All those years of being in the party, those years in
opposition and all of a sudeen you get in a position and
you have a lot of strength, a lot of compassion.”

Her whole life is politics, adds Pigott.

In 1984, for example, MacDonald went barrelling out
on the election trail having just broken three ribs in a fall.

“She is very relentless in pursuit of her ojbectives,”
says Camp.

STUDY HIGH TECH
As -if designing her own destiny, MacDonald
i d in 1983 for at k apprenticeship at Bell
Northern Research, Bell Canada’s giant high-tech lab
outside, Ottawa.

Opposition women’s critic at the time, she wanted to
confront a bogey man threatening to gobble thousands of
jobs from unskilled workers, mainly women.

She was named employment minister 14 months
later, and warned women over and over in her speeches
to grab good skills and tackle technology.

MacDonald looks back with pride on that stint as
employment minister that was marred by uncomplimen-
tary publicity for her. Departmental leaks along with
heavy criticism against a new law to monitor job creation
for women must have been painful. She says the law will
prove itself yet.

TURNED ON EAR

Insiders say she turned the department on its ear,
gave it new direction in job training instead of counting
the unemployed. Still, her ingenuity was stifled in a
department with little creative leeway.

“It has only limited policy opportunities as opposed
to communications which is almost all policy, which is
great,” she said.

As communications minister, MacDonald has lots of
plans, mostly inherited last June from her outspoken
predecessor Marcel Masse who ordered a bundle of fresh
studies into nearly every bugaboo on his beat.

But the new minister has yet to show her stuff
in overhauling an outdated copyright law, reorganizing
the national museums, designing a new broadcast regime,
strengthening Canada’s film industry, producing new
telecommunications policies and changing tax laws for
artists.

“It’s really a shame when you see how competent and
bright she is, that she had to wait so long,” says Louise
Dulude about MacDonald’s ascent to power.

“It's too bad she can't be around for another 20
years.”

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EDMONTON (CP) -- Custom ear designer Rod
Ladret has found a market in the United States for an
exotic-looking sports car with a price of up to $45,000 US.

Ladret Motor Corp. delivered 20 cars last year — its
first year of production — almost,

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fibre body for the automobile that resembles an Italian

car.

“It's not a Lamborghini, but it’s probably as close as
‘most of us will ever get. I've always been fascinated with
the Italian exotics, but the prices are pretty prohibitive.”

A Lamboughini costs about, $120,000.

CAN BUY KIT ‘

Ladret sells his“cars either fully assembled or in kit
form. The kits include the body and frame, which he
builds, but lacks essentials like the engine, transmission
and steering column.

Fifteen of the 20 cars sold were kits, with a price of
$15,000 US. However, Ladret said more orders have been
coming in recently for complete cars selling for $45,000.

Although the mechanical components of North
American-built cars provide top reliability, Lardret said
the “design is very banal — very mass-market oriented.”

That can't be said of Ladret's waist-high creation
which can provide frightening performance from its
Chevrolet V-8 engine, The speedometer goes up to 160
miles per hour.

OPTIONS ADD UP
Wi In Ladret’s 111 SE, a Cadillac transmission-rear axle
transfers the power of a 360-cubic-inch V-8 to the road. Av
five-speed Porsche transmission-rear Axle is a $7,000
‘The interior of the ear is upholstered in vinyl,
although leather seats are an option. Air conditioning is a
$2,000 option.

Men's line of: cosme

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TORONTO (CP) — In the

the men’s prod
include shaving creams,
bars,

aibhete than being hinged in the Vy
| the doors scissor up and down to provide access
to thé cockpit,

‘The company's 12 employees can turn out a car, built
to customers’ in 12 weeks, Some U.S.
buyers fly to Edmonton to see the car and tour'the,
fabrication. shop located in a light industrial area.)

Tadret la ale planning to produce o versioniel the
car using a Pontiac Fiero chassis equipped with a V-6 and
five-speed transmission. That would sell for $50,000.

" BUILT MODEL

Ladret, who has no formal training in designing or
drafting, begn working on the body design for the 111 SE
three years ago. He built a full-size mode] frdm wood an
clay, which took him almost a year.

Dévelopment cost of the car was more than $500,000, -
said Ladret, who raised the money mostly from his
family, and without the help of governments or banks.

In designing the car, Ladret drew on his background,
‘coming. from “a family with experience in boat-building”
in Port Hardy and Powell River. That provided
aknowledge of glass fibre and building moulds, he said.

Ladret moved to building cars after an unsuccessful
attempt at trying to design, manufacture and sell
hydroponic greenhouses.

Before he could sell such greenhouses in Alberta,
Ladret had to educate consumers about hydroponics, the
science of growing plants without soil, using water
containing nutrients,

He has found less consumer resistance to cars.

Think twice

Your boss offers you a position in another city and
the move looks good for your career. What do you do?

For Canadian corporate up-and-comers, jumping into
a strange city and buying the right home can hit hard in
the pocketbook.

‘The experience can also make you and your family
miserable.

Experts strongly advise that you do some homework
before shaking hands with the boss about that relocation
— if you have the choice.

After checking the cost of housing and other

expenses in the new city, you may conclude the move

about move

Next, find out if your family can adapt to the change
in lifestyle. You may have the right house, but the
neighborhood might not suit your family's needs. That
could lead to unhappiness that outweighs the benefits of
the career move, says Cooper.

“It’s very important that the decision to move is in
comlete balance with your career objectives and family
lifestyle.”

PICK SIMILAR

Experts recommend you call a real estate company
that- operates over a wide area of the prospective
community so it can select neighborhoods similar to your
current one.

CONSIDER POINTS
In a ity, there are a number of

isn’t really worth it, says Tom Cooper, a presi at
Royal LePage, the country’s biggest real estate company.

Expenses worth checking include auto insurance
which varies from province to province, day care and

considerations, Dickinson says in a rcent booklet on
relocating. They include:

e Family. If you have one, look for other children in
the community.

health insurance coverage. And consider whether your
spouse will be able to find a job in the new ity.
COMPARE CITIES
“You need your numbers because you may be
over-committing yourself financially,” says Cooper.
The first thing you should do, he says, is determine
the value of your current home and compare it with house
prices in the other city.

°c to work and shopping. Compare
commuting times to work and the cost and convenience of
public’ transit. j

‘@ Community's influence on resale values. Comapre
home values and ask how much homes within each
community have depreciated or appreciated in recent
years.

It depicts a man's theaty

fist brandishing a razor and e

the cosmeties industry's ex-
pectation of an imminent
change in the North Ameri-
can man’s vtifestyle — and
with that change a lucrative
market in men's cosmetics.
In some circles, the sug-
gestion of a man applying a
facial clay mask might evoke
a snicker or, two, but the
men’s cosmetics industry is
no laughing matter. It's big
business, with an estimated
market of $93 million an-

more than doubling every
year,” says Nathaniel Ben-
son, vice-president and gen-
eral manager of Clinique
Canada. “This year, our over-
the-counter sales will be $8
million.”

“At this point in time, in
the minds of the consumer,
men’s skin care or men’s
grooming is a very important
part of their daily lives,” says
Stephen Taylor, president of
Atien Enterprises Inc., a
Toronto-based cosmetics
firm. “And it has come be-
cause of an awareness we've
created in the marketplace.

“We know that an average
male spends $300 annually on
hygiene products. It’s a ques-
tion now of being able to take
those $300 and try to encour-
age him to spend them on
products that will really
work for him, as opposed to

‘The trend began in the late
1970s when cosmetics ma-
kers discovered some men
wete seeking out women’s
skin-care items.

Clinique introduced a-line”
of men's products, which -

were actually their women’s
products renamed and re-

ged.

Dramatically Different
Moisturizer, for instance, be-
came M Lotion. The square
glass bottle was replaced by
a grey plastic jar: grey, be-
cause it’s considered a mas-
culine tone; plastic because
“men would feel more com-
fortable taking ‘a plastic eon-
tainer into the locker roo. ..”

While Clinique maintains
men and women can use the
same products, Taylor of
Atien insists men’s skin is too
oily for a women's line for-
mula.

“The products must be
water-based, not oil-based,”
says Taylor. “Oil will only

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creams.”
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