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NEW YORK (AP) — Un-
circumcised men face an in-

partner, as do men with
syphilis, genital herpes or
genital warts, new studies

circumcision and susceptibil-
ity to AIDS infection,” Dr.
Williams Cameron of the
University of Manitoba in
Winnipeg said Tuesday.
That conclusion comes
from a study of 357 men in
Nairobi, Kenya, who visited
clinics for treatment of sex-

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Cameron reported at the
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Chemotherapy, a meeting /
devoted to research on in-

fectious diseases.

Cameron also reported
that diseases such as syphilis,
genital herpes and genital

warts that cause ulcers, or FIRE SAFETY . . . Castlegar Fire Chief Bob Mann ex:
open sores, on the genitals at Twin Rivers elementary school how to get out

can increase a man's risk of
catching AIDS from sexual
contact with an infected
partner.

Such ulcers can allow
easier passage of the virus
into a man’s bloodstream,
Cameron said.

STUDY DISEASE

A second study presented
at the conference under-
scored the importance of
genital ulcers in transmission
of disease.

Dr. Thomas Quinn of Johns
Hopkins University in Balti-
more and the National Insti-
tutes of Health in Bethesda,
Md., reported Tuesday that a
study of more than 4,000
people visiting sexually
transmitted disease clinics in
Baltimore also showed that
genital ulcers increased the
risk of getting infected with
the AIDS virus.

Infection “was strongly as-
sociated with a history — or
laboratory .evidence of —
sexually transmitted di-
seases,” including herpes,
syphilis and genital warts,
Quinn reported.

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Gabelman calls for
better labor relations

By CasNews Statt

Had the provincial govern-
ment attempted to legislate
striking United Steelworkers
of America members back to
work during the 17-week
long Cominco strike, the
labor dispute would have
continued, according to the
New Democratic Party's
labor -critic.

Speaking to the Castlegar
News on Tuesday, Colin
Gabelman, MLA for Camp-
bell River, said he had heard
rumors to the effect that the
provincial government was
considering imposing back-
towork legislation on the
sthiking Cominco employees.
He warned that move would
have been a mistake.

“T think if they had done

that that would have been
the best way of making sure
the strike would have lasted
longer and involved the
whole of the labor movement
in B.C. It would have been a
dreadful mistake on the part
of the government as it
would be if they ever used
Bill 19 (Industrial Labor Re-
lations Act) in a heavy way
like that,” said Gabelman.
Instead of using back-to-
work legislation, Gabelman
said there are a variety of
other options that can be
used to end a labor dispute.
“The ment, has . to
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its disposal and often the best
one is to let the parties alone
to do their own business. It's
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say, well you could bring Bill
19 in and it will solve it, but
in fact it will make it longer
and the public doesn't want
that to happen,” said Gabel-

man.

He added that a “labor-
management climate” is
needed and the climate has to
be one of trust between the
two parties.

Meanwhile, he said con-
struction contracts should
not always be awarded to the
lowest bidder.

“That's a false economy.
Often the low bid is not the
best bid but quite often you'll
find that you'll get a lot of
overruns on the low bid and a
year or two later; you've got
to spend a lot of money fixing
it up because the job wasn't
done very well. So quite
often the low bid is not
always the best bid,” said
Gabelman.

Canada doubts
reporter's claim

MONTREAL (CP) — Canadian experts cast’ doubt
Tuesday on the claim by a San Francisco reporter that AIDS
may have been brought to North America by a
Montreal-based airline steward.

Randy Shilts, who reports on AIDS for the San
Francisco Chronicle, says he drew his conclusion about the
steward after reading articles’ in medical journals and
interviewing health experts for his forthcoming book, And
the Band Played On: People, Politics and the AIDS
Epidemic.

In Toronto, Air Canada spokesman Brock Stewart
refused to comment on the book but said the man was fit and
able during the years he worked for the airline and posed no
threat to passengers or fellow employees.

The book says the steward, who died in 1964 at the age
of 28, has been dubbed Patient Zero by the U.S. Centres for
Disease Control, which traced his many sexual liaisons
throughout North America. He is thought to have picked up
the fatal disease in Europe through sexual contact with
Africans.% 3 ie Se ge om PY.

Spokéaiel 16 the Ailaits-based cSntres could Hot be
reached for comment.

HARD TO TRACE

But Canadian AIDS experts questioned the likelihood of

ever being able to track down the original North American
carrier.
Dr. Alastair Clayton, head of the federal Centre for
AIDS in Ottawa, said researchers would have to go back to
the first North American AIDS related cases to see who
their sexual contacts were, an impossible task given that
most of the victims are dead.

Scientists believe AIDS, which may have originated in
Africa, was introduced to North America in 1977. But it
wasn't until 1961 that health authorities began to realize
they were dealing with a new disease.

‘The AIDS virus is spread through sexual contact or
exposure to contaminated blood.

“Because of its long incubation period (four to five
years), it’s hard to say where it came from,” Clayton said.

Dr. Catherine Hankins, head of the Montreal Sexually-
Transmitted Diseases Control Program, also thought “it
would be impossible to say who brought it in.”

To pinpoint the original carrier would require “a
massive death certificate review” to look for people who died
from AIDS-related diseases as far back as 1975, she said.

Shilts says of the first 19 cases of AIDS reported in Los
Angeles, four had sex with.the flight attendant, and another
four had sex with one of his sexual partners. New York's
first two cases, in 1979, were his sexual partners.

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treasurer of Local 786 of the

In the m British of
Fernie, a postal worker was assaulted on the picket line,
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a second-attempt, Dawe was struck, but the

made people angry,”
concern by management for the people who work for
them.” :
Earlier, an outside contract delivery mail truck made
a regularly scheduled visit to the Nanaimo mail-pro-
cessing plant. Pickets attempted unsuccessfully to stop it.
But when the female employee of Oxy -Chemicals
later drove into the plant parking lot, workers blocked

staff tried unsuccessfully to assist the woman.

‘The woman returned to the plant; where she refused
to speak to reporters or confirm her identity. RCMP were
in the vicinity but did not intervene.

Strikers later said the woman could leave the plant if
she did not take the mail with her.

Earlier Tuesday, two inside postal workers were
arrested in after a truck was obstructed.

About 24 B.C. communities were hit by pickets
Tuesday.

Canada Post is using supervisors and replacement
workers to fill in for striking union members and for
those it told to stay off the job after Monday’s walkouts.

Canada Post
won't yield ©

Canada Post dug in its heels on the crucial issue of
franchising today, refusing to yield ground to its striking
mail sorters despite the threat from the Conservative
government to legislate an end to their eight-day-old series
of rotating strikes and countering lockouts.

“Tve got no new proposals,” Canada Post negotiator
Harold Dunstan said in Ottawa. “I just want (the union) to
get in here and discuss where we are.”

Dunstan angrily denied union accusations that Canada
Post is waiting for back-to-work legislation in hopes that
binding arbitration will give it at least some of the con-
cessions it is demanding.

‘The agency wants to sell post office franchises to
private business, in the process converting 4,200 union jobs
paying $18.43 an hour into low-paying, private-sector jobs.

‘The 28,000-member Canadian Union of Postal Workers
says it favors the new and smaller outlets envisioned
through franchising but wants its 4,200 wicket positions
preserved in any new retail network.

‘The union had workers off the job today in Calgary and
Montreal.

. MOST LOCKED OUT
Its members were locked out by Canada Post in many
cities across the country after rotating union walkouts
Monday and Tuesday.
Lockouts affected at least some employees at most
Newfoundland; in the Halifax and Anna-

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