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CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 23, 1962

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Cleared of iurder

Deaths under investigation

By DAVID BINET

TORONTO (CP) — A 26-
year-old nurse was cleared
Friday of murdering four in-
fants with drug overdoes at
the renowned Hospital for
Sick Children, but a few
hours later the Ontario at-
torney general disclosed that

police aré investigating 39°

other deaths in the same car-
diac wards during a nine-
month period,

further

could convict soft- spoken
nurse Susan Nelles.

His ruling came after 44
days of testimony st a prel-
iminary hearing to determine
whether Nelles should be
sent to trial on four charges
of first-degree murder.

The ‘judge's ruling freed
Nelles and her family from a
year-long ordéal, estimated
to have’ cost them $200,000,
but leaves unanswered many

clouded the mystery left
when Provincial Court Judge

David Vanek ruled that four’

of the infants, patients in the
cardiac ward, died of drug
overdoes but that no jury

about the hospital,
a long-time pioneer and stan-
dard of medical excellence.
Attorney General Roy Mc-
Murtry said in a statement it
was not “possible for police to
complete their investigation

into such ‘a large number of
deaths prior to the end of the
preliminary.”

ALSO GOT OVERDOSES

MeMurtry said that an
addition to the four deaths
with which Nelles’ was
charged, 17 other babies died
of an overdose of digoxin, a
heart drug police say. was
used in the deaths Nelles was

al

sald his statement was not
meant to indicate more‘ mur-

received death threats “and

“Won! t talk wage freeze

VANCOUVER (CP) =

_, B.C's two, pulp, unions, for-~

“mally refused Friday to'meet

with the pulp‘and paper in-

tdustry to discuss a requested
th wage freeze,

ders may have at
the hospital.

“My indication is that this
is the number the police feel
they have to be

were subjected to two, clum-
sy at last
October.
The threats were written
on one of the nurses’ cars and
one of their and.

about. We are not

there may be more, but it is
nee 3 Possibly we can rule

Medaértes he would re-
view the this week-

once at the place of the
husband of one of the nureet 3
Phyllis | “rayner. .

In) addition, the’ nurses.
twice found large orange pills’

polic
“has alos revealed 22 further
deaths that appear to have
occured in circumstances
that require-further investi-
gation,” bringing the total to
at least 43,

In an interview later, he

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end and would confer next-
week with his senior legal
advisers about his depart-
ment’s next move.

His revelations, about the
48 deaths came only hours
after Nelles walked from the
court building grinning
broadly. She was met by a
crush of reporters and cheers
from well-wi

ofp adrug common
in cardiac wards, in food they
had brought to the hospital
from home.

Trayner © and the: other,
nurse, Sui Scott, consumed
some ‘of. the drug, but not
enough ‘to cause serious Hf
damage.

Vanek said the incidents’
were so bizarre “it is entirely

SPENT YEAR ON BAIL

Nelles had spent most of
thea last year on bail and
living with her father, ‘a
Prominent doctor in Belle-
ville, Ont., and her mother.

At her parents’ home Fri-
day night Nelles said she will
pursue a medical career after
she “picks up the pieces and
makes up for a year lost.”

On March 25, 1981, Nelles
was arrested and charged
with the death three days
earlier of three-month-old
Justin Cook of Tara, Ont.

She was charged two days
later in the deaths of four-
month-old Janice Estrella of
Toronto, who died Jan. 11;.
25-day-old Kevin Pascai Gar-
nett of Hamilton, who died
March’ 12; and 11-month-old
Allana Miller of Kitchener,
Ont., who died March 21.

Vanek told the crowded
courtroom the evidence in-
troduced against Nelles dur-
ing the preliminary hearing,
which began Jan. 11, was en-
tirely circumstantial and
there was no evidence of a
motive or that Nelles con-
ducted herself in any unusual.
way.

* Evidence that was banned
ub!

d Paes t |

He , hosp tal

to accept that a
single. person was respon-
sible for them,” but Nelles
was ‘not the one.

‘Attorney Bob Mc-
Gee leclined comment after

officers'from the city’s homi-
elde squad, which laid the
charges against Nelles.
WEIGHT OFF
SHOULDERS
Nelles' father, Dr. Edward
Nelles, said afterward the
decision was ‘a weight off
our shoulders.”

Susan Nelles and her bro-
ther, also a doctor, and par-
ents were met outside the
court house by a large crowd
of friends and neighbors,
many of whom drove 200
kilometres from Belleville,
who yelled “We love you"
and waved.

Austin Cooper, Nelles’ law:
yer, paid tribute to his cli-
ent’s friends “who believed in
her and supported her.”

When asked if Nelles could
ever lead a normal life after
what she had been put
through, Cooper said: “I
would hope she could. It’s up
to the public.”-

Nelles began working at
, the 10-year-old hospital in
"1979 after briefly’ working at
Vancouver, Gen ral Hospital.

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Both. the 9,000-member
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‘ors. of |Canada, said. thelr.
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salaried employees would be
affected by an ' indefinite
shutdown of the Squamish
Woodlands Division.

He said that starting in
June, there will be a five-
week closure of the Queen
Charlotte and Hecate logging
divisions affecting about 270
workers. When, work . re-
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chairman’ of ‘the: Pulp’: and
Paper Industrial: Relations
Bureau, said the’ 1982 .wage
Increase, could double the

umber of forest industry”

layoffs to. 20,000 this sun.
mer, — ts

The latest layotts are Mec.
‘Millan ‘Bloedel loggers em-
ployed at Squamish and in
the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Company spokeaman Gary
Johncox said that about 70

workers | will’ be off work”
when Plateau Mills,.a divi-
:sion of .the B.C. Resources .
Investment Corp., closes for
at least*two weeks starting
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Meanwhile; Premier Bill
Bennett said Friday that
unions in the private sector
should adopt the. B.C. ‘gov-
ernment’s concept of work
sharing in a bid to keep their
members employed in’ this.

TMA takeover
may be denied

VANCOUVER (CP) —
ter three days of Tetiony
at a B.C. Utilities Com-
mission hearing into the
proposed takeover of Inland
Natural Gas by TMA West-
ern Resources, TMA had its
first indication Friday that
the commission might deny
the request.

When asked about TMA's
contingency plan if the com-
mission denies the takeover,
two of the three principals
involved said the company
has no contingency plan but
would seek legal advice.

TMA, a iary of Den-

commission's approval ee
hares

transfer those “sl
TMA's name,

It was also the first time
the commission's authority to
influence the takeover was
brought into question and it
was raised by Reg Gibbs, the
lawyer representing the com-
mission. |

time of

Forests: Minister. Tom
Waterland urged both mana.
gement and. employees to
stop’ grandstanding and get
down to serious bargaining to
save their industry Bon col-
lapse.

“These are very difficult
economic times, internation-
ally and in Canada,” Bennett
said in an interview. “The
public sector will now be
doing its part under our re-
straint program and I would
expect the private secure, to
do the same.”

He said the need for re-
straint applies to all .indus-
tries.

Waterland said he's: had
discussions with many rank
and file union members and
does not think:the union lea-
dership is expressing the
views ‘of the ‘membership.

However, CPU ‘vice-presi-
dent Art Gruntman said the
problem with the industry is
not high wages but high
interest rates. and interna-
tional markets.” :

Newsprint
purchases
are down

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John: Collier “tof » Castlegar,
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Falling advertising linage
is the principal reason for. the
reduction, said Bill Wheatley,
présidont, and general man-
ager: of Pacific Press,

“Compared with this time
last year, our newsprint pur-
‘chases are off substantially,”
‘he said. “Then (last year). we
were stockpiling because of

.the possibility of a forest

strike.”
Lorne Lacey, MB's Powell
River, regional employee re-

lations. manager, . said “the

May purchases: of newsprint
by Pacific Press were down
significantly from April.”
Neither Wheatley nor La-
cey would give figures.
' Pacific Press produces the
Vancouver Sun and Province.
Lacey said Pacific Press
bought about $8,000 tonnes
of MB newsprint. last year
from company pulp and pap-

‘pet mills in Powell River and

Port Alberni,

“The Powell River mill,
MB's largest, produces about
680,000 tonnes of newsprint
annually, Daily’ Production is
2,000 tonnes,

Pacific Press has a policy of

: buying newsprint from B.C.

fancouver,
Mr.” Buchignan! joined tn-
land In 1965 and has held a
number of positions, the most
recent being Northem Re-
gional. Manager in Prince

firms, said Wheatley.

Besides MacMillan Bloedel,
the publishing company trad-
itionally purchases from
Crown Zellerbach Canada
Ltd. and B.C. Forest Prod-
uets Ltd.

“We vary our orders up
and down. between all three
of the

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resulted in $2,500 damage and the driver, Lisa Romfo,

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 23, 1982

Defense Ministry reports

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Falkland Islands conflict

LONDON (AP).— Fol-'
lowing are the texts of a
statement read to reporters
by Defence Secretary John
Nott and a later communique
issued by the Defence Min-
istry. on Saturday on the
Falkland Islands conflictz;

This morning, the Union
Jack is once again flying on
the Falkland Islands. And.I
hope that you have all seen
these photographs showing
the evident pleasure of the
Falkland Island children. I

\ hope you'll give them wide

ambulonce to the Castlegar and
Police state no charges have been.

—CotNewsPhotoby Ron Norman

PEACE
SOUGHT |

continued from front poge
That April 3 resolution,

‘passed the day after Argen-

tina seized the Falklands,
calls for an end to hositlities,
the with of A

Lags

Canada lags far behind most
other industrial nations in its

gross national product on re-
search and: development in
spite of the fact that high

financial to high
technology, says Dr. Larkin

forces and a negotiated set-
tlement to the 149-year-old
sovereignty dispute.

Soviet Ambassador Oleg
Troyanovsky said the council
was “duty-bound” to take ac-
tion to halt the fighting.

He accused Britain of “act-
ing in a spirit of by-gone
colonial times” and that it

Kerwin, of the Na-
tional Research Council.
“We are one of the few
industria! nations spending
less than one per cent of its

are in-
creasingly important world-
wide," he sid..

Kerwin said in an interview
there is a need for technical

‘in research

“Only three per cent of
Canada's 30,000 manufactur-
ing companies are technolo-
gically intensive and we must
do a lot better than this if we
are to meet the challenges of
the 80s," he said.

The NRC, he said, will

publication.

A niajor bridgehead has
been established in the area
of San Carlos of East Falk-
land. Thé major amphibious
landing yesterday was a

our troops landed safely with
almost no interference from
Argentine forces.

We are now ashore on
British sovereign territory in
considerable force and have
three Royal: Marine com-
= mandos and two battalions of
” the Parachute Regiment
firmly in place with their
supporting arms, including
artillery and Rapier and
other air defence weapons.

From theif secure base,
our forces will advance to
place the occupying Argen-
tine troops under increasing
harassment, whilst the Royal
Navy maintains and tightens
its blockade around the is-
lands.

To complement the land-
ings, there were raids yes-
terday in other parts of East
and West Falklands. In one of
threse,, Royal Marines cap-
tured an position

help for amall’¢ in
iene-b: i

dinate and

Prison sentence

VANCOUVER (CP) —
d as

was ‘ina's right to
have its territory returned to
it.

He aétised Lotidon of “re.
Sorting Yo the lirighagé of ul-

“‘intatum"' during the secre-

tary general's efforts and
using them as "a diplomatic
cover for military prepar-
ations.”

The Soviet speech reflect-
ed the hardening of Moscow's
pro-Argentine stance over
the last few weeks although
at the outset of the dispute
Moscow's abstention allowed
Resolution 502 to pass.

Results from
Joy Keillor .
Bridge Club

Eleven tables were in play
May 17 at the Joy Keillor
Bridge Club with an average
of 108. Placing were:

North-South :

First, Bev MacDonald and
Helen Bayes with 122; second
Libby Weaver and Doreen
Ci bell: with 116'/; third,

on our
Wheatley said.

Pacific Press is a sub-
sidiary of Southam Ine. of
Toronto,

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Joy Ramsden and Judy Shep-
pard with 116 and Fred Hess
and Rogier Deweever with
113, .. -

East-West
First, Stan Greenwood and
Mollie Palmason with 130;.
second, Etuke Cameron and
Pearl Palmer with 121; third
Rita Perrier and Heather

Pottle with 1141/2 and Hugh’

Auld and Swen Rayensr with
113.-

yer Jack Colin Campbell.was
sentenced May 18 to 12
Jnonths:.in prison onoseven

aunts, including .conspiracy, ..

fraud and :theft:relating ‘to
1977 land deals in Cranbrook,
Surrey and Matsqui.

County Court Judge J.D.
Sheppard said in sentencing
Campbell that he took into
consideration the lawyer's
failing health, his previous
“unblemished” record, his
service during the Second
World War and the fact
Campbell likely will be dis-
barred as a result of his
criminal activities.

The judge said Campbell,
64, is not likely to Getraud the
public again.

“However this is not a case
where a jail term can be dis-
regarded,” he said. “It is im-
perative that the reputation

of the preofession be main- .

tained... a lawyer in whom
the public. reposes trust
(should) receive no more fa-

Layoffs as
motorcycle

sales slump

‘MILWAUKEE (AP)
Harley-Davidson Motor Co.,
citing slumping motorcycle
sales, announced Friday it
“was cutting production by 22
per cent and laying off more
than 400 workers. The motor-
cycle manufacturer said 170
in Milwaukee and 265 hourly
workers at York, Pa., will be
paid off.

Sophia Loren |

Shares

Film actress Sophia Loren,
serving a 30-day sentence for
tax evasion in 1970, has been

_ moved from her private pink

cell into a cell she now shares
with a convicted thief and a
cigarette smuggler.

The prison warden decided
to move Loren to avoid pos-
sible i of prefer-

her cell

with a private bath and a
black and white television
set, is normally reserved for
women with babies.

Italy's 47-year-old Aca-
demy Award winning actress
has received numerous let-
ters, baskets of fruit and .
bunches of flowers from

ish but has not

treatment, officials

Prison sources said it -is
normal for prisoners to spend
their first few nights:alone in
the three-metre-square pri-
vate cell to help them adjust
to prison life.

The Italian news agency

_ ANSA said the solitary cell,

been allowed a telephone to
receive calls from Italian and
international film stars. -

One zealous fan, CVarolina
Rea, pounded on the prison
gates hoping to get arrested
so she could get a glimpse of
Loren. Prison guards ignored
her and she finally agreed to
leave.

vorable treatment than the
general public.”
Campbell was suspended
from the Law Society of B.C.
si, WOTBie ens en
An.:his. judgment, : Judge
Sheppard: found ‘that -former
Vancouyer lawyer William

+ Neil Smith was the “mas-

termind” behind the trans-
actions which led to the
charges against Campbell.
He said Campbell, in order
to ward off financial disaster,
raised money through illegal

two ims: the Industrial
Research Assistance
Program which provides
funding and technical assis-

tance for research, and the |

Program for Industry-Labor-
atory Projects which helps to
translate the research ideas

on Fanning Head overlooking
Falkland: Sound. In another,
the airfield at Goose Green
and Argentine positions close
by were raided by our forces,

Carrier-based RAF
riers launched attacks in the
course of the morning against.
at

into viable ven-

Port Stanley airfield and the

of Helicopters “on” the“ ground

. industrial ‘develop-
‘ment branch said 12 per cent
of the total IRAP and PILP
budgets of $47 million was
spent in B.C. year.

Kerwin said B.C also re-
ceived the highest per capita
portion of the annual NRC
operating budget. The most

ving land
parcels -and stole about
$57,000 from the th

portion of this
goes to help fund the Dom-
inion A ical Labora:

nearby'as‘Well as military in- -5!

‘stallations at Fox Bay. ~

During these operations
we lost two Gazelle helic-
opters and one RAF Harrier
is missing.

minor damage, But this is
being repaired and the ships
remain operational. war-
ship has been damaged in the
engine room by an unex-
ploded bomb but all her wea-
pons remain effective.

A type-21 frigate, HMS
Ardent, was also hit by
bombs and rockets and after
valieant attempts to contain
the damage sank in the
course of last night. We do
not yet have further detailed
casualty figures to add to
those already announced by
the ministry but first reports
indicate that about 20 men
are missing from HMS Ar-
dent and about 30 are in-
jored.

I shoudl like to pay great
tribute to the men of our, task

force whose actions yester-
day were in the highest trad-
itions of Her Majesty's forces
and tothe men and women of
the merchant navy.

Over the next day or so our
forces will undoubtedly see
action again and we must ex-
pect fresh attacks upon them.
But they are fighting now
from a secure base and-the
hazardous hours of the initial
amphibious landing are be-
hind them.

We ars back on the Falk-
land Islands and back in
strength. We intend to en-
sure that aggression does not

pay.
THE DEFENCE MINISTRY
STATEMENT
Yesterday we established
a bridgehead on the Falkland

Islands, During the night we
consolidated this position -
against the: possiblity that
the Argentines might attack
it today. In the event we
have had.no reports of such
an ‘attack taking place, so
that throughout the day we
have been able, without
interruption, to continue our
consolidation of the position.

There have been no re-
ports of any Argentine action
against the task force or dis-
embarked British forces,

The only reported oper-
ational incident today in-
volved two Harriers on rout-
ine patrol south of Port
Stanley. The Harriers at-
tacked and severely damaged
an Argentine patrol boat in
the Choiseul Sound.

Funginex discontinued

PORT COQUITLAM (CP)
— A Port Coquitlam blue-
berry grower will discon-
tinue use of a controversial
fungicide on her‘ crop — ‘but
not because she thinks the
chemical is dangerous,

Vera Harvey said she is
tired of being telephoned
constantly with complaints
by critics of her use of the
chemical Funginex, other-
wise known as trifo:

The critics say Funginex
causes cancer,

“The only reason I'm stop-
ping is to stop those kooks,”
Harvey said in an interview.

“They call me up and they
want to know if Pll buy them
a wheelchair when they get
cancer, They say their dogs
and cats are sick and their
kids can’t go to school be-
cause they have stomach
aches.”

Harvey, who has sprayed

Har-’ Funginex on her 3% acres in

this municipality east of
Vancouver for the past six
yeara to conrad (8 tie mummy-

id she be-

a group calling itself Parents
Against Triforine, but failed
in their efforts to reopen the
subject for discussion in
council.

WOULDNTHEAR -

Mayor Len Trboulay ruled
that no more delegations
would be heard on the issue
after council had made its
ruling in March, allowing the
six-year-old practice to con-
tinue.

Nearly 70 people turned
out in Port Coquitlam to hear
the issue debated on Wed-
nesday.

University of Western On-
tario professor Joseph Cum-
mins backed a group of resi-
dents‘who have produced a
leaflet warning of the spray-
ing. -

Cummins said last summer
the chemical Baygon was
sprayed in a_ residential
neighborhood in - Winnipeg,
leading to a higher incidence
of birth defects and said the
most apparent effect of tri-
forine contamination is an in-

be handled with extreme
care.

“I haven't seen data that
shows that it's safe,” Weiler
said, adding that the federal
approval was based on ques-
tionable U.S. tests.

However, David Ormrod,
plant pathologist with the
B.C. Ministry of Agriculture,
told the meeting a dose that
would be encountered by a
naked child in a field being
sprayed with triforine is 200
times weaker than the stan-
dard dosage of medicine.

Sleepless
nights price
of crime

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
former bank employee con-
victed in what prosecutors
called the largest bank em-
bezzlement in U.S. history
says he spent many sleepless
nights wondering if he would
be caught.

Ben Le Lewis, former oper-

crease in the number of still

he said the-sprai sprayingsf for-thib-
years" completed; ab'her'de:-*
cision won't affect the cur-
rent crop.
But she has no idea what
she wiil do next year.
hsi Port C

The A ine navy has so
far made no attempt to in-
tervene. Its surface ships re-
main bottled up in coastal
waters. The ARgentine air
force’ has as ‘expected

family who owned acreage
outside of Cranbrook. = -

tory at Saanich on Vancouver
Island, the Dominion Radio

Smith was later
to five years imprisonment
on the same charges.

near Penticton, ee the ro
search cyclotron, TRIUMF,

Says productivity
down in hospitals.

VICTORIA (CP) — Health
Minister Jim Nielsen has re-
leased a report to caucus
members that documents de-
clining productivity in B.C
hospitals.

The report shows the
number of staff.needed to
take care of patients has in-
creased in 43 of 45 hospitals
in the last four years.

“I don’t think there is any

doubt that the productivity i is

in 1977-78, the hospital had
4,847 staff and 621,843 pa-
tient-days. In 1981-82, staff
totalled 5,510 while patient-
days declined to 428,362.

Burnaby General and 100
Mile District were the only
hospitals to show an. in-
creased productivity rating
in the years documented by

‘the report.

ships. -

Air attacks started at
about 10:80 local time and
continued thorughout day-

light. A succession of attacks ©

were made by Mirages, Sky-
hawks and Pucaras.

Combat air patrols by Sea
Harriers from the task force
were flown continuously and
were successful in shooting
down a large number of air-
craft.

We believe the total Ar-

gentine losses so far are nine
Mirages, five Skyhawks, two
Purcas and four helicopters.
These losses must repre-
sent a very significant blow
to the Argentine air force.
Nevertheless, Argentine

aircraft penetrated our ‘air’

defence screen and carried’
out attacks on our ships.

heavy raids on our.

residents in late April formed

FIR SCNT TETT

and birth defects,’ He‘ said: °

Prof. Larry Weiler, a Uni-
versity of B.C chemist, told
the meetings that despite the

approval of the use of trif-~

orine by Health and Welfare
Canada the substance should

Anti-nuclear
resolutions

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
coalition of peace groups
called End the Aris Race
asked Senator Ray Perrault
to take their anti-nuclear
resolutions to Prime Minister
Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

testing such as Cruise mis-
siles in Canada.

Three group representa-
tives asked Perrault to take’
the resolution to Trudeau
and urge him to adopt it as
the Canadian position at the
for ‘ing United Nations

* The i which
sponsored a peace march in
Vancouver earlier this
month, presented the senator
at his office with a resolution
endorsed by 35,000 people
who took part in the march,

The resolution called for
the removal of all nuclear
weapons from Canada, a re-—
duction’ in the nuclear mili-
dary .baildup, promotion by
Canada of a nuclear freeze
and. ition of nuclear

Three ip:

second special session on dis-
armament,

‘The senator agreed to pre-
sent the resolution to the
prime minister and briefly
discussed the anti-nuclear
movement with the. three
group representatives.

“I would like to think that a -

‘Soviet Union group is also in
Moscow today meeting with
the Kremlin leadership and
saying the-same things,” said
Perrault.

Friday to five years in prison
for embezzling $21 million.

“I didnt know if I would be
exposed and spent many
sleepless nights.”

Lewis pleaded guilty Aug.
11 to one count of conspiracy
and two counts of embez-
zlement in return for his tes-
timony against boxing prom-
oter Harold Rossfields Smith
and formere bank officials
Sammie Marshall. Lewis al-
legedly was the “inside man”
in the scheme to juggle funds
between bank accounts.

He could have received up
to 15 years in j

Smith and Marshall face
sentencing June 1, said As-
sistant U.S. _ Attorney Dean
Allison.

Smith was convieted on 29
counts of a 32-count indict-
ment last July that charged
him, Marshall and Lewis with
fraud, embezzlement, ‘con-
spiracy and interstate trans-
portation of stolen securities.

Smith could be sentenced
up to 265 years, Marshall
faces a possible 20 years.

Wells Fargo has filed a
$46.3-million civil suit against
Smith, Marshall, Lewis and
others.

He said erities ‘of recent
health care budget cuts who
“want to pour more money"
into the system should indi-
cate how many tax dollars
they are willing to pay for the
service.

Eyewitness to British landing

EDs: The following sccount
of Frday’s British landing on
the Falkland Islands came

that attack. The third es-

-caped.

Similar waves followed

from Ind d Radio
News Kim

h hout the morning and
with several of the

“The answer to improvii
health care is not just pour-
ing money in,” he said. “Tak-

ing cheap shots through the’

media or using scare tactics
is not going te achieve any-
thing.”

Nielsen would not say if his
comments referred to a prop-
osed campaign by hospital
workers to keep tourists
away by publicizing the num-
ber of hospital beds and staff
member slost to budget re-
straint,

The report compares the
number of patient-days (hos-
pital beds filled for one day)
logged by.each hospital an-
nually to the size of the hos-
pital's staff.

Figures for Vancouver
General Hospital show that

Sabido and was subject to
military censorship. Sabido
was aboard the British troop-
ship Canberra and later went
ashore with the British com-
mandos.
By KIM SABIDO

LONDON (AP) — Crouch-
ing low on the bridge of the
Canberra, I saw an Argen-

tine Mirage deliver its load of -

missiles, then bank steeply,
only to disappear in a ball of
flame, hit by a Sea Wolf or
Sea Dart missile from a
nearby frigate.

Aircraft and missiles
flashed across the sky in
quick succession and in great
confusion. I saw a second
Mirage blown to pieces in

planes making direct attacks
on the Canberra. None suc-
ceeded. The Canberra, said
one officer, was like a great
white whale in the bay.

I didn’t witness the af-
ternoon attacks, Instead I
was called with the rest of
the commandos aboard to go
ashore to back up para-
troppers who had run into
trouble around’ Port San

last few feet to set foot for
the first time on Falklands’
soil,

We watched for three kil-
ometres (about five miles)
across boggy, windswept ter-
rain and fanned out with con-
stant helicopter support.

As the weather changed
and rain came in we reached
a settlement, Some 50 locals,
including up to a dozen
children were busy ferrying
ammunition to gunners using
their tractors and trailers,
dishing out soup and tea to
the , troops and providing

Carlos x Up to 50
Argentine troops were re-
ported threre. They had shot
down two helicopters.
As the sound of air and
ground attacks still echoed
around the bay, we went
ashore by landing craft, wad-
ing through the water for the

ded shelter.
All the time, jet

from the initial attack leaving
equipment, much of it cap-
tured from the British mar-
ines when they surrendéred
here just two months ago,
scattered around the landing
place.

But they stayed long
enough to shoot down two
helicopters. One crashed into
the hillside killing the pilot
and his crew members. The
other plunged into the water.

This (Saturday) morning,
while paratroopers dig in
around the settlement, my
section of the commandos has
been sent out to track down
the Ar Without

fighters screamed overhead.
Grey and black smoke bil-
lowed from around the an-
chorage.
DEFENDERS FLED
The people told me of how
the Argentinians had fled

proper clothing and equip-
ment which they left behind,
it is thought they cannot last
Jong in such appalling condi-
tions.

In the early hours of this
morning I returned to the

Canberra where surgeons
had been working nonstop on
casualities, most from the
ship which was damaged
during the day of constant air
strikes.

One sailor from a firgate
told me one minute he was
working in the ship's galleys,
the next he was in the water
fighting for his life.

A doctor had a similar
story. There were three Ar-
gentine casualties aboard as
well. They now are heavily
sedated in the ship's tempor-
ary hospital.

The whole force now is
ashore. The bridgehead has
been secured. We have suf-
fered miraculously few casu-
alties. But it hasn't been easy -
and Britain's main objective
of putting troops ashore in
force has been completed in
less than 24 hours,