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Back row, left to right: Jim Corbett, prinicipal of Kinnaird Elementary, senior winners: third-prize winner Tracy Picco, grade 6, second-prize winner Gale Pruss, grade 6, and first-prize winner Darren Dudley, grade 6. BUT HE'S UNDER ATTACK By DAPHNE BRAMHAM Press Canadian VANCOUVER — Since 1979, Ombudsman Karl Friedmann has been looking out for the downtrodden, the little guys and people frustrated by the system in British Columbia. But for the last six weeks he’s been looking out for attacks by Social Credit politicians, at least one of whom would like to see him replaced. Behind the sniping is his special report to the legisla- ture alleging irregularities in the government's log-scal- ing procedures. It said government scalers did not determine the correct volume of wood in logs at one sorting ground and Friedmann estimates the government lost between $1.3 and $2 million in royalties as a result. The also esti d the cost Ombudsmanhelpslittleguy answers and of negotiating through the media instead of “the time-honored government channels.” Friedmann, a precise man who obtained his doc- torate in political science from the University of Heidel- berg and won scholarships to Oxford University and the London School of Edonomics, is concerned about the “scurrilous attempt to discredit either myself or the office.” But he makes no apologies. “What I have been doing is following the process exactly prescribed by the law,” Friedmann said. . “I have tried to find resolutions by talking to the ministry and the minister. It is only when I am convinced that the response is not timely or adequate that I report to the (legislative) assembly.” As an academic at the University of Calgary, six logging contractors between $4.5 and $6.3 million. Attorney Generz! Brian Smith criticized the timing of the report's release, saying it could have jeopardized an RCMP investigation. He has since said Friedmann is just doing his job. Social Credit backbencher John Rey- nolds called Friedmann “Comrade Kar!" and attacked what he sees as the ombudsman’s anti-government approach and Friedmann’s German heritage. Reynolds wants the 45-year-old Friendmann re- placed with someone less political and his: office staff pared to an ombudsman and two secretaries from the present level of 32 employees. In early Mrch, Friendmann incurred the wrath of Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy. Friedman said he was “set up and misled” by her ministry officials a year ago when they promised to make substantial changes to their “seriously flawed” child abuse policy. McCarthy accused him of looking for a fight and not Fried ished scholarly papers on the role of ombudsmen and their impact on society. He says one of the reasons he took the job as British Columbia's first ombudsman’ was’ because the province's” 0: 's LONDON, ONT. (CP) — Women interested in an in- novative form of contracep- tion — the cervical cap — are invited to try it in a country- wide trial. The trial, involving up to 4,000 women, is designed to test the effectiveness and as- sess the advantages of a “barrier method” of contra- ception involving the device. The cap is relatively new to North America but is used in Britain and parts of Europe. “We aren't pushing it as a method, just evaluating it and accepting women who already want it,” said Dr. Barbara Cruickshank, a re- searcher at University Hospi tal. A number of women's groups across Canada have expressed interest, she said. The cervical cap is fitted over the cervix — the neck of the uterus — where in combination with a spermici- dal gel it acts as a barrier to passage of sperm into the uterus. 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