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ARMORED CARS

Special legislation
sought by company

QUEBEC (CP} — Opposition
members of the national assem-
bly warned Wednesday that a
request by asmall Quebec City-
based armored-car firm for spe-
cial legislation on ifs behalf
wauld create a dangeéraus legal
precedent.

Harry Blank (L—St. Louis)
said passage of the private
member’s bill would open the
coor to any disgruntled busi-
nessman who was refused a
permit by a government board
to ask for special legislation to
get his way.

The warnings came during
hearings of the national assem-
bly’s transport cam-
mittee
studying a private bill which
would extend the permit af Al-
liance Securite Blinde (Division
Quebec) Ltee, 2 small armored-
car firm. ;

The eight-year-old firm Is re-

-questing special..legistation. to:

permit it to fransport valuables
throughou! the prevince in di-
rect competition with Brink’s
Canada Lid, and Wells Farga
Armoured Express Ltd.

The bill would go above the
heads of the Quebec transport

joa tat

commission, which until now
has limited Alllance to a permit
allowing It to transport money
for the provincial autoroute avu-
thority and caisses populaires
outside the Montreal-region.

Raymand Mailleux {L—Char-
levoix) said the bill would place
the commission under a type of
trusteeship and destroy Its cred-
ibitity.

‘CREATE PRECEDENT

Armand Russell (UN—Brome
Missisqual) said It would create
a precedent which could be “ex:
cessively dangerous.”

Faced with these arguments,,
Transport Minister Lucien Les-
sard said he would try to find a
solution to the firm’s particular
problems without the need fo
pass a special bill,

irving Gaul, lawyer for Al-
liance, said the firm’s limited .
permit made It impossible for It
fo survive in competition with
Brink's and Wells Fargo, both
subsidiaries of large U.S. firms.

He termed it ‘‘unacceptable
and unjust’ that a Quebec.
owned firm be denied access ta
a market dominated by foreign.
ers.”

THE HERALD, Thursday, May 5, 1977, PAGE 47

SOUTH PACIFIC

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People flock to island
for cancer treatment

AUCKLAND, N.Z. (CP) — Al-
most the last unspolled South
Sea Island paradise Is the un-
likely setting for a controversial
new cancer treatment centre.
Patients are flocking there in
spite of bitter charges by erit-
les. *

it has been established In the
Cook Islands, a tropical group
In the Pacific about 1,500 miles
north of New Zealand. The
Polynesian Inhabitants are selt-
governing, although the group
1s linked to New Zeatand In for-
eign affairs and defence.

Moving spirtt In the under-
taking Is a Czech refugee, Mi-
lan Brych, who has been the
subject of both extreme admira-
tion and ovispoken con-
demnation In New Zealand for
nine years.

Loyal patients claim that he
has been responsible for mir-

acle cures of terminal cancer

patients. Organizations and pri-
vate individuals have contrib-
uted thousands of doflars to

help him in lengthy litigation’

follawing actlons by New Zea-
land medical authorities over
his methods and his quall-
fications.

Struck off the medical regls-
ter In New Zealand, he has
moved to the Cook islands to
head a government-sponsored
research institute In Rarotonga,
main island of the group. Basic-
ally stated fo ba for research
into traditional island medicine
and tropical diseases, It is also
to be Invelved In cancer ireat-
ment.

This aspect has become the
centre of a new storm, Cancer
patlents from New Zealand,
Australia and elsewhere are
themselves moving to the Cook
Islands for treatment, each
course casting several thousand
dollars.

The situation has already be-
come a political issue in the
Cook Islands. The minister of
health, Dr. J. Willams is a
strong supporter of Brych. The
leader of the opposition, Dr. T.
Davis, challenges his claims
and alleges fhat the whale situ-
ation Isa tourist gimmick.

Brych migrated to New Zea-
land as a refugee from Czech-

oslovakia in 1968. He stated that .
he had graduated as a doctor:

and practised in Czech-
oslovakia. He worked first as a
laboratory technician. Then,
when his-medicai quallfications
were approved, as a registrar
in the ear-nase and throat sec-
tion of Auckland Hospital.

CLAIMED CURES

Later he transferred to the
radlo-therapy unit at ihe hospi-
tal and clalmed cures of ‘hope-
less’ patients. But the- hospital
board was showing concern
over lack of information on de-
tails of the treatment.

Two board surgeons reported
that his results were no better
than had been achieved efse-
where.

@rych, however, sald In Inter-
views that his chemo-immuno-
therapy treatment should give
new hope fo cancer sufferers
throughout the world.

Disputes with the board con-
tinued. Brych was stoutly de-
fended by patients wha sald he
had cured them when other doc-
tors had given up. A further in-
quiry was ordered.

Brych refused to give detailed
accounts of his treatment and
the report found against him.

Brych had also become an ts-
sue at a hospital board election.
Members of an organization
supporting him galned seats on
the board. However, in 1974 the
board removed him from its
staff.

Yet he continued to give can-’
cer treatments ala private hos-
pitat where facilities were made
available to him,

Late In 1974, the New Zealand
Medical Council, atter lengthy
Investigations abroad,

alleged

that Grych had falsely repre-
sented that he held a medical
degree trom

Czechoslovakia
and It struck him off the medi-
cal register.

GRANTED STAY

Brych appealed, and a Su-
preme Court judge granted a
stay of the arder to enable
Brych ta obtain evidence of his
qualifications. Litigation, going
as far as the judicial committee
of the Privy Councli on one
polnt, has continued since.

Both the Medical Council and
Brych have spent many thev-
sands of dollars seeking evi-
dence abroad In support of their
respective cases.

When the case again came
forward in the Supreme Court
tn Auckland this spring,. state-
ments by counsel presented two
completely conflleting ple-
tures.

On one side li was asserted
that Brych’s clalms to hold
medical degrees in Czech-
oslavakla were false.

On Grych’s behalf if was
stated that the Czech evidence
had been falsified,

Nevertheless, counsel for
Brych said that his client had
decided It was not worth while
incurring further expense in
continuing his fight for recogni-
tlon In New Zealand, since he
now was resident In the Cook
Islands and treating his patients
there.

WITHDREW APPEAL

His appeal against being
struck off the New Zealand
medical register was accord.
ingly withdrawn. The [udge
awarded costs of $15,000 to the
medical council against Brych.

What Is undeniable Is that
Brych gave falth and hope to
many patients who had aban-
doned ail prospect of a cure.
His supporters still maintain
that, whatever his quvall-
fleations, hls humanitarian
work should have been encour-
aged, whereas he has been
“hounded out af the country."

The publicity the Issue has
brought over cancer treatment
has brought greatly developed
facilities at Auckland Hospital.

Police Inquiries Inte aspects

of the case are continuing In.

New Zealand.

Meanwhile, In the Cook
islands Improvisation has been
necessary to provide facilities
for the Intiux of patients. Some
have moved to the Cook Islands
for continuous treatment,
others
plan to make visits at Intervals.
The flow of patients shows ev-
ery sign af continuing to in-
crease.

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