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UNCLE BENEDICT f » GIVE US f Y His Debts Set Wedding Five ra Back -: Years By Abigail Van Buren ©1977 by The Chicago Trlbune-N.Y. News Synd, Ine, DEAR ABBY : Eddie (not his real name) and I have baen going steady for four years. I'm 25 and Eddie's 26, We definitely planned on getting married, but here's the problem. Eddie says we can't get married until he pays his pacents back for putting him through college. Otherwise hé'd be getting married on his parents’ money. Abby, his parenta are very well-off, and I'm sure they don't expect to be paid back, The way Eddie has it figured, it will take him at least five years ta pay off his parents, He says in the meantime iy. we should just go stea Isuggested we get engaged, but Eddie doesn't bolieve in long engagements, What do you make of this? EDDIE'S GIRL DEAR GIRL: [ think Eddie should be commended for wanting to repay his parents, but it seems to me he’s giving you a five-year stall, Stalle are for horses and other four-legged animals. I'd aay “Nay.” DEAR ABBY: I work in a nursing home, and one of the residenta here has asked me to write the following letter to you: ‘ , 4 ¢ %. : ¥ “Dear Abby: Iam a sick old lady. My dentures no longer fit me, and since they are very uncomfortable, I don’t wear them much anymore. : When my daughter visited last Sunday, she ordered me to wear my dentures at all times so that when I die I will look ‘presentable,’ What do you advise? DEAR TROUBLED: Tell your daughter that you are more concerned with being comfortable NOW than being “presentable” then, DEAR ABBY: I am a 14-year-old girl with a story to tell. Last night about 9 p.m. I was walking home alone from the public library. (I live 8 blocks from there.) The wind was blowing hard, and it was very cold. Besides, I had a load of books under my arm. ‘ A cer pulled up alongside the curb, and a nice-looking man opened the door and asked, “Want a ride?” He looked okay and was about my father’s age, end my feet were about to drop off with freezing, so I said yes and hopped in. He asked me where I waa going and I told him. He drove me there, but before he let me out, he said, “Young lady, I want you to promiga me that you will NEVER again accept a vide with a atranger, no matter how ‘nice’ he appears to be. I happen to be a decent man, but you took an awful chance. You can’t tell ANYTHING about a man by the way he looka. Two years ago I had a niece about your age who accepted a ride with a strange man, and three days later they found her lifeless body in a ditch four miles from your home. She'd been raped and strangled.” a car with a stranger. And I never will. LUCKY DEAR LUCKY: Thanks for sharing your experience. It contains valuable advice. DEAR ABBY: When someone asks, “What nationality are you?” and I say, “I was born and raised in the U.S.A, which makes me an American,” why do they say, Oh, I know that—I mean, are you Jewish, Catholic or Protestant?" Abby, don't they know that they are asking about a person’s RELIGION—not their NATIONALITY? I have a friend whose parents came from Italy, and people are always calling him an Italian, He ia NOT an Italian, he’s an American! If !sound angry, [ am. Oh, boy, would you be doing a lot of people a big favor if you put this in your column. 100 PERCENT AMERICAN - TROUBLED IN L.A.” . Abby, I promised that man I would never again get into - HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (AP) Two doctors, an operating- room supervisor and an anesthesiologist have been indicted in a case involving a medical supply salesman who allegedly took part in surgery on a patient, it was announced Wednesday. The indictments, disclosed by Suffolk County District Attorney Henry O'Brien, are the first an- nounced since reports surfaced that there may be a widespread practice of allowing surgical equipment salesmen to perform operating chores. Those indicted were to be arraigned in state Supreme Court later Wednesday. A Garden City man, William MacKay, has told a newspaper that he was the salesman involved in the hip surgery case that resulted in the Smithtown General Hospital indictments. He said he has been involved in 12 operations. The indictments stem from a July 1975 operation to implant an artificial hip joint in Franklin Mirando, 44, Mirando has_ since charged in a medical mal- practice suit that he was left crippled after the operation. In the first of three in- dictments, Dr. David Lipton and Dr. Howard Mastofl, operating-room supervisor Lorna —— Salzarullo, anesthesiologist Mary Chiu and Smithtown General Hospital were charged with second-degree assault. The other indictments charged Lipton, the hospital and the operating room supervisor with falsifying business records. FINISHED GRADE § MacKay, 34, was a salesman for Zimmer U.S.A., @ manufacturer of artificical joints, at the time of Mirando’s surgery, it was reported, MacKay, who said his formal education ended after grade 8, described his role in the surgery in an interview published Tuesday in the Long Island newspaper, Newsday. He said he was present in the operating room at Smithtown eneral to acquaint nurses with the equipment and left before Lipton and Massoff finished the implantation. - - He said that he was sum- moned from.a golf course and “was told that Medical supply sale Mirando’s. * hip’. ‘had dislocated ‘in the recovery room and that the doctors were waiting for me before going back in. When I got to the operating ‘room, the told me to hurry up, seru and get into my greens,” he said, MecKay said Lipton asked him te remove the . artificial joint and replace it with another, He said he sat Patient do-gooders waited up to half an hour to give man helps | on a stool, bound fragments of the patient’s femur with stee] bands and inserted a new prosthesis. “T kept repeating in my mind, ‘Let’s get this guy’s hip back together right,’” said MacKay. “He'd heen under anesthesia since 8 a.m. and could have stopped breathing at any time. I was really seared. After it was over, 1 never wanted to blood Wednesday at the clinic held in the Terrace e . touch a patient again.’ MacKay maintained that, as a rule, his role in the operating room was “‘to give advice on my equipment and implants. “The only time I'd touch a patient is when a surgeon would demand it because he _ was running into difficulties _ with equipment... That's what happened with Mirando...”" 7 areina. Rejects claims of prior knowledge OTTAWA (CP) Solicitor- general - Francis Fox rejected New Democratic Party charges Wednesday that the government knew of an illegal RCMP break-in of a left-wing news agency in Montreal as early as 1972. He told the Commons that NDP Leader Ed Broadbent based his charges on an affidavit typographical error that was mistakenly filed with a list of documents before a Quebec government com- mission of inquiry. But Broadbent rejected Danson defends Canadian ‘containing a- Fox's. statements, saying the timing of the affidavit still ‘implies government knowledge before 1976. That is the date the government has said it first learned of the raid at the offices of the ‘Agence de Presse Libre du Quebec. ; Broadbent showed copies of the affidavit to reporters before the Commons sat. It contained an index of 26 documents concerning the break-in subpoenaed by the Quebec commission of inquiry into illegal police activities, headed by lawyer presence in NATO OTTAWA (CP) + Defence Minister Barney Danson now seems committed to maintaining Canadian troop support for NATO's nor- thern flank in Norway despite earlier doubts. He said in a recent in- terview he visited Norway in October with doubts about the value of the Canadian contribution, Canada agreed in 1989 to fly Cana- dian troops to Norway when needed, “Had I not been satisfied that it is a job we can ber form ... then there would be no point in maintaining that commitment. “After haying been there and with the work that is. ongoing, then I think it is a commitment we can keep and keep effectively. But there is still a lot of homework to be done on both sides.” Danson said there is little sense in the Canadian contribution unless it acts as a deterrent to aggression in northern Europe, After looking at the Norwegian terrain, he had concluded it is an easier country to defend than attack. Canadian troops could perform usefully there. But there still had to be some work on receiving and he supporting Canadian troops in Norway. Danson’s concern about Canada’s role in the nor- thern flank is part of the government's drive to make the most effective use of the 78,000-man armed ‘forces. The forces are to be in- ~ creased in size by 4,700 over a period of years, Like External. Affairs Minister Don Jamieson, Danson is wary of another Canadian contribution to “Uni i Nations thi peacekeeping forces, this time in Rhodesia. He said the forces are already stretched because of their role in UN forces in Cyprus and the Middle East. Canada agreed to provide troops from bases in Canada . to the northern flank after reducing the size of Canadian Forces in central Europe in 1969. About 5,000 troops from Val Cartier, Que., London, Ont., and Winnipeg. are available for transport to northern Europe in case of need. Canada also con- tributes troops and fighters to a multilateral NATO force that can: be used in either northern or southern Europe. John Keable. Included in the list is a record of a Dec. 19, 1972 letter from “D, G.” to “Sol. General.’’ Broadbent in- terpreted that to mean the letter was sent from the - director-general of RCMP security service, John Starnes, to then solicitor- general Warren Alimand.. Broadbent said the letter must have been about the 1972. break-in because all of the documents subpoenaed surrounded that event. Fox told the Commons the letter in no way relates to the break-in. He promised to make it available to a federal royal commission under Mr. Justice David C: McDonald which — will: inquire into the extent and prevalences of RCMP behavior. Fox also said a typographical error in the affidavit listed the date of the letter as December, 1972. In fact, the letter was written Dec. 19, 1973, he said. illegal Fox has refused to make public any of the documents mentioned in the affidavit, saying that in the interests of national security they must remain secret. Bult jBroadbent rejected Fox's statement, arguing that even if the letter was written in 1973 the govern- ment would still have been informed two years before it says it was in 1976. And, theNDP leader said the. McDonald commission is likely to conduct most of its meetings in camera. Fox confirmed outside the Commons that represen- tations will be made to the commission to keep the letter secret for national: security reasons. Broadbent said ‘the in- tegrity of the government rests on the content of that letter because serious questions are still unan- swered,” Fox and Alimand have. said they have searched their files and can find no record of the letter. . Victoria RCMP say not involved in secret probes. VICTORIA (CP)—The head of the RCMP security . unit in British Columbia said Tuesday his section was not involved in alleged secret probes of senior labor figures in the province. ‘“‘Absolutely not,’’ Superintendent Charles Yule answered when asked if any of his officers had taken part in an_inves- tigation into - the officials. “We've always had good rapport with the labor people here,” he said. ‘If we wanted io find out something about them, we'd go and ask them. ‘ ‘I can assure you we are not doing any investigation ner have we received any instruction to do one. We definitely have no in- volvement." .said Tuesday A memorandum revealed Monday purported to show that Labor Minister Allan Williams had asked for investigations .of Paul Weiler, head of the B.C, Labor ‘Relations Board, John Fryer, general secretary of the B.C Government Employees Union, and Len Guy, secretarytreasurer of the B.C, Federation of Labor. Premier Bill Bennett, Attorney-General Garde. Gardom and Williams have all said the memo was an obvious fake, and have denied any knowledge of such an investigation. Guy said his initial reaction to the memo was that it was a fraud, but he that he strongly suspected it was le- gitimate. .