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“The twins were born ‘Friday after doctors.¢ janged

we ‘the blood ise of oft the fetuses, while they v were ati in
. the wor,

ae ~ The blood: exchanges were rissosbary becauie both on
* ‘bables ‘had _Rhpositive blood : ‘and thelr “mother’s : °
system had developed antibodies against the hables’

positive Rh factor,

_ _ The Souple had one previous ent after: a 8 normal

ye .
rom. Rh. disease at 28 weeks gestation
Without: the transfusions, both: infan

ther, 36; and: father, working: ‘in. obstetrics

‘and gastroenteroldgy..; respectively; ‘5
. ment, ‘at’ the,.Health Sciences: ‘Centre: in: Winnipeg

‘because of the répulation the hospital's Rh Institute:

"has developed since -the'-first: intra “uterine. bop

* transfusion here. 18 years ago. ”
Dr. John. Bowman, ‘clinical director. of the. Bh

: laboratory, assisted Dr. Frank Manning, who heads

“Serving the.
_ Progressive,
| Northwest

a

. Tuesday, January 4 4, 1983.

od trans fusions ||

; _nialernal, and’ fetal medicine a at the: e'hospltal, a .

_* “Doctors used advanced Uultra‘sound technology for.
precise location’of the infants’ abdominal ‘cavities. -:
before each transfusion, Bowman said the ‘survival. .

rate after: Buch: (rénsfusions has risen’ to: “80 per cent
from an, ‘initial 49 per: ‘cent :

ht’ was ‘the fourth time Rh postive twins of mothers

“with, antiboilies against. Rh-positive’ blood have. been.
transfused and ‘deliveréd in: ‘Winnipeg, Bowman s sald:

‘2 The’ doctor. ‘sald the boy, ‘who recelved: his first

“transfusion: at: 22. weeks of ‘gestation. and. had. “four”.
more after that, wad barn looking nérmal. Maryanne,
’ with three transfusions and: the ‘first at 24 weeks .

"gestation, required special intenslve care for residual

" anaemia shortly after birth,
" Abospital spokesman said the treatment could cost ;

a ‘the Sakais. more than $10,000 oo “ on
:"When you figure hospital cost at. befween $00 and on

a $600 day; the total cost of this comes out to-be-very, "9."
Very: “considerable,” _Bowman‘sald in an‘ interview,

He added: : however, the ‘Sakals will, pay’ for. the
treatment in full, with nd help from, social’ ‘pervices
* The ‘twins: and their. mother’ ‘were expected to stay. in
Winnipeg another two'to three weeks for observation.
The father plans: to leave Canada liter’ this week,

Bowman said about.one’ in- every. 100: ‘pregnancies |.

: involves an -Rh- ‘negative mother ‘and an Rh-positive:. J ~
“infant, However, modern’ ‘treatment. and monitoring. con lene
', techniques fiave reduced the ‘rate!of needed tran an

_ sfusions ‘to one or’ ‘two: cases a year, a a

Since .1964, when such ‘transfusions were first:

started by the Rh laboratory, 196 bables. affected by |~
Rh disease have been saved. Another 137 were lost. .

it looks | like a ‘fleet. of :

" Skeena River, but really It 4s a flim development error.
Many, “sightings are sald to be “contirmed’” this way.

‘BANGKOK | cP)
Primé: Minister

resalyod a flowery,

official: er of his. seven”

country‘ Aslari tour, |

‘Stepping into atearning §2-
degree-Celsius ‘heat after’ a -

three-hour flight fram Hong
the ‘iret

Kong, Trudeau, t

, witntnter of education.

-  Béluedtion Minister Bill Vander aim rrecet
spend: two days teaching in his home naling: ‘ é
Vancouver ‘area. municipality. ye

“Tt's bebn sald that to get the feellnig “Foil might io ‘ia:

rudgau nt

esas ‘prime minister

“ever to.visit Thailand, was’:
greéted. by ‘Thai Premier
‘Prem Tinsulanonda and °
: several cabinet ministers as -
‘hondreds ‘of: Thai children,
“bused to, the ‘airport, for the”
~ oeeasion,’: swaved Thsi- ‘andl:

Canadign flags... ;
* After 4": gun ‘salute,
national - “anthems: andthe.

_ review of an‘honer guard,..

Trudesiy . sped. off,

businessmen

ete As

immediately’ to a meeting’
with ~ 12 = Canadian -
who °
business,’ ' of hope to, ‘an

Thailand: .

’ ‘Their interests, include -
bollers “fer | coal-fired -
electric plants: — Canada’s ..

~~ largest. single export to -
Thailand: last . year =

engineering ‘ sgervices,

Satellite. receiving stations

and airplanes:* a
‘Canadian officials © “hope *

_‘Triideau's visit" will‘ help

grease the wheels for-’
businessmen and spur more -

. "sales, thus helping to ereate’.

ra inate jobs in Canada to ease

‘teipati directly ao I'd like’ to go in and: ‘stand:

students to gee what their réaction is during t the’ day, he-

. sald Monday.

4

~ But ‘the district flatly refused the affe: es
“He's: ‘not ‘a certified teacher so he: can't 't. conie in snd

teach,” sald superintendent Doug J

However, he-said the minister ‘is waleore | in ¢
classes ‘ahd talk to staff if he wishes."
_ But. B:C+Teactier's Federation president Larry. iach”

- ‘lsagirees yvith the schoo! boarda’s stance;

ib saya be would

like to sée the minster at the head of a chats.’
- “It nidght give hill a better Idea of whatseaching is about :

‘ —he obviously has no idea,” said Kut

Rana

vet

“thal newspaperd” feported
‘thes continaingsdisputh"- In

‘ _“mernployment.

- Canadian: trade - with

io. ‘Thailand. amounted ‘to a -
Sy... paltry‘ $150 million a-year..
e- .” That's a drop-in the: bucket:

next to the $# billion in trade -
faith ‘Japan; ‘Canada’ Bo

_ largest Asidin customer aid.

~ pecoad - overall * “alter the

“United ‘States. - f es
“While ‘Canad ai’ siti
walled ei ils

aehba; also: ki:
Cambodia, Sawa
: atin ‘ist wher the:

ido |

"Canta baicks ihe ve stand of
“Thailand and other
members of the Association
of Southeast, Asian ‘Nations
SEAN) who demaixt the

fee ae oo
Canibobign regime of Heng

. Samrin. _yhey © support the
‘tripartite | Democratic i
" Kampuchean: coalitiGn:led
“bys former... ruler ‘Prince,
Norodom Sihanouk. a

PRAGUE (AP) — The Warsaw Pact

‘opened its first meeting

ao group a a Ronian.
. Cathdlic

leadership of new Kremlin

_Andropov today and the Soviet Communist

party: proclaimed — the

. “unanimously support’ his ‘proposal for.
"reducing nuclear. weapons in, Europe.: °
“The ‘party. newspaper Pravda and other.
East bloc . Communist papers ‘Issued.a
barrage of criticism against the United |
States on the first.day of the conference, _~
~ which is ‘expected to endorse Andropoy' 3
* ‘nuclear. arms ‘pfoposal form ily.

“The Warsaw. Pact meeting had been .
delayed from its Decamber opening .date-
because of the déath of Soviet leadér -
“Leoyld . Brezhnev. The conference - Is

. Andropov’s first trip abroad since he
replaced Brezhnev as Soviet Communist
party general secretary on Nov. 12. .

. Echoing Andropov’s - ‘contention: ‘that
Washington is. trying to gain’ a- nuclear
edge over Moscow, the ' Soviet party ~
“newspaper Pravda said. today: in a
_ dispatch, from’ Prague | that “the policy of.
/ gaining military superiority _ over the .
Soviet Union has no future,” :
“Let NATO commanders not hope that.
-- someone will be able to put at risk with
impunity’ the life of the peoples in the: a
; sdrialist community,” Pravda Said,

under the
chief Yuri

riembers

plans.

‘1. The.western allies: already have. rected ~
27 the: proposal, announced , Dec. ‘21,
. grounds the Soviet SS
triple warheads, giving. them a three-to-
"one ‘firépower advantage ¢ over B q
French’ migsiles. : we :
The. ‘consultative committes composed
‘of heads: ‘of seven, national - omit
parties, government ‘leaders and other’
' officiats, is the co-ordinating: political body 5.
for the Warsaw pact: alliance ‘and usually sd.
meets’ ‘every t two yeats. :

Pravda did ‘not mention President:
Reagan or his proposals for nuclear arms:
reduction specifically. But it clearly sf
referring to his so-called zero option plani |
and U.S, arguments.that NATO must go”

. head with its planned missile deployment
". to force Moscow: to bargain at nuclear}
arms talks in Geneva... | :
- ‘Reagan’s proposals call for NATO. “to!
*. abandon its planned deployment of 672 U.S
“nuclear missiles. in western Europe -in}
exchange for removal of all. Soviet ‘SS

$S-20 misailes: have

- Bishops. stand: their gr

bishops _
standing by! their ‘critique of

“> -the government's: handling ’

“singapore,

Indonesia . and,: the :

"Philippines —.and make a‘
brief. stop in Brunei. :
He grrives in Japan on:
dan. 16 and will be the first
"western Jeader to hold talks’:
with new Japanese: Prime
“Min ister’,
Nakasone.

‘Yasuhiro

alaysia, .

of Canada’s’ recession,
“despite a_rebuke - from
Gerald © Emmett: . Cardinal
Carter’ a

Bishop’ Remi. DeRoo, ‘of

eight-member’

Romin Catholics of : the

‘Mettopolitan Toronto —

archdiocese, was “certainly _
entitled “to Have:

"reservations. an
Encouraging debate was *

- ane‘of the main reasons for

(Fie

The. Thais may. ask
_ Trideau ‘to give meterial -

support. in addition’ to its

“Moral ‘support. — ‘to the 7 ;
: -An- éarly, “nidriing “fire

in. asking for is a very serious

“debate about : the present’ .

ition,

After méeting Prein ‘and 4
his . cabinet: Wednesday,
‘Prudeau: will witness. the .
signing of two agreements -

“one ‘allows. Canadians -:

-ednyicted of drug offences
to. tranafer to. Canada to

-finigh’ their’ sentences - and”

‘the. ‘other ‘deals — with
“indurainice to cover, assets of
Canddian ‘companies

. operating i in Thailand.
i Trade | with ~ .ASEAN,
- topped $1 billion last year, a ais
t ‘three-fold increase since :
Mb: -

From Thailand, “Trudeau

two. lll travel to Ube four’ other:
a  Aeaders ‘ineet Weineaiiay,

“ASEAN, “members —

: ‘cant ‘buil »

* NANAIMO: B B. c. (CP) ~

‘destroyed four businesées in
“thia Vancouver Ieland eliy

"today and caused: damage
"estimated in the hundreds of

thousands of dollars.

7 fhe: fire started - ‘in ,.a”
. deliedtessen shortly alter 2. |
4m. aiid ines toa.
“next door.
‘than two poins later, a’
F notte a: “company, . an.

ri anda law ie
ne block had b

; ty firemen and

“brought ‘under control by 3-

five pieces’ of. equipment.
‘Jought the. Blaze, which was -

the document, DeRoo ‘sald.

*: drawn into an argument.
' with Carter because it
“ -might cloud the substance :

of the report,
“What we are really

situation.” ‘which we are.

‘condemning and which we
find quite unacceptable,” he

rai in an interview. |

Canadian

ctmimission appealed. to"
fovernmenits Ap fight
unemployment: before.
inflation atid criticized
wage-control ' programs Bs
béneflting ily the wealthy.

‘They condemned the six,

and-five ‘wage restraint —
program: ais “inequitable” ”
and emphasized the needs

e eight bishops on the.
Catholic |.
.Conterance of Bishops -

of the poor must ‘ba ‘given:
priority over the wan f
the. rich. or:
/ We belisie that the

weaker cltizens - — the poor; ”

the’ matginal and ' the
‘unemployed — are. gelting
the short end of the stick’ -

- and a. ‘rough deal, We feer-
 Metoria, chairman of the ©
‘special -
-bishops’ commission for
’* social: affairs, -shid Carter,

\ Jeader’ of the one. million

it's the’ responsibility of the.
church to express itself and”

“ask that a more just society
" be constructed,” vt
He ‘gaid while. bishops

were not against profils as

‘incentive, they don’t think

they. should. come” before
‘the needs of: “working *

people.”
- Bishop John O'Mara ‘of

.Thunder™ Bay, Ont.,. a°
: - member of, the commission
a But he said he would not be

. a
'

Classifieds,

‘Wide wortd: sports
Comics, horoscope.

* and one orth

report, said’:

right’. is "meualngt

employment. *,

Unfortunately, he said, our:

economy ‘isn't organized: .

_ along ‘these Ines.
Rev. Peter Sutton, bishop’
‘of. “Jabrador-Schefferville, |

- anid: he. waa glad: there hae:
‘been so much reaction to the: ,

report because it will ensure;
thorough debate. es
In Charlottetown,” locals

- ehurch. officlals sald: te

critique -. -chas
inisunderstéod. a wan

_ “It's possible, that’ we

would have aome bishops’.
who did not agree with what

_the commission: has said,"!
. ald Bishop MacDonald, a

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pages. 485.

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So Do: you want paris to tix wp Your car. bul your cp
~ won't allow it? Beat the high cost ata few parts: with:

., Sovter’ rriédium-range nuclear missiles in ,

; western Europe to 162, the current level of
British and ' French arsenals. :. ;

- An. exchange, Andropoy demanded
NATO -cancel - its missile deployment

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