La +; “‘ialeoholic variety. » 1,400, set last year. “swimmers. “Why do we ‘do it?” Bert Cornwall. * ewim in 1920. -_ When it was over, ‘more than’ 1,800 peiple had = dunked-themselves in the eight-degree. waters of «0 -”, -Enyglish Bay, a record for the Gist‘ anmilll: New... ”~ Year's Day Polar Bear Swim, Previolis ecard. WAS he VANCOUVER CP) - Some. mada the, ‘punge . ° dressed as Santa's elves and reindeer, others "-._ Saveréd their bedies in green palnt and inany stoked . ‘+ °.. their bellies: with seasonal cheer, most, be: it - the: an da nh te Ma card atinated as high ap 20,000 Jammed the wees beach and nearby promenade in foggy, -10-degree ‘weather and just offshore, aboul 400 ’ anchored pleasure boats provided an unobstructed view of the asked ‘one “young female swimmer, “Because it’s crazy and Vancouveriles: - are crazy. It’s a great way to get tid ofa hangover and an even better. reason to party again." '- Among the dippers’ was 9-year-old Ivy Gran- strom of Vancouver, .a noted blind athlete who splashed in for the 54th straight yedr and plans to keep doing it “for.a few years more.” ' ‘The oldest Fegistered pélar hear was reyearald: , _ New Zealander Brendan Horam got a small plaster polar bear for winaing the Lot-meire Peter Pantages. Memorial Swim. Pantages, founded the “were on hand ar ‘lifeguards .on duty, Some. swimmers braved. the water far w to. Py vo ininutes — splashing, drinking Liquor andsinging— * ~before: lifeguards advised. swimmers that if they didn't ‘feel . cold anymore they. ‘could. ‘auffer: «- hypothermia. , May. Guthrie, RB, gave up the ewito three fears ago but-passed on the tradition to her grandson, © - Steve Guthrie, 26, whowent in for his firsttime. . : “[ don't think it’s something I'd like to do every day, but I guess ¢ the braditied has been passed on’ ‘te. me " pane flizgeescent green, bowler hats, gurzledl and attempted to kiss anyone and anything ! _ Nearby,.an anemic Sanla Claus with a ore of beard urged on 19 people dressed a3 déer and elves. Officially, 1,840 people registered. tol take the plunge but if appeared many more were in the | ‘ swim. Last year 1,407 registered... z nee Police; gaid traffic in the, densely. i End was-snaried but manageable, Six ambulances nd the: ‘parks: board had a-dowen © Castro halts hijackings — "MIAMI (AP) — “Despite “stringent security . precautions, U.S. officials _ credit one.man for curbing * disruption and expense _ in oné case: the. captain passed the hat.and handed. - out 10Us to passengers to the rasli of late summer + pay the $2,000 lending fee - hijackings 1 that culminated -in'six U.S." planes” being “ diverted to Cuba if elght days. Asked what.-_he thought was the major factor in turning the tide against the hijackers, Roger Myers, a spokesman for the, US. Federal Aviation Ad- ministration, said; “I can answer that in two words — ’ Fidel Castro.” Castro's decision to turn over. {wo “suspected air... ‘pirates for US. prosecution killed rumors among Cuban refugees in the U.S. . that hijackers would be welcomed home to Cuba and not punished, said Bill Nettles, acting agenl-in- charge of the Miami FBI office. - Nettles said there was no evidence to support spetilation that Castro haa - - planted the hijackers among the niore than 125,000 refugese who fled . , their homeland in the se- called Freedom Floiilla. There were hijackings by the dozens during the 1960s, “But ‘cooperation by the Casird ‘government had almost eliminated the problem in the.1970s.. The mew wave came as the ‘Freedom. Flotilla, which had begun’in late April and’ ’ was ended by Castro in September, -was winding down. Resettlement proved difficult for many refugees, some of whom were rejected by sponsors and left to roam-the streets or huddle ina Miami tent city. . The Cuban - government told “the U.S. state 7 department it would not co- operate in efforts to. repatriate unhappy refugees. and ta some it* seemed the only way home was in a hijacked plane. There were three. hijackings in one day, six in eight days and the total reached 11, One used a box to resemble a‘. wrap, bomb. Gasoline- filled, bottles. and lighters . then} became thethrent of choice, for forcing unscheduled .. - landings at Havana's Jose Martl International Air- . Some hijackers were frightening, . splashing gacoline on a. Flight "at- ”. tendant'in ‘one - ‘ease, ‘or ' - themselves, Some, such as. one : refiigee.. who - wis “ overpowered | ‘aller he. ; "threatened to lighta bundle J of" newspapers, were paitietic, © - passengers were - tected, others ‘took it In stride and. carted hame Cuban cigars and rum. No - one was injured, but airline . officials feared for Ihe day when a skyjacking wottd © go Bwry, ; Aitline frustration mounted with | the , the, “Cubans charged. , hore Shoat On Aug. 1s, the FAA an: : nounced its sécurity crack- down, including rein- stitution of .” checking susplcious-looking passen- gers wilh a behavioral profile. ; The next day, four Cubans were: arrested in _ Tampa’ trying to board . a "plane with: four “qudrt: battles’ of gasdlivie “atushied in an overnight hag. The same day, refigees ’ commandeered a Delta Air Lines L-l011, a Republic. Airlines DC-9-.and an Eastern Airlines Boeing 7 : "SECURITY FORCES. : 7a7 and. forced: them ‘to. Havana.. , In mid: ‘September, a@ .- Havana yRadio broadcast “ children’! ~ hijackings. " posed « 1, On Sept; 18, ‘Castro. an- ‘nounced hé| “would” send i back two Cubans who had "hijacked a Delta jetliner. the day before. One of them, Juan Adega Fresneda, pleaded guilty and i é fyi: ae in Col F second es, Sp Ta Perez Perez, is-Seheduled’ for ‘trial -in a Columbia federal court’ next week. There hive been no successful hijackings since wher reurn- : ‘EXECUTE 200: LONDON (AP) = . Syrian security forces herded vay: 200 people into a square. in. the. northern city ‘of -:,., Aleppo and shot them all. to..death . for. anti : government. activities, ihe British: Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday. . The BBC attributed the report to. the slate. controlled Jordan Radio, which quoted travellers . arriving ih Jordan from Syria. -.. * a The radio suid ihe shootings took place last week ny and that those executed were‘accused of assisting - forces hostile to the Syrian geverniment, the BBC” said. “It said there was ‘No. word. irom Syiia on the. Syria has renewed its campaign in recent weeks against ihe fanatical Moslem Brotherhood, which is. attempting | to overthrow the government. NEW 1900 Chevy - ‘GHEVETTE :| Yolaphena 528-4041 l Dever Licence Member Sirs Terrase, B48. technique for “dissolving | closin’ the arteries around « ihé beart could cutsharply * - nite: the 200-000 deaths naw caused: by such blockages _ fai “year, a: “researcher ; The technique, ir ‘sed: promptly: when: symptoms’ aa: coroniry. ‘attack’ ap pear, could help’ save the | lives of; ‘victims of arterial | ”-elotg ‘or coronary ‘throm- “boses, said Dr. . William. . ,Ganz, cardinlogy professor _ / at the UCLA Medical” _ Sehool-who is developing | ~* the procedure. -. -. - \.The procedure is still in the development ” ‘stage, “Ganz said, and until it ‘is perfected “it cannot. aid : ‘Should not'be done in an”: . ‘inalitusion that: doesn't . faye’ the. intellectual and ‘ ‘physical capacity to do s0.". ~ But when the technique . becomes . available: . for - general’ use in about. two. ., years, it wilf represent the - ' first “significant -means of ‘reducing death rates‘ froin, coronary thrombosis: in. a. A coronity. thrombosis . ‘involves the cutoff of blood “muscle, ” “a8. hen a clot - formato block. the artery. - ' Without’ blood, ‘the muscle ‘ tissue begins 'té deteriorate- alter” 20°°minutes and. gradually: -worsens. until, - after six’ hours, it is = __igrepatably; damaged; fy "Gaim reported-la the Jan. Bigsue of the Journal of the - American’: Association’ that'-he. and colleagues at the: SCedars- : Siani Medical Centre in Los : _ Angeles have used the new . “fechnique to open clogged heart: arteries in 20:of 21 - , Medical tients; who were . suf-- - . fering . from -coronary” thromboses. : Under the technique, . doctors feed inioa patient's heart: ‘arteries ‘a small ‘ flexible tube. telescoped ; _ inside. ‘a: conyentionalsize catheter tube inserted into - the arteries at the g arm ow roi a ‘Researchers: manoeuvre 7 the tubes as near tp the clot * hs, possible; then extend the - jmntit.it reaches the site of _.- the blockage. They then inject inedication’ which triggers aller flexible ;-catheter ‘. : _ Plasminogen to dissolve the ‘ production of a body."en- ~ . zyme thatdissolves the clot tra amounts of the enzyme . and reopens the flow of to speed.the process. o blued to heart. Ame les . s"To save a: patient :we a Ganz said. |. ‘must. save a large. quantity” ‘, Other . techniques’ to: of musele,"': Ganz said'ln'a - ‘dissolve’ ‘heart’ clots. dre telephorie ‘interview. currently in use, but Ganz: "That's: why: we" ‘Baye. to _ said. his is.. different intervene quickly. . - _ primarily because - ‘the “We ,have io see the: smaller tubé extends inside... patient within. three: ‘hours |: the - pulmonary. artery. .all . _ of onset of chest. paina for the way to the clot. and «the procedure. to-. be: _ quickly brings medication — _feetive!: i .. where it is, most. needed.” - Since the procedure way 2’ Ganz ‘infuses the’ drug “first tested on animals two . Thrombolysin into the clot years ago, it has been used - __sile. 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