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_ Supporters: of Dr. Henry _
Toronto .
abortion clinic believe they -

Morgentaler's |

. have raised enough money
to replace equipment seized «
in a police raid on the clinic,
last Tuesday,
But despite the success of
_ the fundraising effort, the -
“new equipment won't be .
purchased. until. the three
"doctors charged as a result
of the raid decide whether to |
Teturn to - the

‘sald: —

; "Morgentaler ‘and
associates, Dr. Robert Scott
and Dr, Leslie Smoling, face

o charges of conspiracy to

procure a miscarriage, the
- ‘wording. - used. in. the
Criminal Code section on
abortion. Scott and Smoling
also. face..: charges.
‘procuring a: miscarriage. ~

The ihree were released
Friday on $ 000 bail each,
but the bail will be appealed
“later. this week. The Crown
"FS: sel to have the
not to
‘until the

charges are dealt
_, Rebick.. : said

‘ eeu

Hab Si corre ‘fctbe. - orcupl
: three !
-. voluntarily to stay ‘away

‘accused | “decide

‘from the clinic.

- several doctors. in the city
‘and from ¢ outside’. areas
offering to work at the clinic -

and perform abortions,"
she sald.”

~ “We Intend to provide full.
abortion services. at the.

: clinic as quickly as possible,

‘probably in the next, couple
of ‘weeks.’

Rebick said the doctors
are “well aware that they
-risk being arrested just like
Dr, Morgentaler.”

In the meantime, _ the

- month old clinic will be

open -for referrals . and:
. counselling,

While clinic supporters:

worked at fundraising ard
finding doctors, a U.S.
‘psychologist added impetus
to the abortion controversy
. during the weekend when he.

said unborn children havea ~

- “eonscious spirit.”
“Thete are meaningful
_ signs that you’re dealing
with a real Human being in.
there," -said © - David:
Chamberlain, chief clinical «
psychologist at San Diego's
Anxiety Treatment Centre.

“When ..we're - talking
about a fetus, we're really.
talking about a ‘spirit: that’ ”
does not yet havea body, ’”
said Chamberlain,. in -
Toronto to attend a
conference on prenatal

. psychology. “We. just -

. assume a person has to have -

a body to be a person.”

- But Chamberlain sald. he
‘was not opposed to abortion
under most conditions.
Those .- who _ consider,
atortion to be murder are
‘talking about a -: false
idea. x

“spirits cannot be killed
— the creator has ‘put. {hat
‘actbeyond our reach,"
said.

“Some people talk as if-
we're always doing the baby :
a favor to force it to live.
under the: ~ worst
conditions,” he- sald,
referring to children born to.
teenagers = OF broken
‘families. .

clinic, -
: spokesman ‘Judy, . Rebick |

two. ,

of

All the planning these West Fraser officials did pald off
today with the opening of Terrace’s Skeena Mill

under the. new owners, According to IWA Spokesman -

“25 cents ~

: Surinder’ “phainotra the plants opened , ‘With. two shitts
totalting 90 workers.. West Frasers’ objective'ls to go into”

full production today. moving 375,000 board feet per shift.

Hebron” after. a ‘stabbing
. death last week of 4 Jewish

"? seminary student - in the .

a “ ls
“We? ve had calls from town tharketp! ace,

A spokesman ‘for’ the
military command said

_-yICToRIA (CP) — As
-part “of ‘ita over-all cost-
cutting bid, the provincial
government is laying: the

groundwork for three kinds .

~ of medical care for B.C.
residents. .
The .
‘government has - sald
repeatedly that it wants to
cut costs of all kinds and has
pointed to the whole health
system a5 a major expense

_ for government = — and
taxpayers’ - —
-Inoneof a blizzard of bills .

introduced budget day: last
Thursday, the government
has” given itself new
‘opportunities ‘to cut health
. Gare costs. ;

. three. ‘types of card are:

— One In which patients’
‘bills will. be paid as now by
- the”. province's’.
' gervices plan’ (MSP); The

. patients ‘will be’ limited to-

medical practitioners who
“ agree’ to + accept
" government: “set fees

- Another - in’ ‘which

patients will pay part of ihe.

cost. They will be ableto go.

to doctors charging more

than the “government” fees
for their services,

A third in - whith
patlenis will pay. the entire
fee, with no money-back at

government+ttn..” medical
insurance scheme. but
possibly with. the ‘pid of
. Some private. “Insurance
schame: They will he able to
-go ‘to doctors: who | are
practising entirely. ouislde
medicare.

NDP health eritic. Eillen.

Dailly . (Burnaby - North)
said. the bill “will give jus

two — maybe. three, .—-

classes --of doctors .. and
patients. It’s an ‘attack, on
the imiversality .’~ of:
-Taedicare.. I: ‘know the
‘majority of people in B.C.
want the. medical system as
we know it; The NDP will
“fight this.to the bitter end."

The B.C. Medical ”

pth He “sgonbldees
woof

‘Under the B. ¢. move; the |

medical . -

from: the . universal .

vibther
‘the:

relmposé .
tonight. -
Tension remained high in

* called to prevent - a élash.
between Jewish and Arab.
worshippers early today in

Pewriew’ |

the town and iroops were .

later por
~The site, ‘revered | ‘as

synagogue ‘and a mosque,
where: Moslems. came ‘to
recite prayers for the Eid
al-Fitr festival which marks

care to be cut

Association says it has not .
yet had time to absorb what
the bill really means. It has
set up a committee of
doctors and lawyers... to
fathom it out. .
Under the new ‘bill, the’
cabinet will continue * to

have the last word of what \

doctors will be paid for
various services, ranging
from office visits to a family
physician to sophisticated

- surgery. . : -

In practice, the, fées are
set in negotiations between
the medical — services

- commission and the BCMA,
but those fees have to have
cabinet approval.

‘The commission can vary
the fees for. the same

_ Services performed . * by
different doctors or
- different classes af doctors,

Another factor is what
will happen in’ the next
round of _ negotiations,

belween the commission’.

and. the BCMA over fees
generally, due in about “s a
year’s time. “

In 1981, many doctors:..

were unhappy with what

they were being offered and
threatened .to extra of
balance bill thelr patients.
Extra or balance billing is a
system in which the doctor
receives the set fee from the

medical services plan, but -

also makes a further charge
to his patint.: © -
' At that time, Health
Minister Jim Nielsen’
pushed a bill banning such
extra charges through the
legislature. ~

Classifieds

Local, world sports _
Comics, horoscope -

- "These charges are » banned

“who: >.” receive

The third type of doctors
is created by powers given
te cabinet io limit the
number of medical
practitioners in any given
area. This limit is applied
by refusing MSP - billing

_Tumbers, without- which a

doctor. cannot receive

payments from the plan.
The new power, together

with other provisions of the

bill, imeans- that patients:

who go to a doctor without a
billing number algo’ cannot
get: reimbursement | from

: MSP, even though they have

paid their premiums.
The bill allows for private
insurance schemes to be set

‘up to cover all or part of
these fees providing the

health minister gives his
consent.

BCMA president - Dr.
Duncan McPherson sald
Sunday he wonders why the
new bill was introduced.

“This profession goes a

long way. back In looking

after the medical needs of
the people’of this province,"’

said McPherson. “It. goes

back to the time before
medical insurance. .
“We've - watched ~ the

‘ development of a” scheme

we all felt satisfied with —
except for some. changes.
What we've got now is a

totally néw ‘scheme which

has been. sprung onus by
surprise. » 4

SIDE

‘Pages “485
page. 6
_ pages. 8&9

Si
. burial place of, Abraham,
houses .both: a Jewish .

"Barlter today,
-was lifted for four hours so
Arab residents “could buy
food for the festival. 7

The curfew in Hebron

; applied’ only. . to Arab™
residents of the town. Jews

living in the Jewish quarter

_of the ancient community,
and in the ‘outlying ‘Jewish
" quarter “of Kiryat | Arba,

-in the new. bill, but only for» Were allowed = to free”

doctors
payment directly: from the.
_. medical services plan.  -

movement in the: silent

- streets.’ °
Meanwhile, Rival
Christian*.and . Druse-

Moslem militias exchanged
shellfire in the Shou
Mountains outside : Beirut

_ during the night and Soviet-

made Grad rockets crashed
onto several villages, press

_ reports in Beirut said.,

In another ‘development,
the Israeli army has begun
a “trial run’ for future
troop pullbacks in Lebanon,
sources. said, while the
Israeli cabinet has decided
to increase .the Jewish
presence in Hebron.

Thecabinet spent much of
its: “Sunday. | meeting

discussing new outbreaks of ~.

Arab-Jewish violence i in the

West Bank.
Prime: Minister

Menachem Begin rejected a
request by Jewish settlers
that they be allowed to form

Strikes demanded

~ PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) —

“dismissal of" Hebron'a—
acting - eet mayor,
Mustafa Natshe, andalso-

decided “to proceed with.
plans {o restore the Jewish
presence in Hebron.

The previous: Jewish

community in Hebron was

dispersed’ after Arabs
massacred 70 Jews there in
"1929. in what was then
Palestine. :
. After Israel captured the

a “Herald Staff Writer a ay
' TERRACE. “Restaurant -owners and’ tnanagers

restaurateiirs have ‘to figure it out.
tb

“The new ‘seven pel

' That in itself became a problem. Some managers badn'i ns
been able to.understand what the new. rules were by that...”
. time, sothey basically ignored them until they could gather: -

. more information.

For tliose restaurants that were open that night until: past

after? ‘Or do you only charge the tax on meals that were
served after the deadline? If a’‘meal was ordered at 11:59
p.m. that became a whole other problem. The matter was
so confusing that individual managers were coming up with
their own. solutions. . -Which means depending’ upon’ the
- Managers, customers who ordered the same. meal. in

separate establishments were paying different prices \ when -
. itbecame time to go tothe cash register.

With those managers who tried to obey the new rules, the
bookkeeping: problem immediately. followed. After they
rung off the cash registers and got ‘all their’ bills together, -

"they were suddenly faced with a $2-lay July. The week -

Tow had two Thursdays in it; pre-tax Thursday and a post-
tax Thursday. When it comes time to audit their books the
accountants should havea field day with thesituation.
Then there was the confusion : over when the new tax was
payable. At first some thoiight it was individually. Soif two

people were sitting at the game-table; one ordering a $12 -

dollar meal and the other. ohly having coffee, some outlets
‘charged tax on the.$12 meéal,. Later it was discovered by

some managers the tax was to be averaged out between the 7

customers at the table, .So the next day the same two people
could order the same mea! and if the price of coffee was 50

cents, the total bill would-be $12.50, but divided by two the |
food cost per person becomes only $6.25 which is under the .

$7 starting point for taxes.
. In Terrace this actually happened to some customers who

then got angry with the managers who were only trying to 7

do their jobs as best they could. -
The $7 starting point is totally: confusing ‘to restayrant
managers. No one understands where that amount comes

* from. Nor can they undertand why a meal costing $6.99 is

: West Bank from Jordan in -

1967, a Jewish settlement -
was ‘founded adjacent to the

Arab city. But some Jewish -

militants occupied buildings
inside the city, heightening
tensions with the Arabs.

Deputy Premier David
Levy said after the cabinet
session-that the government
would implement its March, —

1980, decision to. revive.

Hebron’s Jewish’. quarter.

Natshe was fired-by Maj.-
Gen, Uri Orr, the Israeli
commander in thé West

Bank, - for allegedly
: contributing ‘to. the
atmosphere of violence that .

led ta the student's slayirig.

Jewish settlersin the area.

had demanded a new

security policy, saying anti-
Israeli attacks were
increasing. ;

- An official of the Canadian .

Union of Public Employées has suggested a general strike
of all unions in B.C. in retaliation against what he calls the
“sucker budget” brought down last week by Finance
Minister Hugh Curtis. >

. Bob MacRae of - Penticton; president of CUPE's.
Okanagan-Mainline district council, said the budget came
48 no surprise to union officials, adding that ft is apparent
Social Credit was returned to power on a “sticker vote.”

* MacRae said it is a tragedy that people who voted in good
faith for stable government now face loss of jobs, high rents
and taxes and other cutbacks.

He said union members will suffer as well as business and

elderly people, and thousands ‘of others will suffer because. wa

of health cutbacks.

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not taxed at all, while one costing $7,01 is taxed. And nat
just on the amount over the $7, but the whole amount.

Those food outlets offering ‘take-out service say the
difference in their cost of‘takeout out orders and eat in
orders is marginal, therefore, they can’t understand why
the government chose to tax one'and not the other. -- -

..'" having more problems with the new. mea} tax ‘rules than 7
~ their customers. All the customérs have to dois pay. >The: “rte

a ‘midnight and tried to.put the new tax into effect it was |
- something of 4 nightmare. Do you’charge the seven per .
cent on meals served before midnight but not paid for until

Trying to get the new computer. cash: registers ”

_ reprogrammed isn’t easy either. There fust-dren’t enough
- “service men'to go around, ‘especially’ at the start of the

ron curfew cogs

” their own militias, but the 1
oe cabinet : ‘upbeldthe, recent,”

holiday season:

Some restaurants have taken a novel approach to the nm new
tax regulations. They've hidden it. They've tacked seven
_ percent onto everything and when a customer's‘bill is

~ presented there is'no separa!

month - and” figure out ‘what amount of money ‘the
. government is demanding. However, under this system the
person who buys a $4.50 meal is also beittg charged the new
seven per cent tax without knowing it. - .

For some time a seven per cent tax has been. applied to
beer consumed in a restaurant. If the bottle costs $2,
owners were forced to add 14 cents (not so in pubs or
lounges). That may be why the seven per cent amount was
decided, the $7 lirnit may have been decided because the tax
began after July 7, That caused some. comics to remark
that at least the government didii’t bring in the tax on July
28.

: But- many restaurateurs note’ that most of these
"problems could have been ‘solved if the provincial
government had announced the new tax on July 7, but
waited a few weeks before putting them into effect and
given the owners some preparation. time.

The owners ate also gearing up for suspected changes in

te tac iter. The owners just let.
the bookkeepers do sortie. ‘pend ten at the end of ‘the

their industry when the federal government hands Gown its. -

next budget which is expected shortly.

-Besides causing more problems than needed, the Socreds
may have done one more thing. They may have eliminated
the phrase “lucky seven” from the Engin dangunges at

least in B. c.

_ Message’ sent

: ROME (AP) — A man demanding the freedom of papal
assailant Mehmet Ali Agea.in exchange for the return of a

_ kidnapped girl called a newspaper and directed it to'a letter

written by the girl saying she i is well, the dally Peete Sera
reported today.

‘The call Sunday was the self-described abduetor’s firat
communication since Friday, and followed. an appeal by

. Possible” to help return {5-year-old Emanuela Orlandi to
her family. She has been missing since June 22,

“Dear,mamma and papa, don’t worry about me," sald
the meagage written on a school document that belonged to
. Emanuela. “Tam fine.”

Police said the nate. appeared genuine, but added it was
hardly proof that the girl was still alive because it could.
have been written al any time since the kidnapping.

The pro-Communist daily newspaper ‘anid the anonymous
caller, speaking imperfect Italian, also said too much

x

- Pope John Paul, who said he was doing “all that ishumanly -

attention was being paid to the. convicted Turkish gunman:

and his atatements would have no bearing on the case.

“you speak only of Agen,” it quoted the caller aa saying.
“The declarations by Agea have hot. the Tightest

influence. "

Agea, Ina surprise meeting with reporters Friday night,
condemned the abduction and called for the girl's release,

1981,

The paper sald the-man first called the girl's father,
Ercole Orlandi, at the family home inside Vatican City on

Sunday, offering some details about ‘Emanuela,

*

But Orlandi, who works at the Vatican as a mesaanger,
_asked the man for more conerete proof. The caller then said
-he would telephone a newspaper with more information,
Paese Sera said.

The man then called Paese Sera and directed editors loa
message left at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport. ~

; He is serving life in prison for shooting the Pope on May 13, :

oS premises ofa restaurant, were | suppose ta go into: effect at mee
" midnight when Thursday, July 7 became Friday, July. a.

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