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B.C. dog saves two men in boat-fire accident |

BURNABY, B.C. (CP) ' — Ron Thompson, of North Vancouver, B.C., one of two men who jumped from a 23-foot pleasure boat Friday when the engine caught fire and the gas tanks exploded, credits his dog with saving his life.

“If it wasn’t for Luke we'd be on the bottom,” Thompson said.

Not fair

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court says a Chicago man convicted of rape was deprived of his right to a fair trial, but one of the justices says the court was insensitive toward rape victims.

Justice Harry Black- mun, although con- curring with the other justices, took issue Mon- day with his colleagues. inference that the brief- time the rape victim said she saw her attacker's face was not enough to make her identification of the defenddnt reliable.

The court did not overturn the conviction of the defendant, James Moore. But it found find impropriety in the ab- sence of a lawyer for Moore when he was identified by his alleged victim at a preliminary hearing.

Thompson, 29, and Mike Cromien, 34, of Port Coquitlam, B.C. were returning from a trip when the engine caught fire while they were in the middle of Burrard Inlet.

“We tried to extinguish it but some vinyl caught fire and we had two extra gasoline tanks on board,”

ohnson said. ‘It was all wae could do to get off in time.”

to rapist

The court returned the

case to the 7th US. Circuit Court of Appeals for review.

Moore was convicted in

1967, Blackmun took issue with the court’s reference to the “only 10 to 15 seconds” that the woman saw the rapist’s face.

“Time, of course, is always a comparative matter,” Blackmun said. “But 10 to 15 seconds of observation of the face of a rapist at mid-day by his female victim during the commission of the crime by no means is insufficent to leave an accurate and indelible impression on the victim.”

“To the resisting woman, the 10 to 15 seconds would seem endless,’’ he said. ‘“‘No female victim of a rape, ‘given that period of

ylight observation, will ever believe otherwise.”

BOWIE INTRODUCED BAND

David Bowie showed up at Max’s Kansas City in New York recently to introduce a new band.

Bette Midler says she has turned down §3 million in large concert- hall bookings, preferring to perform in small clubs instead.

The two men jumped from the boat and clut- ched the dog's hair as the two-year-old Alaskan malemute swam to shore, 400 metres away.

They were picked up in a boat halfway to shore by two men who had been working in the shore area at the time of the mishap.

“Even after the boat

had picked us up, he

(Luke) went on to shore.

under his own steam,” Thompson said. Both men were taken to hospital, and were later released. Luke suffered

singed hair. “Luke will be fine though, his down fur is

still okay,” Thompson said.

Legal battle over supertanker salvage

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (Reuter) — A long legal battle over salvage rights and other claims may follow Fri- day’s collision of two supertankers off the South African coast, a spokesman for the owner

of one of the ships said Sunday. . John Kerr, _ vice-

president of Venoil, Inc., met with representatives of concerns involved in rescue and salvage at-

tempts.

“With the number of people interested in the incident it will obviously take considerable time,’ he said later, adding that claims made against his company will involve complicated legal procedures and he would not be surprised if it took two years to resolve the matter.

The collision between the 330,-000-ton sister ships Venoil and Venpet

caused fires in both ships, now extinguished. Rescue ships and

helicopters, which defied flames and smoke, took

~ Venoil

off 84 men.

The company which owns the helicopters, and the South African government-owned firm of Soekor, which owns the tug which has taken the in tow, were represented at Sunday’s meeting with Kerr at a Port Elizabeth hotel.

Representatives of both companies denied there is any intention of “snatching” the Venoil as salvage. Venoil has 250,- 000 tons of oil aboard, while Venpet’s tanks are in ballast.

Kerr also said that, apart from an _ in- vestigation being carried out by his company, in- quiries will be ordered by the governments of Sout Africa and Liberia, where the tankers are registered.

Both tankers are under tow by tugs. Port officials here said the Venpet was leaking very slightly and the Venoil was not leaking at all.

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Training urged for teenage mothers

NEW YORK (AP) — Teenage girls are often so poor at mothering that their children become angry, destructive people at great cost to society,

sychoanalysts said

unday. They called for more funds for research and

Dressing up your home for Christmas

THE Christmas tree is the focal point of holiday activity, and long after the present;s are un- wrapped.

The most popular symbol of the Christmas season is the tree and uests will sit around ooking at it. Make it worthy of all that at- tention.

With all the different kinds of trees available on the market today, selecting one to suit your particular needs may take some time.

Because of the in- creasing cost of real trees and also because of a potential fire hazard, the number of artificial trees on the market has in- creased, Such trees can be quite handsome and effective in their way.

But some people will settle for nothing less than real trees. They may cut their own or buy them from a corner dot, manned by Scouts, Guides or church groups.

Some favorite varieties are cedar, pine, balsam _and spruce. Your per- sonal preference and price range will be the majoring factors governing your final choice.

The evergreen trees sold in shopping malls often have been cut several weeks in ad- vance, so they should be properly cared for after purchase to keep them resh and green.

Some smaller trees talbes or stan of limited

people prefer laced on because space.

Carefully select an indoor location for the tree — away from any sources of heat radiators, registers and even T.V. sets. A fresh cut at the bottom will help the tree to absorb water more easily, Place the tree in a holder and keep it watered while indoors to prevent the drying out of ranches and shedding of needles. Plant food can be added to the water to help pralong its life.

You could also pot the tree with earth in a ceramic container and try to keep it alive in yoru garden after Christmas is over.

If the tree protrudes into the room to far, trim the branches so that it will fit closer to the wall. These clippings can be

used to make wreaths or swags or may be atranged in bowls or vases.

If the tree is to sit in a bay window and be ob- served from the street, remember to decorate it uniformly all around so the sparkle of colored lights can be observed from the street as weell as from inside the room.

Rather than buying up ornaments in- diseriminatel and throwing red and green in with gold and silver and touches of blue, you coudl narrow your color scheme to two colors. The lights and baubles could be all green and blue or all red and green. Or the tree could be limited to silver.

Hang little treats on the branches but be sure

young children in the family won't be tempted to reach for them and pull the whole tree on top of them.

There's also a style of decorating that- employs plaid and gingham bows, Just take the ribbon, usually red, and tie it around the branches. Velvet bows often come with clips.

Graduate the size of the baubles, from small at the top of the tree to larger down at the bot- tom. Handcraft an angel. for the tip. Cut a cone shape of cardboard, cover it with gingham or silver fabric, applyt angel hair to the wings and a styrofoam ball that forms the head.

A star remains a classic, popular trim: ming for the ytop of the

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Bethune,

community facilities designed to help teen- agers become better mothers and rear better adjusted children.

Too often, those children are unable to form human attachments and show early aggres- sive behavior, said doctors Jeann Fineman

_and Marguarite Smith, .

reporting on a five-year

- study by the Dr. Solomon

Carter Fuller Community

-Mental Health Centre in

Boston.

“Bethune”

Bethune, the widely- acclaimed CBC-TV drama will be retelecast on Wednesday, January 11 at 8:30 p.m.

Donald © Sutherland stars as Norman the Canadian surgeon-inventor who was one of the folk heroes to emerge from Mao Tse- Tang's struggle to control modern China.

“Now we are all commemorating him, which shows how profoundly his ppirit

‘inspires everyone. We

must all learn the spirit of absolute _ selflessness from him.”

-from In Memory of Norman Bethune written by Mao Tse-Tung, 1939.

‘Dr. Norman Bethune .

was a brilliant surgeon, a scientist, a great humanitarian and, for some, aan impossible egotist, It was Norman Bethune who, while in Spain ministering to the Republican Army,

devised a method of refrigerating blood so that it could not only be stored but also be tran- sported into the battle flelds, thereby saving thousands of lives. It was Dr, Bethune who, himself tubercular, set about revolutioninzing th practice of thoracic surgery at Montreal's Sacre ur Hospital, It was Norman Bethune who, in China during the battle of Chi'Hui, operated for 69 con- secutive hours on 115 cases, But it was this same man who said to his ex-wife’s third husband (Bethune having been her first and her second) “I don’t give away my wife, I only tend her.”

T come from a race of men violent, unstable, of passionate convictgions and wrong-headedness, intolerant yet with it all a

visionof truth and a drive.

to carry them on even though it leads, as it has done in my my family, to their destruction.” -Norman Bethune, 1935. In 1999, at the age of 49, Norman Bethune died in the village of Huan-shih K’ou of septicaemia.

Mothers as young as 13 need to “develop the capacity to mother, to see themselves as the care-

yer ... to see their

bies as another human being with needs she can fulfill,” said Dr.-Roy Ga Lilleskov of New Yor City at the annual meet- ing of the American Psy- choanalytical Association.

The Planned Paren- thood. Federation of America has said that more than one million

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He is revered in China.

Donald Sutherland is brilliant as this man of indomitable spirit whose public - triumphs and personal disasters are chronicled in the CBC-TV drama preduction, Bethune.

Bethune follows the doctor from his private practice in the slums of Detroit and his con- finement at the Trudeau

Sanatorium for the treatment of tuber- eculosis, to Montreal

where his insistence on using radical surgical techniques and racical rhetoric secured his discharge from the Royal Victoria Hospital. It was during this period that Bethune twice married and twice divorced Frances Camphell Penney. We see Bethune in Spain where he organized the Servcio Canadiense de Tran- sfusion de Sangre; in Canada on his speaking tout to raise money for Spain and finally in China.

Bethune is bracked by rare footage of the Japanese invasion of China and Norman Bethune being greeted by Chinese soldiers, treating the wounded and, finally, Dr. Bethune in his coffin.

‘Canadian actress Kate Nelligan returned to this country from England’s National Theatre to play Frances Campbell Penney, Bethune's wife. Etrog Award winner David Gardner plays John Bellamy, Bethune's close friend. The cast also includes: James Hong as General Nieh, Gerard Parkes as, Dr, Mac- Cracken, Patrick Watson as R.E. Coleman.

Bethune was written by Thomas ‘Rickman and derived from the biography, written by Roderick Stewart. Music was written and performed by Hagood Hardy.

Bethune was directed by Eric Till and produced by Robert Sherrin, Robert Allen was the executive producer.

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adolescent women become pregnant each year. Those pregnancies result in more than 600,000 births—one-fifth of all the births in the U.S. Two-thirds of the pregnancies are unin- tended, resulting from ignorance or misin- formation about. birth contro] and sexuality, the federation has said. Even to those teen- agers who deliberately get pregnant and give birth, often “‘the baby is

incidental,” said Dr.. J...

wed Hey

xis. Burland. are using ;‘the -baby ‘to

‘ satisfy;.some, internal

need, and cannot love the baby adequately.”

Psychoanalytic techniques can help such young mothers, said Dr. Theodore Cohen of Narberth, Pa., adding that research is essential.

He said “‘society seems to be angry with these people” and takes an attitude that ‘they need to be punished.” As a re- sult, he said, funds have been cut off for research and facilities.

Entertainment

Minibriefettes

LED ZEPPELIN PLAN LP

Although they still have no immediate tour plans, Led Zeppelin will soon go back into a recording studio in Europe to do _ A Christmas tradition in Winnieg, the Nativity

collection of famous-name designer

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Parade can be seen on —

CBC Friday, Dee. 23, at 5 p.m.

Pacemaker Fund

BURNABY, B.C. (CP) — A campaign has begun to raise $2,500 in funds for a brain acemaker operation for Simon Fra-

ser University student —

Terry Miller, a cerebral palsy victim. ; Simon Fraser students

operating the campaign |

said Monday the money would be used to pay for the pacemaker and for transportation costs in getting the 29-year-old psychology student to Ottawa for the operation. University staff and students raised $4,000 in Qctober to enable Miller to get a medical opinion in New York on whether a brain pacemaker would help him control muscular activity. Campaign spokesman Dave Johnstone said it is

Bethune hoped the cost of the

operation will be covered by the provincial medical plan.

He said donations may ‘-be sent to: The Terr Miller Pacer Fund, National Trust, Brent-

wood Mall. Shoppin Centre, Burnaby. I