aa rebel commanders. . The:Defence Ministry sald: Wednesday . government * tropps killed _ querrilla comm ministry-said.an army squad leader was “killed and two: soldiers wounded in’ the fighting.’ Me ~ Meanwhile; Balvadoran ~ police : . announced they ralded two-aafe houses in. - the Ban: ‘Salvador area late last month,. “ capturing two. insurgenta. and an arms |. cache ‘that included four lose mortars. . and 40-mortar shells, ; Suspects arrested “in the “paid were identified as Olimpia Revolutfonary People's Army, one of five guerrilla groupe fighting to overthrow the — pay they annihilated the-army |:\." defendé¢s of San Jose Cancasque, a mall. |- ‘north of the capital, and*took 12. #, while the army says it kdiled two Jose Anibal Osorio Nburcto © * “and Rafael Cautillo and two other rebels Ine, a batde-Monday In San Lorenzo, 9: kilometres: east “of the capital, The.“ ‘independently confirmed. _- At the request of the Defence Ministry,” | *. -“Human:.-Rights ,Commliston « director ~ Freddy Delgado began. touring army | garrisons around thecapltal Wednesday to Martinez de. Rodrigues and Joua Luls Hurtado of the... Us. ba ied rights goveriment: | eee ‘One iof the guerrillas’: two clandestine: -brondcartiig ‘stations, Radio Farabundl '. “Maril, sald rebel forces overran San Jose. : : ‘Cancasque: early Wetnesday, killing or wounding.'18 soldiers and taking 12 prisoners in the town ) kilometres: from San Salvador, ‘the insurgents captured three mortars, -three’ machine-guns and 30: automatic : rif_les in the fighting, it said... oo The ‘rebel. report . could “hot: “be. urge security forces to curb human vighta’ abuses, ‘Roman Catholic church and human “Yghta organizatlois estimate at least + 42,000. people have been killed in the 3%4- year-old clyil war, Most of- those killed were civillans alain by right-wing death ‘squads widely’ believed linked-to the ; ppverament’s security Fargen, they my. - Election \ venom. n drips - cinéado (AP) — The racial venom of Chi¢ago’s mayoral carmpalgn drips from buttons, leaflets and T-shirts, “Punch 9 —- Vote For The Jew. Punch # _— Vote For The Shine," says a fier. ‘These are not the correct ballot numbers for Republican Bernard Epton or his black Cemocratic opponent, Harold Washington, in next Tuesday's election, but that doesn’ t . much matter, “The venom is there,” sald A, Abbot Rosen,. Midwest diredor | of the Anti: Defamation League of B'nal B'rith. “Just as long as the numbers rhyme, the, polnt is made." ; - Examples abound: - — "Water Tower Place will Become Watermelon Place.” = A.bartender had 2,000. watermelon | buttons made, gave some away and sold most for $1. They were all gone In 10 days, “= Aalmple button with no teal, Its color: . white, == A woman spots Enton, throws open her jacket and shows ‘a T-shirt: “Vote © Right, Vote White,” it says. yg never seen such racial tones in a ‘Chicago election before, but we've never. ‘had a. black man heading the ticket * before," said Rosen. “The language is In . dtamost vulgar raciat form. It has churned " upiand restimulated tears of the impact of Integration.” “The-eampaign 4s conjuring all kinds of oR image,’ "The said. “But there is no evidence. Tire Cuts de wasanbs oe ransbiies the ‘Natlonal Aasoclatlon that the racial Jasue in the form of butions and literature. is traceable to the candidates or their entourages. mo James Lucien, an execuilve secretary of for. the Advancement of Colored People, Is alarmed, “Whoever = la résponsible. for disseminating this race iterature |s doing aothing more than polarizing an already racially tensa city," he said. “In theae trying times, a healing process shouldtake | place and brotherhood and decency should prevail.” People do not Wear watermelon buttons ” in the open. They usually are kept under lapels and finshed. But some people who |: i bought them could not resist spreading them arouid — even to Washingion's campaign headquarters. — “The only one! ever saw came ina letter Washington, an assistant in. related to the andidate. ‘The button-making bartender paid she had-watermelon buttons made up by a : novelty shop ‘‘as a joke” and to make a few dollars. “and I just threw it away,"sald Dorthea | the. - candidate's precinct operation. She ‘Is not They came in two veraiona: one the alze_ of a quarter shows a slice of watermelon in with a bold, black slash running through Ite ey eeu ce | China cancels exchanges PEKING (AP) — China cacelled all ives sports and cultural exchanges with. the United-States today in retaliation for the U.S. granting political asylum to Chinese tennis star Hu Na. . - Radio Peking said the All-China Sports -. Federation decided not to compete in 10 International competitions In the United States this year, including water polo and women’s softball tournaments. . “The U.S. government action has ruined : the normal atmosphere of Sino-U.S. sports. exchanges,” a jeading official of the federation was quoted as saying. The official. wae not named. Minister-Counsellor Charles Freeman of the U.S: Embassy was called. to the _ Culture Ministry this afternoon to be told of the decision, the official Xinhua news -agency reported. China lodged: a strong. proteat with . Washington on Wednesday over the Hu Na ease, Which it said was “a serious. incident = engineered. and premeditated | for a Jong “time by the U, 8. government.” — - Xinhua said Culture. Ministry official Ding Gu told Freeman; “From today on, the Chinese government will, stop implementing all the cultural -exchange items which have not been . garried out in ‘The Implementing Accord: - for Cultural Exchanges in 1692 and 1983" between the Government -of-the People's Republic of China and the-Government of the United States of America’ drawn. up in ~ accordance with . the Sino-U.S, Cultural - Agreement.” It gave a list ‘of eight cancelled items, including a planned visit’ by. an official . Chinese cultural delegation, exchanges of small theatre groups and art: exhibits, reciprocal film weeks, the visit of a U.S. journalists’ delegation to .China, and tehnical exchanges. between the Voice of. America and Radio Peking. - Hu Na, 19, defected tast July while in California’ Tepresenting China in ‘the Federation Cup tournament. ° ‘Vietnamese pushed back | BANGKOK (Reuter) — “Thal forces have pushed all | intruding’ - Vietnamese soldiara = back into “sgnificanes, of “promp 4° howitzers, . ‘shipments. of. U.S.“ arms. “systems and C-130 transport purhased by ‘Thailand. a He said Wolfowitz's vialt = entitank. : Blames. . color;.the other is a alice of watermelon I beginning. The switch to block funding was the first . - Fees ¢ challenged, . ; Larry Desjardins says Alberta's plan to let hospitals charge fees of up to-$20 a. day for selected patients could ultimately wreck Conada's medicare system, *: , “Atbertea ig the wealthiest province; if they do it and get away with it, other poorer provinces will be “able to argue that they have to,” he:said. | mF Desjardins sald Alberta's example could lead to the erosion of basic health-care principles: that care. -phould be universally available, - accessible «to . everyone and portable from one province to another: “Gradually, province after ‘pravinc®: will. follow. * ministera in Canada’s only NDP government, “There J . will be no universality,’ no accesalbllity and Ro mE ; portability." " been proposed in Alberta, the province which was a leading force, with Ontario and British Columbla, Lr .. pushing for the adoptlon: ‘of block funding for health “ Care, ‘By making block payments to the provirices for health care the federal government has less leverage to inalat on minimum national standards — including univeraality, accessibility and portability ~ than ven medical cosis were split 60-50 between federal and provincial. governments, , Desjardins wrote to federal HealthMINISTER Monique Begin last. week, urging her to reimpose cost-sharing, but he didn't contact other provincial © - mainieters because he feels ‘they basically agree with: '. Alberta. - Hoe said other provinces are fighting the possiblity _ that a ban might be imposed on extra-billing by : doctors practising within medicare, A ban is. expeted. to be contained in the new Canada: Health Act. + _ But Desjardins sald the federal givernment’ ls deluding Itself if {t thinks it can impose the new law or _ stop Alberta's suggested new user fee, scheduled to go Into: effect Oct. 1, 50 Tong as the block funding. : system remains, : “Phe federal government got poor advice when- ll. * acceded to the demands: of the rich. provinces and permitted block funding,’ he sald. ‘Ji was-a plan from the outset to gradually gel rid -of nattonal . standards for health care,” Desjardins sald he does not think Begin isin a dood " poaition to. mest the arguments. Legally and morally,the federal. Rovernment . “hasn't much ofa leg to stand on. “Ottawa found [t gould do nothing about the. . - diveraion of federal health dollars. The basle premise to Il.” . ; -He said the Progressive Conservative government of Alberta: Premier Peter Lougheed Intends to Insurance sector. “This ja what they've ‘wanted - to do from. the step.” “Popularity regained TORONTO (CP) — Popular support for’ the federal Progressive Conservatives climbed back to its January ° level after sipping in February and is the highest since the - Diafendaker heyday, a Gallup poll suggests. A poll of 1,063 eligible voters in early: March showed that $0 per cent of decided respondents, would favor a Conservative candidate compared with wior the Liberals and 17 for the New Democrats. The February poll gave the’ Conservatives less “suppor! (45 per cent), the Liberals more e support oH) and the NDP more support (19), ° : The February poll was faken just aller the Conservatives ; decided’ at their Winnipeg convention to call_a leadership race, In January, the Conservatives led with 49 pec cent of -respondents, the Liberals-had 31 and the NDP 20. ; ‘Thelast time the Conservatives had as much as 50 per cen! “support-in a- Gallup poll was in April, 1959, when Johr Diefenbaker was prime minister, - Such polls are said to be accurate within four percentage (Alberta's lead," sald Desjardins, one ofthe senior ©. a -" Deajardins sald t's no aceldent that user foes ave : ; “ dismantle medicare and turn it over lo the private. -4- ~ WINNIPEG, (CP) _ Manitoba Health. M abe q. a yy. Update * hgepltal . Survey “that . unexpectedly - large number ‘of children : with sturited growth may be an indication ‘of “silent undernutrition on. the move among the poor; a Harvard , health _ specialist said Wednesday, . : levels,” Larry Brown ‘told a Senate: -, committee. “A. child’s brain cannot walt a a for economic Upmwings. ; ; “OTP we. Inicrense nutritional. progreiins; i We probably: an reverse this trend within " aeveral years, Hnot, the probability ie that: . next your Iwill be able to present... * further’ evidence: of. il health which | inevitably occurs when. nutrition in fot r adequate.” . The chairman of the cuts in federal food help ara allowing a resurgence of. malnutrition, : “That tells us that for whatever | reason, . - there are many families that are not being -hold the line against further cuts, such as the nearly $1 billlon President Reagan. ' Wants to telm from next year's food-stamp- ; The Herald, Thuradey, April. n 1983, ition costly, _assincron: (AP) =: A- Bosion: . budget He added the . found: an nutrtlon progranis. ‘Brown said doctors ‘at. ‘Boston Soy: ‘ “Hospital studied the height and weight of - 400° children looking for evidence of "What worries me most is that ihe early .” malnutrition in those age five and under, a. “ ¢linical- warnings of damage to “vshowlng up unde, current spending - -" health are. : see ‘time when children are most eusceptible to. ‘permanent brain damage from: nutritional . Geprivation. ; ‘ , The. doctors found . ‘three times the os ; number they would have: expected atthe. bottom: of; thelr “growth charts, he said. : 7 Many. others suffered from obealty — “reflecting - improper. nutrition © "~ pesoctated.with poverty because.of high- “carbohydrate, low-proteln diets ‘that fll ~ the stomach without briperly nourlahing “utrition - the body... '“gubsommittee, Senator Robert Dole (R- * Kan.),. called the hearing because of ~ reports that U.S. economic: problems and. Senator John Danforth (ReMo,) sald i a- vialt to his home state last week gave him “g great sense of alarm" about. domestic | nutrition problems, He sald a nutritionist at a Kansas Cly - children’s hospitel told him that her. gurvey of a small sample of health records . reached by existing programs," Dolesald. | : - A Dole aide said the session was. : ‘ designed to amass ammunition to help. of inner-city ‘elementary school childres. showed: 13 per cent had abnormally low « _ Welght gains. In St. Loula, Danforth sald hs was told - one-third of elderly residents there need | “extra nutritional assistance. often B. C. coal to be shipped - TOKYO (CP) — The first - shipment of coal from the. Columbia to: Japan is to be made. April -20, Japanese : SQUFCOS say. ‘Nippon. Kokan, a major ‘Tne Creek mine in Britlah - _ Japanese. steelmaker, hae- of biock funding 1s that, there are no ‘einge attached ah points, 19-in 20 times. Since. the Conservative level of . rise can be viewed as a significant increase. Conservative support has also shown’a steady increase . during the. last’ year. In’ March, 1962, 42 per cent of respondents said they would favor the Conservatives. - ’ Thailand - to Thailand was Most timely. The Vietnamese campaign has destroyed a— major Khmer Rouge base at Phnom. Chat and the. headquarters of guerrillas loyal to Norodom Sihanouk at. 0- “ Smak. ‘The offensive, which also ‘threaten’ cAMps of the third antl-Vietiamesé: . coalition faction under Soi Sann, has vabout.:! 50,000 additional: : Cambodian refiigees into- Thailand. _ Thailand has’ strongly protested to the’UN over a number of. Vietnamese intrusions = into Thai territory in pursuit. of Cambodian guerrillas and over repeated shellings of Thal border villages. 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A tot of people ailer amarkeile knprovement going on this diet, have notioed a remarkable : : Oot vel Del. . support grew by more than the margin of error, the March contracted: for 38,000 tons tb ‘Japati ‘along: with $9,000 tons of Fording River coal from the port-at Roberts Bank, south of Vancouver, . The Line Creek mine, owned 5 par cent by Crows ‘Nest Coal and five per cent by Mitsu/ and Co. of Japan, dato produce 1.3 million tons million tons of thermal coal annually, Japanese mills are to take one million tonsa of coking coal a year over 13 years beginning this month. ~The firat shipment. is priced at $7.64 along tonne, - the sources sald, from the mine to ba moved | Victo ry won - VANCOUVER (CP).-— B.C, Western Canada Sleal is building a new rolling mill and an earlier board dec!sion ordered the unton to refrain from picketing the construction gate. The decision had forced union members to picket or company property, while construction continued.” However, the board upheld the union's appeal.” Kelleher sald a finding by the original panel, headed by ' board vice-chairman Dale Michaelis, thal the contractors were neutral in the dispute represented a major departure ‘from board policy. “Ag counsel for CAIMAW points. out, there is no general contri etor here,’”’ wrote Kelleher. “Rather; at least three ‘employees of Western Canada Steel are actively excl involved in the construction project.” The appeal panel also discounted the earlier tribunal's “reasoning that tying up the construction project will cause ; economic hardship for the contractors and their employees. Union spokesman’ Jess Succamore said allowing the- initial ruling to stand would have set the labor movement _ back years. ‘About 250 workers have been, locked-out since Feb. 28, after dhey rejected a. two-year contract containing a wage freeze in the first year and a five-per-cent increase in the; second year. Western Canada Steel, a Cominco-owned firm, has not -budged from its position since closing the operation. of coking coal and 14 = Locked-out employees of Western Canada Steel won an Important victory Wednesday as the - B.C, Labor Relations Board overturned an earlier decision which: restricted the workera’ picketing rights. . “The-ruling, handed“ down by’ a three-member panel — headed by. board chalrman Stephen Kelleher, allows. _ members of the Canadian Association of Industrial, ‘. Mechanical and Allied Workers to picket # major company construction Project at its Twigg Taland alte in Richmond, COMING TO PRINCE GEORGE?. 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