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ClnfiMWUC, Montreal. Tuesday, April 21, 1987 A-4 Police report: Quintana. Durning was deliberate v- 1 CARMEN QUINTANA Still being treated 'i SANTIAGO (Rculcr) A Chilean police report on the fatal burning of a teenage U.S. resident and the scarring of his companion lust year contradicts official conclusions that the injuries were self-inflicted, an opposition magazine said yesterday. Hoy magazine said in its weekly edition that the report supports the assertion that Carmen Gloria Quintana and Rodrigo Rojas were doused with gasoline and set on fire by soldiers during anti-government protests last July.

Rojas died of his wounds five days after the incident July 2, 1986. Quintana is still undergoing treatment in Montreal for burns to 60 per cent of her body. A military judge has dropped charges against an army lieutenant of using unnecessary violence. Police were not immediately available to comment on the report. The report said an incendiary device must have been thrown deliberately, not dropped accidentally by one of the victims, as the military patrol claimed.

From a study of the autopsy on Rojas and the description of the injuries suffered by Quintana, the victims' clothes must also have been soaked with gasoline, it said. "There is no possibility that the incendiary device which brought about the injuries was activated by its being accidentally dropped," the first paragraph of the report reproduced in the magazine said. "The wounds were produced by a chemical incendiary bomb thrown from a distance of not more than 1.5 'V i yards from those affected." Hoy said the police report was delivered to the military court in Octo-. bcr. Nevertheless, in January this vear the iudpe decided to reduce the X.

7 charge against Lieut. Pedro Fernandez to negligence for not having ensured that the youths received medical attention. He was freed on bail. No charges have been brought against other patrol members. Fernandez testified Quintana kicked over a fire bomb, setting fire to herself and Rojas who was lying on the ground beside her.

The victims were later found wandering on the outskirts of Santiago Quintana returned briefly to Santiago earlier this month to be sented to Pope John Paul during his six-day tour of Chile. if Gazette, Pierre Obendrauf Sweet nothings in her ear mmmmsm, iMI nil if n. I I lr mill 'win I Sarah Titleman, a resident of the Mai- Verdi, the green parrot. Cats and dogs Scharf offered to bring in her parrot, the monides Hospital geriatric centre in Cote have been frequent visitors to the home pet-therapy organizers were hesitant. St.

Luc, is about to get the word from for about a year, but when Brenda Not to worry: Verdi's been a big hit. Six accused of illegal practice of medicine By STEPHEN McDOUGALL Special to The Gazette SHERBROOKE Six different cases of illegally practising medicine are currently being heard here and in the Arthabaska courthouse. The two most important trials involve the deaths of three patients, two being treated for cancer and a third who died at a health farm. Therese Cousineau, died. The case against Jean Rocan in Arthabaska is a $165,000 lawsuit brought by the widow of Roger Frechette of Asbestos, who went on a radical diet at Rocan's health farm near Tingwick.

Rocan also faces 110 counts of illegal practice for treating three other patients at his farm. In three other cases, three men, Marcel Durand and Claude St. Amant of Windsor and Bob Drouin of Sherbrooke, are charged for practising as "bone setters" massaging muscles to relieve pain. Durand and Drouin each face two charges while St. Amant faces 78.

Another case involves Marilouise Vezina of Sherbrooke, who claims to detect body illnesses by examining a patient's eyes. Gaston Naesscns of Rock Forest is facing 69 counts of practising without a licence and one of criminal negligence causing death after two of his patients died after treatments he administered for cancer. Naessens' lawyer, Conrad Chapde-laine, said the treatment consisted of injecting a serum. Naessens was arrested in May 1985 after the two patients, Angele-Therese Langlois and WITH LENNOX ELECTRO AIDE Sportswriter, Hall-of-Famer Andy O'Brien dies at 76 Thinking of installing air conditioning in your home or office? Whether you are presently heating with hot air, hot water radiators or electric baseboard, the chances are that we can provide you with central air conditioning. Call the experts at Electro-Aide.

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"If that had been a routine game at Atwater park, I'd probably be still selling hats at Eaton's," O'Brien said. But lucky break or no, O'Brien's background left little doubt that his life would be spent somewhere in sports. He came from Renfrew, where his father, Bill O'Brien, was trainer of the Renfrew Millionaires hockey team which won the Stanley Cup from the Ottawa Senators the night young O'Brien was born in 1910. The family moved to Montreal where O'Brien's father became the celebrated trainer of the old Montreal Maroons hockey team and the Montreal Royals baseball club. At age 14, O'Brien was selling programs when the Canadiens faced off against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first hockey game ever played in the Forum in 1924.

A season later, he was stickboy for the Maroons when they won the Stanley Cup in their second year of existence. From those beginnings, O'Brien moved upward in a career capped by his induction into the Canada Sports Hall of Fame in 1980 and into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. He is survived by his wife, Frances, and a brother, Larry, of West Palm Beach, Fla. A funeral mass is to be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. at St.

Monica's Church, 6405 Terrebonne Notre Dame de Grace. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Hematology Research Fund at the Montreal General Hospital. A funeral is to be held tomorrow for Andy O'Brien, 76, a noted Montreal sportswriter and member of the Canada Sports Hall of Fame, who died Sunday after a long illness. In a career that covered 12 summer or winter Olympic Games, six British Commonwealth Games, 45 Stanley Cups and 31 Grey Cups, O'Brien won the respect of the sports community, first while he was at The Standard and later at The Montreal Star. "To my mind, Andy O'Brien was one of the giants of sports journalism in this country or anywhere in the world for that matter," said Gazette sports editor Red Fisher.

"He was a terrific guy with young sports writers. He didn't turn his back on them, and while he was not unique in this respect, he was a rarity. He was my first boss at The Standard. We're all going to miss him." A heavyweight intercollegiate boxing champion and member of a Dominion football championship i iv-'fig ANDY O'BRIEN Revered by colleagues team at Loyola College, O'Brien credited a stroke of luck for getting him into sportswriting. When he graduated from Loyola in 1931, the only job O'Brien could find was selling hats at Eaton's.

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