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A8 THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2005 NEWS Fox: Only one thing could stop him I fa 4. I If Hrf. 4 I "I He remembered telling Terry he might be better suited to wrestling than basketball. But Terry refused to give up. By Grade 10, he was co-captain of the team with his friend Doug Alward.

Mr. McGill remembered one game when a bigger player body checked Terry, leaving him dazed, with blood coming out of his mouth, nose and ear. "I said to Terry, 'OK, c'mon kid let's get over to the Mr. McGill said. "He was crying and he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, 'Coach, I've worked too hard to get out here.

Unless you carry me off, I'm staying I left him on." At age 18, while at Simon Fraser University, Terry started to complain about pains in his right leg. He put it down to a sports injury and continued playing. In March, 1977, he was diagnosed with a malignant tumour and his leg was amputated, 15 centimetres above the knee. "I firmly believe that had Terry seen a doctor earlier, he could still be with us," said Mrs. Fox.

"But basketball and school were much more important than a sore knee." Mrs. Fox said her son took 16 months of chemotherapy treatment and often came home with stories about the ordeal other patients were suffering at the B.C. Cancer Clinic. "Him and Rick Hansen often wheeled Westwood or Burnaby Mountain in their wheelchairs," said Mrs. Fox.

"He lifted weights and when he had his strength back in his upper body, that's when he went out to run." She said her son trained for 14 months and only took a day off at Christmas "to make me happy." He told his family he was training for the Vancouver Marathon and completed a 27-kilometre race in Prince George, B.C., in September, 1979. "The next day, he came into the kitchen and said to me, 'Mom, I haven't been telling you the said Mrs. Fox. "He said, haven't been training to run the Vancouver Marathon, like I've been telling people. I've been training so I can run across Canada and I know I'm ready Terry refused to listen when his mom tried to talk him out of it.

On Apr. 12, 1980, he dipped his artificial leg into the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, N.L. "We spent a week with him in Nova Scotia and it was hell to be with them on the highway," said Mrs. Fox.

"The buses and the semi-trailers would go whipping by and, to this day, I have no idea how Terry kept his balance." Mr. Alward drove the van and Terry's younger brother, Darrell, joined the support team. By the summer, Terry had run through Quebec and into Ontario and the public interest was soaring. Despite the daily run which left his chafed stump raw and bleeding, plus dealing with the media and making public appearances, Terry kept his sense of humour. Then came Sept.

1, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres, when Terry was forced to stop running. He had started coughing two weeks before and it grew steadily worse. Doctors told him the cancer had moved into his lungs. He returned to B.C. and died on June 28, 1981, at the Royal Columbian Hospital.

"The only thing that could stop him was the return of the cancer," said his father. "He was going to dip his leg in the Pacific Ocean and he would have made it, if it hadn't been for that." Mr. Fox believes it was his son's honesty and integrity that sparked the imagination of people around the globe to carry on his run. In Canada, $18 million was raised last year, with another $4.5 million around the world. Mrs.

and Mr. Fox have spent the last 25 years running the Terry Fox Foundation and 89 cents out of every dollar raised goes to cancer research with the rest paying administration and fundraising costs. This year, said Breeda McClew, international director of the Terry Fox Foundation, seven new countries have joined the run to bring the total to 58. Terry's parents say they now realize their son had to die in order to achieve his goal. Continued from PAGE Al This month also marks the 25th anniversary of the moment Terry was forced to give up his Marathon of Hope in Thunder Bay, Ont.

"It's a bitter-sweet year," said his mother, Betty Fox, with a sad smile. "But it's a happy year because of all the wonderful people that have been wanting to participate. It's hard to believe it's 25 years ago." Terrance Stanley Fox was born on July 28, 1958, in Winnipeg and grew up with his parents, two brothers and a sister in Port Coquitlam, B.C. His father, Roily Fox, 70, said Terry was very competitive in everything from board games to table hockey. "And if you were better than him at the start, he'd keep playing until he was better than you," he said.

"It didn't matter what it was, he hated to lose." Terry's parents say they now realize it was stubbornness and determination that helped mold their son into the "splendid young man" he became. Bob McGill, Terry's phys-ed teacher at Coquitlam's Mary Hill Junior Secondary, remembers meeting a shy Grade 8 pupil who was always the last one picked for sports teams. "It wasn't because he was goofing off or he wasn't trying," said Mr. McGill at his home in Port Moody, B.C. "When I watched this kid, what amazed me was he was giving me everything he had." 4 RAY SMITH, THE VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST Roily Fox and Betty Fox attend the unveiling of the bronze statue of their son Terry at the Terry Fox Run in Victoria, B.C.

In addition to cities across Canada, 58 other countries participate in the annual cancer fundraiser. at "He didn't want anything for himself," said Mr. Fox. "He wanted every penny he raised to go to cancer research." THEVANCOUVER PROVINCE Abortion: Near-term mothers targeted CL1N1QUE BONUS TIME at the bay ONLY AT THE BAY FINAL WEEK! tern 1a 1 Lr I I If 1 iy CLiNlQUE ill' tatanrtmwaxmmx 1 -3 erating tables for sterilizations. Some doctors botched the procedure, leaving patients in permanent pain.

Mr. Chen, a self-taught legal activist who reacted to his own blindness by working on behalf of others, collected taped statements that added up to a catalogue ofmalpractice. To some Chinese lawyers it recalled the medical abuses of imperial Japan against Chinese victims in the 1930s and 1940s. They helped Mr. Chen to draw up the first class-action lawsuit of its kind in China against the Communist party in Linyi.

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Chen to the capital. They were obliged by Beijing police to release him and he was put on a train back to Linyi. There he remains, by his own account under siege in his home. The police have rigged up lights to keep watch, ordered taxi drivers not to pick him up, seized his home computer and cut off his THETIMES, LONDON TIMES NEWSWPERS LTD. 2005 Continued from PAGEA1 They reacted by launching a sweep through villages, rounding up people with more than two children.

Pregnant women had forced abortions, while both men and women were compulsorily sterilized. According to numerous witnesses, the authorities held relatives and neighbours hostage, threatening them with torture so as to force victims to submit. Detailed accounts given by Mr. Chen to U.S. Embassy officials and published by The Washington Post and Time magazine will cause outrage among, conservative Christians and pro-life groups in the United States.

The stories appeared as the Chinese president made his first official visit to the Canada and the U.S. and spoke at the United Nations, where he faced protests about human rights. They are likely to force U.S. President George W. Bush to put right to life on his agenda when he visits China in November.

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