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JEST COPY lyAllABLE A2 NEWS The Vancouver Sun, Saturday, March 26, 1988 "Second-class mail, registration number 0129" -NEWS SUHHARV- QB claim1 States iisputed. WORLD PANAMA'S DE FACTO leader, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, fails for the first time to pay the 15,000 troops supporting him. A6 ROBERT Chambers pleads guilty to manslaughter for strangling a woman during sex, halting jury deliberations after nine days. A1 1 CANADA tingham denied that the board has rejected the request.

She said the board is simply waiting for a letter from the worker's physician, stating that there is a likelihood that Kings By DOUG WARD The Workers Compensation Board has rejected a request by dying cancer victim John Kingsbury for a medical review of his compensation claim, closing the last door open to the former asbestos miner, a union lawyer says. But the WCB denies the allegation, saying it is waiting for the required paperwork to be completed. JVCB commissioners overturned last August a unanimous decision by the independent WCB review board to give Kingsbury monthly compensation for his lung cancer after finding it was the result of exposure to asbestos at work in Cassiar in 1956 and 1957. 'it's absolutely unbelievable that the WCB refuses to help this dying man," Ron Bunn, Kingsbury's lawyer, said Friday. "They're denying a 60-year-old with terminal lung cancer his right to appeal to a medical review panel.

In my view their action is contrary to the act and morally bankrupt." WCB spokesman Brenda Whit- vlptelilBli i' IJIHil ii THE CANADIAN government appears to be aligned with radicals who seek the violent overthrow of the South African government, its ambassador to Canada says. A6 BRITISH COLUMBIA bury lung cancer is linked to asbestos. "There is no rejection. We are simply waiting for another certificate from the doctor." Bunn said Kingsbury's union, the KINGSBURY Army drugged client, says murder case lawyer REUTER JULIA BLACK rubs noses with day-old gorilla at zoo in Canterbury, England, Friday. She is looking after the animal because the mother won't accept it.

SPORTS THE CANUCKS go to Calgary, still alive in their quest to make the NHL playoffs following a 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks.D4 BUSINESS CANADA MUST DROP "blatantly protectionist" building standards that keep U.S. plywood out of its market, a hearing is told. D6 Associated Press PHIL A DELPHIA A lawyer for a man accused of murdering two women and shackling four others in a basement torture chamber says he has obtained files that show his client was the subject of U.S. army LSD experiments in the 1960s. A year ago, police found three half-naked women chained to a sewer pipe in the basement of Gary Heidnik's house, after being led there by a woman who said she had escaped.

Limbs of another woman were found in a freezer and a female corpse was discovered in a New Jersey forest. Defence lawyer Charles Peruto said he plans to argue during the trial, set to begin April 4, that Heid-nik was insane and that the hallucinogen LSD had aggravated his schizophrenia. Peruto said that army and Veterans Administration documents show Heidnik was the subject of LS tests between 1961 and 1963 although an army spokesman said records did not show such testing. THE LEGISLATURE has approved a bill that New Democrat Robin Blencoe says will make legal an illegal payment of $8 million for the government's decentralization scheme. A8 SERIOUS SPIDER bites recently reported in B.C.

are probably the work of a common non-lethal spider rather than the potentially deadly spider first suspected, says the B.C. Drug and Poison Control Centre. A10 GREATER VANCOUVER THE CHAIRMAN of the B.C. Jockey Club and the president of the Pacific National Exhibition disagree about where a renovated Exhibition Park race track should be located. A1 2 LEISURE MARRIED virgins, celebrity children and American women who marry Saudis aren't listed in the Yellow Pages.

So where do TV talk show hosts find those people? H3 Laborers' Union, will take his case to the Supreme Court of B.C. and request a medical review panel. The medical review panel, the last stage in the WCB's appeal system, consists of three physicians who are outside of the board and have not treated the claimant. A panel's decision is binding on the board. Under section 58 of the WCB Act, a worker is entitled to go before a medical review panel if he files a formal request and his physician tells the board that there is a medical dispute to be resolved.

Bunn said Kingsbury's doctor has already sent such a letter and refuses to send another to the board saying that there is a 50-per-cent likelihood that the cancer is related to Bunn added that he has never seen this condition placed before on an application for a medical review panel. He said that medical review panels overturn about 50 per cent of WCB decisions denying claims. "It seems to us that they don't want this case to go to a medical review panel because they fear they would lose and it would open up the floodgates to other asbestosis claims." MONDAY IN THE SUN Policeman awarded $4,300 Ever wanted to spend your life travelling the world, but thought it was financially impossible? Meet Ralph Goodmurphy, 38. He's been doing it for 18 years and passes on some budgeting tips. Monday on the Money page.

A city policeman was awarded $4,314 Friday in a civil action against a suspected impaired driver who assaulted him. Const. Don Fetterly stopped John Morton Peake April 29, 1982, after observing his driving. his radio and pulled out his flashlight and smashed it on the defendant's forehead," said the judge. Houghton awarded Fetterly $2,000 in general damages and $2,314 for loss of wages while recovering reinjuring his knee.

As he approached Peake car on foot, the car sped away. Fetterly got back in his cruiser and gave chase, AVAILABLE ONLY UNTIL MAY 2 He caught up with Peake in the 100 block West 11th, where Peake abandoned his car and ran across a lawn. He told county court Judge K.D. Houghton he was "running home, which was just across the lawn, to have a drink." Fetterly, who had had arthroscopic it. 'Jf-SMfr 'W'l-fStfl' f-: i surgery on his knee the previous month, caught Peake, who turned and struggled with the policeman.

Fetterly said his knee gave way and Jil 14 he fell to the ground with Peake on top. In reasons for judgment, Houghton said Peake placed both hands on Fetterly's neck and tried to strangle him. "The plaintiff couldn't speak into Stars to shine on telethon Living up to its name, the Variety Club Telethon is offering a wide variety of entertainment talent tonight. The 22nd annual event begins at 8 p.m. on Chs.

6 and 8, with an array of stars including many comedians and singers. Former Knots Landing star Lisa Hartman will be crooning a few tunes for the program. Other stars include blues legend Ray Charles, Sesame Streeter Bob McGrath, onetime bobby-soxer Boby Curtola, Quebecois superstar Veronique Beliveau, a capella group The Nylons, plus local entertainers Jim Byrnes, Jane Mortifee and Nancy Nash. The program continues on both channels until 6 p.m. Sunday, with on-air fundraising efforts for the Variety Treatment Centre for Children and other special, charitable programs.

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