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Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 10

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San Rafael, California
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10
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12 31nfrrprnfrrnt-3fmirnnl. Monday, August 7, 1972 VIET DENTISTRY, FAITH Irish Riot, More Deaths Follow British Takeover Of IRA Posts BELFAST A kindmine explosion near bonier with the Irish Republic killed two British soldiers early today, enveloping their patrol vehicle in a hall of fire Gunmen dumped a body in a Belfast Protestant area. The three deaths followed one (d the worst Roman Gatholic in Belfast in months. Hundreds of youths using iron battering rams smashed into an army and set an armored ear on fire Indore troops drove them back. The army said the two soldiers were killed and two other injured when a Claymore mine exploded under their vehicle near the Ixirder town of Lis- maskea, in County Fermanagh.

The explosion wrecked the vehicle and set it ablaze. In Belfast an unidentified youth in his late teens was found shot dead in the Protestant Donegal 1 area near the entrance to one of the main highways running south, an army spokesman said. The three deaths brought to P's the number of persons killed in three years of sectarian strife and military operations in Northern Ireland, including It) dead since the army occupied Irish Republican Army (IRAi strongholds in the 1 rovince Monday. Two soldiers were slightly hurt early today when the IRA brought a rocket launcher into action again, firing two shells at a British army post in the LaSalle School in Belfast's Catholic Andcrsonstown district. The army said two shells from the rocker launcher first used last September and fired twice with little effect last month exploded in the gymnasium, which the British army is not using.

An army spokesman said the gymnasium was wrecked and a section of the school used for classes badly damaged. He said the army has only an observation post in one corner of the main building. It was not hit. but its windows were blown out. he said.

In the first large-scale Catholic rioting since the assault on the IRA barricaded so-called "no go" areas, 5oo youths using heavy iron poles as battering rams smashed in the main barbed wire gates of a new army post the Catholic An- dersonstown district of Belfast. The rioters set fire to a Saracen armored ear blocking the entrance to the post before troops drove them back with vollies of rubber bullets. The youths fought back with rocks and bottles during the two-hour Meeting Slated On Development A town meeting will be held at Lagunitas School Wednesday at p.m. to discuss the future development of the San (Jeronimo Valley. County planning commissioner Werner Von Gundell will on hand to answer questions about possible encroachment of residential and commercial areas on open space.

The meeting will be in the multi-purpose room of the school. battle before soldiers finally dispersed them. The army said one soldier suffered a broken jaw and another a broken arm in the rioting. Two Catholic civilian men were seriously injured when their ear was hit by a bomb aimed at an army ambulance in the fighting. The battle erupted after 1.200 Catholics marched to a Gaelic football stadium to protest the army's takeover of the field and two nearby schools to accommodate the new post.

In other violence Sunday, gunmen seriously wounded Kevin Finnegan, a 25-vear-old Catholic, when he answered the door of his parent's shop in Belfast's Catholic Tate Avenue. The Social Democratic and Labor Party the prov- i ineo's main Catholic opposition i party, postponed a meeting to- I day with William Whitelaw, secretary of state for Northern Ireland. At the meeting, White- law had hoped to discuss a political settlement of Northern trouble The party i did not give the reason for the postponement but SDLP source i linked it with rioting. Over 30 Yeon Eipenentc In Hvtntwn HEALTH! by JUNE EMBURY I asl week, I mentioned the grc.it new Mnlti it.miin supplement. IORIRKSN.

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Douglas Gibson adjusts the straps of a backpack for his wife, Elizabeth, as they plan a short hike in Marin. The international couple was visiting here on a leave from South Vietnam where he teaches oral surgery for the U.S. Agency for International Development and she preaches the faith. Ex-Marinites Tell Experiences By MARLFNK FREEDMAN Hr. Douglas Gibson, oral surgeon.

has encountered cases in South Vietnam that he never dreamed of when he lived in Marin. Just recently, he treated a small hoy whose face was mashed in by a water buffalo. Another patient suffered a chin so infected that it was covered with blackened tissue, because he didn't want to go to Saigon to the hospital and so was treated by a local village doctor It is all part of duties as surgeon and dental instructor under a program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development His wife. spends half her time caring for their two children attending school in Malaysia and the other half preaching the faith in the South Vietnamese countryside. The international family was back in Marin over the weekend for the first time in two years.

I)r Gibson extended his 30- day leave into an around-the- wsrld trip for the famiqy and visited friends in Marin on the last leg before returning to Vietnam. The family lived in Lucas Valley and then Mann- wood. Dr Gibson is working under very different conditions from those he had at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Francisco and the University of California School of Dentistry in San Francisco. He works at Nguyen Van Hoc Hospital, the largest teaching hospital in Saigon. But when he needs the services of a plastic surgeon or a neurosurgeon, he has to go out of the hospital.

The operating room in the bed hospital has basic equipment he says, and is ed by a "problem of There wouldn't be any equipment at all it wasn't for Twice, he says, they have had power failures during surgery and since the hospital has no auxiliary power, he finished the operations using flashlights and torches. never run into any antagonism against he said, although about .30 per cent of his caseload results from war injuries. He sees his teaching assignment as crucial. of the injured get to us. They are either treated on a local level and not in the sophisticated way that we can treat them at the hospital or they He is training dental students so that they can pass on their training to others who will go nut into the provinces to practice.

Dr. Gibson went to work for AID in 1970. He completed his IS-month contract and renewed it for another 18 months. In Wrong Dote Independent-Journal erred in reporting the date of the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Tamlalpais Improvement Club. The club will meet at 8 p.m.

Sept. 7. June 1973, the program will be phased out although dental and medical equipment will continue to be supplied by AID. In the midst of one of the most controversial areas of the world, Dr. Gibson has little to say about the military or political situation.

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"That way we can see if any mines were planted during the Her interpreters versed in the numerous dialects go ahead of them and gather the villagers from the countryside into a central meeting place. Then she arrives and through her interpreters, preaches the faith. is the third largest faith in Vietnam, she says, behind Buddhism and Christianity. She visits six or seven villages in a day, being sure to return to Saigon by dark. The villagers are friendly, she says smilingly.

"They are invariably fascinated by my height compared to them, and by the fact that I have only two children while they each have about a dozen. sometimes ask me if I know how to work in the rice fields. I ask them if they how to work in corn fields and they Her interludes between preaching are spent in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia, caring for their children: Peter. 15, and Deborah, 16.

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