European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24, the stars and stripes world thursday november 10,1994 gynaecologist wounded by sniper. ".-. I. I i -. h Vancouver British cobia a a doctor who performs abortions was shot and wounded at his breakfast table tuesday by a sniper who fired through a sliding Glass door police or. Garson Romalis managed to dial 91 Ivand. Was. Taken to Vancouver Hospi Tal where he was listed in serious but stable condition after surgery. A gunman with an assault Rifle fired at least three times from a Lane behind Romalis House striking the gynaecologist in the thigh and severing a major artery police said. The doctor s wife and daughter also were at Home but were unharmed. It s fairly obvious that this was planned police inspector Dave Boyd said. It s definitely not a the shooting followed what police described As strange phone Calls the doctor s wife received at Home monday. The time of the Calls around 7 20 . Was the same As that of. Tues Day s attack. A Man who sounded agitated asked for Romalis and was Given his pager number. The Man then called again and asked if Romalis worked out of his Home ,. Romalis wife told the caller her Hus band worked at his clinic and again gave the pager number Constable Anne Drenna said. Police believe the caller was trying to determine whether Romalis would become at that hour she said. No one had claimed responsibility for the shooting and police had no suspects tuesday night./. Officers found about 20 rounds of ammunition in a garbage can near the Home she said. In Washington Justice department spokesman Carl Stern said the Fri is helping in the investigation. Stern said it is not known whether the shooting was motivated by the doctor s perform ins of abortions. The shooting comes less than a week after a Florida jury recommended Abor Tion foe Paul Hill be executed in the electric chair for the Shotgun slayings of a doctor and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola abortion clinic on july 29. Neighbors told police that people had picketed against Romalis because he performed abortions. The doctor s Home is in a Well to do neighbourhood in the City s West end. Romalis works at the women s health Centre and the Elizabeth Bagshaw clinic in Vancouver. Police immediately tightened Security around both. Or. Mark Schonfeld president of the British Columbia medical association said he was shocked by the shooting it s just so foreign to our Way of life and our thinking he said. If a Man is practising Medicine and not violating any Laws and providing a service which is deemed necessary and is available for him to be shot because Hev providing a medical service is just unthinkable Schonfeld said. Abortion opponents denied responsibility for Romalis shooting and accused abortion providers of exploiting the episode. It would seem to me that these Vio Lent acts that happen Are fodder for the Mill of the abortionists said Betty Green who Heads the Vancouver right to life group. They Are certainly used to discredit the anti abortion move earthy protest Luzmilla Zevallos a peruvian Farmer has dirt tossed around her by other Farmers in a Field of lettuce near Lima on tuesday. Ten Farmers were buried up to their necks in the Field during a protest Over a land dispute. Farmers claim that land they have Bee farming for three years is being declared abandoned by authorities in an illegal attempt to push them of the land. British museum to open gallery native american artefacts London a a Home for a Large collection of rare native american artefacts was announced tues Day with the establishment of the British museum s first permanent North american gallery which will feature items from the British museum s North american collection will be funded by a gift of about $1.6 million from the Chase manhat Tan corp. Of new York. The magnificent gift from the Bank is the largest single corporate donation Ever made to the museum sir Claus Moser chairman of the museum trustees told a news conference. The treasures among some 20,000 objects in the col Lection Range from totem carvings Indian dress an inuit Hunting weapons to a spoon made in 1702 from the breastbone of a now extinct great Auk. An inscription in the bowl shows it was Given by anew England Indian named Papneau to a White Man who had cured his wife of gangrene. The museum has never had the space to display allies treasures from what Are now the United states and Canada dating from before the arrival of europeans. The collection represents ail the great native Peoples from the inuit of the Arctic to the Navajo of the South Western United states. They were collected during the heyday of the Brit ish Empire and Are unmatched anywhere in historical depth said John Mack keeper of ethnography at the museum. Museum director Robert Anderson said the gift willbe used to set up the gallery and not for further collect ing. V. The new display to be known As the Chase manhat Tan North american gallery will be opened in 1997 in space vacated by books moving out to the British Library which is still under construction. Thomas g. Labrecque Chase Manhattan chairman and chief executive said this gift spread Over five years will enable the museum to create a Home for it extraordinary collection of North american the Bank established its first London office in 1887.London is the Hub of the Bank s expanding european business. The initiative to secure the gift was made by the Lon Don based american friends of the British museum. Workers return to cleaning up russian Oil spill Usinsky Russia a cleanup work resume wednesday at the site of a huge Oil spill in Northern Russia after harsh Arctic weather had blocked worker from reaching contaminated areas. Heavy storms had prevented workers from bringing cleanup equipment to the damaged areas of pipeline Over the weekend said Anatoly Stratso spokesman for the ministry for emergency situations. Most of the Rivers in the area have already iced Over further hindering cleanup in the Remote Region near the City of Usinsky 1,000 Miles North of Moscow. The spill is actually the result of a series of leaks on the 31-mile pipeline Over the past few months. The spill s size is hotly disputed but . Officials Environ mental groups and others fear it May be larger than the Exxon Valdez spill which dumped about 11 million Gal Lons of Oil into the alaskan wilderness in 1989. Local officials have said they plan to fully repair the aging pipeline before april 1, the itar Tass news Agency said wednesday. F local residents and environmentalists Are particularly concerned that Spring Rains would push More Oil into the nearby Salmon Rich Wewiora River which flows into the Barents sea. The pipeline continues to pump Oil As usual though it has been shut Down for Brief periods for repairs. Thek Ommett pipeline company has admitted that the pipe line has been deteriorating for years. Meanwhile the environmental group Greenpeace announced yet another leak on the pipeline which the claim has released at least 3.8 million Gallons of Oil. Komi Neft officials described the new leak As minor saying it occurred while the leaks for the big spill were being repaired. . Mathematician honoured for research on solar system m american mathematician was awarded the of prize in mathematics on tues Day for his work in the 1960s analysing the stability of the solar system. Jurgen Moser will receive the $100,000 award for his wort in two areas of mathematics hamiltonian mechanics and nonlinear differential equations. His ii u6 several medal and prizes but the Wolf prize is the most prestigious. In e1 Jay a that l take it As a great distinction 1980 tray Zurich Ere he has lived since born in Germany Moser became a . Citizen after migrating in 1955. He was a research associate at new York University in 1957 when he left to become visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of technology i he next year he became associate professor. In 1960 he returned to new York University and was to ill is a there until 198� when he became teacher and researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich
