_ unattended,
moaning in the bushes along.
-the dusty Thai border with .

Page / Al2, October 24, 1979 - North h Shore News

By BARRY FLYNN
KLONG~ KAI

YUEN,

- Thailand (UPD - Many of the

sick réfugees lie _ dying

“coughing or

Cambodia.

‘Fever-dazed ‘malaria
victims wander through the
makeshift ‘camps, looking

. for. help. Malnourished

children, their arms and legs
as‘ thin as’ sticks, sit “by
listlessly . as. overworked

medical teams struggle. to .

provide the barest attention
to the worst cases among the
tens of thousands who have
fled Cambodia to escape the
fighting and starvation. te

Ontario man battles Time

subscription, ‘which was due

TORONTO -(UPC) -

Toronto man, has taken up

the cudgel for some 200, 000
readers of Time ‘magazine,
claiming the periodical
breached its contract with its

subscribers when it stopped |
' publishing a
edition in favor of a higher- ©

Canadian
priced. American version.

Richard Cobbold, a
University of Toronto
engineering professor, filed
a'.class' action suit in the
Supreme Court of Ontario
against Time Canada Ltd.,
claiming the magazine had
no right to substitute its U.S.

edition when iit stopped
publishing the Canadian

edition in 1976.

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“Dr: Geoffrey. "Atkinson, the
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responsible for medical care .
at the field. dispensary at

Klong Wah.

- “St reminds me of what .
r ve read of the Black. Death.
plagute,’”
the.

or ‘the great
weekend. “There are sick _
and dying. all over the
Place.”

“UNICEF, ~ the
ternational Red Cross and
various ~ private ‘agencies
have started massive relief

_.efforst for the thousands of
Cambodians . who pour into

The: ‘suit’s outcome could .
‘affect ©
Time subscribers.

| In’ March 1976, Time —
Canada stopped publishing .

its Canadian edition after the
federal government can-

celled tax concessions for.

businesses -placing ad-
vertisements in the U.S.-
based publications Time and
Readers’ Digest.

In his statement of Claim,
Cobbold said Time began
sending him the U.S. edition
of the magazine, making up
the higher price by shor
tening the subscription
p*riod 40 per cent.

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along. bush trails. :and dirt
Toads in eastern Thailand.

But. they: face a ‘ogistical

nightmare’ caused . ‘by. the
‘poor -roads and ‘continued

4 fighting | in. Cambodia bet-
Rouge. :
“Support. - the. .
ousted. Pol Pot’ regime and.
the Vietnam-installed Heng:

ween. the © Khmer .
forces... that:

“Samrin - government. in’
Phnom Penh... 2

Beriberi, dysentry;.
pneumonia — the list of —

diseases goesonandon. —

Dr. Levi Roque, a Filipino

physician* with the In-

ternational. _Rescue | _Com-.

to expire: in 1980. __

Cobbold's suit. asks the

court to rule that Canadian |
Time subscribers are entitled. .

to réceive Time for the ‘full
term of their contracts, or to
receive refunds.

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He’ wrote prescriptions for
vitamins, anti-malarial drugs

_or diarrhea pills on patients’:
palms, feet and-legs and‘sent' ’

them to = pick. up” ‘the:
medication. ..
“The | ~ dispensary, . really.

only a ‘thin, roof over mats-

_ Spread--on. the ground, was -
100

filled - -with “about .
patients, many “being fed.
intravenously.

mittee could ‘only. spend 2 a
few seconds on each case at..
- Klong Kai Yuen, a tiny. field.
dispensary where hundreds
of. sick’ ‘and. injured. were |
treated .

‘Saturday.’

The ‘nu aber of dead is
impossible. to estimate

‘because many never reach

the field dispensaries, Dr.
Atkinson said. About 10 ’
people were. dying each day
at Klong Wah, where some

20,000 to 40,000 refugees are

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