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C4-Sunday News, November 16, 1980.

Shopping bag baby

BANGKOK, Thailand
(UPI) - Baby Louise,
smuggled out of Thailand in
a shopping bag, returned to
Bangkok more con-
ventionally this week to her
third set of parents in less
than a year of life.

The tug-of-love, which
began five months ago when
her natural mother gave the
baby to a Danish couple
because she could not afford
to look after her, climaxed
when the gurgling infant was
turned over to Thai foster
parents — an army captain
and his bank-clerk wife.

“Im so excited and
pleased, she’s so cute,” the

new mother said of the pink,
plump and _ happy-looking

baby. :
Karin and Erik Mor-
tensgaard, the Danish

couple who smuggled her
out of Thailand last July in a
duty-free airport shopping
bag, are in jail in Denmark
awaiting trial. _
Chalor Thammasri,
director-general of
Thailand's welfare depart-
ment, said Louise, whose
official name is Pabsuba
Tong, will be sent to live
with her new foster parents

in a Bangkok suburb.
According to the Mor-

tgensaards, the girl's

widowed mother begged

them to take the 7-month-

returns to new parents

old child, because she could
not afford to care for her
seven children.

Mortgensaard claimed
efforts at legal adoption
through the maze of Thai
laws became tangled in red
tape, so Enk, immigration
reports show, put the child
in a duty-free airport
shopping bag and simply
boarded a commercial flight
to Copenhagen.

Mortgensaard told
authorities in Denmark she
did not pay for the baby, but
gave the real mother several
thousand baht (more than
$100) to look = after the
remaining children.

The Mortgensaards
returned with “Loutse” to

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A Child Activity Program
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Vancouver Recreation
Centre and is now open to
the general public, though
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Recreation programs.

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Holstebro, Denmark fast
weekend after Karn had
been in hiding with the gir!
four months. The couple
said they wanted to adopt
the child and refused to
surrender her unless they
could return to Thailand to
plead their case.

But Thailand declared the
interim parents persona non
grata, and they decided to

Solar future
the subject of

library program

Since the earliest days of
human existence, man has
acknowledged the life-giving
force of the sun, but until
recently technological man
has tended to take this
power for granted. Only in
the last 20 years, with
supplies of fossil fuels
diminishing and_ con-
ventional energy sources
proving inadequate to meet
the world’s demands, has

energy source.

As a part of its energy
month program, North
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the Solar Energy Society of
Canada. Mr. Blythe will also
show and discuss the film
“Our Solar Future”. In-
terested members of the
public are invited to Lynn

Valley Library on Tuesday,
November 18 at 7:30 pm,
admission is free.

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