L > interest-rates up. vo 7 . page: Monday caused the worst -(raif ~ budget in hee CAB) "—'An eight-day Peyerebeetn bein seint] subway system and helped bring. traffic: _ thendpltal was called off toda by ues fan union. “4 % ‘he decision to return’ to work came 24 © hours after. the same union ended ‘a . separate strike that had crippled the state run Britlah Rail network, The jokrit congestion ever in London, = °° Delegated at the annual cxineiin” the National Union of Ratlwaym, Plymouth; whose 12,000 subway . and guards began their strike Juné"21, voted uianimously for a return to work at 2 midnight tonight. The lasvie that caused the strike — a plan. - by financially pressed London Transport © to cut the number of subway trains and intraduca new timetables and work rosters — will go to arbitration, © On Monday the union Instructed its 177,500 members at British Rail to return to work, also at midnight tonight and also , productivity dispute. Howéver, much ofthe rail network was ; back.on the tracks today as three-quarters of the workers returifed ahead of the of- ficial return-to-work deadline. " -* state-owned 18 stp kl sald that between 35. per cent 4 abi ‘workers had defied the strike call ¥ and Feported for work. "Asa tek : managed (0 run about. 500 trains Monday: . aut of the usual dally natlonal total of: 18,000." ; But many. commuting drivers decided on "an eatly start for work teday, unconvinced . , that traffic would be: any lighter. 3 Hundreds: ‘of thousands of Londoners ‘Jogded, walked and ‘bitchhiked to work. . Hotelg"in central. London said they were | booked: solid Monday nighi and Seotland ; Yard reported that. some who could not _ find rooms slept in. thelr automobiles and. ~ others camped out in their offices. ‘The transport editor of The Times said it took. him five hours 16 maké ‘the™ 27-- kilometre journey from his home .in Hattield to his office, using a combination — of bus, taxi and walking. Many railmen apparently: feared the, stoppage would cripple British Rail, which | “already is loging $362 millon a year pending arbitration of a pay and... Gespite an annual government subsidy of $1.45 billion. ° — i ion The union wants a ‘pper-cenit pay. ins . @rease. British. Rai] has offered five per cent and wants the new contract te include an agreement providing for improved productivity. The union says this ‘will Theboard of British Rall, which runs the —-~mean widespread job losses. .... from page_1 1° no] : “Mec Dermott calls workers out Canadian business ‘com: munity was cool’ to. MacEathen's second en months and stunned by his = an- nouncement that the federal . “At our company we’ ve frozen ‘salaries and we've.- said: there'll be salary reductions if there’s no improvement.” ~ Dominion Bank agreed. all the right sort of moves," he said, George Urquhart, -Anvaslon, Lebanese ¢ “MacEgchen. ‘has’ made | defigit had climbed to $19.4 billion. And that coolness tran- slated into a drastic drop.in the ‘stock market in early trading today. . The Toronto market, which accounts for about ~ helf:the shares traded. in Canada, plummeted more than. 40 points or almost | Sam Hughes, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, called the budget encouraging and sald the public-service ’ selary restraints and easing - investment . - restrictions might: spur confidence in the business - of foreign and economic community. Jim Webber, deputy chief president of the Atlantic — Provinces Economic — Council, sald the modified foreign investment rules may be helpful to small businesses in the region. But fan McAvity, an in- dependent stock consultant, . dismissed | the: changes in: ‘Foreign Investment Review - - Agency regulations ap 1 ‘BEIRUT, ice a from: Lebanon’ by ‘boat. and 1p ‘Syria. . Despite the setback rRinization’ a. voluntary ‘withdrawal from ‘Lebanon *: averting’ an \Israeli: assquit on the PLO's :. ‘Weat Beirut positions. ° _ “Phe orlais will hopefully be defused shortly,” said. “ ‘Tamam Salam, a prominent Lebanese whose iather, _-former Prime Minister Sach Salam, has been helping — - indirect negotiations between the Israell Invaders |: and Palestinian guerrilla leaders, os Meanwhile, the United States issued a. tres call tor. peace in Lebanon, saying the presence of all foreign forces, including Palestinians, must end as soon as : possible. US. special envoy Philip Habib, credited with _-areetgieg a ceasefire that went into its fifth day - today, said “efforts are still undet way"' to negotiate the PLO's withdrawal, Ha refused to elaborate. ~ Betleged PLO leaders “opened” tie” secrete negotiations Monday to, arrange details of their ‘proposed retreat from Lebanon, where for 12 years they: have based thelr campaign to reclaim a Palestinian homeland from Ieraeli-oceupled - territories. . ’ Lebanese officials and newspapers: said PLO ‘Chairman Yasser Arafat, meeting with Lebanese Prime, Minister Shafik Wazzan and other officials, ‘had agreed in principle to abandon his West Beirut _ bunkers, where an estimated 6,000 guerrilla fighters. are surrounded by Israeli forces and their Lebanese Christian allies. But Lebanese sources sald Arafat rejected Israel's - offer to bus the guerrillas to Syria once they were | disarmed by the Lebanese army. Instead, they sald, the guerrillas suggested sailing - mostof their forces out of Beirut ln ships flying PLO — flags to an unspecified country if Israeli forces with- draw from the clty’s edge. .- An Israel radio broadcast sald the PLO also was - demanding that departing guerrillas be allowed to keep: their personal gtng, leave. their non-military institutions “in Lebanon intact and post emall Palestinian units in the Lebanese army. The radio quoted an Israeli official as saying those demands are unacceptable. The United States endorsed four goals proposed by © Lebanon as a first phase in defusing the crisis, the U.S. State Department said Monday. ' jeje Israeli . demands they thal sare “ ‘Buropean | -. qpiticized ¢ the Hinsited Stal ‘ita trade’ policies, serious “world trade. foward sniing Israel's aeday ; clals said progress was made . Monday“°in "gating the Palestine’ Liberation = : . However, there was ‘no -— industrx. ' déficit of $19.6 billion markets and push interest . organization, called the _, clvil-servants. tip going to urge .-workera to refuse to work,” _ sald: Dennis McDermott, the: Ontario Federation of _ wéléomied the limitation « public: service. wage in: ° . nol gone far enough. - - they re not limiting in- | economist of the Toronto- _Telatively unimportant. EEC critical of the - pilieome (AP) = Leaders: of the Community strongly two-day, meeting; A harsh ‘prelim policies was. considerably softensd after | —--Britsh intervention. “British Prime "Minister. Margaret "Thatcher left the meeting early, but her foreign secretary, Francis Pym, had the * original language softened. The Weat Europeans expressed their anger at recent decisions of the Reagan administration to try to prohiblt European companies. from ualng American technology -for- the Soviet-West Europe "natural gas pipeline, to curb imports of . ; European steel, and to “contest Europe’ (7 ficials welcomed Ottawa’ s plan to loosen its policies against foreign business takeovers and ownership of the energy industry, announced in Monday’s Canadian budget after advance promises to Washington... But they remalned suspicious about the way the pledges will work in practice, after hearing Finance: Minister Allan MacEachen's foyelgn-ownership con- cessions on a special television relay at the Canadian Embassy. ; Canadian Trade. Minister Ec Lumley was expected to underline MacEgchen’s _ concesalons in scheduled Washington " wieetings today with U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and with William Brock, U.S. special trade representative, ' two. of the most vociferous critica of Canada’s nationalist economic policies. “The major issues: remain," said : William . Merkin, Canadien affairs specialist in the'U.S, trade office, which is_ today, paying ° ~ y endanger free, ae ‘The 10 governinnt eaders, concluding a a also condemned: the. ‘Israeli invasion of Lebanon and called for. . “immediate, ‘simultaneous’ withdrawal: “of” :-[iarneli and Palestinian arméd forces trom °: Beirut, as well as the prompt withdrawal " ot Varael from:Lebapon, 2. - = ; The isatiea of the Mideast and U.S. Wade vo, _; policies dominated the summit, ’ tough bargaining and re} ated redrafting. - draft on US... ' . disrupt the pipeline deal. ‘The Hora; Tuas re 2, yt Pan it \ 1 '” decisions on international trade, atteny ‘The final declaration ‘called for. month. At Veraallles, the | understood that Washington. French President Francols started ihe process of rewriting _ Statement on Lebanon on Monday when he Insisted on tougher language than in the original draft by senior officials .of | EEC, French spokesmen said, ' Mitterrand also wanted specific references to. Israel's ‘recent bom: bardments of Beirut as well as longer: term suggestlons for a settlement of the] _ Lebanese and wider Middte East conflicts. US. welcomes the budget. WASHINGTON (CP) American of- pressing a formal complaint. against we ’ Canadian foreign-investment curbs’ the General Agreement on Tariffs . Trade in Geneva. ~ : “we'll walt and see,” remarked Desrochers, who monitors Canadiay developments in. the U.S. Comm “It’s another positive signal that. Canadian government is continuing moderate its policy,” said Peter Morissey a U.S.Canada specialist in the priva U.S. National Planning Association. All agreed that MacEachen's budget announcement -is a—step in the right to.exercise extraterritorial legal powersg” and‘ measures which prevent. the, ois 4 _ fulfilment of existing trade contacts.” would not ; “but some of it is inf: direction, as far as American busineeamen!: are concerned. But all added they need to -- see the fine print before knowing cm . it will pacify angry U.S. com executives and their polltical supporters Washington. ; if three per cent to 1375.34 in the. first half hour of: trading. The paper loss was more,than $2.5 billlon. The biggest. losers , were real estate and oil ‘stocks, which investors had been . snapping up recently in anticipation that the budget. would. provide relief for thos¥ deprese midasiries.” -"~ added help for the energy , Sector beyond recent — revisions to the «national * energy program and only mingr. help for the housing » . Worst of all, a projected ; ‘heightened investors’ ‘concern that government — borrowing needs will strain already tight . credit - rates still higher. ; Michael Walker, executive. director of the Fraser Institute researth @eficit “‘a horrible, fearful —shame.”. Pat Johnson,’ an economist with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said it will Increase pressuré on |. capital markets and push - And “organized labor _vowed .to fight the ~ malninter’s ‘Imposition of wage controls on federal prealdent of the Canadian’ © "Labor Congress, Po . Cliff Pilkey, president of Labor, said he would sup- “port a.general strike if Meanwhile, Gerard . Docquier —_—. of the ; Steelworkers sald “it's not 7 ‘ the road to recovery, it’s the}... .. road to disaster.” u _ “TV's a budget that makes the poor pay.” he added. . “Mr,MacEachen calla for . Canadians to accept less ’ than the rate of inflation in, [a ~ thelr wage increases, What does he think “Canadians. ” have - eines 19762" a “While many bude '? creases to 11 per cent over ‘the next two years, atleast [| one -sald MacEachen had | ‘+ most.‘ compantes creases — they're cutting,”” sald. Donald’ ‘Priddle, © executive vice-president of Cambridge Leaseholds Ltd, doing every year cee oe «ment priority. We're making a one billion dollar - ~ commitment to helping Canadians train for those. ; 7 positions. Here’s what we're doing: | ae poe prepare to workers for tomorrow's jobs? Ts is & shortage of. Canadians trained in the workers are in high demand. women a year. Extra funding will create thousands criticat skills and new- -technologies. 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