Auto workers set to strike at GM

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Wednesday, October 17, 1984

Newsstand Price 40° Vol. 47, No. 40

om! | Election 84: the shaky

eee mee | but well-financed NPA

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a Taxpayers’ bill
efor Expo could
fe top $558 million

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“It's all bases loaded, bottom of the ninth, and Swanson’s up to bat. Can she do it for the COPE team?” is the

question posed by sports commentators Peter Greenwell (l) and Carlos Reygadas, Jr. during the great civic steps up
baseball game. The baseball metaphor was one of several vignettes performed by the Ash Street Players, whose |i

cast also included Tracey Lloyd, Helen Douglas and a six-piece band, for the benefit of the Committee of - -
Progressive Electors at the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse Oct. 14. The musical, Civic Follies, also included such in Va S ion
crowd-pleasing routines as ‘‘Socred-busters,’’ a gigantic classroom of thousands of students, with Education

Minister Jack Heinrich as the only teacher left on the payroll, and other back-handed tributes to Socreds and
their civic farm team. The Follies, which combined theatre with a meet-the-candidates session for the progres- pr Opaga nda
sive Vancouver civic alliance heading to the polls Nov. 17, will be repeated Oct. 28 — with slightly changed

script, of course — for the Surrey Alternative Movement at the Guildford Park Community School. page 9