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Britain resumes pressure tactics

British Prime Minister’
Margaret Thatcher con-
vened her emergency “war

"Falklands, where a British
war fleet bombed and.
’ strated . Argentine positions —

pan today = with’ .on Sunday. a§ a. possible -
“growing, ns British troops. peel asion..: s
will Invade the Argentine-. ~ Brit gems correspon- .

seized Falkland Islands if
United : Na

dents ‘aboard the -fleet
- reported: British:: frigates.

conflict. .
“Let's hope. we'll: make
still, more progress,’* the

secretary’ general: ‘said on,
sity AN. .

oArKiving...~.
headquarters ‘or the fourth

. day of. his peace efforts.

‘Perez: “de:

', and destroyers now are:
-within ’ sight of - the
Falklands, moving in closer

|, toenforce a total blogkade

of the. South. AUantic

islands. .

“The . gov
” priority is’ to do everything
‘possible to achieve ‘a
negotiated solution,” the
Foreigh Office in Landon :

said. ‘In New.. York, UN.
But. informed military. Secretary General Javier .
sources’. said. ~ the Perez de Cuellar said. today
requisitioned liner Can--- there are “reasons ‘for
berra carrying - 2,500 hope" thai: Britain and’

marines and paratrocps is Argentina might agree to a
- hours . away .fram the - peaceful settlement of the

CASAW plans
a referendum.

. Herald Staff Writer -
a * KITIMAT — The Canadian Assoclation of Smelter and
Allied Workers (CASAW) has decided to take the proposed
- construction of a new union hall to ‘referendum. *

‘The union had. previously received.- permiss{on. from
‘district authorities to go ahead with: the- hall “which is
~ planned to be located in the city: tentre expansion area,”

Becawe of escalating. construction.costs,. aunion meeting...

_ held'last week. vated to take the decision on whether or not
_ to’build to referendum. ~ - - .

According to union spokesmen the coats. have rich to
i 000 from the original $400,000 to $500,000 estimate.

: The. one-storéy building‘is expected to house-about. 5,800 :

"square feet of space and be used for ‘attices, meetings and:
- _ inting nerves. ;

mes

~ Francois’ Giuliani,”
_“substanial"! progress ‘had’
been . made during the. .

responding | to

- casualties. Britain said’ its.;

‘Cuellar, .
‘reparts °

- Argentina is no longer in-.
sisting ‘on prior British .

recognition of
~ Sovereignty” claim to the

islands, said it is- “very.

difficult to say they ‘have
‘softened on: that particular
issue,” -
: We! :
Procedures, not sebanoey”
‘he said: »

‘Sunday. “night, Perez de’

‘Cuellar’s . spokesman, -

“said

- weekend in. ‘the’ ‘secretary
general's separate
meetings, with British UN
“Ambassador .

its”

~~ Stantey: abrfleld.”
are’ discussing ;

“Anthony.

Parsons and with Argentine

~ -Deplity * Foreign Minister
“ Enrique. Rigs. ~

_, The. British. ‘said ‘Sunday’
- their ‘ships. and yaiveraft

_ bombarded. Argentine

“military targets around the’.

.wairtield.-at. Stanley... the.
¥Falklands capital;

Argentine: ‘helicopter: - was
shot down, and an Argentine

“fishing ; factory ‘ship ~ ap- |

parently spying: Wag, cp.”
“tured “in... the -

" British-administered ar-

* «chipelago. Argentina - seized

7 NDC. wants coal -
dust settled frst

Herald Staff Writer.
PRINCE GEORGE — The - Northern Development,
~«-Gotnell (NDC)..wants to have the question of ‘who is-
sible for problema with coal ‘dust: ‘arising: from nor-

oom trains settled before any. coal. facilities are”

“me Norter Developrnést Council, “composed ot seven
‘narthern, regional distriets, | recently: Sinished.a: study into.
 roblems ariaitig risihg from the cal r
>.) pegidents could be catight in a joriaditiohal dispute when:

came to the problem of coal dust.

. “The NDC had sow written, letters ‘to he federal’ and’
, provincial: (overnments ashing ‘for: -specific delegatlén’. ofs2

. thee redponsibilities . for the Fegulation,, enforcement ‘ahd |.
““ ohtrol of coat dust. pollution, . . tg
: The NDC has identified eight areas of concern aa are
“ot its study’ into northeast’ coal,’ These includencoal dust,
_ flngincing railway grade. separations, signals ard private

: -at the port site; the-impact on the labor inarket,; ‘air‘tran-
~sportation routes, and the. Jack’ of Iocal! input in ‘mega-.

project planning decisions. a : i

- ',” The Department of’ ftegional Eeohdmie. ‘Expansioa,

MARE), which co-sponsoredthe’ original: study, will be -
_ preparing “a further report on the olitstanding:r rail: Pine
concerns by ‘akdJune, EY .

deal and concluded northern: a i

_ five weeks ago.

os ‘Argenting |

~ British:
“blockade zone around ‘the

; the ship was also tai

Defence-.-:
_ “Minister: “Amadeo Frugeli’
Claimed the British planes. —
\- “dropped \anti-persehnel ©
; scatter Hombs he said were .

af banned by. international

"agreement: He called: the. |. :

‘bombs: “infernal ‘déath-

sealing, inachines.!’. There ~

Was no" iinmediate Teply
fom the Brita.
the Ld at i

- Hermes, ’
\ “At thes same one
said. its “Sea Hortier’ _ kis

crossings, possible copiplirations with the flaking industry « « strafed’ the Argentine

“positions | ‘from. ‘the ‘air. .
- correspondents;
“reported a missile tired: bya -
British ‘warship . shot down‘:

“635-2383 or 635-9095

British

an: ‘Argentine heHeopter

ce he

Britaif °

* engaged i in combat over the ;

“e

“Stanley Birfield.

. destroyer Shefiield “last
. Tuesday with a French- built -

missile, ‘killing,.20 crew dered out of the 2b0-
‘ total-exelu:

-sion zone last- week by ‘a

"jets returned, safely.”

‘It.ws ‘the: first fighting -
sifica, an Argentine war-
plane - hit. the British ©

Janos. The

‘members, anda Britisti jet nautical-mile

~ Was: “downed . attacking the
British Arigate.,

Phe attack ‘fallowed “argentina - Said |
-reparts that the Argentines:

had repaired the, runway at:

“Stanley, knocked out ii two ,
- previous British raids; and _
‘was-flying supplies to the
island garrisort in defiance_
of a British blockade, But:
the British correspondents —

British”. . jets

frigid South Atlantle.

Argentina reported a 50-. - sailor was ‘reported killed,
* minute: British attack on one sériously injured and 12.
Stanley and the nearby town “others slightly. hurt,
of Darwin. entine | - coe
‘oan aan “of Pi nese acistion, .

Britain's domestic. news
‘agency; said the ship's crew ‘is being ‘looked after properly’ or how It
: included an Argentine naval *
officer, Lt.-Cmdr. Gonzales. ;
agency's
- correspondent aboard the abortion with the condition that if the:
Hermes, Peter Archer, said woman wants the child later in life it will
the Narwal. had: been or:

the.
Narwal''was’ sunk’ in the believe that abortion is not everyone's
British’ air. attack and option but everyone should have that‘

-machine- ‘option if she chooses to,” they said.’ Pro-

gunned the ship's lifeboats, .
_ forcing :the crew Into thé’. choice is pro-abortion since it amounts to-

A Spokesman for the

TERRACE. - ‘Concerted Citivions : for
Choice on Abortion, (COCA). drew /more
_ right to. life ailvocates’ than their own Te
minded people toa rally Saturday but the
issues were debated calmly and quietly ps:
both ‘sides. _ challenged : the: other’ a
viewpoint. “8

" Atthe heart of the: didageerient was the:
definition of life, The 13 representatives

from CCCA said thata weman has a right" .

fo her own body and a fetus is-part, of the- .
woman's body. ‘The 23 people fro prole
claimed that the fetus ig a living! m
separate and distinct from the mother and
theréfore should be given separate rights.’

. Beyond this point the mora] views to the
two sides often conflicted. but sometimes -

agreed. CCCA representatives said that .

’ pro-life should be more concerned with the
“living’’ on issues such as poverty, nuclear
/war, etc. These issues, said the pro-life
“people, were also, of ca to prolife
people. Pro-life advocates/compared the
abortion issue to war, where human life is
considered expendable for the so-called
- social. good.

The CCCA- clined: the pro-life.
‘movement .is.a male dominated group.
holding ta the traditional view that women

~ are not: capable of making their “own”

decisions. ' Women who once practiced
medicine thro
_ burned at the stake in Europe when men
took ‘aver ‘the right to practice medicine

_ and denied women the truth relating to the

health care for their’ own ‘bodies,

having abortions they -did not invade

‘Vietnam or start World Warr Il, ‘says -

-CCCA, In war men have legally murdered -

or are trained’ ta kill, while denying women

_ ‘the right to decide what happens. to their .
own bodies,

CCCA fears that society i is returning tt to a

- time when hysterital attacks will be made ©

on women going to abortion clinics, or the

. days when abortions clinies were bombed

_ and life threatened.

“TPs ‘time we stand-up and demand safe.
forms of birth control instead, of the sale of -
inadequate methods for profit, We must -
‘act ‘now before it’ 8, too: late," BBY COCA

members. ~

The CCCA women also said that the idea

of adoption—is-often; worse~for-women-+~

because they know the baby is alive in the.
“world: At least if the baby is dead through

abdrtion she knows no harm can come to it:
‘and she does not have to worry whether it”

“turned aut. Moret

“Several pro-life supporters offered to.
"take the baby of any. woman thinking of

’. be given back, CCCA representatives ©

believed the pffer rather far- fetched . and -

unbelievable.

- CCCA.. emphasized — that it’ is « ‘not,
, Promoting abortion ‘and, condemned the
* use of the term pro-abottiot. “We are not -
pro-abortion, we are pro-choice. . We.

life advocates said that option proves pro-

the same thing.
Pro-life advocates said that through pro-
choice the valye of human life is deter-

said. Harrier «jets ‘turned British defence ministry mined: by who wants it and taken to its ~

AUN® “Secretary...
“The. “British, “Défenve: : Javier , Perez: de fi

Ministry also reported that.

back .. “Argentine:
_military .. transports: lying.

escorted by “Mirage Jet

lighters. ‘ oe, is the fighting resumed,

“General |

1,296-ton. Argentine fishing « States to the peace table.

‘boat.. -Narwak:: 66... nautical:
miles off ‘the Falklands .
“pecause it was Shadowing -
the fleet and appeared to be -
. “fitted |. out forts sur-.,
‘veillance." :

A spokesman said the 25"
* crew members: abandoned . United © Nations, »

custody. One ‘Argentine |

4.

‘C-139 Said the | “aenine Were, extreme this would | ead to a lawless:

society,
*Abortion‘is a dedision between you and
.. yourself and-while a - lawless society: is.

‘Pro-life people said . they aupported
“women’s: rights: but. saw abortion as a

" negative solution to problems. While-they

“Perez de Cuellar spoke to
reporters - Sunday night -~
after ’-his second day of.
separate meetings at UN
* headquarters-In “New: York.
. with ‘Sir Anthony Parsons,
“Britain's ambassador ti the
* and
ship and surrendered, and - - Argentine Deputy Foreign
ier into . Minister Enrique Ros. More .
talks were set for today.

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"were. accused “of “being” against” “sex”

“education one person pointed aut that it
was the contents of the sex ‘education | that
- was jn dispute: Several people pointed out’
that ‘abortion has led to the acceptance of
‘infanticidp and a baby can be terminated.”

“after its natural birth through legal means *-

at the mother’ § cholce;as a recent U.S.

advocates,
‘Members of.. CCA ‘are * particularly:
opposed to Joseph Borowski's challenge to

- the 1960 amendment of Section 251 of the -

Criminal Code and -disagree with bo ae

| position, that the life of a. fertilized egg
deserves . more protection and con-

-. glderation.than the life of an adult woman. ‘

~ protection and ‘consideration as any adult”
man,life, male.or female. ue

 CCCA -members. are: now. seeking,

~ pbortion on demand. “They, disagree with’

~ current” standards. .that “a: thérapeutle

» ‘abortion’ committee is needed to permit | a ~

woman to have an abortion since it forces ‘ :
- her into a Russian roulette situation. . Some - °

a ‘hospitals do not have such committees and
“since no method of birth: ‘control is 100 per. |
‘cent aafe, safe legal abortion is women's °

7 ; -basic ‘human’ right and must: be. made
. available.”

They also say that forced sterilization is

| wsed to-confrol the numbers of poor: ‘and
a particularly. non-white womén. Thi-is gne-

- area the’ prolite, ‘eroupt ralso agree was”
: gbhorant,
’  Disagreement-also arose over. ihe: tact
wa (CCCA members reject the idea’ that .
rosexual sex is the’only’ normal.forfn
‘of m intimacy | between maul, and that an”

‘herbal abortions were —

While women are called murderers for

“possible ‘it-is- hardly “probable,” said one. ,
Auellar. CCCA member, —

- repérted . _progress in, his -

British jets attacked “the * efforts, to bring -the © twa.

“

= “ tryitig to restrict abortion but thie ‘ght
“pall people to live'within’ the laws. af society.

* eae of: male sore Ig: - sally
: disa with by the same people who are er
ts:

- Toust be maintained, -°

"Say CCCA members: --“Taday we are “

7. facing an economic crisis. Unemployment .
_. figures rise daily. H

is Impossible. to

_ find, especially for women and. children.’

', most- women,’
_further behind prices ‘and the cost of ,

Daycare is riot available or affordable for
“Wages fall. further and”

feeding a child goes up each week: “Sur-

. viving becomes increasingly difficult, both —

emotionally and financially. Facéd with,

these hardships, many women feel they | -

cannot have children, For them, abortion
is the only way to survive.” -

Pro-life advocates disagreed that they 4

are not concerned with social service and.

, Welfare cutbacks which threaten every:
aspect of human life.” Abortions do: not :

solve the basic problem of poverty and are,

~ @ negative solution to jt, they say. |.

’ though?” McGuire asked. “It's-become so.

. movement,

Many rejected: the CCCA position
because it perpeturates myths and distorts
facts about -life and- the right to life-
CCCA, for example, called |
Birthright - - which is an alternative service

to abortion - part of the. pro-life movement.
‘and condemned it’ for not. offering. birth

control counselling, Birthright is a highly
specialized service for women who don’t

“want an abortion dnd it does not make any:

moral value judgment da those who use

. the service, To offer birth: control coun-

. selling would, in Birthright’s view, be
placing a moral judgment on n any woman
who uses ithe gervice. re s -

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| ~ Vigils held

Mother's Day weekend meant’ more. than.
cards and presents this year as ‘people’.
across Canada protested for pedce, for and’ :
against abortion, and: tied-up telephone:
circuits as they tried to reach “out and:
touch some mom. . “

About 250 people in front of Toronto city:
hall were told by Jeanne McGuire,:
secretary of the Congress of Canadian’
Women, Saturday the desire for peace was |.
what started Mother's Day observances.
deaia. Ward: Howe organized Niitier's”

"Peace Day on ‘June, 2, 1872, to com-

memiorate the’ wounded she had‘ tended -
’ during the U.S. Civil War.
- “How many: people remember - that

commercial. ” . fr
". About 60 demonstrators held a . silent i
vigil for peace at. Winnipeg ' ‘8 War cenotaph

Saturday to protest the development of

_ nuclear weapons.
Organizer Sharon Killray said the: group,
The Voice’ of Women, wanted to bring

public attention to the proposed testing of

~- the cruise missile in Alberta. The: group

.

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It can also lead to wide © -
- spread euthanasia, say some pro-life .

-algo- collected. signatures for a worldwide...

* “petition: ‘for péace to be presented to the
- United Nations at its special session ‘on-
riuclear disarmament" inJune. ro

Women in Halifax ‘also canvassed for.

os signatures for the’ petition. Organizers .

hope to get between: 50,000 and 75,000.
Canadian: women to sign’ before the
petition ds presented, .

: In ‘Vancouver, about #00 people; some
carrying crosses and ‘signs proclaiming
_, Jesus Was A "Fetus, marked the day witha.”
“march against- abortion...

. The rhembers. of Christians For ‘Life, a

‘group .of .Protestant ‘churches, heard ‘
hes at city hall and then paraded to -
_ Vander :General, Hospital where the -

said, 400 abortions a. month, are...

_.About, 100 :-people marched ° ‘through
- downtown - Victoria. streets ° Saturday to.

protest difficulties ini tbtaining legal

- abort ions. hs . .
Phe’ groiip. Was ‘met. by about: 9 anti- :

. abortionists and for a few ininutes it ap-

‘peared a skirmish might break out.
The anti-abortionists | had been planning
io join the march to express their views,

‘but cily police told them: they would have

to. march on the sidewalks because they ~

‘didn't haVe-a parade/permit. '

In thé end, they rolled up their banners. -
and departed when : the main body of |

. ‘marchers set off...
* Mother’ 3. Day is’ ‘the. busiest day. of: the _

‘Prolife claims it deserves the same 7 year: after” Christmas ‘for. Bell ‘Canada,

which ‘operates ‘telephone syatems in
Ontario. and. Quebec, and. some cireults, :

‘especially in small. towns, were, ‘reported

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“ticular, were especially busy, but callers’. "...’.

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