Friday, Sept. 4, 1981

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TRIBUNE PHOTO— SEAN GRIFFIN

Commissioners Borden Spears (r), Tom Kent, Lauren Picard.

CBRT-OPEIU dispute
dramatizes issue of
unions-within-unions

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Angry residents thunder
ge: Stop B.C. Place

Vancouver city council opened
its doors Tuesday to a frustrated
public and for the first time provid-
ed an opportunity to register
opinions on the Socred govern-
ment’s massive B.C. Place devel-
opment.

The message that thundered
back was clear and blunt as a broad
citizens’ movement appeared to de-
mand that the B.C. Place develop-
ment be stopped in its tracks until
the city is satisfied that the project
will not destroy the living environ-
ment of surrounding working class
communities without meeting any
of the city’s pressing social needs.

Over 350 people jammed into a
rented hall in the Plaza 500 hotel
where the hearing was held, and
there wasn’t any doubt that almost
all of them wanted the plans for
B.C. Place put in check. Among
them were 83 delegations wanting
to speak, the most since the huge ci-
ty hearings on the third crossing
during the freeway debates of the
early seventies. Only 23 were able
to be heard Tuesday, however, the
balance deferred to another hear-
ing Sept. 8 at 7 p.m., also at the
Plaza 500 hotel.

Even before the delegations were
heard the pressure was evident as
B.C. Place officials Paul Manning
and David Podmore requested
council to delay voting on the im-

the city’s public hearing, B.C.
Place’s request to have its road sys-
tem linking the project with the rest
of the city approved. A letter from
B.C. Place president Gilbert Hard-
man asked the city not to vote until
B.C. Place could ‘“‘discuss’”’ the
concerns raised by the delegations.

The road system, vigorously de-
fended by city engineer Bill Curtis,
came under strong attack for its
emphasis on increased automobile

TRIBUNE PHOTO—FRED WILSON

JEAN SWANSON ... one of 23 delegations Tuesday to address city council on B.C. Place. She surrounding communities, Curtis
drew cheers from cfowd when she challenged B.C. Place officials, “Why don’t you work as dili- described the road system as a “‘by-
gently on transit as on that stadium.” Fifty more delegations remain to be heard next week. See B.C. page 2

mediate issue which had sparked ©

traffic in the downtown core and |

Vancouver protests neutron bomb

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PUGWASH

CALGARY — Leading
figures from the U.S., Sweden
and the Soviet Union each
issued a common appeal here
Sunday, urging renewed
negotiations for world disarma-
ment and calling on the U.S. to
get back to the SALT
negotiating table.

The occasion was the first-
ever Pugwsh public forum and
more than 1,000 turned out to
hear four international affairs
experts: Paul Warnke, former
U.S. negotiator for Strategic
Arms Limitations Talks
(SALT); Olaf Palme, leader of
the Social Democratic Party of
Sweden and a former prime
minister; Georgi Arbatov, a
member of the central commit-
tee of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union; and Charles
Percy, chairman of the U.S.
Senate foreign relations com-
mittee.

The public forum was held in
conjunction with the week-long
Pugwash Conference on
Science and World Affairs in
Banff, Alberta, where more
than 200 representatives from
50 countries were called to-
gether to discuss issues of dis-
armament.

Pugwash takes its name from
the birthplace in Nova Scotia of
Canadian industrialist Cyrus
Eaton who hosted the first con-
ference there in 1957 on the urg-
ing of Albert Einstein and Ber-
trand Russell who, two years
earlier, had issued a manifesto
calling on scientists to work
towards halting production of
weapons of mass destruction.

Some 30 conferences have
been held since although this
year’s meeting, one of the
largest ever, marked the first
time it has returned to Canada.

The public forum was also
the first ever public meeting held
by the Pugwash organizers, a
measure of the urgency they |
have given to disarmament

‘issues.

See US page 7