Friday, March 19, 1982

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40° Vol. 44, No. 12

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Rent demo.

on Mar. 24

Lower Mainland tenants and
mobile homeowners will dem-
onstrate for full rent controls
and reduced property taxes in
Victoria Mar. 24. Buses will
leave the Surrey Drive Inn at
8200 King George Highway,
and the Oakridge shopping cen-
tre at 41st and Cambie in Van-
couver at 7:30a.m. For more in-
formation phone 835-5685, or
298-3768.

Protests rise over missile test plan

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The Vancouver School
\Board received overwhelming
Support for its opposition to the
Provincial government’s
jtestraint program when about
500 parents and teachers repre-
sentatives jammed the board’s
Meeting Mar. 15.

Delegations from 110 of Van-
| Couver’s 115 schools packed the

enry Hudson elementary
School gymnasium and gave
| “unanimous” support to the
VSB’s refusal to redraft Van-
Couver’s 1982 school budget in
line with the Socred’s spending
iCeilings, ~

Peopie ‘‘lined up around the
|8ym a couple of times’’ to ex-
|Press their support or simply
| table ‘167 letters of support’’
i With the board, said VSB in-
formation officer Chuck
{Gosby. Speakers noted the
| Social Credit government’s fa-
|Yoring of mega-projects over
i€ducation spending, with one
iSpeaker commenting, “‘If we
}°an’t spend money improving
}Our schools, perhaps we ‘can
| hold our gym classes in the new }
| 8.C. Place stadium.”

| Trustee Mike O’Neill said the
| board was ‘‘surprised and de-
| ighted’’ that parents and teach-
}€ts gave ‘‘real and moral sup-
| Port’’ to the VSB’s action. Sev-
€ral other school boards in the
Province have also #gnored an
€ducation ministry directive to
Submit revised budgets by Mar.
1, saying the program has no
legality until it becomes legisla-

ition.

| School board chairman Paul-
ine Weinstein was ‘‘overcome

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TRIBUNE PHOTOS — SEAN GRIFFIN

the occasion, more than 1,000 students marched and
hrough downtown Vancouver streets to a boisterous rally in Robson Square
‘ organizations, teachers’ associations and public sector
t cuts in education funding. (Story page 3.)

| 8nd couldn’t respond for several

News that the federal govern-
ment may allow the U.S. military
to test its medium-range Cruise
missile over Cold Lake in northern
Alberta has drawn swift reaction
from various Lower Mainland
groups and federal MPs.

Telegrams and statements de-
manding prime minister Trudeau
stick by his previous words urging
an end to the arms race and par-
ticularly weapons flight testing,
came from local church, labor and
peace groups early this week. And
in Ottawa, labor and NDP sources
have charged that the federal gov-
ernment may have made.a deal to
allow the tests in exchange for a re-
duced price on the controversial
F-18A fighter plane purchase.

External affairs minister Mark
McGuigan admitted Mar. 17 that
the cabinet agreed in principle last
year to allow the tests.

‘We are indignant that the U.S.
proposes to test the Cruise missile
and other nuclear weapons delivery
systems over Canada. We support
your call for suffocation of the
arms race, specifically in this case,
‘a ban on flight testing of all new
strategic delivery vehicles,’ .’ reads
a telegram to Trudeau from the
End the Arms Race steering com-
mittee currently planning this
year’s April 24 anti-nuclear dem-
onstration.

Noting that their organization
represents ‘‘tens of thousands of
organized workers, church groups,
students and professionals,’’ the
committee also condemned the
contract for production of guid-
ance systems for the missile given to
the Toronto firm, Litton Systems.

“Canadian defence depends on
prevention of nuclear war. Reply
requested,’’ stated the message,
signed by committee chairman and
Vancouver and District Labor
Council president Frank Kennedy.

A statement to Trudeau from
the B.C. Peace Council said gov-
ernment permission of the testing
would threaten the success of the
upcoming UNSSOD II talks, to
which Canada will send a delega-
tion. Last week’s Coalition for
World Disarmament conference

See MISSILE page 8

Minutes” after the board receiv-

€d a “standing ovation” from

the delegations, said Gosby.

€ trustees later unanimously

Voted to continue their action, a

Teversal of position for some
d members.

Nurses target of Lougheed’s law

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