Wednesday, March 13, 1985

Newsstand Price 40° Vol. 48, No. 10

Nicaragua fights the ‘Uncle Doctrine’

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List of boards
| defying govt
budget grows

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| THE ZUNDEL TRIAL:
| Compelling the law
| to confront racism
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Throne speech signals

Phase Il of restraint
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Soviet leader passes

As the Tribune went to press, the Soviet news
agency TASS reported that an extraordinary meet- -
. 'Ng of the central committee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union had named Mikhail Gor-
bachev as general secretary of the Communist
Party to replace Konstantin Chernenko who died
| Sunday evening.

/ The TASS report stated that Chernenko, who
| Was 73, had died from complications of the emphy-
Sema that had afflicted him during his later years.
Wednesday has been set as the day for a state
funeral which Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will
attend as Canada’s representative. U.S. President KONSTANTIN
Onald Reagan was quick in stating, as he had done CHERNENKO
following Yuri Andropov’s death 13 months ago,
that he would not attend, and would send vice-president Geroge Bush instead.
Although he was leader for only a brief 13 months, Chernenko had had
Considerable impact in developing Soviet economic management policy oy
ad written extensively on it ina major article in Kommunist shortly before is
death. He had also given particular emphasis to the peace issue, urging particu-
larly that all steps be taken to avert an escalation of the arms race into space.
That emphasis will undoubtedly remain in the central committee of the
CPSU which Gorbachev will now lead as general secretary. aes
Gorbachev visited this country as part of an agricultural delegation in 1 983.
. He also led a top level Soviet delegation to Britain last year where he addressed
Parliament, urging coexistence between the two systems and a fostering of
Common interests, “the primary one being peace.

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Some 1,000 marchers from a variety of women’s organizations, peace
groups and trade unions marched in Vancouver Saturday in one of the
broadest demonstrations of support for International Women’s Day. This
year’s march gave special attention to the struggles of equal pay for equal
work with a brief rally in front of the Eaton’s store downtown. B.C. Federa-
tion of Labor vice-president Anne Harvey said the issue, whereby Ontario
employees are striking for a first contract “‘takes me back to dark ages — we
thought this fight was over 15 years ago.’’ Marchers handed in Eaton’s
charge cards to Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union representa-
tive Linda McFawn, before proceeding to rally point at the Vancouver Art
Gallery. The Congress of Canadian Women saw a sellout crowd at their
annual IWD dinner Sunday, and rallies took place for the first time in other
provincial centres. Story page 11.

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