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Friday, December 3, 1982

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Vol. 44, No. 47

Reagan's MX missile a first

-Strike weapon

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Unemployed protest in Port Alberni.

Unemployed
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to extend Ul

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TRIBUNE PHOTO — SEAN GRIFFIN

There will no Tribune published next Friday, since the staff will
Vé be busy preparing the special holiday season issue. It will be mailed
out Dec. 16, to give adequate time — we trust — for readers to
receive the paper before Christmas. As usual, the year-end issue will
be enlarged, with several features and holiday greetings from
readers and organizations. The deadline for display advertising and
classifieds is Monday, Dec. 13. And a final reminder: the subscrip-
tion drive is still far from fulfilled — and it ends with the Dec. 16

issue. Check page 11 for details.

By DAN KEETON

British Columbia’s New
Democrats emerged from their
annual convention in Van-

_ couver last weekend with a pro-

gram of mild reform that party
leaders hope will appeal to the
public in an election that is cer-

Delegates to last weekend's NDP convention.

Be

tion and a host of other topics,
had been screened by panels and
committees from the hundreds
contained in the 48-page resolu-
tions book.

Those resolutions deemed
too militant for party can-
didates to take to the polls were

Austrian : ‘model’, page 3

tain to happen sometime before
the next convention.

The approximately 600
delegates from around the pro-
vince passed resolutions that
provoked little contention
despite the widely differing
views of members.

The resolutions that made it
to the floor of the two-and-a-
half-day convention at the
Hotel Vancouver, dealing with
labor, forestry, fishing, educa-

buried far enough down the list
to ensure that with the time
limits on debate, they would
never reach the discussion stage.
Instead of striking a program
that would target wage controls
or concessions, Socred mega-
projects and the multinational
corporate grip on B.C.’s
economy as candidates for the
scrap heap of history, the con-
vention concentrated on the un-
See DELEGATES page 3