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Pulp pollution debated
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March 12, 1990
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Vol. 53, No. 9
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_ Budget cuts to provinces
only beginning, warns NAC

TRIBUNE PHOTO — DAN KEETON

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
spoke via satellite television at the Uni-
versity of British Columbia, and other
parts of Canada and the United States
on March 4, in a special address for
international supporters of the Nicara-
guan revolution. The transmission and
program were made possible by the
Nicaraguan Network, a coalition of
300 solidarity groups throughout the
United States, with the B.C. event
sponsored by Oxfam and Tools for
Peace. The following is a slightly edited
version of his speech, translated in the
broadcast.

_ Friends in solidarity with Nicara-
gua and friends in different countries
around the world: I would first like to
tell you the appreciation the Nicara-
guan people and the FSLN (Sandi-
nista National Liberation Front) have
for the solidarity that you have shown
us throughout all these years in the
struggle for justice, freedom and
democracy in Nicaragua.

This decade, the whole 1980s, even
since 1979 has seen the Nicaraguan
people in a confrontation with the
United States through the embargo,
through the contras, through the min-
ing of the ports. It has (claimed) more
than 64,000 victims and over $15 bil-
lion in damages for Nicaragua.
ae =— a So we are starting the 1990s with an

Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (| to r) Penny Kirkpatrick, Reg Heavens and Gail Macklin walk picket line election process that is unprecedented
outside Douglas Park Elementary School in Langley Thursday as two CUPE locals launched strike action to back their demand in the world because of the amount of
for wage parity with school support staff in Surrey. The strike may also be an indication of things to come as the Social Credit observers that it had and because of
government's new referendum policy, coupled with budget cuts to education puts a new squeeze on school board how clean it was.

employees’ wages. Story page 12. see ORTEGA page 8

TRIBUNE PHOTO — SEAN GRIFFIN

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