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Wednesday, May 2, 1984

Newsstand Price 40° Vol. 47, No. 17

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Northland strike:

A legacy of unity
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By DAN. KEETON

Tens of thousands of British
Columbians —numbering possibly up
to 100,000 — made it clear Saturday
that the installation of cruise and
Pershing II missiles in Europe, and
the testing of the cruise in Canada
have not dampened Canadians’
determination to see the world free of
nuclear weapons.

Collectively, they made history for
the third consecutive year as a moving
river of humanity, topped by scores of

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Vancouver’s Burrard Street bridge
and city streets in the third annual
Walk for Peace.

Nature and passers-by were again
on the marchers’ side, as _ the
kilometres-long demonstration moved
through the brilliant spring sunshine
to the cheers and applause of on-
lookers and the sound of car horns
honking in support.

As the peace marchers fanned out
and descended the steep grassy hill
leading down to the expansive natural
amphitheatre in Sunset Beach park,
they provided a living testimony to
the fact that peace is now an issue with
which governments have to reckon.

“Our goal is to make the commit-
ment for peace a commitment for a
walk to the ballot box — to make
peace the top issue in the federal elec-
tion,” Vancouver peace leader Car-
mela Allevato told the cheering

“The same prime minister

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