The Northwest Singers have been entering
the Pacific Northwest Music Festival for
the past two years, and'will be representing
the festival in the cholr class at the B.C.

Festival of the Arts. They will not be going

The Pacific Northwest Music Festivals representative for In: .

down personally, but will be sending a tape

recording of their performance instead.
They gave a special performance at th
REM Lee Theatre on Sunday. a

termediate Plano Is Audrey Faber of Terrace, Audrey. has, been

participating in the festival for 10 years and has-been playing the
plano since she was five years old. She, as well as four other. per. -
formers and one cholr gave a special presentation at the REM Lee.

Theatre on Sunday, April & They will all be
Festival of the Arts In Penticton. ,

going down to the Bc.

City buses stopped —

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Bus riders shivered in
cold rain for half an hour
Monday in Greater
Vancouver and Victoria
as transit drivers staged
a rush-hour work stop-
page. iss

Drivers pulled to the.
side of the road at 4:30
p.m. — and because
Vancouver’s two daily |
newspapers are closed by
astrike many riders were
caught unawares.

The effects were less
severe In Victoria, where
the newspaper’ is
operating and the rain
was light, although winds
were strong enough::to
bring down a number of
-utility lines. - 7
' “It's really in-
convenient," said Helen
Ullrich after waiting. 30
minutes at Broadway and
Granville in Vancouver.

“Unfortunately, I didn't
listen to the news. - It's
entirely unexpected and
very inconvenient.”

“Thate it,” added Mary
Allan of Vancouver. “Tt
just hate standing here in °
the cold.” .

City . and  syburban
police reported * no
significant increase in:
traffic tie-ups, but their
switchboards. received
many calls from people
wondering what was
wrong with the buses.

The .. Independent
Canadlati Transit Union,
representing 2,300 bus
drivers’ and 470 main-
tenance. and Seabus
workers, has. been

without a contract since
’ March 1983. There have

_Jast | week —
‘allowing passengers to
_ Fide for only 25 cents and

been no negotiations since .

last month.

’ The union, negotiating
its first contract since
replacing - the.
Amalgamated |. Transit

Union as bargaining unit:

in January 1992, has been
conducting what it call
an “unstrike.”.

_NO UNIFORMS |

' Drivers,. who earn
$14.47 an hour, have been
wearing street clothes or
costumes instead of
wiforms and — until
stopped by court order
were

a promise to pay the rest

of their 75-cent fare when |
_ the union accepts a

contract.’

"There was one previous | fi
half-hour stoppage, but it

was not.in‘rush hour,

The unfon has proposed .
a .threayear contract -
with annual wage In-.

creases of two, three and
four per cant.
The Metro: Transit

the —_restraint-thinded
provincial government,
says it has.no budget for
higher wages..and any
raise must conie from

improved . productivity.

The ©company has
proposed a: package of
elght proposals, which it
says the unign refuses
even to discuss.

Union president Colin

Kelly said Monday that

management is “not after

a collective ‘agreement
that both sides can live
with, they’re after un-
feltered . management
rights."

Operating Ca, 2 prealed by

“Metro ‘Transit has

proposed looser work-—

scheduling contract

provisions to cover rush- °
hour' work loads.-It wants -
.to hire part-time drivers,

and hopes to reduce the
number of drivers —.
currently 12. per cent. of
the work force — set aside
on the “spare board” to
cover illnesses and other
problems among
scheduled drivers.

7 ‘Tival ”. Christian.
«Moslem groups, and, the

“Buffer force

—in Lebanon

BEIRUT (Reuter). —
Lebanon's warring

Christian and Moslem.
factions have given final

approval to a plan to
separate their forces
along the Beirut front
lines and place a buffer
force of police
military observers bet:
ween them. oo
The disengagement
plan was — endorsed
Monday by a “higher
security committee”
which met in the
presidential palace as
clashes along the . con-
frontation lines continued
‘intermittently into the
night. :

~The committee, set up

at last month's national
ré€Eonciliatlon conference
in Switzerland and
chaired by President
Amin Gemayel, includes
representatives of the
and

Lebanese army.
:Committee spokesman

and:

Munif Oweidat gave no
details of the plan or when
it would be put into effect.
He said it is only "a first
step on the road to ending
‘the fighting.” 5

“Reports -say 2,000 to
3,000 police will take up
positions: between the

rival. foreea' along the |

front and combatants will

pull back to lines just out.

of sight of each other.

. The front stretches 14 ,

kilometres from Beirut's

port in the north to. the .

army-held mountain town
of. Souq -al-Gharb in the
southeast. The pullbacks
will vary from 640 metres
by each side’ in some
places to only nine or 13
metres in others.
Oweidat said a military
subcommittee of
representatives from the

rival groups is trying to.

implement the plan and
session)

The ,
followed days of fighting,

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