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With this year-end issue, the
Tribune extends holiday
greetings and best wishes to all
our readers and supporters. We'll
be back with the first issue of the
New Year Jan. 14.

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‘No’ to Mexico
trade deal —
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Reviews: music, .
movies, books —
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December 17, 1990
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Volume 53, No. 43

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$20M needed to avert
hospital crisis: HEU

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ontreal women

¢ No French here: French-lan-
guage services outside Quebec seem
to be a special target in the latest round

of devastating cuts to the CBC; that’s
odd for a government that pays lip-
service to federalism.

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¢ Central America’strade
UNIONS: In El Salvador, the assas-
sination of labour leaders. continues.
It’s much the same in neighbouring
Guatemala; with the added presence
of the phoney “Solidarismo” com-
pany-union scheme.

Pages 20-21

¢ The big split. Communists
made a serious error in deciding to
support a secession from the Interna-
tional Workers back in 1948, former
CP provincial leader Maurice Rush
acknowledges. But the severe anti-
communism of the post-war period
shares the blame.

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¢ The Vancouver election:
Shifting demographics, the “ethnic”
vote and the sometimes-shaky al-
liance between the Committee of
Progressive Electors and the Civic
NDP were all factions in the Nov. 17
civic race, Fred Wilson writes.

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PHOTO — KINESIS

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Woman with her children reflects on the violence underlying sexism at memorial marking the first anniversary of the death
of 14 women students in Montreal at the hands of gunman Marc Lepine. Vigil in downtown Vancouver was complemented
by others at Simon Fraser University and the University of B.C., and around the country on Dec. 6. On page 10, columnist
John MacLennan urges men to speak out against violence against women.

¢ En-Gulfed in war: New
thinking steered off-course in the Per-
sian Gulf, with the Soviet Union’s
uninspired support for UN Security
Council resolution 678, says Moscow
correspondent Fred Weir. But the
flames of war may never ignite, if the
world’s people have their say.

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