Friday, Sept. 4, 1981

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TRIBUNE PHOTO— SEAN GRIFFIN

Commissioners Borden Spears (r), Tom Kent, Lauren Picard.

CBRT-OPEIU dispute dramatizes issue of unions-within-unions

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Angry residents thunder ge: Stop B.C. Place

Vancouver city council opened its doors Tuesday to a frustrated public and for the first time provid- ed an opportunity to register opinions on the Socred govern- ment’s massive B.C. Place devel- opment.

The message that thundered back was clear and blunt as a broad citizens’ movement appeared to de- mand that the B.C. Place develop- ment be stopped in its tracks until the city is satisfied that the project will not destroy the living environ- ment of surrounding working class communities without meeting any of the city’s pressing social needs.

Over 350 people jammed into a rented hall in the Plaza 500 hotel where the hearing was held, and there wasn’t any doubt that almost all of them wanted the plans for B.C. Place put in check. Among them were 83 delegations wanting to speak, the most since the huge ci- ty hearings on the third crossing during the freeway debates of the early seventies. Only 23 were able to be heard Tuesday, however, the balance deferred to another hear- ing Sept. 8 at 7 p.m., also at the Plaza 500 hotel.

Even before the delegations were heard the pressure was evident as B.C. Place officials Paul Manning and David Podmore requested council to delay voting on the im-

the city’s public hearing, B.C. Place’s request to have its road sys- tem linking the project with the rest of the city approved. A letter from B.C. Place president Gilbert Hard- man asked the city not to vote until B.C. Place could ‘“‘discuss’”’ the concerns raised by the delegations.

The road system, vigorously de- fended by city engineer Bill Curtis, came under strong attack for its emphasis on increased automobile

TRIBUNE PHOTO—FRED WILSON

JEAN SWANSON ... one of 23 delegations Tuesday to address city council on B.C. Place. She surrounding communities, Curtis drew cheers from cfowd when she challenged B.C. Place officials, “Why don’t you work as dili- described the road system as a “‘by- gently on transit as on that stadium.” Fifty more delegations remain to be heard next week. See B.C. page 2

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Vancouver protests neutron bomb

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PUGWASH

CALGARY — Leading figures from the U.S., Sweden and the Soviet Union each issued a common appeal here Sunday, urging renewed negotiations for world disarma- ment and calling on the U.S. to get back to the SALT negotiating table.

The occasion was the first- ever Pugwsh public forum and more than 1,000 turned out to hear four international affairs experts: Paul Warnke, former U.S. negotiator for Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT); Olaf Palme, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Sweden and a former prime minister; Georgi Arbatov, a member of the central commit- tee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; and Charles Percy, chairman of the U.S. Senate foreign relations com- mittee.

The public forum was held in conjunction with the week-long Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Banff, Alberta, where more than 200 representatives from 50 countries were called to- gether to discuss issues of dis- armament.

Pugwash takes its name from the birthplace in Nova Scotia of Canadian industrialist Cyrus Eaton who hosted the first con- ference there in 1957 on the urg- ing of Albert Einstein and Ber- trand Russell who, two years earlier, had issued a manifesto calling on scientists to work towards halting production of weapons of mass destruction.

Some 30 conferences have been held since although this year’s meeting, one of the largest ever, marked the first time it has returned to Canada.

The public forum was also the first ever public meeting held by the Pugwash organizers, a measure of the urgency they | have given to disarmament

‘issues.

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