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People’ living near the
damaged nuclear reactor at
Three Mile Island in Penn-.

sylvania received nearly
twice the amount of
radiation than was first
-. suspected, according — to
Jos¢ph Califano, the
American secretary of

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health.

' CRITIC orders —
» The -'Canadian Broad-
casting -Corporation has
been ordered to drop all
American prime time shows’

from its television program
schedule. .

The CRTC has said un-
precedented action is
necessary to make the CBC
predominately Canadian in
content. 7 .

The announcement was
made as the CRTC renewed
, - CBC's radio and television

licenses. .

“the world outside

BC must become |
anadian

until September 10,
instead of for the, usual five

Harrisburg leak deadlier
Fi an was fir st thought - ;

And as a yesult, Califano
says there will be at least one |

‘additional death from cancer
‘because of

re the radiation
leak. 7 ;

-Califano told a Senate sub-
committee in Washington,

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Both the English and’
French networks of CBC
radio. had their. licenses
renewed until March 31,
1984.

| But CBC’s television
license was only renewed
1982

years. j

The CRTC said that at that’
time the public and the
broadcasting industry will
have an opportunity to view
the company’s progress
towards the objectives of the
Broadcasting Act.:

"Cover up’

°

that some scientists think the °
number of additional deaths — .

may be as high as ten.

“Also. he’ said. a ‘similar -

number of non-fatal cancer
-cases’-may be expect

“among the «two million.
people living: ‘within 80 ©
. kilometres of the plant.

aod

charged

French officials have been’
accused of playing down the .
pollution threat; of an oil
tanker which sdnk on the
Brittany coast on the
weekend. -

The tanker, ‘Geno’, which
was carrying 12. million |
galions of oil collided with
another vessel and sank, .
about 80 kilometres off .
shore.

After surveying the area,
Monday, French maritime
police said no trace of
pollution could be detected.

Angry residents of the
Brittany coast have accused
authorities ofa cover up. _

row brewing

B.C. doctors.

A possible confrontation
is brewing between the
provincial governmnent and
doctors according to the
president elect of the; B.C.
Medical Association. ~!

Dr Walter Mandiville
warns if Social Credit is
reelected and continues the
approach it has taken with
doctors and hospitals in the
province there wili be a
confrontation. == -

te May
~ *

Between Wednesday night
and Friday midday every one
of -Capilano Conservative

candidate Ron Huntington's |

big four-by-eight foot
‘wooden signs in North
Vancouver and = three-

quarters of those in West
Vancouver were torn down -
- but here's the mystery.

‘The . signs were. ‘not
damaged or defaced. Instead

RIMINAL OFFENCE ~

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they were merely laid face

--downward at the site -- in
almost all cases a private
lawn. And as fast as the signs
are re-erected, down they
come again.

Gwen Skakum, Hun-
tington's , riding secretary,
says it's “obviously a highly
organized” exercise, in-
volving at least two people
travelling swiftly from point

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‘signs torn down -
ftundamaged =—s—iw®

to point by car, It takes three
people about an hour to
erect the big signs. .

Police have been alerted
and .are keeping a special
lookout for the. “ghost
squad”. It. is a criminal
offence under the Canada
Election Act to remove a
candidate's sign -- even if it is
not damaged or defaced -- .
and any culprits caught face
immediate prosecution.