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Eleven vehicies damaged in
. Van high- speed car chase

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He’ escaped from the south wing °

of Oakalla along with Kingswell —
who was recaptured fast month
and is awaiting trial on a first-
degree murder charge — while the
two were part of a work crew. The
two scrambled: over a barbed wire
fence after overpowering a guard
at knifepoint and climbing through
a fire escape window.

Vancouver Police charged
Bowers with’ one count of armed
robbery Thursday after
identified as the suspect involved
in an April 4 armed robbery of a
Vancouver Toronto Dominion
bank.

: Possible West Vancouver Police
charges are pending against
Bowers for dangerous driving or

- criminal negligence. Bowers also
faces ‘further charges by Burnaby
‘RCMP in connection with the
prison escape. ‘,

he was |

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WEST VANCOUVER Police.
~ Survey the twisted wreckage at
13th Street and Marine Drive in

the aftermath

of Tuesday’s

high-speed chase by West Van-

couver Police

of Oakalla

escapee John Roy Bowers. An
elderly couple in the VW Jetta
suffered neck injuries and facial
lacerations after their car. was -
struck by Bowers in his bid to

escape police capture.

a THE B. C. Federation. of Labor (BCFL). has: lifted its:
boycott of Capilano College’ s labor:studies program.

Federation
Fawkes said the issue was resolved
“in--a’ recent’ meeting between the
college and the federation.

- “We reached an’.understanding °
. , of what would be of: fered and what.’

would not be offered,)’ he said.
‘It was settled amicably.” :

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By. TIMOTHY RE
Reporter

The boycott was instituted after
BCFL officials said the college had
expanded (its program -to
Nanaimo's Malaspina College
without consulting the federation,

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and had refused to i along with
federation and . Canadian. Labor
Congress guidelines regarding
“tools courses’’, which deal with

such things as labor: grievance pro- ©

cessing and ‘provide training for
shop stewards and ‘other union
leadership positions.

Ed Lavalle, administrative
coordinator for the| callege’ S pro-
gram, said Tuesday the, tools
courses sponsored by unions would

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now be advertised in ‘brochures.
separate from those used to adver-
tise general registration, and tools
courses registration would: ii £0,
through unions.

‘We're very pleased the poycott |
has been © lifted,"’ Lavalle «said.
“And we think everybody can
have a better working relationship
because of this." +

College president Dr. Doug Jar-
dine said in a previous News story

North Van declared. nuclear free

: THE NORTH sHrone is now officially a nuclear weapons
free’ zone all the way from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove.

North’ Vancouver City Council
made the zone complete Monday
‘when ‘they declared their city nu-
‘clear ' weapons free, joining the
; districts of West Vancouver and
_ North ‘Vancouver ’ ‘and 52 ‘other:
.. towns’ and districts. which had
_already done so.

“Declaring North Vancouver é

‘City a nuclear. | weapons free zone
will not make us immune from the
effects of war but it will influence
both national” and international
.behavior® before. war breaks out,
-thus helping reduce the likelihood
of war,”’ said Ald. Barbara Sharp,
: ‘who introduced the motion. :

"means

By STEPHEN WISENTHAL |
,, Contributing Writer

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Council also decided to set up a”
committee ;with West Vancouver
and : the district to “determine
of
awareness’’ of the nuclear threat.

Ald. Bill Bell asked why a simi-
lar motion hadn’t been passed be-
fore. 4 i

“AS the North Shore News said
{in an’ editorial) on the weekend,
we need to educate people,’ about
the danger of nuclear weapons,’
he said. i

increasing . public. ostorage,

The move coincided with a letter

from the district of Squamish ; in-,

viting the city to support a similar
motion by the Union, of. B.C.

; Municipalities.

~The. UBCM. resolution, which

‘the city voted to support, petitions’
“the. provincial
‘declare: the : Province of British
Columbia ‘a; nuclear weapons-free :

government to

zone in, which the’ manufacture,
‘distribution, testing,
and/or storage of nuclear weapons '
‘ot. their components vis
hibited:”” aw

The material accompanying the
resolution shows that™ towns and
districts declaring themselves nu--

» clear weapons free represent over

60 percent of B.C.’s population.
The. North Vancouver City mo-

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pro-: |

tion ~ asks the "provincial L
ernment to ask the federal BgY-.
ernment to ban nuclear weapons
from Canadian ports. It also asks,
B.C. to encourage Ottawa to push™
the Soviets and Americans “in/ the}
name of all humanity, to intensify °
their efforts to achieve’ mutual/and
verifiable arms reductions."*

/ The ports are, singled} out

because they are separately] con- :

‘trolled by the federal government,
“ said Sharp. : /
Ald.\Rod Clark v was the sole Op-
ponent of the: nuclear weapons
zone motion. : i
“T think it’s fluff, ” he said, ad-
‘ding, “1 do not, support an

unabashed peace movement when f
it's not being responded te by the;

other side."”

that he failed to see the’ reasons
behind the boycott.

‘Capilano College, he said, “was:
just trying to fulfil its mandate off
servicing the community’s educa‘
_ tional needs.

gram began in 1975 and was
previously boycotted by the feder-

‘ation in 1979. That boycott had
never been officially revoked or’;
resolved. i

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periods. Chance of showers.
‘High near 14°C. ‘Saturday, . .
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