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By UNITED PRESS CANADA

WINNIPEG -— Premier
Howard ‘Pawley wants a
national declaration of
war against unem-
ployment, even if the
federal government has
to act alone.

“If war was declared
tomorrow, there would
be no unemployment the
week after,” he said.
“There is no reason the
resources of the country
can’t be mobilized in an

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ployment.”
Pawley told a news
conference Thursday that

his proposal for national
economic trecovery
required agreement by

OTTAWA — The
number of jobs in the
commercial sector fell by
360,000 in the past year,
and average weekly
earnings increased 7.5
per cent, Statistics
Canada reported
Thursday.

from the ntonthly survey
of employment, payrolls
and hours between
September 1981 and
September 1982, show
commercial jobs dropped
7.5 per cent or 360,000.

' Employment declined
in the commercial sectors
of all provinces, the

GDANSK, Poland —
Solidarity Leader Lech
Walesa Friday claimed
his seven-hour car ride
with riot police a “kid-

napping” to prevent him
from speaking to sup
porters.

Walesa said riot police
with nightsticks and
shields forced their way
into his apartment
Thursday morning, then
took him away in the
back seat of a black
Mercedes limousine.

President Reagan said
“the time has comec™
withdrawal oof — forcagn
armies from Lebanon.
where six soldiers were
killed in an aftack on a
Syrian jeep. sparking a
machine-gun and mortar
battle that left two other
people dead

for

Pawley wants
to declare war

increase

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federal and provincial
governments.

“If we were reaching a
point where the majority
of provinces were not
interested in co-
operation, then I for one
would not quarrel with
the federal government
using its central power to
ensure greater coor-
dination,” he said.

Pawley said he felt
most Provinces would co-
“operate to provide jobs, ~
in cases where poorer
provinces were unable to
increase spending, the
federal government could
increase its spending in
that area.

survey revealed.

British Columbia was
the hardest hit with a
decline of 11.1 per cent
while Ontario fared the
best with a 5.9 per cent
reduction.

Production industries
suffered the most during
the past year with 10 per
cent fewer jobs in
manufacturing and 18 per
cent fewer construction
jobs.

However, those with
commercial jobs earned
an average of $393 per
week, an increase of 7.5
per cent over the one-
year period.

Walesa claims
he was kidnapped

“I have respect for the
uniform and went with
them,” Walesa told
reporters at a press
conference at his high-
rise suburban apartment.

“I was kidnapped,” he
said. “] was taken against
my will.”

He was first taken to
the provincial finance
office where he spent half
an hour talking with
Officials. Tt was sull not
clear what the summons
was about, he said.

‘Time has come’
says Reagan

Isreal Defense
Minister Amel Sharon
said) in an interview

published today that he
has been holding his own
talks with Lebanese
leaders. which he said
will lead to an agreement
on normalized relathons
and #8 non aggression
pact

DRUGS are suspected

‘as being the motive in

the murder of a man
whose remains were
found in the back of a

‘car blazing in Little

Cates Park early
Sunday morning.
The body has been

identified through dental
records as that of a Surrey
man and the cause of his
death has been determined
as being gunshot wounds.
RCMP refuse to say how
many times the man had
been shot or in what area of

Restaurant booze

Car-burn body identified

the body.

But a detective spokesman .
told the News. “There is the ©
distinct possibility ‘the
homicide is drug related.” ~

The victim has been.
identified as John Wayne

Prices

Pettipiece, aged 37, of
10629-128B.. Street, in on the
Surrey.

Tt ~ body was found in. the
back of a car which was:
burning in Little Cates Park
after the fire had been —
spotted by National Harbors
Board Police.

The car was burning
heavily, both inside and out,
when North Van District
firefighters arrived.

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THIEVES got stocked up
with their Christmas liquor
supply in. plenty of time
when they hit the Golden
Phoenix Restaurant in North
Vancouver early last Sunday
morning.

It was the second time in a
matter of months that the
restaurant had been burgled
by liquor thieves.

The previous time was
during the last labor dispute
which closed -down liquor
stores, when the restaurant
at 1933 Lonsdale Avenue
was broken into and liquor
and other property stolen
totalled about $3,000 in
value.

Owner and manager of the

restaurant Frankie Ching cut.

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PRANKSTERS who set off

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Hillside School Friday were
responsible for West
Vancouver police receiving
-some.200 calls at around 4

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‘hour.

down his liquor’ stock
considerably after that
break-in but it didn’t help
him too much when the
restaurant was hit again
Sunday in the early hours of
the morning.

Although the thieves only
got about $500 worth of
liquor, because that was all
he had in stock, much of his
stored meat was rendered
useless when they took it out
of the freezer and left it on
the floor.

Ching wonders just what
kind of thieves they were as
he found traces that they had
eaten carrots and other
vegetables and drunk pop
while they were there.

Total loss in the break-in “
was about $1,500.

a.m. from irate residents.

‘ The siren is part of the
national survival attack
system and police found that
whoever had set it off had
connected heavy guage
fishing line to it, unwound
the line and then tugged on it

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the alarm and they were tied
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