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_ VANCOUVER (UPC)-A
‘group of Vancouver
residents is gathering sig-
natures for a petition
asking Premier Bill
Bennett's Social Credit
government to dissolve
the legislature and call a
provincial election.

Bruce Eriksen,
president of the
Downtown Eastside
Residents’ Association,
said Monday he thinks

there are a lot of British
Columbians who have
“lost all confidence in
their (the ' government's)
ability to govern this
province.”

‘xadioed. a signal to fire a

rocket -motor ‘on, ‘board .
- the satellite: to guide it
“into . its’) permanent, |
Stationary . orbit 22,300.
miles above the Pacific.”
“Ocean at the Equator.

cellent”

succeeding - ‘Pierre
Trudeau. . Bee
Clearly | emotionally

. Moved, a tired-looking

Turner told a - news

-conference Monday that
a his decision
. public life in 1975 was
», iepevocable and he would
~, notreturn despite the fact
“J -was told I have an
~ excellent

to leave

chance of
winning.”

Petition demands
provincial election

The group's petition
will be sent to political
parties, municipalities,
onions and community
organizations throughout
the province in the next
few months, Eriksen said.
The group hopes to get at
least 400,000 signatures
on the petition before the
legislature sits in the
spring.

Eriksen cited several
reasons why Bennett's
government should give
British Columbians “a
chance to tell them

‘whether they feel the
government is doing its —

job or not.”

Gov't moves to end

grain bottleneck

WINNIPEG (UPC) -
Transport Minister Don
Mazankowski gives the
grain handli industry
high marks. for voluntary
co-operation as it moves
toward a solution of the
capacity bottleneck = it
hopes to solve by 1985.

“We've come a long
way in six months,” the

minister told reporters
Monday following a one-
day mecting ith
provincial ministers to
discuss the problem.

The fast such mecting
took place in July. when
the hopper car shoctage
was paramount in the
minds of those present.

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»

TORONTO (UPC) - John
. Turner ended four years |}
“of speculation with the
5 ammouncement he would
-. not seek the Liberal‘Party -
leadership, although he ~~
“knew he had an “ex-
chance of .

ft. designed. ‘to “operate | at.
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metres. The. two earlier sub-

-mersibles bought by. Russia
: ca nly 8° down to : 2,700

metres.
The U.S. instrumentation
technology making depths. to

- 6,000 metres possible is said

tobe on -the Pentagon's
“strategic exports”. list —
meaning that its sale to, the
Soviet Union is a no-no as
far as the U.S. is concerned,

despite the fact that the |

same technology is repor-
tedly now: available from at

. least one other country.

In Canada, the Depart:

ment of National Defence
..and External Affairs are, to

date, apparently going along
with the U.S. by vetoing
Thomson's export permit. In
normal. circumstances “the
responsibility for issuing
such permits rests with the
Department of Industry.

. Trade and Commerce.

‘Over the past seven
months Thomson has sent
scores of letters and telexes
on the-apphcation to federal
officials, and has paid
numerous visits to Ottawa.
These have included a pres-

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- said, fies with the U.S., the.
- Department. ‘of “National . |

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