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_OTTAWA (UPC) - “Energy |
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Quebec Liquor Board
employees, Bell Canada
technicians, Quebec City

‘bus drivers, Alcan workers
in the Saguenay and civil
servants in the public and
para-public sectors are
pressuring their employers
for new contracts.

More than 20,000

customers in the province
_ and Ontario have to wait up
to a month without
telephone service as rotating
strikes by- technicians swell
the backlog of orders.

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NEW DELHI, India (UPI)
_- Charan Singh, a farmer's
son and former in-
dependence fighter jailed by
the British, emerged Friday
as India’s next prime
minister, ending 10 days of
political confusion.

in special courts for alleged
abuse of power during her
21-month emergency rule.

The prime
designate called “an un-
mitigated lie” reports that
Mrs. Gandhi's crucial
support came with strings
attached. Singh said Mrs.
Gandhi would support, but

minister-

President Neelam Sanjiva
Reddy named Singh, 77, as

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industries and wants to solve
India’s economic troubles
through better management
of agriculture. In economic
‘matters Singh is seem as a
moderate.

jockeying by politicians for
the nation’s top job.

Desai quit 11 days ago
after large numbers of his
supporters deserted him in a
revolt engineered by Singh,
then finance minister.

“I expect to form a stable
and viable government,”
partly due to support from Singh told reporters. He will
former Prime Minister be India’s fifth prime
Indira Gandhi, now on trial = minister.

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company’s job harder.
“Everyday we. get cable
breaks and acts of sabotage
and we have those repairs to
make on -top of the new
installations.”

Rotating strikes and
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union continue to hamper
government operations,

_Union . Vice President
Marcel Lemieux said
negotiations
proceeding very slowly.

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admits there is a worldwide

shortage of aluminum and *
said Alcan was rationing the"

supply to its customers.

Elswhere, more than 500
Quebec City . bus drivers
have been on strike for six
months, forcing passengers
to resort to car pools and
hitch-hiking. There have
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Provincial liquor © board
workers are back at the

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government and have eased

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