“rallies appear likely to on-
: Ay: eceive a ‘Slap on . the
~ wrist.

Mike Davison, chair-
man of the: Government
Employees Relations
Bureau, said Monday that
workers will: réceive let-
ters of reprimand and not
‘Suspensions or wage
losses.
. Jim Chabot, provincial
‘tary, had: eatlier sug-

| VANCOUVER inca
leadet Shirley
McLoughlin . is. out and

‘mer has indicated_ he
might want i in. ~
McLoug ‘Fesigned
her position as leader of
“the provincial . Liberal
party late -last” “week,
. Clearing the way for a
«mew leader for the falter-
ings Grits. -
“ee . McLoughlin: ited the
al” go crament s

& - Sénator Ray. ‘Perrault
=from the cabinet -\effec-
‘tively cutting . B.C.
~fepresentation jin the
«government to one

MONTREAL - Foes of
Rene Levesque’s Parti
Quebecois government

may have a_ familiar
champion to get behind.
Robert Bourassa,

Premier of Quebec until
his defeat at Levesque’s
hands in 1976, has an-
nounced he will seek the
Liberal party leadership
vacated by Claude Ryan.

Bourassa is the third
Quebec politician to an-
nounce his intentions to
run.

“The dream merchants
in power, who have

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
- A 13-year-old boy
became the third victim
of bubonic plaguc, as
New Mexico faces a mini-
epidemic of the disease.

A total of 24 cases have
been reported so far this
year, the latest being a
Navajo woman who doc-
tors say is responding well
to treatment, because of
a quick diagnosis of the
disease.

The dead youth was ad-
mitted to hospital in nor-

Vancouver's Harry Ham-.

.the idea.

Bourassa back for
Quebec Grits

13-year-old dead
as plague strikes

employees taking time off
to attend the rallies could |
face stronger penalties.
“At this point we're not
interested in being par-
ticularly severe,” Davison
said. “We just want to
perserve management's
rights to discipline.”
Davidson warned that
employees who have
previous demerits on
their files may face stiffer

penalties.

That raises the
possibility that the
government will take

stronger action if there
are future incidents.

member - as one reason
for her decision to resign.

Hammer, who con-
tested the Vancouver
Center riding in the May
5 provincial election, said
he is considering the open
leadership and that he
had been approach by “a
number of people” about

McLoughlin, 53, had
added a higher profile to
the » provincial Liberal
party but not’any seats in
the legislature. ‘Her
resignation will take ef-
fect in either October,
when the Liberals hold
their annual convention,
or sooner.

recently had all the
answers, now have
nothing but problems,”
Bourassa said as he made
his announcement.
Bourassa, 49, was the

youngest man c¢ver
elected Premier of
Quebec. He faced a

number of government
scandals through the car-
ly 1970s and enraged the
province's English-
speaking minority with
Bill 22, the Official
Languages Act, which
limits the use of
languages other than
French.

thern New Mexico Satur-
day, displaying symptoms
of the worst case of
plague scen so far by state

cpidemiologist Dr.
Jonathan Mann.

The  discase, said
Mann. progressed “ex-
ceptionally quickly”,
leading to the youth's
death Monday.

It is believed he con-
tracted the disease,

trasmitted by infected
fleas, during a hunting or
camping trip in the state.

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say something else.

“We're dealing with the
City of Vancouver (in at-
tempting to settle con-
. Fraser said. He
added that most of the right
of way to allow widening of
the Cassiar Street  con-
nection has been purchased.

Fraser said the Cassiar
Street project is “the next
priortiy” for highways
development in the Metro
Vancouver-area. *

The area of concern after
that will be the replacement
of the center span of the

they would be wider bécatise |
the sidewalk on each:sidejof
the bridge would be moved
to the outside of the
structure.

“We expect that that is
quite a ways away,” Fraser
said. “We're eager at a

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and began the melee.

“There were a few tense
moments,’’ says a
spokesman. No one was
injured, however.

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