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BELGRADE, Yogoslavia
(UPI) - In what may be
his last political act,
gravely ill President Josip
Broz Tito has sent a plea
for detente to President
Carter, Soviet President
Leonid Brezhnev and
other world leaders, the
foreign ministry said.

A ministry statement
said the message, along
with a letter from Vice
President Lazar
Kilisevski, was delivered
to the American, Soviet,
Cuban and Guinean

TORONTO (UPC) - The
Canadian dollar broke
through the 87-cent U.S.
barrier Thursday for the
first time since last Apmil,
fuelled by reports of the
prospects of two new oil
finds off the Newfound-
land coast.

The dollar climbed
more than a quarter cent
during the day, opening
at 86.7 U.S. cents and
closing near its highest
price for the day at 87.15
cents. The surge capped a
steady. climb since last
Tuesday, when the dollar
was 86.20 U.S.

VANCOUVER (UPC)-A
leak of deadly hydrogen
sulphide gas from a well
last July caused serious
nerve and lung damage to
an ‘‘extraodinary’”’
number of Indians on a
northeastern B.C.
reserve, a report by a
Chicago environmental
medicine speciahst says.

The report, released
Thursday, was compiled
by Dr. Bertram Carmow,
who examined 76 of the
110 band members of the
Blueberry reserve

The Indians fled their
homes as a large gas

LONDON (UPI) - For the
first time in British screen
history film censors have
given a natural
film an “X”

history

raung
adults only — because it
shows baby scals being
clubbed to death and
disemboweled. ap
parently while stll alive

Tito sends
plea for detente

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ambassadors in Belgrade
for relay to their leaders.
“The message hasbeen
passed on to President
Carter,’” said U.S.
Ambassador Lawrence
Eagleburger, who
described it as a “straight-
forward message.” ~

Tito was reported in
grave” condition but
may live for months as a
chronic invalid without
being able to run the
country, medical
authorities said.

os

Dollar breaks
87-cent barrier

_ The speculation in the
Canadian dollar has been
fuelled by reports about
the prospects of new oil
finds near the potentially
commercial Hibernia P-
15 well and elsewhere on
the Atlantic coast, he
added.

Another factor
suggested by one trader
was speculation § that
Canada would soon raise
its prime lending rate,
now set at 15 per cent, to
match a recent increase
in the U.S. that saw most
banks set the rate at 15%
per cent.

Indians harmed
by gas leak

cloud engulfed their
village, spending an
uncomfortable week in
makeshift tents and lean-
tos until they could safely
return to the village near
Fort St. John, about
1,4000 kilometres north-
east of Vancouver.

Carnow andi “his
associates, brought in by
the Umon of B.C. Indian
Chiefs following the
incident, found “an extra-
ordinarily high — fre-
quency” of abnormalities
in othe nervous” and
respiratory systems of the
band members — both
adults and children

Seal film given
an ‘X’ rating

Officxals of the Royal
Society for the
Prevention of Animals
(RSPCA) said the film

had been made to alert
the pubhe to the start of
the annual Canadian seal
hunt, which runs for six

weeks from carly neat
month and costs the lives
of 180,000 young pups

‘Salaries impasse’
‘may close LGH

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The nurses are calling for
an 18 per cent increase in
addition to an economic
catch-up, which would mean
a 30 per cent increase this
year on the _ started
registered nurses’s salary.

“The impasse is over basic
salaries,” Miller said, but he
added that the HLRA
negotiators refuse to discuss
non-monetary items unless
the union gives up some
economic proposals.

The registered nurses at
Lions Gate Hospital and
other hospitals feel that they
are badly underpaid con-

sidering the work that they

do.

“Everything that happens
to you in a hospital is the
(registered) nurses
responsiblity,” said Pat
Cotter, Who is one of the
union representativey at
LGH.

“We are the front line
workers and we should be
paid accordingly.”

“Because of the increased
responsibility that we (the
RN's) have to deal with we
feel we ‘are worth more
money than we are currently
being paid,” said Annabell
Dick, the chairman of the
LGH registered nurses strike
committee.

She points out that RN's
have to supervise practical
nurses and other staff
workers as well as carrying
out their regular chores.

DEDICATION

“The = sacrifices
grown,” Miller said.

“More and more is being
demanded and the employer
and the public seem to take
for granted that nurses will
sacrifice beyond what is
reasonabie.”

“Dedication doesn't pay
the bills,” said Cotter.

“I think nurses’ were
complacent for a long time
but I think nurses know their
own worth now.”

At present a first year
registered nurse makes $8 an
hour and Miller says that the
nurses earning power is now
7.2 per cent less than it was
in 1975.

Cotter and Dick anticipate
the registered nurses at LGH
will vote strongly in favour
of stnke action.

“I would say that during
the past few weeks the
turnouts (to meetings) have
been overwhelming,” Dick
said.

“They're showing a lot of
stamina and are wilhng to

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have to, to get a decent wage
and the benefits they want.”

Dick said the RN’s are
receiving a lot of support
from the administration,
doctors and other workers at
LGH.

The union representatives
are hopeful that if there is a
good turnout for the strike
vote HLRA will return to the
bargaining table without the
RN’s having to actually
strike.

“The object is not to get a
strike manadate to go on
strike,” said Miller.

“The object is to get a
strong vote to demonstrate
to the employer that nurses
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ESSENTIAL SERVICES chairman Dave Hildreth. (Elsworth Dickson photo)

HLRA spokesmen have pect to hear from them
not commented on the Withina very short time.
situation since the union Since the early 1970's
announced the strike vote. every agreement involving

If the registered nurses do the registered nurses in the
go on strike, the union Province has been an im-
representatives say essential a -
services will not be disrupted
at LGH and an essential
services committee has been
established.

“There will always be
registered nurses 24 hours a
day in LGH,” said Dick.

“We do not plan to take
away any patient care to the
patients who are seriously
ill,” she added.

The nurses expect a
response from the HLRA
bargaining committee
shortly after the results of
the strike vote are an-
nounced on Wednesday.

“I think the negotiations
have been going on for a
(long) period of time and I
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