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LITTON SYSTEMS

Woman pleads guilty to Ontario bombing

A BURNABY woman has
pleaded guilty to the
October, 1982, bombing ot
the Litton Systems plant in
Ontario and to the attemp-
ted arson of a Coquitlam
Red Hot Video outlet the
same year.

A second defendant,
Gerald Richard WHannah,

also pleaded guilty to the
attempted arson charge.

Juliet Caroline Belmas,
21, pleaded guilty to the
Litton bombing on March [6
but B.C. Surpeme Court
Justice Samuel Toy had
prohibited publication of the
plea until this week.

Belmas and Hannah also
pleaded guilty to a charge ot

Labor responds
to bill May 16

AN UNEASY quiet reigns
over the labor scene this
week after the introduction
of a new Labor Code for
B.C. and a perhaps surpris-
ingly low-keyed reaction
from organized labor.

The B.C. Federation of
Labor has ‘‘totally rejected”’
to proposed new amend-
ments but has ruled out a
general strike as a means of
protesting the changes.

Art Kube, president of the
B.C. Fed, said this week that
the umion umbrella group
will have a ‘‘measured”’
response to the amendments
following a meeting on May
16.

The response of the B.C
Fed and other labor groups
1s far from what might have
been expected considering

the extent of the proposed
changes and the fiery reac-
tion labor leaders have had
to such recent government
moves as the legislated end
to the pulp mill lock-out and

the conflict over the Expo
"86 site.
The amendments ban

union members from. strik-
ing over political issues,
change the rules to make it
easier for a umonized com-
pany to decertify, remove
the application of automatic
cerufication at non-umon
companies during union
Organizing attempts and
gives the government the
right to designate projects
special economic develop-
ment projects which would
allow non-umion and union
workers to. share
fron sites

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conspiring to rob a Brinks
armored car, to the thett of
three cars, possession of
stolen property and posses-
sion of weapons dangerous
to the public peace.

Belmas pleaded guilty to a
charge of possession of
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explosives.

scheduled to be sentenced
Thursday (after deadline for
this issue) with Hannah to
face sentencing on Monday.

Belmas and Hannah were
among five people arrested
last year on the Squamish
Highway by police. During
the lengthy trial this year,

testimony showed police had
the five under surveillance
for two months before ar-
resting them on the charges.
Ann Brit Hansen, 30, and
Brent Taylor, 27, were
found guilty of canspiracy,
the theft of three cars and
possession of stolen property

a week ago. Sentencing has
been postponed.

The fifth man, David
Stewart, 27, was acquitted of
conspiracy and possession of
a stolen truck but found
guilty of burglary and the
theft of guns and guilty of
possession of weapons.

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