“OTTAWA — - The federal:

government should
“suspend cruise missile.
testing until the United.
States and the Soviet.
Union . are forced | by
world opinion. to meét-in
a nuclear disarmament
summit,.. Members of.
Parliament from all three

getting things done within
the public service -

management levels - will
be the object. of an in-
vestigation in Auditor
General_Kenn

pealed to Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau's
government to join the
world call to stop any
further growth in the
superpowers’ arsenals.

“We believe that a

mutual. “:balance . and. |

verifiable freeze on the
testing, production | ‘and
deployment” of nuclear
weapons and delivery
systems is (the}- necessary
first step towards genuine |

arms reductions,”

Conservative MP Walter

“We've been thinking
about this project for
over a year now and

particularly_at- senior. .developing an approach,”

Dye told reporters after

the meeting during: hich |

Conservative MP ‘Marcel

eth Dye’s'. Lambert

next annual report.
-Dye told a Commons
public accounts com-

_ mittee Thursday he was
concerned with the

length of time it takes to -

come to any decision in
the civil service.

about procrastination in

the public. service.ranks.

Lambert said that if -

more rules and

.Tegulations are brought

into the public service,

“people will have to have |

permission to breathe.”

| Doctors bargain

VICTORIA -~- :Doctors
begin bargaining with the
provincial goyernment
Friday for a new contract
that will determine how
much will be spent on
keeping British
Columbia’s 3. million
residents healthy.
Negotiations began
with a morning session in
Victoria, said Dr.
Norman Rigby, executive

director of the B.C.
Medical Association
representing 4,000
doctors.

Health Minister James

Nielsen kicked’ off the

pre-negotiation “sparring .

with the release of
statistics showing doctors
in the province were
carning as much as ever
despite the recession.

The minister disputed
doctors’ claim that their
income was declining.

Rigby retorted that
Nielsen's figures
misleading and that the
BCMA had up to
Thursday afternoon not
received a copy of the
statistics widely provided
to the press.

. Too early
‘for recovery

MONTREAL —
has been “a welcome
change” in Canada's
inflation rate but it is still
too carly to speak of a
recovery, says the Bank
of Montreal's Business
Review, released
Thursday.

“The inflation news has
turned decidedly better
and most indicators of
economic growth
reported on in the month
moved favorably,” the
revitw says.

“This was a welcome

There

change from months of
gloomy reports but the
change would have to
continue for some time
yet before it would be
possible (o conclude that
a recovery was un-
dcrway.”

The review notes that
wage settlements for the
third quarter of this year
averaged 8.8 per cent,
“down significantly from
11.3 per cent in both the
previous two quarters.”

Consumer prices also
moderated in October.

~——his-black-lab-colli

THE SHOOTING of a young
collie who returned to his
owner's home on Tobruk. in
North Vancouver recently
with seven pellets imbedded
in his chest and head area
turns out to. be more than an
isolated. incident.

Po: .
nesday’s’ ‘North. Shore. News,
another ‘dog-owner living ‘in
the Marine Drive area has

reported. that - his dog was

* also shot:*

And, as was:the case with

- the collie, ‘this. person's dog

also appears to have been

tied up by whoever shot it.
Wayne Worth, who lives

at 1685 Philip Avenue, says

with a pellet gun about six
weeks ago.

The dog has already had
one operation for an injury
to its leg which appeared to
have been received by it
being tied, and the damage is

- “He’s still not able to use
his paw. He has been in a
cast for the past month and
has to go in for another
operation, for a plate to be
put in,” says Worth.

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held and tried to get out of
something.”

The owner of the dog
which was shot in the
Tobruk area also considered
his. dog must have been tied
up by whoever shot it
because it was shot seven
times in-the same area of its
body.

Worth says: “There is
some:-sicko out there. If
someone. ‘has got’ ‘Something

against dogs or:what-the dog: -

does he should take it up
with the owner.”

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