eee MOSCOW — Soviet leader Yuri Andropov Tuesday. rejected = as “unacceptable” President Reagan's offer to meet “wherever, whenever” to ban a new gencration of land-based medium-ran- ge nuclear missiles. A4 - Wednesday, February 2, 1983 - North Shore News By UNITED PRESS CANADA Andropov rejects talks with Reagan letter read by Vice President George Bush in Berlin) Monday night offered to meet = An- dropov “wherever, whenever he wants to Sign an agreement banning all U.S. and Soviet land-based, medium-range missiles A MOTION by Alderman Bill Sorenson to cut North Vancouver City council supends to pre- 1981 tevels was described as “pseudo- altruistic grand- standing” and ‘a publicity thing” by other council mem- bers. Council defeated the motion 4-2, with only Sorenson and Alderman Stella Jo Dean inp i I . . . Communist Partly newspaper Pravda, Andropov said Reagan’s message to Western Europe contained nothing new and merely repeated the United States’ previous “zero option” arms proposal. Reagan, in an open WINNIPEG — Western farmers will pay five times as much to ship their grain by the end of the decade as they do now, 7 Minister Jean-Luc Pepin said Tuesday. Announcing long-awa- ited plans to scrap the historic Crowsnest Pass freight rate, Pepin and Employment Minister Lloyd Axworthy = said while some farm organizations would be upset there was broad TOYKQ — North Korea ordered its armed forces on “semi-war” -atert Tuesday and = accused South Korea of finng ona communmst plane in an attack = cosneiding = with jot war games by US and South Korean forces “The entire people will gol ready tm full combat gear to smash in dime the enemy's war moves and defend the skics, land and seas Of the country and there posts bhe ano im pregnable fortress.” the North Korean Central hews agency said wm a broadcast monttored in PEQGGUCHOGALPA bhon fire = tt inticd Honduras opened thea biggest pount miliary duray — States and cCactoctines CVCE lucaday near the border with whach branded Une wor games a Nic arngua, “provocabon” Farmers to pay more WN. Korean forces on alert U.S., Honduras open war games from the face of the earth.” Under the zero option proposal, NATO would cancel deployment of U.S. Perening 2 = and cruise missiles in Europe if the Soviet union removes its mtermediate- range missiles targeted on Europe and Asia. consensus tor change. “This is the greatest exercise in Compromise since God created Adam and Eve,” Pepin said. “There is a consensus on the need for change. Most people realize that change is needed, that change ts in their own interests.” The federal govern- ment will spend at least $3.7 billion im the next four crop years as it abandons the rate used for moving Prairie grain for 85 years. Toyko The order, issued by North Korean router Kim N-Sung, came a day into annual jornt) = military exercises by 188.000 US and South Korean troops and less than a week before Secretary of State George Schultsz was to visit the South Korean capital Scoul “The reckless oultary provocavons of the US impenahists arc aow placing our people under a critical situation in wheeh a war may break out any the order sand Moment” Hooduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova other aattonal and forapgn diplomats flew to the swamps oof feastcrn Honduras for che opening oof the mancuvers Bag Pine olffie tats stn day code named Besides calling for a reduction in the stipend, the motion said council should “point out to all employees that they should be thankful they have jobs and a good benefit package at a time when many of their coun- lerparts in private industry are not so fortunate, and challenge CUPE (the Canadian Union of Public Employees), firefighters and exempt staff to take some responsible initiative in this regard.” Sorenson said council should set an example, and show the people in a tangible way that the City ts com cerned about financial problems. “The City fathers should show leadership in maintain the present level of services, Sorenson said. But other council members said Sorenson was negotiating with the union in public with his motion. Mayor Jack Loucks pointed out that the City does not negotiate separately with the union, but together with other municipalities in the Greater Vancouver Regional District. . The attempt to lower the stipend (from $20,700 for the mayor and $6,900 to $6,000 As for the City employees, it will be a choice for them between layoffs and a wage freeze, if the City is going to e failure caused pileup A SEVEN-CAR pileup on the Upper Levels Highway in North Vancouver Friday evening 1s being blamed on brake failure of one of the vehicles involved. A chain reaction of collisions occurred in the westbound lane at Ridgeway Avenue when six cars stopped in heavy traffic were shunted by a seventh vehicle which could not stop. A Highways Patrol report shows the seventh car skidded as it approached the traffic and then suddenly had no brakes. Inspection showed the master brake cylinder was empty of fluid. The collision left nobody injured and no charges have been laid. Bank con bombed A TRICKSTER banking on a bomb threat to get him some ready cash ended up disappointed Friday. At 4 p.m. a man called the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce at Pemberton Avenue and Manne Drive in North Vancouver, claiming a bomb had been planted. He demanded the manager drop off $20,000 within five minutes to a stairwell in Park Royal as his condition for not blowing up the bank. An RCMP. detective spokesman told the News: “There was no way he would even be able to drive there tn five minutes.” So, instead of taking any moncy or setting up a decoy, the bank was evacuated and searched. No explosives were found and business resumed within an hour. ‘Nurses will have to wear blinders’ FROM PAGE At1 today’s atmosphere of high unemployment meant that “the potential for tragedy is cnormous “Bebeve ome nothing there ots more frustrating than to be an the front lines. dealing with problems day to day that you cannot solve because you do not have the fame leo lo @™H BSSe SSID He follow up aml omake ap propriate ceferrals Lcaphton sand Trustee Verna Smelovsky dcfemdcd the school boards acthon, saying “we chad not indhcate owhere the should take place amount ” Trustec Frank Warbunon told the nurses to po to other funding cults only the badhes for more moncy “Pclom tsee why we are the ones who are being ham mered for these penmpheral scrvices, @ Important as they are” Warburton said “Perhaps there are other agenoics who approached ~ Sall Lewghton warned that “af the SQUCC LE forces the board to cut ¢cven mMiore should — be financial the nurses will have to wear blinders. simply ignore potentially explosive wtuations winch they wall not have the time to deal with “What will happen to the severcly depressed teens with sumidal tendencies? Lo those seerethy starving the msclves with anore au ofr going on cating and vomiliag binges with bulimia’ Phe boards wcthon Cuts $91 OOO out of the NSUBH budget Similar took place at Vancouver action the school already West hoard Sorenson ‘grandstanding’ grandstanding,’’ while Alderman Frank Marcino said it “gets pictures in the paper and headlines but it’s not being honest.” It would save the City only $7,500 this year if the motion were passed, Marcino said. Alderman Elko Kroon warmed that City council would have to vote itself a large increase next year to make up for the loss this - year, and council members would end up looking hke fools. for aldermen) was more Sorenson and Dean were harshly treated. among the three council Alderman Gary Payne members to vole against -eatled it—“pseudo - attruisic raising tieir stipend in T98T. 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