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VANCOUVER — As the
Tuesday deadline nears
for a resolution of con-
flacts between organized
labor and the provincial
government, education
officials are making
moves to head off trouble.

lf the contract talks bet-
ween the B.C. Govern-
ment Employees Union
and the government have
broken down by Tuesday,
teachers throughout the
province are expected to

OTTAWA — The Cana-
dian unemployment rate
dropped in September but
so did the number of
Canadians holding jobs.

The September
unemployment rate was
11.1 per cent, the lowest it
has been in over a year —
with an estimated
1,238,000 Canadians out
of work.

LEBANON — At least 14
israchs were killed and
more than 20 wounded in
what was almost a replay
of the car bomb attacks
on American and French
peace-keeping forces in
Beirut.

A car loaded with
explosives slammed into a
two-storey Israeli com-
mand structure near Tyre
in southern Lebanon carty
Friday.

Boards move to
deal with strike

walk out.

Measures to counter-act
that possibility began
Thursday with a Van-
couver School Board deci-
sion to seek an injunction
against picketing at
schools in the event of a
strike.

The move, which would
lessen the possibility of
confrontation between
striking teachers and those
who decide to go to work,
is likely to be followed by
other boards.

Jobless rate down
but so are jobs

At the same time,
however, Statistics
Canada reported a drop in
the number of employed
Canadians by 25,000.

Unemployment rates
for young people remam
high, with the cate for
men still over 220 per cent
and the rate for women
more than 16 per cent.

Replay bombing
kills 39 Israelis

As was the case in the
attacks on the American
and French troops in
Beirut, an Islamic group
has claimed responsibility
for the deaths.

A spokesman for the
Israch government, which
controls the southern
reaches of Lebanon, sard
that the country’s army
would ‘‘hit back and hit
back strongly againsi the
perpetrators’’

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RESTRAINT is solidly
backed in principle by a
cross-section of North
Vancouver business
people, but they have
their doubts about a
number of specific items
in Premier Bill Ben-
nett’s overall restraint
package.

That’s the picture emerg-
ing from a recent poll of
North Van Chamber of Com-
merce members, conducted
by the Chamber.

The write-in survey asked
17 detailed questions regar-
ding the restraint package
and, for each, invited one of

five answers: ‘‘strongly
agree’’, ‘‘agree’’, ‘‘no opi-
nion’’, ‘‘disagree’’, ‘‘strong-
ly disagree’’.

Written answers
returned by 97 of
Chamber’s
450 members.

Of these, 91 per cent said
they agreed or strongly
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gram in general. Eight per
cent disagreed or strongly
disagreed. One per cent had
no opinion.

The following four specific
items in the restraint program
also drew strong support (the
second and third figures in
brackets are for ‘‘disagreed’’
and ‘‘no opinion’’ respective-
ly):

Reduction of social welfare
services: 67 per cent agreed
(19 per cent and 14 per cent).
Reduction in the number of
civil servants: 87 per cent
agreed (nine per cent and
four per cent). Abolition of
public sector tenure; 76 per
cent agreed (16 per cent and

eight per cent). Sale of
government businesses to
private sector: 72 per cent

agreed (14 per cent and 14 per
cent).

Decided respondents, as
distinct from those with no

opinion, supported all but
four other items in the
restraint package — in-

cluding education cutbacks,
abolition of the Rentalsman,
higher hospital fees and the
revamped human rights
legislation— but by slimmer
margins.

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Majority approval of these
latter items ranged from 10 to
31 percentage points, with
anything from 12 to 29 per
cent of respondents having
no opinion.

By contrast, 68 per cent
disagreed with the sales tax
on meals and 62 per cent
disapproved of the abolition

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