world VANCOUVER (UPC) - Bora Laskin, chief justice Canada, remained in ‘stable condition in the intensive care unit of St. Paul's Hospital Tuesday. “T'm pleased to say he's quite stable and the doctors involved are pleased with his | “He’s still in intensive care, but that’s just for monitoring.” Lasking recovering from two major MADRID, “Spain cuPn - President Adolfo Suarez day trip he planned to take to Washington and Central America, ap- because of a surge of political violence that killed three military personnel in five days. ._The cancellation also came after a weekend of intense consultations with government ministersand, military chiefs of staff.” MONTREAL (UPC) - The Montreal Star, one of the nation’s largest and most respected afternoon dailies, ceased publication Tuesday, members of the newsroom staff were told by editor-in-chief Raymond Heard. In a brief an- nouncement to the editorial staff, Heard said ‘the newspaper, which only returned to the streets in February after an cight-month © strike, would make available $15 million to , settle severance claims of the VATICAN CITY (UPI) - Pope John Paul I Monday told 400 representatives of the 9th International Conference on Rights, abortion and divorce violate the “moral authority” of human laws. “The whole story of rights shows laws outside. .. Chief Justice in stable condition of the Supreme Court of . abdominal ‘Spain hit by surge of violence Tuesday postponed.a 10-| and sits MORE WORLD NEWS BEGINS PAGE A12 operations, was tran-. sferred to intensive care Friday. The chief justice was vacationing in Vancouver on Aug. 22 when he was: first admitted for a hernia operation. He went back into surgery Aug. 31 when doctors drained an abdominal abcess. was ‘“‘no point in speculating” when Laskin would be released or. if it would be in time for the | opening of the Supreme Court's fall session on Political observers in Madrid believe Spain is now facing death of Gen. Francisco almost four years ago. The country’s main opposition party, the Spanish Socialist Workers. Party; is tem-— porarily leaderless ‘following a damaging ' public debate over Marxism. .and'... political violence that has killed a total of 108 people since -“the start of the year. “Montreal Star stops publication newspaper's 1,100 employees. Heard said the cessation of publication was effective at 4 p.m. The announcement culminated a _ bitter circulation war with the rival English language daily the Montreal Gazette. The Star reportedly had been losing as much as $2 million monthly recently losses were running at around $300,000 a week in September, according to industry sources. Pope speaks against divorce lose their stability and moral authority when they are used to constrict with physical force or when they renounce what is incumbent on them concerning unborn children or the sanctity of marriage.” Dr. Sharp’ said there ~ its most | severe test since the | The Sifficulties in ‘getting approval for a group home in the City of North Vancouver ate so overwhelming | that there is no point in applying, . according. to Sheila Gilmour, the chairman - of the . North Shore United Way. . Gilmour made this point during the question period at ! Partygoers threw WOMAN TEUs COUNCIL | ‘No point applying for group homes in N' the “regular City council meeting Monday night. “I have heard on more occasions than I can count that there is no point ap- plying to the City,” she said. She said the problems were just as bad in West Vancouver where she ‘said the Association, for the bottles at RCMP cars A party involving 200 ‘to 250 youths kept North Vancouver RCMP busy for several hours Friday night as they attempted to keep the gathering under control. An RCMP spokesman said police cars were hit at least twice by flying bottles as officers tried to disperse the gathering at 530 Tempe Crescent which spilled onto the street. He said a number of police attended the --scene--during ~ the evening because there were signs there may have been trouble. But he said no arrests were made and no charges will be laid in connection with the party which police were called to before 10 p-m. and which was “still going 2 after midnight.” While the party was not an unusual one for North " Vancouver, the spokesman described it was “pretty large” and “very noisy.” He said at such a party it is because 0 of difficulties. Gilmour . said the ‘United Way was trying to “promote conformity of bylaws (regarding group homes) ‘throughout the City and District of North Vancouver ‘and West Vancouver.” always possible that police £ may be injured because it is very hard to see bottles when they are thrown at night. W.Van ‘against expropriation’ FROM PAGE A1 _ “The policy is in place, so Now it’s important to be fair to the property owners. We are against expropriation,” Humphreys said. Council passed a motion clarifying the policy's stand on improvements and also - raising the dollar value of the cut-off rate for cost of renovations from $5,000 to $7,500. Alderman Doreen Blackburn voted against the motion. . ' : SAVE ON : ‘HOME COMFORT: KEEP THIS AD FOR 10% OFF RRRRRRRRR We specialize in Now??! oy a | a a a 8 a a a a * Inside Storm Windows a ¢ Thermo Replacement Windows a ° Conversions from existing single glass a windows to THERMO PANE a a a a a a a a a =~ ALUMINAIRE INDUSTRIES LTD. 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