As- Sunday News, December 6, 1981 Side... By UNITED PRESS CANADA OTTAWA - Prime Minister Pierre Trodcau suggested again Friday he might spearhead the Liberal Party in the next federal election, if there is demand for his leadership from Canadians - or from WASHINGTON - The Soviet Union shipped more than 62,000 tons of military equipment to Cuba during the first 11 months of 1981 - possibly more than in any single year since Fidel Castro came to power, ad- intelligence sources say. The tonnage in ships, tanks, planes, surface-to- air missiles and other equipment surpasses the 50,000 tons of equipment sent to Cuba during the . 1962 missile crisis and far OTTAWA - The federal government announced Friday it had signed a pact to invest $275 million in a project with two major coal conglomcrates to build a new coal port at Ridicy Island off the British Columbia coast, con- struct rail lines and develop the rich nor theast coal ficld. The pact was signed late Thursday but disclosed in the middle of Priday’s constitutional debate to surprised ZWEHLITSHA, Cishei The Cishen, (the Thard World's newest nation, was born Finday amid tribal dances, a 101 gun salutc. a bleak ccomomic forccast and almost no chance of acceptance by the international cam munity A blach warrtor carrying a torch it a symbolic “flame of frecdom” at Friday midmght in he homcland act up by South Alinca Tories hoot $27.5M marked for coal port mind about retiring in the near future, repeated the suggestion in the House of Commons after Conservative MP George Hees urged him to lay odds on the chances of his staying on. “] don’t know... if there will be a great movement across the land or across the aisle to stay on,” Trudeau said, as Tory MP’s hooted derisively and Liberals applauded. Soviet arms grow in Cuba exceeds the 24,000 tons shipped to the Caribbean island during all of 1980, according to the sources. The sources, who requested anonymity, did not know immediately whether the 62,000 tons of equipment shipped between January and November of this year ted more than for any single year since Castro’s revolutionary takeover in July 1959. Bat, said one source, “It’s probably right to say it is the most ever.” senators by Sen. Bud Olson, the minister of State for economic dcvclopment. When fully developed, the port is expected to ship close to 8 milhon tonnes of coal a year to Japan. The northeast interior coal field was also cx1- pected to create morc than 2,000 permancnt jobs and other part-time work and develop small towns in the intenor of northern British Columbia. Nation born ‘unrecognized ' undcs tis apartheid doctrine of scparatc development of races and tribal groups to maintain cthorc purity An impovenshed and barren land about the sizc of Connaccticut, Cisket ts a wedge shaped nation of 2t)) million South Ok} can coast ie is derdeveloped If tt would be people on Alracasn Indian totally un recognized, one of the poorest aabons wn the wortd ' dirtiest FROM PAGE A1 campaign North Vancouver has ever seen. Unsuccessful Vancouver City candidate Greg Richmond is threatening legal action as a result of what he calls a dorsed were delivered door to door. On the opposite side of the . fence, District alderman " John Lakes, who retained his seat on council by polling . just 93 votes more than his nearest challenger, Beétty Griffin — who previously ran as a Communist provincially —- at one time threatened legal action as a result of an election ad- ~ vertisement published in the News. The same advertisement — a full page reproduced from the Communist oriented Pacific Tribune newspaper — also raised the anger of some of those supported in the article — Richmond, Griffin, un- successful North Van City candidate Richard Black- burn and District Alderman. Ernic Crist. Meanwhile, District Mayor Don Bell suspects we may be at the dawn of a new era in municipal elections — with future candidates being chosen by their stated party politics rather than on their stand on municipal issues. LETTERS Nowhere is the bitterness of the ongoing battle more evident than in the letters pages of the North Shore ews. “Witch-hunting™ was the description Ernie | Crist applied to the advertisement which he said was placed by those “too cowardly to sign their names.” The advertisement was sponsored by “a group of citizens who fcel it may be of interest to voters in the November 21 municipal elections.” Representatives of the North Shore Women's North . Centre complained that the because they dislike Con- ad was unfair. “We deplore what seems to be an inability to un- derstand fair and straightforward ele c- tioneering practices,” they wrote. “We consider even more deplorable their reluctance to sign their names and party allegiances; if parties are an issue in local elections which their advetisement appears to imply.” But others felt over- sensitivity to the McCarthy era of communist scourges was as much to be feared as red-baiting. “We have been con- ditioned to consider our ~ selves as paranoid if we think there may be ‘Reds under the beds,”” wrote one North Shore resident, “but the fact is, the Communists are alive, well and kicking in North Vancouver. “They are also very cunning, and it is this fear of paranoia that they take advantage of .” But the issue did inspire humor, as well. Defeated City candidate Richard Blackburn wrote of his communist labelling: “In order to set the record straight, Greg Richmond and myself are pleased to inform the public that we are pot now, never have been nor wil] ever be, members of the B.C. Social Credit And Peter O'Rourke of North Vancouver wrote: “I think candidates should show their true colours, especially the Nazis and those associated with the Klan because |] don’t think those types are good can- didates. “The same with Liberals, too. This is Conservative country, out west, and we. wouldn't want to vote in a Liberal by mistake. “Of course Conservative candidates should step forward also. We want to separate those ones from Socreds who should also step forward from those who > normally vote NDP and at times support the Liberals All N. 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