A4 - Wednesday, December 22, 1982 - North Shore News By UNITED PRESS CANADA PROVIDENCE, R.I. - There’s room on the steps of City Hall for Jesus, Mary and Joseph this Christmas season, a federal judge has decided. U.S. Senior Judge Raymond J. Pettine denied a request Monday to order the creche removed because the plaintiffs - four city residents - could not OTTAWA - The annual rate of inflation § in Canada fell to 9.8 Percent in November despite higher car and housi prices - the inflation has fallen below 10 percent since May 1980, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. The. 12-month inflation rate had stood at 10 percent in October and has dropped steadily since last April, when it reached 11.8 percent. Despite the year over year drop, the Consumer Price Index - the chief MOSCOW - Soviet leader Yuri Andropov offered to remove hundreds of nuclear ‘rockets from Europe Tuesday but vowed to build a Soviet answer to the MX missile if it is deployed by the Reagan administration. “A policy based on the desire to achieve military superiority over the Soviet Union is futile and can only escalate the threat of. war,” Andropov said to a meeting of the Communist Party Central OTTAWA quick and approval in principle Monday for major amendments to the Canadian Human Rights Act to improve protection of rights for women and the mentally MP's gave unanimous and physically han- dicapped. The legislation will move to @ parliamentary committee before returning to the House of Commons for final ap- Jesus allowed to stay first. time | Soviets vow to match MX. prove that city funds were being spent on the nativityscene. —- The American — Civil Liberties Union had sought an injunction against the city for allowing the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal Roman Catholic ‘ organization, to erect the creche, under the municipal Christmas tree on city property. Inflation drops below 10 per cent measure of inflation - rose 0.7 percent in November over the previous month. Higher prices for 1983 model - cars, tobacco and alcohol were largely responsible for the increase, the government statistics agency said. Higher apartment rents, prices for houses, gas prices and long distance telephone charges for calls to the United States helped shove the all-items ex- cluding food index up by 0.8 percent in November to 10.5 percent. in his first foreign policy Committee major speech. “We shall have to answer the American challenge by deploying similar weapon systems.” The Soviet leader said President Reagan's war preparations have reached “unheard of proportions” and his “zero-option” proposal for climination of medium range nuclear missiles in Europe was a “mockery”. Human Rights up for amendment proval. The quick approval came after a barrage of charges and counter charges in the Commons Friday when Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan tried to win unanimous approval before tabling the changes However, was MacGuigan forced to buckle under to Conservative demands and table the legislation. WHEN three cars bashed bumpers in a sequence of rear-end collisions at Park Royal North Friday af- ternoon, it was a pedestrian who came out of it worst: West Vancouver police report that a 1976 Chevelle Fiery cocktail A MOLOTOV cocktail was thrown in the underground parking lot of a 15-storey highrise at 114 West Keith Road, North Vancouver, shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday. City firefighters found the home-made firebomb burned itself out and caused no damage to the building. ae Great Caistmes rear-ended a 1973 ‘Dodge, which in tum rear-ended another car outside the Canada Trust office. A 62-year-old North Vancouver. man pedestrian was caught between the bumpers of the Dodge and . the third car and sustained fractures to his left leg and contusions. He was later reported to be in good ‘condition at Lions Gate Hospital. Charged with driving without. due care and at- tention is Patricia. Ann Allard, of North Vancouver. Four-day mail break NO MAIL for four days this Christmas. 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