VICTORIA — The
response to Premier Bill
Bennett’s ‘‘peace over-
tures”’ Thursday night is
*‘cautiously positive’’ on
most fronts.

Bennett, while saying
the Social Credit govern-
ment will not back down
from its’ restraint pro-
gram, announced Thurs-
day that the legislature
would be adjourned in-
definitely to allow further

VANCOUVER — The
fate of about 85 Cana-
dians on the Caribbean
island of Grenada isn't
known although none are

believed to have been
harmed in this week’s
bloody coup .

Concerns for the Cana-
dians, cither tourists or
temporary residents of the
island, grew early in the
week with reports of the
arrest of Maurice Bishop,
the country’s Prime
Minister.

MOSCOW — An unman-
ned space craft has gone
into orbit carrying food
and fuel for a disabled
Satyut space station.

Two Soviet cosmonauts
were trapped in space
earlicr this month by a
combinahon of problems
in the aw and on the
ground.

Propellant leaking from
a space station engine 1s
thought to have hmuated its

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Premier raises
labor hopes

consultation.

The announcement
clears the way for negotia-
tions between the govern-

ment and the B.C.
Government Employees
Union.

Bennett hinted Thurs-
day night that the govern-
ment might be willing to
make adjustments to its
plan to lay off 1,600
government workers on
Nov. I.

Canadian fates
not yet known

In mid-week Bishop
was shot. Some reports
claim he was leading a
march op an army base at
the time of his death while
others say he was
executed.

Tounsts who stay near
their hotels aren’t thought
to be affected by a
24-hour curfew that has
been established, but there
is an indication others liv-
ing on the island may be in
danger.

Space aid sent
to cosmonauts

manouverability. A _ se-
cond space craft with
three cosmonauts was to
have docked with the
space Station, carrying
relief crews and supplies
but an explosion on the

launching pad ended that
mission.

The two cosmonauts,
who have been aboard the
space station since June
28, have only two days
worth of fuel in their
capsule.

Educational Research Institute of B.C. will be held:
Tuesday. Nov 8 at 7:00 pm. Pre-registration was
required tor this test and students must show an.

admittance pass from the ERIC.

The English Placement Test Is an enrolment
requirement for UBC, UVic, Capilano College and other
— BC. colleges — contact the institute you plan to attend

regarding test policy.

The next public administiation of this test after Nov &
‘will be Saturday, March 24; 1984. Pre-regiatration is
trom December to March 7, 1984 through the ERIBC, :

#305 - 601. W. Broadway, Vancouver, 873-3801.

The Nov. 6 sitting will be held at the north end of
building J, second floor, The doors will open at 6:45.
Bring both a pen and a lead pencit.

. For questions on the test location call Capilano College, |
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HELP FOR North Shore renters rolls closer after
North Vancouver District council Monday passed a
two-prong offensive against the provincial govern-

ment’s

inflammatory Bill 5 which essentially

squashes the office of the Rentalsman.

By CHARLES MAYER

Council managed to pass
two motions — despite
dissenting votes from Ald.
Jim Ball and John Lakes, —
to rap provincial government
knuckles for dismantling the
rentalsman's office and
eliminating a renters’
*‘security of tenure.”’

Secondly, District also
agreed to accept a grant ap-
plication from the North
Shore Tenants Association
for funds to set up a

landlord-tenant advice and
mediation service.

Once the application is
to District, it

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Ald. Ball opposed the mo-
tions and said taxpayers’
dollars should not be wasted
to subsidize renters’ issues.

He said that it would be
ironic that landlords would
pay (through taxes) for
tenants groups opposing
landlord decisions.

Ald. Lakes said he was
concerned that under Section
269 of the Municipal Act the
NSTA funding, if approved,
could be ruled ultra virens.

He explained that
municipal funds in the form

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of grants should, according
to Section 269, be only given
if they concern ‘*broad and
general purposes’’ in the
community.

Meanwhile, Ald. Mary
Segal said she supported both
mouons because of her con-
cerns abour safeguards being

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eroded for landlords as well
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