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OTTAWA (UPC) - The
federal government _ is
committed to giving $60
million to Vancouver to
develop a light, rapid
transit system, but the
money won't come from
the Western Develop-
ment Fund, said Em-
ployment Minister Lloyd
Axrworthy.

The fund, earmarked
last October in the
budget, has not been fully
organized yet, Axworthy
said Monday outside the
House of Commons.

The multi-billion dollar
fund was created for
special projects in the
west. No firm guidelines

GENEVA, Switzerland
(UPD) - Lech Walesa said
Wednesday he wants to
step down as leader of
Poland’s. independent
trade union movement
Solidarity.

“I feel TI should be
replaced,” Walesa told a
news conference.

“It is.always important
in trade unions to in-
troduce something new
and it is necessary to have
fresh blood and that is
why I feel I should step
down,” he said.

Walesa complained
that he never has any

JOHANNESBURG,
South Africa (UPI) -
South Africa displayed an
awesome military
machine of tanks,
missiles and Mirage jets,
but whito terrorists staged
bomb attacks and black
students battle police to

disrupt the nation’s
Republic Day
celebrations.

The attacks came
despite strict security

measures by hundreds of
police to prevent in-
cidents the final day

BRUSSELS, Belgium
(UPI) Beigian police
broadcast appeals for
help and circulated a
drawing of the mystery
assassin who fired = 51x
bullets into the PLO
diplomat’ credited with
winning Western

European support for
Palestinians.

4- Wednesday, June 3, 1981 - North Shore News

Feds committed
to local LRT

have ever
public.
Axworthy told the
House of Commons that
regardless of whether the
money came from its own
coffers or the Western

been made

Development Fund, it
was committed to help
build the system.

“What is really im-
portant is that there are
funds to help Vancouver
and British Columbia
finance an LRT system,
but also to begin
developing the basis for a
much broader industrial
activity for a technology
enterprise,” - Axworthy
said.

Walesa wants
to step down

time for his family and for
himself - “only four hours
since last September”, h
joked.

“EI would like to bring
up my children,” he said.

Walesa arrived in
Geneva Monday for the
annual conference
beginning Wednesday of
the United Nations’
International Labor
Organization. The Polish
government conceded to
Solidarity the right to
represent all Polish
workers at the con-
ference.

Bombings rip
South Africa

Monday of Republic Day
festivities, marking the
nation’s break\ frpm the
British Commonwealth
and the beginning of a
minority white . ruled
republic controlled by
Dutch Afrikaners.

The suspected white
leftists calling themselves
The South African
Liberation Movement
firebombed three offices
of the major opposition
Progressive Federal
Party.

Belgian police
seek assassin

“This man is armed and
dangerous,” Belgian
police said Monday tn an
appeal for assistance in
finding the killer’ who
shot Naim Khader 41 as
he walked to his Brussels
Office “Everybody is
requested to look out
actively for him ~

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effectiveness and impact on
the neighborhood will be
assessed.

The meeting became quite
heated at times with five or
six dissenting neighbors
standing out from the 55
supporters attending the
informational session.

While Mayor Derrick
Humphreys emphasized a
number of times that this
meeting was to “deal with
the future”, the residents of
Ottawa Avenue could not
ignore the “disaster” of the
previous foster home.

From 1974 to the summer
of 1980, one woman — on
contract with human
resources — ran a foster
home at 1491 Ottawa. With
seven children of her own
and sometimes up to five
foster children, the house
was overcrowded and un-
derstaffed.

“We can't compare one
with the other,” said
Alderman Robert Hicks.

- “This proposal is very very
different than the previous
one.”

But Robert Chambers of
1455 Ottawa didn’t agree.

“The same people are
going to operate this new
home but in a_ different

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manner,” he said. Chambers
isn't against “motherhood or
homes for children” but “we
should deal with the symp-
toms of the disease — the
parents,” he said.

All four residents who
spoke against the project
emphasized that they would
be the ones to put up with
any problems that occur.

Almost all of the 25 letters
to council supported the
home and _= specifically
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community concerns.
Gillian Chetty, ®orth
Shore regional director from
the ministry of human
resources assured council
and the public that the home
would not be a remand or
holding centre — but a
preventative service that
would be well staffed.
The home, which is being
refurnished to house a
maximum of six children
between the ages of 11 and
16, will be a_ short-term
assessment centre.

Hut-

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it would be “unwise to
council that (the childre:
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