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leaders have called their
victories in “by-elections
' 4n-Quebec and. Ontario a
clear signal of the govern-
ment’s unpopularity while
Prime Minister Trudeau
has praised his defeated

- candidates for their hard-
fought.campaigns.

“I share “your dis-

appointment with the

results-of the election and
am saddened to know you
won't be joining us in
Parliament this time,”
Trudeau wrote Jim Coutts
Tuesday. Coutts, his
former principal
secretary, was defeated in

1 the Toromo viding of

Spadina.
New Democrat Ed
Broadbent told reporters
that he was. delighted with
“the smashing victory” of
local alderman Dan Heap
in Spadina because he
had emphasized the
economy, which the
Liberals had said was not
a-Campaipn issue.

Tory Joe Clark said
Roch LaSalle’s “sweeping
victory” in Joliette and
the strong showing of
Laura Sabia in Spadina
proved that Canadians
were fed up with the
Liberal government.

_ Soviets slam
_ neutron bomb

” GENEVA, Switzerland
- The Soviet Union
warned Tuesday it “will
take appropriate
measures” to counter
President Reagan's
decision to produce
neutron weapons.

It accused the United
States of wanting to
“translate into practice
the doctrine of a limited
nuclear war” and said
Moscow “cannot be a
passive onlooker.”

The Soviets made their
latest attack on the U.S.
decision at a meeting of

investigation

VANCOUVER - The
RCMP has widened its
investigation into the
slayings of three
youngsters and  disap-
pearance of five others in
the Lower Mainland to
include two other
murders, including one
dating back toa year ago.

RCMP Supt. Bruce
Northorp told reporters
at a news conference
Monday there was
minimal evidence at the
sites where the murdered
youngsters were found
and that the RCMP was
“settling in for a tong
investigation.”

But he said the stabbing
death last December of
Christine Weller, 12, of
Surrey, BC. and the

the 40-nation disarm-
ament Conference after a
similar sharp statement in
the same forum iast
week.

“In making its decision
to produce | neutron
weapons the U.S. ad-
ministration assumes a
heavy responsibility fe for
the consequences
step will have for a
farther development of
the international
situation,” Soviet chief
delegate Viktor L.
Issraelyan told the
conferesice Tuesday.

asphyxiation death last
August of Mary Ellen
Jamieson, 17, of Gibsons,
B.C, “almost fit" the
pattern of three other
murders now under in-
vestigation.

In Richmond,
RCMP Staff Sgt. John
Kovalick said he had
suggested a more actailed
inquiry into the death of
Weller for a possible link
to the murder or dis-
appearance of eight other
youngsters

The RCMP have
learned that another
missing youngster—a
sixth—Tern Lyn Carson,
once tived in the same
Surrey apartment
complex as Weller, who
was found dead of
multiple stab wounds.

B.C.

Death not
due to strike

The US Federal
Aviauon Administration
said Tuesday there 1s no
ovidence the strike by aur
traffic controllers, now in
us '7th day, was a factor
in the mid-air collision of
two small planes over San
Jose, Calif

Dennis teldman, an
FAA spokesman, said a
“qualified” non-striking
controliier—-and not a
substituting supervisor—
cleared the planes for
landing before the crash
which killed one person
and injured two others
Monday.

A‘coroner’s j jury has made
a -number of

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an 18-year-old man May 25
at the foot of Orwell Street |
in North Vancouver. ‘

Larry Quaife was _ elec-
trocuted when a crane boom:
struck a .12,000 volt B:C.
Hydro power line. Quaife,
and Robert McFarlane of
West Vancouver, were
holding a _ steel cable.
suspended from the crane at
the time of the accident.

McFarlane lost his left.
arm as a result of severe
burns suffered in the ac
cident. The crane operator
escaped injury.

A three-day inquest into =
the incident took place last ©
week and the coroner’s jury -
made the following eight |.

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