to start again

OTTAWA — Treasury
Board President Donald
Johnston said Tuesday
the striking postal union’s
acceptance of a mediator
in contract talks was a
“step towards unblocking
the impasse,” and hoped
it would lead to a
negotiated settlement.

Canadian Union of
Postal Workers president
Jean-Claude Parrot
earlier Tuesday agreed to
Johnston’s suggestion the
Public Service Staff
Relations board appoint a

mediator in an attempt to

get both sides back to the .

bargaining table.

“I accept it as a step to
unblocking the impasse,”
Johnston told reporters.
“Nothing has happened
except the (union’s)
acceptance of mediation
and we're starting down

the road, we hope.”
He declined further
comment adding the

mediator, who will be
appointed by the PSSR,
“should be allowed to do
his wo:

Thatcher blamed
for riots

LONDON - Opposition
Labor party leader
Michael Foot Tuesday
blamed Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher's
tough economic policies
for sparking the wave of
urban rioting that has
spread across. Britam,
causing an estimated $32
million in damage.

Foot also warned
against rushing through
tough new laws to combat
the violence, saying
national liberties were at
stake and that “changes
made in panic are often
bad laws.”

Ignoring government
threats of plastic bullets
and confinement at army
baseS, youths went on
looting and firebombing
sprees in an 11th straight
night of vandalism
Monday.

Foot said Mrs.
Thatcher’s Conservative
government's economic
cuts were to blame for the
bitterness in Britain’s
decaying city centers.

“She should give back
some of the money she
has taken from them,”
Foot said.

Squatters riot
in West Berlin

BERLIN - Youths
hurled stones at police
and set fire to debris in
the streets of West Berlin
until early Tuesday in the
second -atraight night of
squattem’ riots. Police
today said 19 people were
arrested in the clashes.

Three policemen and a
demonstrator were in-
jured in the disturbances
which swept the district
of Kreuzberg in the
American sector for four

hours Monday night
before subsiding carty
Tuesday, the police

spokesman said.

Police said about 100
youths built barncades,
set fire to debris and
stoned police in
Kreuzberg, where some
165 tenements have been
seized by squatters.

On Sunday, 5,000
demonstrators rampaged
through a fashionabic
suburb and were
dispersed by 1,000 police
using tear gas. Twenty
people were arrested and
three policemen’ were
injured

Israeli jets
down warplane

BEIRUT

Israch

Lebanon
warplanes shot
down a Syrian

Tuesday in a

jet
dogfight
over Lebanon, the Israch
mihtary command in tcl
Aviv said

A PLO

spokcsman

military
said Israch
warplancs pounded
several towns in southem
Lebanon tn a two pronged
attack

The downing of the jet

apparently was related to
the raid, the second tn 48

hours and the third since
the June 410) Israch
cle bons

The Palestine
Labcration Organization
said the raid began at 4
pm and was still in

progress an hour later

There
mediate
casualtics

were oo

reports of

North Vancouver District
residents will get their say on
Sunday shopping this fall *

but only on home im-

provement stores, and not

on wide open shopping.
Council’s” policy and

planning committee ap-

proved. Monday holding a
referendum on adding the
stores to a list of businesses
exempt from the province's
Holiday Shopping Act,
which requires all non-

exempt businesses to close
on Sundays and statutory

Crist WILL
be heard!

Motions by North
Vancouver Alderman
Ernie Crist WILL be
debated at the September
convention of the Union
of B.C. Municipalities in
Vancouver despite
dirty work by a
typographical. gremlin in

| last weekend's Sunday
News.
On Page Ali2 we

published a correction to
an earlier report which
had stated that the UBCM
would not be debating
any motions by Crist.

The Sunday News
report confirmed that
District council had, in
fact, approved motions
for the UBCM sponsored
by Crist on pollution
control legislation and
the disposal of hazardous
chemicals.

Due to an error in the
final production stages of
the paper the headline
from the earlier, in-
correct report (“UBCM
won't debate Crist
motions”) became at-
tached to the corrected
story.

The News apologizes to
Alderman Crist for any
annoyance and em-
barrassment caused by
this inadvertent
typographical slip-ap.

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‘provement centres. at the

holidays. (just) this one (exemption)”
Council had played this year, said Alderman
around with the idea of a Mary Segal.
referendum on wide-open District council- , ° ly 1 near
Sunday shopping, but must still formally approve Missing since July

decided to go for the more
limited referendum in 1981.
North Vancouver City has
already decided to hold a
referendum on home im-

the

same time as the November
municipal elections, and
asked the other two. North e
Shore councils if they were
willing to hold a referendum
at the same time.

West Vancouver has
deferred discussion of the
issue until next week.

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