LONDON (UPI) - The
government refused
official comment Tuesday
on a claim by Canadian
Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau that British
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher promised him
last June Britain would
patriate’ the
constitution regardless of
provincial objections.

. “The only assurance
she has: given him was
that when a request for
patriation. of the con-
stitution is received, the
British government will
deal with it as ex-
peditiously as possible,” a
spokesman for Thatcher
said.

- He said the British
position remains un-

OTTAWA (UPC) -
More than 40,000
Canadians between the
ages of seven and 69 will
be tested for physical
fitness as part of a $2.9
million survey to
determine whether
Canadians are in better
shape now than 10 years
ago.

Launching the six-
month survey, Sports
Minister Gerald Regan
told reporters Monday

MONTREAL (UPC) -
Canadians never again
will enjoy 10-12 per cent
mortgage rates and the
residential construction
industry can only look
forward to modest growth
over the next five years,
say Officials of the
Housing and Urban
Development Association
of Canada.

OSLO, Norway (UPI) -
Polish labor leader Lech
Walesa, Zimbabwe Prime
Mimster Robert Mugabe
and former President
Jammy Carter are among
those who have been
nominated for the 1981
Nobel Peace prize. the
Nobcl Institute an-
nounced today

The missing Swedish
diplomat Raoul
Wallenberg, = reportedly

ritain declines
torespond

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Housing growth
only moderate

Peace prize
nominees named

changed from what it was
Dec. 9, 1980, when
Thatcher was questioned
in parliament about the
Canadian constitutional
issue.

“Her reply then,” the
spokesman recalled, “was
that we had not yet
received a request for
patriation of the con-
Stitution but that when we
do, it will be dealt with as
expeditiously as
possible.”

The spokesman refused
comment on the growing
parliamentary imbroglio
in Ottawa over

constitution issue and

‘what exactly Trudeau and

Thatcher said to each
other when they met last
June.

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that testing teams would
be entering more than
13,000 homes by July to
see if Canadians were
physically fit.

“We know a lot of
Canadians are more
active today than 10 years
ago but we don’t
specifically know
whether the vast number
are still sitting in front of
the boob-tube and that
we're only seeing the
minority outside in ac-
tion,” Regan said.

HUDAC, which groups

some 6,000 members
from 77 affiliated
associations across the
country, forecast in a
report to its annual
national conference
Monday a 13 percent

increase in housing starts
this year over 1980, or
180,000 units.

alive in a Soviet prison 34
years after being arrested
by the Red Army, also
was nominated, the in
stitute said Soviet
authoritaes have said he
died of a heart attack

Altogether, the Nobcl
organization has recetved
nominations of more than
60 “serious candidates.”
Institute Director Jacob
Sverdrup said.

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A 47-year-old man who
pleaded guilty to -his third
drinking driving offence in
the last three years had his
drivers licence cancelled

Wednesday and was given a
prison sentence by Judge

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take “five or six days” to

complete. If supported by
the membership, ~ the
association would then be in
a legal position to strike.
Meanwhile, Municipal
Manager Terry Lester, chief
megotiator for the

municipality, said the two

sides were still talking.

If the negotiations broke
down, he indicated that the
municipality would request
the services of a mediator —
a step which would postpone
immediate strike action

‘pending efforts by the

mediator
dispute.

The WVMEA, which is
bargaining on behalf of some
200 West Van municipal
employees, is seeking new
contract terms described by
Marshall as “identical” to
those being demanded by
the striking Canadian Union

to resolve the

“couver,

J.B. Paradis.

Described as a man who
“for the great part of his life
has basically been on the
road to destruction,”
William Lister, of Van-
appeared for sen-

of Public Employees in its
battle with other Greater
Vancovuer municipalities.

Up to now West Van
residents have been shielded
from the worst in-
convenience of the strike in
North Vancouver and other
areas — garbage disposal.

Until the WVMEA strike
vote is completed, door-to-
door garbage pickup is
expected to continue, with
garbage being stockpiled at
the former West Van dump
on 3rd Street. Normally it is
transported to the now
strike-bound North Van-
couver dump on Premier
Steet.

Lester told The News that,
unlike Premier Street, West
Van's 3rd Street dump is not
open to the general public
for individual garbage
disposal because of the
likelihood that it would
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Crown Counsel on a very fine thread.”
Paruk told the court that He said Lister had chronic
Lister was charged March 30 insomnia and other.

after he approached an off- problems which made drugs

duty policeman for help in and -alcohol “his only
getting his car unstuck from salvation.”
the end of Montroyal Judge J.B. Paradis

Boulevard.

The RCMP officer called
on-duty police who tested
Lister and found him to have
a blood alcohol level of .14.

Paruk said Lister had also
been convicted of drinking
driving offences in 1978 and
1979.

She said the Crown's.
primary concern was that
Lister is “unable or unwilling

.. to get some sort of grip on
his alcohol or drug abuse.”

described Lister as
damentally. neurotic and
compulsive,” and said
“clearly the protection of the
public is the key in this
case.”

Paradis sentenced Lister
to 30 days imprisonment to
be served on weekends.

Saying that the possibility
of Lister ever becoming
a safe driver “is unlikely,”
Paradis also cancelled his ©
licence.

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