Justice E. Davie.

Fulton said Friday he had

resigned from the British
Columbia Supreme Court
because of a continuing

struggle with alcoholism _

and a belief justice would
- best be: served by his
stepping down.

. Ana statement released
“by his lawyer, Peter
Butler, the 65-year-old
judge, a former federal
justice minister and

threat of a crippling ferry
strike has disappeared.

After a  marathon-
bargaining
Thursday,
management
reached a
agreement
contract.

Details of the proposal
were withheld until a
union ratification vote,
expected to take a week
to 20 days.

Andy - McKechnie,
president of the B.C.
Ferry and Marine
Workers Union, said he

‘union and
bargainers
, tentative
on. a- new

VANCOUVER (UPC)

_ provincial
Vancouver Aug. 14 on a>

. blood
_ over

‘was .
majority of 2,500 ferry

session:

Baseball strike

leader of : the 85.C.

Conservative party, said -

the decision-was 4 “hard
and painful one’ but “the
right one:”

Fulton was to appear in
court... in

charge of driving with a

08. “The judge
pleaded guilty to a similar

charge.two.years ago and

was fined $500.

the

confident.

workers would accept the
pact, which the union
negotiating committee
was recommending.
Norm Thornber, chief
negotiator of the B.C.

Ferry Corp., said his
committee was also
recommending = ac-

ceptance of the proposed

_ Settlement.

Agreement was
reached with the help of
provincial mediator Fred
Geddes after a 22-hour
bargaining session which
ended early Thursday.

appears settled

NEW YORK - The
longest and most bitter
strike in major league
baseball history ended
Friday and players were
expected to take to the
diamond

again next
month.

The tentative
agreement was an
nounced by a federal
mediator after a
marathon, I1-hour
negotiating session that

extended into the carly
morning of the 49th day
of the strike.

Major leaguc owners

Thousands die

won a one-year extension
of baseball's basic
agreement, players
received accredited strike
service stnke time and a
player pool system was
adopted as the solution to
the free agent
pensation issue

com.

Ratification of the pact

which was expected
from both sides — would
allow the All-Star Game
to be played Aug 9 in
Cleveland The regular
season would resume the
following day

in Iranian quake

ANKARA, Turkcy
U.N. officials cstimated
8,000 people were killed
in the second devastating
carthquake to rock Iran
in seven weeks and
workers pulled hundreds
of bodies from mounds of
rubble, pushing the of
ficial death toll past
1,200.

relief
flew

lranian
Thursday
tents

teams
more
food and medical
supphes many
60 OOO people — directly
affected by the car

thquake that hit Kerman
province Tucsday

buildings
flattcning a
villages

lo as as

toppling and

string oof

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homes. in: ‘North’ “Vancouver
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