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Eleven vehicies damaged in . Van high- speed car chase

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He’ escaped from the south wing °

of Oakalla along with Kingswell — who was recaptured fast month and is awaiting trial on a first- degree murder charge — while the two were part of a work crew. The two scrambled: over a barbed wire fence after overpowering a guard at knifepoint and climbing through a fire escape window.

Vancouver Police charged Bowers with’ one count of armed robbery Thursday after identified as the suspect involved in an April 4 armed robbery of a Vancouver Toronto Dominion bank.

: Possible West Vancouver Police charges are pending against Bowers for dangerous driving or

- criminal negligence. Bowers also faces ‘further charges by Burnaby ‘RCMP in connection with the prison escape. ‘,

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WEST VANCOUVER Police. ~ Survey the twisted wreckage at 13th Street and Marine Drive in

the aftermath

of Tuesday’s

high-speed chase by West Van-

couver Police

of Oakalla

escapee John Roy Bowers. An elderly couple in the VW Jetta suffered neck injuries and facial lacerations after their car. was - struck by Bowers in his bid to

escape police capture.

a THE B. C. Federation. of Labor (BCFL). has: lifted its: boycott of Capilano College’ s labor:studies program.

Federation Fawkes said the issue was resolved “in--a’ recent’ meeting between the college and the federation.

- “We reached an’.understanding ° . , of what would be of: fered and what.’

would not be offered,)’ he said. ‘It was settled amicably.” :

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The boycott was instituted after BCFL officials said the college had expanded (its program -to Nanaimo's Malaspina College without consulting the federation,

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and had refused to i along with federation and . Canadian. Labor Congress guidelines regarding “tools courses’’, which deal with

such things as labor: grievance pro- ©

cessing and ‘provide training for shop stewards and ‘other union leadership positions.

Ed Lavalle, administrative coordinator for the| callege’ S pro- gram, said Tuesday the, tools courses sponsored by unions would

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now be advertised in ‘brochures. separate from those used to adver- tise general registration, and tools courses registration would: ii £0, through unions.

‘We're very pleased the poycott | has been © lifted,"’ Lavalle «said. “And we think everybody can have a better working relationship because of this." +

College president Dr. Doug Jar- dine said in a previous News story

North Van declared. nuclear free

: THE NORTH sHrone is now officially a nuclear weapons free’ zone all the way from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove.

North’ Vancouver City Council made the zone complete Monday ‘when ‘they declared their city nu- ‘clear ' weapons free, joining the ; districts of West Vancouver and _ North ‘Vancouver ’ ‘and 52 ‘other: .. towns’ and districts. which had _already done so.

“Declaring North Vancouver é

‘City a nuclear. | weapons free zone will not make us immune from the effects of war but it will influence both national” and international .behavior® before. war breaks out, -thus helping reduce the likelihood of war,”’ said Ald. Barbara Sharp, : ‘who introduced the motion. :

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Council also decided to set up a” committee ;with West Vancouver and : the district to “determine of awareness’’ of the nuclear threat.

Ald. Bill Bell asked why a simi- lar motion hadn’t been passed be- fore. 4 i

“AS the North Shore News said {in an’ editorial) on the weekend, we need to educate people,’ about the danger of nuclear weapons,’ he said. i

increasing . public. ostorage,

The move coincided with a letter

from the district of Squamish ; in-,

viting the city to support a similar motion by the Union, of. B.C.

; Municipalities.

~The. UBCM. resolution, which

‘the city voted to support, petitions’ “the. provincial ‘declare: the : Province of British Columbia ‘a; nuclear weapons-free :

government to

zone in, which the’ manufacture, ‘distribution, testing, and/or storage of nuclear weapons ' ‘ot. their components vis hibited:”” aw

The material accompanying the resolution shows that™ towns and districts declaring themselves nu--

» clear weapons free represent over

60 percent of B.C.’s population. The. North Vancouver City mo-

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tion ~ asks the "provincial L ernment to ask the federal BgY-. ernment to ban nuclear weapons from Canadian ports. It also asks, B.C. to encourage Ottawa to push™ the Soviets and Americans “in/ the} name of all humanity, to intensify ° their efforts to achieve’ mutual/and verifiable arms reductions."*

/ The ports are, singled} out

because they are separately] con- :

‘trolled by the federal government, “ said Sharp. : / Ald.\Rod Clark v was the sole Op- ponent of the: nuclear weapons zone motion. : i “T think it’s fluff, ” he said, ad- ‘ding, “1 do not, support an

unabashed peace movement when f it's not being responded te by the;

other side."”

that he failed to see the’ reasons behind the boycott.

‘Capilano College, he said, “was: just trying to fulfil its mandate off servicing the community’s educa‘ _ tional needs.

gram began in 1975 and was previously boycotted by the feder-

‘ation in 1979. That boycott had never been officially revoked or’; resolved. i

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