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Dear Editor

Sometime within the next two weeks, the Canadian government will sign an agreement with the United States to permit testing of the Cruise Missile weapons system in northern Alberta.

The signing of the agreement has been severely and justifiably criticized: the

umbrella agreement has not been introduced in a way that allows public debate. A Fecent pol indicated that a majority of Canadians

and a number of Con- servative and Liberal MPs also oppose it.

The Cruise Missile represents a giant slep forward in the escalation of the arms race. The cruise missile is a “first strike” weapon; an offensive weapon designed to initiate a nuclear war.

It is a jet propelled delivery system that travels a pre-programmed flight path, carrying a 200 kiloton warhead to a selected target

up to 4000 kitonietrés away. . 200-—kiletons—is—smrait by ~ way 16

WHEN THE QUEEN sails into Vancouver harbor Wednesday, March 9, aboard the royal yacht “Britannia”, the motor vessel ‘“‘Union Jack”, chartered by the West Vancouver Legion, will be among the flotilla of local craft escorting her across English Bay and through the First Narrows.

The “Union Jack” will depart from North Van- couver at 7 a.m. to meet the

-tegion escort for Queen

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“Britannia” off Point Grey about 8:30 a.m. and will return to North Van by It a.m.

Tickets at $25 each, in- cluding light refreshments aboard, are almost sold out but a few are still available to members of the public on a first-come-first-served basis.

To reserve a place on the “Union Jack” for this historic occasion, call Dorothy Hancock at 922-9657 as soon as possible.

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present day standards, but it is 15 times more powerful than the bomb that levelled Hiroshima. The missile is guided by a sophisticated radar tracking system and the Cruise will fly so close to the ground that it will be undetectable by radar.

How will Soviet planners respond, knowing that the bulk of their strategic ar- senal and their land based missiles are at risk? In a time of extreme crisis it'll be a question of “use them or lose them”. Clearly this is not a

the cruise cannot developed, it will not be deployed. A key step in preventing nuclear war is for us as Canadians to refuse the Cruise.

Say no to flight testing of the Cruise Missile testing over Canadian territory. Phone and repister your opposition: 112-613-992- 4211.

North Shore Disarmament Coalition

Marni Baxter,

Joanie Chestnut, —

‘deter the use of nuclear weapons.

We must work to stop the Cruise Missile now. If a weapon cannot be tested, and if the tracking system for

Stephen Howard, Rhonda Lavigne, Philip Link, Catherine Ludgate, Marc Rovner, Cindy Shore

effort,

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core makes no difference) is accepted in our homes it can degrade not only women. but men, women and children.

It is unfair trade practice for a possible minority, for profit, to use Pay T.V. to encourage violence and corruption in our society. To try to justify their actions by saying it is okay if people pay for Pay T.V. is sheer bare- faced deceit.

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