September 23, 1987
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Vol. 50, No. 35

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Soviet women: striving for a new
place in a rapidly changing society

Delegates to the End the Arms
peace conference — whose ©

Race

Opening coincided with the historic

announcement of a_ U.S.-Soviet
agreement to eliminate intermediate

and short-range nuclear weapons

— voted unanimously to welcome

the proposed treaty and to urge the

Canadian government to press for
_ its speedy ratification by both Con-
gress and the Supreme Soviet.

The resolution, one of several —
adopted by the weekend province-
wide peace meeting, also called on
Ottawa to “follow up and press for
further breakthroughs on_ halting
nuclear testing, abolishing chemical

| and biological -weapons;eliminating».
__ strategic arms and reducing conven-
_ tional arms.”

The historic INF agreement,
which has been a central foreign pol-
icy objective of Soviet leader Mik-
hail ‘Gorbachev virtually since he
became leader in 1985, was an-
nounced Sept. 18. Seviet foreign

- minister Eduard Shevardnadze and
U.S. Secretary of State George
Shultz are to meet again next month
to work out the final details of the

Earlier story, page 8
' White paper, page 11
Soviet contacts, page 11
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_ agreement and to set a venue and an
agenda for a summit meeting
_ between U.S. President Ronald
Reagan and Gorbachev.
_ The announcement came the
_ Same day that EAR was launching
_its conference with a public forum
_ on the federal government’s conten-
‘tious white paper — ironically, a
_ document which calls for an intensi-
_ fied arms buildup.

EAR president Frank Kennedy
told the forum audience that they
would “remember this day for a
long time to come because of the
agreement which was reached this
morning.”

The white paper itself was the sub-_
ject of a detailed resolution endorsed
by conference delegates Sunday. It
noted that the paper was based on _
“outdated concepts of deterrence
and ‘the enemy’ (and) fails to recog-
nize the greatest threat to Canadians’
is nuclear war ....”

It called on the federal govern-

ment to: Chanting ‘Hyundai no!,’ some 500 trade unionists demonstrated outside the offices of the South Korean consulate in

© Hold extensive national public downtown Vancouver Tuesday to protest the action of the huge conglomerate in teaming up with anti-union contractor
hearings on the policies of the J.C. Kerkhoff to build two major construction projects — the Fraser River ALRT bridge in Surrey and the Old Man River
defence white paper before any steps dam in Alberta — non-union. Called by the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council and bolstered by delegates to the B.C.
are taken to implement them; Fed conference on Bill 19, the demonstration was also aimed at dramatizing the Building Trades’ continuing boycott of

see DEFENCE page 2 Hyundai products, including the Hyundai Stellar, Pony and Excel cars.