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UBC prof says Canada can afford to drop NATO ties

Montreal (CUP) If Canada abandoned all weapons-related ex- ports to NATO coun- tr1esy - the country would lose

only one-third of one.

per. cent of our gross

national product, said |

a University of British Columbia economist.

“Peanuts,” ~ said Gideon Rosenbluth. re- ferring to the relative importance of Canada’s $2 billion per year arms export industry, during a recent talk about the sconomics of he arms race.

This means Canada ould have little to ose economically by rctively ‘opposing Star

ars, nuclear weapons, American .

support of the contras, nd oe U.S. military

initiatives. But Rosen- bluth said we proba- bly wouldn’t take that step.

“Our overall eco- nomic dependence on the United States pre- vents Canadian govern- ments from operating independently in the political sphere,”- he said. Bs

In contrast, said Rosenbluth, a_ recent speech by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev made it clear the Soviet Union wants to stop the arms race for eco- nomic reasons. He said more of ‘the available resources: are used in the ‘Soviet economy. so materials turned into weapons have a higher

‘ opportunity cost.

“The

arms race might re-

sult in the collapse of the Soviet economic system. It’s rational if you start from an intense anti-communist attitude,” he said.

He said a major ob-

ical

stacle to non-military employment development in Canada and the U.S. is their governments’ “ideolog- bankruptcy with respect to employment creation.”’s

Govts’ science and iechnicloey policy skimpy

Ottawa (CUP) ederal, provincial and — erritorial ministers re- ponsible for

cience and technology -

ave finally agreed ona rmal national. policy, Ithough their agree- 1ent to co-operate may e the most significant oint of the accord.

A six-point state- ient of policy objec- ives was announced -

arch 12, although the prmal statement dif- ered little from. a.draft olicy agreed upon. last December.

Federal science and echnology - min- ster Frank Oberle said he “historic” agree- ent will “ensure that cience and technology re used to promote conomic,social and re- ional development in.

anada through ongo- |

lg co-operation among. overnments and be- een the public and tivate sectors.” Some. observers, owever, say the policy

to vague for the coun- —

ry’s needs. 5 | "On the — positive - ide, we're glad that hey’ve “agreed 0 agree,”

anadian — Association

f University Teachers. -

owever, they have

said Allan » harp, president of the -

not addressed any con- crete problems. We feel it is too vague for the country’s s problems, and very quickly.” Sharp mentioned “dwindling” government support for basic research as an example of an urgent problem: Ministers in an

attractively-

produced policy state- ment agreed to — aid Canada’s research and development effort, en- courage *“commer- cialization’ of technol- ogy” through innova- tion, and ensure a full slate of highly trained professionals. Minis- ters also agreed to “en- courage basic and ap- plied research and de- velopment”, assist pub- lic awareness. of science and technology. ‘ ~The Council of Sci- ence :

and Technology Minis-

ters, which was spe- cially created to mon- itor implementation of the policy, has struck

six working committees |

to study each objéctive. _ Before

the policy was formally . Vancou-. Sharp. called on

lay- aS said Chilvers, “It has

announced in ver, ministers. to be ’ ers, not cheerleaders”

in Ape Canada’s

research and develop- ment effort.

Sharp, less than im- pressed by the policy’s content, was‘also disap- pointed by the appar- ent. exclusion of univer- sity research in the an- nouncement.

*Tl have heard. it

said that all the uni-

versities produce a few

good engineers,” Sharp said. "Universities are an important part of the science commu- nity, and we are disap- pointed that this was not made more explicit (in the policy).”s

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NINE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE DOWNFALL OF THE HUMAN RACE THE RATS STILL HELD A GRUDGE.

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O'Keefe student

expects the boycotts di-

rected against O’Keefe _

to stop because of the change of : ownership.

ry “We connected.to Rothmans anymore so the boy- cott should end soon,” been

in: all the pa-

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pers that Rothmans sold O’Keefe. know there is no more connection.’

Robert Douglas: a member of Concordia Students Against Apartheid, said they will investigate Elders IXL to make sure they have no ties to South Africa before calling for

an end to the boycotts

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Campus police es- corted council . mem- bers out of the build- ing, while protestors occupied the chambers for more than 30 min- utes. The meeting was informally adjourned.

Governing council chair St. Clair Balfour said he expected some trouble at the meet- ing but “did not expect them: to make so. much noise for so long.” Bal- four said this was the second time in his eight years as chair that a meeting had ended be- cause of a disruptions

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