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A-t Oh Montreal, Saturday, May 20, 1 983 Liberal MPs neutral ut assistants plot ro-Chref ien tactics Polls have shown Chretien Is the frontninntT in the unofficial race to succeed Turner, with Montreal MP Paul Martin a distant second. No date for a convention has been set and it may be delayed tor op to a year. The Lynx group discussion deals with topics ranging from the timing oi we leadership convention to what the other camps will be using for ammunition against Chretien. McTeague said the group expects other leadership candidates to accuse Chretien of deserting the Liber als when the party needed him. OTTAWA (CP) Most Libera! members of Parliament remain mum about who they'll support for leadership of their party, but some parliamentary aides have been meeting for several weeks to plot strategy for Jean Chretien.

Chretien, who lost a bitter leadership battle to John Turner in 1984, hasn't officially declared his candidacy. Neither has anyone else. But about 20 legislative assistants, calling themselves the Lynx group, bad their first gathering before Turner announced two weeks ago that be would resign, said Dan McTeague, an aide to Toronto MP Derek Lee, "There was talk before the (Turner) announcement because we beard through media reports about the possibility of the leadership opening up," McTeague said. The legislative assistants attend with the knowledge of their bosses, be said. They also serve as an MP's eyes and ears, gathering Information while MPs maintain a public posture of neutrality.

"We're sort of the front lines for the MPs who are subject to peer pressure and caucus pressure," McTeague said. The group meets every Wednesday, with this week's gathering In the office of David Dingwall, MP for Chretien resigned from politics in 1986. But ChriUen supporters are pre paring a defence against that attack, be said. "We'll simply tear out a page or two oi neign or error," McTeague said. "That ought to explain why he naa to leave." Feign of Error Is book that takes a swipe at the way Turner and other Liberal officials ran the party after Turner won the leadership five years ago.

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It was first organized in 1983 by the former Liberal government but was taken over in 1985 by the Toronto-based Baxter Publishing Co. It is being held in the municipally owned Lansdowne Park in central Ottawa as usual. But city council recently decided not to rent space for the next exhibition in 1991. A coalition of peace groups plans to demonstrate against the exhibition this weekend. The Alliance for Non-Violent Action says its members will block access to the arms bazaar on Tuesday.

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