Crisis ends but rights linger in Canada after FLQ arrests
Montreal report notes 85 day kidnap crisis ends with arrests of Jacques Rose Paul Rose and Francis Simard linked to the Laporte murder case. Trudeau government keeps emergency powers, awaiting investigations. Victoria days and political tensions persist as Ottawa hints at no immediate lift of detentions or anti-terror laws.
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Montreal
UPI
Quebec
St. Luc
Jacques and
Paul Rose
Francis Simard
Pierre Laporte
Canada
Pierre Trudeau
Laporte
Michael Viger
Rose Brothers
Simard
James R. Cross
Ottawa
FLQ
Jerome Choquette
Manchester
Guy
Sophia Loren
Marcello Mastroianni
Met
Charlton Heston
Harte Theatre
Harte
Williamstown
Coast Guard hunts for 21 crew of sinking tanker Chryssi
Coast Guard aircraft scour the Atlantic for 21 missing crewmen from the Panamanian tanker Chryssi after it began breaking up in heavy seas. A Norwegian vessel rescued 17 survivors including the captain near the scene. Weather hampers searches for more missing from the Ragny and an American freighter incident.
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Elizabeth City
N. C
UPI
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Chryssi
Ragny
New Jersey
Geneva
Ross
Manson defense ridicules Kasabian witness in trial
Los Angeles UPI reporting notes defense attorney Paul Fitzgerald attacking Linda Kasabian as an unreliable key witness in the Tate murders case. He argued immunity skews her credibility and warned the jury to distrust an accomplice’s testimony while outlining the premeditation requirement for first degree murder.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Tate
Charles Manson
Paul Fitzgerald
Linda Kasabian
Fitzgerald
Manson
Irving Kanarek
Susan Atkins
Patricia Krenwinkel
Leslie van Houten
Laird Eyeing Lower Draft and Higher Pay
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said an all volunteer Army by 1973 hinges on better pay and benefits. He expects recruiting gains to reduce 1971 draft calls from 163,500, though not predicting exact reductions. He noted about half of the 1971-72 defense budget will go to salaries, up from 49 percent.
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Washington
UPI
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Congress
Nixon
Franco summons cabinet to weigh Basque deaths
Generalissimo Franco convened an extraordinary cabinet session in Burgos to consider demands for clemency on death sentences for six Basque nationalists. Vatican and governments including West Germany Italy Ireland and Sweden urged leniency as protests erupted in San Sebastian.
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Burgos
Spain
UPI
Francisco Franco
Vatican
West Germany
Italy
Ireland
Sweden
Franco
Tomas Garcia Rebull
Garcia Rebull
San Sebastian
Assasins
Meliton Manzanas
Eugen Reihl
Beihl
Enrique Tierno Galvan
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First National Stores
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Underwood
Richard Vachon
Bennington
Vermont
Saye
oiSeiSa
Tinsel
Connecticut
Llight
Paris
Tussy
Monument Plaza
Rte
SUN & Hol
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