Safety worries rise over Candu reactors under construction
Hydro-Quebec disclosed potential faulty tubing in steam generators at Gentilly Quebec Pickering Ontario and Pointe-Lepreau New Brunswick raising concerns about leaks of heavy water. Utilities were warned by Babcock and Wilcox Canada already. tests proceed for Pointe-Lepreau and Cordoba Argentina while Ontario Hydro halts boiler work at Pickering B.
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Canada
Hydro-Quebec
Candu
Hydro
Francine Charette
Gentilly
Que
Pickering
Ont
Pointe-Lepreau
N.B
Babcock and Wilcox Canada Ltd
Cambridge
Babcock and Wilcox
U.S
Three Mile Island
Pennsylvania
Ms. Charette
Toronto
Ontario
Pickering B
Halifax
Nova Scotia
John Buchanan
Gerald Regan
Commission
Quebec
Ottawa
Atomic Energy Control Board
Ontario Hydro
Cordoba
Argentina
Trevor Stevenson
Montreal
Saboteurs hit French reactor parts plant near Toulon
Police say saboteurs set three plastic charges at an industrial plant near La Seyne sur Mer, damaging components intended for Iraqi and Belgian nuclear projects. No injuries reported. estimated damage runs into millions. Officials stress no radiation risk detected.
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LA Seyne-Sur-Mer
France
Iraq
Mediterranean
Toulon
Kalkar
Rhineland Palatinate
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Three Mile Island
Harrisburg
Freighter in trouble on storm-tossed Lake Erie
The Canadian ore freighter Labradoc broke up in a storm on Lake Erie with 20 crew aboard. The U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian forces scrambled aircraft and a lifeboat to rescue crew as winds peaked near 50 knots and 15 metre waves. Unconfirmed reports said 10 crew were taken off. rescue operations continued with aircraft and cutters en route.
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Ashtabula
Ohio
Labradoc
Lake Erie
U.S. Coast Guard
Ray Massey
Coast Guard
Labrador
Great Lakes
Massey
Detroit
Canadian Mariner
Joseph Amato
U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Centre
Cleveland
Canadian Coast Guard
Griffin
Port Colborne
Ont
Cape Cod
Mass
Teachers' strike threat ends after wage deal in Alberta
Rural Alberta teachers avoid strike as SASAA reaches a nine per cent raise through mediation. Ray Clark says 10 of 17 SASAA trustees approved. minutes will record a board vote. Over 1,100 teachers faced a strike vote after a breakdown in talks over a two-year contract.
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Alberta
Southern Alberta School Authorities Association
SASAA
Ray Clark
Medicine Hat
Redcliff
Lethbridge
Refugees labeled subversive by RCMP officers in 1970s Canada
Former solicitor general Warren Allmand said RCMP security service officers viewed Chilean refugees who opposed the 1972 junta as subversive. He testified at a royal commission that many refugees were not necessarily radicals. He noted Canada had no foreign intelligence service and relied on others for clues.
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Ottawa
Rcmp Security Service
Salvador Allende
Warren Allmand
Allmand
RCMP
Security Service
Allende
Chile
Canada
Americas
Royal Commission
Valley Park Tabloid Focuses on River Valley Plans
A special Valley Park Tabloid supplement in The NEWS invites public response on development options for the South Saskatchewan River valley and its tributaries in Medicine Hat and Redcliff. The insert aims to reach nearly every home through special deliveries.
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Valley Park
South Saskatchewan River
Medicine Hat
Redcliff
Stay of execution granted in Evans case
Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist granted a stay delaying the execution of John Louis Evans 3rd in Alabama to at least 5 p.m. Friday April 13 to consider Betty Evans's appeal. The order requires Alabama Corrections Commissioner Larry Bennett to respond and for Mrs Evans to explain the delay before filing further in federal court.
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Holman Prison
Here
Rehnquist
Larry Bennett
Alabama Corrections Commissioner
Tanzanian Forces Close on Kampala as Libyans Retreat
Tanzanian troops and Ugandan rebels push remnants of Idi Amin's forces from Kampala while Libyan defenders withdraw toward Jinja. Exile sources say Libyans may flee Uganda, with about 7,000 to 7,600 invaders overall and Amin’s loyalists still holding sites like Nakasero.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Idi Amin
Kampala
Uganda
Amin
Jinja
Libya
Nakasero
Mukono
Lake Victoria
Hudson's Bay Trading Halt Amid Weston Bid
Hudson's Bay Co shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange were halted as shareholders weigh a revised Weston offer. The Winnipeg retailer, known as the Bay, rose to 33.88 from 23 amid talks of a directors meeting to review the Weston bid and a competing Thomson family proposal.
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Toronto
Hudson's Bay Co
Toronto Stock Exchange
George Weston Ltd
Hudson's Bay
the Bay
Weston
Bay
Kenneth Thomson
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
Metropolitan Edison
Robert Bernero
Carter
Bernero
Dick Thornburgh
Sage Ellis
Daniel Lander
Evans
By Wayne King
Federal District Court
Alabama
Ugandan
National Liberation Front
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