Planes collide over Mountain View killing 16 on golf course
NASA Convair 990 and Navy P-3 Orion collide while approaching Moffett Field in Mountain View California. Sixteen onboard dead, one critically injured. Debris spreads over Sunnyvale golf course as fire rages. Navy orders board of investigation.
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Mountain View
Calif
Ron Kimball
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
U.S. Navy
David Frame
Sunnyvale
Navy
Moffett Field
Moffett
Bill Brand
Ketchum
Idaho
Brand
California
Britain raids 100 homes in six cities for IRA bomb experts
London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and Coventry staged dawn raids by more than 500 detectives with sniffer dogs as police seized timing devices and batteries. Fourteen men were questioned as Scotland Yard warned of possible IRA activity ahead of the 1916 Easter rising anniversary. March 8 blasts in London killed one and injured over 240.
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London
Scotland Yard
Glasgow
Birmingham
Manchester
Liverpool
Coventry
Scotland
England
Dublin
Old Bailey Central Criminal Court
North Vietnamese may have shot ICCS helicopter
Canadian ambassador Michel Gauvin told the ICCS a "reasonable possibility" exists that North Vietnamese troops shot down the peace helicopter that killed Capt. Charles Laviolette and eight others. He urged a full official investigation with findings due within days.
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Saigon
Michel Gauvin
Canada
Charles Laviolette
International Commission of Control and Supervision
ICCS
Gauvin
Indonesia
Poland
Duncan McAlpine
Highlands
Hue
Daniel Gagnon
Montreal
Edmonton Premier voice on wage and price controls
Premier Peter Lougheed expressed scant enthusiasm for federal PC calls to freeze prices for 90 days arguing it could hurt low income Canadians. He warned against an easy solution and said careful assessment of impacts is needed. He noted ongoing Canada Safeway litigation and would not comment further outside the legislature.
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Gagnon
Ray Parsons
Red Deer
Alta
Gen. Gagnon
Edmonton
Peter Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Party
George Ho Lem
Calgary McCall
Federal
Lougheed
Canada
Mr. Lougheed
Lang assures Commons about grain supplies
OTTAWA CP Opposition MPs pressed Minister Otto Lang on grain shortages but he said near 915 million bushels of grain remain in commercial stocks and on farms, enough for about a year and to cover until the July 31 accounting year end. He cited heavy sales and a 1970 program paying farmers to reduce wheat area as factors lowering stocks. The drought risk on the Prairie belt added to concerns.
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Ottawa
Otto Lang
Canadian Wheat Board
Lang
Commons Trade Committee
Wheat Board
Jack Horner
Crowfoot
Norval Horner
Battleford- Kindersley
Maple Avenue Bridge tenders slightly above city estimates
Bids for Maple Avenue Bridge total 2,815,330, just 7,330 over the city estimate of 2,808,000. Commonwealth Construction of Calgary bid 2,067,330 for roadways and main structure, Con-Force Products Calgary bid 748,000 for concrete girders. Second low was Watson Construction Ltd 2,818,462.25. City review to verify standards. award expected in 7 to 10 days. work to begin end of May with bridge opening in October 1974. Total project cost 3,562,000 with province paying 2,279,400 and city 1,282,800.
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Maple Avenue
Public Works Committee
Commonwealth Construction
Calgary
Con-Force Products
Watson Construction Ltd
Milt Reinhardt
Department of Highways
Alberta seeks federal ok to open Suffield range for cattle
The Alberta government asks Ottawa to open part of the British Block at Suffield for summer cattle grazing due to drought. Agriculture Minister Hugh Horner said the move, supported by MP Bert Hargrave and petitions, follows consultation with National Defence Minister James Richardson. Environment Minister Bill Yorke said environmental danger is not greater than normal though grass fires from shells worry him.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Ottawa
Suffield
Hugh Horner
Keith French
National Defence
James Richardson
Horner
French
Walter Buck
SC — Clover Bar
Bill Yorke
Yurko
Yorke
Richardson
Bow Island Man Killed In Workshop Accident
Bow Island Alberta details say Russell George Baldwin aged 28 was fatally struck in a workshop when a tire rim blew off while he serviced a tire from an earth moving machine. The incident occurred Thursday in Bow Island about southwest of Medicine Hat.
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Bow Island
Alta
Russell George Baldwin
Medicine Hat
Baldwin
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Denny Castillo
PO Bruce N. Mallibert
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
MEM
Pease Drive
Harold Morrison
Lao Bao
PRG
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Vietnam
Suffield Range
Harry Strom
SC — Cypress
Drowning Ford
Hargrave
Trans- Canada Highway
Park Lane Motor Hotel
1St St. $.W
Gordon Knight
Braemar St
Hilda
Harrison
Lorraine van Hollen
Medicine Hat General Hospital
Jim Bradley
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