Trudeau's cabinet ends with no decision on election timing
Prime Minister Trudeau faces lingering questions as the second cabinet meeting ends without a firm call for a new election. Paul Martin resigns Essex East seat, Maurice Trudeau to appoint Senate role. Cabinet remains divided with Liberal and Conservative voices weighing election timing.
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Paul Marstin
Essex East
Clerk of the Commons
Martin
Trudeau
Senate
Liberals
Conservatives
NDP
Creditistes
Social Credit
Mr. Trudeau
Commons
Cabinet
Separatists divided on English minority in Quebec
Montreal CP report notes a rift within Rene Levesque's sovereignty movement over English speaking rights. Aquin led calls to end subsidies to English schools and impose English language limits, while Levesque backed official French status yet kept subsidies. Negotiations for unity with existing separatist parties begin, with fears of a moderate faction losing influence.
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Montreal
Quebec
Rene Levesque
Canada
Levesque
Mr. Levesque
Francois Aquin
Quebec Liberal Federation
Mr.Levesque
Liberal Party
Aquin
Republic of
Mr. Aquin
Rassemblement Pour Fl’independance Nationale
Ralliement National
Powell expelled from Conservative shadow cabinet over race warning
Britain's race row splits the Conservative party as Enoch Powell is expelled from the shadow cabinet. Reginald Maudling takes defence duties, Alec Douglas-Home handles Commonwealth affairs, while other right wingers denounce the move. John Jennings calls it a tragedy.
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London
Britain
Enoch Powell
Edward Heath
Powell
Defence
Labor
Reginald Maudling
Alec Douglas-Home
John Jennings
Local citizen group considers injunction to halt city pool plan
Muza's committee may hire Milt Harradence to file an injunction against using city reserves for an indoor pool under the B-1 plan. The group plans legal action and to run candidates to defeat pro pool incumbents ahead of October elections.
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Muza
Harradence
Milt Harrandence
Calgary
Lan
Medicine Hat
Chuck Meagher
Mr. Muza
Committee
Ford reaches a settlement with its Canadian workers
A six day strike by more than 11 000 Ford of Canada workers ended Sunday with a compromise contract set to be reviewed by the United Auto Workers council. Meetings were planned for ratification and the deal centers on rest periods totaling 54 minutes split into four blocks.
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Toronto
Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd
United Auto Workers
Talbotville
St. Thomas
Ont
Union
Ford Car and Truck
Oakville
Windsor
Niagara Falls
Orts
United States Auto
Workers defy court orders in fifth day of U S phone strike
AFL-CIO Communications Workers defied back to work orders in Alabama and Kentucky as the nationwide strike nears day five. CIA President Beirne calls court actions anti union and says injunctions hinder settlement. AT T says service largely steady. Bell Canada reports little impact from the U S stoppage.
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Washington
Afl-Cio
U.S
CIA
Joseph A Beirne
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Alabama
Kentucky
Diamonds Missing in Wreck of South African Jetliner
A $700 000 shipment of diamonds disappeared in the crash wreckage of a South African Airways Boeing 707 near Windhoek South-West Africa. 122 people were killed, six survived including American diplomatic courier Thomas Taylor who was found at the scene and said keep going. The pouches he carried from Johannesburg to London were recovered Sunday. Taylor, 36, was later reported in good condition.
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Windhoek
South-West Africa
Thomas Taylor
U.S
Johannesburg
South Africa
South African Airways
London
Taylor
NDP Leader Claims Trudeau Has Cold Feet About Parliament
Toronto Nat ional Leader T. C. Douglas told a York West nominating convention that Prime Minister Trudeau has cold feet about meeting Parliament and apologized if wrong. The Liberals hope for an election date around June 25 due to slow election machinery.
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Toronto
T. C. Douglas
New Democratic Party
Trudeau
New
Federal
York West
Sharp
Liberal Party
McCarthy calls for Rusk firing and Hoover retirement
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy urges State Secretary Dean Rusk be fired and says FBI chief J Edgar Hoover should retire. He also labels Nixon’s anti poverty promises dishonest and urges an $8 billion budget cut to curb inflation. Humphrey predicts a tougher race and plans to seek the Democratic nomination.
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Washington
Eugene J. McCarthy
Dean Rusk
Senate
Mike Mansfield
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Richard M. Nixon
McCarthy
Nixon
Johnson
United States
Pope urges aid as poverty grows for the poor
In Beirut Pope Paul VI says the impatience of the poor is rising and demands urgent aid from rich nations. In Korea three North Koreans die and three Americans are wounded as fighting erupts in the U.S. sector. In Tehran UN chief U Thant warns that racial conflict is a dangerous global threat.
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Beirut, Lebanon
Paul
Tehran
Reuters
U Thant
Weekend Toll Rises to Sixty in Canada Crashes
The Canadian Press reports at least 59 deaths across Canada over the weekend with 44 attributed to traffic accidents.
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Canada
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