Calgary strike ends Burials to resume
Calgary workers end 55 day strike with CUPE Local 37 approval of a new contract. Burial of 99 bodies held in hockey arenas will begin after a 80 percent vote, with foremen to vote on a similar offer. The package includes a six percent raise this year, a similar raise next year, a cost of living clause and a $500 bonus. Mayor Alger expressed dissatisfaction while Ron Brown cited union gains amid two remaining obstacles.
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Calgary
Canadian Union of Public Employees
CUPE
Ross Alger
Alger
Ron Brown
Cupe Local 37
Police hunt for Aldo Moro after call claims he is free
Rome police and helicopters searched a 21st kilometre point on Via Pontina after an anonymous woman caller told Il Messaggero Moro had been freed near a farmhouse on the outskirts of Rome. Authorities found no one, amid a flood of hoax tips and ongoing Moro kidnapping coverage.
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Aldo Moro
Il Messaggero
Moro
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Messaggero
Christian Democratic
Tl Messaggero
Gerolamo Mechelli
Mechelli
Lazio
Doned
II Messaggero
Christian Democrat
Italy
Christian Democratic Party
Prospero Gallinari
Corrado Alunni
Enrico Bianco
Patrizio Pecci
Franco Pinna
Valerio Morucci
Susanna Ronconi
Oriana Marchioni
Adriana Faranda
Gallinari
Alunni
Bianco
Pecci
Miss Ronconi
Miss Marchioni
Pinna
Marucci
Miss Faranda
Air Force
Turin
Kurt Waldheim
Sun Life moves head office to Toronto in paper move
Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada policyholders ratified a management decision to relocate the head office from Montreal to Toronto. At a Toronto meeting Tuesday more than 84 percent approved what president Thomas Galt described as a "paper move."
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Toronto
Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada
Thomas Galt
Galt
Sun Life
Canada
Quebec
Quebec City
Jacques Parizeau
Parizeau
Bomb attack kills tourists in West Bank
A bomb was thrown through a bus window in Nablus, fatally injuring two West German tourists and wounding six. The Holy Land pilgrimage group was returning to Jerusalem after a Galilee tour when the explosion occurred. Ambulances rushed the injured to hospital as Israeli forces sealed the area.
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Reuter
West Bank
Jordan
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Galilee
Nablus
Israel
RCMP break-ins ruled legal by government lawyers
Government lawyers told MPs that about 400 RCMP break-ins without warrants were legal operations. Justice officials argued the procedures were lawful and tied to previous McDonald commission discussions, with possible prosecutions if illegal acts were beyond government instructions. The roadblock in Grand Falls NB shows farmers pressing for a national potato marketing plan.
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RCMP
Royal Commission
Jean-Jacques Blais
The
Commons
Blais
Justice Department
McDonald Commission
John Rodriguez
NDP
Nickel Belt
Rodriguez
Bill Jarvis
Perth Wilmot
Francis Fox
Commission
Jarvis
Grand Falls
N.B
Darrel McLaughlin
National Farmers Union
Charlottetown
Ryan urges slower pace for Quebec change under Liberal leader
Claude Ryan tells 1,600 at Chamber of Commerce that Quebeckers want progress at a wiser pace not radical. He hints at running in Notre Dame de Grace and says Liberal program will include regional reorganization of Canada while pressing PQ to hold a referendum soon.
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Montreal
Claude Ryan
Quebec Liberal Party
Chamber of Commerce
Ryan
Notre Dame de Grace
Bryce Mackasey
Quebec
Canada
Parti Quebecois
Namibia independence plan nears approval amid Western compromise
UN and Western powers moved toward a Namibia settlement as Pretoria signaled readiness to accept a Western plan for independence. SWAPO response remains pivotal while UN supervision would oversee ceasefire and elections with reduced South African forces by election day.
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South-West Africa
Pretoria
Namibia
Canada
Don Jamieson
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Jamieson
Britain
France
West Germany
U.S
South-West Africa People’s Organization
SWAPO
Sam .Nujoma
General Assembly
Five Powers
South Africa
Assembly
Security Council
Dutch artist slashes Van Gogh self portrait in Amsterdam museum
A Dutch artist discharged from a mental hospital used a pocket knife to slash Van Gogh Self-Portrait in Grey Hat at the Vincent van Gogh state museum. Police valued the work at $1.5 million. The attacker was overpowered. restoration is uncertain.
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van Gogh
Frankfurt
West Germany
Staedel Museum
Dirck Hals
London
Nicolas Poussin
National Gallery
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