Mariner VII Sends Stunning Martian Polar Cap Photos
Mars watchers await three hour telecast of Mariner VII images from 2,000 miles up showing the south polar cap and crater patterns. Scientists report flawless instruments and expect clues on whether the cap is ice or dry ice while noting temperature ranges and a nitrogen free atmosphere.
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Pasadena
Calif
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robert B. Leighton
California Institute of Technology
Mars
Mariner VII
Mariner VI
NDP to choose new leader in April 1971 at Ottawa
David Lewis said the New Democratic Party will hold a leadership convention in late April 1971 likely in Ottawa to select a successor to T. C. Douglas. Douglas may run again but no strong opposition is expected at Winnipeg in late October. Eight policy panels will guide convention debate including independence foreign affairs and social security.
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Ottawa
New Democratic Party
T. C. Douglas
David Lewis
NDP
Winnipeg
Douglas
Lewis
Ed Broadbent
Oshawa-Whitby
Mercy flights continue after Constellation crash in Biafra
Four Canadian airmen die in a Sunday night crash at Uli airstrip while delivering relief supplies. An inquiry opens into the accident not tied to military action. Red Cross plans three planeloads of medical supplies to Uli under Nigeria approval.
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Geneva
Biafra
Canal
Uli
Donald Merriam
Kingston
Ont
Raymond Levesaue
Montreal
Vincent Wakeling
Gary Libbus
Toronto
International Committee of the Red Cross
Uki
Cotonou
Dahomey
Nigeria
Red Cross
Marcel Naville
Lagos
Naville
Two Soviet Trawlers Seized Off Vancouver Island
Two Soviet 120 foot trawlers the Titov and another vessel were boarded 9.4 miles off Tofino on Vancouver Island for fishing limit violations but no fish were found in their holds. Fisheries Minister Jack Davis said fines up to 5000 and confiscation could apply.
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Titov
Kouzachin
Vancouver Island
Tofino
Victoria
Ogden Point
Washington
Maggie
Jack Davis
M. P. Houghton
Department’s Conservation and Protection Branch
Ottawa
British Columbia
Sooke
B.C
U.S
Gillnetter
Marmar Rauhala
Fisheries Department
Long Beach
Russia
Davis
External Affairs and Defence Departments
Laurier
Tanu
Homer Stevens
United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union
Queen Charlotte Islands
Kochiro Agiyama
Ulster vetoes call for British troops
In Belfast Northern Ireland's government vetoed requests to deploy British troops but later violence erupted for a third night. Maj James Chichester Clark said no curfew and no immediate troop use though clashes injured at least 21, with police and locals battling mobs in Crumlin Road district and stores set afire.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
James Chichester- Clark
Crumlin Road
Chichester - Clark
Bernadette Devlin
Home
James Callaghan
Miss Devlin
Ireland
Japan considers easing wheat import standards
Tokyo reports the food agency weighing changes to wheat classifications to ease purchases of French and Soviet wheat. It plans a new protest to the United States over price discrimination as Japan remains the world’s top buyer and rejects U S Canada and Australia offers amid price policies since mid July.
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Tokyo
Reuters
Japan
Japanese Food Agency
United States
Europe
Canada
Australia
The
Food Agency
Hailstorm floods Edmonton area as fans watch football game
Severe hail struck Edmonton district and southern areas with golf ball to baseball sized stones. Rainfall totaled .74 inches, flooding streets and basements, damaging cars and delaying traffic while 10,000 fans saw the Winnipeg Blue Bombers edge the Edmonton Eskimos 14 to 13 at Clarke Stadium.
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Edmonton
Drayton Valley
Weather Bureau
Clarke Stadium
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Edmonton Eskimos
Premiers oppose unilateral federal housing action
Ontario Premier John Robarts said nine provincial leaders warned the federal government not to act alone on housing. He spoke after the first session of the provincial premiers conference, stressing coordinated action and continued federal funding through existing provincial channels.
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Quebec
John Robarts
Ontario
Robarts
Sponse
Youth lands plane in Prince George after father’s heart attack
John Dorr Jr. a 20 year old California student pilot with limited twin engine experience took over a Canso amphibian and landed safely at Prince George airport after his father John Dorr Sr. suffered a heart attack mid flight from Trembler Lake to the Northwest Territories. A B C Airlines pilot guided the distressed craft receiving a Mayday signal.
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Prince George
B.C
California
John Dorr Jr
Santa Monica
Calif
John Dorr Sr
Dorr
Stu Spurr
B.C. Airlines
Prince George Airport
Trembler Lake
Here
Northwest Territories
U S Navy Plane Crashes in Andes En Route to Chile
A U S Navy aircraft carrying 16 people crashed in the Andes while flying from Santiago to, the U S embassy says. Vietnamese escapees arrive in Laos from Hanoi as three POWs are freed. Israeli patrol reports killing four Arab saboteurs near Ne ot Hakikai southwest of the Dead Sea.
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Buenos Aires
Reuters
Andes
Santiago
Chile
U.S
Tel Aviv
Ne‘ot Hakikai
Dead Sea
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Trudeau
Jean Belliveau
Lac St. Jean
Roberval
Belliveau
Ulster
Ap-Reuters
London
United Kingdom
Northern Counties
Weather Office
D News
Vietiane
North Vietnam
Laos
Hanoi
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