Umtali Bombarded as Rhodesia Responds to Mozambique Attacks
Rhodesian mortar bombardment hit Umtali's Greenside and Darlington suburbs early today with about 30 shells. Police reported no casualties while air force jets were seen near the Mozambique border. The attack followed a Rhodesian raid into Mozambique that officials claimed killed more than 300 guerrillas and others.
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Umtali
Rhodesia
Reuter
Mozambique
Greenside
Darlington
Machinpanda
Salisbury
Umtali Greenside
Marymount College
Msgr
Donal Lamont
Amin offers talks with Britain to restore Uganda relations
Ugandas President Idi Amin announced on Uganda radio a willingness to hold talks with Britain to restore severed diplomatic ties. He denied reports of 100 students shot at a Kampala university and blamed a British paper for sensational claims. He also stated Britain’s split was a temporary misunderstanding.
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Nairobi
Idi Amin
Uganda
Britain
Uganda Radio
Amin
Kampala
British Broadcasting Corp
British Commonwealth
United States
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
America
James Clegg
Israel
Dora Bloch
Entebbe
Bloch
Kenya
Price index rises slow as July shows mild gains
Statistics Canada reports July consumer prices rose 0.4 percent and 12 month CPI up 6.8 percent, the smallest in over three years. Shelter costs lead gains with food at home prices easing, while hotels and transport push overall rates higher.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Jean-Luc Pepin
Disease investigators weigh new lead in legionnaires outbreak
Harrisburg officials said investigators pursue multiple leads as they compare the current pneumonia like illness among Philadelphia convention attendees with the 1974 Legionnaires cases. Dr Denis Lucey noted toxins or poisons as possible causes while new cases have halted since Aug. 3 and hospital statuses vary.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Denis.Lucey
Lucey
Order of Odd Fellows
American Legion
Odd Fellows
David Fraser
Federal Centre For Disease Control
Atlanta
Not guilty pleas in Sky Shops case
Montreal judges heard not guilty pleas from Clarence Campbell NHL president Louis Lapointe and Gordon Brown in a Sky Shops affair case. They face charges of illegally giving $95 000 to Senator Louis Giguere to influence a Montreal Dorval airport duty free shop lease.
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Montreal (Cp
Clarence Campbell
National Hockey League
Montreal
Louis Lapointe
Gordon Brown
Freeport
Bahamas
Sky Shops
Louis Giguere
Giguere
Dorval
Sky Shops Export Ltd
Harvey Yarosky
Andre Chaloux
Belle cleanup widens across regions after hurricane
Hurricane Belle left at least 20 million dollars in damages and three deaths across New Jersey beaches Vermont Connecticut and New England. Crews replaced lines pumped basements and officials tracked to long island and New York area as power outages persisted from fallen trees and branches. The weather service marked Belle as a low pressure area off Atlantic provinces after it had struck Long Island as a hurricane.
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Boston
New Jersey
Green Hills
Vermont
Belle
Electric Company
Long Island
New York City
Times Square
Connecticut
New England
U.S. Weather Service
Atlantic
Long Island Lighting Co
Karen Mayer
Barbara Chamberlain
Russell
Huntington
Florida
Rockaway Beach
Atlantic City
Public
CLE Boss Raps Munro Over Perceived Wage Claims
Canadian Labor Congress President Joe Morris accuses Labor Minister John Munro of using selective statistics to claim price and wage controls help workers real income. Morris sets 4 p.m. EDT news conference to outline the national day of protest by the CLC and notes power outages amid the political clash.
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Ottawa
Joe Morris
Canadian Labor Congress
John Munro
CLC
Morris
Quebec City
Munro
Mr. Morris
Jenner Gravel Truck Crash Fatal for Elmer Tetz
Elmer Tetz, 54, of Medicine Hat, died after his gravel truck was sideswiped on a hill near Jenner. A shard of glass from his rear-view mirror pierced his window and lodged near his heart, minutes after the collision. Damage to both trucks was about $500. Helicopter medical aid from Medicine Hat and CFB Suffield arrived too late.
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Medicine Hat
Jenner
Elmer Tetz
Ave. S.E
Suffield
Hunger strike in Canadian prisons dubbed colossal flop
A one day protest by prisoners against segregation methods saw most inmates refuse meals in three of 54 federal sites while about 60 percent fasted in three other facilities. Ontario Quebec and British Columbia reported broad participation though Prairie and Maritime institutions largely abstained.
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Claude Tessier
Solicitor-General’s Department
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
British Columbia
Prairies
Maritime Provinces
Tessier
Millhaven
Kingston
Ont
Kingston-area
Warkworth
Joyceville
Collins Bay
Edward Nalon
Robert Landers
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