Queen Elizabeth calls for forgiveness in Northern Ireland visit
The Queen urged Protestants and Catholics to forgive and forget, signaling hope for reconciliation amid eight years of sectarian violence at Coleraine's New University of Ulster. IRA threats and campus searches accompanied her eight hour trip as violence flared in Belfast.
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Belfast
Queen Elizabeth
Northern Ireland
New University of Ulster
Coleraine
Irish Republican Army
IRA
West
Irish Republic
Eliza-brit
Prince Philip
Scotland
Elizabeth
Son of Sam suspect held in Yonkers arrest
Police report David Berkowitz, 24, confessed to being Son of Sam after police traced him from a parking ticket near a fire hydrant. He faces charges of second degree murder and related offenses for the Moskowitz shooting, while investigators link his revolver to the killings and note a threatening note found in his car.
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New York
Sam
David Berkowitz
Yonkers
First
James Taylor
Berkowitz
Stacy Moskowitz
New York City
Miss Moskowitz
Son of
Violante
Jimmy Beslin
Craig
Westchester County
Son
Nat
Miami
Shore Road
Brooklyn
Grain crop forecast cut by United Grain Growers
United Grain Growers trimmed its 1977 prairie wheat estimate to 605 million bushels. The new figure is 45 million below the early July forecast and 228 million under the last year’s record. UGG cited likely record Manitoba yields but noted low subsoil moisture in southern Alberta and west central Saskatchewan.
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Winnipeg
United Grain Growers
Prairie-Wide Elevator Company
UGG
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
White missionaries killed in Rhodesia attack
Black nationalist guerrillas killed two white women missionaries at St Pauls mission hospital and school in Salisbury. The doctor and nursing sister died Tuesday, raising white missionary deaths to 15 since last December in Rhodesia.
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Salisbury
St. Paul’s
Rhodesia
Airline service resumes after Canada wide air controller strike
Passengers board planes again as 2,200 controllers return to work following Parliament orders to end the strike. Several flights resume with CP Air and Air Canada leading efforts. disruptions had forced bus shuttles and usage of U.S. airports at border cities. The strike cost airlines millions and prompted widespread layoffs.
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Canada
Canadian
United States
Jim McKeachie
CP Air
Barry Wall
Air Canada
Toronto
Hunger Strike by Canadian Prisoners Shocks Federal Prisons
About 1 200 to 3 000 inmates nationwide joined a one day hunger protest against prison conditions and delays in implementing a 65 point reform report. Demonstrations occurred in Milhaven Kingston Ste Annes de Plaines Ville Laval Dorchester and Prince Albert with work refusals and meals skipped. A notable escape from Prince Albert drew attention as four of five men were recaptured near Weirdale hours later.
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Canada
Francis Fox
1L-Party
Milhaven
Kingston
Ontario
Ste. Annes de Plaines
Ville de Laval
Quebec
Dorchester
N.B
Prince Albert
New Westminster
B.C
Weirdale
Air Canada Sees Delays From Controller Slowdown
An Air Canada spokesman in Montreal says air controllers forced back to work by emergency law appear to be slowing down or working to rule in Toronto and Montreal. Toronto delays reach up to 900 minutes as Michael De Wilde notes. Officials in Montreal report delays. Toronto controllers deny coordinated action.
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Air Canada
Montreal
Toronto
Toronto International
Michael de Wilde
Donald Maclachlan
Jim Livingston
Air Traffic Control Association
Ottawa
National Organization
Kidnappers Hold Credit Union Worker Near Sherbrooke
Police search for 57 year old Charles Marion, a Sherbrooke Caisse Populaire de Sherbrooke Est credit officer, held four days by armed abductors demanding 1 million. A shooter’s image shown by police shows Marion with a pistol to his ear as his wife discovers his secretary bound in their cottage aftermath.
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Sherbrooke, Que
Charles Marion
Marion
Montreal
Here
Aline Vergeau
Caisse Populaire de Sherbrooke Est
Claude Steben
Vance flags UN trusteeship as West Bank option
Secretary of State Vance told West Bank Arab figures in Tel Aviv the United States views a UN trusteeship during a transition as the most reasonable path for a Palestinian homeland. He discussed three West Bank options including independence, trusteeship, or union with Jordan, with no pledge to persuade Begin to withdraw Israel.
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Flora Lewis
N.Y. Times
Tel Aviv
Cyrus R. Vance
West Bank
United States
United Nations Trusteeship
Vance
Moshe Dayan
Jerusalem
Menahem Begin
Dayan
Soviet Union
Geneva
Palestine Liberation Organization
Rabat
PLO
Garden Party
Mustafa Dudeen
Hebron
United Nations
Jordan
Dudeen
Israel
Begin
Jaabari
Mideast mission ends with talks in Egypt and Jordan
US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance concluded a Middle East visit in Alexandria after briefing Arab leaders on Israel's rejection of PLO talks. President Sadat called the position a very hard Israeli line. Vance traveled from Jerusalem to Amman and Damascus with plans to resume discussions in New York next month.
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Egypt
Cyrus Vance
Middle East
Israel
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Anwar Sadat
Vance
Amman
Jordan
Syria
Damascus
Sadat
U.S
New York
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