Montreal Bomb Hits Federal Building in Center
A powerful bomb shattered the entrance of Montreal’s federal revenue building at Bleury Street and Dorchester Boulevard. Police captured two youths fleeing at 2:39 a.m. No one injured. three night watchmen inside. The blast rang across two miles, damaging surrounding windows and offices. One witness spoke of a red and white box that exploded minutes after a police call.
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College Ste. Marie
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Mount Royal
Pierre-Paul Geoffroy
Gerard Lapare
EEC suspends farm policy after franc devaluation
Brussels reports say the six member states of the European Economic Community agreed to suspend the common farm policy for at least a year after France devalued the franc. Ministers isolated the French market from the others through the 1989 70 crop year and upheld the unit of account parity. Gunther Harkort called it burial of uniform prices, signaling potential resurrection later.
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U.S
France
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
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Luxembourg
Hendrikus Witteveen
Consumer prices rise in July driven by food and housing costs
Ottawa reports the consumer price index rose 0.4 percent in July to 126.4 from June's 125.9, with food costs up 0.8 percent and housing costs up 0.4 percent. Beef prices fell 4 percent from June but remained about 8 percent above May levels as pork and poultry edged higher.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Violence erupts during Ulster Apprentice Boys parade in Londonderry
In Londonderry 15000 Protestant Apprentice Boys paraded under heavy security as rocks bottles and a gasoline bomb were hurled. Seven people including a policeman were injured in clashes with Catholics after rival groups fought mid parade. British troops and riot police stood by amid ongoing sectarian tensions.
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Dungannon
Heavy attacks end 74 week lull in Vietnam war
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces shattered a 74 week lull with their heaviest attacks in three months injuring dozens and striking 137 towns and bases including Saigon Da Nang and Hue. Civilian and military casualties were reported with at least 51 Americans killed and 345 wounded, and more than 100 government troops killed in combat.
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Hue
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Cambodia
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Bien Hoa
North Viet Namese
Ho Chi Minh
Hanoi
Tokyo braces for waves after strong quake
Reuters reports thousands of bathers fled beaches and fishing boats hid in ports as warnings spread of high tidal waves along Japan's Pacific coast after a powerful earthquake. The same dispatch notes Prague in 1968 with Rude Pravo claiming a secret party document warned of counter revolution before the Warsaw Pact invasion.
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Protester Claims Plotted Assault by Prime Minister
17 year old Richard Bruce Jesmer of Niagara Falls Ontario swore out a common assault complaint against Prime Minister Trudeau after a Vancouver armory rally. Justice of the Peace Don Stewart will hear evidence Friday to decide if a process will be issued. The protest outside the Seaforth Armories preceded a Liberal fundraiser attended by Trudeau and featured groups including the Internationalists and the Vancouver Student Movement.
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Justice of the Peace
Don Stewart
Vancouver
Unemployed Welfare Improvement Council
Moon landing near crash risk due to low fuel on lunar descent
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin disclosed they were dangerously low on fuel during the near moon landing. Ground controllers helped them adjust the landing point and avoid aborting as they manually guided the craft past alarms and a computer overload.
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Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
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Aldrin
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Michael Collins
Wheat allotments cut again to record low for 1970 crop
Washington AP U S government reduces wheat acreage allotments for the 1970 crop to 45.5 million acres, a 12 percent cut from this year’s 51.6 million. Secretary Hardin says move aims to curb surpluses while basic loan support remains. Export totals lag earlier peaks. carryover rises. 1970 output hoped at about 1.2 billion bushels. Crop production index hits a new high at 122 percent of the 1957-59 average.
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U.S
Clifford M. Hardin
Hardin
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Prime Minister Trudeau accused after Vancouver incident
Edward Jesmer, father of the boy who says he was struck by Prime Minister Trudeau, claims the PM lost his cool. Jesmer says his son, 17, faces an assault charge. the grandmother says the youth joined a “Communist gang” after dropping out of Grade 9 and was seen as troublemaker in Niagara Falls.
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Edward Jesmer
Richard Bruce Jesmer
Emma Jesmer
Hurricane Blanche nears Newfoundland in Atlantic lanes
Hurricane Blanche, first of the Atlantic season, nears the tip of Newfoundland with 90 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center reports its center near 44.0N 61.0W, moving northeast at 45 mph, threatening busy New York to Europe shipping routes as vessels report winds of 85 to 90 mph.
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