Revised crop estimates end sales to Soviets
The United States trimmed its crop forecast and said no further grain will be sold to the Soviet Union until after the harvest. Earl Butz urged a slow approach until the supply is clearer, noting Soviet needs and possible reliance on other suppliers with a world market already in place.
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Soviets
Bogdan Kipling
Financial Times
Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Moscow
Canada
Eastern
Europe
Mr. Butz
Australia
Butz
Don Paarlberg
Federal Reserve Board
Arthur Burns
Ontario parties dig in for short hard fight
Ontario voters face a 37 day campaign after Premier William Davis dissolves the 29th legislature and sets Sept 18 as election day. NDP leader Stephen Lewis Lib leader Nixon and Davis frame energy housing and governance as key issues as parties position for a rare August September vote with reform campaign finance rules in place.
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Toronto
William Davis
Queen’s Park
Davis
Ontario
Stephen Lewis
NDP
Nixon
Liberal Party
Roderick Lewis
Lewis
U K invites PLO despite opposition at Inter-Parliamentary Union
London moves to host a two week IPU meeting with 1,500 delegates from 70 nations amid protests over inviting PLO observers from the Palestine National Council. MPs clash with government as visas for two PLO moderates face ongoing opponents and public protests.
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Peter Calamas Southam
London
Palestine Liberation Movement
Inter-Parliamentary Union
Canada
Labor
Palestine National Council
PLO
Beirut
United Nations
Geneva
Roy Jenkins
Jenkins
IRA
Eric Moonman
IPU
Sri Lanka
the Daily
Mail
John Reddaway
The
Council For the Advancement of
Israel
Lebanon
July Job Figures Unchanged Despite Minor Regional Shifts
Statistics Canada reports July unemployment at 7.2 percent, unchanged for five months. Women and Newfoundland and Alberta show slight increases while Manitoba improves sharply to 2.6 percent. youth 24 and under seasonally adjusted rate falls to 12.3 percent.
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Ottawa
Newfoundland
Alberta
Statistics Canada
Manitoba
Birth rate declines in Canada despite immigration trend
Canadian birth rates stay down as demographers note no mini boom. Fertility falls to 59 births per 1000 women ages 15 to 49 in the year ending last March, far below 1964's 100. Immigration adds a net 173,000 people last year, offsetting deaths and births and shaping future business.
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Toronto
Canada
Statistics Canada
United States
Typhoid Outbreak Expands At Ontario Camp
Four more typhoid cases were confirmed among attendees of a Light and Life Free Methodist Camp near Kingston raising total cases to 21. Health officials call the North American outbreak the worst in two decades and warn many campers may have been unregistered. The camp remains closed as tests on water and the septic system proceed and blood tests are urged for those at the site July 10 to 27.
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Kingston
Ont
Here
Ontario
North America
Light and Life Free Methodist
Vera Soudek
Health Ministry
Soudek
Egypt finalizes terms for interim Israel peace accord
Egypt says the interim peace accord with Israel will be signed by month end. Kissinger is due in Cairo next week for renewed shuttle diplomacy to finish talks. Cairo seeks return of Giddi and Mitla passes and Abu Rudeis oilfields as part of a second stage troop disengagement with Israel. Sadat approved the final position with top aides after briefing U S Ambassador Eilis.
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Cairo
Reuter
Egypt
Israel
Henry Kissinger
United States
Giddi
Mitla
Abu Rudeis
Sinai
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
U.S
Herman Eilis
Kirby Commission urges sweeping overhaul of Alberta provincial courts
A 222 page Kirby Commission report calls Alberta’s provincial court facilities dreadfully inadequate and recommends a full system overhaul. It cites impossible workloads for judges and Crown prosecutors and urges a chief judge, a provincial court administrator, removal of minor traffic crimes from criminal context, new terms for minor offences, pay raises, a judge workload cap, new judge appointments committee, study time for judges, better facilities, and collection of unpaid fines. It notes Edmonton and Calgary as prime examples of congestion and facility failures.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Kirby
W. J. C. Kirby
Alberta Supreme Court
Attorney-General’s Department
Calgary
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