Rhodesia talks stall as South Africa withholds support
United States and Britain offered a joint plan for black majority rule in Rhodesia but South Africa did not endorse it. Cyrus Vance and David Owen met with South Africa's R F Botha amid complex negotiations aimed at persuading Prime Minister Ian Smith's government. Owen and Vance indicated not all parties would accept the proposal, with Botha silent on endorsement. Vance planned talks with Julius Nyerere and Chequers luncheon with Callaghan. Nkomo rejected a British UN force proposal.
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London
United States
Britain
Rhodesia
South Africa
U.S
Cyrus Vance
David Owen
R.F
Pik) Botha
Ian Smith
Owen
Vance
Botha
Smith
Zimbabwe
Julius Nyerere
Heathrow Airport
James Callaghan
Chequers
Joshua Nkomo
United Nations
New York
Social Credit MP named in arson case in Quebec
Witness testifies that Gilbert Rondeau paid 1500 dollars last December to trigger a fire at a Bromont building owned by him. Fire Commissioner Delages recommends arson charges against Rondeau and two Granby men. Rondeau had faced a separate fraud trial weeks earlier.
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Cowansville
Que
Social Credit
Gilbert Rondeau
Rondeau
Quebec
Cyrille Delages
Granby
Jacques Harbec
Jean Bernier
Eastern Townships
Bromont
Real Caouette
Rouyn
Harbec
Delages
Harbee
Bernier
Ottawa deficit hits 2.993 billion in first quarter
The federal budget gap for the first three months of the 1976 77 fiscal year stood at 2.993 billion as spending reached 9.861 billion and revenues 6.868 billion. The full year deficit was projected at 6.3 billion.
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Ottawa
Finance Department
Government faces criticism as food prices jump 2.1 percent in July
Ottawa CP reports a 2.1 percent July rise in food costs triggering renewed denunciations of government policy. Overall consumer prices rose 0.9 percent with the 12 month inflation at 8.4 percent and jobless rate at 8.1 percent. Critics call for Macdonald resignation and urge a budget to spur growth.
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Ottawa
Donald Macdonald
Statistics Canada
Canadian Labor Congress
CLC
Macdonald
Sinclair Stevens
Stevens
Ed Broadbent
New Democratic Party
Joe Morris
IRA violence erupts as Queen's peace plea answered
In Belfast Turf Lodge an ambush killed one British marine and wounded three others as IRA guerrillas aimed to bolster credibility after aborting a promised blitz during the Queen's silver jubilee visit. Rioting and gun battles marked the tour with some 32,000 troops on alert.
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Belfast
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Northern Ireland
Turf Lodge
Provisional
Ulster
University of Ulster
Coleraine
Elizabeth
Britannia
Scotland
Shooting spree ends no charges anticipated
A 56-year-old man in Ste Anne de Beaupre Quebec fired 35 shots from his home over seven hours. No injuries occurred though cars were damaged. Police used tear gas and warning shots. the man was subdued and taken to hospital. No charges are expected.
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Ste. Anne DE Beaupre
Quebec City
Abductors in Sherbrooke Hold $1 Million Ransom
Police broadcast a radio warning Friday to the two abductors who seized Charles Marion of a Sherbrooke credit union. They may drop off the ransom as police search nearby Stoke and expand the house by house sweep with 100 officers. A third letter and photographs of Marion amplify fears as authorities seek to prevent drastic action.
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Sherbrooke
Que
Credit Union
Charles Marion
CHLT
Nebets
Steben
Claude Steben
Marion
Stoke
Denise
Quebec
Montreal
Traffic victim dies after car truck crash near Medicine Hat
A Newfoundland man David Young 22 died at Foothills Hospital Calgary about 10 am Friday after head injuries from a Trans-Canada Highway crash at Sixth Street S.W. He was flown to Calgary with three other men treated in Medicine Hat and District Hospital.
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Newfoundland
Medicine Hat
Foothills
Calgary
David Young
Sixth Street
W. Young
Suffield
Medicine Hat and District Hospital
Larry Simms
Stephen Greeley
Gordon MacKillop
Victoria
John Gruber
8Th St. S.E
Gruber
S.W
Hijacker Tarek el Khater Captured After Air France Drill
In Brindisi Italy a 19 year old Egyptian student hijacker named Tarek el Khater left the Air France Airbus to check refuelling and was overpowered by police. The 210 passengers and 12 crew were freed unharmed after a seven hour ordeal.
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Brindisi
Italy
Reuter
Tarek el Khater
Air France
Airbus
Interior Ministry
Khater
Nice
Paris
Cairo
Libya
Benghazi
Athens
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