Weekend Death Toll Hits 65 Across Canada in Accidents
A Canadian Press tally from Friday evening to Sunday night records 65 deaths across Canada in accidents. Quebec reports 15 traffic deaths including a Point Gatineau mother and her three daughters, plus nine drownings, a fire, an asphyxiation and an accidental shooting. Ontario records 12 road deaths and drownings, plus a tractor crush and hornet sting fatality. British Columbia notes four traffic deaths, two drownings, and three fatalities in a single crash near Vancouver.
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Canada
Quebec
Point Gatineau
Ontario
British Columbia
Vancouver
Israel keeps Jordanian refugee return plan intact
Israel's cabinet votes to maintain the Jordanian refugee readmission agreement despite security concerns. Eight ministers opposed the move with Defence Minister Mohse Dyan among those against wholesale readmission. UN envoy Nils Gussing reportedly influenced the decision.
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Tel Aviv
Reuters
Israel
West Bank
Jordan
Mohse Dyan
United Nations
Nils Goran Gussing
Gussing
Amman
Dune
Soviet ship Svirsk leaves Dairen after Guards incident
The battered Soviet merchant ship Svirsk departed Dairen for Vladivostok with seven tugboats carrying Red Guards. Chinese authorities held captain Viktor Korshov and two crew members after a dispute over a Mao badge amid rising tensions with the Soviet Union.
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Svirsk
Dairen
Soviet Union
Yellow Sea
Vladivostok
Alexei Kosygin
Chou En-lai
Peking
Tokyo
Kosygin
Pravda
Stanislav V. Ivanov
Ivanov
Viktor Korshov
Sviisk
Manitoba Premier Duff Roblin Opens Ontario PC Campaign Tour
Premier Duff Roblin begins a three day Ontario visit as part of his bid for leadership of the national Progressive Conservative party. He campaigns across key Ontario centres while seeking party support.
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Toronto
Duff Roblin
Manitoba
Ontario
National
Progressive Conservative
Liberal agenda to be outlined for new session
Prime Minister Pearson will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday to describe the government’s legislative program for the upcoming parliamentary session resuming Sept. 25. Cabinet intensive on spending policy and other matters. finance and borrowing projections loom large for 1968 69.
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Ottawa
Pearson
Sharp
the Commons
Garrison witness guilty of perjury in Kennedy plot case
Dean Andrews, a New Orleans lawyer who once advised Lee Harvey Oswald, is convicted on three of five perjury counts for lying to a grand jury about Clay Bertrand in the Orleans Parish assassination plot inquiry. Sentencing pending with a maximum of five years. bond not available until then.
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New Orleans
Dean Andrews
John F. Kennedy
Andrews
Criminal District Court
Harry Burglass
Louisiana
Orleans Parish
Lee Harvey Oswald
Clay L. Shaw
Clay Bertrand
Jim Garrison
Shaw
Bertrand
Kennedy
Weather outlook shows sun to Tuesday across western prairies
Forecast calls for mainly sunny conditions across western prairies today and Tuesday with variable cloud cover in extreme north and some showers. Thunder showers expected to become numerous in southern areas by this evening and persist overnight. temperatures range from 70 in the far north to 90 in the south.
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Prairies
U S planes strike rail lines near Chinese border
U S planes bombed rail targets within 10 miles of China near Lang Son, the closest air raid to China in the Vietnam war. The strike hit the Lang Son bypass bridge and followed days of intensified rail line bombardment near Hanoi. In Vietnam 101st Airborne troops report 35 Viet Cong dead and eight Americans wounded after a night clash near Duc Pho. South Vietnamese Rangers claim to have killed 156 North Vietnamese soldiers after two days west of Tam Ky.
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George Esper
Saigon
U.S
China
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Navy
Constellation
Tonkin Gulf
Lang Son Mail
Haiphong
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Duc Pho
Tam Ky
Verbal fireworks expected in Ottawa talks with Polyansky
Dmitri Polyansky arrived in Ottawa for a Centennial visit and prepared to confer with Prime Minister Pearson. He accused the United States and Israel of aggression in broad terms while stressing peace and mutual cooperation between Canada and the Soviet Union.
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John Best
Ottawa
Dmitri Polyansky
Kremlin
Pearson
Mr. Polyansky
Canada
United States
Israel
Soviet Communist Party
U.S
Polyansky
Soviet Union
Parliament Hill
Russia
U.S.S.R
Marines Fire Mortar Accidents Near Da Nang Compound
Navy construction unit injuries reported after two mortar shells fired by U S Marines south of the large coastal base at Da Nang hit the unit’s compound. Air raids against North Vietnam appear to intensify as the Johnson administration pressures the Communists. Unofficial sources say pilots were told to refrain from approaching within 30 miles of China.
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U.S
da Nang
North Vietnam
Johnson
China
Glacier bears kill two girls in Montana park
Glacier National Park officials say two grizzly attacks killed Julie Helgesen and Michele Koons while they slept in sleeping bags in separate areas of the park near the Montana Canada border. A third person, Roy Ducat, was seriously injured. Rangers searched the Granite Park Chalet and Trout Lake regions as trails were closed.
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West Glacier, Mont
Glacier National Park
Montana-Canada
Julie Helgesen
Albert Lea
Minn
Michele Koons
San Diego
Calif
Roy Ducat
Perrysburg
Ohio
Miss Helgesen
Forrest Sput
Keith Neilson
Miss Koons
Neilson
Granite Park
Trout Lake
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Tex
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