14 Aug 1972
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1972
Page
1
Britain intensifies efforts for an international arrangement to handle Uganda’s threat to expel over 50 000 Asians. Foreign Office weighs UN action while Rippon visits East Africa and urges humane talks with Idi Amin.
An interim report from a legislative task force chaired by Roy Farran proposes two reform plans for provincial municipal finance. One cuts the 30 mill school levy for homeowners up to 6400 dollars, saving an average home about 192, with 1973 effective date. The second credits education tax against provincial income tax, potentially creating negative tax for low income owners, with 1974 start.
Police found the vehicle used in the abduction of Marlene Hashman and the hostage garage in a Calgary townhouse complex. Don Matheson 27 was arrested after the 14 hour ordeal ended with a $500000 ransom payment and the victim released unharmed. Police continued searching for additional suspects as the investigation widens.
A South Vietnamese interior ministry official rejected a New York Times report that political prisoners were tortured in South Vietnamese jails. He said no torture occurred and that suspected Viet Cong area detainees were questioned under martial law and then released.
Federal judge evaluates permanent ban on Alyeska 789 mile Alaska oil pipeline from North Slope to Valdez. Environmentalists cite NEPA compliance doubts and a disputed final environmental impact statement amid Morton permit plans for seven company consortium.
Militant longshoremen relaxed their national strike as Aberdeenshire dockers resumed emergency shipments to Orkney and Shetland, aided by RAF airlifts. Aberdeen loaded 70 tons of meat and supplies while northern islands face shortages.
In Belfast's Andersonstown district an IRA land mine killed a British soldier and wounded another as four more troops were injured in a separate ambush. The death toll in Northern Ireland rose to 507 over three years with the soldier the year's 67th fatality.
External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp arrives in Peking for a 10 day visit to hold talks with Chinese leaders and open a large Canadian trade exhibition. He will visit Canton first then spend five days in Peking meeting Premier Chou En Lai and other officials while 225 Canadian firms exhibit heavy machinery. Wheat dominates past exports but diversification is sought.
Negotiations are set to resume today between the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the BCMEA over a new master contract for about 3,200 west coast longshoremen. Dockworkers voted 93.1 percent for strike action amid local hiring hall disputes. more than 20 grain ships idle in Vancouver.
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