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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1967
Page
1
Prime Minister Pearson announced Parliament would pass 25 essential bills in 46 legislative days, covering divorce, capital punishment, abortion, and birth control. He noted a 93-bill agenda for next year, while detailing broad spending cuts to avoid a larger deficit and confirming a July 1 1968 medical care insurance rollout.
Supreme Court Justice John Robert Cartwright was named chief justice of Canada today succeeding Chief Justice Robert Taschereau who is retiring due to ill health. A captured document claims the United States sought Soviet aid to form a South Vietnamese coalition government including Communists. Romeo A Leblanc named special assistant and press secretary to Prime Minister Pearson. Bombs strike two Hong Kong police vehicles. Victor Banjo seizes Nigeria mid western state government after suspending the federal constitution. A Chinese general warns Mao in Hong Kong tense report. Alaska floods worsen as rains persist and guardsmen work to hold back swollen rivers.
Prime Minister Pearson outlines government aims at a press conference. Canada to retain constitutional right to pay old age pensions. fall session to pass 25 bills including reforms to Broadcasting Act divorce capital punishment abortion and birth control. Medical care insurance starts July 1. provinces may opt in. Kosygin letter notes Middle East tensions. no budget details.
Mr Pearson rejects Quebec's aim to seize sole control of personal income tax and fund old age pensions and family allowances, warning it could undermine Parliament's redistributive powers. He notes Ottawa will continue direct pension payments and is open to Quebec proposing supplements, with discussion on administrative coordination.
H. Rap Brown a Black Power advocate was charged with arson and inciting to riot after a Cambridge racial disturbance on July 24. The Dorchester County grand jury also charged him with acting in concert to disturb the public peace. Brown, listed at Atlanta, Ga., is free on bail on Virginia charges and faces extradition hearing in Richmond on August 23.
The Canadian Press reports two provincial premiers, Robert Stanfield of Nova Scotia and Duff Roblin of Manitoba, campaign in Ontario ahead of the party convention in Toronto. Stanfield tours Ottawa area delegates while Roblin plans visits to Kitchener Hamilton Toronto and other cities. Former cabinet ministers Hees Fulton and Hamilton also seek support in Sherbrooke Sarnia and London. Stanfield touts strong campaign in Ottawa after a busy day.
George Ben Edmondson 30 returns to Missouri prison from which he escaped Aug 3 1965. Arrested in Quebec June 29 he was deported and brought back by guards. An engineer in Expo 67 and a pulp mill project, he had a prior 10 year sentence for armed robbery and earlier bank holdup convictions. He likely faces eight to nine more years.
Switzerland宣布派遣53岁外交官Ernesto Thalmann担任联合国在耶路撒冷的事实调查代表。瑞士政府说他将于8月2日抵达耶路撒冷，逗留约两周，作为联合国秘书长个人代表，负责搜集信息供安理会和大会报告之用。这一任命遭以色列外交部反对，担心干预局势。
Four students on a working vacation in Glacier National Park describe how a marauding grizzly attacked after they built a bonfire and stayed in their sleeping bags. Michele Koons, 19, of San Diego was killed, and Julie Helgeson, 19, of Albert Le a Minn., also died the same night. Roy Ducat, 18, of Perrysburg, was injured as rangers hunted the bears.
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