Sharp Touched by Warm Canadian Welcome in Canton
External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp arrived in Canton for the Canadian trade fair in Peking and was greeted with a red carpet reception. He toured a cultural park, watched a kindergarten dance, and visited a Norman Bethune exhibit as crowds cheered Canada’s role in China.
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John R. Walker
Southam News Services
Canton
Mitchell Sharp
Peking
Sharp
People’s Republic of China
Norman Bethune
South China
Canada
China
Chairman Mao
Mao
Cheao Tsu-Yang
Revolutionary Committee of
Chang Keng-Shan
Revolutionary Committee
Mr. Sharp
Yao Kuang
Pai Hsiang-Kuo
Ottawa
Pai
Mr. Pai
Jean-Luc Pepin
Judge approves Trans-Alaska oil pipeline project
Federal Judge George Hart ruled the Interior Department met environmental and land-use requirements to start the 780 mile Trans-Alaska pipeline at a $3 billion cost. Conservation groups vowed to appeal to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal, potentially reaching the Supreme Court.
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Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
George Hart
U.S. District Court
Hart
Interior Department
Environment Groups
The
Wilderness Society
Environmental Fund
Friends of the Earth
Canadian Wildlife Federation
Liberal
David Anderson
British Columbia
Interior
Rogers C. B. Morton
John Dienelt
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal
Rehab group to receive government grant
The provincial government announced a $7,920 grant for Medicine Hat Rehabilitation Society for the Handicapped to aid its sheltered workshop operations. No specifics were given on how the funds will be allocated.
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Medicine Hat Rehabilitation Society For the Handicapped
Dockworkers End 20 Day Port Strike After Peace Plan
Britain's 42 000 longshoremen voted 53 to 30 to return to work accepting an Aldington Jones plan. It links job safeguards to containerization and a surcharge to favor dock labor, prompting protests and clashes with police at Transport House.
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Jack Jones
Transport and General Workers’ Union
Jones
Lord Aldington
Aldington
Britain
Aldington-Jones
Vancouver dock strike tightens grip on coastal towns
Coastal communities face shortages as the Vancouver docks shutdown nears two weeks. Sidelined ships idle harbors while Prairie grain shipments slow. emergency food flown to Ocean Falls as Northland Navigation halts deliveries. Grain exports from the port drop from last year amid potential rail embargo risks.
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Vancouver
British Columbia Maritime Employers’ Association
B.C
Don Garcia
Crown Zellerbach Ltd
Ocean Falls
Company
Olson defends DREE program at Kiwanis meeting
Agriculture Minister H A Bud Olson defended the controversial DREE industrial incentive program before the Medicine Hat Kiwanis Club. He rejected Opposition charges of abuse and mismanagement and said the plan has been helpful in decentralizing economic growth across Canada, noting recent government actions.
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H. A
Bud) Olson
Federal
Department of Regional Economic Expansion
Medicine Hat Kiwanis Club
Olson
Canada
Alberta
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Manitoba
Medicine Hat
Rippon says Uganda deadline for Asians impossible to meet
British cabinet minister Geoffrey Rippon says the 90 day deadline for Asians to leave Uganda is impractical and calls on Idi Amin to extend the timeline. Amin refuses to extend and warns that Red Cross camps could be used if not out by November 4. Rippon notes progress in dialogue and outlines plans to aid refugees.
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West Coast
Canadian Wheat Board
London
Geoffrey Rippon
Uganda
Idi Amin
Rippon
Amin
Britain
Red Cross
Joint Committee For the Welfare of Immigrants
Quakers
British Council of Churches
Christian Aid
Department of Education
Home Office
Alberta to use 40000 pounds of Lannate against Bertha army worm
Alberta plans to apply about 40000 pounds of Lannate insecticide to curb the Bertha army worm harming rapeseed. A 18000 pound shipment arrived from Houston with 8000 sent to rural areas. 3000 pounds came from Toronto. Existing stock and Saskatchewan import bring total near 81000 acres sprayed, with 21000 pounds arriving Tuesday enough for 90000 acres.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Houston
Texas
Canada
Toronto
Saskatchewan
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