Prairie livestock markets reel from Ottawa meat export controls
The federal announcement of meat export controls unsettles Prairie markets as buyers wait and packers warn against expected price cuts. Burns Foods cautions shoppers on 5 percent price drops while Swift Canadian plans to resume buying. Alberta farmers urge notice and fairness amid lower cattle prices and panic selling.
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Prairies
A. J. E. Child
Burns Foods Ltd
Ron Anderson
Burns Foods
Edmonton
John Hanmer
Swift Canadian
Dobson Lea
Uniform
Alberta Farm Organization
Alberta
Hugh Horner
Canada
Ottawa
Horner
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Hijacked Lebanese Jet Lands at Lod Airport Tel Aviv
A Boeing 707 carrying 110 passengers and 10 crew from Libya to Lebanon was hijacked over the Mediterranean and forced to land at Lod Airport under guard of Israeli jets. The hijackers, unnamed, boarded in Libya and the plane landed amid tight security while Beirut and Tel Aviv reported delays and airport closures.
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Tel Aviv
Libya
Lebanon
Mediterranean
Lod
Edmond Ghosn
Beirut
Ghosn
Middle East Airlines
Cyprus
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Eastern Canada without trains
The railways and their non-operating employees reach a crisis as 46,000 remain on regional strikes across Eastern Canada. Mediation under Judge Alan Gold intensifies after near-breakdown talks, with Atlantic Canada due back by 4 p.m. and Quebec by Friday morning, while two other unions threaten action.
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Jacques Hamilton
Montreal
Canadian Railways
Ontario
Thunder Bay
Canada
Atlantic Provinces
Lakehead
Quebec
Alan B. Gold
Richard Smith
Associated
Shopcrafts Federated Trades Union
Conciliation Board
State Department questioned over Alaska oil pipeline reports
Congressman Melcher pressed deputy assistant secretary Julius Katz on whether the State Department supplied objective information about Canada's position on an alternate route. Katz denied withholding data, citing Canadian confusion and a bureaucratic delay, while Melcher argued a discrepant paragraph should have reached Congress earlier.
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Bruce Levett Washington
Congress
State Department
Department
John Melcher
Dem. Mont
Julius Katz
House
Subcommittee On Public Lands
Katz
Canada
Melcher
House of Representatives
Senate
Nixon frames Watergate as a move to derail Congress
President Nixon denounces the Senate Watergate committee as an enemy and urges Congress to return to regular business. He maintains his innocence, accuses the hearings of focusing on him personally, and calls for the case to be moved to the courts while insisting he did not know of or partake in the Watergate activities.
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Southam News
Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
Nixon
Congress
Senate
John Dean
Muskie
Dem. Me
Ian Ervin
Dem.n.c
Howard Baker
Rep. Tenn
Joseph Montoya
Dem. N.M
White House
Daniel Inouye
Hawaii
George Bush
Bush
Robert Strauss
Andras
Opposition Grows After Nixon Speech in Watergate Debate
Washington AP reports conservative Republicans break with Nixon denouncing his latest Watergate defense as rhetoric. Senators Goldwater and Goldwater Jr. criticize lack of specifics while California Gov. Reagan and Sen. McGovern offer mixed reactions. House and Senate figures weigh the president's claim and potential shift to court action.
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Washington
Nixon
Barry Goldwater
Rep
Ariz
Barry Goldwater Jr
Rep. Calif
Archibald Cox
Senate Watergate Committee
Edward Brooke
Rep. Mass
California
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
George McGovern
Dem. S.D
Edmund
Andras mum on sex extortion charges
Ottawa Immigration Minister Andras refused to confirm a Gazette report that immigration officers in Montreal extorted sexual favors from women immigrants. He announced a special commissioner to investigate alleged wrongdoing and said details would come after talks with Justice L Heureux-Dube.
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The
Montreal Gazette
Ottawa
Andras
Gazette
Montreal
Ontario
Claire L’heureux-Dube
Quebec
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