UN official arrives to organize Cyprus refugee aid
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, UN high commissioner for refugees, flies to Akrotiri to coordinate aid for about 200,000 Cypriots displaced by fighting. He expects to issue an international appeal and will report to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.
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Akrotiri
Cyprus
Reuter
United Nations
Sadruddin Aga Khan
Nicosia
Prince Sadruddin
Kurt Waldheim
Glafkos Clerides
Rauf Denktash
Stephen Olver
Clerides
Denktash
United Nations High Commissioner
Red Cross
Peacemaking efforts in Bucharest at UN population meeting
Canada and about a dozen nations press new principles linking population, resources and environment in a bid to bridge the developed developing world gap at the World Population Plan of Action. China and the U S clash over plan details as Argentina pushes 68 amendments.
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Peter Calamas Southam
Bucharest
Canada
China
U.S
UN Environment
Maurice Strong
David Munro
Munro
Jeanne Sauve
Argentina
Attendant killed in Calgary area service station robbery
An 11 year old Medicine Hat attendant died after being admitted to Calgary General Hospital from injuries in a robbery at Rud's Shell Service at 6th Street S.W. and the Trans-Canada Highway. Peter Van Eerde, 15 Bennett Court N.W., son of city engineer Jack Van Eerde, was found unconscious about 2 a.m. and died later. Police believe he was struck with a blunt instrument. Two men and a woman are in custody as suspects. details remain under investigation with believed theft of money.
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Medicine Hat
Calgary General Hospital
Rud
Shell Service
6Th Street
S.W
Peter van Eerde
Bennett Court
N.W
Jack van Eerde
Calgary
Calls for Increases in Grain Pay and Incentives
Regina Canada Walter Nelson president Palliser Wheat Growers Association urged grain companies in the British Columbia labor dispute to match worker demands and add incentives. He noted mediator's one cent per bushel rise as modest next to a three-cent increase by the companies and proposed overtime or a production bonus to reward higher output.
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Regina
Walter Nelson
Palliser Wheat Growers Association
British Columbia
Nelson
Canada
Plumptre attacks federal food policy at CNE speech
Food Prices Review Board chair Beryl Plumptre criticized Ottawa for failing to protect consumers with new egg market measures and a costly rescue of the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency. She urged renegotiation of trade deals to lower sugar costs and warned inflation will rise.
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Arthur Blakely
Montreal Gazette
Ottawa
Food Prices Review Board
Beryl Plumptre
FPRB
Whelan
United States
Canada
Cuba
Brazil
Australia
South Africa
Canadian delegates gain ground at Law of the Sea talks
At the 10 week international Law of the Sea Conference in Caracas Canada presses for a 200 mile exclusive zone and ownership of undersea minerals. Alan Beesley says progress is incremental and next year’s Geneva or Vienna meeting will push hard bargains. Canada seeks higher anti pollution standards for foreign ships near its shores amid ice and gale hazards.
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Caracas
Canada
Alan Beesley
Beesley
Austria
Geneva
Vienna
Canadian
Newfoundland
Juan de Fuca Strait
British Columbia
Three robbers flee with Brinks cash in Val d'Or heist
Police widen hunt for three men who held up a Brinks truck delivering cash to a Royal Bank branch in Val d'Or. Heavily armed officers and two helicopters surround the area after the midday robbery that wounded Brinks guard Adolphe Potvin. The robbers escaped in a bulletproof panel truck with about $400,000, after firing at officers and fleeing from Main Street. Potvin underwent a five hour operation in Montreal’s Notre Dame Hospital and remains in critical condition.
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Val. D'Or
Que
Brinks
Val D'Or
Montreal
Royal Bank of Canada
Brinks Guard
Main Street
Adolphe Potvin
Timmins
Ont
Notre Dame Hospital
Napoleon Martinez
Val d’Or
St. Sauveur Hospital
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Placerville
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Henry Kissinger
Washington
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Plumptre
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