Security Council showdown averted over Palestinian rights vote
Non aligned delegates postponed a Security Council vote on a Palestinian rights resolution to spare outgoing U S ambassador Andrew Young a veto. Terzi of the PLO praised Young as he defended talks with the PLO and urged postponement to avoid bloodshed. The delay shifts action past the Havana non aligned states conference and into September.
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United Nations
U.S
Andrew Young
UN Security Council
Young
Zehdi Labib Terzi
Palestine Liberation Organization Observer
Council
PLO
Au Revoir
Terzi
Young-Terzi
United States
Israel
Palestine
Saudi Arabia
Kuwaiti
Abdallah Yaccoub Bishara
Ter
Yasser Arafat
Bishara
Arafat
Andy Young
Havana
Cuba
Confessed killer presses for Nevada gas chamber execution
Jesse Bishop, awaiting Monday execution in Nevada, urges the Pardons Board to proceed. His lawyers push for a stay, claiming speedy execution rights are violated. A San Francisco federal appeals court halted delays, prompting a hastily arranged Pardons Board session led by Gov. Bob List.
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Carson City
Nev
Jesse Bishop
Nevada
Bishop
State Pardons Board
Pardons Board
Bob List
San Francisco
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Malaysian student freed as bus bursts into flames near Hamilton
A chartered bus carrying 140 overseas students to Niagara Falls from Toronto overturned on the Queen Elizabeth Way 20 kilometres east of Hamilton. A Malaysian student, Mavis No. 20, was freed before the vehicle exploded. Thirty-three people including students, a firefighter and the driver were treated for injuries. Police said no charges were laid. The burned bus will undergo a mechanical test.
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Grimsby
George Oelkach
Queen Elizabeth Way
Ontario
Toronto
High Park School
Niagara Falls
Saqqez
Iran
Kurdistan
Mahabad
Grimsby, Ont
Hamilton
Mavis No. 20
Ont
Robert Co
Jimmy Chong
Malaysia
Diane Ferguson
Markham
St. Catharines
Travelways School Transit of
Marham, Ont
Israel blamed for barrage on Palestinian camp in Lebanon
Palestinian spokesman says Israeli artillery hit Rashidiyeh refugee camp south of Tyre injuring nine and killing three, including four children, with shells also striking a kindergarten a school and a clinic amid ongoing southern Lebanon fighting. UN forces report casualties among peacekeepers as fighting widens along a 100 kilometer front.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Rashidiyeh
Tyre
Tel Aviv
Israel
Mediterranean
Mount Hermon
Officials question defector's wife
More than 100 passengers remained on a grounded Moscow bound jet as U.S. and Soviet officials negotiated the fate of Ludmilla Vlasova wife of Bolshoi dancer Alexander Godunov. Officials questioned her aboard the Aeroflot jet while awaiting her decision to leave or stay.
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New York
U.S
Bolshoi Ballet
Alexander Godunov
U.S. State Department
Immigration
Ludmilla Vlasova
Ballet Company
Soviet Union
State Department
Miss Vlasova
Aeroflot
Evgeny Makeyey
United Nations
Donald McHenry
UN Security Council
Washington
Benjamin Civiletti
Warren Christopher
Terence Adamson
Adamson
Godunov
McHenry
Woman Painted White Found Near City Apartment
Police found a woman clad entirely in white paint outside a Victoria apartment early this week. She was taken to hospital, washed down, and released with no name released and likely no charges. A paint dealer supplied remover to help clean her before treatment.
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Victoria
Diefenbaker estate valued at least one million dollars
Ottawa reports reveal John Diefenbaker’s estate is worth at least a million with a secret $475,000 trust fund plus a house in Ottawa and Saskatchewan farm land. Executors, including Senator David Walker, disclose the assets amid legal wrangles and questions over the trust’s use.
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Ottawa
John Diefenbaker
David Walker
Diefenbaker
Public Works
Saskatchewan
Walker
Winnipeg
Vaughan Baird
Baird
Senator Walker
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Yehuda Blum
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Huilduggs
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Justice Edward Hughes
Keith Martin
Tom van Dusen
Greg Guthrie
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