PC leadership race heats up as candidates campaign
With under ten days to go the Progressive Conservative leadership race gains tempo as nine declared candidates tour the country. Youth supporters threaten a demonstration at Maple Leaf Gardens if denied access on convention floor. Delegates may rise from 2343 to 2450 at a Quebec policy conference preview. Duff Roblin campaigns in Ontario while Davie Fulton and Alvin Hamilton woo Montreal delegates. Fulton urges preserving medical care insurance yet reforming welfare. Hamilton argues against Quebec special status and calls for true national equality through economic parity. Senator Wallace McCutcheon denounces economic nationalism in Toronto as delegates weigh priorities.
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Progressive Conservative
John Dieferibaker
Maple Leaf Gardens
Keith Martin
Youth For
Diefenbaker
Bill Hatton
Toronto
Gene Rheaume
Montmorency Falls
Que
Duff Roblin
Manitoba
Ontario
Ottawa
Cornwall
Smiths Falls
Kingston
Senators Press U.S. Exit From Vietnam After McNamara Testimony
Defense Secretary McNamara tells a Senate subcommittee bombing alone cannot force peace with North Vietnam. Senators Symington and Thurmond demand U.S. withdrawal citing high costs and uncertain prospects. McNamara says air strikes are supplementary and not aimed at stopping South Vietnamese infiltration.
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U.S
Vietnam
George Brimmell
Southam News
Washington
Johnson
Defense
Robert McNamara
Senate
North Vietnam
McNamara
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
South
North
Stuart Symington
D.mo
Air Force
United States
Symington
Sen
Strom Thurmond
R.S.C
De Gaulle Poll Backing and Various World News
A Paris poll shows 56 percent of French men back de Gaulle on foreign policy. Paul Muni, 71, dies of a heart attack in Santa Barbara. Canadian scientists unlikely to move to the U S over McGill High Altitude project. Two U S Army sergeants face charges of conspiring to pass secrets to the Soviet Union. identified as Leonard J. Safford and Ullysses L. Harris.
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Paris
Reuters
de Gaulle
Santa Barbara
Calif
Paul Muni
Contecito
Montreal
United States
University of Vermont
McGill University
Hong Kong Police disperse banner protests with tear gas
Police fired seven rounds of tear gas to scatter about 1000 demonstrators in central Hong Kong during lunch hour protests. One arrest reported as authorities warn of danger amid ongoing unrest and threats against anti Communist figures.
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Hong Kong
China
Lam Bun
Lam
Lowu
Peking
Donald Hopson
Legation
Anglican rebels oppose new church marriage canon ruling
In Ottawa CP Archdeacon Alford Abraham said he would refuse to preside over remarriages of divorced persons and would resign if another clergyman performed the ceremony. The synod debated amendments to allow conscience-based refusals and assign others to perform such marriages. Bishop Reed supported the amendment as past week’s action. An additional amendment would place Anglicans abroad under their home bishop for canon matters.
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Ottawa
General Synod
Alford
E. S. Reed
Former American Nazi Patler charged with Rockwell slaying
Arlington Virginia police hold John C Patler former No 4 Nazi in heavy guard on murder charges in the killing of George Lincoln Rockwell founder of the American Nazi party. Bail set at 50000 Patler expelled from the party last year for Bolshevik leanings. Rockwell shot after leaving a coin operated laundry near party headquarters.
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Rockwell
Arlington
George Lincoln Rockwell
Nazi Party
John C. Patter
No. 4
U.S
Matthias Koehl
Koehl
Patter
Patler
Stormtrooper
CESO Forms Overseas Aid Group For Canadian Executives
External Affairs Minister Martin announced a new non profit Canadian Executive Service Overseas CESO led by Montreal businessman Claude Hebert will send senior executives and professionals on short term assignments to Africa and other developing nations to advise on development challenges and education reforms.
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Ottawa
Martin
Montreal
Claude Hebert
Canadian Executive Service Overseas
CESO
Canadian University Service Overseas
Africa
Rhodesian forces claim major Gulf border clashes kill guerrillas
The Rhodesian government said security forces killed 23 Negro nationalist guerrillas in fighting near the Zambian border. It reported six Rhodesians killed and 12 wounded, with 26 guerrillas captured, in clashes near the border where Zambia, Rhodesia, Botswana and Southwest Africa meet.
Ky vows army purge to clean up corruption and inefficiency
Premier Ky confirms sweeping South Vietnamese army officers for corruption and inefficiency, calling it a cleanup rather than a purge. He leaves the air force post to campaign and pledges to return as a pilot if defeated. Thieu, campaigning with civilian presidential candidates, proposes talks with North Vietnam on peace.
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Saigon
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen van Thieu
Mekong Delta
Thieu
My Tho
North Vietnam
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Alan Clarke
Company
of Young Canadians
Little
Hamilton
Quebec
Canada
Wallace McCutcheon
New Foreign Aid Organization
Ministry of Education
Rhodesia
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