Pilots Accept Air Canada Contract After Threatened Strike
Air Canada pilots vote to ratify a 27 month contract retroactive to July 1, with an immediate 10 percent pay raise and 7 percent after 15 months. The agreement prevents a potential strike and will raise pilot wages by about 46.7 million relative to the current payroll. Controllers will gain 8 percent retroactive to July 1 with a further 7 percent on July 1, 1969.
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Montreal
Air Canada
Cleve Kidd
Canadian Air Line Pilots Association
Treasury Board
Canadian Air Traffic Controllers Association
Ottawa Air Traffic Controllers Reach 15 Percent Pay Deal
A government dispute with about 1000 air traffic controllers ends with a two year contract offering a 15 percent wage increase. Ratification was announced as a substantial majority favored the latest offer. Regional councils in Montreal Toronto Winnipeg and Vancouver reported mixed responses with 570 pilots urging rejection and 552 pilots backing ratification.
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Ottawa
Kidd
Montreal
Toronto
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Hatter dies in fall from Allowance Avenue overpass
Medicine Hat man Charlie Phaff, 74, fell 34 feet from the Allowance Avenue overpass at 1:20 p m. His body struck a railroad switch stand. Police say no foul play is suspected. Coroner awaiting inquest decision.
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Allowance Avenue
Charlie Phaff
Allowance Ave
E. G. F. Skinner
Refuses to ratify Moscow agreement amid occupation tense standoff
News reports say the National Assembly declined to ratify the Moscow accord, citing pressure and ongoing occupation. Dubcek and Svoboda urged understanding while reformist factions resist Soviet moves, with rumors of dual central committees and moves to oust Dubcek.
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National Assembly
Moscow
Communist Party Central Committee
Alexander Dubcek
Ludvik Svoboda
Dubcek
Central Committee
Paris goes home after heart transplant in Laval
Gaetan Paris, Canada’s only surviving heart transplant patient, left hospital for a quiet convalescence in Laval. A 15 car motorcade and police escort accompanied his family as neighbors greeted him on the bungalow steps after the June 28 operation. He said he would like to go fishing first.
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Montreal
Gaetan Paris
Paris
Canada
Laval
Pierre Grondin
Vietnam issue postponed as Kennedy draft grows
Delegates rebelled delaying the Vietnam policy showdown at the Democratic convention. A major draft push for Edward Kennedy gains momentum, with his name likely entered tonight despite his absence. National Guard was deployed as clashes with antiwar protesters continued near the convention hall. Humphrey remained the leading candidate on the first ballot with Mr. McCarthy and McGovern trailing.
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Chicago
Democratic Party
Vietnam
Edward Kennedy
National Guard
Georgia
Wisconsin
Richard Daley
Johnson
North Vietnam
Paris
Kennedy
Humphrey
Lyndon Johnson
Associated Press
McCarthy
McGovern
Negro delegates rally behind Phillips at Democratic convention
Black delegates press a protest vote for Rev. Channing Phillips on the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago strains of resistance to Deep South delegations. Leaders say Humphrey remains likely to secure the nomination, with Phillips’ bid framed as a symbolic challenge.
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Chicago
Hubert Humphrey
Channing Phillips
U.S
John Conyers Jr
Detroit
Phillips
Charles C. Diggs Jr
Michigan
Humphrey
Protests Confront War Critics Near Chicago Democratic HQ
About 800 National Guard troops surrounded the Conrad Hilton Hotel in downtown Chicago as 2,500 antiwar demonstrators gathered in Grant Park and Lincoln Park nightly protests. Police used tear gas to disperse crowds, while guardsmen relieved overstretched officers.
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Chicago
National Guard
Conrad Hilton
Michigan Avenue
Hubert Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
James Rochford
Grant Park
Lincoln Park
Lincoln
Grant Parks
Hilton
Eisenhower Shows Further Cardiac Improvement at Walter Reed
Army doctors report a continued decrease in heart irritability for Dwight D. Eisenhower at Walter Reed Army Hospital. He has spent another comfortable night and remains in good spirits while receiving light background music in his room accompanied by brief visits from Mrs. Eisenhower.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Eisenhower
Maddox Withdraws Presidential Bid and Endorses No Democrat
Georgia Governor Les Maddox abruptly ends his brief campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. He plans to oppose the party’s nominee in the fall and hinted at backing third party candidate George Wallace in November after telephoning Wallace Tuesday night. Maddox said his conscience would not let him support liberal candidates and denounced the Democratic Socialist party as he spoke under seven American flags at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Atlanta before returning to Georgia with many Georgia delegates.
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Dubcek
Slovak Communist Party
Bratislava
Vasil Bilak
First
Central Committee
Prague
Phillips
Robert Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
District of Columbia
Kennedy
McCarthy
George McGovern
Chicago
Lester Maddox
Georgia
Maddox
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Atlanta
Democratic Socialist Party
Conrad Hilton
Soviet Paper Claims U S Green Berets Invaded Czechoslovakia
A Soviet newspaper accused the United States of sending Green Beret units trained in Austria into Czechoslovakia in small tourist disguise to aid counter revolutionary forces. It alleged West German troops and ammunition aided the effort and cited emigre Czechs in the U S Army as covert operatives.
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Moscow
United States
Czechoslovakia
Literary Gazette
Austria
Schwarzenberg
Salzaburg
West Germany
U.S
Bad Tvelz
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Alabama
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