Oil strike continues at Great Canadian Oil Sands plant
Three hundred key GCOS workers near Fort McMurray voted 141 against and 121 for the latest offer, ensuring the strike over wages will continue. Fifteen on strike and 300 more refusing to cross lines shut the $300 million facility designed to extract crude from sands. GCOS posted a $16 million loss in the first half year as costly idling persists. Workers seek 50 cents more per hour. current rates range from 2.71 to 4.25.
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Fort Mcmurray
Alta
Here
Rod Thurber
Gcos Staff Bargaining Association
Edmonton
GCOS
Bargaining Association
Former Nazi gets life term for mass Hungarian killings
Frankfurt sentencing finds Hermann Krumey a former Eichmann aide guilty of involvement in deportation and murder of at least 300,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in 1944. Otto Hunsche receives 12 years. both faced retrial after earlier acquittal.
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Frankfurt
Reuters
Hermann Krumey
Adolf Hich Mann
Krumey
Eichmann
Budapest
Auschwitz
Hungary
Otto Hunsche
Hunsche
Federal Criminal Court
Karlsruhe
Leadership race begins as Quebec Liberals move on
Quebec Liberal leader Jean Lesage resigns sparking a leadership contest as Premier Jean Jacques Bertran resists an early election. The Union Nationale ponders an early vote while Liberal caucus and cabinet weigh strategy. LESAGE will stay on as MNA for Louis Hebert and a leadership convention is slated for January in Quebec City.
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Quebec
Jean Lesage
Liberal Party
Jean- Jacques Bertrand
Union Nationale
Liberals
Mario Beaulieu
Beaulieu
Lesage
National Assembly
Quebec City
Liberal Party Superior Council
North Korea offers to exchange crew for apology and confession
At the Korean Armistice Commission meeting North Korea said the three American helicopter crew members shot down on August 17 are alive and offered to exchange them for an apology and confession from the UN command. Major Gen Lee Choon Sun demanded a real aim confession and admission of a criminal act before returning the captives.
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Panmunjom
North Korea
United Nations Command
Korean Armistice Commission
David H. Crawford
Pooler, Ga
Herman E. Hofstatter
Lowpoint
Ill
WO Malcom V. Loepke
Richmond
Ind
Lee Choon-Sun
Lee
Arthur Adams
U.S. Marine Corps
Pueblo
Great Lakes storm to bring heavy damage in 1970
Damages rising as Great Lakes near high water marks threaten shoreline homes and cottages along 10,000 miles. High embankments on eastern Lake Michigan bluffs collapse, docks flood, beaches vanish, and canal bridges become impassable. Army Corps estimates hint at spring rises and unprecedented development could raise losses beyond 1951 52 levels. Attorney General Frank Kelley warns current damages may exceed past records.
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Detroit
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan
Lakes Survey District
U.S. Army’s Corps of Engineers
Michigan
Huron
Erie
Great Lakes Commission
Lakes
Frank Kelley
Irish MPs head to Canada and US in clash with Devlin
Northern Ireland Unionists dispatch three MPs to North America to counter Bernadette Devlin the 22 year old Ulster civil rights leader Devlin tours the United States to raise funds for violence victims W Stratton Mills Robin Bailie L P S Orr fly to cities to face Devlin on television in a planned confrontation over Ulster issues.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Unionist Party
Canada
United States
Bernadette Devlin
Ulster Civil Rights Movement
Ulster
Bernadette
W. Stratton Mills
Miss Devlin
House of Com
Mons
Mills
North Belfast
House of Commons
New York
Robin Bailie
Capt
L. P. S. Orr
London
Vancouver
Toronto
Bailie
U.S
Parades extended ban in Northern Ireland violence fears
Northern Ireland extended the public processions ban for another month to head off fresh sectarian violence. Home Affairs Minister Robert Porter announced the move after consultations with Lt Gen Ian Freeland and Royal Ulster Constabulary head Anthony Peacocke. British Home Secretary James Callaghan urged major reforms and set a timetable to empower moderates amid post riots that left eight dead and many homeless.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Robert Porter
Ulster
Ian Freesland
Anthony Peacocke
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Peacocke
James Callaghan
Callaghan
Londonderry
Bogside
James Chichester- Clark
Home Secretary
Arabs suspected in hijack on Rome to Athens flight
A Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 with 101 passengers and 12 crew was hijacked by three armed men on a Rome to Athens route. The jet landed in Damascus, Syria, after being diverted over southern Italy. Reports from Beirut and Rome claimed Arab commandos were responsible, with unconfirmed mentions of Arab notables aboard.
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London
PFLP
Palestine
United States
Habash
Israel
Amman
Jordan
Mediterranean
el al
Athens
Zurich
Jerusalem
Trans World Airlines
Rome
Tel Aviv
TWA
Paris
Damascus
Syria
Italy
Reuters
Beirut
Lebanon
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Front
Fiumicino
Libya
Algiers
No NEWS Monday Labor Day Observance Ad Deadline Notice
The Medicine Hat NEWS will not publish Monday September 1 in observance of Labor Day. Advertisers are reminded the deadline for Tuesday September 2 is today and the Wednesday September 3 deadline will be Saturday August 30 at noon.
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Medicine Hat News
Edmonton bus strike ends with wage boost agreement
Edmonton city transit workers vote 187 for and 132 against a new contract bringing a 19.68 percent pay raise over 27 months. Drivers’ wages rise to 3.75 per hour by March 31, 1971, with earlier steps and retroactive pay for 1969 and 1970, easing two week shutdown. Local 569 president William Mack notes 319 voters.
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Edmonton
Canada
William Mack
Amalgamated Transit Union
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N. Korea
Ivor Dent
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