Thatcher visits Belfast amid IRA threat and sectarian violence
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher flew to Northern Ireland to meet British soldiers and administrators as IRA violence escalates. Ulster groups warned they will resume hostilities, while attacks in Brussels and Belfast raise tensions across Britain and Ireland.
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Pope cancels Northern Ireland visit amid sectarian violence
Vatican confirms Pope John Paul II will skip a planned stop in Northern Ireland during his Ireland visit due to recent brutal killings including the Mountbatten assassination. He will instead visit Dublin Drogheda Galway Knock Maynooth and Limerick as part of a 10 day trip. The U S leg runs Oct 1 to Oct 2 and includes a UN address in New York.
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Brooks lawyer named new chair of Medicine Hat College board
Kenneth W. Lutes, a 39 year old Brooks lawyer and former Medicine Hat resident, is appointed by Jim Horsman to chair the Medicine Hat College board. He will serve until November 1980 after two years on the board and a career of community involvement. Al Craig and Roy Hoffman are named to the board.
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US tuna boats clash with Canadian waters patrol off Vancouver Island
Federal fisheries vessels continue patrolling the tuna ground off Vancouver Island after eight U S fishing boats from Seattle and California left Victoria harbor with tuna on board. Captains posted 5000 bonds, face up to 25000 in fines and potential jail. Court date set for February 13.
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California
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Canadian flight service workers threaten Friday walkout
About 1 200 flight service specialists could walk out Friday disrupting routine aviation support at small Canadian airports including Medicine Hat and Watson Lake Nunavut and other sites. The union protests conciliation terms and seeks improved representation as wage offers remain unsettled since July 1978 and a phased pay rise is proposed.
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Quebec
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Soviet account claims Godunov was lured by promises during defection
Literaturnaya Gazeta says Bolshoi star Alexander Godunov was targeted by U.S. provocateurs who offered wealth and whisky and used slander about his wife to force him to stay in the United States. It notes he disappeared August 23 after a successful New York start and remains in a secret location under guard.
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Clark urges Alberta to share oil profits with nation
Prime Minister Joe Clark calls for using oil profits to aid consumers outside Alberta as Ottawa weighs energy policy. He praises Alberta’s Heritage Fund but rejects Ontario Premier Bill Davis’s plan to redistribute oil and gas profits, while Alberta’s Peter Lougheed denounces the proposal as a threat to resource rights.
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Two Die After Trans-Canada Highway Crash East of Cluny
A two-vehicle collision on the Trans-Canada Highway eight kilometres east of Cluny left two men dead and three others hospitalized. Ian Douglas Lewis, 44, of Stouffville Ontario, was killed when struck while inspecting his car. his wife Donna and friends Edward and Stephanie Thornhill were reported in good condition. The tanker driver, from Manitoba, died when his truck flipped and caught fire. the driver’s name was not released.
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