Montreals Grey Cup Festivities End Peaceful Week
Montreal officials breathe relief as Grey Cup festivities end with only on field clashes. Ottawa Rough Riders beat Saskatchewan Roughriders 29 11 to claim the cup. Prime Minister Trudeau kicked off the events while riot police maintained order amid 250 000 spectators and bylaw protests.
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Montreal
Jean-Paul Gilbert
Ottawa Rough Riders
Western Canada
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Ottawa
Roughriders
Regina
Trudeau
Toronto
Laura Medland
Saskatchewan
Russ Jackson
Ken Lehmann
Autostade
Abduction of Morin Heights Chief Prompts Arrests
In Morin Heights Quebec two Montrealers face charges of kidnapping and threatening to shoot the police chief Edouard Morin after he was abducted from the Kennedy home. A woman was arrested. police recovered a machine gun and a loaded revolver during the raid on a chalet near Ste Adele.
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Lawson Kennedy
Kennedy
Morin
St. Adele
Lac Renaud
U S Draft Lottery Opens With National Call for 500000 Men
The United States begins its first draft lottery in 27 years to select among 500000 men aged 19 to 26 for 1970. A large board, lights, and capsule drawings determine the sequence, with 53 youth from all states, D C, NYC, a separate region, and Puerto Rico drawing capsules and placing dates beside numbers on a master board.
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Washington
United States
Stock Exchange
Selective Service
Nixon
Lewis B. Hershey
District of Columbia
New York City
Puerto Rico
Nixon aims to win Soviet buy in Middle East peace plan
U S officials say Washington will push Israel to follow a new peace plan only if the Soviet Union first accepts it. They expect no quick answer before the December Arab leaders summit. The plan asks Israel to withdraw to pre 1967 borders in exchange for Egypt’s commitment to peace and calls for talks under the Rhodes formula with a mediator.
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Washington
Nixon
Israel
U.S
Middle East
Soviet Union
New York
Anatoliy Dobryn
Egypt
Cairo
Tel Aviv
Gaza
Srip
Sharm el Sheikh
Strait of Tiran
Gulf of Aqaba
Rhodes
Moscow
United States
France backs U.K. entry into market
At The Hague six nation leaders of the European Economic Community open talks on a common bargaining position for Britain and other applicants to join the market. France supports British entry in principle, with Pompidou and Brandt taking leading roles as negotiations begin next spring.
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Tim Southam
Hague
Britain
Knights of the
France
the Hague
Willy Brandt
West Germany
Ireland
Norway
Denmark
Brandt
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
Monpellier
National Council
Gaullist Party
Consi
de Gaulle
The
M. Pompidou
Gen. de Gaulle
Mr. Brandt
Italy
Mariano Rumor
Piet de Jong
Netherlands
Israelis Hit Arabs in Jordan Border Raid
Eyewitnesses report Israeli jets bombed and strafed Arab guerrillas firing on an army patrol from Jordan. The 15 minute raid targeted Baquara village as guerrillas scattered and fled. Israel later said it struck Egyptian targets after a separate canal area raid with disputed casualty figures.
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Jordan
Jordan River
Sea of Galilee
Baquara
Suez Canal
Egypt
Israel
Tel Aviv
Defense states no order to shoot civilians at My Lai
Lawyer F. Lee Bailey for Captain Ernest Medina said no orders were given to butcher villagers or to shoot women and children during the March 1968 My Lai attack. He argued Medina believed the hamlet held Viet Cong guerrillas and acted with caution after a helicopter report.
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Mai Lai
F. Lee Bailey
United States Army
My Lai
Bailey
Cailey
Medina
Bomb explodes at McGill University campus
A bomb blast on Sunday night at McGill University injures no one but shatters about 50 windows across five campus buildings. The device was placed under a greenhouse foundation near the radiation lab and caused about $2,000 in damage, with the cyclotron protected and undamaged.
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Montreal
McGill University
McGill
Robert Shaw
Shaw
Four dead, one missing as coast freighter sinks
A Halifax CP report says the coast freighter Thomas J. Hodder sank off Cape Breton. Four bodies were recovered, and a 16 year old survivor, Ian McGinness, was rescued by the Liberian tanker Geodor. The search for one missing crew member continues as other vessels and ferries assist.
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Halifax
Thomas J. Hodder
Newfoundland
Cape Breton
Sceatari Island
Ian McGinness
Geodor
Montreal
St. Charles
Souris
Ambrose Shea
Frederick Carter
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Anatoly Dobrynin
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William L. Calley Jr
Indi
Herbert Baum
North Sydney
N.S
John A
Jack) Parlee
Saint John, N.B
Canadian National
Patrick Morris
E. E. McGinness
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