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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 01, 1970
Page
1
Finance Minister Benson will unveil a pre-Christmas budget marking a new national strategy to combat unemployment while maintaining an anti inflation front. Cabinet debate highlighted worries over rising joblessness, with early forecasts of nine percent unemployment and up to 750 000 Canadians out of work.
The United Church of Canada concludes the Ryerson Press sale to McGraw-Hill Co. of Canada Ltd. for about 2 million, transferring inventory and copyrights while accounts receivable remain. Ontario Premier Robarts announces a royal commission into publishing industry difficulties.
Lise Rose aged 25 and Clement Roy aged 22 were sentenced to six months and nine days in jail respectively for contempt of court at the Pierre Laporte inquest. Judge Jacques Trahan said the sentences reflect the witnesses’ deliberate refusal to testify. The case ties to FLQ membership charges and War Measures Act trials with new clues in Laporte and Cross kidnappings.
Canada’s second worst air disaster prompts the FAA to require U S airlines to post a metal warning plaque between pilot and co pilot against in flight deployment of spoilers and to amend flight manuals. The Air Canada DC-8 crash near Toronto killed 109 people when an inadvertent lever pull deployed spoilers during approach.
Rome reports Parliament passes divorce bill 319 to 286 after five year battle with church aligned blocks. Senate already approved it and it awaits presidential signature before final enactment. Courts may issue decrees next year for up to two million Italians now separated. Separation must be five years, six if contested, seven if separation was caused by one partner's guilt.
Ottawa reports that the Commons is set to approve today the Public Order Temporary Measures Act 1970 replacing the War Measures Act. Debate ended Monday night and the vote is expected early in today’s session with Conservatives largely backing the bill, while New Democrats and Creditistes oppose.
Leonard Woodcock, international UAW president, and George B. Morris Jr. GM director of labor relations join GM Canada talks as the 23,000 strike enters its 79th day. Subcommittees meet and progress reports are awaited. Woodcock’s visit marks a first in Canadian negotiations with the union showing unity behind wage parity.
A Lithuanian-born sailor leaped from a Soviet fishing boat to a U S Coast Guard cutter seeking asylum. Russians allegedly boarded the Cutter, beat him, and returned him to the Soviet vessel. The episode sparked White House scrutiny, calls for congressional inquiry, and an immediate coast guard investigation.
Cairo reports President Anwar Sadat will not accept another ceasefire extension without a definite timetable for Israeli troop withdrawal from all Arab areas. In Saigon a Viet Cong rocket hit a medical station, killing or wounding staff, and a Phnom Penh embassy bomb failed to injure. A Boston AP note says urban life exposes non-smokers to air pollution as if smoking a pack daily.
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