Five Europeans Dead as Congo Conflict Rages Near Bunia
Rebels fled toward Watsa as government forces moved on Bunia with 30 mercenaries and 200 Congolese soldiers. Reports of mass executions and hostage rescues surfaced while Belgians and Westerners faced danger. Brezhnev denounced Western paratroop landings in The Congo as imperialist piracy and offered no direct intervention pledge.
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Watsa
Bunia
Stanleyville
Paulis
Poko
Zobia
Aubrey Brown
Reuters
Brown
Hulda Schroeder
Waldheim, Sask
Worldwide Evangelization Crusade
Mambdasa
Paris
Congo River
Moscow
Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet Communist Party
Congo
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Kremlin
Brezhnev
Free vote planned on capital punishment in next session
Ottawa cabinet announced a free vote on capital punishment for the next session. Justice Favreau commuted Georges Marcotte’s death sentence to life imprisonment after new representations. he may only be released with governor in council leave. Marcotte was convicted for the December 1962 Santa Claus bank holdup slaying of Const. Claude Marineau.
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Ottawa
Favreau
Montreal
Georges Marcotte
Marcotte
Fere
Minister of Justice
Const
Claude Marineau
St. Laurent
Que
RCMP to probe first top leak in 91 years
Ottawa CP report says RCMP assumes a leak fueled opposition bribery charges that erupted in the Commons. Commissioner McClellan notes no documents are missing and questions who had access to sensitive reports amid a force split between criminal investigations and security intelligence.
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RCMP
Ottawa
George B. McClellan
Moose Jaw
Sask
Erik Nielsen
Yukon
McClellan
Agriculturist Ralph Skaien named assistant district agriculturist
Edmonton report announces the appointment of Ralph A. Skaien as assistant district agriculturist at Medicine Hat. Skaien, raised near Swift Current and a 1950 University of Saskatchewan agriculture graduate, has spent the last two years with the board of grain commissioners as an assistant inspector and assumed the new duties December 1.
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Edmonton
Ralph A. Skaien
Medicine Hat
Skaien
Swift Current
Sask
University of Saskatchewan
The
Board of Grain Commissioners
Massive Baffin iron ore find touted as world class
Regina CP A vast iron ore deposit on Milne Inlet, Milne Inlet Milne Inlet 120 miles south of Baffin Island, is described as the richest ore in the world by Arthur Laing, federal northern affairs minister. The 180 million ton reserve has 69 percent iron and could be shipped longer if icebreakers extend the seasonal window. Development hinges on extending the shipping season beyond about two months. Murray Watts, a noted northern prospector, discovered the deposit.
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Regina
Baffin Island
Cana
Dian Arctic
Arthur Laing
Laing
Swift Current
Milne Inlet
Saskatchewan
Federal Department of Transport
Murray Watts
The Nation The dirty old press
Edmonton column on MPs traveling from Ottawa and using air travel to issue provocative statements. It notes Eldon Woolliams and Erik Neilsen as contrasting voices and Hugh Horner accusing reporters of bias and sensationalism while defending Parliament as a debating body.
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Edmonton
Ottawa
House of Commons
Eldon Woolliams
Bow River
Erik Neilsen
Yukon
Neilsen
Mr. Woolliams
Neilson
Woolliams
Calgary
Hal Banks
Air Canada
Jasper Edson
Hugh M. Horner
Liberal Party
Horner
Ontario workers strike at GM plants across province
United Auto Workers in Canada struck four GM plants in Ontario joining Oshawa walkout as about 23 500 workers idle in Toronto St Catharines London Windsor and Oshawa. Negotiations continued as maintenance and office staff remained on site and no incidents reported.
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Toronto
United Auto Workers
CLC
General Motors
Ontario
Automobile Assembly
Oshawa
St. Catharines
London
Windsor
McKinnon Industries
United States Corporation
General Motors Diesel Limited
CBC Funding Criticized by Senator Overreach in Ottawa Debates
Senator Grattan O Leary attacked the CBC for living beyond its means and harming the Canadian magazine industry as government spending estimates for the year ending March 31, 1965 were passed. He noted an $88 million grant and a $15 million loan to the CBC and questioned affordability amid a flag debate in the Commons about a single red maple leaf on a white field.
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Ottawa
CBC
Senate
Grattan O’leary
Canada
Red Chamber
Liberals
Flag Committee
J. Waldo Monteith
Perth
O’leary
Royal Commission On
United States
Time
Readers Digest
Policeman Loses Handcuffs After Fugitive Truant Flight
In Nashville Tennessee AP report Officer William Bodenhamer cuffed 16 year old Johnny Mack Waters for truancy. Waters slipped away on foot despite the restraint, leaving the officer with a missing pair of handcuffs.
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Nashville
Fire sale fire hazard noted for Hat Auto and Machining
City officials warned that Hat Auto and Machining’s fire sale of used cars at the Exhibition Building could breach safety rules. At a Municipal Planning Commission meeting the occupancy permit was cleared pending city council approval. The building exceeds 16 000 square feet but the panel criticized late filing.
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Hat Auto and Machinery
Municipal Planning Commission
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Brussels
Didier Welvaert
Welvaert
Denis Brabant
Quebec Court of Appeal
Supreme Court of Canada
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Baffin
Charles Lynch
Southam News Services
Ttime
UAW
George Burt
O'Leary
Ottawa Journal
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