06 Dec 1967
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 06, 1967
Page
1
The B B commission proposes bilingual districts across Canada where an official language minority makes up at least 10 percent. Districts would not create new jurisdictions but would allow use of either language in local government deliberations, bylaws, and court and provincial offices.
Stoke ly Carmichael, Black Power figure, was held overnight at Orly Airport before being allowed into France on a three month visa that could be extended. He arrived from Stockholm to address a protest against U.S. Vietnam policy amid his overseas tour of Communist and developing nations.
Lederle Laboratories reports its oral anti-tuberculosis drug ethambutol, sold as Myambutol, is now prescription ready after FDA approval. Trials with over 2,900 TB patients show efficacy against strains resistant to isoniazid streptomycin and PAS, to be used with older drugs like isoniazid.
Doctors at Maimonides Medical Center report transplanting the heart of a two day old infant who died into a 2 week old patient with tri cusp atrsia in a 2.5 hour operation. The donor infant had anencephaly and the heart was taken four days after Cape Town doctors announced the first human heart transplant.
The 260 page report backs declaring Ontario and New Brunswick officially bilingual with both languages in legislatures, courts and schools. It flags bilingual districts, seeks services in French where minority share reaches 10 percent, and urges provinces to recognize education rights in English or French based on minority concentration.
Prime Minister Pearson endorsed the first report of the B-B commission and promised quick action to implement its recommendations. He tabled the report in the Commons and said discussions with provinces on constitutional reform would begin at the federal provincial conference next January.
Cape Town report says Louis Washkansky could leave Groote Schuur Hospital within three weeks if his recovery continues. Professor Chris Barnard described a stable, infection-free period as doctors monitor for signs of rejection in the crucial seven days after the historic transplant from Denise Darvall.
In New York about 200 antiwar demonstrators were arrested attempting to disrupt the U S military induction centre in Lower Manhattan as police faced scattered clashes. Philadelphia saw 70 arrests as about 700 demonstrators blocked the entrance, part of Stop the Draft Week protests across the country.
Kenneth D Elia 20 of Flushing Queens remained in critical condition after setting himself afire on a lawn in front of the United Nations building Tuesday night. In Mexico City a collapsed bridge under construction north of the capital has 21 dead confirmed with tolls rising.
A government report places unemployment at about 289 thousand in mid November, up from 254 thousand in October, but still 51 thousand higher than November 1966. The data reflect Canada's employment picture for mid November.
President Oscar Gestido died early today at age 66 after a heart attack. He had taken office March 1 under a new constitution ending a long period of collective rule, while his government faced inflation bureaucracy and labor unrest. Vice President Jorge Pacheco Areco assumed the presidency.
Box er Cassius Clay known as Muhammed Ali and his second wife Belinda, 18, expect their first child. The affidavit notes the couple wed in a Black Muslim ceremony in Chicago August 18 after his heavyweight title was stripped last June for draft refusal.
Springfield AP three lawyers said a former U S secret service agent, now jailed, told them the agency knew before Kennedy's assassination a plot to kill him was planned. The claim links Bolden to warnings of a Chicago attack and testifying before the Warren Commission.
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