Rumors swirl around Johnson cabinet resignations
Reports favored by insiders claim Defense Secretary McNamara will depart soon, with U N Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall also eyed for resignation. Both deny impending exits as media speculation cites a New York Times piece linking Goldberg to a law firm and a January departure after the U N session ends December 19.
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Southam News Services
Washington
Defense
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Arthur Goldberg
Johnson
Stewart Udall
Goldberg
New York
New York Times
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Times
Supreme Court
United States to seek UN Security Council session on Vietnam
U S officials expect a Security Council meeting this month to pursue a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam war. Arthur J. Goldberg may present the White House request. Saigon and Viet Cong participation in talks remains a point of dispute as the National Liberation Front sought UN representation last October.
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Medicare delay clouding Canada medical plan
Edmonton based Provincial Treasurer A O Aalborg warned of uncertainty over federal medicare schedule. He cited cabinet doubts and possible provincial power to appoint carriers while details remain unclear. He told Medical Services Insurance reps after a cabinet meeting that MSI’s future hinges on clarified federal plans.
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A. O. Aalborg
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Ten Holidays Put Forward for Canada Public Service
Ottawa CP report says Revenue Minister Benson listed ten paid holidays for civil servants and rejected unions demands. He cited a $4 to $5 million cost of lost time and proposed Boxing Day as a possible additional day. The list includes New Year’s Day Good Friday Easter Monday Victoria Day Dominion Day Labor Day Thanksgiving Remembrance Day Christmas Day and one more day chosen by the deputy head. Prime Minister Pearson is noted to attend a centennial commission Christmas tree lighting with 5,000 Ottawa schoolchildren invited.
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Carleton
Rod Webb
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Cost of living up half a point in November
The consumer price index rose half a point to 151 in November as Canadians paid more for clothing housing and recreational activities. The index compares with the previous month and with the year earlier.
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Ottawa
Transplant Battle as Baby Dies After Heart Implant
A Brooklyn hospital reported that a baby boy who received a transplanted heart died at 1 p.m. EST after the organ failed six hours into the procedure led by Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz. Earlier Cape Town news noted Louis Washkansky's partial recovery after a separate heart transplant, yet the South African patient faced ongoing rejection risks and was treated with cobalt therapy while showing gradual improvement.
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Louis Washkapisky
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Kantrowitz
Louis Washkansky
Washkansky
Groote Schuur Hospital
Christian Barnard
Snow job label hits bilingualism report in Canada
The royal commission on bilingualism and biculturalism is denounced as another snow job to keep Quebec quiet. Rene Levesque and Robert Strachan clash over the report’s official bilingualism policy, with Levesque criticizing it as illusory and costly nation building.
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Canada
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Robert Strachan
New Democratic Party
British
Columia
Levesque
Strachan
Sharp budget attack taxes and tensions rise in Ottawa
Opposition critics accuse Finance Minister Sharp of favoring big corporations while squeezing ordinary Canadians. Moved by J Waldo Monteith the non confidence motion targets the government for fiscal mismanagement and proposed tax hikes. The NDP faults tax shifts toward the common citizen and thwarts revenue by cancelling concessions to oil mining and insurance firms. Revenue Minister Benson is expected to outline spending cuts as debate continues while Monteith claims 1968 spending will rise 12 percent to 9.85 billion dollars.
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Sharp
J. Waldo Monteith
Perth
NDP
Benson
Monteith
Three futures for Medicine Hat Junior College debated
At yesterday's conference the Medicine Hat Junior College options were specialization diversification or an academic liberal arts university. Delegates favored diversifiers with calls for a unique local identity and a separate building to boost enrollment and relieve rural budgets.
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E. H. Gabert
Rosemary
Clint MacPhail
C. K. Annis
Newell
Peace not wanted at antiwar rally in Paris
Stokely Carmichael addressed about 3,000 protesters in Paris condemning U S role in Vietnam. He dismissed de Gaulle as an imperialist rival and urged Vietnamese victory over the United States, calling for disruption of the United States and pledging that their blood would not be too high a price.
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Stokely Carmichael
United States
Carmichael
United States of America
Fog and low clouds spread west into Alberta tonight
Western Saskatchewan remains cloud covered as fog lingers and thickens. Moist easterly winds driving the conditions may reach Coronation Edmonton and Peace River, with little change expected in the weather pattern Friday.
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Alberta
Coronation
Edmonton
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Johnson attends Spellman funeral in New York
President Johnson flew to New York to attend funeral services for Francis Cardinal Spellman. Reports out of Arkansas confirm an alleged plot to assassinate Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. In New York antiwar demonstrators staged a third stop the draft protest spilling from Manhattan to Times Square and the UN. The British pound slumped to its lowest level since the November devaluation.
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