Poverty conference opens with drinks amid policy debate
Ottawa reports describe the federal provincial poverty and opportunity conference opening with 150 civil servant delegates, Quebec Welfare Minister Rene Levesque outlining Quebec’s plan for social welfare and a broad review of 42 position papers. The session featured a press ban on meetings, panel discussions on rural poverty, employment, housing, health, and Indian affairs with stark data showing Indians’ life expectancy and housing deficits compared with national figures.
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Ottawa
Quebec
Rene Levesque
Toronto
Federal Indian Affairs Branch
Special Planning Secretariat
Pearson
Tom Kent
Levesque
Lesage
Kent
ARCA
Saint John
Montreal
Winnipeg
Vancouver
British diplomat calls Rhodesia's Smith a liar in Commons debate
Commonwealth Secretary Arthur Bottomley labeled Ian Smith untrustworthy during a tense Commons session over Rhodesia. He disputed Smith’s account of talks with Wilson and Garfield Todd, saying the claim was a lie. The Lords defeated a censure on pensions to Rhodesians amid sanctions pressure.
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London
Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Britain
Commonwealth
Arthur Bottomley
House of Lords
House of Commons
Labor
British Security
Arabia
Smith
Wilson
British Petroleum Company
The
Commons
Bottomley
Lord Gardiner
Garfield Todd
Todd
Lord Coleraine
Lord Longford
Kosygin accuses U S of inciting war tensions
Moscow premier Alexei Kosygin charged the United States with whipping up war tensions and arming West Germany against the Soviet Union. In a Tass interview he said the Soviets could not meet President Johnson while the Vietnam War continues and urged world leaders to avoid a global atmosphere conducive to war.
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Moscow
Alexei Kosygin
United States
West Germany
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Kosygin
Johnson
Tass
James Reston
New York Times
Khrushchev
Lord Thomson
U.S
Europe
Rural poverty study shows Calgary area incomes in double digits
Canada's Rural poor subsist on monthly incomes as low as 11.71 per person in Inverness, Gatineau, Lanark and Interlake regions. The 200 page report for ARDA highlights 290 rural families mainly in farming, fishing and woodcutting. A disabled father's 165 monthly social assistance supports a family of 14.
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Ottawa
Canada
Canadian Welfare Council
Federal
Provincial Conference On Poverty and Opportunity
Council For the Agricultural Rehabilitation and Development Agency
Inverness County
Cape Breton
N.S
Gatineau
Papineau
Pontiac
Quebec
Lanark County
Ontario
Interlake
Manitoba
Saint John
N.B
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver
Viet Cong offer 12 hour truce in South Vietnam
Viet Cong radio announced a 12 hour ceasefire for Christmas Eve to let people on both sides celebrate. The offer follows prior hopes for lunar New Year pauses, though a past New Year saw Viet Cong forces seize a large valley until Saigon troops retook it after two years.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Cong
Liberation Radio
Saigon Regiment
Poverty report highlights deep Canadian hardship in four cities
A Canadian Welfare Council report shows many families in Vancouver Toronto Montreal and Saint John live far below the $75 monthly old age pension. Median per person incomes range from $34 in Saint John to $53 in Vancouver with housing issues and unemployment limiting advancement.
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Saint John
Ottawa
Montreal
Canadian Welfare Council
Special Planning Secretariat
Vancouver
Toronto
N.B
America
Outside trucks prepare to haul gravel for city pits
Tollestrup of a Lethbridge firm says about 12 outside trucks head to Medicine Hat to haul gravel for the city under the contract rate of 5.75 to eight cents per ton mile. Local truckers seek 12 cents and may get Winter Work program aid to raise rates. City Engineer Gunter notes outside trucks were allowed due to local shortages.
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Tollestrup
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
Jack Taylor
Alberta Motor Transport Association
Allan Gunter
Canada Seeks Unified Path on UN Peacekeeping Costs
Canada submits a compromise draft to the United Nations aimed at preventing a split over peacekeeping costs. Co sponsored by 15 countries, the proposal urges voluntary contributions while the 33 nation special committee studies the issue. The Irish draft on cost sharing faces weak support from the Soviet Union and France and US reservations.
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United Nations
Canada
World Organization
UN Special Committee
General Assembly
Special
United States
France
Soviet Union
Rough in Boston as lunch hour killings rise
AP reports Boston homicide detectives describe a spree of daytime shootings with 28 slayings and a dozen attempted murders in 20 months. Authorities cite public noncooperation, a Charlestown McLaughlin clan and Somerville McLean feud, and two major bandit cash robberies fueling the violence.
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Boston
Greater
Edward Sherry
Sherry
McLaughlin Brothers
Charlestown
James
Buddy) McLean
Somerville
McLean
McLaughlins
McLaughlin
Thomas O’brien
U.S
Meatless Friday Rule Hinted But Not Lifted
Vatican reports Pope Paul closed the ecumenical council without the expected move to lift Friday meat abstinence. Sources said a document removal of the ban from church discipline was being prepared, with no immedate timeline given.
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Vatican City
Paul
Ecumenical Council
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