Cosmonauts Retry Link To Salyut Station Mission
Soviet Union launches two cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Georgy Grechko from Baikonur to attempt a docking and joint experiments with the Salyut 6 space station after an earlier docking attempt failed. Tass reports the crew are healthy and the mission aims to resolve docking and fuel concerns.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Air Force
Yuri Romanenko
Georgy Grechko
United States
Salyut Lab
Vladimir Kovalenok
Valery Ryumin
Salyut Station
Romanenko
Grechko
Baikonur Space Centre
Soviet Central Asia
Yuri Glazhev
Viktor Gorbatko
Salyut 5
Sedyul
Cearadats
Five Car Collision On Sixth Avenue Injures Two
Police report a chain rear end crash on Sixth Avenue at Third Street S.E. injuring two drivers Harold Sparrow and Barrie Carswell. Total damage to five cars estimated at $13,000 with Sparrow $1,500 Carswell $5,000 Dressler $5,000 Gunderson $1,500 and Latzke undetermined. The crash occurred about 1 p.m. as a series of rear end collisions.
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Sixth Avenue
Third Street
S.E
Harold Sparrow
7Th St. S.E
Barrie Carswell
Dundee Street
Sparrow
Carswell
Robert Dressler
20Th St. N.E
Victoria Gunderson
7Th Ave. N.E
Walter Latzke
2Nd St. S.E
Dar: Lander
Sudbury awaits layoffs two nickel firms hit city economy
Sudbury merchants report Christmas sales steady despite Inco Ltd planning 2,200 layoffs in February and Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd 750 layoffs in April. Local officials warn of economic pain to follow with housing slump and rising unemployment as workers lose salaries and housing options tighten.
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Sudbury. Ont
Sudbury
Brian Seville
Sudbury Chamber of Commerce
Inco Ltd
Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd
Seville
Timagine
Limagine
Leo la Sorsa
la Sorsa
Itimer McVey
Sudbury and District Labor Council
Inco
McVey
Statistics Canada
Canada Manpower Centre
Stu Stelmack
Sudbury Manpower Office
Stelmack
Federal plan to create 3500 jobs across four provinces
The Star reports the federal government expects to announce next week a 14 million dollar job program. It will run January to September 1978 and create about 3,500 jobs in Ontario and three other provinces.
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Toronto CP
the Star
Ontario
Christmas schedule changes and energy program details
The News notes no publication on December 24 or 26 with deadlines moved for December 27 and 28. It reports 1,000 people on energy recycling projects and 68 Ontario community conservation centres to coordinate insulation, heating checks, and recycling efforts as part of a broader federal job creation plan. unnamed Ottawa sources say the other provinces were not named.
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Ontario
Ottawa
The
Star
Quebec judge denies bid to shut inquiry into police wrongdoing
Associate Chief Justice James Hugessen ruled against Solicitor-General Francis Fox, allowing the Quebec commission of inquiry into RCMP corruption to continue. Fox may be cited for contempt if he refuses to reveal documents, or may avoid confrontation by withholding files on national security grounds. The ruling emphasizes provincial authority to investigate criminal acts by federal officers in Quebec and calls for open discussion of state secrecy.
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Lew Diggs
Montreal
Quebec
Francis Fox
Quebec Commission of Inquiry
James
Hugessen
Fox
Commission
RCMP
Jean Keable
Solicitor-General
Justice Hugessen
Provincial Commission
Great Republic
Richard Nixon
Smith seeks curbs on black majority in Rhodesia talks
In Salisbury Reuters reports Prime Minister Jan Smith negotiates for white safeguards to block any change by a black government to a previously agreed constitution. Talks begun Friday involve black nationalist leaders inside Rhodesia, excluding exile based Patriotic Front.
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Salisbury
Reuter
Jan Smith
Rhodesia
Patriotic Front
Smith
Trudeau invites premiers to federal provincial economic summit
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau formalizes a Feb 13 to 15 conference and warns that high expectations and failure to deliver could erode confidence in Canada’s economy. He calls for ministerial pre meetings by mid January to prepare a medium term plan examining energy agriculture forest products fisheries mining manufacturing and tourism. The agenda includes inflation outlook post-control period public sector remuneration growth and private sector involvement.
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Southam News Services
Ottawa
Pierre Trudeau
Canada
Trudeau
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