Prolonged Premiers Meeting Has Limited Tax Relief Effects
Ottawa faces a $5 billion deficit as talks over shifting funding powers to provinces stall. Prime Minister's meeting may yield minimal federal tax cuts while provinces press for more jobs and spending. Robert Andras boosts auditor general funds as parliament watchdog criticizes spending. Quebec's separatist agenda colors the finance ministers gathering with Levesque Parizeau Morin in attendance.
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Ottawa
Donald Macdonald
Provinces and
Commons
Treasury Board
Robert Andras
Auditor-General’s Department
Quebec
Parti Quebecois
Rene Levesque
Jacques Parizeau
Claude Morin
Hare Krishna Clauses Arrested for Unlicensed Solicitation
Cincinnati police arrested four men dressed as Santa Clauses from the Hare Krishna International Society for soliciting without a license. Pedestrians complained as they sold magazines incense beads and candy in the street before fleeing in a car when confronted by the officer.
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Cincinnati
Thomas Kellison
Kellison
International Society for Kharma_ Conciousness
Moundsville
W.va
Opposition backs harbor bill but cites inadequate funding
Opposition MPs voiced support for a government bill transferring 2 300 small harbors to Fisheries but condemned the funding as meager and election driven. They warned that improvements await the next election while Fisheries modernizes harbor administration for commercial and recreational boating.
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Ottawa
Fisheries Department
John Crosbie
St. John’s West
The
Commons
Stu Leggatt
NDP
New Westminster
Atlantic
Pacific
Transport and Public Works Departments
Romeo LeBlanc
Ontario Quebec GM plant strike ends with wage pact
About 30 000 hourly workers at eight GM of Canada plants in Ontario and Quebec walked off for six hours after a midnight deadline. An average assembler wage rises to over 8 25 an hour with retroactive pay and a roughly 250 million dollar cost over three years.
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Ontario
Quebec
General Motors of Canada Ltd
United Auto Workers Union
Ste. Therese
Que
Montreal
Toronto
London
Woodstock
St. Catharines
Windsor
Oshawa
A.G. Stapleton
Bell Canada
Communications Union Canada
Barrett urges abolition of charities and charities groups
Halifax Canada David Barrett former premier of British Columbia calls for abolishing Christmas charities and United Appeal arguing the capitalist system causes social problems and that social workers should engage in politics. He criticizes Freud favors Aquinas and urges action over dialogue.
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Halifax
David Barrett
British Columbia
United Appeal
Barrett
Maritime School of Social Work
Freud
Thomas Aquinas
Clark flags government freebees in Ottawa
Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark warned Ottawa about accepting gratis services and goods. He cited Tony Abbott free transport to Toronto and Otto Lang free flights for family, plus J J Blaise admitting a Time magazine free advertisement and urged scrutiny in Parliament next week.
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Ottawa
Joe Clark
Government of
Canada
Clark
Commons
Tony Abbott
Toronto
Otto Lang
J. J. Blaise
Time Magazine
Blais
Gus MacFarlane
Hamilton Mountain
Time
Kissinger rules out new meeting with Rhodesian leader
Secretary Henry Kissinger, in London for Rhodesia briefings, says no new talks with Ian Smith are needed to define the transition plan. Smith, in Geneva, accuses the talks of false pretences and insists the plan remains the basis for Rhodesia’s future, while Kissinger notes evolving views among black nationalists.
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London
USS
Henry Kissinger
Ian Smith
Kissinger
Smith
Rhodesia
Geneva
Africa
Chlorine gas cloud forces evacuations in Louisiana
About 10 000 residents returned home as a chlorine gas cloud from Allied Chemical Co tank dissipated in light wind and rain. No injuries were reported. The yellow green plume stretched 42 miles by four miles, crossing cane fields past Scotlandville and Southern University. Bridges were closed and river traffic halted to keep people out.
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Baton Rouge
Allied Chemical Co
Scotlandville
Southern University
Mississippi River
weapons cache found near Los Angeles tied to right wing extremists
A desert cache 30 miles east of Los Angeles held eight tons of machine guns mortars grenades and an anti tank bazooka linked to a man who kept Nazi and anti Jewish literature at home Donald Wiggins 41 Ontario California was jailed on a 15000 bail while investigators probe a larger network including a man named Jeff Martin and a $17000 cash loan arrangement.
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Los Angeles
Here
Peter Pitchess
U.S. Army 70Th Ordnance Disposal Team
Donald Wiggins
Ontario
Calif
Pomona
Pitchess
Wiggins
Jeff Martin
Lancaster
Martin
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