American challenge and European unification under trade policy
The piece argues Nixon protectionism could unite Europe more than Kennedy liberalism did. It notes American investment fears push Europe toward a new rival to U.S. trade push, the Mills bill, while Kennedy expanded tariff cuts and liberalization. De Gaulle distrusts closer U.S. ties, England pursues EEC entry, and Atlantic cooperation faces a possible trade war.
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British electrical workers suspend power slowdown
British electricity unions end a week long go slow and accept a court of inquiry to review wage demands while resuming full work. Government opposition to large raises remains, and recovery of full power could take up to ten days with some outages continuing.
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London
Vic Feather
Trades Union Congress
Feather
Frank Chappie
Electricity Council
Frank Chapple
Robert Carr
Britain
Father of NHL player shot by RCMP at TV station
Roy Edward Spencer 59 of Fort St. James was killed by a Mountie after forcing CKPG off air to protest not airing his son Brian Spencer's Toronto Maple Leafs game. Police say Spencer fired twice before being shot. RCMP returned fire injuring a constable. The incident occurred in Prince George after Spencer drove from Fort St. James.
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R. W. Post
Brian Spencer
Leafs
Vancouver
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Toronto
Chicago Black Hawks
CBC
Canada
NHL
The
Prairies
Ontario
Oilers
Tom Hiertel
Brazil kidnappers demand official note for prisoner swap
The Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Bucher’s kidnapper group the Revolutionary Popular Vanguard demands the government issue an official note before any prisoner exchange. The letter, signed by Bucher, says no list of prisoners has been submitted. Police sought a final signed list to verify authenticity.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Giovanni Bucher
Bucher
Revolutionary Popular Vanguard
Hussein supports U S Soviet peace force for Middle East
King Hussein of Jordan urges a two power peacekeeping force to ease Israeli suspicion of Arab peace commitments. Moshe Dayan rejects UN troops in Israel and says Israeli forces are the best guarantor of peace. Dayan excludes withdrawal before 1967 borders and favors indirect talks after US blocks imposed settlements.
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Jordan
Moshe Dayan
Israel
United Nations
Dayan
United States
Nixon
ABC
Issues
NBC
Meet the Press
Security Council
Middle East
Protests in Spain Over Basque Nationalist Trial
About 300 Catalan artists and intellectuals including Joan Miro sit in at Montserrat Abbey near Barcelona to demand verdicts in the 16 Basque nationalists trial in Burgos. Police seal roads as the five man military court judges deliberate in Burgos while West German consul Eugen Reihl remains missing.
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Reuter
Barcelona
Burgos
Montserrat
Joan Miro
Miro
Catalonia
Francisco Franco
Spain
Eugen Reihl
San Sebastian
Davey Defends Quebec Coverage Rejects Censorship
Senator Keith Davey defended media coverage of the Quebec crisis noting some reprehensible mistakes but rejecting censorship. He told CBC Weekend that overall coverage was responsible and that newspapers radio and TV did not create the crisis, though corrections were needed.
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Toronto
Keith Davey
Cross
Quebec
FLQ
Davey
Radio and Television
Vigil at bedside as British athlete battles cancer
The father and fiancé of British athlete Lillian Beard kept an all night vigil at her bedside in Ringberg cancer clinic in Ringberg West Germany as her condition remained critical. Pravda reports the Soviet government will prioritize expanding and modernizing production of consumer and agricultural goods in 1971. A criminal court in Manila ordered Bolivian painter Benjamin Mendoza y Amor, accused of attempting to kill Pope Paul, placed under psychiatric observation by a three doctor team.
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Reuter
Lillian Beard
Ringberg
Moscow
Pravda
Manila
Benjamin Mendoza Y Amor
Pope Paul
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