Polish seamen defy orders to sail as Vancouver crowd grows
About 60 Polish seamen aboard the Parma refused captain's orders to sail home in Vancouver harbor after 19 had jumped ship earlier bringing total defectors to 46. Most seek special permits to stay and work in Canada for a year amid fear of Soviet capture.
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Vancouver
Parma
Canada
Robert Medrek
Poland
Medrek
Soviet Union
Quebec City
Uniwersytet Torunski
Port Cartier
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Immigration Office
George Kokinski
Solidarity
Lucien Fournier
Reporters of old fade as computers take over
Ottawa dispatch notes that the classic newspaper reporter is disappearing as computerization replaces typewriters and copy boys. Peter Desbarats, a former journalist turned TV figure and educator, laments the shift to electronic newsrooms and airport terminal like desks.
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Ottawa
Peter Desbarats
Kent Royal Commission On Newspapers
Desbarats
London
Ont
RCMP withheld body Watkins inquiry hears
An RCMP report states two officers objected to local police transporting former ambassador John Watkins’s body from a Montreal hotel room to the morgue. The document was entered as evidence at the coroner inquiry into Watkins’s 1964 death during police questioning in St Laurent. The inquiry was ordered after questions rose in Parliament and the Quebec assembly.
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Montreal
RCMP
John Watkins
Watkins
St. Laurent
Quebec
Marc-Andre Bedard
House of Commons
Quebec National Assembly
RCMP officers blocked morgue access after Watkins death in 1964
National prosecutor Jean-Pierre Bonin cites Harry Brandes and Leslie Bennett who resisted allowing St Laurent police to remove Watkins body from the hotel. Watkins, 62, had reopened Canada’s Moscow embassy in 1964 and faced questions in London Paris and Montreal about alleged KGB blackmail.
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Jean-Pierre Bonin
Harry Brandes
Leslie James Bennett
RCMP
Watkins
St. Laurent
Watkin
Canada
Moscow
London
Paris
Montreal
Petro-Canada budget hits 1982 total of 1.6 billion
Ottawa approves a 1.6 billion Petro-Canada budget for 1982 up from 900 million this year with 125 million direct Ottawa funding. About 1.1 billion will come from Petro-Canada funds and borrowing. Major 550 million goes to offshore exploration including Hibernia stake. 450 million for conventional exploration in the Northwest Territories and western provinces.
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Ottawa
Petro-Canada
National Oil Company
Beaufort Sea
Labrador
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
Hibernia
Northwest Territories
Federal Crown Corporation
Petrofina Canada Inc
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Teresa McKenzie
Windsor
Mais
Lelie Yadian
Body Watkins
The
Mounties
KGB
Remy Martin
Martin
Pierre Lemire
Brandes
Bennett
Force
PetroCan
Rainbows Balloon Boutique
Creative Printing
S. Railway
St. S.E
St. S.W
Total Computers Ltd
South Railway
St. S.E. Medicine Hat
Alberta
Bison Centre
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