Poles Defy Martial Law With Producing Parts And Strikes
Uncensored reports from Warsaw describe defiant Polish workers at the FSO plant turning out automobile parts that fail to fit, while 939 miners at the Piast mine return to work after a 13 day occupation. Military authorities claim normalcy and security forces routed protesters at Huta Katowice.
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Associated Press
West
Poland
Warsaw Radio
Ministry of Mining and Industry
Piast
Silesia
Ziemowit
Huta
BBC
Warsaw
Solidarity
United States
FSO
Alberta nurses issue strike notice in Medicine Hat area
In Edmonton UNA President Margaret Ethier announced that 61 Local unions have filed strike notices with nurses' employers. The walkout begins January 1 1982 after contract talks with the Alberta Hospitals Association collapsed over shift notice and hours. The plan will cut Medicine Hat and District Hospital patient capacity from about 217 to 60. Nurses seek higher wages and better conditions while the AHA offers 17.6 percent.
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Nurses In
Medicine Hat
United Nurses of Alberta
UNA
Margaret Ethier
Edmonton
Ethier
Provincial Hospitals Association
Alberta Hospitals Association
Medicine Hat and District Hospital
Leo Hill
Hill
AHA
Alberta
Premier Lougheed says government won’t push direct billing rollout
In a CJCA radio interview Premier Peter Lougheed warned Alberta residents who oppose direct billing that they should not take complaints to the government. He said the province will not be involved in gradual implementation or special treatment for seniors or low income groups as the new system begins.
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College Edmonton
Peter Lougheed
CJCA
Lougheed
Medicare policing and patient complaints in Alberta
Premier Lougheed defends medicare policing by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He notes few complaints last year with outcomes split evenly between doctors and patients. He says direct billing would not raise costs for most Albertans and that government covers most medicare, with possible reviews for hardship cases.
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College of Physicians and Surgeons
Lougheed
College
Reagan to block Soviet sale over Poland crackdown
President Reagan moves to punish the Soviet Union for Poland's martial law by blocking equipment for a Siberian gas pipeline and halting high tech exports and maritime aviation rights. The action follows a Special Situation Group review and may proceed without allied consent.
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Los Angeles
Reagan
Soviet Union
Poland
Siberia
Europe
U.S
Rejan
California
Here
George Bush
Edwin Meese
James Nance
Alexander Haig
Palm Springs
White House
Larry Speakes
West Germany
France
Austria
Netherlands
Belgium
Italy
John Black
United States
Yachtsman offers rescue for stranded British Columbians
Private yachtsman known as Larry offers to rescue John Harrison and his two daughters from Palmyra Atoll and bring them to Honolulu aboard the yacht Friendly. The family, stranded after a typhoon damaged their trimaran Sisyphus, has lived on fish and coconuts while awaiting decision and boat repairs.
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Vancouver
B.C
John Harrison
South Pacific
Honolulu
Larry
Christmas Island
Palmyra
Bob Baden
U.S. Coast Guard
Harrison
Micki
Kristen
Palmyra Atoll
U.S
Ray Landrum
Ainsley Fullard-Lee
Jennifer Peapst
Poapst
Kentville
N.S
Lucio Marampon
Victoria
Marampon
Oak Bay
Harrisons
Jericho Beach
Rights advocates say courts may compel French service in provinces
Jeannine Seguin, president of the Federation des francophones outside Quebec, warns that French-Canadians will seek court relief to enforce constitution guarantees for French-language services. She says premiers claim compliance varies and annoyance grows over Manitoba and Quebec bilingualism clauses, with Ontario and others not held to the same obligations.
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Ottawa
Quebec
Jeannine Seguin
Federation Des Francophones Dors Quebec
Seguin
Calgary Flames tumble to Flyers 7-4 at home
The Flames suffered their sixth home loss in a 7-4 defeat to the Philadelphia Flyers. The result worsened their home record compared with last season, highlighting a rough stretch at the Corral.
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Calgary Flames
Corral
Flames
Philadelphia Flyers
Survivors fault coast guard delays after Hudson Transport blaze
Boxing Day at the Someil D Or Motel in Mont Joli features seven dead crew members and survivors blasting delays and equipment failures. They accuse Coast Guard response of being slower than the US, cite lifeboat and liferaft failures, and demand improvements to search and rescue, with union officials noting detectors may have failed and roped lifeboats rotted.
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Montreal
Someil
Mont Joli
Canada
Canadian Coast Guard
U.S
Steve Donnelly
P.E.I
Coast Guard
Alain Lafreniere
Denis Simard
Canadian Merchant Service Guild
St. Lawrence
Montcalm
Guild
Seafarers International Union
Halco Inc
Cartiercliffe Hall
Kennedy
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Israel
Libya
Trudeau
Dennis McDermott
Canadian Labor Congress
Mary Welcome
Wayne Williams
Atlanta
Allan Fotheringham
Ann Landers
Gsc
Charles Lynch Gee
Bea
Coast Guard Rescue
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