Oil price hikes face 30 day notice rule in Ottawa
The anti inflation board orders major oil companies to give 30 days notice before price increases on petroleum and petrochemical products. Prices will be monitored jointly with the energy supplies allocation board, with increases limited to covering higher costs. The next rise is set for July 1 and will affect gasoline and heating fuel by about four cents per gallon per $1 barrel crude rise.
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Ottawa
Beryl Plumptre
Energy Supplies Allocation Board
Six Dead In Montreal House Fire Claim Six Children
In Montreal's Point St. Charles district a three story brick home burned after a one hour shopping trip. A portable heater is suspected. six children Jacqueline 14 Jacques 11 Linda 9 Jean 7 Pierre 5 Elizabeth 3 died. Sister Christiane 16 survived. The mother Julienne 35 and Christiane were hospitalized.
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Montreal
Bernard Paul- Hus
Point St. Charles
Jacqueline
Jacques
Linda
Jean
Pierre
Elizabeth
Christiane
Julienne
Montreal General Hospital
Paul-Hus
Passengers survive Slave Lake crash
An RCMP officer is credited with saving eight passengers after a Beechcraft wreck nine miles southwest of Slave Lake Alberta. The pilot and co-pilot are missing and presumed dead. Survivors huddled around a fire for four hours as a search party reached the site.
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Slave Lake
Alta
RCMP
Alberta
Ken Labrie
Bayview Air Services
Bob Nay
Peace River
Edmonton
Canadian Forces Rescue
Mexican Foreign Minister Resigns Amid UN Zionism Controversy
Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa resigns to enter politics after Mexico's UN votes against Zionism trigger US Israeli backlash and a tourist boycott. President Luis Echeverria names Alfonso Garcia Robles, longtime UN ambassador, as successor to steer foreign policy.
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Mexico City
Emilio Rabasa
Mexico
United Nations
Luis Echeverria
Alfonso Garcia Robles
Rabasa
Garcia Robles
UN General Assembly
Senate
Echeverria
Kurt Waldheim
U.S
United States
Israel
La Guardia Blast Kills Eleven In NYC Airport
An explosion in La Guardia's baggage area killed eleven and injured over fifty, with authorities treating it as a time bomb possibly dynamite or plastic explosive. No clear suspect, flights disrupted, and travelers affected as investigations continue.
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New York
la Guardia
Toronto
American Airlines
New York City
Canadian
Air Canada
Kennedy
Allegheny Airlines
Newark
N.J
Bynum Patterson
Sanford
N.Y
Donald Kochersperger
Greenwich
Conn
Washington
National Airport
Richard Siemers
Tulsa
Okla
Trans World
Delta Airlines
Sharman Barker
Brooklyn
Kansas
Jeff McMurtney
FBI
Palestine Liberation Organization
Cleveland
St. Louis
Detroit
Denver
Los Angeles
Chicago
Indianapolis
New Haven
Algeria grants asylum to Vienna OPEC raid terrorists
Algeria has given political asylum to six detainees tied to the December Vienna OPEC raid. Among the group are five men and a woman labeled Palestinian revolutionaries, with claims pointing to individuals including a Venezuelan suspect known as Carlos. Hostages were freed after a 20 hour siege. Algeria says no extradition request has been received.
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Algiers
Vienna
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez
Carlos
Paris
Tripoli
Libya
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Algeria
Austria
Greek junta members sentenced to prison
Former Greek strongman Brig. Dimitrios Ioannides was convicted of violently suppressing the November 17 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising and sentenced to life in prison. Twenty military men were convicted. 32 were tried, with sentences up to life and 25 years.
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Athens
Dimitrios Ioannides
Athens Polytechnic Institute
Ioannides
George Papadopoulos
Cyprus
Papadopoulos
Polytechnic
Nicholas Dertilis
Polytechnic Institute
Army Supreme Council
Stavros Varnavas
Dimitrios Zagorianakos
No hope for trapped miners in India mine disaster
New Delhi AP: Srinivasa Chari, secretary of coal, says 372 miners trapped by 110 million gallons of water in a 1,200 foot deep coal mine face no survivors. US China offered pumps and experts to drain the flooded shaft near Chaswala, 160 miles northwest of Calcutta.
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New Delhi
India
Srinivasa Chari
Energy Ministry
United States
Chari
Chaswala
Calcutta
Soviet Union
France
Poland
U.S
Robert Barrett
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Controls Board
UN Assembly
Tom Kelly
Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration
Midland
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