Roads reopen plan after Saskatchewan blizzard weekend
Saskatchewan blizzard snarled travel with Highway 3 closed between Taber and Medicine Hat. Trans Canada line to Calgary was the only major route open from Medicine Hat in slippery conditions. Traffic planned to ease by evening as crews cleared drifts and Rail and Greyhound faced delays.
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Saskatchewan
Taber
Medicine Hat
Calgary
Highway 3
Lethbridge Rcmp
Swift Current Rcmp
CP Rail
Swift Current
Greyhound Bus Lines
Lethbridge
Sadat and Carter push to resume Israel Egypt talks
President Carter and Anwar Sadat vow unremitting efforts to restart direct talks with Israel. Alfred Atherton will shuttle Cairo Jerusalem to push a declaration of principles on a settlement as U S seeks to overcome impasse over Palestinian question and West Bank. Egypt pulled its foreign minister from talks then, citing Israeli inflexibility. Parallel security talks continue on Sinai pullback.
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Washington
Reuter
Carter
Anwar Sadat
Israel
Egypt
U.S
Alfred Atherton
Cairo
Jerusalem
West Bank
Jordan River
Sinai
Sadat Seeks Principles for Comprehensive Middle East Peace
President Sadat, after meetings with Carter at Camp David, urged the United States to arbitrate a comprehensive settlement base. He said the goal is permanent peace not bilateral Israeli talks, and noted arms sales await congressional approval while U S officials reportedly back F-5E fighter transfers to Egypt.
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Sinai
Nbc-Tv
Israel
Camp David
Maryland
Sadat
United States
Middle East
White House
U.S
Carter
Nicaragua residents stage protests as Somoza regime faces vote boycott
Voters largely abstain in municipal elections across Nicaragua amid a month of demonstrations and a general strike sparked by the assassination of Chamorro. National Guard disperses protests in Leon and Managua while opposition groups report wide turnout declines and several candidate withdrawals. Costa Rica also holds elections with Rodrigo Carazo leading early.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Somoza
Pedro Joaquin Chamorro
Leon
el Paraiso
Election Board
Malaya
National Guard
Auxilio Sanchez
Granada
Conservative Party
Costa Rica
Rodrigo Carazo
Luis Alberto Monge
National Liberation Party
Hostages face charges in B C pen incident
Two women held hostage during a week long siege at the British Columbia penitentiary are to appear in provincial court on charges of attempted murder and assisting escape. Betsy Wood and Heather Gay Hoon are described as prisoners rights activists.
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New Westminster
B.C
British Columbia
Betsy Wood
North Vancouver
Heather Gay Hoon
Vancouver
Ed Cadenhead
Andy Bruce
Steven Albert Hall
Richard Wright
Ralph Laumer
David Bennett
Roy Yasuda
Yasuda
RCMP
Bruce Northorp
City Police
Herb Reynett
Canadian Penitentiary Service
Federal paper warns against rapid growth spurring inflation
Ottawa confidential discussion paper for the premiers conference cautions that real growth over 5.5 percent could accelerate inflation. It envisions jobless rate near 5.5 percent by 1981, wage gains around six percent, and inflation about 3.5 percent by 1981, with Chretien linked to the stance.
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Ottawa
Ed Broadbent
New Democratic Party
Broadbent
Jean Chretien
Chretien
Second mail delivery discontinued in Medicine Hat
Postmaster Henry Schaufele said a second downtown mail run may be discontinued as weather delays an Lethbridge truck. On Tuesday all city mail from Calgary and Lethbridge should arrive by 6 a.m. with afternoon service unlikely. Walking routes will take about two weeks to finalize and delivery times to be worked out. The second run has only served downtown businesses.
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Medicine Hat
Henry Schaufele
Lethbridge
Calgary
Schaufele
Trudeau costs run to fifteen thousand for B C tour
Prime Minister Trudeau faced a roughly 15000 tax payer bill for a two day campaign style swing through four federal ridings in the British Columbia interior. The main cost was two eight seater JetStars used by ministers with one jet carrying Trudeau and aides to Prince George and returning later to Ottawa.
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Peter Calamas
Southam News Services
Vernon
B.C
Trudeau
Ron Basford
Iona Campagnola
Ottawa
Prince George
Eaton
Otto
Muchairbourne
Otto Lang
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Canada
Liberal Party
Penticton
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Atherton
Pentagon
State Department
Menachem Begin
Frank Webber
Maryknoll Order
Estelle
B.C. Pen
House of Commons
Len Marchand
Williams Lake
Marchand
Kamloops-Cariboo
Kamloops-Shuswap
Western
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