Canada backs LBJ plan to plug dollar drain with US
Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp says Canada will support US measures limiting direct investment in 1968 to about 65 percent of 1965 66 levels. He notes Canada benefits from economic ties and that US actions should have little impact on Canada while stressing continued partnership with the United States.
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Ottawa
Europe
Canada
U.S
Mitchell Sharp
Sharp
U. S
Ment
Washington
United States
Hard policy urged for foreign firms in Canada
A task force of eight university economists urges Ottawa to adopt a hard line on foreign controlled companies. It calls for subsidiaries exempt from certain trade rules, a new government agency, compulsory financial disclosures, tax incentives to invite public investment, and a Canada Development Corp plan to form consortia with minority CDC stakes.
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John G. Doherty
Financial Times
Ottawa
Canada
Walter Gordon
U.S
Canada Development Corp
CDC
Third heart transplant a bigger success in Cape Town
Dr Christian Barnard and a team at Groote Schuur Hospital performed a five hour operation replacing a 58 year old dentist's heart with a heart from a man who collapsed and died from a brain hemorrhage. The transplant was declared a success and the patient in satisfactory condition.
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Cape Town
Christian N. Barnard
Groote Schuur Hospital
Barnard
Louis Washkansky
Washkansky
Philip Blaiberg
Bilaiberg
Clive Haupt
Blaiberg
Jill
Israel
Haifa
Brooklyn
N.Y
Adrian Kantrowitz
Hileen
New Year Holiday Toll Tops Forty Across Canada
The Canadian Press survey records at least 46 deaths over the three day New Year weekend across Canada including 32 highway deaths, six fires, three drownings and a tobogganing fatality. Quebec reports 16 deaths, Ontario nine in traffic, one fire, one drowning. The report notes higher toll than last year and cites Highway Safety Council predictions. The text also includes unrelated excerpts on Christiaan Barnard's heart transplant and subsequent operations.
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Canada
Canadian Highway Safety Council
Quebec
Ontario
Cloudy with Light Snow Expected Across Regions
Forecast calls for cloudy conditions spreading across most regions with occasional light snow. Southern Alberta sees brief snow periods while a slow warming trend develops across all areas over the next few days.
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Alberta
Births Not Yet Reported At Five Medicine Hat Hospitals
Moon reports show no New Year births at Medicine Hat and nearby district hospitals. Noreen Flanagan of Medicine Hat General confirms no births. Empress and Brooks hospitals also report negative results with hints of arrivals expected mid month.
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Medicine Hat
Moon
Noreen Flanagan
Medicine Hat General
Maple Creek
Empress
Brooks
Empress Hospital
Alberta Hard Freeze Grips Canada With Record Subzero Temps
Western Canada endures subzero overnight lows as Alberta records three to 33 degrees below zero while Moncton New Brunswick sees 18 inches of snow. Toronto reports eight below and Pickle Lake hits 42 below. Ontario northern clear cold. south cloudy cold. Car towing services surge nationwide due to dead batteries and stalled engines.
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Canada
Maritimes
Pickle Lake
Wakehead
Toronto
Auto Club
Edmonton
Guards plan picket lines around Toronto jail
More than 60 guards on strike at Don Jail planned to set up picket lines today around the old city hall which houses eight criminal and six traffic courts. North Vietnam claimed it shot down 1 063 American planes in 1967. Curbs on US overseas investment and tourism could cost Britain about 257 million dollars this year. At least 13 killed and 25 injured in South Africa train collision. Dr Christian Barnard to write a layman book on heart transplants. Indiana town evacuated as two trains burned and released poisonous ammonia.
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Toronto
Don
Old City Hall
Funeral set for Vincent Massey Ottawa governor general
The state funeral for Vincent Massey, Canada’s first native-born governor general, will be at Christ Church Cathedral at noon Thursday with Most Rev Howard Hewlett Clark and Rt Rev Ernest Reed officiating. Governor General Michener and Prime Minister Pearson lead mourners. Massey to be buried in Port Hope. The body arrives Wednesday, lies in state, and a naval gun carriage procession goes to the National War Memorial, then a special train to Port Hope for Friday burial.
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Ottawa
Vincent Massey
Canada
Christ Church Anglican Cathedral
Howard Hewlett Clark
Rupert’s Land
All Canada
Ernest Reed
Michener
Pearson
Port Hope
Ont
Massey
London
Christ Church Cathedral
CBC Radio
Wellington St
Parliament Buildings
National War Memorial
Confederation Square
St. Mark’s Anglican Church
Pearson Affirms Neutrality in Liberal Leadership Race
Ottawa Prime Minister Pearson says he will not influence the Liberal leadership contest and plans to retire this year. In a pre recorded interview on CTV he notes Parliament resumes January 22 while leadership conventions set for April 4 to 6.
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Ottawa
Pearson
Liberal Party
CTV Network
Canada
Liberal
Charles Templeton
CTV
King Constantine of Greece says he fled to avert civil war
In Life magazine, exiled King Constantine explains his failed counter coup against the Athens military junta. He details his Dec 13 attempt, the loss of loyal units, and his decision to flee Rome to avoid total civil strife while seeking to preserve Greece and his nation.
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Greece
New York
Constantine
Rome
Athens
Life Magazine
Junta
Quints Born at Brisbane Hospital Show Promise
Five babies born six weeks early at Women's Hospital Brisbane are progressing well. Annabel Dorothy, Richard Gibson, Faith Elizabeth, Caroline Jean, and Geoffrey Roger Braham weigh between three pounds five and a half ounces and three pounds fourteen ounces. They will remain in incubators up to two weeks. Mother Patricia Braham is well. the family already includes four other children.
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Brisbane
Australia
Reuters
Women's Hospital
Patricia
Roger Braham
Annabel Dorothy
Richard Gibson
Faith Elizabeth
Caroline Jean
Geoffrey Roger
Brahams
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Transvaal
Christian Barnard
Rand Daily Mail
Dunreith, Ind
Indiana
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