Canadians ring in new year across country amid tragedy
The Canadian Press reports a nationwide mix of celebration and sorrow. Lester B. Pearson’s funeral marked the mood as the holiday opened with mourning, while a seven year old girl was killed in Fort Vermilion by a 30-30 rifle fire during New Year celebrations. Copper Cliff’s ceremony joined Sudbury in mourning as it marked a regional government change at midnight. Kingston celebrated its 300th year with over a thousand residents, Charlottetown marked 100th birthday with a governor general ceremony, and Vancouver hosted the 53rd Polar Bear swim despite rain and cold. Kitwanga faced two days of power outages and a New Year tally counted at least 46 deaths nationwide, including 29 traffic fatalities amid slick roads.
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Lester B. Pearson
Fort Vermilion
Alta
RCMP
Sudbury
Copper Cliff
Prince Edward Island
Kingston
Ont
Charlottetown
Roland Michener
Vancouver
Polar Bear Club
English Bay
British Columbia
Kitwanga
B.C. Hydro
Recorder and co-pilot may unlock Everglades crash clues
Investigators recover a flight data recorder from the Eastern Air Lines Tristar wreck in the Everglades and consider an extra co-pilot as a possible link to cockpit events. First Officer Warren Terry, listed as an observer passenger, survived with injuries.
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Miami
Fla
Cp-Ap
Eastern Air Lines
Everglades Swamp
Ed Slattery
National Transportation Safety Board
New York
Warren Terry
Terry
Slattery
Petersburg Times
Wild Blizzard Strikes Prairies Early Today
A severe blizzard swept the Prairies with north winds up to 60 mph. Edmonton flights delayed up to three hours and a Pacific Western cargo Boeing 707 crashed at Edmonton International, killing five crew and 75 cattle. Snow totals ranged three to four inches open areas and six to seven inches foothills as the system moved east toward Saskatchewan, Manitoba.
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Alberta
Edmonton
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Pacific Western Airlines
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Manitoba
Blowing Snow Impacts Alberta Roads Across Regions
The AMA report notes Medicine Hat area roads with blowing snow and reduced visibility and near zero visibility on Highways 41 and 48. Blizzard conditions were reported near Calgary with poor visibility and slippery sections.
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AMA
Medicine Hat
Calgary
ECM headquarters flies new flags as EEC expands
Nine flags flew outside the European Common Market headquarters as Britain Ireland and Denmark joined the EEC on New Year’s Day. Leaders forecast opportunity and adaptation will bring gains while acknowledging changes and shared duties across the customs union.
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Brussels
European Common Market
Britain
Ireland
Denmark
European Economic Community
Edward Heath
Margrethe
Jyllands Posten
Jack Lynch
France
West Germany
Italy
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
Edmonton jet crash during blizzard kills livestock crew
The Cargolined 707 carrying 75 head of cattle from eastern Canada to Seoul crashed near Edmonton after a power failure disrupted runway lights and navigational aids. Vancouver crew Art Jung captain Lowell Koerksen first officer George Dormer engineer Keith McMahon loadmaster and Edmonton resident William Vance project manager perished. One body recovered three found as search halted by drifting snow until daylight and snowplows could reach the scene. Investigations focus on connection between power outage and crash timing.
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Art Jung
Lowell Koerksen
George Dormer
Keith McMahon
Vancouver
William Vance
Edmonton
Vance
Toronto
Seoul
Korea
RCMP
Jack Wylie
Telford Lake
Department of Transport
Harry Herbert
PWA
Herbert
Wylie
Parker Currie
Currie
Bombing resumes below the 20th parallel in Vietnam
U S planes resume attacks on North Vietnam's southern panhandle below the 20th parallel after a 36 hour halt for New Year. North Vietnam halt above the 20th parallel remains. Bombing also resumes in South Vietnam after a 24 hour holiday break with 44 strikes in the north of the country below the DMZ.
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Saigon
United States
North Vietnam
Panhandle
20Th Parallel
U.S
Hanoi
Haiphong
Nixon
Paris
Demilitarized Zone
Laos
South Vietnam
Dmz
South
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Cambodia
North Vietnam visitors recount destruction and fear
Four Americans returning from Hanoi described the destruction wrought by U.S. bombing. Telford Taylor Joan Baez Michael Allen and Barry Romo spoke at a news conference detailing fear for POWs, ruined neighborhoods, and the effort to deliver Christmas mail.
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New York Times
New York
Hanoi
United States
Telford Taylor
Columbia University
U.S
Nuremberg
Joan Baez
Michael Allen
Yale Divinity School
Barry Romo
Committee of Liaison
North Vietnam
Khan Thien
Allen
Committee For Vietnamese Solidarity
South
Ireland's 1973 opens with violent Belfast and republic killings
A Belfast car ambush kills one and wounds two Catholics as 1973 begins. In the republic a couple found dead after dancing,Brigid Porter 24 and Oliver Boyce 25, are believed killed in a possible IRA purge. A rocket hits a Belfast police station and a high ranking IRA woman is detained without trial.
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Belfast
Ireland
Irish Republic
Northern Ireland
Republic
Brigid Porter
Oliver Boyce
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Rolls-Royce
Elizabeth McKee
Pearson Buried After State Funeral in Ottawa
Lester Mike Pearson was laid to rest near Wakefield Quebec after a state funeral in Ottawa amid freezing rain. Thousands attended lying in state in Parliament and the seven block procession from the Commons to a bilingual ecumenical service, televised live.
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Guy Demarino
Southam
Ottawa
Lester
Mike’ Pearson
Gatineau Hills
Canada
Wakefield
Que
Pearson
U.S
Spiro Agnew
Mr. Pearson
Parliament
Commons
Mike
Sussex Drive
Arthur Moore
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Leo Schneider
Mrs. Schneider
St. N.W
Vanessa
Wayne
Mary Sorrell
Frank Webber
Prairies
Pease Drive
ECM
Vietnam
Provisional Revolutionary
Taylor
The
United Church of Canada
Mth
Marion Doucette
Aylmer, Que
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