Prisoners Move After Quebec Prison Hostage Incident
In Cowansville Quebec two inmates held two hostages for nine hours at a federal medium security facility. The pair demanded transfer to Millhaven Ontario and safe passage to Cuba but ultimately released the hostages and were moved to Millhaven.
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Cowansville
Que
Ontario
Millhaven Institution
Jacques Lalancette
Ghislaine Campbell
Montreal
Michel Talbot
Denis Duguay
Millhaven
Cuba
Jean-Paul Lupien
Lupien
Jean- Paul Lupien
Kingston
Egypt and Israel plan timetable for Sinai withdrawal
Al Ahram reports a joint Egyptian Israeli military committee will meet in Cairo on January 9 to draft a withdrawal timetable and security guarantees as reports surface of new Sinai outposts and a large Israeli development investment. The teams, led by Gamassi and Weizmann, aim to frame a peace basis with the United States and United Nations involved.
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Cairo
Reuter
Al-Ahram
Israel
Tel Aviv
Sinai Peninsula
Anwar Sadat
Middle East
Aswan
Mohammed Abdel-Ghani Gamassi
NBC
Egypt
Brussels
White House
Jody Powell
Carter
Belgium
Bill Sternoff
Sinai
United States
Sadat
Menachem Begin
Ismailia
Jerusalem
United Nations
Gamassi
Ezer Weizmann
Israeli government backs settlements in Sinai despite Egyptian return offer
The Israeli government announced support for eight new Jewish settlements in the Rafah area of northeastern Sinai as bulldozers cleared ground. President Anwar Sadat stated on US television he will not permit Jewish settlements to remain on Egyptian land after the area is returned to Egypt, while a government statement was issued.
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Jerusalem
Reuter
Sinai Desert
Menachem Begin
Rafah
Sinai
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Israel Pushes Settlement Plans in Rafah Salient
Government moves to prepare land for farming in Rafah to bolster settlements with Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich backing. He says peace proposals would place most area under UN rule while settlers stay under Israeli law and defended by Israeli forces. Begin spokesman notes a northern Sinai settlement reserved as a retirement home for Begin and his wife.
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Rafah
Simcha Ehrlich
United Nations
Ehrlich
U.S
Sadat
Begin
Sinai
Carter visits Brussels to reassure NATO on nuclear pact
President Carter arrives in Brussels for the final stop of his tour to ease Western security concerns over any new Soviet nuclear agreement. He meets Giscard dEstaing and Mitterrand in Paris amid a Socialist party bombing and ongoing French political tensions.
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Brussels
Carter
Belgium
Soviet Union
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Paris
Valery
Giscard d’Estaing
France
Francois Mitterrand
French Socialist Party
Socialist Party
Carter-Mitterrand
Movement of French Resistance
Hotel
Marigny
Giscard d'Estaing
Mitterrand
Washington
White House
Jody Powell
NATO
Joseph Luns
NATO Coun
U.S
Powell
Baudouin
Leo Tindemans
European Economic Community
EEC) Commission
Tindemans
Roy Jenkins
EEC Commission
Jean-Philippe Lecat
Britain Firemen End Strike Pay Deal Nears Approval
Britain’s 33 000 striking firemen expect most to accept a 10 percent wage rise with a 20 percent staged increase over two years ending 1979, ending a strike that began November 14. A delegates conference will vote to end the walkout amid fears militants may try to derail the agreement.
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London
Britain
Union Executive Council
Executive Council
Crown returns to Hungary marking thaw in relations
The United States handed back the Holy Crown of St. Stephen and coronation regalia to Hungary after three decades in U.S. custody. Parliament leaders hailed the gesture as evidence of improving Hungarian American ties while noting remaining tensions and ongoing talks on most favored nation trade status.
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Budapest
St. Stephen
United States
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Paris
Hungary
Antal Aprok
Frigyes Puza
Vance
Parliament Building
Danube River
Buda
Danube
Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund posts $44 million gain
Edmonton Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund earned $44 million from investments in the quarter ending Sept 30 lifting assets to $2.302 billion. The report notes 84 percent of fund investments are in interest earning securities with a 9 percent average ROI.
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Edmonton
Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund
Capital Projects
Alberta
Alberta Capital Projects Division
Canada
New Brunswick
Alberta Home Mortgage Corporation
AMHC
Alberta Housing Corporation
Vietnamese forces near Cambodian capital after deep advance
Diplomatic sources say Vietnamese troops moved deep into Cambodia and neared Phnom Penh within 56 kilometres, reaching the Mekong River and the Neak Leung crossing on Highway One. Western intelligence links the push to press Cambodians toward talks, with Phnom Penh insisting on Vietnamese withdrawal before negotiations.
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Singapore
Reuter
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Mekong
Neak Leung
Saigon
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
Hanoi
Pham van Dong
Mekong River
Lang Announces Final Wheat Board Payments For 1976 77
Saskatchewan receives 118 million, Alberta and Peace River BC 62.1 million, Manitoba 28.9 million from western grain producer payments totaling 209 million for deliveries to the Canadian Wheat Board. Ottawa reporter notes reduced prices in 1976 77 and new durum durum pool setup from Aug 1 1978.
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Saskatoon
Canadian Wheat Board
Otto Lang
Wheat Board
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Peace River
British Columbia
Manitoba
Lang
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