Government weighs cutting farmers' fund contribution
Ottawa reviews the prairie stabilization plan and may cut farmers' annual three percent contribution to the guaranteed income fund to two percent or two and a half percent. The scheme, outlined in October, ties farmer payments to the five year average with top-up payments by the federal government if needed.
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Nick Hills
Southam News Services
Ottawa
Otto Lang
Canadian Wheat Board
Prairie Farm
Government eyes grain stabilization fund changes in Canada
Ottawa likely to add about 5 million dollars annually to the stabilization fund as officials seek to revise the grains policy. The plan protects Prairie growers against unstable world markets covering wheat oats barley rapeseed flaxseed and rye. A ceiling of 10000 dollars in earnings would disqualify some farmers from equalization payments.
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Lang
Uruguay troops hunt for British diplomat
More than 12,000 troops and police sweep urban areas with power to raid homes and arrest suspects without warrants as Congress suspends constitutional rights for 40 days to aid the search for Geoffrey Jackson the British ambassador abducted by Tupamaros. The guerrillas have released a brief statement claiming he is alive in a “people's prison” with Brazilian consul Aloysio Dias Gomide and American agronomist Claude Fly.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Reuter
Geoffrey Jackson
Congress
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Aloysio Dias Gomide
Claude Fly
el Dia
Punta Carretas
Jackson
Fly
Gomide
U.S
Daniel Mitrione
Pacheco
Mitrione
Gov
Jordan braces after ceasefire breach amid Amman gunfire
Gunfire broke out in Amman beyond a ceasefire that ended an 11 day civil war. The Intercontinental Hotel and government ministries were hit as shells and machine gun fire echoed for hours. Officials urged Jordanians and Palestinians to return to work while army and guerrillas moved out to allow house to house searches for arms. Premier Wasfi Tell and PLO central committee member Ibrahim Bakr signed the joint appeal.
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Jordan
Wasfi Tell
Ibrahim Bakr
Central Committee of
The
Palestine Liberation Organization
Amman
Jarring to Meet Jordan Delegate in UN Peace Talks
UN mediator Gunnar Jarring meets Muhammed El Farra Jordan's UN delegate to discuss Israel's new peace proposals. He had earlier met Egypt's El Zayyat while keeping talks secret. Jarring planned to relay Arab reactions to Israel's Yosef Tehkoah with Meir and Eban involvement noted.
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United Nations
Gunnar Jarring
Muhammed el Farra
Jordan
Israel
Jarring
Mohammed el Zayyat
Egypt
el Zayyat
Yosef Tekoah
Jerusalem
Golda Meir
Abba Eban
Suez Canal
Trudeau urges unity to safeguard the Commonwealth
Prime Ministers Trudeau and Indira Gandhi voiced concern over Britain's planned arms sales to South Africa. Trudeau urged India and others to rally around the Commonwealth to avoid a confrontation at the upcoming Singapore summit. He stressed preserving the Commonwealth as a valuable instrument of tolerance and goodwill.
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Cp-Reuter
Trudeau
Indira Gandhi
Commonwealth
Britain
South Africa
Singapore
Varanasi
Gandhi
Heath
Brazil demands note to free prisoners in Bucher swap
Brazil demands a signed note from the Swiss ambassador as a condition for exchanging 70 prisoners for ambassador Giovanni Enrico Bucher. Chile agrees to grant asylum but Brazil seeks confirmation of Bucher’s release after the prisoners’ arrival, with reports of medical examinations to show no torture.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Chile
Giovanni Enrico Bucher
Popular Revolutionary Vanguard
Bucher
Quebec prosecutor outlines plans to prove overthrow plot
In Montreal the Crown seeks to prove existory of a plan to overthrow the Quebec government by force. Robert Langevin 21 faces publishing a seditious libel charge and seditious conspiracy with four others, plus FLQ membership and illegal acts charges under the Public Order Act.
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Quebec
Bruno Pateras
Robert Langevin
Langevin
Canada
Jean Boisjoly
Gilles Cormier
Raymond Cormier
Come Leblanc
Front de Liberation du Quebec
FLQ
UK anti strike law sparks nationwide protest spread
Workers across Britain rallied against the Conservative anti strike legislation disrupting auto and shipyard plants. Dockers stayed largely away from morning action though Liverpool ports faced heavy delays with 286 of 10 000 dockers turning out and 76 ships idle. Production slowed at major plants including British Leyland Triumph Chrysler Ford Vauxhall and Massey Ferguson with 700 cars and 150 Jaguars not produced.
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London
Britain
Trades Union Congress
Union Movement
Lon
Don
Liverpool
Mersey
British Leyland Motor Corp
Triumph
Chrysler
Ford Motors
Vauxhall
Tors
Massey Ferguson
Kilmarnock
Scotland
West German ship sinks in English Channel amid wreckage strike
In Folke stone England a West German vessel sank after colliding with wreckage of a tanker that exploded Monday. At least 20 people were feared dead. The incident followed a prior explosion and added to a deadly maritime sequence.
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England
English Channel
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