Attempt to stabilize world wheat market opens in Geneva
Canada leads delegations under Maurice Schwarzmann seeking production restraint and higher prices at the World Wheat Conference. Officials expect talks to seek a new pact replacing the current agreement expiring next June with 70 to 85 countries represented. The Soviet Union, exporter and importer of Canadian wheat, participates in the talks.
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Geneva
Canada
Maurice Schwarzmann
Soviet Union
Canada seeks price discipline in new wheat talks
Canadian delegates arrive at Palais des Nations to press for price discipline in a renewed wheat agreement. They aim to protect food aid terms while balancing U S flexibility with Canada’s No 1 northern wheat priorities and a broader mix of varieties. Negotiations face U S Canada gaps over floor and ceiling levels and the future of the food aid scheme.
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George Ignatieff
Ignatieff
Canada
United States
U.S
Palais Des Nations
Shoot-out ends kidnapping spree in Bennettsville
In Bennettsville North Carolina South Carolina a band of eight abducted villagers spread fear across the town after forcing victims into a minibus. A gun battle erupted at a residence linking the chain of abductions wounding a state senator s wife and an abductor. Police arrested two men.
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Bennettsville
S.C
Wayne Chavis
South Carolina
Chavis
John Lindsay
Dina Chavis
Sen. Lindsay
Lindsay
David
T. E. Cottingham
Oil talks to resume in Tehran amid price demands
Talks between Asian oil producers and Western oil companies restart in Tehran on Tuesday. Iranian Finance Minister Jamshid Amouzgar Iraqi Oil Minister Saadoun Hamadi and Saudi minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani press for higher payments while Western firms from Britain Holland the United States and France offer a five year price stability pact. A breakdown could disrupt supplies and hit major Western economies especially Europe.
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Tehran
Jamshid Amouzgar
Saadoun Hamadi
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Britain
Holland
United States
France
Europe
Astrologic Warning Foretold Swiss Envoy Abduction
Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Bucher said his horoscope foretold danger during his 40 day kidnapping by Brazilian terrorists. He noted the Aries forecast urged caution and staying indoors though he personally does not believe in astrology.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Giovanni Bucher
Aries
Bucher
Anne Marie Mailot
Ter
Canada backs compromise on Commonwealth arms debate
Canada joins with Guyana and an unnamed member to draft a middle path on the Commonwealth declaration of principles as leaders prepare for a key arms and South Africa debate. Officials warn Tuesday’s session could spark a stormy clash over British arms sales and racial policy.
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Canada
Singapore
Britain
Lee Kuan Yew
Lee
Errol Barrow
Barbados
Kenneth Kaunda
Commonwealth
Uganda
Milton Obote
South Africa
Guyana
Indian Ocean
New York bargainers push talks as patrolmen strike
In New York City 20,000 patrolmen walk off posts for a fourth day. City negotiators pursue a three-year package with a 17.4 percent wage rise for firefighters and a new offer for garbage workers, while police back pay remains a hurdle. Nine thousand officers cover shifts as the union disowns the strike and officials note no spike in crime amid teens’ cold.
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New York
Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association
Patrick V. Murphy
John V. Lindsay
Bombers strike North Vietnam missile sites amid widened Cambodia role
American fighter-bombers attacked anti aircraft missile sites in North Vietnam for the third straight day while U S forces in Cambodia support the highway campaign with more than 13 000 South Vietnamese and Cambodian troops U S command says sites 16 and 46 miles north of the DMZ and 14 to 17 miles east of the Laotian border were targeted with Shrike missiles The Cambodian claim that Pich Nil Pass on Highway 4 was seized could not be independently confirmed and reopening timelines remain unclear
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Cambodia
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Johnson
North
Nixon
Pich Nil
Highway 4
Phnom Penh
Airliner crashes near Zurich airport with survivors unknown
An Alyushin-18 airliner crashes near Zurich airport with early word suggesting only three were surviving. In Toronto seven people from three families, including six children, perished in a Sunday apartment fire. In Moscow, a retaliatory campaign damaged two foreign cars, including an American journalist's vehicle.
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Zurich
Reuter
Toronto
Egyptians Demand Protection for Their UN Mission
Angry Egyptian officials pressed for better police protection for diplomats after a bomb destroyed the front door of the Egyptian mission to the United Nations in New York. No injuries were reported as authorities blamed a police strike and federal agents were brought in to bolster security. The blast followed a previous attack on the same building in December, with the FBI suspected to be behind the militant Jewish Defence League.
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New York
Reuter
United Nations
Washington
State Department
FBI
Jewish Defence League
Nationalist China expands diplomatic offensive abroad
Nationalist China steps up a campaign to block recognition of Maoist Peking and warns against defeatism. Chiang Kai-shek says the time to take the offensive is now as Chilean, Austrian, Belgian, and perhaps other states weigh formal ties with Peking after Canada and Italy recognition.
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Taipei
Reuter
China
Mao Tsetung
Peking
Bolivia
Chile
Austria
Belgium
Formosa
Canada
Italy
Chiang Kai-shek
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