Montreal bombing blamed on prisoners support group
Police said a self described committee for the prisoners of St Vincent de Paul claimed responsibility for a bombing that destroyed a station wagon at Montreal's main bus terminal killing two occupants. A letter found near the terminal was addressed to reporter Claude Poirier, while detectives investigated whether the car carried a package.
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Montreal
St. Vincent de Paul
Claude Poirier
CJMS
Poirier
Laval
Lebanon Ceasefire Agreement Reported Amid Civil War
President Suleiman Franjieh announced that Lebanon’s factions agreed on a ceasefire and a political solution framework with a Syrian backed plan. A supreme military committee will supervise disengagement and a return to normal life while fighting continued in key areas. Immigration rules in Canada were eased to allow more Lebanese relatives to apply for landed status on humanitarian grounds.
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Beirut
Suleiman Franjieh
Lebanon
Palestine Liberation Army
PLA
Phalange Party
Franjieh
PLO
Kemal Jumblatt
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Camille Chamoun
Syria
Abdul Halim Khaddam
Supreme Military Committee
Canada
South African troops to pull out of Angola
U S intelligence reports say South African military units have orders to withdraw from Angola. Without their support pro Western forces in southern Angola may struggle against better armed MPLA Cuban aligned forces as Soviet backed troops overrun northern areas. Analysts link pullout to home opposition and a plan to counter a growing Cuban force.
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Washington
United States
Angola
U.S
Popular Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
Alberta opposition eyes ministerial accountability debate
Alberta opposition leaders Bob Clark and Grant Notley vow to press Premier Lougheed to debate ministerial accountability as legislature opens March 4. The call follows an auditor report faulting Horst Schmid for lax internal controls at the Office of Special Programs and misused public funds.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
Horst Schmid
Social Credit
Bob Clark
Grant Notley
New Democratic Party
Schmid
Lougheed
Northwest Territories
Office of Special Programs
OSP
St. George’s
Clark
NDP
Notley
Kissinger says U S and Soviet Union narrowing arms gap
U S and Soviet Union officials report progress toward a new nuclear arms accord. Kissinger says talks are serious though progress may stall. Brezhnev attends talks expected to review negotiations with the politburo in session. Gromyko calls for a complete agreement.
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Moscow
U.S
Henry Kissinger
United States
Soviet Union
Kissinger
Leonid Brezhnev
Gromyko
Politburo
Brezhnev
Quebec to seek Ottawa help with Olympic funding deficit
Premier Robert Bourassa said he will ask the federal government for about 200 million to cover the 1976 Olympics deficit. He argued this is a tax return rather than a special contribution, noting costs rose to about 1 billion and Quebecers would otherwise fund services in other provinces.
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Joseph Macsween
Montreal
Robert Bourassa
Cfcf-Tv
Bourassa
Quebec
Trudeau
Parliament Hill
PM rejects covering Olympic debts
Prime Minister Trudeau rejects a proposal by Quebec's Robert Bourassa for Ottawa to provide about 200 million in extra tax revenues to cover rising costs of the Montreal 1976 Olympics. He said he is not sympathetic and will not increase funding.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Quebec
Robert Bourassa
Medicine Hat adapts to temporary rent controls with little fuss
In Medicine Hat and nearby Redcliff, landlords and tenants largely accept Alberta’s temporary rent regulations effective Jan 1 to Jun 30 1977. Rent regulation officers report few complaints and most inquiries for information as authorities establish offices and an Edmonton based appeal board.
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Medicine Hat
Roy Woodward
Redcliff
Jim Horsman
Alberta
Edmonton
George McClellan
Woodward
Rent Regulation Office
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Transport Department
Quebec City
Leon Bernier
Jean Boutet
Boutet
Farouk Nassar
Associated Press
Immigration Department
Robert Andras
Mr. Notley
U.S.S.R
Frank Crepeau
Olympic
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