Schreyer Begins Duties as Canada’s 22nd Governor General
Edward Schreyer takes office as Governor General soon after his investiture. He meets about 130 diplomats including 40 ambassadors, and his family tours Rideau Hall with the prime minister nearby. Schreyer, born in Beausejour Manitoba, led the New Democratic Party in Manitoba and is noted as the first western Canadian Governor General not of French or British origin.
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Ottawa
Edward Schreyer
Manitoba
Canada
United States
Queen Elizabeth
Rideau Hall
Jules Leger
Gaby
Lily Schreyer
Schreyers
John Diefenbaker
Dan George
Gerald Regan
Nova Scotia
Schreyer
Elizabeth
Beausejour
Man
Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation
New Democratic Party
Iran army stages show of force amid royal backing
Tehran officers of the imperial guard staged a show of force near Niavaran Palace with 12,000 guards and 1,000 elite troops, pledging loyalty to the shah. Military leaders said the 430,000-strong army will defend Bakhtiar's government and resist calls for an Islamic republic.
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Tehran
Imperial Guard
Shahpour Bakhtiar
Ayatullah Khomeini
Bakhtiar
Khomeini
Ayatullah
Paris
Ali Nashat
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Niavaran
Nashat
Iran
Morocco
Abbas Gharbaghi
U.K. Troops Take Over Emergency Ambulance Service
London reports 1.5 million low paid workers including garbage collectors and hospital orderlies joining pay protests as Britain endures chaos. Train drivers plan another one day strike and teachers walk out while London subway workers weigh paralysis. Government frantically seeks deal with unions amid growing national crisis.
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London
Britain
London Subway
Ottawa to borrow from Japan in dollar support move
The government plans to raise funds in foreign markets to prop up the Canadian dollar, this time by borrowing from Japan. Finance officials confirmed the move as Ottawa seeks liquidity and currency stability.
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John Ferguson
Ottawa
Japan
Finance Department
Canada plans new loans and dollar defence measures
EDC plans a 32 million U S loan to Czechoslovakia to back sales of Canadian equipment, focusing on a 300 million Vancouver pulp mill project. Government borrows abroad in yen, marks, and dollars as Bank of Canada defends the loonie, with reserves down to about 4.55 billion and a record merchandise trade surplus aiding exporters.
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Ottawa
Export Development Corp
EDC
Czechoslovakia
U.S
Foreign Trade Bank of
Vancouver
Finance Department
New York
West Germany
Citicorp
Loyalists press attacks near Phnom Penh amid Vietnamese advance
Cambodian loyalists, led by Khieu Samphan with Chinese advisers, claim resistance near Battambang Kompong Som Ratanakiri Kompong Chhnang and Takeo as Pol Pot regroups. Bangkok Post reports 8,000 loyalists in Stung Treng while Vietnamese reinforcements bolster the port. A Thai boat report sightings of a large Vietnamese flotilla near Phnom Penh.
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Bangkok
Phnom Penh
Pol Pot
Bangkok Post
Thailand
Khieu Samphan
Stung Treng
Minster
Kriangak Chomanan
Battambang
Cambodia
Kompong Som
Flowback fund policy locks energy money despite rebate plan
City council endorsed a $10 million gas flowback fund policy aimed at energy projects, rejecting Mayor Milt Reinhardt's rebate idea to return $2 to $3 per month to residents. Alderman Davison defends benefits from lower utility and mill rates, noting $4 million will flow to the city general fund this year.
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Milt Reinhardt
Reinhardt
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Utilities Committee
Ald
George Davison
Utilities Department
Davison
Lucille Moyer
Moyer
Utilities
Well travelled cheque from Ottawa to Melbourne puzzles reader
Doctor Richard Chenoweth in Melbourne received a cheque mailed from Ottawa bound for Montreal. Ottawa resident Larry Gibbons paid Simpsons in Montreal, joking the surcharge was worth it. Post office says such mixups happen, possibly due to a letter sticking to another en route overseas.
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Ottawa
Richard Chenoweth
Melbourne
Australia
Montreal
Larry Gibbons
Simpsons
Gibbons
Chenoweth
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