Panama denies shah is arrested amid Tehran crowd cheers
Reports that Panama arrested Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi for extradition circulated in Tehran, with Panamanian and shah spokesmen denying the claim. Crowds outside the U.S. Embassy cheered as Tehran radio acknowledged the denial. The shah has been sheltered on Contadora since December 15.
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U.S
Tehran
Panama
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Iran
Pars
Artistides Royo
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Tehran Radio
National Guard
Royo
Mark Morse
Contadora
Pahlavi
Omar Torrijos
Shah
Pacific
Bobby Mills
Houston
Tex
Ghotbzadeh
Mills
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Foreign Press Office
National Guidance Ministry
New Delhi
Kurt Waldheim
Waldheim
Bangladesh
Mexico
UN Security Council
Liberals Hold Narrow Edge in Gallup Poll
The Gallup poll shows the Liberals at 49 percent of decided voters, up two points since December, with the Conservatives at 28 percent and the New Democratic Party at 20 percent. Conducted Jan. 3-5 by the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion, the survey spans three weeks after the February 18 election call. Other parties total 3 percent.
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Ottawa
Liberal Party
Progressive Conservatives
Gallup
Canadian Institute of Public Opinion
Liberals
New Democratic Party
Clark
Pierre Trudeau
Judge doubts gender of vehicular manslaughter defendant
In San Jose an office clerk Paul Becerra 41 was sent to a women's jail after a strip search revealed a functional vagina. He had pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter from a February crash that killed his two year old daughter. Becerra born female in San Francisco underwent a sex change operation. incomplete due to lack of funds.
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San Jose
Calif
John McInerny
Paul Becerra
Becerra
Vacaville State Prison
San Francisco
Soviet denounces Canadian trade move amid Western detente clash
The Soviet Union condemns Canada's trade actions as part of a U.S.-led crusade against detente while Moscow mulls response to expulsion of three Soviet embassy officials for spying. Canada bars grain shipments, seeks Olympic reassignment, and accuses Soviet spies amid tensions in Ottawa.
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Bob Douglas
Ottawa
Soviet Union
Moscow
Novosti
Canada
Victor Mikheev
Flora MacDonald
Russia
Lake Placid
N.Y
Alexander Podakin
Coun
Clark
Otto Jelinek
Halton
Foothills group to begin Alaska Highway gas line work
AGTL led project to start laying pipe from near Calgary toward the US border with initial exports planned November 1. The Alberta venture aims to prebuild key segments to secure US financing and regulatory approvals for a $15 billion line, using about one sixth of NEB approved gas volumes at first.
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Calgary
Alaska Highway
Foothills Group
United States
Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Ltd
U.S
Alberta Gas Trunk
Pan-Alberta Gas Ltd
National Energy Board
Albertan
Foothills
Alberta
British Columbia
B.C
Carter's boycott gain support in Congress over Moscow Games
A U S House foreign affairs panel opened hearings on a resolution backing President Carter’s call to boycott the Moscow Summer Olympics if Soviet troops remain in Afghanistan. Senators and representatives urged action as Carter pressed for possible transfer or cancellation and a nonparticipation stance by U.S. athletes if terms were not met.
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Washington
Carter
U.S
Congress
House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
Robert Kane
Afghanistan
Edmund Muskie
Dem. Me
Senate
Robert Byrd
House
Thomas O'Neill
Pakistan
O'Neill
French premier cuts Soviet trip over Sakharov arrest
Former French premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas shortened his official visit to the USSR to protest Andrei Sakharov's arrest and exile to Gorky. He returned to Paris saying he could not remain silent and would not intervene in Soviet internal affairs.
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Shortens
Sakharov
Moscow
Reuter
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Soviet Union
Andrei Sakharov
Chaban-Delmas
Paris
National Assembly
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Gorky
U.S
Carter
Academy of Sciences
Academy
Leninsky Prospect
Arts funding nearing approval in Ottawa relief plan
The federal government moves toward emergency grants to wipe out deficits for many performing arts groups. A 94 group survey shows deficits totaling 7.9 million, with 17 of Canada's top 20 arts bodies ending 1978-79 in the red. Provinces would distribute funds from a new lottery surplus, while Ottawa earmarks most revenue for other uses this year. Major groups like the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Stratford Festival face sizable shortfalls.
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Jamie Portman
Southam News
Ottawa
David MacDonald
Council For Business and the Arts In Canada
Canada Council
MacDonald
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Stratford Festival
Sudbury Theatre Centre
Council For Business and the Arts
Canada
Vancouver Symphony
Mass demonstration in San Salvador ends in deadly clashes
A Tuesday protest against El Salvador’s three month old junta erupts into violence with an estimated 20 dead and 80 wounded. Hospital reports include journalism student Bruce Yeager shot in the leg. Bombs target the Italian Embassy Hyatt Hotel and a shopping center.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Bruce Yeager
Seattle
Wash
Hyatt
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