CBC technicians walkouts spread across eight centres
CBC technicians held sporadic walkouts Friday in eight centres including Toronto Ottawa Montreal Calgary Vancouver Windsor Prince Rupert and Inuvik protesting managements contract offer. NABET refused to transmit a Trudeau film shot in Ottawa causing more walkouts while unions seek a 12.2 percent raise retroactive to July 1 1970 plus 8.5 percent this July and 7.8 percent in 1973 and a four day 36 hour work week.
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Information Services
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Canadian Wire Service Guild
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Windsor
Prince Rupert
B.C
Inuvik
N.W.T
NABET
Allan Beck
CBC Vancouver
Canucks
Toronto Maple Leafs
Hijacker Takes Jetliner Demands Ransom to Europe
A Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 carrying 101 people was hijacked over Illinois by Garrett Brook Trapnell who concealed a gun in an arm cast and demanded 306800 dollars and freedom for Angela Davis ally in Dallas. The plane landed at Kennedy after a fruitless bid for Europe.
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Angela Davis
Dallas
Trans World Airlines
Illinois
Kennedy International Airport
Europe
Kennedy
Federal Aviation Administration
Garrett Brook Trapnell
Toronto
Florida
Trapnell
Bahamas
Bradford
Ill
Los Angeles
Spain
FBI
Nixon
TWA
Charles Tillinghast
Miami
Stuart Markus
Turner cabinet shuffle reshapes Trudeau government
Ottawa announces a major cabinet shuffle as Justice Minister John Turner becomes Finance Minister replacing E. J. Benson who moves to Defence. Nine other ministers change posts while Energy Minister J. J. Greene resigns. Pat Mahoney is named minister of state.
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Jasper
Alta
Don Getty
Alberta
Trudeau
John Turner
Edgar Benson
Getty
Ottawa
Turner
Finance Department
Justice
Finance
E. J. Benson
Energy
J. J. Greene
Pat Mahoney
Benson
Greene
Defence Department
Defence
Donald S. Macdonald
Toronto-Rosedale
Mr. Benson
Canada
Arthur Laing
Vancouver South
Veterans Affairs
Laing
Bryce Mackasey
Verdun
Unemployment Insurance Commission
Robert Andras
Port Arthur
Jean-Eudes Dube
Restigouche
Ron Basford
Vancouver Centre
Otto Lang
Saskatoon Humboldt
Canadian Wheat Board
Martin O’connell
Scarborough East
Labor
Secretary of State For Citizenship
Information Canada
Mahoney
Calgary South
Motel owners oppose new expressway plan
The Medicine Hat Motel Association released a statement after a Chamber of Commerce meeting opposing the city council’s expressway plan. They criticize the plan for few exits to local businesses, lack of public hearing, and limited publicity. Hartley Shannon leads a delegation to a 7:30 p.m. public library hearing to press for a simpler, cheaper design.
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Phil Lesauvage
Medicine Hat Motel Association
Chamber of Commerce
Hartley Shannon
Bloodbath fear over Rhodesia settlement testing
Britain’s Pearce Commission opened its first phase to review Rhodesia settlement terms amid African nationalist warnings of a bloody revolution if white rule endures. Bishop Muzorewa led the anti settlement council declaring unanimous rejection, while Pearce and deputies prep for more hearings across the country and discuss witness immunity with Rhodesia’s government.
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Reuter
Britain
Pearce Commission
Rhodesia
Abel Muzorewa
Lord Pearce
Bulawayo
Here
Council
Commission
Muzorewa
Smith
Rhodesia Front Party
Ian Smith
Lord
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