Leitch faces scrutiny over Slave Lake police inquiry
Alberta Attorney General Merv Leitch defended using RCMP investigators to probe three Slave Lake men who criticized government programs. Critics say the move breached rights and contract with authorities, triggering calls for resignations and a judicial inquiry. Grant Notley and Robert Clark urge action.
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Adair
Leitch
Bruce Thomas
Alberta
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Social Credit Party
Notley
NDP
Medicine Hat
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David Lewis
Belleville Mail Truck Strike Ends After Talks
Ottawa reports that 71 mail truck drivers halted mailbox pickups and slowed deliveries in a one day strike. Canadian Union of Postal Workers members began returning to work around midnight after lengthy talks with post office officials.
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Ottawa
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Belleville postal dispute averted by taxi to bus compromise
National union leaders and post office officials reached a settlement on a Belleville Ontario dispute over taxi transport for letter carriers. The accord allows taxis with a working time travel allowance to the post office by bus, ending a strike that could affect the 11 month postal contract talks.
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Belleville
Ont
Bill Findlay
National General
Diefenbaker questions Canada may lack power on hanging
Former prime minister John Diefenbaker urged Parliament may not have authority to impose the death penalty. He proposed asking the Supreme Court of Canada for a ruling on whether the Canadian Bill of Rights bars capital punishment. He warned safeguards must curb early releases for serious crimes and urged voters to follow conscience.
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Bob Bell
Supreme Court of Canada
U.S
Diefenbaker
Canada
Trudeau
Warren Allmand
Parole
Freedom Board
Pers Uy
Ceasefire Violations Decline in Vietnam Report
Saigon reports a downward trend in ceasefire violations with 209 incidents in the last 24 hours, down from 311 the prior day and 426 earlier after the ceasefire began. Despite heavier fighting in Quang Tri and the central highlands, casualties rise with 2,434 Communist troops killed or captured and 1,633 government troops wounded. ICCS observers push to field teams, delays attach to absence of a key Viet Cong member. Agnew meets Thieu in Saigon.
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South Vietnam
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le Trung Hien
U.S
Spiro T. Agnew
Nguyen van Thieu
Senator Stennis Shot Outside Washington Home
U S senator John C Stennis was shot twice in an apparent street robbery near his home in Washington. He remained in very serious condition after 62 hours of surgery. doctors reported his vital signs stable and noted the bullet in his lower rib cage damaged his stomach pancreas and a major vein. Police sought two teenage suspects described after the ambush as he arrived home with his wife summoned aid.
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John C. Stennis
Senate
United States
Walter Reed Army Medical Centre
Stennis
Senate Armed Services Committee
Maj
Frank Garland
Mississippi Democrat
Garland
Nixon to Send Kissinger to Hanoi for Direct Talks
President Nixon announced Henry Kissinger will travel to Hanoi to open direct communications with North Vietnam and discuss an Indochina-wide reconstruction program seen as a potential investment in peace. He also said a spring meeting with South Vietnamese President Thieu may occur at the western White House.
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Peace Corps
Strong quake in Mexico kills ten injures many
A powerful earthquake rocked the central Pacific Coast to Mexico City killing at least 10 people and injuring about 100. Deaths occurred in Colima and Jalisco states, with four buildings destroyed in Tonila. The Tacubaya Seismology Centre measured 7.5. President Echeverria pledged aid as services paused in several towns and Mexico City.
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Colima
Tecoman
Gomez Falls
Jalisco
Tonila
Pablo Pacheco
Pablo Silva Garcia
Octavio Senties
National University
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