Prairies Brace for Bertha Army Worm Outbreak
Alberta and Saskatchewan farmers confront Bertha Army worms after last year’s rapeseed damage. Watch programs tracked pupae in soil, enabling rapid response with Guthion and registration from Ottawa. Reduced plantings cut expected acreage to 3.4 million. costs to provinces rise with outbreak history and air spray needs.
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Edmonton
Prairies
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
Gurba
Ottawa
United States
Kansas
Three Hills
Stettler
Sedgewick
Maidstone
Canada
Gordon Reeds
Waseca
Northwest road plan unveiled in British Columbia and Yukon
The federal government and British Columbia outline a multi million dollar expansion of rail and road networks. Proposals include two principal Yukon to Prince Rupert rail lines, new forest line routes near Ottsa Lake Babine Lake and Nass River, Alaska Highway paving, Liard Highway extension and a Skagway to Carcross link. Transport Minister Don Jamieson says plan aims to boost grain transport, resource development and port capacity at Prince Rupert, creating up to 18500 jobs over 20 years.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Yukon
Don Jamieson
B.C
House of Commons
Ottawa
Jamieson
Prince Rupert
Prince George
Dease Lake
Canadian National
Ottsa Lake
Babine Lake
Nass River
Prince Rupert- Kitimat
Fort St. John
Fort Nelson
Whitehorse
Y.T
Skagway
Canadian Northwest
Environment
Jack Davis
Northern
Davis
More delegate hearings ordered in McGovern Daley case
A U S appeals court ordered additional lower court hearings on the Democratic credentials committee actions that stripped McGovern of delegate votes and unseated Daley, delaying a ruling on their constitutionality as the party convention nears to nominate a presidential candidate.
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Washington
Reuter
United States
Democratic Committee
George McGovern
South Dakota
Chicago
Richard Daley
Democratic Credentials Committee
Hijack attempt ends with girl hostage surrender at Buffalo airport
Charles Smith, 23, of Buffalo held a young girl at knife point to hijack an American Airlines Boeing 707 at Buffalo International Airport. An FBI agent aboard convinced him to surrender. the child was unharmed aside from a minor wound on Smith. Police noted Smith stabbed the girl's mother and a man earlier, then fled to the airport with a note describing personal crisis.
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Frederick Hilton
Lilly Smith
American Airlines
Buffalo
Charles
N.Y
Buffalo International Airport
FBI
Richard Ash
Ash
Momerts
Smith
Smiths
Fischer apologizes for chess delay in Iceland match
Bobby Fischer apologized for delaying the world championship match with Boris Spassky in Reykjavik. The $400,000 event faced postponement over prize money and a dispute, with Spassky conditioning start on penalties. Uncertainty remained about a Thursday start as Soviet officials and FIDE weighed the protest and possible penalties.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Soviet Union
Spassky
Fischer
Max Euwe
International Chess Federation
FIDE
Associated Press
Greenpeace III repairs after clash near Mururoa Atoll
A Canadian ketch Greenpeace III, protesting French nuclear tests, is under repair in the Mururoa Atoll lagoon after colliding with the minesweeper La Paimpalaise. Radio and fuel troubles plagued the crew, who are in good health.
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Papeete
Tahiti
Mururoa Atoll
Claverie
Greenpeace
British Columbia woodworkers approve coast strike settlement
About 28 000 IWA forest workers in British Columbia are set to return to work early next week after a strike ending memorandum of agreement was signed on Tuesday. The deal provides a 3642 cent per hour raise retroactive to June 15 and another increase on June 15 next year, lifting laborer wages to 4.08% this year and 4.45 next June.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
International Woodworkers of America
IWA
Coast Forest
Schiller resigns from Brandt cabinet in policy dispute
West Germany economics and finance minister Karl Schiller resigned from Chancellor Willy Brandt's cabinet in a dispute over foreign monetary policies. The sources said he sent a letter to Brandt last weekend after a tense cabinet session on Friday.
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Bonn
West Germany
Karl Schiller
Willy Brandt
Schiller
Brandt
Tanaka elected Japan PM in Liberal Democratic Party vote
Trade Minister Kakuei Tanaka a self made former construction millionaire won the LDP leadership with 282 votes to 190 for rival Takeo Fukuda. At 54 he becomes Japan s youngest postwar prime minister and is expected to form a cabinet after Thursday ratification. He pledges stronger ties with the United States and China and a focus on living standards through social development capital.
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Tokyo
Reuter
Kakuei Tanaka
Japan
Liberal- Democratic Party
Takeo Fukuda
Tanaka
United States
China
Eisaku Sato
Fukuda
Sato
LDP
Soviet Union
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Wainwright
Vermilion
Northwest
Gove
Paris
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Georges Pompidou
Chaban-Delmas
France
Pierre Messmer
Olivier Guichard
Overseas Territories
Robert Galley
Union of Democrats of the Republic
Charles de Gaulle
Pompidou
PGE
Fort St. James
CNR
Prince Rupert Hazelton
Greenpeace III
Mururoa
Ben Metcalfe
Greenpeace Foundation
Atoll
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