09 Jul 1973
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1973
Page
1
Ottawa MPs begin a second overtime session of the summer with a backlog of legislation. Debate resumes on a bill suspending 10 electoral boundaries commissions and delaying the redraw of Commons constituencies for 18 months, a contentious issue touching political survival.
France issues an advisory for civil aviation to stay 200 miles around Mururoa and 500 miles to the east as the first South Pacific atomic test is expected late this week. The warning follows a 24 hour notice to surface shipping and places the atoll 900 miles southeast of Tahiti, amid talk of a megaton yield.
Uganda freed 112 United States Peace Corps volunteers held since Saturday after a flight from London. President Idi Amin ordered their release, with the group including 49 women and 63 men, two married couples. The volunteers had been kept near Entebbe airport and later moved to a Lake Victoria hotel.
Canadian chief delegate Michel Gauvin asked the ICCS to suspend routine business until two missing officers Capt Ian Patten and Capt Fletcher Thomson are returned. The Viet Cong confirmed holding the pair, believed taken June 28 near a rubber plantation east of Saigon, as negotiations proceed with a decision due Wednesday.
The U S dollar slid on European markets after a brief rise tied to Switzerland talks among central bankers. Midday rates showed 2.7025 Swiss francs per dollar in Zurich and 2.2835 marks in Frankfurt, while London and Tokyo saw mixed movements as rumors and market anxieties cooled demand.
Mines and Minerals Minister Bill Dickie and Environment Minister Bill Yurko opened a 2.5 million dollar gas evaluation program at Suffield. Witco Drilling Ltd. won a 200,000 dollar contract for the first phase to drill 27 wells this summer with 50 more to follow in winter.
Seventeen of 293 abducted from a Jesuit mission remain captive as security forces search rugged bush country 140 miles northeast of Salisbury. Those freed describe plans to move captives to Zambia for guerrilla training with Tanzania as a stated destination.
Prime Minister Trudeau frames the Western Economic Opportunities Conference as a step to end Western isolation while warning a lasting western lobby could destroy the federal government. He calls for concrete results and emphasizes regional inclusion, consulting with premiers and avoiding power grabs.
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