Edmonton cleaned as storm floods city and province braces
An Edmonton deluge dumped 90 mm in 18 hours, triggering a civic emergency. Eight of nine river bridges closed, 10 people rescued from flooded homes, 100 emergency calls per hour, roads and bridges closed, most re opened as waters receded. Saskatchewan awaited a similar eastern storm front with no deaths reported.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Environment Canada
Edson
Red Deer
North Saskatchewan River
Disaster Services Branch
Hugh Horner
Peter Brown
James MacDonald
Grierson Hill
Soviet trials cloud strategic arms talks
In Geneva Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko arrived pledging to push past remaining obstacles in strategic arms negotiations. They did not publicly address Moscow dissident trials that have strained relations.
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N.Y. Times
Geneva
U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Andrei A. Gromyko
Moscow
Vance
Air Force
Washington
Gromyko
Anatoly B. Shcharansky
Aleksandr I. Ginzburg
Carter
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Shcharansky
United States
Ginzburg
Explosion toll grows at Tarragona campsite
Police say 125 to 135 people died as a runaway propane tank truck exploded at a Costa Brava campsite near Barcelona. Nine died in hospital. over 200 others suffer burns, with many critical. Most of the 500 to 600 holidaymakers were from Western Europe.
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Tarragona
Spain
Costa Brava
Food price hikes push June inflation in Canada
Statistics Canada reports June inflation at 9.2 percent year over year as beef prices soar by 11.1 percent in the month. Fresh fruit costs rise while vegetables ease due to potato-driven shifts. housing, transport, and energy components also lift the CPI.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Food Prices Review Board
Sinclair Stevens
Italy
Stevens
Chretien
Black elected president of Ravelston Corp successor to Meighen
In Toronto G Montegu Black 37 was chosen as president and director of Ravelston Corp. He takes over after Col Maxwell Meighen resigned. Ravelston holds a controlling stake in Argus Corp which controls major Canadian industries.
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Toronto
G. Montegu Black
Ravelston Corp
Argus Corp
Col
Maxwell Meighen
Argus
Laval Prison Break Escapes Trigger Citywide Dragnet
Four inmates escaped from Laval Institute after a gun battle that killed guard Gur nier and Lachapelle and wounded three other guards. Police chased the escapees across Montreal east end as 400 officers manned roadblocks and helicopters scanned the area. One captive, Jean Lachapelle, died likely from crossfire. the other four remained at large with weapons and improvised gear.
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Montreal
Laval Institute
Andre Chartrand
Jacques Massey
Ghislain Gaudet
Pierre Vincent
Jean Lachapele
Gerald Marineau
Federal Penitentiary Service
Lachapelle
Marineau
Lucien Gagne
Laval
Federal
Gurnier
Marc Drouin
Richard Rolland
Gaston Langelier
Jean Vigneault
Chicoutimi, Que
Vigneault
Park Ave
Villeneuve St
Writer's statement used in Shcharansky spy trial in Moscow
In a Moscow court a signed statement by Los Angeles Times correspondent Robert C. Toth was introduced as evidence that Anatoly Shcharansky spied for a capitalist state. Shcharansky faces the death penalty as the trial proceeds with testimonies and close sessions on espionage and anti Soviet agitation charges.
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Moscow
Los Angeles Times
Robert C. Toth
Anatoly Shcharansky
Shcharansky
Kaluga
Here
Alexander Ginzburg
Ginzburg
Ludmila
Toth
Soviet Union
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
U.S.S.R
Leonid
Ida Milgrom
Alberta Heritage Fund reports lower returns on investments
The 1978 Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund report shows total assets of 3,367.1 million as of March 31 with $187 million net income from investments, down from 9.2 to 8.8 percent. Capital contributions total 931 million, largely from resource revenue, with 30 percent of resources transferred to the fund.
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Edmonton
Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund
Canada
Alberta
Socred
Bob Clark
Southern Alberta Cancer Centre
Calgary
Alberta Children’s Hospital
Edmonton Health Sciences Centre
Fish Creek
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Merv Leitch
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