IRA Leaders Hold Secret Talks With Harold Wilson
In London on Tuesday IRA Provisional leaders met with British opposition leader Harold Wilson in a bid to secure a ceasefire in Northern Ireland. Despite the grim milestone of 100 British soldiers killed since 1969, violence eased to scattered skirmishes as talks revived hopes for a renewed truce.
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Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Harold Wilson
London
Northern Ireland
Ulster
Springfield Road
Ulster Defence Regiment
Ieland
IRA
Wilson
British Labor Party
Dublin
Resignation of Maudling Triggers UK Cabinet Shuffle
Reginald Maudling resigns as Home Secretary amid police investigations tied to a bankruptcy case involving architect John Poulson. Robert Carr succeeds, with Heath facing a likely broad cabinet reshuffle. Observers doubt Maudling’s return to public life. suspensions follow related inquiries.
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London
Reuter
Reginald Maudling
Maudling
Robert Carr
Council
House of Commons
Carr
Edward Heath
Heath
Home Secretary
John Poulson
Poulson
W.G. Pottinger
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries For Scotland
George Braithwaite
Southwest Metropolitan Hospital Board
Kennedy and Wolff urge NI ceasefire to end violence
Senator Edward Kennedy and Representative Lester Wolff appealed to Catholics and Protestants to restore the Northern Ireland ceasefire. Kennedy said lasting peace requires negotiations, not violence, and urged both faiths to support another ceasefire. Wolff warned that civil war loomed if a ceasefire is not quickly established.
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Washington
Reuter
Edward Kennedy
Dem
Mass
Lester Wolff
Dem. N.Y
Northern Ireland
Kennedy
Wolff
Ulster
IRA
Irish Republican Army
Palestinian Leader Killed by Booby Trap in Lebanon
Anis Sayegh, 41, a noted Palestine writer, was seriously injured when a hidden bomb detonated as he opened his desk in Beirut. Earlier, Ghassan Kanafani, spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and his 15-year-old niece were killed by a car ignition bomb claimed by a group calling itself Supporters of Free Lebanon. WAFA linked the group to U S Zionist Jordanian intelligence, while a second parcel bomb at Riff Bank wounded a Lebanese employee.
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Lebanon
Anis Sayegh
Supporters of
Free Lebanon
Ghassan Kanafani
Kanafani
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Palestine News Agency
WAFA
Sayegh
Palestine Research Centre
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
al Fatah
Egypt moves to end Soviet military presence in Egypt
Cairo reports Sadat ordered thousands of Russian advisers to depart, with many already leaving in civilian clothes. Egypt now controls Soviet military positions while some instructors may remain. Al Ahram notes Soviet advisers will continue in engineering and industry roles under the 15 year friendship treaty. Accel as exodus nears the 20th anniversary of the revolution.
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Cairo
Reuter
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
al Ahram
Associated Press
Israel
United States
Washington
Soviet Union
Middle East
Moscow
Aziz Sidky
Russia
Mohammed Heykal
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Convicts Free Since Millhaven Breakout Sought Near Conway Ontario
Ontario KP reports the remaining four escapees from Millhaven penitentiary are being hunted around Conway village as 40 soldiers join provincial police. Ten of fourteen escapers are in custody with Napanee and Niagara on the Lake captures. Rudolph Nuss, 25, of St. Catharines, was seized near Niagara on the Lake while Donald Day, 22, of London, Ont., was held at Napanee after breaking through a wire fence during a baseball game. Police believe Nuss aimed to cross into the United States. Lt Col Bev Totman said searches extend west of Napanee as troops reinforce the area.
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Kingston.ont
Millhaven Penitentiary
Conway Village
Here
Conway
Napanee
Niagara
Donald Day
London
Ont
Millhaven
Oag
Kingston Penitentiary
Rudolph Nuss
St. Catharines
Niagara-on-the Lake
Nuss
United States
Bev Totman
Canadian Forces
Accord on monetary reform inches toward Common Market
London reports finance ministers from the six current Common Market members and four applicants reached a broad principles agreement on monetary reform. They avoided decisive talks on gold, dollar value, and the use of special drawing rights, signaling only a tentative step in Europe’s search for agreement.
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London
European Common Market
Rapeseed shipping rates under Canadian transport inquiry
Final arguments close a precedent setting hearing on railway freight for western rapeseed and rapeseed products. Western crushers seek lower rates to match raw rapeseed costs, while eastern producers, governments, and railways push to keep current pricing amid broader hearings affecting pulp and newsprint.
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Ottawa
Canadian Transport Commission
Saskatchewan
Quebec
Ontario
Saskatoon
Prince Albert
Agra Industries Ltd
Nipawin, Sask
Co-op Vegetable Oils Ltd
Altona
Man
Western Canadian
Seed Processors Ltd
Leth
Custody battle ends in unhappy reunion
Nine-year-old Adrianne Schoenowitz cried as she reunited with her natural mother and left foster parents William and Beatrice Cahn after a year-long custody fight. The chief judge refused to stay lower court orders sending Adrianne back to Herbert and Mrs. Schoenowitz of Brooklyn.
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Wantagh
N.Y
Adrianne Schoenowitz
William
Beatrice Cahn
Cairns
Adrianne
State Court of Appeals
William and
Long Island
Herbert Schoenowitz
Brooklyn
Stanley Fuld
New York State Court of Appeal
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