Hostage taker ends life in Medicine Hat police chase
Police describe a dawn pursuit starting after Brooks RCMP requested a roadblock. A suspect drove to the Continental Inn and fired shotgun blasts before fleeing toward the Trans-Canada Highway. Officers, including plainclothes units and a standing SWAT team, pursued into Saskatchewan before ending pursuit at the border.
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NEWS
Larry Brink
Brooks Rcmp
Medicine Hat
Brink
Continental Inn
Brooks
Sixth Street
Shell
Saskatchewan
Walsh
Criminal Investigation Department
A. J. Niedzwiecki
Lethbridge
RCMP
Calgary
Maple Creek
Niedzwiecki
Calgary Rcmp
Alaska and Haines Highways to be paved this summer
Canada says a multi million dollar Alaska Highway and Haines Highway project will begin this summer. United States will cover the entire estimated 200 million dollar cost under a 1976 accord. The work aims to improve dirt and gravel sections as a gas pipeline plan boosts urgency.
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Ottawa
Alaska Highway
Haines Highway
Yukon
United States
Canada
Mideast talks falter as tension grows at Leeds Castle
U S Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met separately with Israeli and Egyptian foreign ministers in England seeking to narrow gaps on West Bank Gaza Strip and Palestinian population. Talks continued amid a gloomy mood with a wide gap remaining between Israel and Egypt proposals.
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Leeds Castle
England
U.S
Cyrus Vance
London
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Vance
Mideast
Alfred Atherton
Atherton
Middle East
NATO
Brussels
State Department
Hodding Carter
Moshe Dayan
Israel
Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel
Egypt
Jerusalem
Menachem Begin
Shimon Peres
Peres
Begin
Anwar Sadat
Austria
Operating engineers strike disrupts Empress construction project
More than 1,000 operating engineers walked off sites in Alberta, including 20 at the Empress ethane extraction plant under construction. Union officials call negotiations pessimistic as a Thursday meeting will discuss the conciliator's report while some work stops and layoffs loom.
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Alberta
Empress
Budd Coutts
Operating Engineers
Ken Nelson
Pacific Petroleums Ltd
Cormier
Medicine Hat
Bob Bannister
Calgary
Bannister
Girl freed after 300 mile chase ends in suspect suicide
The robbery hostages drama began in Brooks with a shotgun robbery at Eastbrook Motel. A 20 year old Charles Glenmore Clark died at the scene after shooting himself near Walsh following a Calgary pursuit. A 15 year old from London Ontario was arrested. a 16 year old waitress hostage was released unharmed.
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Brooks
RCMP
Walsh
Charles Glenmore Clark
Eastbrook
Calgary
London
Ontario
Don Nelson
19Th Street
44Th Avenue N.E
Dinner ends drama begins for young motel waitress
At the Eastbrook Motel in Brooks a 16 year old waitress on duty since 3 p m faced a tense incident when two motel guests returned with baggage and a sawed off shotgun, according to Nicole Boily wife.
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Eastbrook
Brooks
Nicole Boily
Steve Ellerton
Baily
Ellerton
Ederton
Calgary
Ellertons
Walsh
Trudeau woos German leaders during three day visit
Prime Minister Trudeau works to improve Canada image in West Germany inviting industrial and banking leaders to a Cologne luncheon. He tells a blue chip audience Canada will not break up and notes German investment flows to the United States.
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Southam News Services
Bonn
Trudeau
Canada
West Germany
Cologne
Federal
Schmidt
United States
Foreign Investment Review Agency
FIRA
Pierre Trudeau
Helmut Schmidt
Denmark
Anker Jorgensen
Old wells threaten Alaska Highway pipeline timetable
A House clash over redefining stripper wells to 35 barrels a day jeopardizes the $10 billion Alaska Highway pipeline project. The fight risks undermining the May natural gas pricing agreement linked to Carter's energy package, with Energy Secretary James Schlesinger as a potential break in the stalemate.
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Washington
United States
Alaska
Canada
Texas
Jim Wright
U.S
House of Representatives
Wright
Democratic Party
U.S. House
U.S. Oil and Gas
Jimmy Carter
Energy
James Schlesinger
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