Czechoslovakia Aims for Liberal Road Amid Soviet Pressure
Czechoslovak central committee backed Dubcek's liberalization drive amid Soviet hardline opposition. Kiev or Lvov cited as possible meeting sites for Czech leadership talks with Moscow. An arms cache near the West German border sparked urgent inquiries as Ceteka reported the latest moves.
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Kiev
Soviet Union
Czechoslovak Communist Party Presidium
Lvov
Ceteka
Wal
Central Committee
Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Poland
Hungary
Bulgaria
Warsaw
Kremlin
Moscow
Settlement hopes fade in Lakehead grain strike
Port Arthur reports talks collapsed after brief Friday session as 1,300 striking grain handlers and 10 terminal elevator companies failed to resolve wage demands. Union says wage talks must precede other issues, while management insists on non parity stance. Initial two year asks ranged from 1.06 to 2.30 in basic terms, with conciliation board split on recommended rises.
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Port Arthur
Lakehead
E. V. Titheridge
Frank Mazur
Conciliation Board
Retailers seek city closing bylaw for uniform hours
Lawyer Jim Horsman presents a petition from 66 local retailers requesting a bylaw to standardize hours. The plan calls for all day Monday closing, specific closing times Tue Thu and Sat to 6 pm, Friday 9 pm, excluding holidays and December, and applies to most retail outlets except drugstores and confectioneries.
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Jim Horsman
Horsman
Medicine Hat
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Calgary
Two votes kill gun licensing
In Washington two House votes defeated attempts to require registration of all firearms and to require pistol registration. The actions effectively end prospects for gun registration this session as a bill to curb interstate mail order sales and nonadjacent state sales faces further amendments.
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Kill Gun Licensing
Washington
Johnson
Congress
House of Representatives
SIU denies Banks payoff linked to Canada extradition
The Sea Farers International Union denies any link between U S refusals to extradite Hal C Banks to Canada and 100000 donated to Democratic campaign funds by the union. The Wall Street Journal notes half the money aided Humphrey campaigns while Ontario sought Banks’ extradition over perjury at a royal commission. Trudeau calls the report extraordinary.
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New York
Seafarers International Union
U.S. State Department
Hal C. Banks
Canada
The
Wall Street Journal
Rusk
Financial Newspaper
White House
Hubert Humphrey
Ontario
Banks
SIU
Great Lakes
Biafra and Nigeria to resume civil war peace talks
The Organization of African Unity announced that Biafra and Nigeria will resume full peace talks in Addis Ababa under OAU auspices. Ojukwu proposed two overland corridors or a major airlift, while the Lagos government favored road relief and warned against unauthorized air deliveries.
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Organization of African Unity
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
OAU
Biafra
Odumwegwu Ojukwu
Aba
Ojukwu
Lagos
Niger River
Oguta
Biafran
Port Harcourt
Bombs Stop Ambush in Mekong Delta Prisoner Rescue
U S B 52 raids scattered Viet Cong team in the Mekong Delta as government troops freed 39 captives chained to stakes. Six Viet Cong guards were killed as guerrillas fled. Captives ranged from two months to two years in captivity, including one woman.
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Saigon
Mekong
Sirhan seeks sleeping pills as Kennedy murder case stalls
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, jailed on the Kennedy assassination charge, asks Superior Court for sleeping pills and access to jail records. His lawyer seeks two weeks delay for psychiatrists to finish reports and for brain studies, citing a prior case of potential insanity and a past horse-accident injury.
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Los Angeles
Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Superior Court
Richard Schauer
Russell E. Parsons
Parsons
Postal strike may spark tougher demands across civil service
Ottawa reports a large wage settlement for postal workers on strike may push other civil servants into tougher bargaining with the government. Public Service Alliance of Canada president Trevor Gough says favorable postal terms could influence negotiations as hundreds of thousands wait. The postal workers seek a 75 cent hourly raise for 14 months, while the government offers 15 cents in two steps. unions seek 14 to 16 percent over two years ending 1968. Mediation resumes with Judge Rene Lippe as talks stall.
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Ottawa
Trevor Gough
Public Service Alliance of Canada
Gough
Alliance
Public Service Act
Trudeau
Rene Lippe
Montreal
Ray awaits first meeting with lawyer in Memphis jail
James Earl Ray remains under heavy security in Shelby County Jail awaiting arraignment after being flown from Britain. Lawyer Arthur Hanes arrived with six deputies escorting him to meet Ray in the 3rd floor cell block. no date set for arraignment. Police in London tied Ray to a bank robbery via fingerprints on a cash-note.
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Memphis
Hanes
Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Shelby County
London
U.S. Air Force
Britain
United States
Preston Battle
Trustee Savings Bank
Fulham District
King
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