IRA bombs kill nine in London parks attack
Two blasts in Regent's Park and Hyde Park fatally strike soldiers and injure civilians as the Provisional IRA claims responsibility. Prime Minister Thatcher denounces the act while Scotland Yard reports no warning and notes the attack targets a royal cavalry detachment en route to a guard change.
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Frederick Douglas
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Dublin
Margaret
Thatcher
Britain
P. O'Neill
Irish Republican Publicity Bureau
Weather and city budget news mix headline items
Weather shows cloudy skies with a high of 27 and a low of 13. Mayor Ted Grimm says savings searches across city departments have begun as 1983 budget plans loom. Also notes Assiniboia Downs reopens after financial trouble and a federal insanity defense reform proposal.
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Thatcher Faces Two Embarrassing Parliament Probes in Spy Scandal
London AP reports Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher faces scrutiny over Britain's spy scandal and the disclosure of the Queen's chief bodyguard's homosexuality. MPs seek details on security at GCHQ after a spy arrest and on Cmdr. Michael Trestrail's affair with a male prostitute later sold to a newspaper.
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Margaret Thatcher
Britain
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Press Association
Thatcher
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Scotland Yard
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Cheltenham
Geoffrey Arthur Prime
Hereford
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William Whitelaw
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Trestrail
Labor
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Whitelaw
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Sun
the Yard
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Michael Fagan
Victor Lashbrook
Michael Greene
Fagan
Merit-pay controversy in federal wage controls debate
Ottawa officials dispute merit pay allowing up to 15 percent annual increases for 7,500 senior public servants as Conservatives label it inequitable. Treasury Board President Donald Johnston says controls apply to basic wages, not merit boosts, while critics warn of up to 21 percent gains next year.
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Donald Johnston
Flora MacDonald
David Crombie
Walter Baker
MacDonald
Commons Committee On Miscellaneous
Johnston
Kingston and
the Islands
Hal Herbert
Air Canada
Post Office
Herbert
City family services weighs becoming private agency
Medicine Hat family services considers severing city ties to form a private agency to access more funding. Advisory board chair Rev. Richard Worden says expanding to Redcliff and nearby areas could boost provincial funding, while Ald. Pete Simpson cites reduced city interference as a motive. The agency runs from Prospect Drive offering grief counselling and pre marriage education and plans to incorporate by January 1 1983 with continued municipal support of 20 percent.
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Community Services Department
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Family Services Advisory Board
Worden
Family Services
Redcliff
Community Services Committee
Ald
Pete Simpson
Community Resources
Prospect Drive
S.W
Council
Pentagon weighs cancelling F-18A bomber option
A confidential issue paper reveals four cost cutting schemes for US Navy tactical aviation. The potential removal of 686 F-18A bombers in favor of 127 larger A-6 attack planes is among the options discussed. Canada may face economic impacts if the plan shifts and the final decision rests with Congress.
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Ottawa
Canada
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Navy
James B. Watkins
Congress
U.S. Defence Department
Richard DeLauer
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Jeremy Cato
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John Gamble
York North
Allan Coyle
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