Nightclub raid at Alberta couple’s Vancouver home shocks neighbors
Vancouver police raided a furnished Vancouver home rented by an Alberta couple, turning it into an after hours club. Officers seized marijuana and liquor but made no arrests. Owner estimates $5,000 in damage, mostly from police, and says recovery is unlikely. Legal chief says owner bears risk of tenant damage. police justified.
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Vancouver
Jan Kobylka
Kobylka
Alberta
Mike Beattie
Beattie
Astairs
Charles Fleming
Rhodesian vote rebuff follows guerrilla massacre report
Rhodesian forces say 106 nationalist guerrillas were killed after insurgents massacred 39 black civilians. The Salisbury vote showed the Rhodesian Front under pressure as whites reject majority rule plans. the Patriotic Front opposes the 1 vote 1 nation accord.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Ndabaningi Sithole
Sithole
Zimbabwe African National Union
Wedza
Here
Associated Press
Highlands North
Smith
Rhodesian Front
Patriotic Front
Sadat to unveil major political changes in Egypt
Cairo Reuters reports President Anwar Sadat will announce a U S style presidential system without a prime minister in a speech marking the 26th anniversary of the revolution. The plan follows a crackdown on opponents including Unionist Progressive party members and dissolved Wafd party members.
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Cairo
Reuter
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
U.S
Sadat
Unionist Progressive Party
Wafd Party
Hostage crisis at Archambault prison in Quebec begins talks
Negotiations resumed at maximum security Archambault Institute as convicts Serge Roberge and Maurice Paquette hold four hostages including the school director and three teachers. Officials report the hostages are in good health while two prisoners had released two staff earlier.
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Ste. Anne-Des-Plaines
Que
Archambault — Institute
Serge Roberge
Maurice Paquette
Laval Marchand
Marchand
Michael
Montreal
Archambault
Jean-Jacques Blais
Roberge
Paquette
Laval
Claude Lebel
Louis Lemay
CFCF
Gerry Dixon
Dixon
Settlements Begin in Cranbrook PWA Crash
Pacific Western's insurer reports first out of court settlements after the Cranbrook B C Boeing 707 crash that killed 43. Four to five settlements completed with survivors and victims’ estates. An insurance pool, including Pacific Western, the federal transport ministry, Cranbrook city, Boeing and Rohr Corp, advances payments while liability is resolved.
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Calgary
Pacific Western Airlines
PWA
Cranbrook
B.C
Eric Lane
California
Lane
Rohr Corp
Boeing Aircraft
Rohr
Pacific Western
Federal Transport Ministry
Pereda Sworn Bolivian President After Military Revolt
Gen Juan Pereda Albun takes office after leading a Santa Cruz revolt that ousted Hugo Banzer and triggered a state of siege. Banzer resigns, a three-man junta forms, and Pereda pledges nationalist policies with armed forces backing. Rival Hernan Siles Zuazo in exile suspected of foreign funding. One army officer reported killed. Bolivia has seen over 180 governments in 153 years of independence.
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LA Paz
Reuter
Juan Pereda Albun
Bolivia
Hugo Banzer
Santa Cruz
Pereda
Banzer
Hernan Siles Zuazo
Fire kills man in Empress home blaze
A 22-year-old man, Richard P. MacNicol of Empress, died in a early Friday fire that gutted a two story house 80 kilometres north of Medicine Hat. Fire chief George Wingenbach notes controversy over how many people were in the home as investigators from the fire commissioner's office prepare to examine the cause.
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Empress
Medicine Hat
Richard P. MacNicol
George Wingenbach
Wingenbach
Montreal man charged after New York state bus hijack
A 27 year old Montreal man, Claude Sasseville, was charged with kidnapping sequestration and theft of a city bus after hijacking the bus to New York state. The driver Rosario Poirier Jr. was forced at knifepoint to cross the border, with four passengers leaving at a stop before the U S border crossing at Champlain, New York.
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Montreal
New York State
Claude Sasseville
U.S
Plattsburgh
N.Y
Rosario Poirier Jr
Poirier
Champlain
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