Toll climbs as Israeli raids pound Beirut city
Reports from West Beirut describe a seventh day of intensive air, sea, and ground bombardment by Israeli forces targeting the PLO enclave. Casualty tallies range from about 203 to 247 dead with hundreds wounded as Habib works to secure a pledge from the PLO to leave Lebanon.
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Associated Press
West Beirut
PLO
Jerusalem
Menachem Begin
U.S
Philip Habib
Palestine Liberation Organization
Beirut
Israel
Begin
Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
Egypt
Habib
Saudi Arabia
USS
West
Voice of Lebanon
East
Abdel Bakr
Theodore Arcand
Poll shows Clark beats Macdonald in hypothetical race
Gallup poll of 1,000 Canadians in June has Joe Clark defeating Donald Macdonald if an election were held today. Macdonald fares worse against Peter Lougheed and Bill Davis, and faces a three-way race with Brian Mulroney and Ed Broadbent where Broadbent leads with 25 percent. Current standings show Conservatives at 32 percent, Liberals at 24, and NDP at 17.
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Ottawa
Joe Clark
Trudeau
Gallup
Clark
Donald Macdonald
John Turner
Macdonald
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
Ontario
Bill Davis
Montreal
Brian Mulroney
Tories
Ed Broadbent
NDP
Liberals
Lougheed
Davis
Mulroney
Liberal
Conservative
Macdonald, Lougheed
Broadbent
Conservatives
ECS transfer near completion to school board
Medicine Hat moves to shift early childhood services from city to Medicine Hat Public School Board by Sept 1 1983 pending alderman Pete Simpsons August resolution. Negotiations aim for full turnover with safeguards to keep parent involvement and a smooth transition. Simpson to present Aug 9.
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Medicine Hat
Pete Simpson
Simpson
Community Services Committee
Council
Karen Green
ECS Coordinating Council
ECS
Green
Community services committee grants conditional blessings
The community services committee approves partial autonomy for the family services division, signaling a move toward independence from the city bureaucracy.
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Community Services Committee
Family Services
Wage plan gets go ahead across federal and provincial lines
A parliamentary committee backed the federal wage restraint plan granting limited collective bargaining on non monetary issues to 500000 public servants. The bill extends controls to 30000 to 35000 rail workers and faces final Commons debate as unions decry it as a farce while BC and NB governments push wage limits amid a tense bargaining climate.
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Ottawa
Cm New Democrats
Public Service
CP Rail
Ontario Northland
Treasury Board
British Columbia
New Brunswick
B.C
Bill Bennett
Richard Hatfield
Hatfield
Bennett
B.C. Government Employees’ Union
Open inquiry urged over Archambault prison riot deaths
Opposition MPs demand an open inquiry into the Archambault Penitentiary riot near Montreal that killed three guards and two inmates. Benno Friesen and Svend Robinson pressed for public examination of how inmates obtained weapons and access to poison, while the government pursues a two week report from the federal inspector of prisons.
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House of Commons
Archambault Penitentiary
Montreal
Benno Friesen
Correctional Services
Friesen
Robert Kaplan
Federal Inspector of Prisons
Archambault
Collins Bay
Kingston
Ont
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Riverside Waterslide
Hargrave
Robin Schiaht
Poll
Macdonald, Clark and Broadbent
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Calgary
Accams
Andrew Horvat
Ann Landers
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