Joyous crowds greet returning prisoners in Middle East exchange
The first wounded POWs from the October war began to return as Israel and Syria started the prisoner exchange. Red Cross planes carried 38 repatriated prisoners to Tel Aviv and Damascus, with Israelis and Syrians greeted by crowds and officials including Prime Minister Golda Meir and General Moshe Dayan.
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Syria
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Golda Meir
Moshe Dayan
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United States
Henry Kissinger
Golan Heights
Francois Payot
Canadian government seeks release of Canadian pilots in Ethiopia
External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp said Canada works through the Ethiopian government to free two Calgary men, Don Wederfort 27 and Grant Wyatt 30, after their helicopters were seized by Eritrean guerrillas during oil survey work for Tenneco. Wederfort’s wife stays in Addis Ababa awaiting news as a hospital attack occurs nearby.
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Mitchell Sharp
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Eritrean Liberation Front
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Don Wederfort
Grant Wyatt
Wederfort
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Wyatt
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Iopian Telecommunications
Addis Ababa
Rose Wederfort
External Affairs Department
Pridie
Mr. Wyatt
Eritrea
Tenneco Oil Co
Houston
Tex
Ghinda
Anna Stickwerda
Deborah Dortzbach
Freehold
N.J
Canada to deploy peacekeepers on ceasefire line
External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp said Canadian troops will be stationed along the Israeli Syrian ceasefire line but no new troops will be sent to the Middle East. The mission will draw from the 1000 man UN force on the Israeli Egyptian line, with Canada providing engineering, communications and transport services for the Golan Heights contingent.
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Mideast
Canada
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United Nations
Suez
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Televised leaders debate talks collapse before election
CBC says negotiations for a face to face leaders debate before the July 8 federal election have broken down with four major parties unable to agree. Caouette, released from hospital, urged a debate while Trudeau Stanfield and Lewis campaigned across Canada.
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Gordon Cullingham
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Rouyn
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Social Credit
Real Caouette
Canada
Trudeau
Robert Stanfield
NDP
T.C. Douglas
Caouette
Quebec
Stanfield
British Columbia
David Lewis
Ontario
Sydney
N.S
St. Foy
Quebec City
Montreal
Margaret
Teens surrender after seven hour bank siege in Rancho Cordova
Two teen gunmen Michael Madigan and Brian Young entered a Crocker Bank in a Sacramento area shopping center and held 25 pennies and 17 hostages for about seven hours. They released eight after Cpl Ruh persuaded surrender. a third youth was questioned as possible planner. One hundred law officers surrounded the scene as the robbers demanded a million dollars in ransom.
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Calif
Sacramento Area
Bill Miller
Sacramento County Sheriff's Office
Michael Madigan
Brian Young
Miller
Crocker Bank
California Highway Patrol
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Highway Patrol
FBI
Robert Ruh
Nixon invites Waldheim to review disengagement amid peace hurdles
President Nixon invites UN Secretary General Waldheim to the White House for a review of the Israeli Syrian troop disengagement pact as Kissinger reports three remaining obstacles to a lasting Middle East peace. Tower cites frontiers Palestinian refugees and Jerusalem. Nixon eyes a Middle East trip and Moscow visit amid impeachment talks.
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Henry Kissinger
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Jerusalem
John Tower
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Israel
Syria
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Frank Church
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Idaho
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Leonid Brezhnev
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