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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 01, 1977
Page
1
Ottawa says a government bill to boost Canadian exports received final approval in the Commons. The measure empowers the Crown owned Export Development Corp EDC to act more broadly in promoting Canadian trade and financing?
RCMP officer Bertrand Giroux testified that in 1974 justice minister John Baxter and deputy declined to investigate kickback allegations touching the PC party. The probe cited $67 631 involved. Giroux said he ended the inquiry regardless of ministerial input. Baxter urged a broader top‑priority audit of tourism irregularities. The Commons approved bills increasing federal judges and shifting Air Canada oversight, while EDC funding and Poland pulp aid drew debate.
Guatemala City AP report says Eduardo Casanova Sandoval, 58, freed by leftist kidnappers with a bullet wound to the foot, was hooded and questioned, given two cups of coffee, and left in a canyon before a passing motorist delivered him home. He declined further details.
Sources say Washington and Havana reached a tentative plan to exchange diplomats, signaling a major step by the Carter administration toward restoring formal ties since 1961. Negotiators in New York worked out most details with an official announcement expected soon.
The Canadian Wheat Board announced a sale of three million metric tons of wheat to China, about 110 million bushels, in addition to 1.5 million tons sold last January. Value about 330 and shipments to begin August from Pacific ports through July 1978, negotiated in Peking. Otto Lang stated the deal secures Canada as China's main wheat supplier.
Progressive Conservative MP Claude Wagner accused a small Quebec faction of waging a vendetta against him, stating the dispute arose within the party on Tuesday in Ottawa.
Ottawa will form an interdepartmental panel to study the rights of French speaking minorities outside Quebec. The aim is to finish by September and decide actions to protect French language services beyond Quebec. Federation des Francophones Hors Quebec represents over one million French Canadians.
South Moluccan terrorists holding about 55 hostages on a train near Assen asked for an ambulance briefly though later rescinded the request. A school hostage situation also persists as cabinet negotiates mediator options for the deadlocked crisis tied to independence demands for the Moluccan islands.
The town of Redcliff will get a new intake system and pumphouse after Cunningham and Shannon Ltd. of Taber won a $370 855 contract from federal and provincial officials. The project, funded by a federal loan and grant, aims for a 2200 gallon per minute capacity and completion by late fall with PFRA engineering support.
A Palestinian spokesman asserts about 1,000 Israeli troops crossed the Lebanon border Tuesday night and stormed Kfar Chouba houses for weapons. Another unit entered Hilta, seized a resident, and withdrew. Reinforcements of Palestinian commandos reportedly moved into southern Lebanon afterward.
Rhodesian forces report about 700 troops crossed into Mozambique by helicopter to attack guerrilla bases and seize Mapai. UN Secretary General Waldheim condemned the raid while Britain sought negotiations. Officials say few clashes occurred with rebels fleeing. Mozambique claims three bases attacked.
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