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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 03, 1978
Page
1
U S Navy personnel confronted a Soviet agent guarding a room full of surveillance gear in the embassy basement. Investigators traced bugging devices from a shaft to a tunnel into an adjacent apartment building. The tunnel was bricked up as Washington lodged a protest and officials assess Soviet penetration.
A Palestinian bomb on a city bus in Jerusalem killed U S medical student Richard Fishman and four Israelis as the city marked the 11th anniversary of Israel's capture of Jerusalem. Twenty three people were wounded as the 81mm mortar shell detonated during rush hour near Yad Vashem.
President Carter defended his SALT strategy after The Washington Post reported a freeze on negotiations with the Soviet Union. He called the report totally inaccurate and said talks would proceed aggressively. State Department and White House officials disputed a formal freeze, noting continued discussions and upcoming meetings between Cyrus Vance and Andrei Gromyko.
Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee from Burma to Bangladesh along Teknaf Road reporting beatings rape and killings. More than 165000 have crossed into Bangladesh in five weeks with 2000 to 3000 arriving daily. Officials fear up to a million may eventually flee as 300 refugees have died.
Henry Kanes head of the Grain Workers Union says Canada risks losing foreign grain markets if shipments to waiting ships aren’t ensured. Vancouver lists 20 ships and Thunder Bay 10 awaiting grain while Dennis McDermott of the Canadian Labor Congress cites rail delays and escalating demurrage fees up to 17 million dollars.
Lometerm LNG Ltd, a Tenneco Inc. unit in Houston, asks the National Energy Board to postpone construction of the Saint John New Brunswick liquefied natural gas plant by two years. The board will review the alteration at a regular meeting as the U S regulatory approval remains unresolved. The $5 billion project would liquefy Algerian gas for tanker shipment and reconvert it for U S pipeline use, with a $704 million NB plant and pipeline segment.
United Nations disarmament session heard Dorothy Baker warn of civilization crisis and possible nuclear war by 1982 while Norman Alcock, Canadian peace researcher, suggested a non inevitable path to peace through a modeled 10 percent annual military budget reduction to century’s end.
Ottawa says Canadian waters shut to American fish boats with Sunday noon deadline to pull nets. Washington orders U S boats out of Canadian zones as talks resume June 19 to resolve fisheries and maritime boundary disputes. Officials pledge no fish war while contingency sharing and reopening Swiftsure Banks are planned.
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