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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1971
Page
1
India faces a rising cholera threat as Calcutta reports 12 new cases and 23 deaths among refugees, with 100 East Pakistani refugees infected in camps near the city. A new refugee camp near Dum Dum airport is planned to house up to 20,000.
The Commons will vote on NDP amendments to drastically alter the Canada Development Corp plan. Critics say the bill favors a wealthier minority while harming small business and western farmers. A separate motion calls for $100 million immediate aid to western farmers. The CDC would receive 250 million in federal investment and later sell shares to Canadians, with initial holdings in Panarctic Oils, Polymer Corp, Eldorado Nuclear, and Northern Transportation.
Soviet cosmonauts enter the Salute space station on their second orbit day after docking Soyuz 11 to the 18 ton lab seven weeks after launch. Feoktistov described Salute as 65.6 feet long with a 12 foot diameter end and a 388 cubic foot interior, detailing a cone docking unit, cylindrical sections, and sealed compartments for medical and scientific work.
Moscow reported the Soviet government proposed a pact governing moon exploration and use and submitted the draft to the United Nations. Foreign Minister Gromyko asked U Thant to add the proposal to the fall General Assembly agenda, with bans on force, bases, weapons tests, and hostile actions on the moon.
New York City faced a new crisis as 1,500 sewage treatment workers and 300 incinerator staff walked off the job in an expanded municipal strike protesting pension plans. Eleven of thirteen sewage plants were closed by nine this morning, risking raw sewage flowing into rivers. Bridges reopened were across the Harlem River as traffic improved with mass transit urged. Mayor Lindsay toured by helicopter and police guarded key water-system sites amid threats of National Guard action.
MPs clashed as an amendment narrowed repayments to per bushel on delivery, replacing a broad plan to reclaim from any grain. Stanley Korchinsky helped insert the change, with Otto Lang noting it would cripple cash advances. Opposition MPs warned repayments could be forced from flax and rapeseed too.
Britain and the Soviet Union will hold high level talks this week on troop reductions, British officials said. United States B 52 bombers struck in force in Vietnam in a bid to ease a reported threat on the northern front, while Mount Etna erupted sending lava down slopes and destroying cottages and vineyards.
In Ottawa, Conservative and NDP MPs blasted a proposed grain stabilization plan for Prairie farmers. Alf Gleave said farmers would pay two percent of gross income without clear access figures. Jack Horner called it a pig in the poke as the Commons agriculture committee met 50 minutes late and adjourned early due to no quorum.
Vancouver CP reports ImpoExpo '71 trimmed Taiwan display after diplomatic pressure from Beijing on Canada. Fair president J Norman Hyland said Ottawa pressed under Canada’s Oct 18 recognition of China. Taiwan official Humphrey Shao said contract stood, but feared no Taiwan exhibit at future fair.
Ottawa reports that next week's constitutional conference may turn on Section 94A of the British North America Act. Quebec seeks expansion to cover all social welfare, allowing joint federal provincial powers with provincial primacy. A draft amendment has been sent to provinces for consideration.
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