Israelis destroy Iraqi reactor near Baghdad in bold strike
Israeli planes attacked the Baghdad area and reportedly destroyed a French-built 70-megawatt nuclear reactor under construction. Iraq denied destruction while the United States and Egypt condemned the action as dangerous and escalatory.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Israel
United States
Egypt
Washington
U.S. State Department
Cairo
Kamal Hassan Ali
Middle East
Dean Fischer
Reagan
Lebanon
Baghdad Area
Rioters torch Kent prison in two hour siege riot
Rioters at Kent maximum security prison smashed windows and set living quarters ablaze in two hours of destruction. Guards corralled convicts in an exercise yard after the uprising began at 6 22 p m. No staff injuries reported.
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Agassiz
B.C
Kent
Vancouver
Matsqui
RCMP
Penitentiary Service
Jack Stewart
Stewart
Gasoline leak hunt continues in Kensington district
Consulting firm M. J. O'Connor and Associates Ltd. of Calgary drills 28 test holes around the Kensington area to locate an underground gasoline pocket beneath Bullivant Crescent and the Trans-Canada Highway. Experts expect to estimate depth and volume and plan cleanup, potentially costing over $100,000.
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Wayne Oke
M.J. O'Connor and Associates Ltd
Calgary
Bullivant Crescent S
Oke
Kensington
TransCanada
Bullivant Crescent
Schonekess
Medicine Hat eyed to host 1983 Junior Curling Champs
The article notes strong chances Medicine Hat will host the 1983 Uniroyal World Junior Curling Championships. Uniroyal policy committee members visited the city last week to survey facilities and field questions about the tournament.
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Medicine Hat
Uniroyal
Fleming warns block funding to provinces may end
Multiculturalism minister Jim Fleming told the Toronto gathering that Ottawa may halt block funding to provinces. He argued the federal contribution is misunderstood and proposed cost sharing or direct student payments to highlight federal versus provincial costs in education and medicare.
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Southam News
Toronto
Multiculturalism
Jim Fleming
Toronto and District Liberal Association
Fleming
Ottawa
Ontario
Poland warns Solidarity as talks approach strike tense
Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski warned the independent labor movement to avert Poland's first strike in almost three months. He said the Communist party has exhausted reasonable compromises and urged patience as the Polish central committee prepares to meet Tuesday amid reports of a Soviet ultimatum. PAP notes the party congress in July will decide on reforms.
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Polish Non Warsaw
Mieczyslaw Rakowski
Independent Labor Movement
Poland
Rakowski
Communist Party
Solidarity
Independent Labor Federation
Bydgoszcz
Soviet Communist Party
Moscow
PAP
Train derailed after cow strike in India kills many
A packed passenger train toppled from a bridge into a rain swollen Bagmati River near Mansi, Bihar, leaving at least 125 dead and hundreds missing. Navy divers recovered 125 bodies as railway officials cited cow collision or gale as causes.
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India
National Railways
S.G. Purohit
Bihar
Jagannath Mishra
Purohit
Bagmati
Mansi
Calcutta
Edmonton Grand National Smoke-In draws thousands at Borden Park
About 5,000 protesters gathered at Borden Park for a marijuana rally organized by the Canadian Association to Liberate Marijuana. Police made two unrelated arrests. speakers urged decriminalization and urged Ottawa to act, with campaigns to plead not guilty to clog courts.
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Canadian Association
Borden Park
Andy Rapoch
National Organization To
Canada
Jean Chretien
Rapoch
Ottawa
Alberta
Civil Service
Trudeau
New Democrats
Ray Wintonyk
Wintonyk
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