Queen Elizabeth II Watches Jubilee Pageantry at Windsor Castle
Queen Elizabeth II visited Windsor Castle amid the golden jubilee celebrations marking 25 years on the throne. A sea of banners stretched nearly eight acres as about 2,700 people from Berlin, Gibraltar, and the United States displayed flags while a military band played. Dennis Canavan criticized jubilee costs as wasteful and a distraction from economic problems.
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Windsor
England
Elizabeth
London
Royal British Legion
Berlin
Gibraltar
United States
Labor Party
Dennis Canavan
Lang suit possibility denied by preliminary statements
A. Saskatoon CP Tony Merchant brother in law of Otto Lang said there is no question Lang will sue the Canadian Magazine over a June 4 article The Unhappy Landing of Otto Lang Merchant a lawyer and Liberal legislator said legal action would be filed within a month to six weeks but he was unsure if newspapers distributing the magazine would also face suit Lang claims the article injures his reputation
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Saskatoon
Tony Merchant
Otto Lang
Lang
Merchant
Saskatchewan
Bombs Rock Spain Damaging Basque Infrastructure
Three bombs damaged railway tracks on a bridge near Vitoria and a television transmitter near Bilbao. A passerby died when a bomb struck a policeman’s car in Baracaldo as authorities hunted for responsibility ahead of the Wednesday general election.
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Madrid
Reuter
Spain
Vitoria
Bilbao
Baracaldo
Commonwealth leaders craft plan to avert Edmonton Games boycott
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau says a weekend breakthrough in Scotland provides a draft agreement opposing racism in sport to defuse African threats to boycott the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. Nigeria and Tanzania influence the draft as 33 leaders wrap eight day summit at Gleneagles.
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Gleneagles
Scotland
Edmonton
Pierre Trudeau
Trudeau
London
Britain
Perthshire
New Zealand
South Africa
Nigeria
Tanzania
OAU
Canada
Shooting at Johannesburg department store kills two whites
Three black youths armed with pistols opened fire on four whites in a Soweto garage area injuring two severely. Police arrested at least one suspect and seized three pistols and two grenades as security forces secured the scene amid looming anniversary riots.
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Johannesburg
Soweto
Lewis to resign as Ontario NDP leader
Stephen Lewis announced he will resign as leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party after a replacement is found. He will keep his Scarborough West legislature seat. The NDP finished third with 33 seats in a 125 seat Ontario legislature.
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NDP
David Lewis
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Tories
Liberals
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Uganda leader warns lawbreakers will be shot
Uganda's Vice-President Mustafa Adrisi told British nationals in Kampala that anyone breaking the law would be shot if found guilty. The warning came after the arrest of British-born businessman Robert Scanlon on spying charges, broadcast by Radio Uganda.
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Nairobi
Reuter
Uganda
Mustafa Adrisi
Adrisi
Kampala
Robert Scanlon
Radio Uganda
Scanlon
Uganda Plans Trial for Executed Businessman Shown in News
The report notes a Friday and Saturday sequence claiming a businessman would face trial this week and be executed by firing squad if guilty. Uganda officials in Kampala had no further word on Scanlon, a motor company executive, while in Britain his family urged the foreign office to aid his release.
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Uganda
Kampala
Scanlon
Motor Company
Britain
Foreign Office
Food firms to notify 30 days on price hikes
The federal anti inflation board extends pre notification to 44 leading food processors for major price increases. It aims to curb inflation with early warning and more data on food price trends while reporting 3.6 billion in annual sales under closer monitoring and a 4.1 percent rise in early 1977 prices.
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Toronto
Federal
Harold Renouf
Renouf
Goyer and Fox Targeted in Libel Suit Over Subversive List
Ottawa reports that Jean-Pierre Goyer and Francis Fox are named in a libel and negligence action by Ian Keith Carruthers, a CMHC employee, for being listed as a potential extra parliamentary opposition member. The writ cites a June 15, 1971 letter and widespread newspaper publication. The case follows prior suits linked to Goyers remarks on the Aurora aircraft deal and Stopforth’s allegations of negligence.
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Jean-Pierre Goyer
Francis Fox
Ontario Supreme Court
Ian Keith Carruthers
Central Mortgage and Housing Corp
CMHC
Goyer
Carruthers
Canada
EPO
Frank Oberle
Prince George-Peace River
Walter Rudnicki
Corporation
Britain Recognizes Seychelles Regime After Coup
Britain formally recognized the Seychelles new regime led by Albert Rene eight days after the coup. A foreign office spokesman said Britain would conduct normal relations and discuss diplomatic representation with Rene in Port Victoria. Mancham had left for London to attend a Commonwealth conference and criticized the coup as Soviet inspired.
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London
Reuter
Britain
Seychelles
Foreign Office
Albert Rene
Indian Ocean Republic
Rene
Canada a Mecca for organized crime? CBC documentary claims
A CBC two part program features interviews and undercover footage arguing that Canadian cities Vancouver Montreal and Toronto host sophisticated organized crime families. It highlights Montreal as a key hub with links to U S crime figures and notes involvement in unions and rackets. The second part airs tonight.
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Joan Walters
Toronto
U.S
CBC
Canada
Vancouver
Montreal
Michael Antonelli
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Hamilton
Ontario
Italy
Carmine Galente
Pierre Laporte
Quebec
Front de Liberation du Quebec
Rene Gagnon
Laporte
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