RCMP Clear Picket Line At Alcan Plant In Kitimat
Heavily armed RCMP removed 32 CASAW pickets guarding Alcan Smelters near Kitimat with about 200 officers. Pickets were bused to Terrace and charged with obstruction. The strike began June 2 over wage grievances tied to anti inflation board settlements.
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Kitimat
B.C
RCMP
Alcan Smelters and Chemicals Ltd
Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers
CASAW
Terrace
Alcan
FSSA
Arvida
Que
Mill
Québec
Peter Burton
Local 1
B.C. Labor Relations Board
Labor Relations Board
Federal provincial talks open in Ottawa over social programs
Ten provincial premiers meet Prime Minister Trudeau to argue financing for hospital insurance medical care and post secondary education. Ottawa proposes reduced 50 percent cost sharing in favor of tax transfers to shift responsibility to provinces. Regan warns tax shifts could favor rich Ontario and harm poorer Nova Scotia.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Gerald Regan
Nova Scotia
Saskatchewan
Allan Blakeney
Ottwa
Regan
Ontario
Kenyan purges reported after Amin assassination attempt
Reports from travellers in Uganda say Ugandan authorities arrested or executed about 2000 people in retaliation for an assassination attempt on President Idi Amin. Radio Uganda described a grenade attack at a police graduation ceremony, with several killed and others wounded, while officials blamed Zionists and imperialists for the plot.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Idi Amin
Uganda
Amin
Radio
Kampala
Radio Uganda
Syrian forces breach ceasefire in Lebanon strikes Sidon and Moslem hill towns
BEIRUT AP Syrian forces resumed fighting in Lebanon with a sweep into southern Lebanon and artillery against Sidon and Moslem hill towns near Beirut. Lebanese leftists led by Kamal Jumbhatt accuse Syria of a famine siege to subdue Christian and Moslem areas as food ships are intercepted and fuel and flour grow scarce.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Sidon
Kamal Jumbhatt
Tyre
Tripoli
Saiqa
Hafez Assad
Syria
Arkoub
Israel
Yasser Arafat
al Fatah
Joint Command
International Arab Force
The
Arab League
Mahmoud Riad
Damascus
Suleiman Franjieh
Franjieh
Arafat
Kamal Jumblatt
Clark and Maureen anticipating first child in November
Opposition Leader Joe Clark and wife Maureen McTeer announced they are expecting their first child in early November. Clark, 37, and McTeer, 24, wed June 30, 1973, as Clark rose to party leadership.
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Ottawa
Joe Clark
Maureen McTeer
Clark
Mr. Clark
Ms. McTeer
Progressive Conservative Party
University of Ottawa
World Ends At 9 P M Metaphysical Gathering Falls Flat
In Vancouver CP report Winnifred Barton predicted the end of the old world at 9 PM EDT Sunday but she did not appear at an $18 per person theatre meeting. About 15 attendees mostly followers remained with Paula Biguard affirming the prophecy and extraterrestrials may already be among us. The Institute of Applied Metaphysics failed to draw enough interest to cover theatre costs.
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R. J. Clifford
Alcan
Eurocan
Clifford
Federation Syndicate Sector Aluminum of Quebec
FSSA
Vancouver
Winnifred Barton
Paula Biguard
Olympic park handed to Montreal organizing committee
Montreal officials and Quebec leaders praised the handover of Olympic facilities to the organizing committee as 33 days remain until the July 17 to August 1 Games. Supervisor Roger Rousseau and Michel Guay oversaw teams moving into venues in Montreal, Bromont, and Kingston as security plans involving 16 000 personnel began to take shape.
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Montreal
Olympic Park
Victor Goldbloom
Quebec
Olympic Installations Board
Olympic Organizing Committee
Robert Bourassa
Rousseau Committee
Bromont
Que
Kingston
Ont
Lake Ontario
Bourassa
Goldbloom
Drapeau
Roger Taillibert
Paris
Habitat conference sparks federal role in housing costs
Vancouver reports say Habitat texts push federal involvement in land policy to reduce urban housing costs. Canada may pressure provinces to recapture land profits and curb land speculation while balancing municipal autonomy and CMHC financing.
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Vancouver
Central Mortgage and Housing Corp
CMHC
Federal Urban Affairs Ministry
Barney Dawson
Justice
Ron Basford
Canada
Keith Morley
Richard Costain (Canada) Ltd
Habitat Forum
Capitol staff sex scandal escalates with new allegations
Colleen Gardner claims staffers faced coercion into sexual acts with congressmen. The report says several lawmakers including John Young, Mike Gravel, Wayne Hays, and Kenneth Gray deny wrongdoing. Elizabeth Ray allegedly kept diaries and may take a lie detector test as FBI eyes diary and tape materials.
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Washington
Colleen Gardner
Capitol
John Young
Dem. Tex
Young
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Wayne Hays
Ohio
Kenneth Gray
Illinois
Elizabeth Ray
Hays
Miss Ray
FBI
Britain
Potomac River
Gravel
Gray
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Labor Board
Douglas Channel
Burton
New Democratic Party
Civic Centre
Garde Gardom
Gordon Dalton
Kamloops Rcmp
Dalton
Savini Sidbaa
Little Jo
Olympic Committee
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