Miners Freed After 68 Feet of Coal Search
Rescue came as hope waned after three Kaiser Resources miners were trapped 68 feet underground in the Balmer South mine in British Columbia. Donald Evans, John Krall, and Frank Kutcher survived 15 hours of siege, saying they built beds from sack cloth and endured rising waters before being found and evacuated to hospital.
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Irv Morgan
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Kaiser Resources Ltd
British Columbia
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M. F. Clemmer
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Kutcher
Kootenay
Krall
Michel-Natal Hospital
Trudeau flexes political muscle over Montreal parade snub
Ottawa disputes push by Quebec nationalists to gain world fame while excluding Prime Minister Trudeau from St Jean Baptiste Day events. Drapeau faced anger over the snub as Carriere blamed a mix up and Trudeau refused invites to Liberal MPs, signaling a tough federal stance amid rising Quebec tensions.
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Jean Drapeau
Marc Carriere
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Carriere
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Canada to cut armed forces to about eighty-five thousand
Defence Minister Leo Cadieux is expected to present a progress report on the defence review to the Commons this week. The plan reportedly targets a reduction from about 98 000 personnel to 80 000 to 85 000 over three years, with defence spending held near 1.8 billion and NATO contributions cut and reorganized.
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Bertrand elected Union Nationale leader in Quebec
Premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand won the Union Nationale leadership by 389 votes over Education Minister Jean-Guy Cardinal at a tumultuous convention marked by demonstrations and reports of election rigging. Bertrand polled 1,327 to 938 with 22 for Andre Leveille, as clashes erupted among 3,000 protesters and police.
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Quebec
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Jean-Guy Cardinal
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Cardinal
Andre Lev
Eille
Montreal
Quebec Civil Service Union
Coliseum
Jean-Noel Tremblay
Andre Leveille
Bertrand United Despite Leadership Fight In Quebec Union Nationale
Premier Bertrand won the Union Nationale leadership with 1327 votes while rival Jean-Guy Cardinal and Andre Leveille trailed. Bertrand urged unity, welcomed Cardinal’s remaining in the party, and signaled fall byelections in Three Rivers and Vaudreuil-Soulanges as the party seeks a strong victory in the next election.
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Yves Gabias
Vaudreuil-Soulanges
Paul Gerin-Lajoie
Cardinal
Leveille
Quebec
Cardinal Au Pouvoir
Charge laid in fatal crash involving Irvine youth
Police charged Lorne Frisch 16 of Irvine with careless driving after a June 13 collision fatally injuring five year old Glennis George. George died June 15 at Foothills Hospital Calgary. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs W C George of 337 13th St SE. The girl rode as a passenger in a vehicle driven by Mrs Titcher at the corner of 7th St SE and 4th Ave SE.
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Irvine
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Foothills Hospital
Calgary
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13Th St. S.E
Sam Drader
Three warnings given destroyer collision at sea
Subic Bay Reuters report says the U S destroyer Frank E Evans was warned three times it was on a collision course before being rammed by the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne. Witnesses say Evans acknowledged only the second warning and not the third, as inquiry continues.
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Egyptian troops repulsed at Suez Canal in cross-border clash
Dozens of Egyptian soldiers crossed the Suez Canal at night but Israeli forces repulsed them, killing at least three, according to an Israeli Army spokesman. The raid coincided with Israeli advances into Jordan near the Sea of Galilee and the rupture of the East Ghor irrigation canal partly funded by American money. The canal battle was described as the biggest in months and served as a warning to the Jordanian Army.
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Judy Garland Dies in London Home at 47
Judy Garland was found dead by her fifth husband Mickey Deans in a London bathroom. Scotland Yard called it a sudden death with no foul play suspected, an autopsy planned, and a London surgeon citing cirrhosis as a possible cause. The star, born Frances Gumm in 1922, rose from child vaudeville to fame in The Wizard of Oz and endured years of personal struggles.
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Andy Hardy
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