Fortin Social Credit Leader Dies In River Crash
Andre Fortin, 33, leader of the Federal Social Credit party and MP for Lotbiniere, died when his car plunged into the Des Saults River near Drummondville Quebec. He was alone and pronounced dead at St. Croix Hospital. A coroner’s inquest will follow.
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Drummondville
Que
Federal
Social Credit Party
Andre Fortin
Fortin
Lotbiniere
St. Croix
Montreal
Pierre Lemarbre
Des Saults
Here
Quebec City
Quebec
Social Credit
Rene Matte
Champlain
Matte
Canada
House Cuts Aid Bill Votes To Restrict Cuba Trade
The House passed a trimmed foreign aid bill 208 to 174 after shaving 373 million from the 7 billion request. An amendment by John Ashbrook barred any U S aid to or trade with Cuba. The measure also added Angola and Mozambique to the exclusion list before moving to the Senate.
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Washington
House of Representatives
U.S
Cuba
South Korea
House
U.S. Senate
John Ashbrook
Rep
Ohio
Angola
Mozambique
Vance meets Giscard d estaing in Paris talks
U S secretary of state Cyrus Vance met with President Giscard d Estaing who asked him to convey information to President Carter about Giscard's meeting with Soviet leader Brezhnev. Vance said he would relay the details at breakfast in Washington Saturday morning.
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Paris
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Carter
Leonid Brezhnev
Vance
Washington
Fuel bills rise with price jump
Ottawa warns a new federal price policy will lift average Canadian annual gasoline and heating oil costs by 1979. An energy plan adds 14 cents per gallon for gasoline and 12.4 cents for heating oil in four equal steps, starting July 1, with crude oil rising $1 per barrel on four dates.
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Howie Collins
Ottawa
Alastair Gillespie
Gillespie
Qoil
Energy Department
St Jean Baptiste Festivities Draw Big Montreal Crowd
About 50 000 people left Montreal's Olympic Stadium after the opening night party as St Jean Baptiste events unfold across the city. Prime Minister Trudeau mingled in Matane and faced camera glare while avoiding the spotlight.
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Sacha Trudeau
Matane
Quebec
Parti Quebecois
Montreal
Olympic Stadium
St. Jean Baptiste
Rene Levesque
Plains of Abraham
Quebec City
Felix Leclerc
Trudeau
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Iona Campagnolo
Pierre de Bane
Soweto Protests Turn Violent As Police Fire Tear Gas
Police in Soweto clash with stone throwing students outside a high school as protests over detentions continue. Reports say 11 shot and 176 arrested last day. two children and a teen killed in separate incidents. Authorities uphold roadblocks to keep protesters from Johannesburg.
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Johannesburg
Soweto
Rand Daily Mail
Jan Visser
NDP predicts autumn election
Ottawa. NDP Leader Ed Broadbent says the Liberals are weighing a full federal election, based on a Liberal commissioned poll he received. He warns rushing to an election would be irresponsible and cites two years left in the Trudeau mandate and ongoing economic and scandal concerns.
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Ottawa
NDP
Ed Broadbent
Trudeau
Broadbent
New Democratic Party
Keith ‘Davey
Liberal Party
RCMP
Montreal
Agenq
Ye Broadbent
Alberta to raise crude oil price in four $1 steps
Energy Minister Don Getty announced a four stage $1 every six months oil price increase starting July 1, moving Alberta crude toward international levels. Gas prices at Toronto gate will rise in two steps to $1.68 and $1.85 per million BTU on Aug 1 and Feb 1.
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Alberta
Canada
T.C. Douglas
NDP Energy
Douglas
Edmonton
Energy and Natural Resources
Don Getty
Getty
Toronto
Uncertainty Looms Over Saint John Jail Fire Tragedy
A fire at the Saint John city hall jail killed 20 prisoners, with investigators questioning witnesses as families seek accountability. Funerals are scheduled, the youngest victim was a Simonds High School graduate, and potential lawsuits loom as Crown prosecutors review charges amid ongoing evidence gathering.
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Saint John
N.B
New Brunswick
City Hall
Simonds High School
William Jones
Gary
Willard Mitchell
Edward Henry Mitchell
Jones
William McCarroll
McCarroll
Sam Davis
Soviets accuse West of frivolous talk at Belgrade talks
Soviet delegate Yuri Vorontsov warned that Western attempts to split the Helsinki agreement items risk unpleasant consequences. He urged maintaining the Helsinki text in the agenda as Western nations seek a separation between implementation and new proposals.
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Malcolm W. Browne
N.Y. Times
Belgrade
Yuri M. Vorontsov
Vorontsov
Europe
United States
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