Montreal Party Stares Down Leadership Challenge
The party faces a three faction split over Clark’s future with calls for a leadership convention. A Sunday vote installed Peter Blaikie, a Montreal lawyer and former Bill 101 opponent, as next president, signaling support for Clark and a possible sympathetic stance on the leadership review.
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Clark
Nesday
Montreal
Peter Blaikie
Supreme Court of Canada
Parti Quebecois
Blaikie
Canadians turn to U S post offices for faster service
Canadian firms spend millions annually at United States post offices as they avoid Canada Post delays. Northwest Washington postmasters report earning at least 1 million dollars a year from Canadian customers seeking quicker delivery.
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Vancouver
United States
Canada Post
Washington State
Lynden
Wash
Bud Bosman
al Lesko
Buffalo
N.Y
Ontario
Border Town
Blaine
Champlain
Montreal
Canada
Sally Emery
U.S
Goodwin dies at 58 in Winnipeg hospital
G Richard Goodwin 58 died suddenly in a Winnipeg hospital after a brief illness a month before taking the publisher post at The Medicine Hat News. He had visited Medicine Hat for the official opening of The NEWS building on 3257 Dunmore Rd SE and was to become publisher for Southam Inc. He previously edited The Tribune and led The Medicine Hat News 1961–1964. He served in WWII, studied pre med, began journalism in 1947, later becoming editor and ombudsman at The Tribune. He is survived by wife Barbara and two children.
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G. Richard Goodwin
Winnipeg
Medicine Hat News
Goodwin
Medicine Hat
NEWS
Dunmore Rd
S.E
Southam Inc
The
Winnipeg Tribune
the Tribune
University of Manitoba
Dalhousie University
Halifax
N.S
Holland
Ontario
London Free Press
Calgary Herald
Tribune
Moose Jaw
Sask
Barbara
Opposition backs Blakeney stance on Ottawa crisis
Saskatchewan opposition leader Eric Berntson pledged 15 Progressive Conservative MLAs will back Premier Allan Blakeney against Ottawa's constitutional proposals. He criticized the NDP resolution as toothless and planned changes to give it punch.
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Regina
Eric Berntson
Saskatchewan
Ottawa
Berntson
Allan Blakeney
NDP
Bernston
Western Canada
United States
Roy Romanow
Blakeney
Trudeau
Senate
Romanow
Ed Broadbent
Four distant galaxies found by UC Berkeley astronomers
Hyron Spinrad and two co workers using the Lick Observatory spectroscope reported four galaxies 10 billion light years away. Two have numbered designations and two remain unrecorded officially.
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San Francisco
University of California
Hyron Spinrad
Berkeley
Lick Observatory
University of California At Santa Cruz
Earth
Spinrad
Moraga
Fidel Castro allegedly shot down U-2 plane in 1962 crisis
Former aide Carlos Franqui recounts that Fidel Castro took command of a Soviet missile base radar and pressed a button to shoot down Maj. Rudolf Anderson’s U-2 over Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis. The incident occurred amid U.S. fears of invasion and ended with Anderson’s death. Franqui’s forthcoming book Retrato de Familia details the episode.
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New York
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Carlos Franqui
Pinar del Rio
Havana
Rudolf Anderson
U.S. Air Force
United States
Franqui
Revolucion
Sierra Maestra
Czechoslovakia
Rome
Seix Barral
White House
Robin Gary
John F. Kennedy
Soviet Union
Fidel
Postal strike threat fades after tentative Canada deal
Ottawa CP The post office and the Letter Carriers Union of Canada reached a tentative agreement after a 33 hour bargaining session ending the threat of a nationwide postal strike. 21 000 carriers will vote this week. The union declined to reveal details, stating it differs from three conciliation board recommendations.
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Ottawa
Post Office
Letter Carriers Union of Canada
Robert McGarry
McGarry
Conciliation Board
Treasury Board
Reagan Defends Program Facing City Officials’ Reservations
President Reagan speaks to the National League of Cities defending his economic recovery plan. Urban leaders support goals but fear sharp cuts in urban redevelopment aid and broader federal grants. They urge gradual changes and close coordination with Washington. Mayor William Hudnut of Indianapolis reads the statement.
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Washington
Reagan
National League of Cities
Congress
Congressional
National Governors’ Association
League
William Hudnut
Indianapolis
Hudnut
Lougheed Limits Alberta Oil to Force Federal Talks
Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed announced a three month crude production cut totaling about 104000 barrels per day to 60000 bpd as a pressure move over Ottawa energy pricing. The plan faces criticism from NDP and Liberal leaders while supporters praise the response to Ottawa policy.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
Lougheed
NDP
Grant Notley
U.S
Energy Department
Energy Resources Conservation Board
Fred Mandeville
Bow Valley
Social Credit
Rod Sykes
Ottawa
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Nick Taylor
Taylor
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