03 Mar 1975
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 03, 1975
Page
1
Khmer Rouge gunners fired rockets into two crowded Phnom Penh areas killing at least 19 and wounding over 25. The heaviest toll in a two month campaign, with a hotel blast harming reporters from American networks and injuring one.
Washington reports Kissinger signals shift after 14 years of hostility as Ford Administration and Congress explore normal ties with Cuba. Kennedy and Harrington push bills to end trade ban and travel ban while preserving aid and MFN rules. Castro anchors talks with repeal of 1962 law as prerequisite.
The Commons will set terms for a special committee to study the government green paper on immigration. Immigration critic Jake Epp backs sending the paper to committee but warns time limits may constrain policy review. The panel is to report by July 31 and will face sensitive topics including the racial issue. Additionally, Senate consideration starts on the large income tax bill, with refunds pending royal assent.
Five people were killed and a sixth wounded when a man on a motel balcony opened fire with a high powered rifle. Robert Paul Sander, 23, of Cincinnati, was arrested near Grants Pass, Oregon, and charged initially with four counts of murder. He denied involvement.
A West German jet carried five freed anarchists from Frankfurt with Pastor Heinrich Albertz aboard. The fate of kidnapped Peter Lorenz remained unclear as Libyan and Syrian refusals and Ethiopian pursuit shaped the unfolding crisis.
The PSAC strike against the federal government extends into a 16th day causing Halifax International Airport to cancel arrivals and departures. Snowfall disrupted air and postal service across Canada while unions press for a 37 percent wage rise over two years.
Labor Minister John Munro spent a restful weekend at the National Defence Medical Centre while considering his future after meeting Prime Minister Trudeau about resigning. The Hamilton harbor dredging scandal linked his name, with five people charged including a former harbor commissioner.
Fourteen year old Heidi Biggs who faced cancer died after a Honolulu return trip she fulfilled as her secret wish. Her mother Lucille Biggs said Heidi asked to say goodbye to siblings before dying. Donations funded the Hawaii trip, extending stay as her health declined.
Former prime minister John Diefenbaker remains in Ottawa Civic Hospital recovering from an infection that began more than a week ago. A spokesman said he will be in hospital for some time as he feels weak, after entering with a fever on February 22 and seeing his temperature normalise four days later.
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