Vogel named head of Wheat Board
Gerry Vogel was named chief commissioner of the Canadian Wheat Board. He flew from Montreal to Moscow soon after approval and plans to visit Asia and meet Export Kleb officials. The move follows a four month wait after W C McNamara’s retirement and aims to position Canada for potential wheat exports if Russia’s 1971 harvest falters.
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Southam News Services
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Canadian Wheat Board
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Montreal
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Larry Kristianson
Russia
Otto Lang
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W. C. McNamara
Senate
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MLA Pushes Private Enterprise Revival in Alberta Legislature
Edmonton MLA Lou Hyndman proposed reverting provincial departments agencies and Crown corporations to private enterprise to boost the economy and create jobs. He urged immediate use of private sector bids via Request For Proposals and the formation of three man committees in lands and forests highways and transport public works and treasury to study returning activities to private hands.
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Edmonton West
Alberta
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Venezuelan kidnappers arrested in case freeing boy
Police said they recovered the $900000 ransom after arresting the men behind the seizure of 13 year old Leon Taurel. The kidnapped banker Enrique Dao remained missing two days after his captors received $150000.
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Trudeau Weds Margaret Sinclair in Vancouver Ceremony
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau married Margaret Sinclair in a quiet St Stephen’s Church ceremony North Vancouver attended only by family. The couple will honeymoon in Garibaldi Park area before setting up residence at the Ottawa official home.
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Canada
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Tahiti
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Trudeau
Transport. Department
Charles Trudeau
Rosalind Sinclair
Capilano Golf and Country Club
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Sinelar
RCMP
Whisler Mountain
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Rosalind
Dand
Heather
Tom Walker
Doreen Robson
Sinclair
Gunbattle at Turkish university as search for missing airmen continues
In Ankara a gunfight erupted when troops tried to enter Middle East Technical University dormitory to locate four kidnapped U.S. airmen. One student was killed and dozen injured as students fired from dorm windows and rooftops. A commando unit then opened fire. Authorities said the situation was controlled but the captives remained missing. Security forces searched thousands of locations as ransom demands for $400,000 stretched into Saturday.
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U.S
Middle East Technical University
U.S. Air Force
Ertekin
People’s Liberation Army
America
United States
William Handley
Nixon
Big Four race to extend Mideast ceasefire via communique
At the UN four delegates Britain United States France and the Soviet Union pressed to publish a communique to revive Arab-Israeli talks and prolong the ceasefire due to expire Sunday. They face disagreement over wording on ceasefire continuation and Israeli withdrawal and Egypt signals cautious support pending phrasing. In Cairo Sadat prepares actions as Egypt coordinates with defence and union leaders.
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Soviet Union
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Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Nixon cites Lao tian operation to justify troop withdrawals
President Nixon says the Lao tian operation ensures continued U S troop withdrawals from Indochina and clarifies there are no plans for U S combat support in an invasion of North Vietnam. In Brazil four killed and about 1500 injured in a stadium riot during a soccer match in Salvador. Paul Rose trial in Montreal postponed due to heavy snow storm blocking city transit.
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Nixon
U.S
Indochina
North Vietnam
Salvador
Brazil
Montreal
Paul Rose
Pierre Laporte
Ombudsman seeks invitation to speak on report
Alberta Ombudsman George B. McClellan will not appear in the Legislature to discuss a special report unless formally invited. The report, about TR Philipzyk's complaint over a wrongful real estate federation membership dismissal, was reviewed by an inquiry led by former Alberta Chief Justice Colin Cameron McLaurin which found no basis for the ombudsman’s decision.
Study lowers boom on SST in Canada
Canada will not allow supersonic airliner routes over its lands. A federal study finds Concorde over pressures cause louder booms than acceptable and notes no safe 100 mile corridor was found. Transport Minister Jamieson says health and property risks bar such flights.
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Southam
Ottawa
Canada
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