Price-wage board to be established in Canada
Ottawa reports government plans to form a prices and wages review board to craft an incomes policy during the financial crisis. Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp outlined consultations with unions and management, aiming for price stability and higher employment without hard caps. The board could review wages, professional fees, and rents in areas of general economic importance.
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Ottawa
Prices and Wages Board of Review
Canada
Mitchell Sharp
Sharp
The
Commons
Prices and Wages Review Board
Rescue 21 Salt Miners From Murky Deep Shaft
Rescue experts lowered a makeshift elevator 1,200 feet into a salt mine shaft and brought up two miners after more than 30 hours trapped. Signs of a small fire and carbon monoxide risk were noted as teams debated continuing, with the men inching toward safety in a reworked man cage.
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Calumet, la
William L. Meadows
Sturges
Edward Holeman
Dilford Holmes
Kentucky
Dilford
Canada fiscal plan seeks 390 million revenue via tax surcharges
Finance Minister Sharp unveils revised measures including a 3 percent surtax on personal and corporate incomes to replace a defeated bill. The plan aims for 390 million in revenue, plus 75 million in spending cuts for 1968-69 and a civil service freeze. It also contemplates a federal price and wage board and potential public opinion mobilization against misaligned employers or unions.
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Ottawa
Sharp
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Canada
Demands general's return from the United States
Czechoslovakia announced it seeks the extradition of Maj. Gen. Jan Sejna who defected to the United States. Ceteka reported the foreign ministry will pursue extradition under a mutual-crimes treaty via the Czechoslovak Embassy in Washington. Sejna is wanted for property offenses and misuse of public authority.
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Vienna
Czechoslovakia
United States
Ceteka
Washington
Jan Sejna
Sejia
Trudeau warns France over Quebec as sovereign invite feared
Justice minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau warns France not to treat Quebec as an independent nation or invite it as a sovereign state. He says Canada should break relations with France if Paris invites Quebec to a conference and treats it as a country, citing the Gabon incident. Trudeau underscores Ottawa’s primacy in foreign affairs while noting provincial delegations require Ottawa’s invitation.
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Quebec
Canada
France
Liberal
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Gabon
Trudeau
Quebec City
Ottawa
Global markets and conflict reports headline day
The pound fell below parity as bullion markets temper a budding gold rush in Europe. In Saigon, President Thieu’s plea for special powers was rejected by the Senate amid Viet Cong offensives. Tay Ninh reports a plague outbreak near the Cambodian border, per health ministry officials.
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London
Europe
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Senate
Reuters
Tay Ninh
Health Ministry
U K Cabinet Meets Over Rhodesia Crisis
London Reuters reports the British cabinet convened an emergency session to address a renewed constitutional crisis sparked by the execution of three Africans in Rhodesia.
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London
Reuters
Rhodesia
Salisbury
Parliament House
Ian Smith
Wilson
Commonwealth
George Thomson
Nuclear treaty proposal backed by United States Britain and Russia
The United States Russia and Britain offered to act jointly under UN Security Council auspices to defend any nation threatened with nuclear attack after signing the proposed treaty to halt nuclear weapons spread. They filed a joint resolution with the disarmament committee to gain council approval and provide a basis for protective action before council action.
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Geneva
United States
Russia
Britain
UN Security Council
Disarmament Committee
Security Council
Council
United Nations
Sudbury blast damages NiCo building. 60 in building
A fourth explosion in three months rocked Sudbury Ont as dynamite damaged the International Nickel Co employment building top floor. No injuries occurred though about 60 people were inside. Earlier blasts in December damaged the steelworkers' hall hotel and district jail.
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Sudbury, Ont
International Nickel Co
Vietnam War Casualties Reach Near Record High
U S war deaths near a record weekly toll with 542 Americans killed in combat last week and 24 more in ground fighting Wednesday plus 48 missing in a C 123 crash near Khe Sanh. U S command says 158 guerrillas were killed in Wednesday clashes and Navy pilots carried out night attacks around Hanoi Haiphong.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Khe Sanh
U.S. Navy
Hanoi-Haiphong
Hanoi
Vietnam
Con Thien
Demilitarized Zone
Ban Me Thuot
da Nang
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Southam News Services
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Medicine Hat Civic Theatre Association
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Rhodesia House
Rhodesian Information Office
Sudbury
U.S. Cas
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