Feasible approach order confuses BNA conference delegates
Ottawa faces a June constitutional conference with a controversial communique on reform of the British North America Act. Dispute over English and French texts creates priority tension as Premier Bourassa and Prime Minister Trudeau clash over language rights and official text.
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Victoria
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Quebec
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Posties vote to end 47 day UK mail strike
Britain halted mail for 47 days as workers voted 190000 of 205000 to return to work. 11 million letters backlog plus 60 million abroad. Telegraphs resume Tuesday. Pay scale decision by a three member commission. Major postal overhaul planned with reduced daily deliveries and parcel services.
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London
Britain
Union of Postal Workers
Would-be hijacker arrested by FBI
FBI arrested a 16 year old Mobile, Alabama resident on aircraft piracy charges after hijacking a National Airlines Boeing 727 from Mobile toward Montreal. He ordered 38 passengers and 4 flight attendants off the plane before surrendering in Miami armed with a .38 caliber pistol.
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Fla
National Airlines
Mobile
Ala
Montreal
Airlines
Canada
Thomas Kelly Marston
East Pakistan
Frazier Ali Fight Under Tight Police Guard
In Madison Square Garden, Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali are each guaranteed 2.5 million for tonight’s heavyweight title bout secured by heavy police protection. Frazier’s camp received a death threat, eight detectives guard him, and Ali has two bodyguards in a Manhattan hotel. Nearly 300 officers plus 200 guards and plainclothesmen will man the arena as the fight airs on closed circuit in multiple regions. The bout asks whether Ali can reclaim the title or if Frazier will defend it.
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Muhammad Ali
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Quiet fronts as Sadat ends ceasefire in Suez crisis
The Associated Press reports quiet fronts along the Suez zone despite Egypt declining to extend the ceasefire. Sadat announced Cairo would no longer be bound by the truce after Moscow talks, while Israel signaled willingness to extend. Armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria on alert. Israel’s stance unclear.
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Sadat
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Syria
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Jordan Army
Zeid Ben Shaker
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Golan Heights
Abba Eban
Sharp to discuss racism in Africa
External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp announced Canada may aid African nations seeking a peaceful solution to southern African racial issues. In Abidjan he met Ivory Coast President Houphouet-Boigny and planned talks on dialogue and nonviolence as a basis for neighborly policy.
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Ivory Coast
Mitchell Sharp
Canada
Sharp
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Houphouet-Boigny
Zambia
Tanzania
Nigeria
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Madagascar
Malawi
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Break-ins net year in jail
Wayne Senft an 18 year old of 2254 21st St S E was sentenced in Magis trate s Court to one year in jail for breaking into McBride s Bakery on February 5 and stealing about 200. He received a concurrent one year sentence for a second break in at the same bakery on February 9. Police report four prior similar convictions. Magistrate FE W N Macdonald warned of severe penalties amid a rash of unsolved break ins in Medicine Hat. Senft declined the Bowden Institute option.
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McBride
Wayne Senft
21St St. S.E
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FE. W. N. Macdonald
Medicine Hat
Macdonald
Bowden Institute
Lethbridge
East Pakistan leader calls general government strike
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman urged a general strike in government offices and refused tax payments as East Pakistan reels from deadly violence. Authorities reported 172 killed and 358 injured last week, with Chittagong the worst hit as rioters clashed with knives and staves. Rahman demanded immediate end to martial law, troops back to barracks, an inquiry into killings, and power transferred to elected representatives before attending the March 25 National Assembly.
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Karachi
Reuter
Mujibur Rahman
East Pakistan
Chittagong
Mumibur
Dacca
National Assembly
Yahya Khan
Awami League
Pakistan
East
Canadian university notes foreign influence in Calgary
At the University of Calgary 405 of 880 academic staff are Canadian, 196 American, 149 British, 33 from India and Pakistan, with other nations making up the rest. Dr. A W R Carrothers testifies that citizenship is less telling than country of birth and degrees. He notes post graduate program limits and U S recruitment ease as causes of foreign instructors. The inquiry seeks to assess foreign influence in post secondary education in Alberta.
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U.S
Carrothers
Arnold Moir
Edmonton
U of C
The
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Rose mis trial motion rejected in Montreal court
Paul Rose faced a miscarriage of justice motion that Justice Marcel Nichols deemed ill founded in fact and law. The ruling, not read aloud in court, was filed as part of the court record. Meanwhile in Ankara, Turkish authorities extended the search for four U.S. airmen and their alleged kidnappers to upscale neighborhoods after no leads emerged at a university campus.
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Montreal
Paul Rose
Marcel Nichols
Ankara
Turkey
U.S
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