Executives charged in Harborgate scandal unfolds in Ottawa
RCMP charged 11 wealthy executives and eight dredging firms with conspiracy to defraud taxpayers of 4 million via bid rigging. Five more companies due for arraignments March 19. warrants issued for three more men including an in-law of Premier Bourassa. Political fallout noted as calls for inquiry grow.
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Gerard MacNeil
Ottawa
RCMP
Quebec
Robert Bourassa
The
Hamilton
Trudeau Receives Freedom of City of London
Pierre Trudeau was presented with the Freedom of the City of London at the Guildhall becoming the ninth Canadian prime minister to receive the honor. He pledged to uphold the Queen's peace and deepen Canada UK ties after meetings with Harold Wilson Thatcher and Thorpe and a night of receptions with politicians and actors.
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London
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Trudeau
Guildhall
Lord Nelson
Wellington
Churchill
John P. Griggs
Canada
United Kingdom
Harold Wilson
Europe
Savoy Hotel
Margaret Thatcher
Jeremy Thorpe
Liberal Party
Thatcher
Thorpe
European Economic Community
Robert Morley
Stanley Baker
Nicole Williamson
Pierre Trudeau
The
Honourable Artillery Company
Montreal COJO Official Tied to Jewish Mafia
Police inquiry in Quebec cites a Montreal Olympic Committee director as “the representative of the Jewish Mafia in Montreal.” The probe, into the January suspension of Andre Guay, cites the same individual as former MUC vice chairman and notes a February 1973 raid prompted the claim. Publication bans on the name were ordered pending stronger proof.
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Montreal
COJO
Henri Dufour
Quebec
Quebec Police Commission
Andre Guay
Montreal Urban Community
MUC
Roger Gosselin
Dufour
MUC Executive Committee
Guay
MAC
Rene Daigneault
Herve Patenaude
Portugal arrests industrialists and bankers in crackdown
Lisbon's leftist military government has arrested more than a dozen top industrialists and bankers on suspicions of funding a plot to overthrow the regime. Among those detained are Jorge and Jose Manuel de Melo, with banks in lockdown to stem capital flight as the state expands its Revolutionary Council authority.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Continental Defence Command
Jorge
Jose Manuel de Melo
Jose de Melo
CAF
Defence Command
Melos
Manuel and
Jose Espirito Santo Silva
Hour of decision nears as PSAC dispute talks resume in Ottawa
Representatives of the federal government and striking blue collar workers meet with mediator Tom O’Connor in Ottawa for a final attempt to end the dispute. Jacob Finkelman says O’Connor will report results to the board within 48 hours after this mediation session.
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Ottawa
Jacob Finkelman
Public Service Staff Relations Board
Tom O’connor
Claude Edwards
Public Service Alliance of Canada
PSAC
O’connor
Federal Treasury Board
Saskatchewan
Allan Blakeney
Edwards
Jean Chretien
Treasury Board
Blakeney
Saskatchewan Federation of Agriculture
Chretien
Montreal
Letter Carriers Union of Canada
Toronto
Maurice Punshon
North Bay
Canadian Wheat Board
Winnipeg
Japan
United States
Vancouver
C. N. Vogel
Canada
Social Credit fails to field full Alberta election slate
As nominations closed for the March 26 Alberta vote, Social Credit listed 70 official candidates, four short of its goal, while the Conservatives and NDP filed full slates of 75. The ballot also includes 14 Communist candidates, independents, and minor parties amid a record 293 candidates.
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Edmonton
Social Credit
Alberta
Progressive Conservatives
New Democratic Party
Peter Lougheed
Conservatives
Liberals
Werner Schmidt
NDP
Constitutional Socialist Party
Independent Social Credit
Gordon Taylor
Drumheller
Grant Notley
Spirit River-Fairview
Alex Woronik
Mr. Notley
One day airlift suspension after Phnom Penh blast
Rebel gunners hit an ammunition dump at Phnom Penh airport forcing a one day halt to the U S airlift of ammunition rice and fuel into the besieged capital. The explosion touched off more than 20 tons of ammo. No casualties were reported.
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Phnom Penh
United States
U.S
Neal Ulevich
Associated Press
Aid effort suffers setback in U S Cambodia aid push
The Ford administration's bid for more United States military aid to Cambodia faced major defeats in Congress. The Senate Democratic Caucus rejected the aid, and the House foreign affairs committee voted 18 to 15 against an $82.5 million emergency military aid package for the Cambodian government.
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Washington
Ford Administration
United States
Cambodia
House of Representatives
Senate
Democratic Caucus
House Democrats
House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Ken Barfknecht
Boston
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Barfknecht
Lincoln Alexander
Hamilton West
Linc
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Ed Broadbent
Oshawa
Hugh Martin
British Columbia
Mitchell Sharp
Warren Allmand
Patrick Nowlan
Annapolis Valley
Ontario
George Kerr
John Munro
Kerr
of London
Socreds
John Dodd
Norodom Sihanouk
Peking
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