Medicine Hat rink wins Brier sparks local curling fever
Ed Lukowich and teammates Mike Chernoff Dale Johnston and Ron Schindle won the MacDonald Brier in Vancouver. The Medicine Hat Curling Club reported packed crowds during the final and a surge in push broom sales after Lukowich switched to the new equipment. The victory sends the team to Winnipeg for the Silver Broom World Championship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Hat
Ed Lukowich
Mike Chernoff
Dale Johnston
Ron Schindle
Vancouver
Tim Miller
Alberta
Miller
Gas City
Lukowich
Winnipeg
Calgary
Paul Gowsell
All Smiles
Altarink
Dale John
France left stalls in runoff as center gains edge in first round
Official returns show Giscard d Estaing's centrists at 46.5 percent and the Socialist Communist bloc at 45.1 percent. Leftist chances depend on runoff coalitions and abstentions. Mitterrand and Marchais target strategy meetings while Barre and Chirac held seats. If left wins, a Socialist Communist cabinet could flank a weakened presidency.
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Paris
National Assembly
Valery Giscard
d'Estaing
Francois Mitterrand
Georges Marchais
Mitterrand
Marchais
Giscard d’Estaing
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
France
Raymond Barre
Jacques Chirac
Barre
Arab nations praise Palestinian raid into Israel
Moderate and hard line Arab states hail the assault as a courageous operation. The PLO says Al Fatah carried out the attack killing 32 Israelis and nine of 11 attackers. Egypt links the strike to the peace process while U.S. and European governments condemn the raid. Saudi Arabia says it proves Israel cannot have security without a Palestinian homeland.
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Jerusalem
Lebanon
Menachem Begin
Israel
Beirut
Tyre
Cam
Fuad Butros
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
France
China
Begin
Washington
West Bank
Jordan River
Egypt
Judea
Samaria
Gaza Strip
Yasser Arafat
Associated Press
Saudi Arabia
Moscow
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
al Fatah
Butros Ghali
Ghali
U.S
Carter
Cyrus Vance
Moluccan militants seize provincial building in Assen
South Moluccan gunmen storm the Drente provincial headquarters in Assen firing from upper floors. Several wounded and many hostages reported as police surround the building and armored cars move in. The attack follows a 1977 hijacking by the militants in the town.
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Assen
Drente
Leo Klok
P.T. Sinnema
Klok
Amsterdam
Netherlands
First North American farm protest meeting in Calgary
Canadian and American farm protest leaders gathered at the Stampede Corral to compare notes amid a sweeping farm movement. About 1,200 farmers attended, highlighting the push for cost of production plus a reasonable profit and possible cartellike coordination among nations.
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Calgary
Canada
Canadian Agriculture Movement
Stampede Corral
United States
Saskatchewan
Eugene Whelan
Jack Horner
Darrell Knight
American Agriculture Movement
Alberta
Art Macllroy
Chestermere
Don Thigpen
New Mexico
New Zealand
Australia
Brazil
Whelan
Alberta Movement
Bert Brown
Brown
North American Agriculture Movement
Horner
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Rolland Bremner
Ston
Arafat
A’ Fatah
Na'ama Hadani
Gail Rubin
New York City
Miss Rubin
Maagan Michaels
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv- Haifa
Paul Bilodeau
OPEC
Dery
Farm Movement
Thigpen
Pacific Northwest
Montreal
Cochrane
Lindsay Eckland
Elroy Karius
Agriculture Movement
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