Seaway approves lockage fee as toll rise blocked
Canada introduces a Welland Canal lockage fee starting at 160 dollars rising to 800 by 1971, while the United States blocks a proposed 10 percent toll increase on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Transport Minister Pickersgill defends the fee as funding for maintenance. Industry groups oppose the fee saying it harms smaller vessels and Canadian ports.
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Ottawa
United States
St. Lawrence Seaway
Pickersgill
Washington
Canada
U.S
Welland
Dominion Marine Association
Great Lakes Development Association
P. R. Hurcomb
DMA
Stuart Armour
Toronto
Great Lakes
Niagara
Lakes
Ontario
Erie
Castro Criticizes Soviet Ties in Latin America
Fidel Castro denounced Soviet economic and cultural contact with non revolutionary Latin American governments during a Havana University speech marking the 10th anniversary of a Batista assault. He said such ties aid oligarchies and repress revolutions, reaffirming Cuba as ideologically independent and not a satellite of any power.
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Havana
Reuters
Fidel Castro
Latin America
Soviet Union
Castro
Cuba
Havana University
Fulgencio Batista
Batista
Rillas
Colombia
Communist Party
Bogota
Colombian
Federal budget inflates by twenty percent in 1967 68
Ottawa reports 20 per cent higher spending in the 1967 68 program of expenditure and investment totaling 11 546 434 084 as E J Benson treasury board president presents the 615 page blue book outlining initial estimates for military civil departments pensions and loans plus added supplementary appropriations.
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Ottawa
E. J. Benson
Treasury Board
Alberta farmer numbers to halve by 1980 says minister
Agriculture Minister H E Strom told the Royal Commission on farm machinery that farm numbers in Alberta could drop from about 70 000 to 35 000 by 1980 as incomes lag costs. He cited rising prices and labor shortages and urged depots training and parts service improvements.
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Edmonton
Alberta
H. E. Strom
Royal Commission On Farm Machinery
Glen Purnell
Department of Agriculture
Commission
Strom
Thalidomide makers to face charges in West Germany
Criminal charges announced against nine officers and scientists of Gruenenthal for causing bodily injury and negligent manslaughter tied to thalidomide. Evidence links the drug to thousands of birth defects across 20 countries, with up to 6,500 affected children and several thousand stillborns. The case follows Lenz’s 1961 warning after he noted malformations among babies whose mothers used the drug.
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Aachen
West Germany
Canada
The
Chemie Gruenen
Thal Pharmaceutical Firm
Heinrich Gierlich
Josef Havertz
Eberhard Knipfer
Gruenenthal
Stolberg
Widuking Lenz
Lenz
Sherry Finkbine
Sweden
Germany
U.S. Navy destroys armed Vietnamese trawler in coast battle
Three American vessels forced an armed Communist trawler ashore near Quang Ngai province and blew it up after a fierce sea battle. The Brister with a Coast Guard cutter and a patrol boat opened fire as the trawler returned rifle and small arms fire, then wrecked after a violent blast.
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Saigon
Reuters
U.S
Cambodia
Brister
U.S. Coast Guard
Quang Ngai Province
North
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Tay Ninh
Monastery leader held under arrest in Quebec raid
Police in St Jovite Quebec arrested Rev. Jean Marie de la Sacre Coeur head of the Apostles of Infinite Love amid a raid on the monastery to locate about 45 children hidden by the sect. 14 warrants were issued for sect members as authorities say only leader Jean de la Trinite knows the children's whereabouts.
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ST. Jovite
Que
Apostles of Infinite Love
Jean Marie de la Sacre Coeur
Montreal
Jean Marie
Father Jean de la Trinite
Government admits liquor problem in Gleichen Cluny area
In Edmonton the legislature heard that liquor issues are acknowledged in Gleichen and Cluny after eight months of debate with Blackfoot Indians and nearby residents. Health Minister Donovan Ross received bipartisan attention as officials set the first hearing on the new Municipal Act while others argued over highway funding and the North Ring Road. The session included a birthday remark for Dr. Ross and pointed exchanges about municipal road grants and Calgary’s share.
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Fraser Perry
Edmonton
Gleichen and
Cluny
Donovan Ross
Pincher Creek - Crow’s Nest
Jhardly
Garth Turcott
Pincher Creek
Taylor
Dr. Ross
Jack Benny
Jack Hillman
Social Credit
Sedgewick Coronation
Mr. Hillman
Michael Maccagno
Charles Johnston
Calgary-Bowness
Donald Fleming
Calgary West
Calgary
Bill Dickie
Calgary Glenmore
North Ring Road
Johnston
Mr. Johnston
Dickie
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