Cypress Hills Park lease clash stirs Alberta debate
Medicine Hat-Redcliff MLA Bill Wyse charges government pressures cottagers to leave Cypress Hills Provincial Park. Lands minister Allan Warrack denies the claim as Cypress Hills Recreation Association officials note confusion over new lease rates and a needed revenue plan.
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Edmonton
Medicine Hat
Redcliff
Bill Wyse
Cypress Hills Provincial Park
Lands and Forests
Allan Warrack
Social Credit
Jack Edwards
Cypress Hills Recreation Association
Wyse
Warrack
Edwards
Cypress Hills Park
Dr. Edwards
Talks Continue As Wounded Knee Negotiations Persist
US government representatives and militant Indians at Wounded Knee in the Pine Ridge Reserve met to press talks. The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council voted to remove all non tribesmen and blamed AIM for violence while on the reserve as about 11 000 Oglalas wait. A US attorney general aide said negotiations would go on and stressed no further seizure of Wounded Knee during talks. Federal marshals FBI agents and police along with armored vehicles maintained a blockade after an FBI agent was wounded, a line reestablished after a weekend lapse.
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Elkwater Lake
Wyse
Wounded Knee
S.D
United States
Pine Ridge Reserve
Oglala Sioux Tribal Council
Bureau of Indian Affairs Police
American Indian Movement
A.I.M
Uss
Harrington Wood
FBI
Car price gap widens between U S and Canada
Canadian cars cost about ten percent more in Canada than in the United States. The issue drew cross party support as Conservative Terry O Connor tabled an annual report to the U S Congress on the matter in the Commons.
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Ottawa
New Democratic Party
United States
Terry O’connor
Halton
Commons
United States Congress
Oakville
Ont
PoWs Released At Clark Air Base In Philippines
The fourth U.S. POW release began with 107 military men and one civilian freed by North Vietnam. A C-141 landing at Clark Air Base brought 40 prisoners, with 68 more taken by two additional C-141s. Among the released was LtCmdr. John S. McCain III.
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Clark Air Base
Philippines
Hanoi
Navy
Leo T. Profiler
Palo Alto
Calif
Clark Base
United States of America
China
Vietnam
Gia Lam
Cmdr
John S. McCain III
U.S
Pacific
Bobby Joe Keesee
Cuba
Arizona
Bangkok
North Vietnam
Rural Alberta teachers resume strike talks as schools await
Negotiations resume today between southern Alberta teachers and trustees after a three day strike. The dispute involves 1300 teachers across 18 districts with 30000 students affected. The board mediators and Health costs, wage demands, and potential staff cuts loom over the talks. Libraries in several schools will stay open for student use while buses continue to Medicine Hat and Ralston.
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Clark
Vulcan
United States
Doug Christensen
Roseglen
Lebanon
Buffalo
Christensen
Medicine Hat
Ralston
BC rail plan faces hurdles in oil route proposal
Prime Minister Macdonald notes many obstacles to a British Columbia oil rail line from Proudhoe Bay Alaska through the Yukon to BC. He cites difficult terrain and questions about Canadian oil viability, saying studies and environmental data are needed before cabinet discussion or U.S. reference.
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Proudhoe Bay
Alaska
Yukon
British Columbia
U.S
B.C
Mackenzie Valley
Northwest Territories
Macdonald
Yukon Valley
Bombs blamed on IRA in Belfast and County Antrim
An IRA blamed bombing across Belfast city hall area wrecked a card shop and damaged offices. A second blast hit a Coca Cola plant boiler house in County Antrim. Two gunmen assaulted a Belfast Catholic school teacher. a Protestant militiaman was abducted and wounded. Neighbors dispute the army account of Edward Sharpe's fatal shooting as troops faced jeers from residents.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
County
Antrim
Irish Republican Army
Portadown
Ardoyne
Edward Sharpe
Oil pattern to shift from two regions to three says official
Pedro Van Meurs of the federal Energy Department tells an international petroleum economics symposium that Western Canada, Eastern Canada, and the North will form three oil regions. He forecasts a gradual decline in western production beginning in the mid-1970s and possible changes in eastern imports if offshore East Coast exploration yields substantial resources.
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Quebec
Pedro van Meurs
International Petroleum Developments Division
Federal
Department of Energy, Mines and Resources
Western
Canada
Eastern
North
van Meurs
Strike disrupts Hat music festival entries in Alberta
A teachers strike in rural southern Alberta reduces practice time for Medicine Hat Music Festival entrants. More than 60 entries from Bow Island Foremost Jenner Buffalo Irvine and Walsh could be affected with non refundable fees and last minute adjustments. Competitors may be supervised by non teaching staff to preserve participation.
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Alberta
Medicine Hat
Bow Island
Forty Mile
Jenner
Buffalo
Irvine
Walsh
Southern Alberta School Authorities Association
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Calgary
Alta
Gordon Pollard
the News
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Ramon Roubideaux
Rapid City
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Ed Broadbent
Oshawa Whitby
Mackenzie
Paddy Neale
NDP
Vancouver East
The
Sharpe
Army
Sean Murphy
Pease Drive
AMA
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