Albertans Back Staying In Canada Amid Separatist Tensions
A Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal poll of 601 Albertans finds about 88 percent want Alberta to remain in Canada, down slightly from last year. Support for Premier Peter Lougheed’s energy and constitutional positions is mixed, with 55 percent approving his constitutional stance and only 6 percent wanting separation. Trudeau’s energy policies are broadly disapproved at 79 percent.
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Edmonton
Edmonton Journal
Calgary Herald
Alberta
Lougheed
Confederation
Pierre Trudeau
Trudeau
Calgary
Opinion Research Centre
Pakistan frees prisoners as hijackers threaten Libya deal
Political prisoners released by Pakistan depart from Aleppo and Damascus toward Libya in a complex swap aimed at freeing over 100 hostages aboard a hijacked jetliner. Libya reportedly reverses asylum offers to hijackers and freed prisoners, renewing uncertainty.
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Damascus
Pakistan
Libya
Syria
Islamabad
Muammar Khadafy
Aleppo
Sarfaraz Khan
Amanat Khan
Communist party chief resigns in Radom amid union push
Janusz Prokopiak, Radom party secretary, submitted his resignation on March 4 stating his presence caused social tensions. Solidarity activists, unaware of the move, had demanded his dismissal and threatened a strike. Lech Walesa planned to visit Radom for talks to avert a confrontation. No immediate impact on labor peace was shown.
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Warsaw
Communist Party
Radom
Trybuna Ludu
Janusz Prokopiak
Independent Union
Solidarity
Prokopiak
Poland
Lech Walesa
Haig cites perilous world peace amid Polish crisis talks
Secretary Haig warns that Washington and Moscow are at a fragile point over Poland and a Soviet intervention remains a real risk. He and Dobrynin will press for talks that could lead to a Reagan Brezhnev summit, but a summit hinges on Moscow improving the political climate. Stoessel notes large maneuvers near Poland raise intervention odds, likening to 1968 Czechoslovakia.
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Washington
USS
Alexander Haig
Poland
Moscow
Europe
Walter Stoessel
Haig
el Salvador
MacNeil-Lehrer
Associated Press
United States
Stoessel
Czechoslovakia
UK taxmen call for targeted strike at main offices
Civil service unions announce next week's walkouts at Britain's two central tax offices. They say the action could slash government revenue by about two thirds while demanding a 15 percent across the board pay rise for 53,000 civil servants.
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London
Britain
Dave Hall
Council of Civil Service Unions
Margaret Thatcher
Council
Treasury
Cumbernauld
Shipley
Radiation exposure hits AECL workers in 1979 findings
A company report shows most of AECL's 4014 workers were exposed to radiation in 1979 but none received a whole body dose above limits. The data cover Chalk River Ontario Whiteshell Manitoba and Radiochemical Ottawa. A 20 year health study begins focusing on cancer risk with initial results showing cancer deaths near expected.
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Winnipeg
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd
Chalk River
Ont
Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment
Pinawa
Man
Radiochemical Co
Ottawa
John Weeks
Whiteshell Research Station
Weeks
AECL
Whiteshell
Whiteshell Station
Barry Hood
Hood
Whiteshell Nuclear Reactor Operators Association
Terry Fox Greeting Card Tour Reaches Vancouver
Two Toronto men delivered a 6500 signature greeting card for Terry Fox to the Canadian Cancer Society in Vancouver. Bill Mole and Ron Batters collected signatures over a week while traveling by rail and road, aided by an Artist friend Tom Oki. Purolator funded a free return flight for the trip.
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Vancouver
Toronto
Terry Fox
Bill Mole
Ron Batters
Tom Oki
Terry
Canadian Cancer Society
Mole
Veterans Affairs Department
Batters
Purolator
Omega Block raises Canadian forest fire fears this year
climatologists warn the Omega Block may return bringing drought and a dangerous fire season across Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and the Northwest Territories Foresters report soil moisture well below normal in Saskatchewan and Alberta while fire suppression budgets rise and native crews supply most of the manpower with wage disputes prompting a government allowance.
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Omega Block
Joe MA
Northwest Territories
North America
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
N.W.T
Canada
Will Prusak
Federal Atmospheric Environment Service
Edmonton
Keith Gorham
Saskatchewan Forest Protection Division
Prince Albert
Athabasca Forest
Quebec
Roger Goodman
Alberta Forest Service
Gorham
British Columbia
Goodman
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Robin Schlaht
U.K
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Thatcher
Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler
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