Metric system debate plans Commons today Ottawa
A full Commons debate on the metric system is planned today with a vote on the long term conversion launched in 1972. Govt aims for full effect by 1980 and cites progress in labels highway signs weather readings and education while industry lags on costly changes.
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S. M. Gossage
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Metric Commission
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Gossage
BC exports hinge on PSAC talks as longshoremen strike continues
Shipping at 11 British Columbia ports may resume by week end after a tentative contract between 4,000 striking longshoremen and their employers. Grain exports and mail have been disrupted nationwide, with talks in Ottawa addressing retroactive pay and wage increases. a two year settlement reportedly includes a $1.85 hourly rise. Port of Vancouver could reopen if union accepts the deal, ending a fifth BC longshoremen strike in a decade that halted container handling and caused multilevel layoffs.
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Crofton
Victoria
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U.S. Agencies in Phnom Penh Seek Reduction in Staff
The U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh began burning documents and asked Catholic Relief Services World Vision and CARE to trim staff to essential personnel. Ambassadors urged non essential workers to move to Bangkok or Saigon until Congress votes on Ford's military aid request. Officials fear a possible fall of Lon Nol's government and Phnom Penh to communist insurgents.
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Saigon Says NVA Tighten Grip in Central Highlands
North Vietnamese forces pressed the campaign in South Vietnam's central highlands, reducing roads to a single passage as Saigon reports a tightening siege and increased danger for allied positions.
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South Vietnam
Dinh Quan
Dalat
Ban Me Thuot
Darlac
Highlands
Norman Johnson
Hamilton
Ont
Kien Due
Kien Duc
2Nd Corps
Pleiku
Nha Trang
Tay Ninh
Wreckage search begins for Argentine air crash victims
Search parties launched for a Fokker turboprop crash near Bariloche Argentina killing 52 including Uruguayan personnel and family members. The wreckage was found on Mt Pinchen after a rain filled flight from Buenos Aires with stops in La Pampa and Neuquen. Authorities reported no cause yet and noted strong Andean winds.
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Argentina
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Bariloche
Mt. Pinchen
la Pampa
Neuquen
Election forum for Medicine Hat Redcliff candidates
Five candidates in Medicine Hat Redcliff discuss major campaign issues in a Q A series. The exchange continues on page five of today’s NEWS.
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Thheir
Not guilty pleas entered in Moncton
Two men James Hutchison and Richard Ambrose pleaded not guilty to murder charges in New Brunswick Supreme Court. A 12 member jury was being selected after the pleas, with 116 prospective jurors in the courtroom. The slayings of Constable Michael O Leary and Constable Aurele Bourgeois occurred December 13 during a kidnapping investigation. the boy involved was released unharmed after a ransom.
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Moncton
N.B
New Brunswick
Supreme Court
James Hutchison
Richard Ambrose
Aurele Bourgeois
Michael O'Leary
David Dickson
Edward Bell
Ambrose
Dickson
Supreme Court rules federal government owns offshore Atlantic oil rights
The U S Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the federal government holds ownership of offshore oil rights in the Atlantic. The decision rejects coastal states Maine and 12 others claims based on pre revolutionary charters. The ruling aligns with prior 1947 and 1953 actions defining seabed ownership.
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Supreme Court
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Congress
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