Alberta Legislature Feels Surprising Energy Friday
The Alberta legislature shifted from a dull day of accounts to lively debate as Premier Manning announced plans for North American oil sands financing and a railway to resources. Education funds and committee coffee moments added lightness before a late sitting was canceled.
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Calgary
Bill Dickie
Dickie
Keith French
Hand Hill Acadia Social
Public Accounts Committee
J. D. Henderson
Leduc
Mr. Dickie
John Landeryou
Lethbridge
Manning
Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd
Alberta
Randy McKinnon
Education Foundation Plan
A’s — Agriculture and Attorney-General
E's — Education and Executive Council
Voskhod III Lands After Dramatic Descent in Snow
Soviet announcements report Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov completed 17 orbits aboard Voskhod III and made a soft landing in deep snow near Perm. Officials say the cosmonauts are well, but post landing procedures and medical checks are not detailed.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Earth
Voskhod
Perm
Ural Mountains
Pavel Belyayev
Alexei Leonov
Voskhod-2
Women plan spaceflight as Russians consider all female Voskhod II
Budapest reports Hungarian sources say two women may be launched soon to repeat the latest space feat. Russians may send an all girl Voskhod II after evaluating results from the current Voskhod II mission. A special commemorative stamp marks the ship's return showing a cosmonaut in an orange suit near the craft.
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Budapest
Communications Ministry
Voskhod HI
Gemini Molly Brown flight in doubt amid Cape Kennedy weather
Clouds linger over Cape Kennedy threatening the Tuesday Gemini test flight of Gus Grissom and John Young while Ranger 9 faces a Sunday launch to photograph the moon crater Alphonsus. engineers probe guidance issues and weather concerns loom for splashdown.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Molly Brown
Ranger 9
U.S
Virgil
Gus) Grissom
John W. Young
Atlantic
Alphonsus
Gemini
Grissom
Convoluted Commons Debate Ends With Few Resolutions
The Canadian House of Commons wrapped a week of inconclusive debate on issues including the Lucien Rivard affair pensions bilingualism and parliamentary reform amid moves to extend sitings and questions about next election timing Speaker Alan Macnaughton will rule on a New Democratic motion allowing witnesses in the Dorion inquiry and Gerard Perron seeks to shelve the Pension Plan while translators race to finish French translations for pension hearings Transport Minister Pickersgill pushes for swift rule changes.
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Ottawa
The
Commons
Lucien Rivard
Alan Macnaughton
Pearson
Favreau
Tremblay
Inquiry Commission
Canada Pension Plan
Perron
House
Transport
Pickersgill
Viet Cong plot to bomb U S Embassy thwarted in Saigon
Police seized two Viet Cong agents on a scooter truck rigged with 25 pounds of plastic explosive and a time detonator set to noon. The device was defused and the pair arrested near the U S Embassy as Ambassdor Maxwell D Taylor was in his office. No major damage expected.
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Saigon
U.S
Maxwell D. Taylor
Johnson takes control of march
President Johnson ordered federalized Alabama National Guard to protect the Selma to Montgomery march after Wallace declined to fund security. Federal courts refused stay on the march, while other racial incidents occurred in Mobile Selma Cleveland and Little Rock with demonstrators and police actions.
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Montgomery
Ala
Johnson
George Wallace
Selma
Johnson City
Tex
Defence
McNamara
United States
Wallace
Alabama
Alabama Guard
New Orleans
U.S
Daniel H. Thomas
Mobile
Cleveland
Ohio
Collinwood High School
Winnipeg barrier on Sibley visit sparks cross border clash
Immigration officials deny entry to Mulford Sibley an American professor slated to speak at the University of Manitoba. Manitoba students Voice of Women and others protest outside Winnipeg airport while Ottawa and state leaders seek replies to the incident. Sibley defends academic freedom noting his pacifist stance and prior campus letters.
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Winnipeg
Canada
University of Manitoba
Mulford Q. Sibley
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
Manitoba
Sibley
United States
Minneapolis
Voice of Women
Ottawa
Pearson
Duff Roblin
Stewart McLean
University of Manitoba Students’ Union
Nicholson
Regina
James Cross
Western Region
Immigration Department
Cross
Prof. Sibley
U.S
Eugene J. McCarthy
State Department
Karl Rolvaag
R. Dale Gibson
Gether
American Legion
American Association For the Advancement of Atheism
Society For the Promotion
Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Alumni Association
Franklin Roosevelt
American Political Science Association
Winnipeg Tribune
Cancer cures feasible says WHO experts in Geneva
A WHO expert panel from ten nations reports cures for about one in three cancer cases may be feasible. They point to a vaccine approach to prevent tumor growth and note immunological processes could be exploited to boost resistance and improve comfort for patients.
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Geneva
World Health Organization
Gromyko Talks Fail to Break Viet Nam Deadlock
London sources report four days of talks between Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and British leaders Michael Stewart and Prime Minister Wilson ended with no progress on Viet Nam or other major issues. The communique omits Viet Nam, the Geneva disarmament conference, and Kosygin’s London visit, reflecting persistent diplomatic gaps.
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London
Reuters
Michael Stewart
United States
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Stewart
Wilson
Viet Nam
Geneva
Britain
Russia
Indochina
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Alf Hooke
Mines and Minerals
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Harold F. Tanner
Edmonton
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Moscow Radio
Tass
Belyayev
Africa
Leonov
Es Fe
Gerard Perron
Creditiste—Beauce
Nguyen Chang Thi
South Viet Nam
1St Corps
Cua Viet
North Viet Nam
Thi
Washington
Dean Rusk
Laos
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Little Rock
Ark
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