Stanfield predicts Tory win despite Liberal leadership race
Ontario press conference in Medicine Hat featured Robert Stanfield saying the Progressive Conservatives are confident of winning the next federal election regardless of the Liberal leadership outcome. He cautioned the PM's stance could affect parliamentary timing and denied Quebec inroads depend on the Liberal winner. He saw elections likely before year’s end, fought on bread and butter issues, and urged unity to prevent Quebec secession, declaring no immediate danger of separation if English Canadians stay open-minded.
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Robert Stanfield
Medicine Hat
Stanfield
Quebec
Canada
Alberta to Fast Track First Interim Bill Since 1937
EDMONTON CP The Alberta Legislature prepares for its first interim supply bill in 31 years to cover operations after March 31. Provincial Treasurer A O Aalborg says the last interim bill was in 1937 and it is unlikely estimates for next year will be finished by April 1. A $50 million direct borrowing bill was introduced to cover part of a projected $70 million deficit.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Aalborg
Social Credit Party
Israelis fight way back home after Jordan invasion
Israeli forces claim to have wiped out four Arab guerrilla bases and killed 150 in a 15 hour invasion of Jordanian territory on the east side of the River Jordan. They report 30 dead, while Jordan claims 200 invaders killed and most Israeli tanks knocked out. The incident sparked UN Security Council debate as Washington voices caution.
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Tel Aviv
Jordan
UN Security Council
New York
Council
Israel
Warsaw students stage sit in protest at Polytechnic
Police watched outside classrooms as several thousand Warsaw students held a sit in at the Warsaw Polytechnic overnight. More than 5,000 students were bedded down inside, walls plastered with slogans such as Warsaw with the Students, Socialism and Democracy, and Truth in the Press.
Liberals win battle to oust Novotny in Prague
Prague Reuters reports President Antonin Novotny announced his resignation after months of liberal pressure as the Czech leadership shift deepened. The Communist party accepted the move citing health reasons, following Novotny’s loss of the party’s top post to Alexander Dubcek and a defection from Maj Gen Jan Sejna.
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Czechoslovakia
Novotny
Prague
Reuters
Antonin Novotny
Ceteka
Communist Party
Czech Communist Party
Alexander Dubcek
United States
Jan Sejna
Europe
Stalin
Khrushchev
Stalinist
Leonid Brezhnev
Sixth hijacking of plane to Cuba reported at Havana
A Venezuelan Convair with 46 aboard was hijacked and landed at Santaiguo de Cuba in Cuba's eastern region. Cuban guards evacuated the hijacker as officials withheld details. The incident follows Castro’s threat to impound U S flights hijacked to Cuba. Passengers could not be reached yet.
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Havana
Reuters
Cuba
Convair
Avenza Airlines
Santaiguo de Cuba
Fidel Castro
U.S
No. 4 trustee clashes at Division No. 4 board meeting
A heated Irvine Division No. 4 school board session pitted Trustee Walter Olson against Ted Roll over Delinquent Bindless school status. Roll defended himself saying the board was being unfairly attacked while Neufeld and Wuerfel urged calm and orderly conduct. The chair adjourned for lunch to cool tensions.
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Ted Roll
Walter Olson
Roll
Bindless School
Wuerfel
Gaglardi resigns B C highways minister post in B C
British Columbia highways minister Philip Arthur Gaglardi resigns his portfolio after criticism over a leased executive jet and his sons' land deals. Premier W A C Bennett grounds the Lear jet, absorbs the highways portfolio temporarily, and cites ill health from surgery as the official reason. Gaglardi remains in cabinet without portfolio. Opposition calls for inquiry while Bennett rejects broader probes.
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Victoria
Philip Arthur Gaglardi
British Columbia
Canada
B.C
W. A. C. Bennett
Gaglardi
Social Credit
Bennett
Sharp resumes campaign urges constitution change
Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, in his first campaign appearance outside Ottawa in a month, told Toronto area delegates at St. George Hall that a Sharp government would be open to changes in the constitution to reconcile English and French speakers. Other Liberal contenders pitched plans in various cities, with Martin pledging countrywide cabinet meetings, Sauve backing Martin, Winters promising fewer departments, Kierans predicting a Quebec upset, Hellier vowing no new taxes and a $200 million Atlantic investment.
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Mitchell Sharp
Ottawa
Toronto
St. George
St. Lawrence Hall
Sharp
Liberal Party
Paul Martin
Quebec
Paul Hellyer
Halifax
Atlantic
RFK Blames LBJ For U S Problems At Vanderbilt
Senator Robert F Kennedy assailed President Johnson on campaign swing in Nashville Tenn charging Johnson bears responsibility for divisions riots and drug and war problems He argued those who set current policy divide the country and urged national reconciliation after arriving by plane from Tuscaloosa Alabama to address 11000 young listeners at Vanderbilt University on Thursday night Kennedy framed his critique around Johnson plus policy makers and the nation as a whole.
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Nashville
Tenn
Robert F. Kennedy
Johnson
Kennedy
Vanderbilt University
New York Democrat
United States
Vanderbilt
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Invasion urged by South Vietnam vice president
Vice-President Nguyen Cao Ky said an invasion of North Vietnam is a military necessity. The remarks came as the conflict deepens with calls for decisive action from Saigon.
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Reuters
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
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Ray Neufeld
Walter Wuerfel
Irvine
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Sions
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Robert Strachan
New Democratic Party
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Ball’s Creek
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