Labour MP named as double agent in Pincher claims
AP reports journalist Chapman Pincher alleges prominent Labour MP Tom Driberg acted as a double agent for MI 5 and the KGB. The piece notes Driberg's MP roles, his espionage-related activities, and responses from Sir Harold Wilson and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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London
Labor
Britain
Chapman Pincher
Daily Mail
Tom Driberg
Labor Party
House of Commons
Driberg
Harold Wilson
Pincher
Margaret Thatcher
Commons
Tories stall to ward off closure on constitution debate
Ottawa CP report says the Progressive Conservatives used stall tactics to block closure and delay the plan to end debate on amending and patriating the constitution. Opposition leader Stanley Knowles criticized a motion restricting debate and Hansard recording, while Walter Baker labeled it procedural garbage.
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Ottawa
Commons
Stanley Knowles
New Democratic Party
House
Knowles
Walter Baker
Ottawa warns Britain on Trudeau constitutional plan
Canada cautions Britain that any rejection of Trudeau's constitutional amending and patriation package would strain relations within the Commonwealth. Justice Chief Chretien travels to London to argue the package as Ottawa moves to curb debate and release a critical position paper on the British committee report.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Commonwealth
Jean Chretien
London
Westminster
Anthony Kershaw
Canada
United Kingdom
Poland in crisis as Solidarity votes for strikes after Bydgoszcz beatings
In Warsaw discussions unfold after police beat 23 Solidarity activists in Bydgoszcz last Thursday. Solidarity backs a four hour strike and potentially a general strike next Tuesday while government leaders push for a negotiated settlement to avoid wider upheaval and possible Soviet intervention.
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Warsaw
Communist Party
Stanislaw Kania
Poland
Solidarity
Bydgoszcz
Polish Communist Party
Kania
Independent Union Movement
Lech Walesa
Walesa
Mieczyslaw
Rakowski
Trudeau denies Spy cover-up in Gouzenko documents
In Ottawa the prime minister rejects claims of a cover-up linked to a 1946 Gouzenko espionage case. MPs say files are sealed in vaults of the national archives, but Trudeau insists the still secret papers do not affect Canadian security.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Canada
Igor Gouzenko
Gouzenko
RCMP
Robert Kaplan
Roger Hollis
Britain
Kaplan
Hollis
Tenn
Gouzerko
Allan Lawrence
Harold Wilson
Taschereau Commission
National Archives
Western Canada warned on oilseed industry loss
K D Larsons of Saskatoon warned at the Canola Council meeting that Western Canada could lose its oilseed crushing industry unless Crow rate freight discrimination against processed farm products is corrected. He cited South Korea and Japan bidding higher for seed due to lower rail costs and said parity could cost about 18 million annually but boost West returns.
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Vancouver
Western
Canada
K.D. Larsons
Saskatoon
CSP Foods Ltd
Canola Council of Canada
South Korea
Japan
Europe
Larsons
Canola
West
Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior Seized Near St Anthony
Fisheries officers seized the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior inside Canada’s 12 mile limit and arrested two crewmen, Christopher Bruce Robinson and John Beekman, after observers saw dye applied to seal pups on the ice. The ship was towed to St John’s Newfoundland under escort.
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Greenpeace Conservation Group
Winters
Canada
Rainbow Warrior
St. John's
Nld
Baffin
Winter
Christopher Bruce Robinson
British Columbia
John Beekman
Netherlands
Alberta OKs 275 Million Methanol Plant Near Edmonton
Alberta cabinet approved a 275 million Celanese Canada methanol plant northeast of Edmonton with a proviso that Celanese join AGCL in a joint presentation to the International Trade Commission to seek removal of an anti dumping order against AGCL. The move follows disputes over lower priced methanol shipments to the U S market and related legal actions.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Celanese Canada
Medicine Hat
Alberta Gas Chemicals Ltd
Jim Horsman
Celanese
AGCL
International Trade Commission
U.S
Dupont
Celanese Chemical Company Inc
Horsman
New Zealand
British Columbia
Dupont Corporation
Richard Clark
Hugh Planche
Clarke
Mencing
Clark
Telexio Planche
Neil Martin
Celanese Corporation
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U.K
MI-5
KGB
MI 5
Daily Express
William Hickey
Tories Stall
Frank Webber
PAP
Greenpeace
Okays
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