IRA retracts truce offer amid Londonderry Dublin clash
IRA retracts a Londonderry truce offer after a field leader and Dublin chiefs clashed over a month long halt to civilian attacks. Reuters notes Protestant protests over direct rule and loss of parliament as background while IRA statements sparked dispute over authority and the true source.
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Belfast
Reuter
Irish Republican Army
Dublin
Northern Ireland
Britain
Londonderry
Militant
IRA
Provisionals
Irish News
IRA Londonderry Command
Violent Storm Strands Alberta Towns Deluges Southwest
A violent spring storm dumped nearly two feet of snow on southwestern Alberta, blocking highways and delaying traffic in Lethbridge and nearby towns. Wind gusts to 45 mph created six foot drifts. Police and four wheel drive units aided stranded motorists while a CPR train was held to assist along a highway. No serious injuries reported as residents dig out and power and telephone outages occurred. A 40 member girl guides unit from Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat was stranded and relocated to Pincher Creek. Calgary Banff and Medicine Hat saw one to three inches of snow. Crowsnest Pass escaped with lighter snowfall.
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Lethbridge
Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Westcastle
Here
Pincher Creek
Banff
Crowsnest Pass
Blairmore
Plant funding talks for Alberta hog plant in 1972
Gordon Pollard reports North American Integrated Food Processors plans a 25 million dollar hog slaughtering and processing plant in southern Alberta seeking a federal Industrial Incentive Grant from DREE. Fernando Ricafort outlines submission timing, site options Medicine Hat Taber Bow Island Lethbridge, and conditional plans depending on federal approval.
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Gordon Pollard
The
NEWS
Edmonton
Alberta
Fernando Ricafort
North American Integrated Food Processors Company Limited
Saskatoon
Federal
Department of Regional Economic Expansion
Ottawa
Ricafort
H. A
Bud) Olson
North American
Asia
Olson
Fred Peacock
Peacock
Medicine Hat
Taber
Bow Island
Lethbridge
Mujib nationalizes major Bangladesh industries
Prime Minister Sheik Mujibur Rahman announces nationalization of jute textile and sugar mills along with domestic banks and insurance firms as part of a war footing rebuilding plan. He says foreign banks and insurers are excluded and a constitution is being drafted along with a forthcoming revolutionary labor policy. He maintains non alignment and seeks friendly ties with India despite Pakistan’s push for talks.
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Dacca
Sheik Mujibur Rahman
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Sheik Mujib
India
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Indira Gandhi
Kuldip Nayar
The
Statesman of
New Delhi
Bhutto
El Salvador Cracks Down After Weekend Uprising
San Salvador officials say government forces crushed a weekend military insurrection. Martial law was declared after heavy fighting that reportedly killed between 100 and 200 and wounded over 200. Gen Fidel Sanchez Hernandez said rebels captured him for 12 hours before loyalist troops forced surrender. He was freed unharmed.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Fidel Sanchez Hernandez
Soviets Launch Venus Spacecraft Venus 8
The Soviet Union announced the unmanned Venus mission Venera-8, weighing 1180 kilograms, launched at 7 15 a m. Tass says it will reach Venus in July and perform scientific measurements possibly via a descent craft. Previous Venus 7 transmitted for 23 minutes after landing. details on soft landing remain unclear.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Venus
Tass
Mayors seek wider consultation on national issues
The Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities urged Ottawa to include municipalities in tri level talks and policy making on pollution, taxation, urban transport and economic programs. It pressed for extended deadlines, tax reform equity, and equal sales tax exemptions for pollution equipment, warning against cost-shifting from federal to local governments.
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Ottawa
Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities
Marcel D'Amour
Hull
Iue
Federation
Ontario
Great Lakes
British Radar Technicians Kidnapped in Turkey by Guerrillas
In Ordu province a group of five urban guerrillas seized ten Britons living in a Black Sea coast town. Three technicians Gordon Banner Charley Turner and John Law were abducted in a Land Rover. Troops and police surrounded the area as authorities weighed possible hostage motives.
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Unye
Turkey
Black Sea
Musa Eran
Ordu
Gordon Banner
Charley Turner
John Law
Constitutional Court
Deniz Germis
Yusuf Aslan
Huseyin Inan
Fiat seeks ransom swap for kidnapped Fiat executive in Argentina
In Buenos Aires Fiat Motor Co. aims to buy the life of 57 year old Oberdan Sallustro with a $1 million ransom in school supplies for 300000 poor children. The plan hinges on a guerrilla amnesty condition and a government refusal to permit messages aiding the crime.
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Buenos Aires
Reuter
Fiat Motor Co
Oberdan Sallustro
Fiat
People’s Revolutionary Army
Sallustro
Fiat- Concord
Argentina
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