AGCL expansion hit by U S dumping finding in methanol case
The U S treasury finds AGCL sold methanol in the United States at margins far below Canadian levels, affecting the $100 million Medicine Hat plant expansion. Du Pont’s dumping suit triggered ITC review with a May hearing and a June decision expected, potentially prompting dumping duties. AGCL plans are paused pending case outcome.
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Alberta Gas Chemicals Ltd
Medicine Hat
United States
Treasury Department
AGCL
Canada
U.S
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co
du Pont
Charles Allard
Allarco Developments
Edmonton
Treasury
U.S. International Trade Commission
ITC
Jim Davenport
Davenport
John Loporto
Loporto
Federal Register
Weston’s Bay bid official for Hudson’s Bay Co takeover
George Weston Ltd moves to acquire control of Hudson's Bay Co offering $40 a share for 11,785,000 Bay shares about 51 percent. Weston outlines cash or preferred share options and plans a special meeting to authorize the necessary preferred capital.
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Toronto
George Weston Ltd
Hudson's Bay Co
Weston
Lord Thomson
Fleet
Bay
Montreal
Trudeau appoints five new Senators in Ottawa
Prime Minister Trudeau announced five new senators including Robert Muir from Cave Breton The Sydney Mines and Fernand LeBlanc of Laurier Trudeau named Dalia Wood a 55 year old Montreal Liberal organizer Yvette Rousseau 92 of Sherbrooke Quebec chair of the federal advisory council on the Status of Women and Norbert Theriault 58 of Eel River Bridge New Brunswick a former Liberal cabinet minister in the provincial legislature
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Robert Muir
Cave Breton
Sydneys
Quebec
Fernand LeBlanc
Laurier
Dalia Wood
Montreal
Yvette Rousseau
Sherbrooke
Que
Federal Advisory Council On
Norbert Theriault
Eel River Bridge
N.B
New Brunswick
Radiation escapes from Three Mile Island reactor
A water pump failure at Three Mile Island caused radiated steam to vent before the building could be sealed. Authorities report no injuries and outside radiation not dangerous. State police controlled access as NRC officials investigated the incident at the $1 billion plant near Harrisburg.
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Harrisburg
Three Mile Island
Blaine Fabian
Metropolitan
Edisor
Fabian
Washington
Frank Ingram
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Ingram
Commission
Philadelphia
Londonderry
United States
Sadat and Begin appeal for US aid to back peace
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin press Congress for loans and grants to stabilize the peace, detailing aid for Egypt and Israel and warning of outside threats. Defense Secretary Brown releases three-year aid letters. Israel to get 3 billion, Egypt half, with 800 million in actual support and the rest as loans. Begin urges US interests in aid. Sadat seeks Egyptian security commitments amid regional tensions and Palestinian autonomy debates. Arafat calls for oil and petrodollar boycotts in Baghdad as Arab ministers react cautiously. An anti-Israel bombing in Paris kills one and wounds 62 as PLO denies responsibility.
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Washington
Middle East
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin
Congress
Defence
Harold Brown
Israel
Egypt
Brown
U.S
Begin
Soviet Union
Oslrich
Saudi Arabia
Sadat
Arab World
Africa
West Bank
Jordan River
Gaza Strip
Bagdad
Yasser Arafat
United
Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Carter
United States
Sadam Hussein Warner
Saud Al-Faisal
Paris
Clark Defends Record as He Dashes Trudeau Attacks
Joe Clark vows to avoid personal jabs at Prime Minister Trudeau and focus on Trudeau's record during the May 22 election campaign. He cites rising costs, unemployment, and Quebec separatism while promising growth, jobs, energy self sufficiency, and home ownership measures as core goals. Conservative rallying remarks emphasize unity and a new leadership team.
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Ottawa
Joe Clark
Trudeau
Stanfield
Clark
Quebec
Canada
Libyan threat to Tanzania over Uganda war sparks alarm
Libyan leader Khadafy warned of full invasion within 24 hours if Tanzania does not pull its troops from Uganda amid Ugandan–Tanzania conflict. Nyerere dismissed Libyan interference while noting new war dimensions as Tanzania braces against Tu-22 bombers feared to strike cities. Husufu Lule announces plans to move toward a liberated zone in Uganda as Amin’s regime faces possible ouster.
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Washington Star
Dar Es Salaam
Tanzania
Muammar Khadafy
Uganda
Khadafy
Kampala
Libya
Julius Nyerere
Amin
Nyerere
The
Daily News
Uganda National Liberation Front
Husufu Lule
Moshi
Election Called For April 23 In Prince Edward Island
Premier Bennett Campbell announced a provincial election for April 23 while seeking renomination in Third Kings. This will be the second PEI election in a year after a 17 15 Liberal majority in 1978 shifted when former premier Alex Campbell retired and joined the P.E.I. Supreme Court.
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Charlottetown
Bennett Campbell
Prince Edward Island
Third Kings
Campbell
Cardigan
P.E.I
P.E.I. House
Alex Campbell
Walter Shaw
Progressive Conservatives
P.E.I. Supreme Court
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