Chile quake kills hundreds as dam bursts in Chile
In central Chile a massive earthquake triggers the collapse of a dam at El Cobre 80 miles north of Santiago. Up to 600 feared dead or missing, with 200 feared killed in El Cobre and 26 elsewhere. Thousands homeless, dozens of cities damaged, air force and army relief under way. Authorities assess extent after tens of thousands displaced.
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Carlos Munchel
Eduardo Frei
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Aconcagua
Valparaiso
Coquimbo
Sunday quake memory of Ana Maria in El Cobre tragedy
Margaret Sands reports Ana Maria Baraland 15 and her father walked to hospital before a devastating quake buried El Cobre. The town of 400 vanished under mud and flood after the copper dam burst, with survivors like Juan Honorato and Carlos Mundhel recounting the disaster.
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Carlos Mundhel
Laos orders rebels to surrender within 48 hours
Gen Ouane Rathikone, the Laotian army chief of staff, demands rightist rebels in Thakhek surrender in 48 hours or face loyalist air and ground attacks. Government planes drop the ultimatum on Thakhek on the Mekong border 160 miles southeast of Vientiane.
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Ouane Rathikone
Thakhek
Mekong
Thailand
Pak Sebang Fai
Phoumi Nosavan
Phoumi
Pathet Lao
Paksane
Bangkok
Souvanna
Student found dead at Medicine Hat High School area garage
An 18 year old Medicine Hat High School student Lawrence King was found dead in a garage Sunday morning. His mother discovered him in the car with the fan running and starter key on. Police investigate cause of death and scene.
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Lawrence King
Larry King
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Medicine Hat
Alberta Motor Association
Rights leaders to seek impeachment of Wallace
Civil rights leaders plan a two week push to impeach Governor George Wallace and mobilize Alabama for mass demonstrations to register Black voters. Bevel promised a state wide campaign from Birmingham to Mobile and into white areas of Selma, with a 30 day economic boycott and hand bill drive.
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Selma
Ala
George C. Wallace
Alabama
James Bevel
Birmingham
Mobile
Bevel
Martin Luther King Jr
Montgomery
House of Representatives
Albert Brewer
Government days may extend hours to push pension bill
Privy Council president George McIlraith praised House cooperation but warned extended sitting hours may be used to push the Canada Pension Plan bill through. The bill saw opposition attempts to delay, voted down 84 to 37, with the government considering longer sessions to finish the measure and related provincial formula.
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Lucien Lamoureux
Canada Pension Plan Fund
House
Edson byelection seeks end to three decade Social Credit hold
In Edson Alberta three parties oppose Social Credit candidate Arthur Leonard in a bid to end the party’s 30 year hold on the Edson seat. Lands and forests minister Norman Willmore’s February death opened the race. More than 9,000 voters may cast ballots today from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. MST.
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Alta
Social Credit
Arthur Leonard
Alberta
Leonard
Lands and Forests
Norman Willmore
Willmore
Neil Reimer
Alberta New Democratic Party
Jon Scott
William Switzer
Hinton
Bertram E. Schoeppe
NDP
James D. Torgerson
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Ku Klux Klan Demonstrators Target Florida Sheriff
Fifteen white marchers gathered before the Duval County courthouse to protest Sheriff Dale Carson accusing him of bias in gun permits. Led by Warren Folks, the group displayed Klan and National States Rights Party affiliation and urged Carson to leave town and return to the FBI.
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Supreme Court
Martin Luther King
Nicholas Katzenbach
Anti American meetings signal possible Soviet Viet Nam intervention
Reuters reports rising anti American demonstrations across the Soviet Union as Moscow weighs a tougher stance on South Viet Nam. Observers cite protests in Leningrad Kiev Minsk Tashkent and Vilnius plus Moscow factories as hardening public opinion for a potential Soviet intervention.
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Reuters
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Minsk
Tashkent
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Viet Nam
Navy raids North Vietnam again hit radar site 120 miles from Hanoi
Forty two U S Navy aircraft attacked Bac Long Vi Island in the Tonkin Gulf, targeting a radar installation and other military sites. The raid marked the first repeat bombing of the same target since operations began February 7, with about 45 tons of ordnance dropped. One Navy plane was shot down but the crew rescued. Coral Sea carriers formed the striking force as 12 aircraft conducted flak suppression and patrol missions. Six Japanese firms halted North Vietnamese port shipments to reduce risk to coal freighter traffic to Japan from Hongay mines.
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Reuters
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Physician leaves Canada after denied Sask hospital privileges
Dr Hassan Rayman a British Guiana physician left Canada after a seven month fight to work in a Saskatchewan hospital ended without privileges. Community clinic head Earl Danichuk called the denial discrimination. Rayman, who joined Biggar clinic staff, filed a civil suit against St Margaret's Hospital and others. He left for New York City after rejecting state sponsored Medicare opposition as a factor.
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British Guiana
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Saskatchewan
Earl Danichuk
Biggar, Sask
Rayman
Danichuk
New York City
Biggar
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Community Clinic
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Britain
Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists
Bohemier
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St. Paul's Hospital
Ray Rayman
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C. M. Campbell
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Purdue
Sask
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Toronto International Airport
D. G. Steuart
Hospital Privileges Appeal Board
Steuart
Inquiry resumes April 5 in Dorion inquiry tests ministerial aides
Ottawa reports Chief Justice Frederic Dorion will not hear more witnesses this week in the federal inquiry into alleged bribery and coercion by ministerial aides. The inquiry will resume April 5 in Quebec City for final arguments by over twenty lawyers representing various individuals and parties.
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Frederic Dorion
Quebec City
Dorion
Robert Gignac
Gignac
Bridge man remanded in wife’s capital murder case
Robert Andrew Ferguson, 32, of Lethbridge was remanded to Wednesday without plea in magistrate's court on charges of the capital murder of his wife Pearl Anne, 29. Her body was found late Saturday in a Lethbridge home with five gunshot wounds from a .38 caliber pistol.
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Robert Andrew Ferguson
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