Calgary river tragedy linked to mother murder suicide
Calgary police search for the body of one of three children who were cast into the Bow River by their mother before she followed them with a fourth child in her arms. A jogger witnessed the event from downtown Calgary as the woman, once described as happy by relatives, plunged in with the infant. The three children were recovered hours later along with the mother's body.
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Bow River
Harjit Kaur Bhuller Brar
Sukhjit
Amrit
Savinder
Ravinder
Mike Woodlock
Fire Department
George Murray
Santokh
Brar
India
Montreal
City hall designs received bids from firms across Canada
City hall received 23 submissions from architectural firms including two Medicine Hat firms. Calgary and Edmonton were well represented with others from Vancouver and Toronto. A shortlist of six will be interviewed and final selection made in four weeks.
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City Hall
Dave Cormier
Medicine Hat
Calgary
Edmonton
Vancouver
Toronto
Cormier
New
Begin blasts U S for PLO visa in independence day speech
Prime Minister Menachem Begin condemned the United States over granting a visa to Shafik el Hout head of the PLO Beirut office. He warned a future U S negotiation with the PLO would be a black day for free mankind. Begin expressed optimism about reaching a Palestinian autonomy agreement with Egypt while protecting Jewish settlements. Parallel protests erupted in the West Bank as Israeli nationalists demonstrated.
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Jerusalem
Menachem Begin
United States
PLO
Egypt
Israel
West Bank
Jordan River
Saudi Arabia
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Anwar Sadat
Begin
Israel Radio
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Shafik el-Hout
Beirut
el-Hout
Pipefitters may be rehired after Fluor lockout
About 280 pipefitters were given termination notices at the Pacific Petroleum ethane plant site near Empress after a union dispute over camp conditions and a kitchen. Fluor Canada said those laid off are eligible to return, while two workers were not reinstated.
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Paul Bilodeau
News Empress
Pacific Petroleums
Fluor Canada Ltd
Dast
Buppore i Trell
Laurie Cook
Buss
United Association of Plumbers and
NEWS
Fluor
Empress
Cook
RCMP
Lyle Tackaberry
Southern Alberta Building Trades Council
Tackaberry
Empress Tuesday
Pacific Petroleum
Lyon asks Ottawa for more flood aid to Manitoba
Premier Sterling Lyon urged Prime Minister Trudeau for increased federal assistance as thousands are flooded out. He presented a letter proposing changes to compensation and talks with U S officials on long term flood issues, including funding to protect farm buildings. Ottawa will review the proposals.
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Winnipeg
Sterling Lyon
Trudeau
Manitoba
Lyon
U. S
Motahari Assassinated in Iran Prompting National Mourning
Iran declares a day of national mourning for Ayatullah Morteza Motahari, a top Shiite leader and council head shot leaving a Tehran dinner. The killing, claimed by the secret Forghan group, follows the assassination of Gen. Mohammad Wali Gharani, intensifying turmoil as Bazargan contends with revolutionary courts and political power.
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Iran
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Motahari
Torfeh Hospital
Ayendegan
Forghan
Mohammad Wali Gharani
Radio Tehran
Islamic Revolutionary Council
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini
Pars
Islamic Revolutionary Courts
Mehdi Bazargan
Khomeini
U.S. oil firms accused of illegal price changes
Seven major oil companies face an administrative complaint from the U.S. energy department alleging they overcharged customers by 1.7 billion dollars over six years. The case claims improper redrawing of oil properties and inclusion of nonproducing wells to boost prices. If upheld, penalties could rise to 2.4 billion.
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Washington
U.S. Energy Department
Department
Texaco Inc
Standard Oil Co
California
Ohio
Indiana
Marathon Oil Co
Gulf Oil Corp
Atlantic Richfield Co
US. Treasury
Prisoner Overpowered After Hostage Situation at Dorchester Penitentiary
Gerald Joseph MacDonald, 20, serving 14 years for attempted murder, was subdued around 7 30 p m Tuesday after holding a prison employee since Monday. He demanded amphetamines cigarettes and a talk with his brother. He had been sniffing a solvent in the workshop and was placed in solitary confinement.
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Dorchester
N.B
Federal Penitentiary
Gerald Joseph MacDonald
MacDonald
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