Flood conditions stable in Red River Valley
The Red River Valley flood situation remains stable with 94 highways and provincial roads closed and access to Emerson Letellier Morris and St Adolphe blocked. evacuees advised not to rush home until hydro lines water supplies and wells are checked amid potential contamination.
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Red River Valley
Emerson, Letellier, Morris and
St. Adolphe
Winnipeg
Harry Enns
Emergency Measures Organization
EMO
Enns
Red River
Morris
St. Agathe
Ministers clash over Quebec policy
Defence Minister Barney Danson publicly disagreed with cabinet colleague Pierre de Bane over using federal buying power to force firms to stay in Quebec. Danson rejected coercion and sanctions against companies that choose to relocate to another province.
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Ottawa
Barney Danson
Pierre de Bane
Quebec
Danson
Toronto
de Bane
Saskatchewan
Dawson
Amin's soldiers flee as Tanzanian advance tightens grip
Remnants of Idi Amin's army flee from northern Uganda into Sudan and Zaire as Tanzanian forces extend government control east and north of Kampala. Amin still holds about half the country north of a line from Soroti to Masindi. Columns of Tanzanian troops with Ugandan exiles face little resistance while moving toward Amin’s homeland in the northwest. A brief mortar attack near Soroti wounds two Tanzanian officers and kills one Amin fighter.
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Kampala
Idi Amin
Uganda
Sudan
Zaire
Amin
Soroti
Masindi
Northland
Thatcher set to become Britain’s first woman prime minister
Britain moved toward conservatism as Margaret Thatcher led in early results with a projected majority of 25 to 39 seats in the 635 seat House of Commons. Labor trailed after five years in power as votes counted from Thursday's election continued.
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London
Britain
Margaret Thatcher
10 Downing Street
House of Commons
Thatcher
Western Europe
Labor
Liberal Party
Plaid Cymru
Scottish National Party
England
Joe Gormley
National Union of Mineworkers
U.S
London Stock Exchange
Callaghan
David Steel
Cardiff
Steel
Liberals
Jeremy Thorpe
North Devon
Tony Speller
Thorpe
Old Bailey
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sri Lanka
Indira Gandhi
India
Golda Meir
Israel
Isabel Peron
Argentina
Harold Macmillan
King Defends Sex Education Stance In Alberta
Education Minister Dave King argues sex education should be home based and moral instruction should accompany schooling. He says public schools cannot be value free and calls for debate among parents and teachers while not yet formalizing policy. He plans to study existing Alberta findings and may alter board influence on curricula.
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Edmonton
Dave King
King
Alberta
Curriculum Policies Board
Britain general election standings after constituency count
London dispatch notes preliminary results from 625 of 635 constituencies with party standings at dissolution.
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London
Vance and Dobrynin Near Final SALT Accord, Summit Plans
Secretaries of State and the Soviet ambassador held talks amid hopes for a SALT final conclusion next week. President Carter said negotiations are in the final stage and a Carter Brezhnev summit could be set for mid next month with site discussions centering on Stockholm Helsinki Geneva Vienna and Moscow as health issues influence venue choice.
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Vance
Dobrynin
Stockholm
Helsinki
Geneva
Vienna
Brezhnev
United States
Moscow
Hodding Carter
Ment
Goyer recalls delayed notice of 1972 Montreal break in
Former solicitor general Jean-Pierre Goyer testified at the McDonald inquiry that he did not learn of the October 1972 break in at the APLQ until spring 1976. He said a telegram blaming police arrived while he was away, and that RCMP advised him not to answer.
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Southam News
Ottawa
Jean-Pierre Goyer
RCMP
Montreal
Goyer
McDonald Commission
Mounties
Quebec
Agence de Presse Libre du Quebec
APLQ
Commission
Jerome Choquette
Donald Cobb
Clark clarifies stand on RCMP lawbreaking
Ottawa CP reports Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark says cabinet ministers should allow police to break the law in extraordinary cases and then report to a secrecy-all-party MPs committee. He notes the committee might inform the prime minister of impropriety and resignations could be considered. Clark hung the idea on McDonald commission findings.
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Ottawa
Joe Clark
Clark
CBC
RCMP
McDonald Commission
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