Alberta bill would let cabinet limit oil production
Alberta Energy Minister Merv Leitch introduced amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act to empower the cabinet to regulate monthly oil production under Crown agreements in the public interest. He said the move broadens power beyond the ERCB and notes similar controls exist for natural gas.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Energy
Merv Leitch
Mines and Minerals Act
Leitch
Marc Lalonde
Energy Resources Conservation Board
ERCB
Petroleum Marketing Commission Act
The
Commission
Cial
Lougheed
Clark
Bogle
NDP
Grant Notley
Quebec
Rollie Cook
Israelis raid guerrillas along Lebanese coast in dawn clash
Seaborne Israeli commandos clashed with Palestinian guerrilla units at Saadiyat near Beirut and Saksakiyeh near Sidon. Five Palestinians were reported killed and several wounded. Israeli forces blew up vehicles and returned home safely. The raids followed a Palestinian attack in Hebron that killed six settlers.
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Beirut
Reuter
Saadiyat
Saksakiyeh
Sidon
Tel Aviv
Lebanon
Litani
Reuters
Damour
West Bank
Hebron
United Nations Security Council
Israel
CLC reconciles with postal workers at national convention
Dennis Mc Dermott was forgiven for his handling of the 1978 postal strike as the Canadian Labor Congress buried the hatchet with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers at its national convention in Winnipeg. The unity came on the eve of CLC executive elections.
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Winnipeg
Dennis McDermott
Canadian Labor Congress
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
CLC
McDermott
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Jean-Claude Parrot
Bob White
United Auto Workers Union
Shirley Carr
Parrot
No side leads in Quebec referendum poll as undecided grows
A Radio-Canada/CROP poll of 856 Quebec voters dated May shows 45 percent no and 40 percent yes on the May 20 referendum with 15 percent undecided. The survey notes rising Liberal support for Claude Ryan and ongoing labor tensions around postal negotiations, unity appeals from major unions, and behind the scenes talks amid the dispute.
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Montreal
Quebec
Sovereignty Association
Radio-Canada
CRC
Centre de Recherches Sur 1 l’Opinion Publique
Claude Ryan
Lalonde weighs federal power over oil amid Alberta clash
Energy Minister Marc Lalonde says Ottawa could use the declaratory power to seize oil control if Alberta blocks production but he aims for a negotiated four year price revenue pact. He warns against blackmail and vows flexibility while expecting talks with Alberta’s Merv Leitch to reach a new deal by June 30.
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Ottawa
Marc Lalonde
Alberta
Lalonde
Southam News
Peter Lougheed
Quebec
Merv Leitch
Canada
Pierre Trudeau
Newfoundland
Leitch
Edmonton
Clark
Energy Department
Saskatchewan
B.C
Iranian embassy siege suspect appears in London court
A 23 year old Iranian dock worker Fowzi Badavi Nejad appeared in a London court charged with serious offenses tied to the six day Embassy siege. He was remanded without bail as prosecutors outline the case including two fatal injuries from the embassy take over.
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London
Fowzi Badavi- Nejad
Nejad
Peter Duffy
Scotland
Yard
Duffy
Special Air Services Regiment
Tehran
William Whitelaw
Britain
Iran
Abbas Lavasani
Ali Akbar Samadzadeh
Kensington
Statues Planned for Four Missing Canadian Cowboys
A Calgary trust fund from more than 150000 dollars raised to search for missing cowboys after their May 22 1979 plane crash will fund life size statues of Brian Claypool Lee Coleman Calvin Bunney and Garry Logan. Tenders are invited for sculpture construction to honor their rodeo specialties.
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Calgary
Howard Claypool
North Battleford
Sask
Brian Claypool
Saskatoon
Lee Coleman
Pierceland
Calvin Bunney
Duchess
Alta
Garry Logan
Sundre
California
Claypool
Jim Freeman
Freeman
Bunney
Coleman
Logan
Yugoslavia bids final farewell to Tito in grand funeral
Yugoslavia observed a massive funeral for President Tito with a five kilometre procession, cannons, and an oak casket lowered into a marble vault. The event featured the new collective leadership, Brezhnev’s presence, and foreign leaders including Mondale, Thatcher, Schmidt, and Hua Guofeng attend.
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Belgrade
Lazar Kolisevski
Tito
Stevan Doronjski
Communist Party
Yugoslavia
Ed Schreyer
Jean Marchard
Allan MacEachen
Saskatchewan
Allan Blakeney
New Brunswick
Richard Hatfield
Walter Mondale
U.S
Leonid Brezhnev
Hua Guofeng
Margaret Thatcher
Britain
Helmut
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Ontario
Petrosar
Sarnia
Provin
Bob Clark
Gerard Amerongen
Scott Matthies
Third Street
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Scott
Robin Schlaht
Petro
Al-Nasser
Oilrich
Khuzestan
Cowboys
Doronjski
Brezhnev
Josip Broz Tito
Joseph Stalin
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