Sadat purges rivals as Egypt reshapes cabinet
President Anwar Sadat orders arrests of top political figures, including former war minister Gen. Mohamed Fawzi and ex-assembly speaker Sabib Shoukair, amid a broad crackdown. A new cabinet is sworn in with Gen. Ahmad Ismail heading general intelligence and Lt Gen Mohamed Sadek becoming war minister. Disclosures say taped plots and bugging preceded the purge, with Aly Sabry named as a key troublemaker.
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Cairo
Reuter
Anwar Sadat
Mohamed Dakroury
Arab Socialist Union
Egypt
Abdel Mohsen Abould Nour
Mohamed Fawzi
National Assembly
Sabib Shoukair
Sadat
Mohamed Ahmed Sadek
Fawzy
Mamdouh Salem
Interior
Gomaa
Libya
Syria
Benghazi
Aly Sabry
Sabry
Saadat
Private affluence and public squalor drive tax structure
Energy Minister J J Greene told the Petroleum Accountants Society of Western Canada that private affluence and public squalor shape Canada's tax system. He noted the Carter royal commission found 70 percent of the tax load falls on those earning under seven thousand dollars annually, while many large companies pay little. He said federal white paper proposals aimed to spark participation but drew reactions from those who felt hurt.
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Jasper
Alta
Canada
Energy
J. J. Greene
Petroleum Accountants’ Society of Western Canada
Greene
Protesters Seek Broad Access to Pipeline Files
Environmentalists backed by a court order demand Interior disclose over 1 000 Trans Alaska Pipeline documents by May 23. The groups won access to more than 1 000 items including internal memos and communications with oil firms, amid battles over the 800 mile route from Alaska to Valdez.
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Washington
United States Interior Department
Department
Environmental Defence Fund
Friends of the Earth and the Wilderness Society
Interior Department
Interior
Defence Department
Inter-Office
Arctic
Alaska
Valdez
U.S. Senators clash with White House over troop cuts
Senate foreign relations members Case Pell criticized White House remarks as undiplomatic while Cooper urged independent judgment on Mansfield troop-cut plan. Nixon aides push to block the amendment as undecided senators balance support and opposition amid a high stakes lobbying effort. Acheson echoed calls for reciprocal Soviet cuts, prompting Pell to label it asinine and off putting to skeptics.
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Washington
United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
U.S
Europe
White House
William P. Rogers
John Sherman Cooper
Rep. Ry
Mike Mansfield
Rogers
Nixon
Raps
Case
Mansfield
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Congress
Pell
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Views around the globe feared U S troops pullout
Bonn chancellor Brandt's government fears a unilateral US troop withdrawal from Europe would jeopardize West Germany's efforts to improve ties with Eastern Europe. In New York the FBI has a warrant for Leslie Bacon and an undercover witness ready to testify against her in a plot to firebomb a First National City Bank branch. In Saigon, Hanoi and Viet Cong losses totaled sixty in a 25 mile eastern Cambodia drive, according to Saigon headquarters.
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Bonn
Willy Brandt
United States
Europe
West Germany
New York
FBI
Leslie Bacon
First National City Bank
Saigon
Cambodia
Farm legislation sent to committee
OTTAWA CP The Commons sent to committee a bill opposed by MPs as harming family farmers while the government says it protects farmers from weather and world trade. The bill offers a $100 million cash payment to grain growers for 1970 and a joint farmer government fund to aid when grain industry income falls below the five year average.
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Ottawa
Commons
Agriculture Committee
House
Gerald Baldwin
Trudeau seeks constitutional focus at Victoria talks
Prime Minister Trudeau told Parliament that federal provincial talks in Victoria should prioritize constitutional issues and not be derailed by unemployment or taxation discussions. He said other subjects could be addressed only after constitutional matters are settled, signaling potential extensions if Ontario's Davis pushes broader talks.
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Gabe Li
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Olson
Ottawa
Trudeau
Victoria
Commons
William Davis
Canada
Alberta
Robert Thompson
Soviet Union
Davis
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Ture
Frank Mackey
Gen
Ahmad Is
Olson Greene
Bud’ Olson
Pipeline
Canadian Cattlemen’s Association
National Marketing Council
Mr. Olson
U.S. Administration
Clifford P. Case
Rep. N.J
Claiborne Pell
Dem. R.I
Otto Lang
Canadian Wheat Board
John Burton
NDP
Regina East
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