15 May 1972
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 15, 1972
Page
1
British paratroops carved a fragile line between Catholic Ballymurphy and Protestant Springmartin as Belfast endured its deadliest weekend in months. Nine killed, including a 13 year old, over 2,000 shots fired, with 327 deaths in nearly three years of sectarian warfare.
South Vietnamese forces reoccupied Fire Base Bastogne 12 miles west of Hue after fierce fighting and B 52 strikes. North Vietnam conducts major offensives across the region with bombardments near An Loc and Kontum while Cam Ranh Bay air base is handed to Saigon and redeployed by U S forces.
Police detained an electrician suspected of starting the Saturday night fire at a Osaka rooftop cabaret. Investigators question the manager who escaped, as the death toll rose to 48 men and 69 women, with many succumbing to poison gas and smoke.
In Montreal and Sept Iles labor unrest escalates with 800 Quebec City blue collar workers walking out for 24 hours. Montreal transit crews vote to strike after union leaders push for action while city services roll back, protests spread to Le Devoir newsroom, and public service occupations continue amid jailings of union leaders.
Peking Reuters reports China names five new vice foreign ministers in a bid to boost international relations. Two foreign ministry assistants are named, including a woman believed to be Mao Tse-tung's niece, signaling a broader role for foreign affairs in top-level policy. The appointees are Chung Hsi tung, Ma Wen-po, Ho Ying, Fu Hao and Yu Chan.
Britain’s disrupted rail system moves toward normal service as an Appeals Court session continues the union appeal against the Industrial Relations Court order for a compulsory ballot of 230,000 railway workers. The case follows a weekend go slow that halted traffic for 32 hours and caused widespread cancellations.
Early this morning city police and fire departments began dragging the South Saskatchewan River for a body. Fire officials said the search started shortly after 5 a.m. near the Trans-Canada bridge, but both departments declined to provide further details.
Moscow reports indicate Tass and Pravda published London and New York dispatches about President Nixon’s upcoming visit and the ongoing preparations, marking the first Soviet coverage since the U S mining of North Vietnamese ports.
The ninth biennial convention of the Canadian Labor Congress opens in Ottawa with about 1,800 delegates urging defense of the strike right. CLC President Donald MacDonald warns that banning strikes kills bargaining and attacks collective bargaining. He condemns Quebec back-to-work legislation as company unionism and argues against compulsory arbitration.
Tokyo marking the end of 27 years of U S occupation drew 33,000 protesters against bases on Okinawa with police estimating 200,000 joining rallies mainland wide. Violence minimal with petrol bombs at a Tokyo base and a police post. no injuries reported.
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