Haida War Canoe Sets Sail for Hawaii on 3700 Kilometre Voyage
Vancouver skipper Geordie Tocher 51 launches the Orenda with Karin Lind 34 and Gerhard Kiesel 54 aboard a 12.6 metre dugout carved from Douglas Fir. The three seek proof Haida paddled to Hawaii 1400 years ago as they begin a six week voyage from Vancouver.
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Vancouver
Karin Lind
Hawaii
Geordie Tocher
West Vancouver
British Columbia
Hawaiian Islands
Gerhard Kiesel
North Vancouver
Tocher
San Francisco
Italians Rally Behind Christian Democrats After Moro Slaying
Initial local election returns show a strong swing to the Christian Democrats under Aldo Moro. As votes tally, the Red Brigades fatally wounded a car factory official in Bologna while Trent reports indicate CD gains and Communist Socialist losses.
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Rome
Christian Democrat Party
Aldo Moro
Red Brigades
Bologna
Trent
Christian Democrats
Moro
Christian Democrat
Communists
Zaire Taps Allies as Katangan Invasion Flares in Shaba
Zaire fights Katangan exiles and Cuban troops in Shaba as Mobutu seeks help from the United States Belgium France and Morocco. Invasion crosses from Angola via Zambia with about 4000 invaders reported near Kolwezi while attacks continue at Mutshatsha and Kolwezi districts.
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Kinshasa
Zaire
Shaba
Mobutu Sese Seko
AZAP
Zambia
Angola
Cupied
Kolwezi
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Congo
Belgium
Brussels
Mutshatsha
Angola-Zaire
Benguela
Foreign Ministry
United States
France
China
Morocco
Mobutu
Ethiopia threatens renewed war in Horn of Africa
In Jijiga, Lt. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam warned Somalia to halt support for Ogaden guerrillas or face a cross border campaign. He accused Somalia and external powers of arming rebels, while Eritrea’s 16 year conflict complicates Addis Ababa’s position.
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Jijiga
Ethiopia
Somalia
Eritrea
Cuba
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Horn of Africa
Ogaden
Mengistu
Washington
State Department
U.S
United States
Addis Ababa
Orlov pleads not guilty in anti-Soviet case in Moscow trial
Yuri Orlov founder of a dissident group faces charges of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda as his trial opens in a Moscow courthouse. Tass reports questioning began after his plea. his family attended while friends and foreign reporters were barred. Also in Tbilisi two founders of the Georgian branch plead guilty and face possible seven year labor camp plus internal exile.
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Moscow
Yuri Orlov
Soviet Union
Tass
Orlov
U.S.S.R
Tbilisi
Andrei D. Sakharov
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Merab Kostava
Gamsakhurdia
Kostava
Pyotr Grigorenko
Rhodesia interim government survives first major crisis
Rhodesia's multi racial interim government narrowly avoided collapse after Bishop Abel Muzorewa's UANC decided not to quit over the dismissal of a nationalist minister. The crisis followed the April 28 firing of Byron Hove, a co minister of justice, and turmoil within the UANC as talks continued on speeding up elections and the December 31 deadline for independence.
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Salisbury
Reuter
Rhodesia
Abel Muzorewa
United African National Council
UANC
Byron Hove
Terim
Hove
Executive
Howe
Muzorewa
Executive Council
Ian Smith
Ndabaningi Sithole
Jeremiah Chirau
Mother fights blaze to save sons in Edmonton fire
A mother, Mary Kisil, awoke to screams from a basement fire at 5 a.m. She led her 15 year old daughter Sheila to safety but could not reach the basement. Firefighters found her son David Kisil and neighbor Mark Roper dead from asphyxiation in the gutted house.
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Edmonton
Mary Kisil
David Kisil
Mark Roper
Kisil
Sheila
David
Mongolia rejects China's demand on Soviet troops
Mongolian officials told China on April 12 that Soviet military units would stay in Mongolia until China renounces plans to annex the country. Transcripts from Montsame report a Hanoi style confrontation with long standing Soviet ties and mutual distrust over border pressures.
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Hong Kong
Mongolia
Heilungkiang
Montsame
China
Soviet Union
Woman Dies in Brooks Traffic Accident
A Medicine Hat woman Helen Wagner aged 60 was killed when the car driven by her husband Ted Wagner veered off the Trans-Canada Highway about 6 p.m. Sunday 25 kilometres east of Brooks. Ted Wagner is in fair condition in Brooks hospital. Passenger Darlene Krause 13 is in satisfactory condition in Medicine Hat hospital. Police believe the driver pulled over to let traffic pass before the crash.
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Medicine Hat
Brooks
Brooks Rcmp
Helen Wagner
5Th St. S.E
Ted Wagner
Brooks Hospital
Darlene Krause
Cunliffe Crescent
Wagner
Kill a sasquatch to prove it exists says UW professor
Vancouver CP report covers a weekend conference on humanoid monsters where Grover Krantz argues a fresh kill is needed for a skeleton proof despite objections. John Green supports the hunt, claiming 100,000 exist across North America and urging rifles as the method. Alberta official James Butler cautions against open season and favors communication before shooting.
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Vancouver
Grover Krantz
University of Washington
Krantz
John Green
Harrison Hot Springs
B.C
North America
James Butler
Alberta Recreation, Parks and Wildlife Ministry
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Saskatchewan
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