Decision delayed on urban renewal in Medicine Hat
City Council hears federal and provincial agencies will not decide on two proposed redevelopment schemes until an economic feasibility study is completed. Mayor Meagher criticizes the pace, notes a seven year timetable, and motions to seek alternative sites for a senior citizens home in the B-1 area.
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Medicine Hat
Chuck Meagher
Meagher
Calgary
Central Mortgage and Housing Corporations
Bill O’riley
Ald
Pete Simpson
South Saskatchewan River
CPR
Lions Park
Simpson
Ald. Simpson
Gordon Sissons
O’riley
Ald. Sissons
Reimer Pledges Tax Change if NDP Wins Alberta
Alberta New Democrat Leader Neil Reimer told a Edson rally that if the NDP forms government after the provincial election it will call the legislature into session to review the tax structure. He argued education costs should be funded from resource revenues rather than property taxes. Reimer seeks Edson seat once held by Bill Switzer who seeks re election.
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Edson
Alta
Neil Reimer
Alberta New Democratic Party
NDP
Reimer
Liberals
Bill Switzer
Anti U K protest in Peking over Hong Kong policy
Tens of thousands of Chinese demonstrators in Peking burned a straw effigy of British Prime Minister Wilson and protested British actions in Hong Kong. Red Guards daubed the British mission and Hopson home with slogans while British staff left the building. Police took no action as crowds gathered at the gate.
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Peking
Reuters
Wilson
Hong Kong
Hang Wilson
Donald Hopson
Chinese Foreign Ministry
Mao Tse-tung
Pearson says Vietnam policy unchanged despite debate
Prime Minister Pearson announced in Ottawa that Canada's Vietnam policy remains unchanged and rejected a special Commons debate on the issue. Opposition Leader Diefenbaker pressed Gordon's antiwar views, while external and internal ministers defended the throne speech as the forum for discussion and policy.
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Pearson
Vietnam
Ottawa
Privy Council
Walter Gordon
Diefenbaker
Gordon
United States
John Turner
Martin
Canada
Commons
External Affairs Department
New Democrat
Douglas
New Brunswick
Toronto
Dana Porter
Ontario
Canadian farmers gain from Geneva tariff bargain
Ottawa reports that Canada will reap rewards from the Kennedy round in Geneva with U S tariff cuts on up to 1.5 billion dollars of Canadian goods annually. Trade Minister Winters says fully six billion of last year’s ten billion in exports went to the United States and that broad reductions will help farmers coast to coast.
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Ottawa
United States
Canada
Winters
Commons
U.S
Geneva
Chou En-lai interview denial from Beijing
The Chinese government denied that Premier Chou En-lai gave an interview to Simon Malley of Jeune Afrique and other papers. Malley said he spoke with Chou for about two and a half hours during a visit to Peking, but Beijing called the report a fabrication.
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Tokyo
China
Chou En-lai
Simon Malley
Jeune Afrique
Peking
New China
Chinese Foreign Ministry
Malley
Chou
Chicago Daily News
United Nations
New York
Foreign Ministry
Cambodia
France
Soviet Union
Chinese Communist Party
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Cairo
Egypt
U.S
United States
Alberta film withdrawn before provincial election
Kenneth Hutchinson, director of Alberta's Centennial film West To The Mountains, asks Roke Distributors to postpone seven bookings in Alberta on May 22 and 23 to avoid political impropriety during the General Election. The 30 minute Canawest Films production with Burl Ives music faces temporary withdrawal but will resume Alberta showings after election day before touring Canada and overseas.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Roke
Calgary
Kenneth Hutchinson
Department of Industry and Development
Canawest Films of
Burl Ives
E. C. Manning
Hutchinson
Canada
China says war with U.S. is inevitable warns of global clash
In exclusive interviews from Peking, Chou En-lai and Chen Yi outline a grim forecast of a U.S. China war linked to Vietnam. They describe underground atomic plants, massive mobilization plans, and a goal to deter aggression with potential Soviet reentry to power if conflict erupts.
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U.S
Chou En-Lai
China
United States
Tip
World Newsbeat
Peking
Simon Maley
Russia
Malley
Forbidden City
Chou
Viet
Chen Yi
Chen
Earth
Washington
Moscow
Yang Chen-wu
U. S
Taiwan
Formosa
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Medicine Hat Golf Club
Ken Sturn
Sturn
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Chen Po-ta
Yang Chengwu
Communist Party
Alberta Film
Nam
America
Thailand
Korea
Laos
Marshal Wangs
U.S.S.R
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