Signalmen begin nationwide rail shutdown in US strike
The AFL CIO Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen led a 6 am walkout crippling freight and passenger service across the United States. White House and Congress faced a stalled mediation fight, with labor secretary Hodgson preparing possible legislation as 300,000 city commuters faced disrupted transit.
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David
Goliath
United States
Nixon
White House
Congress
Aflcio Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
Federal Railroad Administration
Chicago
U.S
New York
Long Island Rail Road
Key Biscayne
Fla
James Hodgson
South Shore
South Bend
Indiana
W. J. Usery
Philadelphia
Horner airs political opinions on Question Period
Ottawa CP Jack Horner Liberal? No Conservative MP from Crowfoot briefs on Question Period panel. He criticizes Dalton Camp and Gerald Baldwin while praising Stanfield and Canada’s leader prospects, calling Quebec a difficult problem and debating western representation.
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Ottawa
Jack Horner
Alberta
Crowfoot
Horner
CTV
Robert Stanfield
Dalton Camp
National Party
Gerald W. Baldwin
Peace River
Sadat purges rivals in Cairo clouding Egypt Israel talks
Israeli analysts warn a lull in negotiations with Egypt will follow President Anwar Sadat’s purge of rivals. Washington may struggle to push an Egyptian Israeli accord to reopen the Suez Canal while Meir’s and Eban’s diplomatic schedules proceed. Sadat defends peace moves and announces military, political, and state building paths as he replaces top officials.
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Associated Press
Egypt
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Washington
Suez Canal
Sadat
Israel
Middle East
Israeli consul general kidnapped in Istanbul
Eight armed masked men broke into the residence of Ephraim Elrom in Istanbul, tied him, and abducted him. Police set up barricades on Cumhuriyet Avenue and halted vehicles of the same car used in the kidnapping.
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Istanbul
Reuter
Ephraim Elrom
Comhuriyet Avenue
Elrom
Trudeau Visits Soviet Union Seeks Trade and Arctic Cooperation
Prime Minister Trudeau and wife Margaret arrive in Moscow for a 12 day visit the first by a Canadian leader. Pravda hails the trip as boosting trade and exchanges while talks with Premier Kosygin on European security Indochina and Arctic development themes are anticipated. Brezhnev urges arms reductions and Canada eyes Arctic cooperation during six city tour.
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Soviet Union
Trudeau
Margaret
Pravda
Communist Party
Canada
Alexei Kosygin
Central Asia
Siberia
Kosygin
Indochina
NATO
Leonid Brezhnev
Europe
Brezhnev
IRA acknowledges death of member in Belfast gunfight
The IRA said Lieut. William Reid of the 3rd Battalion Belfast Brigade was killed when an IRA unit ambushed a Royal Highland Fusiliers jeep patrol. A soldier was wounded seriously in the abdomen and another in the arm. The incident marks a shift from IRA hit and run tactics as violence unsettles Ulster’s festival season.
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Belfast
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Royal Highland Fusiliers
London Festival Ballet
Scotland Yard
Beryl Grey
Ballet
William Reid
C Company
3Rd Battalion
David Anderson
Royal Highlanders Battalion
Parliament faces volatile week on Wheat Board and unemployment
Ottawa barrages with debates over Wheat Board Act amendments to include rapeseed flax and rye and finances. Opposition parties press grain policy as unemployment rises to 6.7 percent in April from 6.0 percent in March.
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Ottawa
The
Commons
Canadian Wheat Board
Wheat Board
Canada
Bhava
Lucien Lamoureux
House
Gerald Baldwin
Inquiry to study Kingston rebellion opens in Kingston
An inquiry starts at Kingston Royal Military College into last month’s four day penitentiary riot. Two inmates died and ten others were injured as about 500 prisoners caused extensive damage and 300 prisoners were moved to Millhaven.
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Kingston
Kingston, Ont
Kingston Penitentiary
Toronto
Jean-Pierre Goyer
Royal Military College
Millhaven
Parachute Failure Kills Canadian Sky Diver in Tokyo
Thomas Morgan Howard, a 24 year old Canadian English instructor in Tokyo, died during a sky diving training when his parachute failed after leaping from a Cessna at about 5000 feet. The incident was reported by police.
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Tokyo
Reuter
Thomas Morgan Howard
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