Watergate burglar testifies clemency offer linked to White House
James W. McCord Jr. says John Caulfield offered executive clemency and claimed Nixon was aware. He recalls Caulfield saying the president would be informed from the highest White House levels. McCord rejected the deals and testified amid Senate hearings.
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Michael Putzel Washington
James W. McCord Jr
White House
Nixon
McCord
John J. Caulfield
Caulfield
John W. Dean III
Treasury Department
George Washington Parkway
Potomac River
United States
Key Biscayne
Fla
Senate
Warrenton
Watergate
E. Howard Hunt
Highway 355
Maryland
Watergate Grand Jury
Canadian girl may have dived into crocodile-infested river
Rhodesia police launched an aerial search for Marian Ibana Drijber a 19 year old Canadian student from Rockwood Ontario believed shot by Zambian troops and possibly washed into the crocodile infested Zambezi River. Christine Sinclair 19 of Guelph Ontario was killed and an American injured in the same incident.
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Zambezi River
Victoria Falls
Rhodesia
Reuter
Zambezi
Marian Ibana Drijber
Rockwood
Ont
Christine Louise Sinclair
Guelph
Miss Drijber
Miss Sinclair
Ottawa studies two price oil and gas plan policy
Federal Energy Minister Donald Macdonald said Ottawa is studying a two price scheme to shield Canadians from rising U S energy costs. A higher export price for oil and gas to the United States and a lower domestic price are considered with export controls possible if U S shortages spread to Canada.
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Donsellar Southam News Services
Ottawa
Trudeau
United States
Donald Macdonald
U.S
Macdonald
Commons
Canada
NDP
T. C. Douglas
Nanaimo- Cowichan
the Islands
Douglas
ICCS split over cause of April 7 peacekeeping helicopter crash
The four ICCS member nations diverge on whether the Lao Bao mission crash was an accident or shot down. Hungarian and Polish delegates favor accident. Canadian and Indonesian reps say a missile strike occurred in a contested area. Nine died, including Capt. Charles Laviolette and two U.S. pilots. The commission will discuss the report at a regular meeting as it awaits completion.
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International Commission of Control and Supervision
ICCS
Lao Bao
South Vietnam
Charles Laviolette
Quebec City
Quang Tri
Canada expands multicultural programs with $10 million plan
Ottawa announces seven new and expanded programs to boost ethnic awareness costing over $10 million for 1973 74 including a Canadian Identities program with an August National Arts Centre festival and regional events in winter. A Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism is created.
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Ottawa
Stanley Haidasz
Consultative Council On Multiculturalism
Haidasz
The
Commons
National Arts Centre
Canada
National Film Board
National Museum of Man
Prisoners Recaptured After Laval Escape
Three of five inmates who fled the Laval correctional development centre were recaptured without a struggle in Longueuil, police reported, ending the weekend escape.
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Montreal
Laval
Longueuil
Alberta reserves comment on possible two price system
Alberta will not comment on a federal two price system for oil and gas until terms and conditions are known. Mines minister Bill Dickie said Ottawa might require price cuts for gas and oil sold domestically or a fiscal offset. He warned against a price ceiling in Alberta’s western domestic market.
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Macdonald
Ottawa Valley
Western
Canada
Edmonton
Alberta
Bill Dickie
Mines and Minerals
Dickie
Ottawa
Ottawa Valley Line
Post office strike still a possibility in Canada
The Canadian Postmasters Association CPA began conciliation talks with the Treasury Board seeking a third party to break a contract dispute. CPA chief William Ives said progress at the bargaining table is unlikely without mediation. A conciliator would report within 14 days, followed by a conciliation board and potential strike vote. The move could affect about five million postal users nationwide.
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William Ives
Canadian Postmasters Association
CPA
Treasury Board
Ives
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Saigon
International Truce Team
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Alberta Reserves Comment
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