Record turnout expected in today's federal vote
The Canadian Press notes more than 10 million Canadians will vote across 68 000 polling places from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time to decide a House of Commons majority or minority. Key leaders Trudeau Clark Broadbent Roy shape a tense race amid unemployment inflation and energy concerns.
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Pierre Trudeau
Joe Clark
Progressive Conservatives
House of Commons
Ed Broadbent
New Democratic Party
Fabien Roy
Social Credit
Quebec
Broadbent
Trudeau
Roy
Clark
Mexico Breaks Ties With Somoza Regime After U.S. Aid Cut
Mexico denounced U.S. aid to Nicaragua and urged Washington to end all assistance to Gen Anastasio Somoza Debayle. President Portillo called for regional peers to sever relations, as Costa Rica and others echo measures amid Nicaragua's ongoing civil conflict and refugee exodus.
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N.Y. Times
Mexico City
Nicaragua
Mexico
United States
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Jorge Castaneda
Carter
Somoza
Congress
House of Legislation
Panama Canal
Washington
U.S
Managua
Carlos Andres Perez
Venezuela
Newsweek Magazine
Jose Lopez Portillo
Rodrigo Carazo Odio
Costa Rica
Castaneda
Weekend Crashes Claim Two Killed In Separate Runs
Two men died in weekend single car crashes. Robert Dale Kruger 22 of 202 12th St. S.W. died at the scene after his car left Southview Drive near a curve at about 5 30 a.m. Saturday. Vehicle damage was about 2000 dollars. Edward Len Hawkins 18 of Bow Island died early Sunday when his car left a gravel road near Highway 3 west of Bow Island and rolled onto its roof. Two passengers were injured. John Ernst remained critical but stable in Calgary and Pamela Barnaby was listed as satisfactory in Claresholm hospitals.
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Robert Dale Kruger
12Th St. S.W
Edward Len Hawkins
Bow Island
Kruger
Southview Drive
Hawkins
Highway 3
RCMP
John Ernst
Calgary
Foothills General Hospital
Pamela Barnaby
Claresholm
Claresholm Hospital
Israel toughens West Bank talks position for US mediation
Israel prepares a detailed proposal for Palestinian self rule in the West Bank and Gaza for Friday talks with the United States and Egypt, with cabinet sources saying the package is more specific than Prime Minister Begin’s draft.
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Israel
West Bank
Jerusalem
United States
Egypt
Jordan River
Gaza Strip
Menachem Begin
Beirut
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Rashidiyeh
Ras el Ein
Moshe Dayan
Ezer Weizman
Beersheba
Tornadoes strike near Regina tearing barn and elevator
Tornadoes ripped through southern Saskatchewan on Monday damaging a farmer's barn and a grain elevator near Regina. No casualties were reported. Warren Denzin, a farmer north of Regina, witnessed a tornado destroy a neighbor's home and barn.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Warren Denzin
Reactor licences delayed after Three Mile Island review
The NRC will halt new nuclear plant licences for at least three months to apply lessons from the Three Mile Island incident. Denton proposes a temporary 15 member “Lessons Learned” committee to review a dozen issues from the March accident. Lancaster seeks court orders blocking radioactive wastewater discharge until an environmental impact study is completed.
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Washington
United States
Three Mile Island
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
Harold Denton
Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Roger Boyd
Leonard Bickwit
Lancaster
Federal
House of Representatives
White House
Special Commission
Carter
James Weaver
Dem. Ore
Denton
Central
Pennsylvania
Oil executives deny withholding gasoline from U S market
US oil executives testified that they are not withholding gas for higher prices and blamed the squeeze on limited crude oil. White House spokesmen and senators pressed for answers as Iran production and Middle East unrest shape shortages.
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Washington
U.S
Middle East
United States
O'Leary
Senate Energy
James DeNike
Shell Oil Co
Chevron
Annon Card
Texaco
C. R. Sitter
Exxon Co
White House
Powell
Congress
Carter
Officials Cut Supplies to Venezuelan Embassy in San Salvador
San Salvador authorities cut off food water and electricity to the Venezuelan embassy to pressure nine members of the Popular Revolutionary Bloc occupying it since May 11 They pledged to keep up the protest after eight hostages including Ambassador Santiago Ochoa escaped.
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San Salvador
Popular Revolutionary Bloc
Santiago Ochoa
Panama
Carlos Humberto Romero
Bloc
el Salvador
Romero
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