24 May 1973
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 24, 1973
Page
1
SAIGON CP. The 290 member Canadian truce observer contingent faces crisis as a split report on the April 7 crash that killed Capt. Charles Laviolette widens. External Affairs Minister Sharp to decide whether to keep troops in South Vietnam or withdraw after May 30.
Lord Jellicoe, senior cabinet member and Lord Privy Seal, resigns amid a widening sex scandal linked to Lord Lambton. He admits casual affairs and says the publication would invite criticism while denying blackmail or national security threats. Prime Minister Heath faces a crisis akin to the Profumo affair era.
Ottawa minister Otto Lang declined to commit to a Tokyo grain marketing office and said a decision on including rapeseed, rye and flax under board jurisdiction would come in autumn. The Commons committee also rejected cutting the Canada Grains Council budget, while defending its value to the industry.
Prime Minister Trudeau kept hopes high that the federal plan to transfer health financing to the provinces will be accepted by premiers in Ottawa. If no agreement is reached, the proposal would die and the conference would shift to other topics.
The Skylab salvage mission advances with the Apollo crew carrying sunshades and tools to fix the crippled station 272 miles above Earth. Commander Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, and Paul Weitz aim for a 9 a.m. EDT Friday Saturn I B launch, hoping to shade and cool the lab and restore power for a longer mission.
Ottawa outlines a policy allowing Indian bands to run their own schools with federal funds. Up to 100 million dollars will be transferred as education control shifts to about 500 bands, impacting around 73 000 pupils on reserves. The rollout is gradual with no firm start date and requires agreements with Treasury Board and teachers’ associations.
In his swan song Maxwell Henderson calls out the Treasury Board for circuventing parliamentary approval and cites hundreds of questionable spending cases. He urges expanded powers and staff for the auditor-general’s office and records a 30 million plus defence deal as example of bypassed controls.
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