Police hunt bomber near Toronto subway yards
Police seized a bundle of five sticks of dynamite near the Greenwood subway yards as 250 officers guard TTC property against a bomber who blew up TTC installations to extort 250000 dollars from TTC chairman Ralph Day. The wine drinker John Wade alerted police after a man dropped the dynamite and fled.
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Toronto
Greenwood
Toronto Transit Commission
TTC
Ralph Day
John Wade
Telegram
Forest fire threatens Alberta towns near Slave Lake
A massive 350000 acre forest fire near Slave Lake, Alberta, creeps toward Wagner and Widewater as light winds shift. Firefighters fear the blaze could reach nearby settlements while Slave Lake remains partly safe. About 120 fires burn across the province, with several areas evacuated or prepared for backfires to protect towns along Highway 2.
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Slave Lake
Alta
Toronto
Lesser Slave Lake
Edmonton
Here
Wagner
Widewater
Faust
Neil W. Gilliat
Lands and Forests Department
High Prairie
Regional Welfare Department
Foresters
Glen Gramiak
Bri
Gade
Swsser Slave Lake
Peace River
British Columbia
Dawson Creek
Douglas rails that many Canadians face hardship in the North
Fort William dispatch says Tommy Douglas toured Northern Ontario this week delivering a blunt message that while Bay Street prosperity may exist for some, many Canadians see a harsher reality. He spoke to miners smelter workers and other northerners about unequal conditions.
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Fort William
Tommy Douglas
Ontario
Bay Street
New Democratic Party
Douglas campaigns on bread and butter issues in Canada election
In Sudbury to Fort William, Mr. Douglas pressed a June 25 election focus on poverty, jobs, and housing while criticizing old-line parties for avoiding real issues. The 68-year-old Baptist preacher and college medalist highlighted campaign parables and warned against profiteers amid the political clash.
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Sudbury
Fort William
Douglas
Kapuskasing
Trudeau
Stanfield
NDP Leader Blames Cash Wheat Sales Policy
Winnipeg report notes T. C. Douglas says federal insistence on cash payments for foreign wheat sales contributes to rising prairie wheat stockpiles. Baltimore AP report covers a priest and artist sentenced to six years for pouring blood on draft board files, with a lawyer stating they may seek release during appeal.
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Winnipeg
New Democratic Party
T. C. Douglas
Baltimore, Md
Senior diplomats claim a frame-up in Red expulsion
OTTAWA CP Canadian diplomat Lt Col John V Watson and his wife were expelled from Russia amid a frame-up claim as Moscow accused Watson of spying. Canada issued a protest note, demanded Watson’s Russian counterpart be removed, and said Watson and family were returning home after a five day train journey through Siberia ended with alleged mistreatment and confiscation of film equipment.
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Ottawa
Russia
John V. Watson
Moscow
Helsinki
Canada
V. S. Didenko
Watson
Watsons
Defence
Col. Watson
Toronto
RCAF
Vladivostok
Tokyo
Air
Soviet Foreign Ministry
Siberia
Leningrad
Robert Ford
Siberian
J. W. McDowall
McDowells
Paris riots claim first fatality amid widespread attacks
Paris rioters killed a police commissioner with a truckload of rocks in Lyon and set fire to the Paris Bourse as violence spread across France. Doctors and nurses attempted a temporary truce in a Paris street, but clashes resumed along Boulevard Saint Michel. Riots began after De Gaulle urged reforms. Battles also reported in Strasbourg and Nantes.
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Paris
Lyon
France
de Gaulle
St. Michel
Sorbonne
Strasbourg
Nantes
United States presses Hanoi over troops in South Vietnam
In Paris talks the United States pushes North Vietnam to acknowledge troops in the South. U.S. estimates 85,000 fighters. Harriman and Thuy resume negotiations with demands to end North infiltration and for a full troop withdrawal in any final peace deal. The dispute centers on basic facts and the bombing halt.
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Paris
United States
Hanoi
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Pham van Dong
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Xuan Thuy
Thuy
Harriman
Fighting erupts on Saigon north fringe near Binh Loi bridge
Saigon reels as Marine and U S helicopter gunships strike Viet Cong positions on the northern outskirts. Reuters counts two U S soldiers and thirty Viet Cong dead. estimates place Viet Cong numbers between 100 and 400 as authorities impose a 24 hour curfew. In clashes around the Binh Loi bridge and the Y bridge, casualties include a U S patrol death and multiple injuries. Civilian evacuations rise amid ongoing heavy shelling and hut fires.
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Saigon
U.S
Reuters
Binh Loi
Y Bridge
Troops From Warsaw Pact Cite Czechoslovakia Drills
Soviet and other Communist nations plan Warsaw Pact maneuvers on Czechoslovak soil next month. Defence Minister Martin Czur said drills would occur this year with fewer troops than two years ago, amid liberalization fears.
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Prague
Soviet Union
Martin Czur
Czechoslovakia
Picket outside Mills home enlarges Poor People Campaign
About 100 protesters gathered Friday night outside Representative Wilbur Mills Ark while the Poor People's Campaign broadens targets to homes as well as offices. Mills left early for a prior engagement as police kept doors shut and rains eased. Dr George Wiley leader of the National Welfare Rights Organization denounced Mills for welfare cuts and a proposed 6 billion dollar federal spending reduction.
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Mills
George Wiley
Wiley
National Welfare Rights Organization
Federa
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