Peigan water blockade sparks stalemate in Alberta
Chief Nelson Small Legs Sr. of the Peigan Indians says no settlement is near over land compensation for irrigation use after a dam blockade cuts water to about 133000 acres and 900 families. Band guards the dam amid injunction and possible Ottawa action.
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Brocket
Alta
Nelson Small Legs
Lethbridge
Small Legs
Irrigation District Council
Sme
Ung
American Indian Movement
Alberta Supreme Court
Bob Morrison
Lethbridge Rcmp
Cal Lee
Native Secretariat
Bob Bogle
Alberta
Edmonton
V. Crapnell
Picture Butte
RCMP
Lougheed to face oil boom issues on northern cabinet tour
Premier Peter Lougheed leads Alberta ministers on a touring mission to Cold Lake Lloydminster Lac La Biche Redwater Gibbons Korchild Grand Centre Tofield Vegreville and Bonnyville to assess regional oil boom concerns. Officials expect debates on employment housing and environmental impacts.
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Lougheed
Tour
Edmonton
Peter Lougheed
Alberta
Cold Lake
Lloydminster
Environment
Dave Russell
Crown Land
Dallas Schmidt
Om Chambers
Lac la Biche
Central
Bob Clark
Don Getty
Clark
Imperial
Conservation Board
Redwater
Gibbons
Korchild
Grand Centre
Tofield
Vegreville
Bonnyville
Refugees Worry Over Vietnam China Tensions
Hong Kong reports say Chinese fleeing Vietnam cite persecution by Vietnamese authorities and demand talks. Hanoi denies, cites rumors and business losses as reasons. Officials note 89 700 Chinese residents expelled since April, with many in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Hong Kong
Vietnam
Hanoi
Peking
Hsinhua
China
Cambodia
Nhan Dan
Vietnamese Communist Party
South Vietnam
Ta Kung Pao
Wen Wei Po
Kwangchow
Foochow
Foreign Ministry
Ho Chi Minh City
Saigon
Whites flee Zaire as Mobutu seeks help
Two planeloads of whites escape Shaba capital Lubumbashi amid rebel threats. Belgian sources report hundreds of soldiers aiding the airlift while denying a mass evacuation. Mobutu Sese Seko travels to Morocco seeking more military aid. authorities say no male foreign departure is allowed to protect mining.
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Kinshasa
Zaire
Shaba
Lubumbashi
Mobutu Sese Seko
Paris
Morocco
Kamina
Fungurume
Elisabethville
Kolwezi
Mobutu
Mesrine Evades Police Move to Paris Area
Police shifted the manhunt for Jacques Mesrine to the Paris area after he slipped through a dragnet in western France. The infamous prisoner forced a couple to drive him and a companion from the Normandy region to a crossroads near Versailles, about 24 kilometres southwest of Paris. He previously escaped from a Montreal jail in 1972 while serving a 10 year term for abducting a Quebec industrialist.
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Paris
France
Jacques Mesrine
Canada
Normandy
Versailles
Mesrine
Montreal
Quebec
West German terror suspects captured in Yugoslavia
Four of West Germany's most wanted terrorists were captured in Yugoslavia, including Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Rolf Wagner. Bonn asks Belgrade to extradite the four, while Yugoslavia seeks unidentified detainees. An extradition treaty from 1974 governs exchanges, officials said. Details of the arrests were not released.
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Bonn
West Germany
Yugoslavia
Justice Ministry
Sepp Binder
Hanns-Martin Schleyer
Belgrade
Binder
Brigitte Mohnhaupt
Rolf Clemens Wagner
Peter Boock
Sieglinde Gutrun Hoffmann
China quake fuels methane gas debate on Earth's energy reserve
A Chinese report details large gas emissions before the 1975 Haicheng quake, cited by Cornell's Thomas Gold as support for a theory that the Earth harbors vast methane energy. Observers noted an “earth gas” scent and dense fog prior to the quake, with speculation on gas-driven atmospheric changes and earthquake precursors.
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New York
China
Thomas Gold
Cornell University
Dandelions Tasted In Italian Canadian Home Cooking
Panfilo Corvetti of Toronto's Italian Community Education Centre loves dandelion greens boiled like spinach and fried in oil with lemon and salt. Dale Hoy of the University of Toronto notes the common weed is not native to Canada, imported by early settlers.
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Toronto
Panfilo Corvetti
Corvetti
Abruzzi
Italy
Dale Hoy
University of Toronto
Canada
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Heather Bader
Hilda
Susan Gardiner
Cameron Road
Medicine Hat
Doug Bader
Gardiner
Frank Webber
Bill Sass
Gold
Center For Radiophysics and Space Research
Cornell
Ta Geophysica Sinica
Liaoning Province
Manchuria
Haicheng
Tangshan
Liaoning
Talien
Dairen
Liaoyang
Tanjung
Yalu River
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