Rhodesia Brings British Stance to Backdrop of Talks Failure
Salisbury reports the Rhodesian government blames Britain for failing to negotiate a settlement of the 34 year independence dispute. A white paper details 20 years of Anglo Rhodesian talks and says Britain rejected Rhodesian concessions and insisted on Fearless terms. The June 20 referendum on a new constitution looms as blacks vastly outnumber whites.
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Reuters
Britain
Tiger
Gibraltar
Ian Smith
Wilson
Smith
Fearless
Judicial Committee
British Privy Council
London
Decent housing a right says MP in housing debate
Liberal MPs joined Conservatives and others to question if measures will help Canadians unable to afford housing. Debates covered rent control, CMHC reforms, low-cost housing, and urban renewal as MPs urged policy changes and lower interest rates to ease the housing shortage.
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New Democrats
Douglas Stewart
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Mr. Stewart
Jack Bigg
Pc—Pembna
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L—York East
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Grace McInnis
NDP
Vancouver Kingsway
Robert Andras
CMHC
Otte
Stewart
NHA
B.C
Snipers and Soldiers Battle in Cordoba Violence
In Cordoba snipers and soldiers fought through the night as six people died over two days of unrest. The rest of Argentina remained calmer after the general strike, with trucks and armored personnel carriers patrolling the streets in the country’s third largest city.
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Cordoba
Argentina
Canada Taiwan rift widens amid Beijing talks
Ottawa faced growing strains as Mitchell Sharp linked recognizing Peking to possible severance of ties with Taiwan. Chinese ambassador called Sharp's stance a crisis, while ministers warned Taiwan relations would be affected if Canada recognizes China.
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Mitchell Sharp
Peking
Chiang Kai-shek
Sharp
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Canada
Taiwan
Hsueh Yu-chi
Teepee protest in Edmonton over housing discrimination
An Indigenous woman Lillian Piche with four children set up a 18 foot diameter teepee on Sir Winston Churchill Square to protest housing discrimination against welfare families. Neighbors offered help while city officials declined immediate involvement.
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Edmonton
Sir Winston Churchill Square
Lillian Piche
Piche
Patricia
Pamela
Kevin
Tanis
Jack Burham
Terry Lefebvre
Canadian Renters and Leaseholders Association
Lefebvre
Memorial Day Observances Include Parades Protests
The 102nd Memorial Day featured parades vigils and antiwar protests across the U S Vice President Agnew laid a wreath at Arlington urging democracy while President Nixon called for peace This weekend safety officials expect 550 to 650 traffic deaths in the holiday period in New York City 35 parades were held amid a Brooklyn clash between police and a protester
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Arlington National Cemetery
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Key Biscayne, Fla
Vietnam
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New York City
Five Boroughs
John Y. Lindsay
Brooklyn
Drift ice threat hen four Arctic explorers press on
Four explorers who first crossed the Arctic Ocean trek face drifting ice as two members leap to small islet and back. Expedition leader Wally Herberg says ice is broken and dangerous while the party camps on a drifting floe near Spitsbergen awaiting possible helicopter rescue.
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Arctic Ocean
Wally Herberg
Egypt
Arctic
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Spitsbergen
Endurance
Oil spill from Golan Heights blast reaches Jordan River
Blazing patches of crude oil floated down the Jordan River toward Lake Tiberias in Israel after an oil pipeline was blown up in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. A Liberian tanker and a Norwegian ship collided twelve miles south of Trelleborg, killing one. About 320 students were arrested near Tokyo airport after clashes with 1,500 demonstrators opposing Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi's departure for talks in Washington.
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Reuters
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Israel
Golan Heights
Trelleborg
Tokyo
Kiichi Aichi
Washington
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