Canada consumer prices continue upward trend in 1968
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports the consumer price index rose to 156 in August from 155.6 in July, a 3.4 percent year over year gain from August 1967. Food costs drove the rise, with bread up 2.6 percent and eggs higher, while milk and sugar held steady.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
CBS
Calgary
Toronto
Montreal
Winnipeg
Lawyers urge broader changes to sex laws in Canada
The Canadian Bar Association urged Ottawa to raise the age of consent by province under the Juvenile Delinquency Act, possibly to 16 or 18. It also backed studying constitutional rights, opposed blanket obscenity limits, and pressed for judges to discharge some guilty verdicts.
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Vancouver
Canadian Bar Association
Trudeau
Ottawa
John James Saucier
Calgary
CBA
Association
Turner
Mackasey to meet Lakehead strike negotiators in Ottawa
Ottawa sources say Labour Minister Bryce Mackasey will host a Sunday meeting with Lakehead elevator companies and the United Grain Handlers union at the Labour Department after mediator D S Tysoe withdrew from talks. about 1300 grain handlers in Fort William and Port Arthur have been on strike since July 18 halting western grain movement.
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Ottawa
Lakehead
Bryce Mackasey
Labor Department
Trudeau
Post Office
Port Arthur
D. S. Tysoe
Mackasey
Tysoe J
Fort William
Great Lakes
Tysoe
Wave of terror hits Saigon as Viet Cong attacks mount
Saigon faced seven Viet Cong assaults in 24 hours with 10 killed and 21 wounded mostly by grenades. A bomb at a Cholon office injured two children, and a rocket hit Saigon’s southern edge killing one woman and wounding 11 as authorities warned of a broader terror campaign.
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Saigon
U.S
Cholon
Stanfield urges talks with provinces on poverty plan
Opposition Leader Stanfield urged immediate Ottawa provincial talks to craft a comprehensive poverty program. He cited the Economic Council of Canada report praising efforts and called for urgent consultation and a renewed welfare overhaul with ideas like guaranteed minimum income and negative income tax.
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Ottawa
Stanfield
Economic Council of Canada
Council
Canada
Nigeria
International Red Cross
Ment
Economic Council
Police chiefs oppose relaxing drug and morality laws
Canadian police chiefs at Granby vote unanimously to keep marijuana under Narcotics Act provisions and reject easing laws on homosexual acts. They cite risks of depravity and crime, while approving uniform highway codes and cross border pursuit pact. A committee on organized crime gets federal representation. parental testimony rules in child beating cases are amended.
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Granby
Que
Canadian Association of Police Chiefs
Western
Canada
A. J. Cookson
Regina
Federal Justice Department
Association
Committee On Organized Crime
Pueblo case likely settled by Monday says Seoul paper
A South Korean newspaper reports U.S. and North Korean negotiators near a settlement in the Pueblo incident with North Korea promising important reports on Sunday.
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Seoul
U.S
Pueblo
East European press warns of harsher Czech occupation terms
The Yugoslav Tanjug reports ominous signs from East German and Bulgarian media about Czechoslovakia. It cites Neues Deutschland praising ongoing Soviet aligned policy, Bulgarian papers denying rapid troop withdrawal as illusion, and Soviet outlets stressing that restoring Prague street signs does not signal normalization.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Tanjug
Neues Deutschland
Prague
Villages Battle Boundaries in Guerrero Three-Day Shootout
In Guerrero State two villages Malinal tepec and San Miguel de Progreso fought over 2 100 acres. Government surveyors and armed villagers clashed leaving 13 dead and 5 wounded as 15 homes burned. Local officials requested medical aid by telegram.
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Mexico City
Guerrero
Malinaltepec
San Miguel de Progreso
San Miguel
Malinal
Tepec
Soviet trouble shooter in Prague presses for Moscow line
Vasily Kuznetsov first Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union met with Czechoslovak President Ludvik Svoboda in Prague for a frank exchange on Moscow relations. Tass warned that normalization alone would not suffice and troops must stay until counter revolutionary dangers are gone. The visit followed Soviet displeasure at liberalization pace and expected talks with Alexander Dubcek.
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Prague
Moscow
Vasily Kuznetsov
Russia
Kuznetsov
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Alexander Dubeck
Kremlin
Tass
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Interior Ministry
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