Israeli chiefs hear report on Olympics security lapses
Israeli cabinet spent nearly three hours reviewing a detailed security report on the Munich Olympic abduction and killings of 11 delegation members. The briefing by security heads and the Bonn ambassador cited glaring deficiencies in Israeli and German arrangements and directed Prime Minister Golda Meir to present a definitive accounting and recommended safeguards for Israelis abroad.
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Terence Smith
Jerusalem
Munich
Bonn
Eliashey Ben Horin
Golda Meir
Beirut
Lebanon
Reuter
Tripoli
Libya
Radio Libya
Black September
Bourguiba
Olympic Village
Black September Organization
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Arab League
Willie Duame
Cairo
Syria
Middle East
Israel
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Tunisia
Algeria
Sudan
Morocco
Palestine Liberation Organization
League
Hahmoud Riad
Olympic Stadium
China Orders Boeings to Modernize Civil Fleet
China signed a contract in Peking to buy 10 Boeing 707s, a key step toward opening airline service to Europe Africa and Canada. The move follows a push to replace propeller planes with modern jets and aligns with earlier deliveries and orders from the Soviet Union Britain France and Concorde. Possible international routes include Romania Yugoslavia Albania Cairo Addis Ababa Tokyo and Canada.
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Hong Kong
Peking
China
Europe
Africa
Canada
Boeing
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Romania
Yugoslavia
Albania
Cairo
Addis Ababa
Tokyo
Protestants Unite in Ulster Loyalist Front Pact
In Belfast the United Loyalist Front forged by Ulster Defence Association Ulster Vanguard and Loyalist Association of Workers vows to resist any political solution denying Protestant power. Protestants strike at two Belfast power plants amid fears Ballylumford may join. Vanguard leader William Craig becomes Protestant bloc’s strongman challenging William Whitelaw.
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Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
United Loyalist Front
Ulster Defence Association
Ulster Vanguard Movement
Loyalist Association of Workers
Ballylumford
Ulster
William Craig
Craig
William Whitelaw
ULF
Blakeney warns on $30 million grain backlog at Vancouver
Saskatchewan Premier Allan Blakeney warned that delays at the Vancouver waterfront could cost Saskatchewan farmers about 30 million bushels in shipments abroad. He urged grain companies to negotiate with the union to prevent further harm to farmers and the economy, noting backlogs as nine ships loaded and 16 at anchor while cooperation across the supply chain is needed.
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Vancouver
Saskatchewan
Allan Blakeney
Bill Duncan
Blakeney
Canadians Return Home From Munich Olympics
About 190 of Canada's 230 athletes arrived at Montreal International Airport after the Munich Games. Dick Pound praised the event while athletes noted fatigue and the mounting tensions from the Israeli team killings, with mixed views on security and the crisis response.
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Canada
Jennifer McHugh
Donna Marie Gurr
Montreal International
Munich
Germany
Montreal
Dick Pound
Pound
Sue Smith
Edmonton
Hofbrau Haus
Bill Mahoney
Alan Pyle
Toronto
Ralph Hutton
Ocean Falls
B.C
Hutton
Pyle
Olympic Village
John Richardson
London
Ont
Richardson
Bennett to step down as British Columbia leader
Premier W A C Bennett will resign as BC Social Credit leader next spring and likely exit as premier to hand power to NDP leader elect Dave Barrett. A May leadership convention was announced, with Bennett planning to stay as an ordinary MLA pending his personal plans. The result ends his 20 year leadership amid talk of successors including son Bill Bennett or Leslie Peterson.
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Nick Hills
Southam Western Bureau
Vancouver
W. A. C. Bennett
B.C. Social Credit
Social Credit
Bennett
NDP
Dave Barrett
Phil Gaglardi
Bill
Leslie Peterson
Social Credit League
George Driediger
Driediger
John Nicholson
Barrett
Canada sees drop in jobless rate in August
Statistics Canada reports unemployment fell to 5.4 percent in August from 5.8 percent in July with 503000 unemployed, down from 543000 in July. Labor force shrank to 9.27 million as seasonal trends influence the underlying trend to 6.7 percent.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Statistics Bureau
Canada
Ontario
Prairies
Atlantic
Quebec
British Columbia
Telstat signs up customers for Anik I lease
TELSTAT and eight partners sign a five year 30 million dollar lease for two channels of Anik I. The 12 channel satellite will orbit 22 400 miles out south of central Alberta remaining stationary via Earth's rotation. It will provide 960 two way voice channels across Canada and expand North communications and television signals. The project costs about 100 million dollars for two satellites with a seven year life.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Telesat Canada
Alberta
Trans-Canada Telephone System
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific Telecommunications
Telesat
CBC
Bell Canada
J. C. Carlile
Trans- Canada Telephone System
David Golden
Mr. Golden
National Aeronautics and Space Administration of
United States
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Ulster Hospital
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Telstat
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