U S and Soviet swap spies to end prison stalemate
The United States and the Soviet Union exchanged prisoners in a deal that freed reporter Nicholas Daniloff and handed a Soviet UN employee to Moscow. Daniloff left Moscow alerting his wife as he traveled in a U S Embassy limousine. It remained uncertain if he will face trial or return home.
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Washington
Soviet Union
U.S
United States
George Shultz
Shultz
Nicholas Daniloff
KGB
U.S. News and World Report
Gennadiy Zakharov
United Nations
Daniloff
Moscow
Lefortovo
USS
Ruth
Richard Combs
Wall Street Extends Losses Amid Heavy Trading
The market pressed lower with the Dow dropping 46 points at noon and again later but a brief rally faded. Volume neared 193 million by 2 pm as losers outnumbered gainers four to one on the NYSE while IBM, Philip Morris, GE and Ford showed sizable declines and the TSE also fell.
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New York
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Toronto Stock Exchange
Chilled Crops Face Delayed Alberta Harvest
A cold front brings snow and showers across Southern Alberta with harvest hampered. In Medicine Hat and Cypress Hills areas winds gust to 52 kmh and temperatures hover near freezing while central Alberta reports frost damage to canola and only about one percent of swathing completed.
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Paul Strickland
Alberta
Elkwater
Dennis Reese
Cypress Hills Provincial Park
Reese
Medicine Hat
British Columbia
Rockies
Gerard Langevin
Alberta Weather Centre
Edmonton
Pine Lake
Red Deer
Highway 2
Loessin
Langevin
Wilma Brost
Les Brost
Cypress Hills
Walsh
Summit Strikes Accord On Middle East Peace Talks
Egyptian President Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Peres agree to form a preparatory committee for an international peace conference. They call 1987 a year of negotiations, with focus on involving the Palestinians and breaking the regional impasse. The plan seeks a framework for direct Israel Arab talks and wider participation.
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Shimon Peres
Hosni Mubarak
Ras-El-Tin
Alexandria
Egypt
Middle East
Mubarak
Jordan
Israel
United States
Soviet Union
Mubarak and
Peres
Pipeline cuts prices to East as contracts bind Alberta gas
TransCanada Pipelines requires 722 producers to sign a two year contract with four Central Canadian distributors. The deal includes a seven percent discount on the Alberta border price for gas and could lower a thousand cubic feet price by 59 to 70 cents for signatories. August Alberta gas was about $3 per thousand cubic feet. The plan aims for market stability though producers face reduced revenue.
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Calgary
TransCanada Pipelines Ltd
Bob Reid
Western Gas Marketing Ltd
TransCanada
Alberta
Lowell Jackson
Canada Northwest Energy Ltd
Ottawa
Secret RCMP memo links 1957 Norman death to leaking
A high level RCMP memo alleges a deliberate leak of distorted security information to U S Army sources sparked the 1957 death by own action of Canadian ambassador Herbert Norman in Cairo. The notes claim U S Army or State Department channels leaked RCMP files used by a Senate investigator to brand Norman a communist.
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Peter Calamas
Southam
Ottawa
Herbert Norman
Cairo
RCMP
U.S. Army
Len Nicholson
Stuart Garson
Norman
U.S. Senate
Senate
Lester Pearson
Nicholson
Pearson
U.S
State Department
Army
FBI
Japan
Canada
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Ann Landers
Doonesbury
Streeteenr
Greg Heakes
John R. Walker
Wall
Commerce Department
Labor Department
NYSE
International Business
Philip Morris
General Electric
Ford Motor
Mac
Corey Loessin
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