Congress warns on Great Lakes clean up delays
Congressional report criticizes U S agencies for slow rules on vessel sewage and oil pollution on shared waterways. It cites a 26 month delay by EPA and a January 1973 coast guard hearing target, warns such delays may jeopardize the 1972 U S Canada water quality agreement and notes rising Puget Sound oil traffic and spill penalties remaining low.
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Rod Currie Washington
Great Lakes
Nixon
Trudeau
Ottawa
United States
U.S
House of Representatives Conservation
Natural Resources
Henry S. Reuss
Dem. Wis
Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Coast Guard
EPA
William D. Ruckelshaus
Reuss
Coast Guard
Canada
Interior Department
Bomb threats and wage hikes echo across Canada and Alberta
In Alberta, Labour Minister Bert Hohol announced a minimum wage rise to 1.75 dollars an hour for full time workers from January 1 1973 with part timers moved to 1.25. In Montreal a letter bomb addressed to the Israeli consul triggered police disposal action as Ottawa ordered security checks on all mail to Israeli missions after recent London and Geneva incidents linked to Black September.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Bert Hohol
Hohol
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Shaanan
London
Robert Cote
The
Ottawa
Canada
Montreal
Munich Probe Clears German Police Actions in 1972 Rescue
A Bavarian state and federal report exonerates West German police for opening fire during the 1972 Munich hostage rescue attempt. It says officers fired when four of eight guerrillas were targets at Fuerstenfeldbruck airfield, a raid that left five Arabs and one officer dead and the hostages killed by Arab fire.
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Ronn
Reuter
Fuerstenfeldbruck
Glassworkers Vote Today At Redcliff Plant Strike Looms
A strike vote is held today at the Dominion Glass plant in Redcliff. Confirmed by United Glass and Ceramic Workers shop steward Fay Cunningham. Negotiations continue at the Park Lane Hotel with government officials supervising the vote.
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Dominion Glass
Redcliff
United Glass and Ceramic Workers
Fay Cunningham
Park Lane
Israelis fear new wave of letter bombs across Europe
Eight letter bombs found in London two in Paris three in Geneva and two in Jerusalem target Israeli officials including Transport Minister Shimon Peres and diplomats in London Geneva Paris and Jerusalem. Police defused the devices as Arab attacks heighten tensions across the region and a London killing prompts warnings ahead of the Jewish new year.
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London
Paris
Geneva
Jerusalem
Shimon Peres
Europe
Ami Shachori
Harmess
Soldiers on alert at Belfast hospital
British soldiers at Belfast Royal Victoria Hospital were on alert for IRA attacks after the guerrillas warned the hospital site would be a target. An army post sits near the main buildings as violence continues in the Falls Road area with gun battles and sniper fire reported. A Saor Eire group member kidnapped a Belfast director for eight hours in a separate incident.
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Reuter-Ap Belfast
Belfast
Royal Victoria
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
IRA
Falls Road
Saor Eire
Free Ireland
Patrick Mackie
Mackie
Mackie Engineering
Ulster
Canadian tourist recalls harsh Kampala detention
Fred Romanik a 26 year old instrument engineer from Windsor Ontario described being confined in a 40 by 20 foot room with about 65 detainees in Kampala central police station from Sunday morning to Monday afternoon. He said detainees slept on a concrete floor without food or blankets and witnessed British journalists jailed and interrogated before non British detainees were released.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Reuter
Kampala
Calcutta
Fred Romanik
Windsor
Ont
Romanik
Uganda
Murchison Falls
Central
Uganda claims victory over invading force near Masaka
Uganda reports 300 of about 1,500 attackers killed and 50 captured as the border towns of Mutukula and Masaka are recaptured or dispersed. Civilian casualties include 150 dead with a white teacher among the victims. An American Peace Corps worker was shot dead in the fighting. Nine Americans detained, six British journalists expelled.
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Kampala
Reuter
Uganda
Tanzania
Idi Amin
Mbarara
Nairobi
Masaka
Mutukula
Amin
Buganda
West Nile
Karamoja
Teso
Associated Press
Andrew Torchia
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