Too early to decide on aid to farmers Trudeau says
Prime Minister Trudeau warns Ottawa cannot intervene to aid Prairie farmers until the situation reaches crisis proportions after early snowfalls. He spoke to a crowd of about 5,500 at the Stampede Corral in Calgary during a southern Alberta campaign blitz.
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Don Sellar Southam
Calgary
Ottawa
Ation
Trudeau
Alberta
Stampede Corral
Unifarm
Saskatchewan
Mr. Trudeau
Ontario
Quebec
Ottawa bans sale of firecrackers to public
Energy Minister Donald Macdonald announces an immediate ban on selling firecrackers to the general public and tightens regulations under the Canada Explosives Act. Fireworks distributors may sell display pieces only to permit holders, with new training and competency requirements forthcoming. sparklers and roman candles restricted to buyers 18 and over.
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Ottawa
Donald Macdonald
Macdonald
Trudeau touts DREE plan at Medicine Hat town hall
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau defended the federal regional economic expansion program in a one hour town hall at the Medicine Hat Elks Club. He cited a one billion dollar four year investment with half to the Maritimes to foster unity and noted DREE aided industrial growth in Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. He also praised Official Languages Act and tax reform for reducing the tax rolls by one million and cutting taxes for five million. He warned against unemployment insurance abuse and said job refusals will lead to removal from rolls.
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Pierre Trudeau
H.A
Bud) Olson
Medicine Hat
Federal
Department of Regional Economic Expansion
Canada
Trudeau
Medicine Hat Elks Club
Stuart Lake
Canadian Press Ottawa Bureau
Liberal Party
Maritimes
Lethbridge
Canada and Soviets clash over hockey referees
MOSCOW CP A dispute over referees erupted between Team Canada and Soviet officials as Canada and Russia stood 3 3 in victories with one game left. Coach Sinden and officials met Soviet negotiators led by Romanski and Bobrov with Starovoitov in Vienna. Canadian position opposed two West German referees for the crucial final game.
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Moscow
Team Canada
Canada
Russia
Harry Sinden
Sinden
John Ferguson
Alan Eagleson
Kirill Romanski
Vsevolod Bobrov
Boris Kulagin
Andrei Starovoitov
Vienna
Gary Smith
Eagleson
Sir Alec urges UN action on Ugandan Asian expulsion
British Foreign Minister Sir Alec Douglas home urged the General Assembly to treat the Ugandan Asian expulsion as urgent. He condemned Idi Amin's 90 day departure deadline, said some Asians should be accepted, and called for international help and resettlement. Britain noted 15 countries offered places, with the United States evaluating admission for about 1000.
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United Nations
Alec Douglas-Home
General Assembly
Alec
Idi Amin
Amin
Britain
Douglas-Home
Assembly
Canada
New Zealand
Sweden
U.S. State Department
Justice Department
United States
ASES
Kurt Waldheim
Uganda
No Peace Prize Awarded by Nobel Committee
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee announced no Peace Prize will be awarded this year. It marks the 19th omission since 1901, with Willy Brandt the 1971 laureate and the last omission in 1967. The prize money of about $100,000 stays in the Nobel fund.
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Oslo
Nobel Prize Committee
Willy Brandt
West Germany
Nobel Committee
Nobel Fund
Dominion Glass workers ratify new two year contract
Dominion Glass employees voted 82 percent in favor of a new two year contract averting a strike at the Redcliff plant. The deal raises hourly wages for women to 3.15 to 3.43 in year one and 3.43 to 3.72 in year two, lowers the basic work week to 40 hours, adds holiday benefits and company paid health coverage, retroactive to August 16 1972 and running to August 16 1974. International Union representative Lewis Toole announced the settlement after four months of negotiations and multiple conciliation efforts.
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Dominion Glass
Redcliff
United Glass and Ceramics Workers Union
International Union
Lewis Toole
Harmony Hall
Toole
Dentists weigh new Alberta government offer
The Alberta Dental Association considers a revised offer to pay 90 per cent of the normal fee schedule for welfare patients, after Health Minister Neil Crawford proposed 80 per cent. If accepted, the plan would bill the association at 90 per cent of the usual rates and pass payment through to the government, replacing the monthly cap system. The union will decide at a Thursday meeting, with the association signaling likely approval.
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Edmonton
Alberta Dental Association
Neil Crawford
George Decker
Alberta
Turner backs U S plan at IMF meeting in Washington
Canadian Finance Minister John Turner told the IMF gathering that the world monetary system has averted disaster and that the stage is set for orderly reform. He supported linking trade and monetary reform, urged stopping protectionism, and endorsed moving away from dollar dominance toward Special Drawing Rights while the U S strengthens its balance of payments.
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Washington
John Turner
Canada
International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting
World Monetary System
Turner
U.S
IMF
Shultz
United States
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George Shultz
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