Trudeau Tied To Office In Fractured Canadian Vote
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau refused to quit after a tie in Canada’s general election and sought a session of Parliament to test the government’s fate. New Democratic leader David Lewis pledged support for a Liberal minority or slim majority, while Conservative remarks suggested potential changes after recounts in several districts.
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Canada
New Democratic Party
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House of Commons
Roland Michener
Commons
House
Robert Stanfield
David Lewis
New Democrats
Lewis
New Democratic
John Diefenbaker
Conservative
NDP
Diefenbaker
Inside sections and columns in Valley News page
A compact listing of inside features includes Ann Landers Deaths Editorials Heloise and Sports Markets Television Theater Want Ads and Women’s Seiad items. The fragment suggests a newspaper page area with syndicated advice, obituaries, entertainment, and market notes.
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Women’s
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Billboard error shows Schmitz candidate portraits swapped
Motorists along a busy highway near Lancaster California encounter a misleading billboard six days after it went up. The candidate pictures are transposed and John G Schmitz, the presidential hopeful, is the mustached figure identified. The mix up concerns supporters of the American Party.
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John G. Schmitz
Nixon says Vietnam settlement only when right not before
President Nixon told a nationwide audience he will sign the Vietnam peace accord only when it is right not tied to an election deadline. He outlined goals including the return of prisoners and a ceasefire in Indochina, while noting Hanoi watchers will judge if peace with honor is possible. McGovern criticized the talks as not going well.
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No Letup In War Activity Across Vietnam Fronts
More than 100 U S B52 bombers ranged across North and South Vietnam and Laos in a ninth straight day of attacks. Bombing hit the Ho Chi Minh supply network from central highlands to the southern panhandle and into Laos while US fighters scored strikes on supply routes depots and trucks. Casualties included 32 North Vietnamese killed in a dawn clash near An Loc and 4 South Vietnamese soldiers killed with 2 wounded in Saigon area fighting.
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Central Highlands
Chilean Officials Name New 15 Member Cabinet
President Salvador Allende tapped Gen. Carlos Prats interior minister and line of succession, Gen. Augusto Pinochet to head the army, Rear Adm. Ismael Huerta for public works, and Air Force Gen. Claudio Sepulveda to mine affairs as part of ending a month of crippling strikes in Santiago.
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Salvador Allende
Carlos Prats
Allende
Augusto Pinochet
Jobless Rate Stays Same As Employment Rises
Washington AP The Labor Department reports total employment rose nearly 700000 to 82.7 million while the jobless rate held at 5.5 percent. Unemployment fell about 200000 to 4.5 million on a seasonally adjusted basis, average earnings held at 3.73 per hour and 139.13 weekly, with weekly pay up 9.63 or 7.4 percent over the year. Unemployment among men at 3.9 percent, women 5.5 percent, teens 15.3 percent. whites 5 percent, non whites 10.1 percent. Employment rise continues a climb since 1971, 2.7 million higher than a year ago.
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Washington
Labor Department
Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Wage-Price Controls Likely To Stay In 1973-74 Debate
Nixon’s wage price controls face an uncertain future with officials agreeing it would be dangerous to drop them soon. If reelected, he could decide in January whether to keep, modify, or drop the program as the budget, economy and public mood shape policy. Public support for controls persists, though Nixon reportedly detests them and economists warn of distortions the longer they endure.
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Washington
Nixon
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High Price Commission
Weather Forecast For Middletown Area Silently Shifts
Fair skies and cooler temperatures are forecast for tonight and Saturday with no rain expected in the Middletown area. Lows will be in the upper 30s, highs in the upper 50s to low 60s. yesterday’s high reached 70 and the overnight low 40. Rainfall recorded was 0.25 inches.
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Middletown
U.S. Plans Civilian Military Advisers in Vietnam
Reported secret plans would keep American civilian advisers in South Vietnam after troop withdrawal, to be hired by private firms under Defense or State Department contracts. The draft Paris peace accord calls for U S force withdrawal within 60 days of a cease fire, while equipment is rushed to Saigon, including 30 four engine transport planes.
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