By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Following are some of the
major news stories which oc-
curred during the 1970s,

1870
LAPORTE KILLED

Jan. 11 — Break-away
state of ‘Biafra collapees
under attack by Nigeria;
massive internatlonal rellef
operations launched to feed
atarving Biafrana,

Feb, 27 — Federal govern-
ment offera farmers up to
$140 milllon not to grow

20 Liberal

wins Quebec election with 72
seats to 17 for Union
Nationale, 13 for Credltistes
and seven for Partl Que-
becols.

July 5 — Alt 10¥ persons
aboard Air Canada DC-8 jet
Liner killed in crash near To-
ronto,

Aug. 11 — Seven armed,
masked men escape with
mailbags containing an
estimated $200,000 to $1
million at Ancienne Lorette
Airport in Quebec.

Oct. 5 — James Cross,
Britlsh trade commissioner
in Montreal, kidnapped by
members of Frant de
Liberation du Quebec.

Oct, 10 — FLQ kidnaps
Plerre Laporte, Quebec
ralnister of labor and im-
migration, in Montreal.

Oct. 16 — War Measures
Act proclaimed; roundup of
FLQ suspects begins.

Oct, 17 — Strangled body
of Plexre Laporte found in
trunk of car.

Noy. 6 — Bernard Lortie,
19, arrested in connection
with Laporte kidnapping,

Dec, 3— James Cross re-
leased unharmed; his three
captors flown to Cubel in ex-
change for release. :

his brother Jacques, 23, and

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e decade in a diary

Oct, 6 — Hostilities break
out between Israel and
Egypt and Syrla in Slnai
Desert and Golan Helghts.

Oct, 12 — Prealdent Nixon
iominates Gerald Ford as
vicepreaident, succeeding

Spiro Agnew, who reaigned |

atter pleading no contest to
income tax evasion charges.

Nov. 19 — Montreal jury
acquits Dr. Henry
Morgenthaler on charge of
performing an illegal
abortion. :

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NIXON RESIGNS

Jan. 6— Global, Canada's
third TV network, begins
broadcasting.

Feb. 4 — Newspaper
heiress’: Patricia Hearst
abducted in Berkeley, Calif.

Feb. 13 — Russian author
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
deported to West Germany.

April 3 — Kidnapped
Patricia Hearst says she is
renouncing family .and
joining Symbionese

‘Liberation Army.

May 7 == Finance Minister
Helmut Schmidt appointed
chancellor of West Germany
succeeding Willy Brandt,
who resigns, accepting
reaponaibility for allowing
East German spy to join his
staff. .. °

July § — Liberals returned

in federal election with 141
seats to95 for Conservatives,
18 NDP, 11 Social Credit and
one independent.

Aug.i8 — Pregident Nixon
resigns in. favor of vice-
preaidgnt Gerald Ford.

15 Sti
FRANCO, CHIANG DIE

_ March 11 Margaret
Thatcher wins British
Conservative party

leadership. ..
_.Mareh 28 — Nephew

Francis Simard, 29, agrested., ganthaler again acquitted on

in Laporte kidnapping,: 5-(; -¢harge of pesiorming illegal ..-

1971
CHINA ENTERS UN.

Jan. 23 — Charles Manson
and three young women con-
victed of slaying actress
Sharon Tate and three others
in August, 1969.

Feb. 1 — Canadian flag
flies over embassy in
Peking; 11 Chinese
diplomats arrive in Ottawa

to open relations with feats:
Canada,

‘overmment in
coe PUG) UB i | atething &
switehes bait gnor npia’’ elett fon,

Feb. 15+ Britain

operation.

June 11 — Hostage Mary
Steihhauser killed as New
Westminster ,
guards storm vault where 15
pelson staff members held
by convicts.

Sept. 18 — Fugitive news-

‘paper, helress Patricia
Hearst arrested in San
Francisco.

Dev. it > Soclal Credit de-

to decimal currency system: “pq GAINS POWER” =|

March 4— Prime minister
Trudeau marries Margaret
Sinclair.

March 11— Paul Rose sen-
tenced to life imprisonment
for murder of Pierre
Laporte,

May 20 — Francis Simard
sentenced to life im-
ptisonment for Pierre
Laporte murder.

June 36 — Three Russian
cosmonauts die.on return to
earth after marathon or-
biting program.

Nov. 22 — Bernard Lortie
receives 20-year sentence far
Kidnapping Pierre Laporte.

Dec. § — Canadian dollar
closes above par with U.S.
dollar for first time since
1981,

1912
JOEY STEPS DOWN

Jan. 18 Joseph
Smallwood realgns as
premier of Newfoundland.

June 3 — Thirty-one
policemen injured as mob of
2,000 tries to crash Rolling
Stones concert In Vancouver.

Aug. 30 New
Democratic Party defeats
W.A.C. Bennett's Social
Credit government in Britieh
Columbia.

Sept. 1 — Nightclub blaze
kills 37 after three men hurl
flrebomb in Montreal.

Sept. 28 — Team Canada
wins last game in Moscow ta
take elght-game hockey
series with Soviet Union 4-3
with one game tied.

Oct, 30 — Liberals gain mi-
norlty victory in federal
election with 100 seats to
Conservatives’ 107 in 264-
seat House.

Dec. 27 — Former prime
minister Lester Pearson

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1973
VIETNAM WAR ENDS

Jan. t — Britaln joing Eu-
ropean Economic Com-
munity.

Aug. 21 — Supreme Court
of Canada rules that native
women marrying non-
Indlans lose Indian atatus.

Aug. 30 — About 200
atriking rail workers force
way into Central Block of
Parliament Buildings,
breaking windows and
scuffling with police, in
protest againat legislated
end of rall strike.

Sept. il Chilean
esident Salvador Allende

ied in milltary coup.

Oct, & — Jules Leger,
Canadian ambassador to
Belgium and Luxembourg,
hamed to succeed Gov.-Gen.
Roland Michener, taking
office the following January.

_

Jap. 21 — Britain and
France launch supersonic
commercial air travel with
Concorde jets,

March 19 — Princess °

ud! Araia, ~
June #—'Dr; Henry Mor- -

penitentiary -

Margaret and LordSnowdon -

announce separation.

July 4 — Israeli com. .

mandoa rescue 100 hostages
from hijacked airliner held
by pro-Palestinian terrorists
at-intebbe Alport ‘in
Uganda.

July 14 — Canadian MPs
yote” to abollsh death
penalty,

Sept. 18 — Montreal jury
acquits Dr. Henry
Morgenthaler for third ime
on abortlon charge.

Sept, 24 — Patricia Hearst
given seven-year term for
armed robbery.

Oct. 22 — Chairman Mao's
widow and ‘three others
purged for trying to selze
power In China.

Nov.2— Democrat Jimmy °-

Carter wins U.S. presidential
election.

Nov 9 — Rene Leveaque’s
separatist Part] Quebecois
wins landalide victory over
Liberal premier Robert
Bourassa’ in provincial
election.

1977
SADAT VISITS ISRAEL
Jan, 10 — Five Cubans, in-
cluding three diplomats, or-
dered out of Canada afler
discovery of spy operation in
Montrea

March -20 — Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi's
Congress party defeated by
Morarji Desal’s Janata
coallticn in Indian election.

April 1 — Parti Quebecois
proclaims -:end of official
recognition of two languages
In Quebec, making province
French in all aspects of
public life.

July § -- Pakistani army
coup deposes prime minister
Zulfikar All Bhutto.

Sept. 7 — Toronto. swim-
mer Cindy Nicholas becomes
firat woman to complete
double crossing of Engllah
Channel, ‘

; is
minister Indira Gandhi of
India arrested on corruption
chrges,

Dec. 40— Basque region of
northern Spain granted
home rule.

1978
TEST-TUBE BABY BORN
Jan, 6 Sun Life
Assurance Co, announces
plans ta move head office
Montreal to Toronto

because of Quebec's
language laws..
Jan, 36 — Solicitor.

General Francis Fox resigns

after admitting he forged
signature on document in
abortion case,

July 25 — First baby
Imown to have been ar-
tificlally conceived outside a
woman’s body born to Mrs.
Lesley Brown in Oldham,
England.

Aug. 4— Forty persons die
when bus carrying han-
dicapped plunges into lake
near Eastman, Que.

Aug. 6 — Pope Paul VI
dies, :

Sept, 23 — Pope John Paul
1 dies after relgning one
month,

Oct, 16 — Karal Cardinal
Wojtyla’ becomes firat non-
Itallan Pope in 456 years,
taking name of John Paul Il.

Oct, 25 — Five leaders of
Canadian Union of Postal
Workers charged with
defying government
legislation ordering strikers
back to work.

Nov. 18 US.
congresaman Leo Ryan and
four others killed In visit to
religious sect In Guyana,

culminating in suicide of 912
sect members. «
Dec. 18 — Jacques

CosetteTrudeal and his wife
Loulse return to Montreal
from Paris to face trial
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TRUDEAU DEFEATED
Jan. 16— Shah of Iran and
family fly into exile.

Jan. 22 Edward
Schreyer installed ‘as
Governor-General of
Canada.

May 22 — Conservatives
under Joe Clark win
minority victory over Prime
Minister Trudeau in general

election with 136 seats to 114.

for Liberals, 24 for NDP and
six for Soclal Credit.

June 1 — Rhodesia of-
ficially becomes Zim-
babweRhodesla, Africa’s
neweat black-ruled state,
after 69 years as a British
colony.

June 22— Jeremy Thorpe,
former British Liberal party’
leader, and three co-
defendants acquitted of
conspiring to murder former
male model Norman Scott,
who claimed he and Thorpe
had been lovers.

July 17 — Nicaraguan
President Anastasio Somoza
resigns and flees into exile as
Sandinista guerrilla army
cloaes in on Managua.

Aug. 27 — Earl Mount-
batten of Burma and two
others killed in bomb ex-

- plosion aboard his cabin

crulser at Sligo, [reland.

Sept. 25 — Montreal Star
ceases publication after 110
years.

Oct. 26 — South Korean
President Park Chung-hee
assassinated.

Oct. 27 Premier
Levesque officially opens.
firat stage of James Bay
power development at La
Grande, Que.

Nov. 4— Moslem students
storm U.S, Embassy in
Tehran, selze 63 hostages
and vow to keep them until

. the deposed shah, in a New

York hospital suffering from
cancer, ls returned for trial.

Nov. 11 — More than 200
residents of Mississauga,
Ont., and a small part of
Oakville evacuated from
their homes for up to alx
days because of fear of
major chlorine gas escape.
aiter explosion and fire
followed derailment of CP
Rail frelght train.

Noy. 21 — Pierre Trudeau
announces resignation as
Liberal leader.

Dec, 13 — Conservative
government defeated in
confidence vote on budget,
leading to diasolutlon of
Commons and election call
for Feb. 18. ‘

Dee. 17 — Patriotic Front
guerrillas agree to ceasefire
and political settlement in
Zimbabwe Rhodesia,

Dee, 18 — Trudeau agrees
to postpone retirement and
lead Liberals in election.

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a difficult job.

Or living with the constant
tension that an explosive situation
could erupt at any time.

For Murray Barnes the satisfac-
tion comes from knowing he's doing

And doing it well.

Murray Barnes is a correctional officer with the
B.C. Corrections Branch.
Not the kind of occupation most of us would
choose to spend 8 hours a day at. For any amount

So what is it about the job that has made Murray

stay with it for over 12 years?
It certainly isn’t the long hours spent on the tiers.
Or the lonely night shifts in the protective

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It also comes in knowing he’s providing a necessary

service to the people of B.C.

Murray Barnes is only one of the more than 43,000

members of the B.C. Government Employees’ Union
working for you all over the Province.

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At all kinds of jobs.
Under all kinds of working conditions.
All people whose skill, experience and dedica-
cation have made our provincial public employees
among the most efficient anywhere in North
America today.
And that's something to
be proud of.
So the next time you're goir'g to
the office, think about Murray Barties