02 Apr 1982
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Apr 02, 1982
Page
1
Linda Carney assistant curator at the Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery is a versatile artist known for depicting city and country scenes in watercolors and drawings.
Canada Energy Minister Marc Lalonde announced measures to improve markets for western light and heavy crudes left in the ground. The plan includes export charge adjustments, yearlong export terms for surplus heavy crude, and negotiations on light heavy crude exchanges via the United States while evaluating Saskatchewan light sour crude as potential surplus. Officials will set import targets with industry reps.
Argentina declares seizure of the Falkland Islands and threatens war to keep the archipelago. British Foreign Secretary Carrington says Port Stanley is occupied and diplomatic relations with Argentina are broken.
Former Alberta premier Harry Strom says the Social Credit party is dead after the Western Canada Concept captures Albertans’ imagination. He notes parallels to 1935 and 1985 reform movements and cautions against separatism while predicting an inevitable collapse.
Interim leader Al Maygard clings to power after Gordon Kesler claims the pledge to step down has not been fulfilled. Kesler and other WCC figures push for a leadership convention before the next provincial election, with potential contenders including Kesler, Maygard, Dr. Fred Marshall, and Ray Speaker.
In Ottawa the case centers on Elton Killam of Petitcodiac New Brunswick who refused a $9 million bribe offer from Soviet agent Mikhail Abramov to obtain new fibre optics samples. Killam’s ties to Russians were revealed by the Soviet embassy, prompting his expulsion and sparking RCMP and government clarifications.
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