Grenada Officials Ordered To Stand Trial In Bishop Slayings
A Grenada magistrate ordered 19 former government and army officials to stand trial for the slayings of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and seven supporters. Former police commissioner Ian St. Bernard was freed. Convictions could bring hanging or life imprisonment for defendants including Bernard Coard and Gen. Hudson Austin.
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ST. George’s
Grenada
Maurice Bishop
Lyle St. Paul
Ian St. Bernard
Police
Grenada Army
Bernard Coard
Phyllis
Hudson Austin
People’s Revolutionary Army
Montreal engineers and firm fined for 1980 Pakistan shipments
In Quebec Superior Court Justice Gerald Ryan sentenced Salam Elmenyawi, 35, Mohammad Ahmad, 49, and Serabit Electronics Ltd. to 3000 each for shipping U.S. made electronic components to Pakistan in 1980 without valid permits. He cited casual disregard for legal implications and noted hardships from lengthy proceedings.
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Montreal
Pakistan
Gerald Ryan
Quebec Superior Court
Salam Elmenyawi
Mohammad Ahmad
Serabit Electronics Ltd
Elmenyawi
Hijacked Iran Air Airbus Forcefully Ends Refusal in Rome
All 175 passengers and crew members were freed as one hijacker surrendered to Italian authorities at Ciampino airport after six hours of negotiations. The Airbus, seized in Iran en route to Saudi Arabia, had earlier stops in Bahrain and Cairo.
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Rome
Reuter
Ciampino
Iran Air
Airbus
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Egypt
Paris
France
Khomeini
Shah
Tehran
Jidda
Mecca
Medina
Cairo
Middle East
Keegstra Runs as Social Credit Candidate in Red Deer
Jim Keegstra former Eckville teacher charged with wilfully promoting hatred against Jews filed for the Red Deer federal seat. He joins the Social Credit slate after earlier denying he would run. Court date set for September 24 to fix trial timetable and proceedings.
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Red Deer, Alta
Jim Keegstra
Eckville, Alta
Social Credit
Keegstra
Red Deer
Gordon Towers
Canadian Ethnocultural Council
Parekh
Charter defence singled out Wambolt ruling studied
The Alberta attorney general’s office will review Medicine Hat Judge Philip Wambolt’s ruling cutting a loud party fine from 250 to 150 citing Section 12 of the Charter. If the court finds improper application, the decision could be appealed. The review follows inquiry prompted by The Medicine Hat News.
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Chris Wyness
The
Attorney General’s Office
Medicine Hat
Philip Wambolt
Wambolt
Attorney General's
Gay Mathieson
Attorney General’s
Edmonton
Mathieson
Medicine Hat News
Five candidates vie for Medicine Hat federal nomination
Five runners seek the Medicine Hat riding ticket to Ottawa with Bob Porter Conservative Peter Hansen Liberal Wally Regehr NDP Peter McArthur COR West and Jack Hopkins Social Credit. Nomination papers were due by 2 pm Tuesday and withdrawals by 3 pm Thursday.
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Ottawa
Medicine Hat
Bob Porter
Progressive Conservatives
Peter Hansen
Liberals
Wally Regehr
New Democrats
Peter McArthur
COR West Party
Jack Hopkins
Social Credit
Canada
Norma DeMan
DeMan
NDP
Agnes Wiley
Swift Current
Maple Creek
Don Beveridge
Cor West
Lorne Larson
Shaunavon
Jack Wiebe
Main Centre
Geoff Wilson
Donna Bowers
Commissioner prodding salary secrets
Federal information commissioner Inger Hansen intends to take Prime Minister John Turner to court over the cabinet salaries of top appointees. The case arose after Southam News sought salaries for Privy Council Office officials and crown appointments, including Pierre Juneau and Mitchell Sharp, with the department citing privacy. If the Federal Court upholds Hansen, disclosure could be ordered. Turner could be named in pleadings. this marks her first court-backed move since July 1983 access rules.
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John Ferguson
Southam News
Ottawa
Federal Information Commissioner
John Turner
Liberal
Pierre Juneau
CBC
Mitchell Sharp
Northern Pipeline Commission
Joel Bell
Canada Development Investment Corp
Pierre Trudeau
Post Office
Michael Warren
William Hopper
Petro-Canada
Claude Taylor
Air Canada
Access To Information Act
Privy Council Office
Prime Minister’s Department
Southam
Federal Information Com
Missioner
Inger Hansen
Hansen
Department
Turner
Federal Court of Canada
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John R. Walker
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Alberta
Tha Nomi
Ans UY Nate
Rod Start
Social Credit Party
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Starr
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Charter Defence
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