Beijing Aims Fly Free City For 2000 Olympics Bid
China Daily reports Beijing plans a two year push to wipe out flies as it seeks approval for the 2000 Summer Games. Hygiene is a major issue with spitting littering and 6800 open trench toilets and irregular garbage disposal. Training courses teach residents to wipe out flies.
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Beijing
Reuter
China
China Daily
NAFTA ministers resume talks at Watergate Hotel
Trade negotiators from Canada the United States and Mexico return to intensive talks at the Watergate Hotel aiming to finish 14 months of negotiations on a continental free trade pact. Officials deny last minute snags while a signing ceremony was scrapped and timing remains uncertain.
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Washington
Canada
United States
Mexico
Michael Wilson
U.S
Watergate Hotel
Wilson
White House
Judy Smith
Carla Hills
Jaime Serra Puche
Getty insists on Triple E Senate reform for Canada
Alberta Premier Don Getty says Senate reform must be Triple E and a united Canada remains the priority ahead of a Monday premiers meeting. Quebec’s stance challenges the July 7 proposal, with Ottawa and provincial leaders divided over equal representation.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Don Getty
Canada
Quebec
Getty
Ottawa
Joe Clark
Clark
Sylvie Godin
Robert Bourassa
Senate
Alberta weighs blocking PWA Air Canada merger
Alberta treasurer Dick Johnston says the province could block the sale of PWA Corp shares if the merger with Air Canada harms provincial interests under the PWA Act now allowing Alberta to own no more than 10 percent of PWA. Transport Minister Corbeil says Air Canada must keep its head office in Montreal. Alberta vows to participate in a rescue package if backed by the traveling public and Canadian Airlines employees.
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Calgary
Alberta
PWA Corp
Air Canada
Dick Johnston
Canadian Airlines International
PWA
Johnston
Jean Corbeil
Crown Corporation
Montreal
Corbeil
Canadian Airlines
Sparse U S coverage of Canada misleads Americans
Ohio University researchers report U S media underrepresents Canada with two thirds of 1 029 Americans unable to name Brian Mulroney and only 32 percent understanding Quebec separatism English in Ontario boosts familiarity. In 1990 U S had 28 Canadian correspondents versus 185 Japan 245 Britain 109 France.
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Montreal
Ohio University
Canada
U.S
Brian Mulroney
Mulroney
Association For Education In Journalism and Mass Communication
E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
Quebec
Ontario
Japan
Britain
France
Karadzic offers release and camp closures amid ICRC talks
Radovan Karadzic said Serb authorities would dismantle detention camps or hand them to the ICRC and release all prisoners over 60 or ill. The ICRC agreed to inspect about a dozen camps, while Muslim led Bosnian government sites may not all be visited.
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Belgrade
Bosnia
International Committee of the Red Cross
Radovan Karadzic
Karadzic
Pale
Sarajevo
Red Cross
ICRC
Matthias Kind
Kind
Somalis urge relief equal to Yugoslavia refugees
Somali refugee Has san Osman joined about 250 demonstrators in Ottawa demanding that Canada offer Somalis the same help it provides to Yugoslav refugees. He cites family separations and fear as he awaits citizenship for himself while his wife and three children remain missing.
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Ottawa
Hassan Osman
Osman
Parliament Hill
Yugoslavia
Bernard Valcourt
Balkan
Faiza
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Horn
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Mohamed Siad Barre
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Langdon