09 Aug 1985
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1985
Page
1
Local coverage notes Hyland backing Getty during the Bow Island gathering, highlighting alliance and policy discussions. Community attendees, officials, and residents attended the A3 page event to outline support and future plans.
The weather index notes a 30 percent chance of showers on Saturday. High near 20 with a low around 8. Map reference Page B4.
French resistance members appeal to overturn a court decision that bars charges against Klaus Barbie for crimes against the French resistance. Investigating magistrate Christian Riss had held Barbie liable for arrest torture deportation and deaths of Jews in Lyons during 1942 to 1944.
A frustrated Winnipeg woman tells a judge she has no remorse after throwing a pail of water and a pie at a man who rejected her. He sought an injunction to stop her harassment including calls letters and visits to his workplace.
Inanda and surrounding Durban riots leave at least 41 dead over three days with mobs looting Gandhi’s former home and burning East Indian shops. Police report 22 killed, curfews imposed as violence spreads beyond Durban to nearby townships.
Robert Burkholder, 30, of Markham Ontario, employed by the Mennonite Central Committee, was abducted for about 12 hours in Nabatiyeh Lebanon by unknown gunmen and released unharmed in Sidon. He and his family have lived in Nabatiyeh for three years and plan to stay until next summer.
RCMP constable Michael Adrien Van Rassel, 29, of Roberval Quebec, was found not guilty on bribery theft and travel in furtherance of felonies charges involving a U S DEA document. He faced up to 30 years. mistrial preceded the six hour second deliberation. He had been held at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Centre in Miami.
Two University of Alberta students joined Inuit protesters to drop leaflets from a Twin Otter onto the U S Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea as it sailed through Canadian claimed Arctic waters. The action prompted calls that Canada asserts sovereignty over the Northwest Passage. The campaign landed on an island near Prince of Wales Strait with Canadian and Northwest Territories flags and a tent symbolizing Inuit use of the area.
The Ontario Human Rights Commission ruled Zurich Insurance Co. discriminated by charging higher rates to young single men. Michael Bates of Etobicoke, 22, faced $1,002 yearly premium for a 1976 Camaro, versus $522 for a woman of the same age and $448 for a 25 year old man with similar driving. Commission chairman Frederick Zemans said there is no scientific proof young men are more dangerous. Zurich plans to appeal and no changes will occur until then.
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