Principal Group investors balk at Getty settlement offer
Calgary CP Investors from Associated Investors of Canada and First Investors Corp reject Alberta Premier Don Getty's settlement as too complex and insufficient. Committee members say a redraft is expected in 7 to 10 days, with potential for further action or lawsuits over 86 million in losses.
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Alberta
Don Black
Edmonton
Black
Associated Investors of Canada
First Investors Corp
Mise
Don Getty
Getty
First Investors
Investors’ Committee
Calgary first as Edmonton teen moved to adult murder court
A 17-year-old Edmonton youth charged with second degree murder was transferred to adult court in Calgary. The move enables a jury trial and potential life sentence, with arraignment possible as soon as Monday. The case cites offence seriousness and public denunciation of murder as factors.
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Edmonton
Gary Leroy Allbright
Crown Attorneys
Airdrie
Alta
John Brownlee
Brownlee
Marlin Moore
Brazilian abductors keep standoff with hostages near Presidente Prudente
Four kidnappers armed with grenades hold three hostages in an armored car after a three day chase across south central Brazil. Police surround the group near Presidente Prudente as a second helicopter is readied from Brasilia to resolve the siege.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Smate
Paraguay
Presidente Prudente
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Presidente Pruente
de Pirandi
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Brasilia
Said Agel Filho
Goiania
Polish Solidarity conducts first legal general strike
More than 200,000 Poles from bus lines shipyards docks and factories in Gdansk province walked out for an hour to demand higher pay and an end to Communist party influence. Leaders said Solidarity plans to oppose Kiszczak's cabinet and form a non Communist government with the United Peasants and Democrats.
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Gdansk
Communist Party
Solidarity
Independent Union
Bogdan Borusewicz
Lech Walesa
Gdynia
Czeslaw Kiszczak
Vladimir Brovikov
Kiszczak
United Peasants and Democrats
Moscow
PAP
Soviet Communist Party
Heat takes toll on prairies Farmers' dreams withering
Winnipeg dispatch reports a heat wave across the prairies crippling the near record harvest forecast. Producers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba warn of below average yields while Alberta expects a strong crop though still below prior forecasts. Weather and drought erode soil moisture and speed ripening.
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Yellowknife
N.W.T
Ron Enns
United Grain Growers
Ijaz Qamar
Manitoba
Department of Agriculture
Toronto Maple Leafs
Prairies
Nick Underwood
Canola Council of Canada
Verna Mitura
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Alberta Wheat Pool
Grain Company
Doug Brunton
Firm still hopes to unload PCB waste in Britain
Dynamis Envirotech president Martin Clermont says two PCB laden freighters en route to Liverpool will be unloaded and sent to a Wales incinerator if British ports accept them. Premier Bourassa voices cautious optimism while Prime Minister Mulroney insists Canada should treat its own PCB waste.
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St-Basile-le- Grand
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Wales
Britain
Martin Clermont
Dynamis Envirotech
Liverpool
Pontypool
Robert Bourassa
Brian Mulroney
Canada
Toronto Star
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