Walesa Rebuffs Candidacy Aims For Unity Government
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said he will not be prime minister but will help form a non Communist government. He met with Jerzy Jozwiak of a small party and planned talks with Roman Malinowski amid a three party push to end deadlock and back his leadership.
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Warsaw
Reuter
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Poland
Democratic Party
Elzbieta Ottwinowska
Walesa
Jerzy Jozwiak
Roman Malinowski
United Peasants’ Party
Ottwinowska
Wojciech Jaruzels-k
Czeslaw Kiszczak
Communist Party
Polish United Workers’ Party
Getty eyes bigger role for Osterman in Alberta government
Premier Don Getty says Connie Osterman could take a more prominent position than the backbench after being fired from the career development portfolio amid links to the Principal Group collapse. Osterman will remain Three Hills MLA as opposition questions linger on the 1985 memo she helped write warning of the subsidiaries’ shaky finances.
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Edmonton
Don Getty
Connie Osterman
Connie
Caucus
Alberta
Getty
Osterman
Canada
First Investors Corp
Associated Investors of Canada
Opposition foresees delay in nine percent sales tax plan
Ottawa MPs warn cross country hearings on the proposed federal sales tax may push back its January 1 1991 start. Finance officials say draft legislation could be ready by October with a mid November committee report. The tax would replace the manufacturers sales tax and is projected to raise about 24 billion in 1991.
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Ottawa
of Commons
Finance Committee
Doug Young
Michael Wilson
Finance Department
Fred Gorbet
Don Blenkarn
Eth Edmonton
Regina
Winnip
Blenkarn
Nystrom
Gerbet
PM faces unwanted PCB waste storage near Baie-Comeau
The Quebec government confirms 1500 tonnes of PCB waste from Montreal will be stored at Manic 2, 30 kilometres from Baie-Comeau, drawing protests from local dock workers and opposition groups. Officials promise pollution reduction programs and resident education.
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Base-Comeau
Que
Montreal
North Shore
Brian Mulroney
Montreal Expos
Manic 2
Sandra Morin
CHLC
Confederation of National Trade Unions
Hydro-Quebec
Britain
Quebec
Robert Bourassa
Baie-Comeau
Roger Theriault
Baie-des- Anglais
Theriault
Beirut shelling resumes after UN ceasefire call
Police report renewed shellfire across the Green Line in Beirut despite a UN Security Council ceasefire appeal. Two killed and 22 wounded in latest exchanges, raising the total toll to 774 dead and 2,073 wounded since March. Syrian gunners from west Beirut targeted the Christian coast and Jounieh port area.
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Beirut
United Nations Security Council
Christian Army Command
Syria
Michel Aoun
West Beirut
Jounieh
Bank of Canada rate hold fuels recession risk warnings
Economists warn that delaying rate cuts by Governor John Crow increases odds of a 1990 recession as Canada’s economy slows. Crow keeps the bank rate at 12.38, while Bank and Burns Fry agree slow growth could precede a fall cut. Canada’s exports drop 1.3 billion in June due to a strong dollar.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
John Crow
Patti Croft
Burns Fry
Toronto
Crow
Cana
Croft
The
Royal Bank
Canada
Statistics Canada
United States
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Museum of Civilization
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Medicine Hat and
Sunridge Observatory
Police Point Park
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