21 Aug 1993
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 21, 1993
Page
1
Two boys aged 14 and 15 escaped from a Salvation Army centre at Little Rapids near Corner Brook and waved down a car on the Trans-Canada Highway. An RCMP officer in an unmarked car stopped and gave them a lift back to custody.
In a rare show of unity, President Violeta Chamorro and UNO officials urged OAS involvement to free 75 government and military hostages in Managua and a northern mountain village 250 km away, following a night of clashes and the UNO headquarters seizure. Nestle Canada recalls Smarties over mouth irritation risk in all sizes, offering refunds.
Forty shaggy-coated mountain goats from British Columbia will be moved by helicopter to Alberta's Kananaskis Country for a restocking program. Biologists plan to capture goats Wednesday and release twenty near Picklejar Lakes and twenty near Nihahi Ridge, weather permitting.
Alberta plans a five day catch-and-release transplant to move about 40 mountain goats from British Columbia to west of Calgary near the Livingstone Range as part of a three year program. The $30,000 project, funded by the Wildlife Enhancement Fund, aims to rebuild populations that dwindled after heavy hunting 20 to 30 years ago.
Pauline Johnson, 45, in Slave Lake, and Gloria Campbell, 33, Edmonton, face monthly welfare reductions under a $52 million cut. Single employables drop to $394. others fall from $908 to $756 and from $842 to $766. Officials cite new safety briefings as offices prepare for strain and possible social costs.
Marina Oswald Porter, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, says new evidence leaves her convinced he was innocent and that he acted as a patsy. She speaks at a Sudbury symposium on Kennedy's murder, the second conference she has attended, with organizers calling the case a lasting mystery.
Angela Lakeberg, seven weeks old, rests in critical but stable condition after Philadelphia surgeons separated siamese twins Amy and Angela Lakeberg. The operation, led by Dr. James O Neill, lasted 54 hours and ended Friday afternoon. Kenneth Lakeberg calls the outcome a miracle.
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