Weather Outlook and Election Update in Medicine Hat
Sunny skies with a 10 percent rain chance Friday. Highs around 20, lows near 6. Attorney General Neil Crawford may decide next week if a Police Department complaint warrants a full investigation. staff delays over summer holidays push the report. Advance voting in this area more than doubles 1980 turnout with 2,032 ballots by Tuesday.
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Neil Crawford
Medicine Hat
John Scrimshaw
Crawford
Scrimshaw
Aberdeen St. S.E
Discovery lifts off on maiden space shuttle flight
The Space Shuttle Discovery finally blasts off from Cape Canaveral with three satellites and a six crew, including NASA’s first paying passenger. The launch ends three postponements as a computer hiccup is fixed, and the mission aims to restore confidence in shuttle reliability.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
U.S
Discovery
Earth
NASA
Criti- Hartshew Cal
Atlantic
Kennedy Space Centre
Hartsfield
B-1B crash tests spark debate over future of bomber
Edwards AFB California reports the first B-1A prototype crash killing its chief test pilot and injuring two crew members. Investigators seek cause after a low-speed flight near Mojave Desert as production model plans near public release. Defense and industry leaders say impact on program will be limited despite the loss.
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Lee Siegel
U.S. Air Force
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles
Rockwell International Corp
U.S
Washington
Air Force
Ron Greer
Defence Department
United States
Carter
Reagan
Nurse Nelles Arrested in Sick Children's Baby Deaths
Toronto police officer Sgt. Tony Warr testifies at a royal commission that his belief in nurse Susan Nelles’s guilt remains unshaken despite expert opinions suggesting a fatal digoxin overdose occurred while she was not on duty. Nelles faced multiple murder charges in 1981 but was later discharged.
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Sheryl Whrelacker
Toronto
Susan Nelles
Nelles
John Sopinka
Tony Warr
Janice Estrella
Marchieri
Warr
UAW targets GM and Ford press for new offers
Union president Owen Bieber urged GM and Ford to propose renewed terms within 16 days to avert a walkout as talks stall. GM and Ford offered no wage gains or job-security guarantees. GM proposed a lump sum and Ford a profit-sharing plan amid tensions over 9.63 base wage and 3.04 COLA.
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Dearborn
Mich
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Owen Bieber
Ford
Bieber
United States
Packers ratify strike settlement across Canada plants
TORONTO CP Striking employees of Canada Packers Inc. in 12 plants across Canada will begin returning to work as early as Friday after ratifying a month long strike settlement. Vern Derraugh, chief negotiator for the United Food and Commercial Workers, said Wednesday night that the agreement had been ratified in every plant in the 10 cities where the union was on strike.
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Packers
Toronto
Canada Packers Inc
Canada
Vern Derraugh
United Food and Commercial Workers
Mulroney Plans Prompt Dismissals of Liberal-Tied Public Servants
Southam News reports Conservative leader Brian Mulroney intends a swift purge of about 10 to 11 senior public servants tied to the Liberal party including CBC president Pierre Juneau and Grain Transportation head Jack Horner. He also aims to place loyalists in ministers' offices and return to a Diefenbaker style staffing system.
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Peter Maser
Southam News
Ottawa
CBC
Pierre Juneau
Grain Transportation
Jack Horner
Brian Mulroney
Juneau
Horner
Federal Grain Transportation Agency
Mulroney
Party
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Allan Fotheringham
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Ente
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Rene Neens
Anne Arenes
Mike Royko
Il Sports
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Michael Coats
Judy Resnik
Tronaut
Steve Hawley
Richard Mullane
Charles Walker
Ployer
McDowell Douglas
Duesseldorf
San Verono
Alco
Ang
California
Estrella
Justin Cook
Kevin Pacsai
Allana Miller
Sopinka
Cook
Union
Detroit
Diefenbaker
Eas
Trudeau
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