Plane crashes into Edmonton hospital killing one occupant
A Mitsubishi MU-2 light plane slammed into the machinery room atop the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, killing passenger Bill Greg and injuring Ed Burton. The crash caused gas leaks, forced patient evacuations, and delayed rescue as firefighters worked around the wreckage.
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Bill Greg
University Hospital
Ed Burton
Doug Burrows
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Gerry Bolding
Federal Transport Ministry
Bill Amolky
Pacific Western Airlines
Amolky
Lucy Stefaniuk
Medicine Hat doctors study province final fee offer
Medicine Hat physicians began a study session at 9 a.m. to decide whether Alberta's 13.3 per cent fee increase is acceptable. AMA officials plan to push direct billing from Jan 1 1982 and to add further "measured responses" if needed. Hospital emergency services say they will not be affected.
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Medicine Hat
Phillip Winkelaar
Medicine Hat Medical Society
Ron Kustra
Kustra
Leo Hill
Winkelaar
Hill
Senators Divide Over Suspending Veto in New Constitution
Ottawa MPs and Senators clash over a provision granting a suspensive veto to the Senate for six months on amendments to the constitutional package. Changes must return to the House after 180 days for a second debate, while the Senate keeps its absolute veto on other laws. Government leader Ray Perrault notes a greater likelihood of using the suspensive veto than the rare absolute veto, last seen in 1940.
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Weather notes and regional politics brief
Cloudy forecast with a high of 7 and a low of minus 7. Federal officials plan a defence statement next week countering Medicine Hat's tax challenge. city council may withhold levies if no response. RCMP search Howe Sound for a pregnant 31 year old missing after Strachan Creek flood. Medicine Hat Cubs rout Airdrie in junior hockey.
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Howe Sound
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Vancouver
Levesque at Parti Quebecois congress splits with party over independence
Premier Rene Levesque contemplates resignation as PQ president amid a rift with militants at the PQ’s biennial congress. Delegates urged immediate independence talk while Levesque warned he is not bound by resolutions though he remains premier if the assembly's confidence endures.
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Rene Levesque
Parti Quebecois
Quebec
Ique
National Assembly
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Levesque
Jacques Rose
Front de Liberation du Quebec
FLQ
Hijackers seize three Venezuelan airliners at Barranquilla
Armed hijackers aboard three Venezuelan planes forced takeoff from Barranquilla with 262 aboard and demanded route maps to Central America and fuel. Reports conflicted on suspects nationality, from Puerto Rican separatists to Salvadoran militants or Venezuelan rebels.
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Italy
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Leonardo da Vinci
Puerto Rico
Commonwealth
Caracas
Manuel Rojas Lusardo
Reagan says U.S. has evidence of Libyan assassination plot
President Reagan asserted the United States has evidence Libyan leader Muammar Khadafy is behind an assassination plan against U.S. leaders. He warned Khadafy not to trust his denial and left open potential action, saying no decisions on oil or other steps had been made.
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Reagan
Muammar Khadafy
United States
U.S
Libya
Khadafy
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Pearl Harbor Attack Remembered On 40th Anniversary
A retrospective on the December 7 1941 Pearl Harbor assault recounts the damage to Arizona Hickam Schofield and the casualties. It notes 2341 U S dead 1143 wounded and 68 civilians as well as Japanese losses and the iconic Tora tora tora signal.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S
Oahu
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