East German leaders face corruption probe amid reforms
East Germany's prosecutor general opened corruption inquiries against ousted party chief Erich Honecker and five other former leaders for abuse of power and harm to the economy. The move comes as the ruling party vows democratic reforms, elections on May 6, and a possible party overhaul at tonight's emergency congress. Honecker remains under house arrest in a luxury compound. former premier Willi Stoph and others are imprisoned.
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East Berlin
Reuter
East Germany
Communist Party
Erich Honecker
ADN
Eas German Communist Party
West Germany
Honecker
Peter Praybylski
Willi Stoph
Erich Mielke
Guenther Kleiber
Werner Krolikowski
Rampage gunman blamed women in Montreal killings
Marc Lepine, 25, identified as the University of Montreal attacker who killed 14 women and wounded 13 others in a mass shooting. Police described him as intelligent and courteous with women, yet embittered and unemployed, blaming women for his misfortune. He left a death note stating he had not been happy for seven years.
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Montreal
Marc Lepine
University of Montreal
Lepine
Jean Dore
Jacques Duchesneau
Vigils Across Canada Remember Montreal Massacre Victims
Vigils across Canada memorialized the Montreal University rampage victims with about 2000 mourners including Prime Minister Mulroney. A protest disrupted the Montreal rally as women urged the event remain a tribute to the slain 14 women while speakers addressed grief and questions of hatred against women. The tragedy was marked in Moncton Ottawa Toronto Winnipeg Edmonton Calgary and Vancouver.
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Canada
Montreal
Brian Mulroney
University of Montreal
Johanne Prud’homme
Moncton
N.B
Ottawa
Toronto
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Calgary
Vancouver
Pocklington calls loan demand fraudulent in court
Peter Pocklington’s lawyer argues Lloyds Bank of Canada’s $15 million demand backed by his former firm Gainers Inc. is fraudulent. The Alberta case seeks an injunction to pause payment while a full hearing proceeds.
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Edmonton
Lloyds Bank of Canada
Peter Pocklington
Gainers Inc
Gordon McKenzie
Alberta
Court of Queen’s Bench
Lloyds
Mortgage Insurance Co. of Canada
Pocklington
McKenzie
J. B. West
Lloyds Bank
Peter Vaartnen
Vaartnen
Extradition Ordered for Reyat in Tokyo Airport Bomb Case
Inderjit Singh Reyat will be extradited to Canada to face manslaughter and explosives charges linked to the 1985 Narita airport bombing. Home Secretary David Waddington signed the order after a two year legal battle, with police to escort him from Britain to British Columbia.
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London (Cp
Inderjit Singh Reyat
Canada
Tokyo
Home
David Waddington
Home Office
Mark Pearson
RCMP
Canadian High Commission
London
No sign of 39 crew lost in St. Lawrence
Halifax reports no survivors found from the two foreign cargo ships after a night of violent storms in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Coast guard crews recovered two empty life rafts and wreckage of a third while searching the area where the vessels collided.
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St. Lawrence
Halifax
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Coast Guard
Jeff Agnew
Torres
Cape Breton
South Pacific Republic
Vanuatu
Agnew
Agreement in principle reached on Inuit land claim
Ottawa reports an initiative settlement after a decade of talks with Inuit from the Northwest Territories. The deal grants 17,000 Inuit control of over 224,900 square kilometres with surface rights and 36,260 square kilometres with subsurface rights plus 580 million dollars in financial compensation.
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Northwest Territories
Indian Affairs
Pierre Cadieux
Cadieux
Arctic
Tungavik
Nunavut
Canada
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