Montreal gunman’s rampage targets women engineers
Nathalie Provost recalls pleading with Marc Lepine moments before his attack at the University of Montreal engineering school. She says he ordered the men to leave and began shooting after she and 3 other women survived. He claimed feminists were his target. Provost described injuries and ongoing recovery.
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Provost
Lepine
Nathalie Provost
Edward Monaghan
Montreal
Royal Victoria Hospital
University of Montreal
Czechoslovakia Premier says half new government may be non Communist
Prime Minister designate Marian Calfa announced on national TV that roughly half of the upcoming government could be composed of people with no political affiliation. The Communists could become a minority for the first time in four decades as opposition pushes for elections and a move to parliamentary democracy amid a looming general strike.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Marian Calfa
Communist Party
Calfa
Ladislav Adamec
Storm Sinks Ships in Gulf of St Lawrence Claiming More Lives
A severe storm sank the longliner Johnny and Sisters and two cargo ships Captaine Torres and Johanna B in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Rescue attempts involved five ships and four aircraft with no survivors found for the Shelburne vessel or the cargo ships crew of 39. Weather remained dangerous with heavy snow and high winds.
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ST. John’s
Mld
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Coast Guard
Johnny and Sisters
Cape Race
Mid
Shelburne
Nova Scotia
Captaine Torres
Aquino announces surrender ends bloodiest coup attempt
President Corazon Aquino said mutinous soldiers at Mactan air base in Cebu surrendered ending the six coup attempt. About 400 rebels had held Mactan Air Base since December 1 as the fighting left at least 83 dead and over 580 wounded.
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Manila
Corazon Aquino
Central
Philippines
Cebu City
Mactan
Cebu
Aquino
People Power
Ferdinand Marcos
Tiburcio Fusillero
Soviet republics challenge central authority ahead of party meeting
Moscow worries over rising rebellion in Baltic states Estonia Lithuania Latvia and southern Armenia Azerbaijan as calls for multi party systems grow amid economic strain. Estonia and Latvia move to end party rule. Lithuania already scrapped it. Local elections may test popular movements.
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Moscow
Reuter
Communist Party
Congress of People’s Deputies
Estonia
Lithuania
Latvia
Kremlin
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh
Edmonton audience cool to Blenkarn tax push
Ottawa MP Don Blenkarn spoke to about 200 members of the Economic Society of Northern Alberta in Edmonton. He urged a nine percent federal goods and services tax as the deficit cure, facing polite but hostile reception from local businessmen and protesters outside the downtown hotel.
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Edmonton (Cp
Don Blenkarn
Alberta
Edmonton
Ottawa
Blenkarn
House of Commons Finance Committee
Economic Society of Northern Alberta
Ontario
Bimonto' i
East German Communists pick Gregor Gysi as new leader
In East Berlin, the Communist Party elected lawyer Gregor Gysi as its new head amid reforms. The congress voted to rename the party while preserving its ruling entity. Gysi urged a break from Stalinist, pseudo socialist rule and a shift to democratic socialism.
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East Berlin
East Germany
Gregor Gysi
Gysi
Brigitte Zimmermann
ADN
AIDS carrier sentenced for infecting pregnant partner
Halifax man Scott William Wentzell, 21, pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing bodily harm after knowingly infecting a pregnant woman with HIV. Judge Ian Palmeter described his conduct as reckless and sentenced him to three years in prison, with the possibility of a longer term if the child is infected. The case marks the first use of criminal negligence involving AIDS in the jurisdiction.
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Halifax
Scott William Wentzell
Ian ‘Palmeter
Wentzell
Reid
Ater
Aneral
S. Department Reence
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