High-tech Santa arrives as letters go online
Ottawa volunteers handle 5000 electronic letters daily to Santa via Internet Access Inc. and Canada Post. Letters arrive from Japan, Norway, Belgium, Sweden, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, while volunteers confirm receipt to reassure senders their messages reached the North Pole.
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Ottawa
Santa
Mary Heney
Canada Post
Internet Access Inc
Internet
Japan
Norway
Belgium
Sweden
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
North Pole
Heney
Santa in Florida mall insults UF fans and taunts father
Chip Crabtree and family visited a Jacksonville mall where a Santa Claus allegedly insulted a University of Florida supporter. The Santa reportedly said he disliked Gator fans and challenged Crabtree’s father to a fight before threatening to stab him with his gloved finger and walking off the stage.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Santa Claus
University of Florida
Santa
Chip Crabtree
Lori
University of Florida Gators
Gator
Florida State
Gators
Crabtree
Disoriented U S Pilots Lost Near DMZ In Korea
The two U S pilots in a helicopter that strayed into North Korea were likely disoriented perhaps by fresh snow. One pilot died when the chopper crashed. North Korea declined to comment at a briefing and later canceled a high level meeting. Yonhap said the last radio contact was at 10 43 a m with the aircraft ten kilometers south of the DMZ while actually five kilometers north in North Korea. South Korean troops were told to fire warning shots if forced to intervene. a generator outage reportedly muffled the approaching helicopter.
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Seoul
U.S
North Korea
South Korea
Yonhap
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Bombing hits outskirts of Grozny in Chechnya clash
Russian warplanes set a gas refinery ablaze near Grozny as heavy fighting spread to Dolinsk village. Civilians lay dead along a road, while two people were wounded by an exchange near the city center. Yeltsin faces opposition as Moscow pushes to disarm Dudayev and restart talks.
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Grozny
Russia
Dolinsk
Moscow
Caucasus Mountain Republic
Itar-Tass
Dzhokhar Dudayev
Yeltsin
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Hawkish Security Council
Cabinet of Ministers
Chechnya
Star-Tass
Native tax protesters hold Ottawa building vigil
About 25 protesters occupy the Revenue Canada building in Toronto's downtown to oppose tax changes affecting status Indians working for off reserve native organizations. They vow resistance and warn of police intervention while tax officials meet with them without resolution.
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Toronto
Revenue Canada
Canada
Barbra Nahwegahbow
Harry McCrae
Jean Chretien
Government of
Nahwegahbow
Klein marks second anniversary with tough home renovation metaphor
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein described his province's budget cuts as a messy home renovation affecting health education welfare and civil service while warning federal inaction on deficits and pensions. He defended helping the truly needy and opposed higher taxes on RRSPs.
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Ottawa
Alberta
Ralph Klein
Klein
CBC Newsworld
Feds
Rogers wins CRTC approval for Maclean Hunter takeover
The CRTC approves Rogers Communications control of Maclean Hunter in a 3.1 billion deal with conditions. Rogers gains dozens of cable systems and Sun newspapers while selling CFCN Calgary Lethbridge and a minority CTV stake. The regulator orders news separation and reviews New Country Network ownership.
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Ottawa
Rogers Communications
Maclean Hunter
Rogers
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Alberta
CTV
CFCN
Calgary
Lethbridge
CRTC
Shaw Communications
Sun
Financial Post
Maclean’s
Chatelaine
Toronto
U.S
Carter Begins Mediation Talks With Bosnian Serbs
Former U S president Jimmy Carter met Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in Pale near Sarajevo as part of a mission to end the war. He warned that Americans had heard only one side of the story and said hard decisions were ahead while talks proceeded amid ongoing fighting and casualties.
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Pale
Bosnia-Herzegovina
U.S
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Radovan Karadzic
Karadzic
Sarajevo
Alija Izetbegovic
Franjo Tudjman
Bosnia
Rosalyn
Claire Grimes
Velika Kladusa
Fikret Abdic Abdir
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Ann Landers
AG Business City News
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Ad National
Bernard Bolig
Joe Klamar
Serbia
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