22 Dec 1994
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 22, 1994
Page
1
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov orders shopkeepers to deck the halls and factories to mass produce candy and champagne for the New Year. City officials may fine retailers who fail to display festive decorations, per the Moscow Times. Russians celebrate the holiday with gifts and decorations while Orthodox Christmas on January 7 remains modest.
Ottawa announces the scrapping of 51 federal boards and agencies and a restructuring of 16 more, eliminating 314 patronage posts and saving about 3 million dollars. Cuts follow earlier moves reducing cabinet appointments and are part of a broader public sector consolidation.
The Alberta government raises the employment expense benefit to 5 million annually from 1.6 million as part of a welfare reform drive to help 20 000 clients or about 40 percent gain from the increase. Benefits cover transportation job searches and programs with allowances up to 300 per year.
Santa Claus Fund volunteers started delivering about 460 food hampers to needy families in Medicine Hat. Alan Poirier, president, said the hampers will cover the holiday season as Maurice and Roxanne Carter received the first delivery with help from four South Alberta Light Horse members led by Capt. Alex van Rooyen.
A man critically burned in a subway firebomb blast in lower Manhattan was arrested in his hospital bed in Brooklyn. Edward Leary, 49, from Scotch Plains New Jersey, faces 45 counts including attempted murder and assault as detectives probe links to another Harlem subway blast.
Medicine Hat liquor store managers say they cannot gauge how a proposed provincial flat tax reduction on alcohol will affect prices and profits. Officials note any cut must align with federal and interprovincial moves to curb cross-border smuggling.
Two shells hit a market in Sarajevo Old Town killing at least two and wounding seven as a ceasefire brokered by Jimmy Carter nears entry while UN envoy Akashi warns of a brutal violation. The attack occurred hours before the truce takes effect and near the burned National Library and City Hall.
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