Fan's ashes attend Prosser Mustangs playoff clash
In Yakima Washington on his deathbed Grant Flory urged his family to get him to the Mustangs playoff game. In Seattle at the Kingdome in December his cremated remains traveled with his son Dwight through stadium gates after a guard questioned the camera bag containing the urn.
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Yakima
Wash
Prosser Mustangs
Grant Flory
Mustangs
O’dea High School
Seattle
Kingdome
Flory
Dwight
Shark caught in Saguenay River stuns locals in Quebec
Remi Cote and four helpers hauled a three metre, 160 kilogram shark from the Saguenay River near Sainte-Rose-du-Nord Quebec. It was the largest of four sharks recently caught in the area where sharks are rare. Cote described the moment the creature appeared as a jaw dropping sight.
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Ste-Rose-Du-Nord
Que
Remi Cote
Cote
Saguenay
Governments of the day refuse to note it on books
Clark criticizes governments for pretending the issue does not exist and failing to record it in official ledgers. The remark highlights government inaction and covert neglect of the matter raised by Page.
Commonwealth split over unified armed force in CIS talks
Leaders of eleven former Soviet republics met in Minsk amid a rift between integrationist and isolationist wings over a single conventional military. Ukraine Azerbaijan and Moldova seek their own armed forces while eight states back a united force. Nuclear control remains negotiated.
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Minsk
Reuter
Boris Yeltsin
Ukraine
Azerbaijan
Moldova
Yeltsin
Yevgeny Shaposhnikov
Interfax
Soviet Union
West
Mikhail Gorbachev
Kazakhstan
Byelorussia
Russia
Commonwealth
Andrei Kozyrev
Union
GST anniversary marks mixed reactions across Canada
Ottawa reports few cheers as the goods and services tax reaches one year. The GST information office is folding after logging over 1.08 million inquiries and mailing more than 20 million notices, while critics deem it a visible tax burden amid other levies. The government projects net revenue around 16.35 billion this year after credits to low income earners and business adjustments.
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Ottawa
John Hoyles
Hoyles
Gordon Reid
Tiger Discount Clothing
Otto Jelinek
Jelinek
Middle class turn to pawn shops amid recession in Vancouver
In Vancouver's Rainbow Pawn Brokers the newest customers are well dressed and pawning for the first time, while regulars pawning last possessions like shoes show the depth of hardship. Tang notes mid-class clients pawn gold jewelry and goods to cover rent and food.
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Vancouver
Jackson Tang
Tang
Rainbow Pawn Brokers
Eastside
Surging rivers flood homes near Houston
The Trinity and Brazos rivers inundated homes along both banks of Houston area, carrying snakes and fire ants. By Monday almost 80 homes were flooded with over 180 at risk as waters rose to two-decade highs. The drought’s toll spread across Texas with 15 deaths reported. residents faced decaying furniture and ruined possessions as floodwaters swelled.
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Belgrade
Reuter
Cyrus Vance
Yugoslavia
Vance
Portugal
Balkan Federation
Republic of
Croatia
Republic
Osijek
Stara Tenja
Kach Party
Tel Aviv University
Faisal Husseini
Hanan Ashrawi
Missouri City
Tex
Trinity
Brazos
Houston
Denise Nelson
Haitians plan to evict 17 embassy occupiers in Port-au-Prince
Haitian police work on a plan to clear 17 Haitians who have occupied the Canadian Embassy for over five weeks. The group, linked to the United Front of Militants, demanded asylum but Canada refused. Canadian and Haitian officials discuss safe exit terms as soldiers surround the building.
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Port-Au-Prince
Jackson Joannis
Canada
Army
Joannis
United Front of Militants
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Diehard
Clark
Ly Ann Landers
Don McGillivray
Doonesbury
Cuba
Libya
Haiti
Bernard Dussault
Dussault
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