Polish Martial Law Imposes Sharp Price Increases in Poland
Poland's martial law government tightens security while announcing price rises up to 400 percent on many basic goods. In Gdansk 14 injured and 205 arrested amid first major violence in six weeks. Warsaw hotels patrolled as roads closed to civilians.
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Katowice
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Baltic Coast
PAP
North America
Europe
Medicine Hat Considers Water Rate Hike
City council may give first reading tonight to a bylaw that could raise water bills by about 50 percent. The notice appears in local weather and city pages with other briefs from Medicine Hat and Alberta events.
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Medicine Hat Council
Medicine Hat
Carmen Rinke
Lethbridge
TV's Polish special called gobbledegook
Southam News notes the USIA broadcast Let Poland Be Poland aimed at Solidarity in Poland, but critics call the 90 minute show a bloated bore exposing allied disarray. The piece contrasts political stances from Mitterrand to Reagan and mocks the entertainment segments with Charlton Heston and Orson Welles delivering grave monologues.
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US International Communications Agency
Canada
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Hollywood
Polish Solidarity
Lech Walesa
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Reagan
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Maten
White House
Heston
Orson Welles
John Donne
Via Rail wreck near Red Rock sends 31 to hospital
Two Brooks residents Nancy Dickie and her three year old daughter Michelle were among 31 passengers hospitalized after a Via Rail eastbound train derailed near Red Rock Ontario. Dickie suffered a concussion but is resting. the incident caused track damage and trains were rerouted while crews clear the lines.
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Ont
Brooks
Nancy Dickie
Michelle
Port Arthur General Hospital
Thunder Bay
Dickie
Dickies
Alex Karamowsky
CP Rail
Daly de Gagne
Win- Mpeg
Via Rail
Medicine Hat corrections chief relieved amid inquiry
Raymond J. Burkett, administrator of Medicine Hat's community corrections office, is relieved of duty as Edmonton reviews possible conduct issues. The office, police, and Crown prosecutors discuss an administrative error and a broader inquiry while Burkett denies a work order involvement and awaits results this week.
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Medicine Hat
Raymond J. Burkett
Sharon Kelly
Alberta Attorney General
Burkett
R.H. Bricker
Solicitor General
Solicitor General’s
Attorney General
Bricker
Kelly
Medicine Hat City
Attorney General's Department
Darwin Greaves
Greaves
Alberta
Neil Crawford
Agreement urged at economic summit
Grace Hartman head of the Canadian Union of Public Employees urges Prime Minister Trudeau and premiers to back large income tax cuts and a massive job program in housing building transportation and more to lift the economy. She opposes wage controls and calls for lower interest rates and removal of a plan to tax workers health and dental benefits this year. Hartman accuses Tory policies of causing recession and warns many thousands more workers will join unemployment. The union watches the upcoming summit to push policy changes.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Grace Hartman
Canadian
Union of Public Employees
Canada
Hartman
Allan MacEachen
Burned body identified in Okotoks area death
Laurie Boyd of Okotoks has been identified as the victim found burned beside a road 36 kilometres south of her home after she disappeared from a convenience store late Saturday. RCMP officer Ralph Carlson says the murder could be linked to the December killing of Debbie Stevens near High River and notes no suspects yet.
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Alderside
Okotoks
RCMP
Ralph Carlson
Boyd
Calgary
Carlson
Debbie Stevens
High River
Stevens
Clark pushes Conservative image in Amos Quebec visit
Joe Clark tours Amos Quebec as Tory leader to build a presence in the province. He attends Masses, a radio talk, a TV interview, a regional caucus, social events, and a midget hockey game, earning applause and headlines from locals and a Tory senator.
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Quebec
Brasserie Hurrica
Les Gars d'Amos
Joe Clark
Clark
Tory
Tory Party
d’Amos
Martial Asselin
Clark gains in Quebec polls boost Liberal prospects
Quebec polls show Clark rising from minus 28 to plus 11 over two years, with other surveys confirming a steady Quebec rise while federal Liberals hear skepticism. Tory strategists call the shift protest voting for Clark. Clark himself calls the support shallow and issue oriented.
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Tory
Lowell Murray
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