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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 08, 1994
Page
1
Principal at Wellington’s Jonathon Skelton High School enforces a rule banning earrings but ejects a junior for wearing a nose ring. Officials call it a technicality, yet Skelton refuses to remove the ring and is reassigned to a separate class. He argues the issue inflates the matter and does not affect his intellect.
The Medicine Hat News debuts a Saturday feature for kids and adults engaging with children. It presents the first Read Aloud Story in a three part series, a Dinosaur game from Drumheller’s Royal Tyrrell Museum, and several educational fun features on Page Ad.
In San Juan Puerto Rico a barge Morris J. Burman grounded spilling 2.85 million litres of oil into the Atlantic. Crews worked through the night to stop the flow as Gov Pedro Rosello urged calm and a rapid cleanup to limit damage to a 1.5 kilometre coastline and local tourism.
Soldiers conduct house to house searches as the Mexican army tightens a grip on San Cristobal de las Casas and blocking roads toward Comitan. Journalists report fresh rocket attacks about 25 kilometres east in Chiapas as rebels of the Zapatista National Liberation Army seized towns on January 1.
A coalition of animal rights groups filed in Federal Court of Canada in Ottawa seeking to overturn National Defence Minister Col lennette’s December decision to remove 1,160 feral horses from Canadian Forces Base Suffield. The suit argues environmental procedures were not properly followed and seeks a court ruling invalidating the removal.
Fires raged across Sydney and surrounding areas with 125 blazes blamed on arsonists. Four people died and 15 000 evacuated as hot winds fueled destruction from the Blue Mountains to coastal towns. Police arrested 11 suspected arsonists while 7 500 firefighters battled flames near the city as residents sought safety and authorities moved patients from Blue Mountains facilities.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman spurred a Friday agreement to resolve the Edmonton Oilers Northlands Coliseum lease dispute. Oilers owner Peter Pocklington and Mayor Jan Reimer credited Bettman with catalyzing progress and mediating between Pocklington and Northlands as talks proceed toward a final deal by month’s end.
Liberal Leader Laurence Decore charged that the Alberta Conservative government has shared budget information with private sector advisers hired to draft business plans while withholding them from the public. Treasurer Jim Dinning denied any leakage and said final decisions rest with the government.
In Paris Prime Minister Jean Chretien urged broader NATO involvement to end 21 months of Bosnia's civil war. He said no easy solution exists and welcomed any actions that would improve the situation after a 90 minute meeting with Edouard Balladur.
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