Yukon freezes northern resource development for wilderness study
Ottawa will halt new oil and gas exploration and mineral claims in the Yukon’s northern third while a plan to preserve wilderness and manage the Porcupine caribou herd is developed. Existing activity remains allowed as talks with the U S and Yukon natives proceed.
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Ottawa
Yukon
Hugh Faulkner
Faulkner
U.S. Interior Department
Northwest Territories
Alaska
Thomas Berger
Mackenzie Valley
Yukon Territorial Council
Israelis strike Beirut as Syrian shelling rages
In Beirut the Syrian barrage pounds Christian areas with rockets while seven Israeli planes fly over the city causing sonic booms. Police report 17 killed and 36 wounded, toll rising to 184 dead and 615 wounded since fighting began.
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Beirut
Mediterranean
Lebanon
Voice of Lebanon
Christian Phalange Party
Sleeper coaches burn killing 11 on southwest England train
Fire destroyed two sleeping cars on a Penzance to London train near Taunton. Eleven people died and about 30 were injured as rescuers evacuated victims and many treated at nearby homes and hospitals. An explosion was being investigated as a possible cause.
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Taunton
England
Penzance
Britain
London
Paddington
Sandra Horne
Labor Party
Keith Jacobs
Nuclear power in space to be studied by UN experts
UN space committee agrees to form a working group next year to study nuclear powered satellite safety, alternative power options, radiation standards, and postflight emergency cooperation. Canada led the proposal after the Cosmos satellite disaster, with costs and debris concerns prompting a broadened recovery drive in northern regions.
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United Nations
Canada
Northwest Territories
Erik Wang
Soviet Union
Wang
Canad
General Assembly
Murder charge victim freed after new evidence clears case
Earl Patrick Charles, 25, freed from Chatham County jail after 3.2 years on murder charges in Savannah. Judge ruled prosecutors must release him or retry. police detective testimony supported defense claim he was at a Tampa service station at the time of the crime.
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Savannah
Earl Patrick Charles
Charles
Chatham County
Tampa
Fla
Max
Fred Rosenstein
Flossie Mae Charles
Superior Court
George Oliver
Liberal victory in Notre Dame de Grace byelection
Reed Scowen a Liberal economist won the Notre Dame de Grace byelection with 62.5 percent overall, defeating PQ candidate Michel Gelinas as independents and smaller parties split the vote. The result signals growing anglophone and centrist dissatisfaction with the PQ and bolsters calls for an independence referendum this fall.
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Peter Michaelson
Montreal
Reed Scowen
Liberals
Notre Dame de Grace
Claude Ryan
Parti Quebecois
Bryce Mackasey
Scowen
Ville St. Pierre
Michel Gelinas
Gelinas
Union Nationale
Albert Brulotte
Gerard Lachance
Quebec Workers’ Party
Quebec City
Rodrique Biron
DeJong
UN Party
Quebec National Assembly
Liberal
Creditiste
Popular National Party
Independent
Tragedy in Montreal Fridge Delivers Three Young Fatalities
Six year old Patrick Boone hid in an abandoned refrigerator and was trapped when the door slammed shut. His sister Patricia and cousin Rejean Perrault were found dead in the same fridge behind their east end home. Coroner to hold inquest. doctors say survival was unlikely beyond minutes.
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Montreal
Patrick Boone
Patrick
Patricia
Rejean Perrault
Maurice Perrault
Perrault
Rejean
Huguette Perrault
Roc Heroux
East End
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Ellesmere Island
High Arctic
Banks Island
Tuktoyaktuk
Bathurst Inlet
Wagner Bay
Old Crow
Hershel Island
Environment
Len Marchand
United States
Marchand
Alaska-Yukon
U.S
House of Representatives
Interior
Cecil Andrus
A.G. Loughrey
Canadian Wildlife Service
Alberta
Medicine Hat
St. Patrick’s Church
Riverside Point
Garden of Eden
Dan Lander
East Beirut
Phalangist
Quebec
Task Force On
Westmount
David DeJong
Ryan
National Assembly
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