16 Jul 1997
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jul 16, 1997
Page
1
Design icon Gianni Versace was killed outside his ocean front villa in Miami Beach. Police named Andrew Cunanan, a 27 year old fugitive, as the prime suspect in the targeted shooting.
Police hunt a suspected gang after nearly 20 train robberies across the Maritimes Quebec and Ontario since Christmas. CN Rail and CP Rail report bandits breaking into stopped container cars and tossing goods to accomplices in trucks or ditches. Investigators point to the Montreal area as a likely base with four arrests so far.
In Stockholm a man named Geeran Rudolfsson relieved congestion from a brain tumor operation by pulling a cloth 80 cm long from his head. Medical staff noted the oversight with concern but he joked that no body part was lost.
Alberta Social Services Minister Lyle Oberg linked policy barring gays and lesbians from foster parenting to discrimination, amid a court challenge by a lesbian foster mother with 18 years’ experience. He argued protecting children outweighed expanding foster family options, while critics call his stance discriminatory.
Cattle crossed the picket line as Cargill began a limited restart at the High River meat plant. Supervisors and crossed workers will kill cattle Thursday while UFCW says the operation still lacks replacement staff and questions the scale of resumed production. An internal count suggests about 150 of 1,800 workers remain.
Medicine Hat residents debate Safeway offering Air Miles and product vouchers to customers who did not cross the picket line during an 11 week strike. Some call it privacy invasion while others note benefits. several shoppers weigh in on crossers and incentives.
Ladislaus Csitsik Csatai Csatsay, 82, a former Montreal art dealer living in Toronto, will not contest denaturalization for wartime activities. He faced a federal effort to strip citizenship after a 1948 war crimes conviction in absentia in Hungary. Cabinet must decide, with deportation hearing to follow, unclear destination or timeline.
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