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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jul 20, 1987
Page
1
CBC hearing stalls on Asian refugee cases in Nova Scotia
Immigration hearings opened in Halifax for 174 Asians smuggled into Canada eight days after a freighter dropped them in southern Nova Scotia. Twelve were to appear today to determine refugee status, but the session paused as a CBC lawyer argued for media access and only one refugee had appeared before the board before adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
Canada
Nova Scotia
CBC
Canadians More Pessimistic About U S Relations
A Gallup poll shows 36 percent of Canadians believe Canada US relations are drifting apart while 34 percent say they are getting closer. In the United States 31 percent see improvement, 28 percent deterioration, nine percent no change, and 32 percent no opinion. The Canadian results rely on 1,040 in home interviews conducted early May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Gallup
Canada
United States
Ollywood pranks alter Hollywood sign in North tribute
An anonymous caller claimed pranksters changed the Hollywood sign to Ollywood in Los Angeles. LAPD Hollywood division officer Gene Ferone noted the alteration covered by black plastic, with the call letting AP know at about 4 30 a m local time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Hollywood
United States
Oliver North
Gene Ferone
Associated Press
Voting tests PC popularity By Warren Caragata
Canada's major parties face a mid term test as voters in three ridings go to federal byelections. Mulroney and the Conservatives seek proof of support after three years in office while Turner and the Liberals confront weak polls and a fragmented field including the NDP and Rhinoceros Party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Caragata
Canadian Press
Canada
Brian Mulroney
John Turner
St John’s East and Hamilton Mountain vote in 1984 federal dawn
The 1984 federal by elections pit Marion Dewar and Elizabeth Phinney against Dan MacDonald in close Liberal NDP Tory contests. Incumbent James McGrath had held St John’s East since 1968 with a large 78 percent share in 1984 before resigning last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario
Yukon
Yukon Territory
Conservatives
St. John’s East
Hamilton Mountain
Liberals
NDP
Tories
Mulroney
Tom Hickey
Jack Harris
St. John’s
Steve Neary
Rhinoceros Party
Peter Quinlan
Ian Deans
Deans
Marion Dewar
Ottawa
Elizabeth Phinney
Liberal
Dan MacDonald
James McGrath
Duke and Duchess of York attend Queen's Plate in Toronto
The Duke and Duchess of York cap a 25 day Canadian tour by attending the 128th Queen's Plate at Woodbine Race Track. Market Control, a 9-1 longshot, wins $200,000 for owner Bud Wilmot as Sarah York presents the trophy. The royals then travel to the Muskokas for a two day stay after morning church and a Cobourg walk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah
Duchess of York
Bud Wilmot
Ivy
Market Control
Duke and Duchess
Toronto
Duke and Duchess of York
Woodbine Racetrack
Prince Andrew
Royal Box
Cobourg
Ontario
Muskokas
Royal tour hits highs and hails in Canada and Alberta
Andrew and Sarah tour from Cobourg to Winnipeg and Edmonton with a Niagara Falls stop after a turbine overheated on a helicopter leg. The couple remained calm, gave interviews, posed for cameras at Niagara Falls, and celebrated their first wedding anniversary in Medicine Hat. Sarah’s hat became a local sensation in Oakville with neighbors posing for photos until a police officer retrieved it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew
Sarah
Oakville
Ont
Niagara Falls
Adam Wise
Medicine Hat
Toronto
Kathy Taylor
Taylor
France Iran tensions rise as dissident hurt in London attack
Britain tightens security around Iranian dissidents after a hazardous device exploded under the car of Amir-Hussein Amir-Parvis, a former Iranian minister and opposition figure. France demanded questions for translator Vahid Gordji amid wider Iran Paris tensions and a UN push to end the Iran-Iraq war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Ferrabee
Utham News
London
Francé
Iran
Britain
Jean-Bernard Raimond
Geoffrey Howe
New York
United Nations Security Council
Council
France
Tehran
Amir-Hussein Amir-Parvis
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Amir-Parvis
Vahid Gordji
Paris
Gardji
Raimond
Gordji
Lebanon
United Nations
Ayatollah Khomeini
Shapour Bakhtiar
Alpinist floods and mudslides kill and devastate villages
Torrential rains in the Italian Alps trigger mudslides across a 240 kilometer zone from Bergamo to Bolzano near the Swiss border. In Tartano and the Valtellina Valley a hotel and a three story building are hit, 12 dead and 2 missing in Tartano with 20 injured. overall 14 dead and six missing in the region as rescue workers, troops, and helicopters search and evacuate. Switzerland reports flooding and hundreds of evacuations. Police say three die in a separate rain related car crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sondrio
Italy
Italian Alps
Switzerland
Ing
Bergamo
Milan
Bolzano
Valtellina
Tartano
The
Civil Defence Ministry
Teens Mourn as River Flood Kills 10 Near Comfort Texas
More than 300 people fill a small church in Comfort Texas to grieve 10 teens swept to their deaths by the Guadalupe River while searchers, including National Guard, resume Friday for John Bankston 17 last of the group. He helped others reach safety as a bus and van were overtaken near Pot O Gold Ranch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comfort
Tex
Texas
National Guard
John Bankston
Guadalupe River
Bankston
Seagoville Road
Mike Lane
Michael Smith
FBI charges allege corrupt Miami officers ran crime ring
A federal indictment charges 12 officers and three associates on the midnight shift with racketeering civil rights abuses and drug trafficking in Miami. The probe cites bribes from bar owners, protection for dealers, and a 1985 marijuana and cocaine interception on the Miami River. Former officer Rodolfo Arias testified, claiming about $1 million in narcotics profits plus possible double that for others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
FBI
Rodolfo Arias
Arias
Miami River
el Manco
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