Anchor Bible Dictionary weighs heavy addition to religious reference
Doubleday touts the Anchor Bible Dictionary as the heaviest work it has published more than 7000 pages, six volumes and over 12 kilograms. Costing $2 million, with about 1000 scholars from Catholic Protestant atheist and Jewish and Muslim backgrounds, it aims to define biblical study for two generations. Contributors checked faith at the door for broad coverage from angels to zoology.
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Doubleday
Thomas Cahill
Calgary shooting shakes quiet NW neighborhood
A man killed a woman in a northwest Calgary street then killed himself in a house across the road. Police waited 3.5 hours before entering the home, while neighbors linked the pair to a recent divorce and described a violent confrontation over an 18 month old child.
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Calgary
Linda Evans
Evans
Canadian UN soldiers injured as Sarajevo shelling worsens
Maj Gen Lewis MacKenzie reports two Canadian UN soldiers injured by shrapnel in Sarajevo amid heavy shelling risking more injuries. He notes 11 Canadians injured in the area. Relief flights suspended due to near airport bombardment, with resumption only when safe. Bosnia and Zagreb officials cite safety concerns and prior mine discoveries.
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Sarajevo
Lewis MacKenzie
MacKenzie
Andrew Venus
Croatia
Zagreb
Venus
Mike Aitchinson
UN High Commissioner For Refugees
Geneva
UNHCR
Dobrinja
West MPs back Triple E Senate amid Quebec push
Conservative MPs from the West pledge to support a Triple-E Senate despite Quebec leaders warning against it. Calgary MP Al Johnson and others say the West will back Joe Clark’s constitutional plan, while Quebec ministers insist reform must wait and reduce Quebec seats from 24 to eight.
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Ottawa
West
Brian Mulroney
Senate
Calgary
al Johnson
Alberta
David Worthy
Britsh Columbia
Cariboo-Chilcotin
Joe Clark
Defence
Marcel Masse
Benoit Bouchard
Quebec
Clark
Louise Feltham
Wild Rose
Mulroney
riot looting in Montreal leaves stores damaged and 41 arrested
Police arrested 41 people after a riot in Montreal's north end. Officers were fired upon and surrounded by about 200 youths while arresting a suspect with a rifle. Window smashing and looting occurred at up to 15 stores, including Plaza Audio Centre with about 15000 dollars stolen in cameras and stereo gear.
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Montreal
North End
Locosia Club
Guy Bernard
Bernard
St-Hubert Street
St-Hubert
Ronald Torchin
Torchin
Plaza
Good Samaritan
Women face growing AIDS risk says experts at Amsterdam conference
At the eighth International Conference on AIDS in Amsterdam, experts warned that by 2000 most new AIDS victims will be women. They urged lifting U S entry bans on HIV infected people, noting a shift of infections to rural areas and continuing global spread.
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Vancouver
Ottawa
Canada
Bill Marshall
Marshall
Const
Gord Elias
Elias
Amsterdam
United States
Benoit Bouchard
Michael Merson
World Health Organization
Merson
U.S
Boston
Harvey Fineberg
Harvard School of Public Health
Bomb kills Italian anti Mafia judge in Sicily
In Palermo a car bomb fatally strikes Judge Paolo Borsellino aged 52 as he leaves his mother’s apartment. Five police escorts die and at least 20 are injured. the blast shatters balconies and leaves the neighborhood a war zone. Giovanni Falcone died in a highway bombing on May 23.
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Palermo
Sicily
Italy
Paolo Borsellino
Giovanni Falcone
Borsellino
Pino Arlacchi
Arlacchi
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