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Medicine Hat News in Medicine Hat, Alberta
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Medicine Hat News (Newspaper) - June 1, 1984, Medicine Hat, Alberta
A a los Angeles up an unusually aggressive Walter Mondale is lashing out at rival Gary Hart with the tactical of building up to a knockout in the final round of the Democrat presidential nominating bout next week. The Roundhouse Mondale oratory replaced the former . Vice presidents usual platform restraint even As prominent party members strove to Cool the increasingly bitter combat Between Mondale Hart and Jesse Jackson in Advance of Windup primary election con tests tuesday in California and four other states. Aroused by a cheering Union Hall audience and surprising Campaign regulars with his red faced Fervour Mondale assailed Harts a new ideas Campaign As an empty Promise. A this new ideas Arentt Good and his Good ideas Arentt new a Mondale shouted Over a Din of cheers and thumping music. A sweating crowd of several Hundred in the downtown clothing workers Hall Friday june 1, 1984 Medicine hat news-7 to shouted their approval and brandished placards proclaiming More than a score of local unions As Mondale backers. Sup Poi Ive platform guests applauded including Black los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley and Lane Kirkland head of the Al Cio who had warmed up the crowd by ripping into Hart As two hours later at an Uptown Garden Mondale pointedly spurned a a and make up proposal while sharing a Patio platform with Hart. While Hart held out a hand of humor suggesting that whoever wins should offer the loser weekend visiting rights in the White House Mondale made no reference at All to his main rival. In a Brief speech Mondale concentrated hostile fire on Republican Ronald Reagan for a making the world a More dangerous former presidential candidate George Mcgovern a loser to Richard Nixon in 1972 when Hart ran his Campaign and an Early dropout in a renewed. Effort this year appealed to Mondale Hart and the absent Jac Soti to a go As gently As you can of each other for the Sake of Democrat Unity in the common cause of wrecking Rea gangs re election bid nov. 6. Jackson campaigning in san Francisco refused an invitation to attend the Plant trampling Unity party in the expansive Brentwood Heights backyard of Rich Democrat businessman Stanley Sheinbaum and co hosted by film. Actor Warren Beatty. Workmen erected a Wall of sandbags and Wood across main Street in East Hartford Conn. On thursday As the Waters of the nearby Connecticut River Rose. The Street runs through a Gap in the Dike and is left open. A Barrier has not been put in place since 1955. Map laser photo floodwaters in . Just keep on rising by the associated press the level of floodwaters that have left More than 6,000 people homeless went higher in the . Northeast today As saturated ground fed brimming Rivers while driving rain triggered new flooding in Utah and a half dozen tornadoes Tore through Nebraska and Kansas. The Connecticut River was expected to Crest today at 4.5 metres above flood be Sou ital of National weather service warned of More flooding in parts of Massachusetts Rhode Island and Maine. A plodding storm blamed for 18 deaths across the United states poured up 23 centimetres of rain on the stage South of the state capital of Hartford and the Northeast for four Days before skies cleared thursday night. But a new storm with 101-Kilometre-an-hour winds dumped More than 2.5 pm of rain thursday on parts of Utah pushing streams swollen with Snow melt Over their Banks and sending residents Back to the streets in sandbag brigades. The same weather system hit Kansas and Nebraska with violent thunderstorms six tornadoes and Hail the size of Ping Pong balls the weather service said. No injuries or damage were reported. Four tornadoes touched Down thursday in southwestern Nebraska and two were reported in Northwestern Kansas. A brain is still falling today Over much of Maine and Southern new England a said Bill Sammler of the National severe storms forecast Centre in Kansas City to. At least 3,500 people were displaced from their Homes wednesday and thursday in Massachusetts 1,000 in new Jersey 650 in new York 600 in Connecticut and 400 in new Hampshire officials said. The death toll from the weeks flooding Rose to 18 with the report of la woman who drowned in port Jervis n.y., on wednesday. Thirteen of the deaths occurred when floodwaters inundated Oklahoma earlier in the week. Toronto up a a Mississauga ont., Man has been sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a visiting Junior hockey player ending any Chance at a professional career. A county court jury had found Steven Victor Callanan 25, guilty last month of aggravated assault on Clay Nygard of the Abbotsford . Flyers hockey team in May 1983. A the use of weapons and knives and the occurrence of violence especially in this metropolitan City is escalating with some Speed and it cannot be tolerated any further a said judge Hugh Locke in sentencing Callanan. Nygard 21, and several other members of the team were standing outside a tavern on the Yonge Street strip Whon the incident occurred. The team was in Toronto for the final series of the Centennial cup. Evidence showed the accused and another Man were walking Down the Street at night when a group of . Players made some remarks to them. Callanan stopped turned and confronted a player when Nygard a six foot 190-Pound defence Man stepped Between them court was told. A there was obviously going to be a fist fight a the judge said. A the accused could have just kept walking Down Yonge Street. Instead he chose to Pul a knife from his pocket and use it on an adversary who was nygards heart muscle was severed he lost three months from work and now is a truck Driver court was told. A the came As close to death As any human being could a the judge said. Defence counsel Diane Martin had told the jury Nygard had a Iran on to the knife in the incident. Earlier Nygard said in interview the los Angeles Kings of the National hockey league had invited him for a tryout last season but the damage caused by the stabbing could result in too much pressure on the heart during competitive play. Martin indicated last month that there will Likely be an Appeal of the conviction. Militiamen a testimony conflicts Winnipeg up one of six Royal Winnipeg rifles militiamen who strode into a crowd of people demonstrating against the american invasion of Grenada told an inquiry the counter demonstrators cars were parked for a Quick getaway in Case they were going to be arrested. However in further testimony before the Manitoba police commission on thursday Lane Macpherson 27, denied that he and his colleagues had forseen that carrying out their plans to demonstrate in support of the american military action would Lead to their arrest. The oct. 28 demonstration by about 450 people turned violent when Macpherson and the other five attempted to mount a speakers platform at the rally in front of the . Consulate. The inquiry is being held to look into allegations of police brutality at the demonstration which seven anti american protesters arrested on charges ranging from causing a disturbance to obstructing Justice. Macpherson was questioned about a pre inquiry statement in which he had said that the six had parked their cars where they would be a out of vew and accessible in Case we had to get out of there real inquiry lawyer Perry Schulman asked what he had meant and Macpherson said a in Case we were going to be Macpherson said he had agreed to be a participant in the counter demonstration Dur no a meeting at Minto armouries Junior mess the Day before the protest. He said the group made five signs and a Banner. Sir Chiun link Fence commercial and Resles Nilal Oll Vinuto Mich. Stoml Point. Top rail and Fittl Nga a Vallalla int Allahlon incl Dati. Scott mfg. Co. Ltd of Fly a estimates 7h a uth St . Pm it of Madlena Hal for Over w Vii pm. 526-2148 or 626-8170 real estate services Ltd. Realtor 304� Dunmore re. . 5264911 to of a turn Home Quot fully developed Mill .1111.1 i gives you to bedrooms. 2utl. Baths plus Central air conditioning the Yard is All Fence and landscaped. 1024 so. It. List Price 67.000. Will be vacant soon. Call Gladys Haid at 626-0911 or s26-2637 a boat attack killed hundreds London Apas the 40th anniversary of a Day draws near the English have been recalling the invasions a darkest secret a the night German boats slipped into a fog shrouded Bay on the English Channel coast and torpedoed three Landing Craft practising for the Normandy assault. At least 749 . Servicemen were killed More than the number who died 5v4 weeks later in the real invasion when their units stormed ashore on Utah Beach in France. So disastrous was the attack that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower the Allied commander ordered it kept secret. The victims were buried in mass Graves and their families did no to learn the truth until years after the War. It was just past Midnight april 28, 1944, when the Convoy of Landing Craft chugged slowly into Lyme Bay on the Devon coast. On Board were soldiers of the . 4th division mostly engineers shifting heavy backpacks and peering into the Mist. The target Slapton Sands had been chosen for its resemblance to Utah Beach. At about 1 30 a.m., two flotillas of German a boats As the torpedo boats were called charged into the Bay and fired a string of torpedoes at the Convoy. As the a boats turned and fied there were flashes booms and shouts. Three Landing Craft were hit. Two Sank. A at least 1,000 Yards astern of us you could see a jeep flying through the air a recalls Manny Reuben a . Navy signalman on one of the ships. A you could see Black dots that we preceded d a amp some american soldiers did t live Long enough to even get to try Landing on Normandy beaches in june of 1944. Hundreds of them were killed practising for the invasion on the night of april 28, 1944, when the Landing Craft carrying them near the English coast were torpedoed by several German a boats. Map laser photo knew were men ust on the fringe of it. It was just Ike hell like every sailors those who weren to killed in the explosions drowned under the weight of their equipment or burned to death As flaming gasoline spread Over the water. . Army records show at least 749 men were lost but the researcher who filed them said they May be incomplete. But because of the secrecy a so strict that survivors were held in an isolation Camp a the germans did no to know How deadly they a been. Hans Schirrer one of the a boat commanders Learned Only this year when a British television company researching a documentary contacted him. He declined to be interviewed but wrote a to my utter Surprise i have Learned now from you about 750 lives lost that night in Lyme Bay. Please allow me to say i feel very sad about the heavy the documentary. Sands of silence called exercise Tiger a an astounding catalogue of incompetence and the exercise was conducted with live ammunition. One ammunition truck exploded killing 50 soldiers. The night of the Landing exercise an escorting destroyer collided with an assault ship and had to return to port. The operation was left with just one escort. Meanwhile supplies went astray. When the documentary was screened for Devon residents one of them Dorothy Seekings disclosed the gris Liest aspect of what one London newspaper called a cd Days darkest she wrote to a local newspaper saying she recalled seeing a dozens Quot of menus bodies piled into mass Graves in a Field about three Kilometres Miles from her Home near Dartmouth. Seekings now 64, was delivering bread and doughnuts to the soldiers stationed near her Home that Spring. was being Given a lift by a sol Dier in a . Army truck when soon after he had picked her up he pulled to the Roadside and said he had to make a delivery. A i thought it ammunition or something a she recalled. 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