Alberta Speaker Amerongen Under Fire For Rule Tightening
Alberta's Speaker Gerard Amerongen faces criticism for strict rule enforcement that critics say stifles the Opposition. The piece argues he clings to Ottawa's Beauchesne framework, keeping Question Period restrained while government benches outnumber the Opposition seventy five to four. It calls for his removal and notes his long tenure since 1972.
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NLY
Alberta
Gerard Amerongen
Amerongen
Ottawa
Beauchesne
Edmonton
Mr. Notley and Company
Mr. Amerongen
New Crops Could Redefine American Farmland
Scientists at the AAAS meeting in Detroit warn that climate pressures and land quality require drought resistant crops. Quinoa, morama and winged bean show promise. widespread adoption hinges on market development and farmer confidence.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
Detroit
Third World
North America
Texas
Alberta
Andes
Peru
Africa
Quinnaland
Moramaland
Belgrano’s Ghost Haunts UK Election Campaign
Thirty months after the Belgrano sinking the ghostly Argentine cruiser reappears to haunt British politics. The episode draws in Tom Dalyell Neil Kinnock and Denis Healey with Thatcher defending the decision and pledging a future inquiry cabinet declassification looms.
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London
South Atlantic
General Belgrano
Tom Dalyell
Neil Kinnock
Washington
United Nations
Thatcher
Belgrano
Falklands War
Kinnock
Michael Foot
Foot
Healey
Falklands
Argentina
Southam News
Lottery dream ends in legal showdown in Peoria
Tom Burchell and his wife Virginia believed they won $100,000 on a Peoria lottery ticket with three cloverleafs but officials say it was a printing error. A Peoria lawyer vows a potential suit as the family weighs their next legal move amid lottery questions from Springfield.
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Mike Royko
Chicago Sun-Times
Independent Press Service
Chicago
Yakoff
Peoria
Tom Burchell
Virginia
Tom
Yakoff’s
Canada
Pekin
Springfield
Wayne Harvey
Lyle Flynn
Lyle
Phoenix Arizona Republic
Alan Thurber
Robert Henderson
Henderson
Thurber
Bob Henderson
Bill Cosby
Bob Hope
Hope
George Burns
Larry Holmes
Playboy
Calgary aldermen criticized for high travel costs and secrecy
A reader laments Calgary and Medicine Hat travel budgets noting 1982 alderman travel totals at 27 889 and mid year spending at 75 percent of 22 500. He mentions a secret proposal about Medicine Hat city hall and mocks Edmonton escort fee debates. He mentions a Phoenix golf columnist and TV critiques.
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Calgary
Medicine Hat
Council
Medicine Hat College
Navy
Bill Keith
Keith
Ted Grimm
William
Grimm
Edmonton
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Alan Poirier
John A. Weimer
Dirty Business
Denis Healey
Margaret Thatcher
Royal Navy
Dalyell
Commons
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Crt.c
Parle
Horny
Gambler Crimson Over
Illinois State Lottery
Pete Massey
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