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13 Mar 1985
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 13, 1985
Page
1
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Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir urged Canada to participate in a multinational peacekeeping mission in the Sinai during a 90 minute meeting with Canadian External Affairs Minister Joe Clark. Clark's spokesman said Canada would study the request and respond in the not too distant future noting the need for continuity.
Ottawa reports the federal government will accelerate implementing an RCMP security study urging tighter protection for foreign embassies after the Turkish Embassy attack. Solicitor General Elmer MacKay said the report was finished last summer and will be reviewed by the Conservative cabinet in the near future.
Norm McLeod Medicine Hat police chief will not face criminal charges after a provincial investigation into allegations by officers. The commission and attorney general cited confidentiality and ongoing disciplinary hearings, with no details released about the allegations or report.
Three Armenian men charged with first degree murder in the Turkish Embassy hostage siege appeared in Ottawa court and were remanded for a week. Kevork Marechelian, Channes Noubarian, and Raffi Panov Titizian, all from North America, faced judges as lawyers signaled not guilty pleas following the embassy attack that killed guard Claude Brunelle and left multiple hostages.
Iraqi forces clash to retake southern territories as Iran mounts its first major ground offensive of 1985. Reports say shelling disrupts traffic along the Baghdad Basra highway near Qurna while Iran claims heavy Iraqi losses and captures.
Alderman Sauer, Utilities Committee chair, says Ottawa and Alberta energy talks may keep the Petroleum and Natural Gas Revenue Tax in place. Former Liberal Jean Chretien in Calgary hints at a name change for the tax, not its impact, while Ottawa fights constitutionality of the taxes.
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