10 May 1994
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 10, 1994
Page
1
Actor George Peppard best known for Breakfast at Tiffanys and TV hit The A Team has died. tributes pour in from colleagues and fans as details emerge about his career spanning decades in film and television.
Former Vice-President Dan Quayle faced a playful challenge from a five year-old girl asking for autographs at a New York City bookstore promoting Standing Firm. He mis-spelled the name Samantha aloud before being corrected by the mother Karen Dittmeier of Oak Beach as onlookers chuckled at the moment.
In Edmonton the Liberal opposition accuses senior cabinet minister Peter Trynchy of directing Environment Department officials to rent equipment from a company owned by his ally Ron Kidd for the Paddle River Dam. Docs suggest discretionary influence. Trynchy says Kidd Brothers was one of many suppliers and denies directing any work.
Liberal MP Warren Allmand urged the Commons justice committee to review Ghislain Bellavance’s role in parole decisions for five convicts who later killed seven Alberta residents. He said Bellavance, vice chair of the Prairie region, may have been unfairly blamed after alleged incorrect information from NPB chair Michel Dagenais.
Edmonton article reports Noreen Foster chair of the needs of the elderly committee arguing against Bill 34 which would deregulate rents for seniors housing. She warns higher private market rents and loss of subsidies, while officials defend mercy and continued subsidies for those unable to pay.
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Centre at 12 58 a m after 14 years of legal wrangling and late appeals. Prosecution officials called the act justice while victims families and Guardian Angels supporters observed.
Alberta politicians clash with health bureaucrats over a memo criticizing Howard Gimbel's plan to create a charitable foundation surgeon. Premier Klein defends policy control while the Gimbel bill faces a legislative vote amid fears of private health services diverting specialists and tax shifts.
Pressure to raise rates grows with anticipated half point hike by the Bank of Canada. The prime rate could reach 7.25 percent, up from 6.75, lifting car loans and mortgages while drawing optimism from some investors. Avery Shenfeld of Wood Gundy suggests rates may hit around 8 percent later this year.
Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president in Pretoria completing the end of apartheid. He proclaimed let freedom reign and spoke of a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world. The multiracial parliament chose him unanimously after the ANC won a landslide in the first black majority election.
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