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11 May 1987
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 11, 1987
Page
1
Lortie Receives Life Term for Legislative Shootings
Denis Lortie pleaded guilty to the second degree murders of three government workers after spraying the provincial legislature with submachine gun fire. He was sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole in 10 years. Judge Gaston Desjardins noted the crime was serious but circumstances were not loathsome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Denis Lortie
Gaston Desjardins
Quebec Superior Court
Polish Airlines crash near Warsaw kills 183
Police recovered the jetliner flight recorder after a LOT Polish Airlines crash near Warsaw. A report quoted the pilot saying this is the end. Rescue crews combed debris in a wooded area as a government commission reviewed recordings from the black box and air traffic control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
LOT Polish Airlines
Stefan Pozniak
Transport Ministry
Meech Lake accord gains support despite sellout criticism
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney urges all premiers to convene in early June to sign the Meech Lake constitutional accord, calling it a building block for a stronger Canada. The agreement, signed April 30, would let provinces opt out of shared programs with cash back, while preserving national standards and potential limits on federal spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Maser
Southam
Ottawa
Brian Mulroney
Meech Lake
Mulroney
Don Johnston
Quebec
Commons
Canada
Liberal
John Turner
David Peterson
Ontario
Peterson
Turner
Senate
Supreme Court
Reagan aide McFarlane testifies on contras aid ties
Robert McFarlane told the Iran contra hearings he carried out the president's wishes to aid the contras after Congress cut off funding while insisting he did not want to broker illegal support. He said the plan relied on the National Security Council and Saudi money, and that Reagan intended no breach of faith. He acknowledged potential questions about prior testimony and noted ongoing Senate reform efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southam News
Washington
Robert McFarlane
Congress
Ronald Reagan
Oliver North
U.S. Aw
McFarlane
North
CIA
National Security Council
U.S
White House
Reagan
Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Richard Nixon
Thatcher begins historic bid for a third term in Britain
Margaret Thatcher announced a June 11 election from Buckingham Palace seeking a third consecutive term as prime minister. Polls show Conservatives ahead with 41.7 percent, Labour 30.4 percent, and the Alliance 25.5 percent, potentially yielding a large majority in the 650 seat House of Commons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Koring
Southam News
London
Margaret Thatcher
Britain
Conservative
Thatcher
Falkland Islands
Buckingham Palace
Chequers
Denis
Labor
Social Democratic
Liberal
House of Commons
Labor Party
Neil Kinnock
Barbie Trial Opens in Lyon for Crimes Against Humanity
Klaus Barbie, the former Nazi officer known as the Butcher of Lyons, faces trial in Lyon for crimes against humanity. The 73 year old, once linked to deportations and the destruction of the French Resistance, challenges responsibility while the court prepares witness lists and a nine member jury. France had previously convicted him in absentia in 1952 and 1954, but those verdicts expired under a 20 year statute of limitations for war crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyon
France
Klaus Barbie
Lyons
Barbie
Adolf Hitler
Murder was a mistake shocks Rochester churchgoers
A 61 year old ex soldier Percy Washington admitted mistaking his estranged wife for another woman and killed 70 year old Fannie Watson as she left Trinity Emmanuel Presbyterian Church on Mother's Day. He surrendered after the shooting and apologized saying he forgot his glasses. In a separate incident a 10 year old boy in Houston killed his father and injured his mother when told not to go outside to play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N.Y
Percy Washington
Fannie Watson
Trinity Emmanuel Presbyterian Church
Thomas Jones Watson
Washington
Houston
Edward Simon
Neta Carman
Mary Simon
NAVSTAR NAVIGATION TO SPUR CAR OF THE FUTURE
Vancouver researchers led by Dr Edward Krakinsky of the University of Calgary drive a high tech van with a $60 000 NAVSTAR satellite receiver. The system displays maps from U S military satellites and plots the best route in seconds. By the 1990s receivers may cost 500 and fit in a car roof or wrist watch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Munro
Southam News
Vancouver
Edward Krakinsky
Alberta
Point A
Point B
U.S
Krakinsky
University of Calgary
Navstar
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Pete Massey
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Ote Adeeb
Robert Bourassa
Rick May
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Big Brother
Sault Ste. Marie
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David Steel
Liberal Party
David Owen
SDP
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Alliance
Liberals
General Motors
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