OPEC price unity sought as Saudi pledges restraint
Canada faces oil supply cuts at home and abroad as Algeria pushes toward the $41 limit. At Geneva next week Saudi oil minister Sheik Zaki Yamani may offer a price rise of about $2 a barrel in exchange for other members holding their higher prices. He seeks unity within OPEC to end bickering between hard and moderate members while allowing quality-based price differences.
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Geneva
Sheik Zaki Yamani
Yamani
OPEC
Libya
Saudi Arabia
Third hunger striker dies in Belfast riot wave
Raymond McCreesh, 24, died on day 61 of a hunger strike in Maze prison. His death triggered mass street clashes in west Belfast with police and army firing plastic bullets and bombs. Thousands of troops protected west Belfast as Catholic mobs blocked streets and torched vehicles amid calls for political prisoner status.
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IRA
Raymond McCreesh
McCreesh
Irish Republican Army
Bobby Sands
Francis Hughes
New Barnsley
New Lodge
West Belfast
Maze
Sinn Fein
British Northern Ireland Office
Surprising rise in surgeries shocks Medicine Hat officials
A provincial report on Alberta cities shows Medicine Hat with a disturbingly high rate of surgical procedures. City medical leaders express uncertainty about the data and the minister’s call for investigation, while hospital staff await details from Edmonton.
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Medicine Hat
Leslie Phillips
Medicine Hat and District Hospital
Phillips
Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons
Edmonton
Dave Russell
Russell
Alberta
Tom Seaman
Seaman
Leo Hill
L.R. Ohlhauser
Drumheller
Alberta Medical Association
AMA
P.G. Winkelaar
Winkelaar
CBC Radio TV technicians strike nationwide
The CBC was hit by a Canada-wide strike by National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians members, halting contract talks and reducing programming. Although the NHL final was carried, the walkout disrupted national radio service as pay penalties and jurisdiction issues trigger a stalled bargaining stalemate.
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Toronto
CBC
National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians
New York Islanders
Minnesota North Stars
Bryan Lowe
Canada
Cecil Smith
Lowe
Quebec
Smith
NABET
Montreal
Pope's condition improves as gunman moved to Rome prison
Pope John Paul II shows noticeable improvement in health amid news that Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca has been transferred to Rebibbia prison outside Rome to await trial. Agca, 23, claimed innocence and apologized to reporters while under guard, with investigators unsure if he acted alone.
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Rome
John Paul
Rebibbia
Mehmet Ali Agca
Agca
Horsman plots new Alberta college bargaining ideas
Inside details show Horsman pushing changes to college bargaining with academic staff. Medicine Hat MLA plans reforms and the Alberta plan for negotiations amid provincial education shifts.
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Horsman
Jim Horsman
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat seeks relief in federal energy tax dispute
Liberal MP Bud Cullen cautions a quick out of court settlement and says the government may not concede changes to the energy tax bill. Medicine Hat seeks to exempt its city owned natural gas utility from taxes, arguing public utilities are traditionally untaxed. City officials and MP Bert Hargrave press for cabinet consideration while the bill advances through parliament amid many proposed amendments.
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Ottawa
Liberal
Bud Cullen
Cullen
Sarnia- Lambton
Ted Grimm
Ald
Ren Sauer
Committee On Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs
Grimm and Sauer
House of Commons
Allan MacEachen
Bert Hargrave
Hargrave
MacEachan
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