Weather Index Sunny Day With Mild Temps
The weather index reports a sunny day with no precipitation risk on Tuesday. High near 19 degrees and a low around 3 with clear skies reported on the map page B4.
28 Sep 1987
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1987
Page
1
The weather index reports a sunny day with no precipitation risk on Tuesday. High near 19 degrees and a low around 3 with clear skies reported on the map page B4.
A bus of women travels to Pajala in northern Sweden to answer a bachelor town’s invitation for a week of social events. Women from Sweden Canada England West Germany and other countries join the effort. Organizers struggle to find beds and a dancing lesson plan was dropped due to elk hunting season.
Canadian and U S officials planned a Washington meeting to restart stalled free trade talks before a Sunday deadline set by U S Congress. Canada sought clarification on a two page U S proposal while officials noted limited time and the chance to strike a deal.
Canadian officials in Ottawa and Halifax are investigating rumors of another boatload of East Indian refugees, mainly Tamils from Sri Lanka, believed to have sailed from Rotterdam and headed for Canada. Ottawa says no confirmation. Dutch police and Interpol monitor the situation with authorities uncertain of the rumor's truth. A previous voyage carried 174 East Indians and landed in Nova Scotia.
The national parole board decided to grant Daniel Gingras a day pass from Edmonton Institution, with two board members reviewing the temporary absence. The warden's office handled on-site arrangements and length, while the escape is tied to two first degree murder charges. Gingras was recaptured August near Grande Cache. Leslie Woodward urged MPs to reform the parole system.
Engineers in Montreal walk off ships over wage dispute, likely halting up to 15-20 of 80 carriers. The strike ties up grain, oil, iron ore shipments and could affect 275 deck officers and 1,500 seamen as the Canadian Marine Officers' Union pushes a two percent raise in year one of a three-year contract.
Ottawa reports that Jean-Claude Parrot of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers says a strike by about 23 000 members is inevitable by Wednesday over franchising plans and major wage rollbacks. Management counters with a Canada Labor Code definition of technological change and seeks broader service changes.
Excerpts from Bob Woodward's Veil claim CIA director Casey sought Saudi money and help after bypassing the agency to back a covert operation. The book alleges a 1985 car bombing attempt against Lebanon's Sheik Fadlallah and a $2 million payoff to curb violence, denied by Saudi officials and Fadlallah.
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