Nazi SS officer Rauca charged with wartime murders in Lithuania
Albert Rauca, a former Nazi SS guard, extradited from Canada in May, was charged in a West German court with the murders of more than 11,500 Lithuanian Jews. The public prosecutor said 58 witnesses from Israel, South Africa, Austria and West Germany would testify.
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Frankfurt
West Germany
Reuter
Albert Rauca
Canada
Israel
South Africa
Austria
Rauca
Meisel resigns as CRTC chair to join Queen’s University
John Meisel, chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, will resign on November 15 to take a senior teaching and research post in 1984 at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. The 59 year old Meisel has served less than four years of his seven year term and will become Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Science.
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Ottawa
John Meisel
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Queen’s University
Kingston
Ont
Meisel
Sir Edward Peacock
Gregoire Loses Appeal In Immoral Acts Conviction
The Quebec Court of Appeal rejected Gilles Gregoire's bid for a review of his conviction on seven counts of sexual acts with minors. In a 2-1 ruling the court also denied bail while he remains jailed in Orsainville after a July sentence of two years less a day and a $2900 fine.
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Quebec
Quebec Court of Appeal
Gilles Gregoire
Gregoire
Quebec National Assembly
Orsainville
City Hall cost rise kept from public three months
Alderman Jim Hirsch defends openness as officials disclose that the future city hall budget would top 19 million while the public believed 15.9 million. The higher projection emerged in January 1982 after tenders opened and a bylaw raised the budget without a public hearing.
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Allan Coyle
The
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Ald
Jim Hirsch
New City Hall Committee
City Hall
Bob) Archel
Archel
Graham Construction Ltd
Hirsch
Medicine Hat News Today
Ted Grimm
First Street
S.E
Sixth Avenue
Barry Cole
Crescent Drywall Ltd
Cole
Medicine Hat
Robin Schlaht
Blast Kills Worker at Liebenthal Meter Station East of Burstall
An explosion at the TransCanada Liebenthal meter station, four kilometres east of Burstall, Sask, killed Henry Bosch aged 38 and injured Wilson Betts 50. Both Burstall residents were inside the station at 9 45 a m. Investigators will probe the cause while gas is diverted and the station secured.
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Burstall
Sask
RCMP
Henry Bosch
Wilson Betts
TransCanada
Liebenthal
Betts
Bob Hale
Toronto
Hale
PMs Trip Fails to Break Stalemate in Western Talks
Prime Minister Trudeau ends a Western swing after talks with Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed and Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devine yield no agreement on Ottawa's Crow’s Nest Pass freight reform and rail subsidies. Premiers call discussions worthwhile though Trudeau warns of bottlenecks for grain shipments.
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Saskatoon
Trudeau
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Peter Lougheed
Grant Devine
Ottawa
Canada
Lougheed
Edmonton
Devine
Brian Mulroney
Canada rejects Soviet flight dispute at UN
Canada denounces a Soviet claim that its temporary Aeroflot flight ban breaches a 1966 pact. External Affairs Minister MacEachen calls the charge unfounded as Ottawa bars Soviet flights into Montreal for 60 days. Officials note Western pilots’ 30 day boycott may delay Moscow service.
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Canada
Aeroflot
Allan MacEachen
Geoffrey Pearson
Moscow
MacEachen
UN General Assembly
Soviet Union
U.S
United States
Ottawa
Montreal
Mirabel
British Airways
Baby found by kin shocks Coaldale family
In Coaldale Alberta a man who found a newborn in a garbage can learned the child is his grandson. His 17-year-old daughter is the mother who was hospitalized in shock. The baby survived 15 hours in the bin and is in good condition at a regional hospital. Police consider possible action against the mother.
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Coaldale
Alta
John Armstrong
Coaldale Hospital
Lethbridge Regional Hospital
Lougheed Exposes Public Spending Sparks Alberta Debate
Edmonton reports reveal a $1500 Edmonton to Hawaii courier bill for Premier Lougheed and a $4525.82 luncheon tab by the cabinet during a victory celebration. Critics say the total $6000 in public funds undercuts sound management amid job cuts and higher costs in Alberta. The courier bill involved Ron Liepert delivering briefing papers as Lougheed rests from a Far East trade mission.
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Southam
Edmonton
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
Lougheed
Calgary
Edmonton Journal
Hawaii
Ron Liepert
mid-Pacific
Far East
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