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Reliever Chris Schindler started the seventh inning for the Crimson, got one quick out, but then gave up three straight hits. With the tying run at the plate, Jim Chenevey same in and struck out both pinch hitter Tony Szklany and Minuteman batting leader Todd Comeau to end the game...
...votes in all of Canada's ten provinces, making it a truly national party for the first time in 20 years. Drowned in cheers of "Brian! Bri-an!" Mulroney, 45, thanked the 3,000 supporters gathered at an indoor hockey rink in his Quebec home town of Baie Comeau. Said the Prime Minister-elect: "Canada has responded to a call to national unity...
...elected last week that the Tory benches in Parliament will not be able to hold them all. Some M.P.s will have to sit on the side of the aisle usually reserved for the opposition, crowding out the diminished ranks of those who ran Canada until the boy from Baie Comeau arrived...
Tired and hoarse, but visibly elated from his election-night triumph, the Prime Minister-elect left his home town of Bale Comeau the next day aboard Manicougan I, the Boeing 727 that served as his traveling campaign headquarters. As the plane sped west toward Ottawa, TIME Correspondent Marcia Ganger talked with Mulroney about the campaign, the economy and his vision for Canada's future...
...attracted widespread support from the Parti Québécois (three Tory candidates were onetime separatist activists). He shrewdly cultivated alliances with such local power brokers as former Labor Negotiator Lucien Bouchard and Senator Arthur Tremblay. And his ads invariably identified him as the "Boy from Baie Comeau." In the end, Québécois simply found Mulroney the stronger candidate. "The French in Quebec aren't Martians," says McGill University Professor Daniel Latouche. "Like all Canadians, they're reacting to Turner's gaffes, the Liberals' patronage issue, Mulroney's perfect campaign." That...