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FLYING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS IN 1985, three years before the Pan Am bombing, 248 American soldiers and eight crew members died when their chartered DC-8 jet plunged to earth just after taking off from a refueling stop in Gander, Newfoundland. It was the worst U.S. military air disaster ever. Icing of the wings was immediately suggested as the cause, although Islamic Jihad terrorists just as quickly boasted of blowing...
...thousands of service stations. Last year Imperial Oil, owned largely by Exxon, posted the first loss in its 111-year history. Another giant, Gulf Canada Resources Ltd., stunned the industry last month by walking away from its stake in a huge undersea oil project on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland...
...been a shortage of claims and hypotheses about alternative "discoveries" of America. It seems quite certain that the first Europeans to reach the mainland of North America (which Columbus never did: the closest he got to it was Venezuela) were the Vikings, who created a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland around the year...
Last week three Canadian scandals also made news. A judge in Newfoundland sentenced Edward English of the Christian Brothers to 12 years in prison, declaring, "You are a disgrace to the order and to humanity." A separate scandal involves six present and former diocesan priests in Newfoundland. Also last week, a trial was ordered in the first of the abuse cases involving 19 Christian Brothers at a school in Alfred...
Most Quebeckers are perplexed. They find it hard to understand why a deal that was supported by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and approved by eight of ten provincial legislatures representing 94% of the population could have been blocked by a handful of politicians in provinces like Manitoba and Newfoundland. The answer, it seems, is not so much that the naysayers were hostile to Quebec as that they were determined that other Canadians must be granted the same recognition...