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THIRTY YEARS AGO The province will add $600,000 to the $1-million grant it has already given Brandon University for expansion of the music school, George Gooden, chairman of the school's board of governors announced. TWENTY YEARS AGO A United States marine amphibious assault force is moving into place in the Persian Gulf and U.S. President George Bush says he's prepared to wage a ground war against Iraq if air power alone won't be enough to retake Kuwait.
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Cowboys linebacker Thomas (Hollywood) Henderson ushers in the trash-talking era with this gem aimed at Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw before Super Bowl XIII, a Steelers-Cowboys rematch: "He couldn't spell cat if you spotted him the 'c' and the 't'. Diva Whitney Houston gives one of the most memorable versions of the national anthem prior to Super Bowl XXV. With the Gulf War just getting started, Houston's singing, along with a flyover from U.S. Air Force fighter jets, made for the most patriotic moment in Super Bowl history.
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...SERVE À VOCATION DE PARC NATIONAL DES ÎLES-GULF DU CANADA. Dans la présente description, « l’...
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CANCUN, Mexico -- Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun. [Ida]'s forecast track moved slightly toward the north, on a path that would take it through the Yucatan Channel that separates Mexico and Cuba around midday Sunday. Forecasters predicted Ida would weaken and enter the Gulf of Mexico and possibly brush the U.S. Gulf Coast next week. KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S. and Afghan authorities are investigating whether a botched NATO air strike was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in the country's western region.
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Canada's troops in Afghanistan, the country's largest military commitment since the Korean War, are provided with air support by the United States, including ground attack aircraft and helicopters, and medical evacuation of Canadian casualties. The Canadian Air Force is in Kandahar in a nominal role, flying radio-guided vehicles (UAVs) with the army, and supplying troops using two Hercules based in the Persian Gulf. Now, after a long history of neglect by successive governments that diminished Canada's military power, the armed forces are being radically transformed but the role for the air force is not so clear. Led by the chief of the defence staff, General Rick Hillier, the armed forces is becoming a highly mobile and rapidly deployable expeditionary corps. In the near future --if al...
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...GULF ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK RESERVE OF CANADA. In this d...
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BRAGGA, -- The statue, a tribute to the king of who was murdered in a bloody massacre in 2002, stands shrouded in a common blue tarpaulin, a benign symbol of the latest chapter in the gruesome struggles that have gripped this country for hundreds of years. We began our trek in Besisahar, about 300 kilometers west of Mount Everest, after checking into a small hotel and eating dal baht, the national dish of . Consisting of lentil soup with rice and curried vegetables, it is the fuel that powers porters, guides and trekkers up and down the trails of the Himalayas. Websites: There is plenty of lively conversation on Lonely Planet's message board (thorntree.lonelyplanet.com). Go to Asia-Indian subcontinent-, where there is a lot of advice. Much of the best comes from s...
...-London (Air Canada), London-Muscat, Oman (Gulf Air), Muscat-Kathmandu (Gulf Air) return. Cost inc...
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... as ignorant after the BP oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, as once again, our legal, political and...
