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MOVIES
* The Bodyguard *Aladdin *Malcolm X
* Under Seige
* The Last Of The Mohicans * Unforgiven
* A League Of Their Own *Forever Young
* Bram Stoker's Dracula
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IN THE NEWS
*South African whites overwhelmingly approve a referendum to share power with blacks
* Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown as an ex- ample of society's 'poverty of values', which he says is to blame for the L.A. riots
* Stores blazed as looters rushed by during unrest in South Los Angeles following the acquittal of 5 policemen charged with beating 25-year-old RODNEY KING. It was the worst urban riot- ing in U.S. history
*The U.N.demanded access to Serbian detention camps after reports of torture and murder
* Shipments of food were sent to Somalia where there are over 1.5 million people starving
*California's strongest earthquake in 40 yrs. -7.4 on the scale
* Hurricane Andrew strikes Florida and Louisiana * A fire at Queen Elizabeth's Windsor Castle
* "My Canada Has Quebec In It"
LATE GREATS
* MARLENE DIETRICH (90) - Actress
* EDDIE KENDRICKS (52) - A member of the
Temptations
* LAWRENCE WELK (89) - Bandleader
* ISAAC ASIMOV (72) - A professor & author * MARY WELLS (49) - Singer
* MARK GOODSON (77) - Leading game show
producer
* ALISON GERTZ (26) - AIDS casualty * BENNY HILL (67) - Comedian
* SHffiLEY BOOTH (94) - Actress
* JOSE FERRER (80) - Actor
* ROBERT REED (59) - Actor
* MAE CLARKE (81) - Actress
* SAM KINISON (38) - Comedian
*P AUL HENRIED (84)- Actor
* LYLE ALZADO (43) - Football star
* PETER ALLEN (48) - Impresario
* NANCY WALKER (69) - Actress
* CHUCK CONNORS (71) - Actor
* DICK YORK (63) - Actor
* ROGER MILLER (56) - C+W star
SONGS (640)
•10. BabyGotBack·SIRMIXaLOT * 9 - November Rain - Guns' N 'Roses
• 8 · I Love Your Smile· SHANICE
• 7 · Justified & Ancient - KLF &
* Bill & lary Clinton
* Cindy Craw- ford
*Ross Perot * Denzel Washington
* Princess Diana
* Woody Allen
* Billy Ray Cyrus
* Gregory Kingsley
* Desiree Washington *Madonna
* Dana Carvey
* Sharon Stone
* Carol Moseley Braun * Whoopi Goldburg
INTRIGUING
PEOPLE
WHAT HAPPENED
* JOHNNY CARSON left "The Tonight Show" after hosting it for almost 30 years.
* LARRY BffiD retires from the NBA after win- ning a gold medal at the Olympics.
* HIV- positive MAGIC JOHNSON bows to pres- sure and retires.
* MIKE TYSON the Heavyweight Champ (1986-89) is found guilty of raping an 18-year old Miss Black America contestant.
* The COSBY SHOW retires on NBC.
* BILL CLINTON is taking over the Presidential
title.
*THE BLUE JA YS WON THE WORLD SER-
IES
* NHL players had the first strike in pro-hockey's
history.
* "A Concert For Life", a tribute to rocker
FREDDY MERCURY of QUEEN, who died of AIDS in 1991, is staged by dozens of popular music artists. Money raised was donated to AIDS research.
* GREGORY KINGSLEY (12), "divorces" his mother so that he can be adopted by his foster parents.
* OLYMPIA - YORK go bankrupt * ELVIS has his own stamp
COLLINGWOOD
*Town passed a new by-law for Sunday shopping
* The smoking policy in the Arena still permits smoking in the
office and the lobby
• Council approved a 1.9% budget increase for 1992 despite a big
increase in the welfare roles
• Olympic gold medalist Kerrin Lee-Gartner visited the area, com-
peting in the super giant slalom
* The master plan for the Museum called for a $1.9 million ex-
pansion which would increase the size of the facility
• The community pulled together for Jessica Crawford, a 2-&-a- halfyr. old girl with a brain tumor, and held a benefit concert. Unfortunately, a scandal developed from the benefit, as one of the organizers was charged with absconding with some of the
funds .
• There was the welcoming of a delegation froin Collingwood's
sister city, Katana, Japan
* Simcoe County Board Of Education faced a strike by secretar-
ies, clerks & teacher's assistants, as more than 500 walked out
3 weeks before achool began
• The Harbour received more than $750,000 to assist with the har-
bour dredging on Harbour Day
• Harding Carpets announced the layoff of 90 jobs
• Police officers joined a province-wide campaign against new use-
of-force regulations
• Two teenagers took a disliking to Jean Vanier by deciding to
attempt to set the school on fire
* Police were involved in a sizable drug bust, while acting in a
joint forces project with the OPP & RCMP
• Rotary Club collected 60,000 lbs of clothes for St. Petersburg
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