The Press, Volume 33, Issue 5, September 12, 1996

Abstract

The Press, Volume 33, Issue 5 includes: On September 8, Gerard Kennedy, a liberal MPP from Toronto, spoke in the Trivial Recruit Room at Brock; Iraq bombed by the U.S. with old, repurposed nuclear weapons in response to Iraqi attacks on Kurdish positions. The attacks occurred on September 4 and knocked out Hussein’s military capability, reducing the possibility of further threat; On September 1, the largest international Animal Rights demonstration held in the Niagara region took place at Marineland. Protestors from over twenty-five different countries participated to share their disapproval of the captivity of marine mammals; Benjamin Netanyahu vowed he would never meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, but under pressure from the U.S. and Palestinian threats, the two met to talk about peace in Gaza; The General Assembly of the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to endorse a global treaty that would ban all nuclear test blasts.