The Press, Volume 33, Issue 12, October 31, 1996

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The Press, Volume 33, Issue 12 includes: A two vehicle collision, one of which was a dump truck, in Thorold has claimed the lives of three people; General Motors of Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers ratified an agreement ending the three week union strike which had shut down GM plants all throughout Canada; St. Catharines Transit downtown St. Catharines terminal opened; After 88 days, Richard Jewell has been cleared as the target of the FBI’s investigation looking into a bombing that took place during the Atlanta Summer Games; A lack of food, medicine and clean water in Iraq is killing as many as 4,500 children a month, says UN aid; Boris Yeltsin could undergo heart surgery soon; India will go ahead with its first Miss World beauty pageant, despite threats of a suicide attack by a woman’s group and a failed attack on the organizers; A stampede of more than 200,000 civilians who are trying to escape the intense fighting between Tutsi rebels Zairian soldiers has turned an eastern Zaire refugee camp into the largest camp in the world.