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Liberals fake Alberta by-election Conservative riding turns against Getty government JIM MORRIS CANADIAN PRESS handsomely." MacDonald garnered 4,694 votes while Oneil, owner of a real-estate firm, had 2,313 and Twigg, 1,269. More than 60 per cent of the riding's 16,879 voters cast ballots, even though the election was the same day as the constitutional referendum and some voters travelled to two different polling stations. Oneil, 37, said he was surprised by MacDonald's majority. But "I don't think this is any indication of strong support for the Liberal Party throughout the province," he said. "It was an opportunity for a mad electorate to send a clear message to the government in Edmonton." The Conservatives now have 57 of 83 seats in the legislature, the New Democrats 16 and the Liberals nine.

Twigg, 30, Airdire's municipal secretary, was disappointed with his showing. "We certainly were expecting to do better, but it appears the anti-government vote all went in one direction," he said. the province for the last 2 1 years. In the last few years the provincial debt has ballooned and Getty's government has lost millions on bad business loans. "The folks here are angry about the policies of the government," said the former cabinet minister.

Getty fired Osterman in 1989 after a report blamed her department for failing to properly regulate the firms that collapsed. She quit politics in May when the government rejected a tire-burning plant in the central Alberta riding, which is dotted with farms and small towns. Liberal leader Laurence Decore said his party's victory should send a clear message to the Tories. "This is the heartland of Conservative Alberta," said shouting over the cheers in Mao. Donald's campaign headquarters.

"This is rural Alberta. This is where it's not supposed to happen. This is where Liberals are supposed to be the anathema of everything that this area stands for. Not only are we winning, but we're winning Piri nn7P n7 opn MB WIMilM (R )(q) rtpo ii If yluMiJ UxJ'ijQ Toronto accuses Rae of breaking confSict rules But premier says charges are unfair WHOPPER. WITH LETTUCE.

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NO ITALIAN SPORTSCAR. JUST A 1 .49 WHOPPER. GOT IT? GET IT. THREE HILLS, Alta. The ghost of Connie Osterman came back to haunt Premier Don Getty on Monday as the Liberals easily won her old Three Hills seat, which the Progressive Conservatives had held since 1971.

Don MacDonald doubled the number of votes Conservative Brad Oneil received in the provincial by-election. New Democrat Gordon Twigg finished a distant third. MacDonald, a farm realtor from Three Hills, said people felt Osterman was made a scapegoat in the Principal Group collapse. "Through the whole constituency people were unhappy with the way Connie was treated," said MacDonald, who received 45.9 per cent of the vote. "They felt they had a very good MLA and she wasn't treated fairly." Osterman, who resigned her seat in May, said voters are angry at the Conservatives, who have governed EOISer-wliale baby dies at Harifieland CANADIAN PRESS NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.

A 2-month-old killer whale died suddenly at the Marineland aquarium despite a round-the-clock watch by staff that had been optimistic about its survival chances. "We are shocked and saddened by the sudden death," said Marine-land owner John Holer. The whale which had not been named was bora Aug. 24 and died Sunday. The baby weighed 1 50 pounds at birth and was the first for Kiska, a 14-year-old killer whale who has been helping another new mother, Nootka, care for a second killer whale born a week ago at Marine-land.

"We had hoped he was past the dangerous time following birth. Very few first-born killer whales survive, but he seemed to be doing so well we hoped he like the youngster born at Marineland three years ago would do well," Holer said. An autopsy was to be conducted to determine the cause of death. The week-old baby is doing well and weighed 200 pounds at birth, making it the largest born in captivity, Holer said. The 3-year-old killer whale, a son of Nootka named Splash, now lives at Sea World in San Diego.

No leads in murder of B.C. girl CANADIAN PRESS COURTENAY Police are not close to making an arrest in the sex-related murder of six-year-old Dawn Monique Shaw despite receiving more than 200 tips, Cour-tenay RCMP Sgt. Gordon Nesbitt said yesterday. Twenty police officers are investigating the killing, including members of the RCMP's serious crimes unit, but they have yet to close in on a suspect, he said. They are investigating known pedophiles in this mid-Vancouver Island region, about 185 kilometres north of Victoria.

The Comox Valley community of 8,000 has been gripped with fear ever since Shaw's naked body was found Saturday in a wooded area about 1 50 metres from her home. People say they won't sleep comfortably until the girl's killer is found. Nesbitt said he understands their fears. "As a parent and a grandfather I'm concerned," he said. The forested area where Shaw's body was found Saturday evening borders the elementary school where Shaw attended Grade 1.

Police suspect Shaw was sexually assaulted before she was killed, but refuse to released results of an autopsy performed in Vancouver. Mother Carol Ann Shaw 3 1 said a sick person must have killed her daughter. The killer may have even known Dawn, who was extremely shy around H'lt strangers. "Something awfully terrible must have happend to this person," Shaw said, "He needs help, I don't want him strung up." She said she is trying her best to keep her family husband Ron, 29, children Anthony, 10, Robin, 4, and Johnny, 2 going during this tragedy. "How are you supposed to stay in control? Your family," she said.

"I have those three kids to take care of. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing." premier acts as judge and jury over his rules. A man who has appealed the case at the board contends he has been treated unfairly because of the letter from Rae's office. "I'm basically getting screwed around," said Jeff Rosen, who is in a battle with the city-centre development over a density regulation affecting land he owns near the project. "Somebody's pulling some strings and I'm getting the short end of the stick." Rosen said hearings on the development and his complaint initially scheduled for next January and February have been rescheduled for November and December.

"It is not proper for the premier of Ontario to be advocating directly to the OMB on how to proceed on matters under the OMB's exclusive jurisdiction," he wrote to the board in a letter dated Monday. He is also angry because he says Romano twisted his position when he told the board that moving up the hearing dates wouldn't be a problem because the development's lone opponent didn't object. "The letter from the premier's office made representation on my behalf without my permission," he wrote. Legal process Romano couldn't be reached for comment, but board chairman John Kruger said his letter had no impact on when the hearings will be held. In the letter, he said, Romano asked for hearing dates in October, which weren't accommodated by the board.

"There is a legal process that is now running on this matter and nothing is going to interfere with it," he said in an interview. "The treatment this received was no different than the treatment anything received." UpS ir Maims He said there is potential for terrorism as the result of the break-up of the Soviet bloc, from the Middle East and also from South America. "Although the number of incidents is down, the threat still exists," he claimed. "We have to be prepared." Irv Soloway, of the U.S. state department's diplomatic security service, said seven armed conflicts are now under way in the world because of ethnically-based problems.

"They have the potential of encouraging terrorism," he said. There's also a threat in both the United States and Canada from so-called green terrorists who resort to violence to protect the environment, Soloway said. He identified the Animal Liberation Front as being responsible for a number of arsons in 1989 and 1991 on Canada's west coast and in Washington state, and for placing spikes in trees to injure loggers. Soloway said ALF is also active in the United Kingdom. "There are a handful of groups, but they're very dangerous," he said.

Colonel Keith Nightingale, who is currently involved in a fight against drugs through Central and South America, said "narco-terror-ists" are are using money instead of bombs to get their way. The narco-tcrrorist is "very corporate," Nightingale said. "They wear coats and ties. They buy themselves credibility." KEVIN WARD CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO Ontario Premier Bob Rae was accused yesterday of breaking his own conflict rules after his constituency office wrote a letter to the Ontario Municipal Board asking it to speed up a hearing on a development in his riding. Liberal MP Greg Sorbara said the letter to the board's chairman asking for a quick hearing date on a land rezoning affecting a massive office, shopping, transit and city hall complex in suburban York breaks Rae's conflict guidelines.

'Clear violation' Sorbara said the Sept. 16 letter written by Rae's executive assistant, Tony Romano, shows influence was being used in the case. That violates the premier's conflict-of-interest guidelines governing the conduct of cabinet ministers, who are restricted in the contact they can have with independent tribunals, said Sorbara of York Centre, north of Toronto. "On the face of it, clearly the guidelines have been violated," he told the legislature. "There couldn't be a clearer violation of the guidelines if the premier had signed the letter himself." Rae denied Sorbara's accusation, saying it's not unusual for members of cabinet ministers' constituency staffs to write to government agencies.

Besides, he said, the project has the provincial government's blessing. "To suggest somehow that there is any kind of conflict involving me on the basis of this letter is, I think, most unfair," he said in the legislature. "It casts an aspersion which is quite unjustified and quite unfair." Later, Rae said he would not ask the conflict commissioner to review the complaint after Sorbara called his guidelines flawed because the me terro in Cana CAL MILLAR TORONTO STAR DETROIT There are nine extremist groups in Canada involved in international terrorism, a senior RCMP officer told an international police chiefs' meeting yesterday. Some of the groups are simply involved in fundraising to further activities in other parts of the world, said Chief Superintendent Wayne Eaton, who heads the RCMP's criminal intelligence directorate. Others have conspired to help arrange terrorist acts offshore, Eaton told delegates to the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Those conspiracies have included the purchase of bombs or weapons in Canada and the training of people to commit terrorist acts. "Conspiracy is often carried out in Canada," he said. "The leadership may also come from residents of Canada." Eaton said terrorism in Canada is on the decline and he's not aware of any terrorist cell or group in the country that is prepared to take some action for a home-grown cause. Douglas Gow, associate deputy director of investigations for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the number of terrorist incidents has declined worldwide.

Gow said law enforcement officials shouldn't think the threat from terrorism is over, but should concentrate on disrupting any potentially dangerous activities before they start. nst Oct, tji'o i. nuv I 7 1 mnn hi ii CURCSR mm mm.