Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides boundary lines, the dispute involves conservation. The U.S. last year gave Canadians temporarily increased access to U.S. West Coast salmon grounds, on condition that Canada close its Swiftsure Bank fishing area off British Columbia, where much of the U.S. salmon catch matures, from April 15 until June 14. Canada dawdled in honoring the proviso until May 15. On the East Coast, Canada demanded that the U.S. cut back its catch of scallops, cod, pollock and haddock on the Georges Bank to match quotas imposed by Ottawa on its own fishermen. State Department negotiators declared that Washington did not have...
...immediately tried to swallow a piece of notepaper. Police retrieved a segment of the note; it was written in German and signed "Brigitte." The swallower insisted that he was simply a messenger, and that the note was about the "Russell tribunal" (a radical political colloquium in Frankfurt, named for British Lord Bertrand Russell, that discussed West German civil rights violations). He was released, but the curiosity lingered on. Could the Zagreb Brigitte also be the Milanese Brigitte...
...President holds many unpublicized conversations with such fellows as Du Pont's Irving Shapiro, General Motors' Thomas Murphy and A T &T's John deButts. Very often, he seeks the advice of a tall, spare British immigrant who is emerging as one of the three or four most influential spokesmen of American business, General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones...
Khama came to prominence, before Botswana's independence, as leader of the Bechuanaland Democratic Party, and was later the nation's first prime minister and minister of home affairs. Since independence, he has sat as a member of the British House of Lords...
...Russian author electrified the West in 1974 in a British Broadcasting Company program in which he denounced detente and condemned the West for its refusal to recognize what he considered to be the expansionist motives of Soviet foreign policy...