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...March, Government computers forecast that the snowmelt would be 4% below normal. A month ago, they predicted 31% above. The most recent predicted overflow: 110%. "Our estimates," admits Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Robert Broadbent, "were wrong. The flows this year just didn't fit into that computer model. It was winter clear up to the 20th of May, and then all of a sudden it turned to summer...
Surprisingly, support for the NDP has eroded. Instead of capitalizing on the antagonisms toward the other two leaders, NDP chief Ed Broadbent has fostered the notion that voting for his party is a waste. He has made promises at an incalculable rate (67 at last count), thus reinforcing the idea that he will never be Prime Minister...
...just 6½ months in office, had been stunningly upset. By a vote of 139 to 133, the Tories went down to defeat on a no-confidence motion supported by the combined opposition of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberals (114 seats) and the New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent (27 seats). When the shouting from the triumphant opposition benches had subsided, Clark rose from the government bench to make the despondent announcement. "The government has lost a vote on a matter which we have no alternative but to regard as a question of confidence," he said. "I want...
...intended. Responding to questions in Parliament, Trudeau said that he was "surprised that an experienced diplomat like Mr. Porter would not find other channels for expressing [his] views." After Trudeau brought down the House by declaring "we are not a colony of the U.S.," New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent proposed that the Prime Minister advise Washington that Porter's "kind of behavior is totally unacceptable to Canada...
...rare wines, both foreign and domestic, is apparently rising even faster. Last week's auction grossed more than $230,000 (v. $55,000 and $106,000 in 1969 and 1970), and many lots fetched four to five times the price that Heublein's experts had expected. Broadbent, wine director of London's Christie's auctioneers, hesitated over one lot and confessed to the audience: "I'm sorry-at these dizzyingly high prices, I'm losing my place...