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Carswell was also a leading member of the Brooklyn community. He served on the board of Caledonian Hospital from 1960 until 1982 when it merged with the Brooklyn Hospital Center. Carswell then continued his board membership and joined the board of the Brooklyn Hospital Foundation...
There are also restaurants in and around the upscale Sheraton Grand and Caledonian Hilton hotels, both well situated for the film festival and key International Festival events. Moderately priced hotels, bed-and-breakfasts and other housing are available in Edinburgh and environs. As always, it's a good idea to book hotels and restaurants as soon as you know you will be attending the events...
...French assault on the New Caledonian rebels provoked almost as much controversy. But Overseas Territories Minister Bernard Pons insisted that he took action only because "we believed that at any moment there would be a massacre" of the hostages. Leaders of New Caledonia's secessionists accused . the French of staging the assault to gain votes. Declared the rebels in a statement: "This has created a legacy of blood and fire that will increase our resolve...
Soon after the President's jetliner touched down at Tontouta Airport, he was taken by helicopter to the New Caledonian capital of Noumea, 33 miles away. He was met by 25,000 anti-independence demonstrators waving French flags, singing the Marseillaise and displaying banners that read "Caledonie Francaise Toujours." In the morning, Mitterrand held meetings with Pisani and leaders on both sides of the independence issue...
Somewhere over the western Mediterranean or southern France last Friday evening, a British Caledonian Airways jetliner heading northwest toward London crossed paths with a Libyan airliner flying southeast toward Tripoli. The planes were carrying home the second and final contingents of British and Libyan diplomats, thereby ending an eleven-day war of nerves between the two countries. It had begun a week earlier when an unidentified man fired shots through the windows of the Libyan embassy in London, killing a British policewoman and wounding eleven Libyan dissidents gathered outside in St. James's Square...