Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forces the bus off the road again in Carlisle, Ark. (pop. 2,000). As we stumble out, most of us disheveled and collectively smelling as ripe as backpackers three days out, we learn that more than 300 people are al ready stranded here from all over the U.S. and Canada. The Emmanuel Baptist Church has opened its doors to offer shelter, and this morning the church ladies are dishing up a free hot meal in the auditorium. "When we realized there were no rooms at the motel and bad weather in all directions,"recalls Church Mem ber Russell Thrift...
...Saudi fields. Iraq, Nigeria and Kuwait have also increased production somewhat. Right now, total world production is off by about 2 million bbl. a day. That is roughly equal to about 4% of global petroleum consumption, or more than enough to supply all the daily needs of Britain or Canada...
...Bahamas, dropping federal money at the roulette wheels of Paradise Island. He liked to wear Cardin suits and Dior shirts. Acting under cover, he became the lover of the mistress of a French heroin ring boss, cracking a drug and counterfeit network extending from France to the U.S. and Canada. Working with New York City's Knapp Commission looking into police corruption, he helped convict an assistant district attorney of bribery. He was brought in from the cold in 1975 to become head of the DEA enforcement section in Mexico City, charged with investigating the flow of drugs from...
...foreigners (many of them graduate students) on college and university campuses, a 15% jump over the previous year; there are even more in the U.S. today. By far the largest foreign contingent is the 36,000 or so students from Iran; other big groups come from Taiwan, Nigeria, Canada, Hong Kong, India and Japan. Soon students from China will add to the numbers...
...Team Canada captured the Canada Cup by defeating Czechoslovakia in overtime at the Montreal Forum. Who put in the decisive goal...