Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newspaper business can be forgiven for occasionally thinking there is something leisurely about putting together a magazine that comes out only once a week. That is rarely true, and it certainly wasn't last week. On Saturday we were ready to go to press in the U.S. and Canada with a cover story on the frightening tide of violence among American youths when we heard news of the massacre in Beijing. Shortly before midnight, with the death toll rising into the hundreds, Executive Editor Ronald Kriss made the decision to change the cover. Then, as if things were not complicated...
...have a lovers' quarrel going on with America. If it were a grudge fight, I would go to Canada. But it's a lovers' quarrel. And civil disobedience is very much a part of our religious and historical tradition: the abolitionists, the suffragists, Martin Luther King...
...particular concern to the U.S. and Canada is the damage inflicted by the nets on North Pacific stocks of sea trout and salmon. U.S. fishing-industry representatives claim that some Asian fishermen have been pulling large numbers of salmon out of nets intended for squid. As a result, they say, fewer young fish return to North American spawning streams...
...developed for agriculture. The hormone has been used in several West European nations, the Soviet Union and South Africa. But opposition is intense. The European Parliament, for example, has recommended that its member countries prohibit the sale of meat or milk from BST-treated cows, and two provinces in Canada have temporarily halted the distribution of such products. In the U.S. the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to approve the use of BST amid rising protests from concerned dairy states. Wisconsin's agriculture secretary has proposed a moratorium of up to three years...
...Spielberg. Lucas, who dreamed up Star Wars for a generation of space cadets, is the mastermind of the Indiana Jones series. Spielberg directed the trilogy, which reaches its thrilling climax this week when Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens on 2,327 movie screens in the U.S. and Canada. The star is Harrison Ford -- three times Indy Jones, three times Star Wars' Han Solo and the unchallenged hero of a derring-do, me-too movie decade...