Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BORN. To Mila Mulroney, 32, and Brian Mulroney, 46, Progressive Conservative Prime Minister of Canada since September 1984; their fourth child, third son; in Ottawa. Name: Daniel Nicolas Dimitri. Weight: 7 lbs. 14 oz. Said Mulroney of his newborn son: "He's loud enough to be a Tory...
Princeton stroke Harry Becker, a member of Canada's Olympic team, said that his squad "didn't mean to let them go out as far as they did." He added that he "didn't know they were so far ahead...
...outside the U.S.S.R. better than nearly any of his predecessors did on coming to power. Even in his Stavropol days Gorbachev made official trips to Italy, West Germany, Belgium and France, a rare honor for a young provincial Soviet administrator. As a Politburo member, he led Soviet delegations to Canada in 1983 and Britain in 1984 and submitted to sometimes hostile questioning by members of the Parliaments of both countries. Gorbachev on those occasions showed flashes of a quick temper. When a British Tory asked him about religious freedom in the U.S.S.R., Gorbachev testily replied, "You persecute entire communities...
Helio Pena (acrobat) -- Originally from Portugal, Pena has travelled by way of Canada to juggle fire for the kids. He usually performs on Sunday on the raised area in front of Paperback Booksmith...
...director, Carl Jules Weyl, from Germany; the composer, Max Steiner, from Vienna. And of the top 20 names on the cast list, only three belonged to native Americans (Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson and Joy Page); the rest represented the tattered flags of Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Italy, the Soviet Union and Sweden. For Hollywood, it was the blossoming of a beautiful friendship...