Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Economic opportunity is hardly the only attraction. Some newcomers simply fall in love with the size and grandeur of the land. Lebanese Engineer Walid Bohsali, 44, came to the bluegrass pastures of Lexington, Ky., to build a $5.2 million 18th century French-style horse farm for a Canada-based relative. Charmed by the quiet, order and beauty, he stayed on with his American wife Mary Lou and their two children and became a Thoroughbred racehorse broker for absentee owners. He has rented a house with an option to buy, and intends to apply for citizenship. Says Bohsali...
...World War II. Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, who contributed a two-page Essay to the issue, came from Austria in 1940 by way of France, Morocco and Portugal. Assistant Managing Editor John Elson was born in Vancouver. His father, an American journalist, brought the family from Canada to Washington...
...known as the man who tried to break the French-speaking province of Quebec away from the rest of Canada. But over the years the idea of separation had soured among Quebec's voters, and last November, Premier Rene Levesque persuaded his ruling Parti Quebecois to shelve the notion of independence. With the party trailing the opposition Liberals by 2 to 1 in the polls, many members called on him to resign. They repeated their request three weeks ago when the Liberals captured four seats in a by-election and reduced the P.Q.'s majority in the province's national...
...province out of the Canadian confederation. He championed a law making French the official language of Quebec, which delighted most voters but hurt the cause of separation. Satisfied that they were at last living and working with their own language, Quebecers lost interest in seceding from the rest of Canada...
...lives. One tape features a young woman, bound in handcuffs and leg- irons, whom Lake matter-of-factly orders to do what they say or "we will take you out in the back and shoot you." Another tape shows Ng, who is still missing and may have fled to Canada, slashing away the shirt and brassiere of a woman begging for the life of her baby. Officials are not confident that they will be able to identify all the victims. They also suspect that more bodies will turn up beyond the property lines...