Word: canadas
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Mark K. Benning '86 transferred from the University of Notre Dame this September. Benning, originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, says his experience on the varsity is hockey team has made fitting in to Harvard a bit easier, but still challenging...
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...fledgling trade embargo is likely to have little bearing on the outcome of the contra issue. The Sandinistas have already announced a trade offensive in Western Europe and Canada to soften the economic blow, which affects $168 million in U.S.-Nicaraguan commerce. Last week Ortega added a West European tour to his East bloc visit in order to lead that effort...
...main business Friday night and Saturday, however, was the futile effort to persuade Mitterrand to accept a trade conference in early 1986. Canada's Mulroney drafted a set of proposals for what such a conference would discuss; it was intended to assure the French President that agriculture would not dominate the talks. The sherpas, meeting all night, worked out five or six formulations to the same effect. Mitterrand agreed to communique language that made no mention of any link between trade and monetary conferences, but nothing could get him to set a date for the trade discussions. The French President...
Embargoes frequently fail because other countries provide markets and supplies. Japan, Canada and Spain have become Cuba's major non-Communist trading partners. When President Carter imposed sanctions on grain sales to the Soviet Union following the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Moscow simply found new suppliers, principally Argentina. The U.S. had tried to prevent the sale of oil- and gas-pipeline equipment to the Soviets to express its disapproval of Soviet involvement when martial law was imposed in Poland in late 1981, but Washington backed off when its European allies raised angry protests. The U.S. also imposed a variety...