Word: canadas
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...Benedetti continues to pursue foreign partners. Last week Olivetti announced that Xerox will now market Olivetti's M-24 personal computer in the U.S. and Canada under the Xerox name. Market experts estimate the U.S. firm may sell some 30,000 of the machines a year. At the same time, Rank Xerox, the firm's British operation, will work with Olivetti to produce and market equipment in Europe and Asia...
...company's mammoth pipes will cover 37,000 miles, stretching from Canada to Texas, from California to Florida. InterNorth of Omaha announced last week that it would buy Houston Natural Gas for $2.26 billion in a friendly transaction that will create the longest natural gas pipeline system in the U.S. The combined network will deliver roughly 9% of the gas consumed...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany, the summit host, and Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher of Britain, Brian Mulroney of Canada, Bettino Craxi of Italy and Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan were willing to accommodate Reagan. But Mitterrand, who appeared to relish playing France's traditional role of odd man out at economic summits, adamantly refused to set an early--or any--date for trade negotiations. He voiced varied objections: that the talks had to be carefully prepared; that they ought to be linked to a monetary-reform conference, about which the U.S. is dubious; most of all, that trade talks might...
...made clear it would not seek any endorsement. But the subject dominated Reagan's bilateral talks with the other leaders. The President stressed the potential advantage to other countries of participating in the research for the missile-defense program, which he said could have important nonmilitary applications. Canada's Mulroney and Japan's Nakasone were politely noncommittal; others were interested, but in some cases skeptical, about just what contributions the U.S. wanted. Said Italy's Craxi: "We don't want to make just the carpets and - the screws for the spaceships." Kohl gave SDI a personal endorsement; though the British...
...summits have changed greatly since the leaders of six industrial democracies gathered at the Chateau de Rambouillet outside Paris in 1975 (Canada was added the next year). They began as general and relatively informal private chats but quickly, and probably inevitably, took on most of the trappings of full-scale international conferences: months of preparatory meetings among planners known as sherpas (after the guides who take climbers to the summits of the Himalayas), set-speech expositions of national policies, large delegations attending each head of government...