Word: canadas
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...early" negotiations. The Germans have enough support to force a serious split within NATO if the U.S. continues to say no. Britain, the Netherlands and Turkey support the U.S., while Bonn has the backing of Italy, Greece and most of the other continental European countries; others, including Norway and Canada, are trying to broker a compromise. But Bush is unmoved. He reaffirmed his position in talks with Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland last week, and again last Friday in a telephone conversation with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl...
...Episcopal bishops. Basically, Lambeth had adopted a live-and-let- live approach to the question of women in the hierarchy. Seven of the ; Anglican branches allow women priests, and the diocese of Massachusetts last February toppled the final sex barrier by installing a woman, Barbara Harris, as bishop. Canada and New Zealand are prepared to follow suit...
Since Roe was handed down, abortions have become if not commonplace, then unexceptional. The number in the U.S. each year has leveled off at around 1.6 million, up from 744,600 in 1973 -- about 30% of all pregnancies, excluding stillbirths and miscarriages. (Comparable figures are 14% for Canada, 13% for West Germany, 27% for Japan and 68% for the Soviet Union.) One-fifth of American women above the age of 15 have had one. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a research organization, most are young and single -- 81% are unmarried at the time, and 62% are under 25. More...
...Mitterrand government, the bicentennial is a political opportunity and a ticklish responsibility. On July 14, the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, the leaders of the seven industrialized nations -- France, the U.S., Canada, Japan, Britain, West Germany and Italy -- will assemble in Paris for a summit. What kind of image will France present? On the surface, at least, that of a united nation celebrating its glorious past with the hoopla of a spectacular Bastille Night parade and sound-and-light show down the Champs Elysees. Already, merchants are hawking underwear decorated with little guillotines. French television is reveling...
...this charming memoir, half of PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer news team deftly links his early biography to the words and books he learned, to connections made. Born in Montreal but raised mostly in Halifax, Robert MacNeil was the son of a seagoing Mountie (in Canada's equivalent of the Coast Guard) and a Nova Scotian mother who delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still...