Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bombed out with other allies. William Arkin, a nuclear-policy researcher at the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, leaked a Defense Department contingency plan to station nuclear weapons in seven foreign countries and Puerto Rico if a war seemed imminent. The proposed deployment caused a stir in Canada, Iceland and Bermuda, and would violate a U.S. guarantee not to send nuclear weapons to Puerto Rico. It was not clear if the U.S. had notified any of the countries involved...
...rabbis. But the Conservatives warily delayed, until in 1983 the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary voted to train and ordain women. Last week, with the first female seminarian about to graduate, the cycle was completed when the Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of Conservative rabbis in the U.S. and Canada, announced it would admit to membership anyone ordained by the seminary, male or female...
...Canada's Progressive Conservative government was briefly rocked last week by what passes in Ottawa, apparently, for a sex scandal. Defense Minister Robert Coates, 56, resigned after a local newspaper reported that he might have breached national security last November by spending two hours in a seedy striptease bar in Lahr, West Germany...
Former Olympians Andrew Sudduth '85, Kevin Still, and Jeane blanagan were among the 550 competitors representing 42 clubs and colleges from the U.S. and Canada who took turns rowing timed five mile pieces on bicycle-wheel ergometers...
...disorientation, sleeplessness and recurrent nightmares. Fear of authorities is so deep that almost any kind of bureaucratic delay can panic a survivor. In Toronto last March, a Chilean torture victim hanged himself the day before immigration authorities were to rule on whether he was entitled to stay in Canada as a political refugee. Delay is the enemy, not only because the survivor may be in shaky psychological condition but also because waiting, and the fear it brings, is one of the tools of the torturer. As a result, workers at rehabilitation centers are taught to be meticulously on time...