Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopes for some movement out of the superpower impasse. Under the terms of the final document of the Madrid Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Stockholm gathering is not even supposed to discuss nuclear arms control. Instead, the estimated 350 delegates from Europe, the U.S. and Canada will discuss ways of reducing the risk of a conventional war in Europe...
...Louis makes a very puzzling statement when he declares that "My concern is for areas where I can do something constructive: America and its satellite countries." Does he perhaps mean Canada or Western Europe when he refers to our so-called "satellite" countries? I get the impression that he sees no difference between the Soviet Union's satellites in Eastern Europe and America's partners in Western Europe. If this is the case, may I suggest to Mr. Louis that he travel first to West Germany, and then to East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. to discover the true implication...
Cardinal divides her time between writing and working for the women's movement in Europe, Africa, and Canada. "For 18 years I've been fighting for women in the countries I know. It is probably the most politically and economically important issue today, because it is a problem for younger people, older people, and all races. As women make up more than half of human kind, it is normal that we should be leaders for young people. Our culture is made in such a way that we believe power rests with a few people. Now we realize that this power...
...traffic that has not materialized, have been allowed to fall apart. Escalators do not work; electronic flight-schedule boards have been replaced by blackboards; automatic sliding glass doors have to be operated manually. In Uganda and Angola, some high-rises lack glass panes and running water. In 1975 Canada built a $2.5 million semi-automated bakery in Dar es Salaam, but often there is no flour to make bread. Moscow's aid efforts have fared no better. A Soviet-built cement factory at Diamou, Mali, was designed for a capacity of 50,000 tons a year...
...repertory company had defected to the movies, and the man behind the madness, Producer Lome Michaels, concluded that the show had dwindled into an institution. Michaels took a three-year hiatus from the pressures of weekly television, which had been his passion ever since he moved south from Canada to hatch gags for Rowan & Martin's Laugh...