Word: canadas
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...peace. Their concern was with Aquino. Nonetheless, after days of public viewing of the martyr's corpse, the crowds respected the Aquino family's wish for a relatively private funeral. Among the nonfamily members present at the service were officials of the U.S. (Ambassador Michael Armacost), Japan, Canada, Australia and the European Community, which sent representatives despite the Philippine foreign ministry's disapproval. No one from the Marcos regime came to the funeral...
...make a statement. Almost 5,000 miles away, fellow Quebecker Brian Mulroney, 44, a bilingual businessman who became leader of the opposition Progressive Conservative Party in June, had just won his first seat in the House of Commons. Mulroney had thus positioned himself to run for Prime Minister in Canada's next federal elections. Graciously calling Mulroney "a formidable opponent," Trudeau, 63, declared: "We will certainly be treating him with respect-and apprehension...
...Olympics. Last week the Chicago athlete had to give back three gold medals he won at the Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela, after the biggest drug bust in the history of international amateur sporting competition. In all, nine medalists and five additional athletes from the U.S., Canada, Cuba and other nations were disqualified because tests showed that they used anabolic steroid drugs or ephedrine stimulants, which are banned by the International Olympic Committee. After the test results, Michels was also automatically suspended for one year by the United States Weightlifting Federation, making him ineligible for the Los Angeles Games...
Since June, when seven yachts from five nations began competing off Newport for the right to face the Americans, Australia II has repeatedly trounced not only its two Down Under rivals, Challenge 12 and Advance, but also Canada 1, France 3, Britain's Victory '83, and Italy's Azzurra, often by embarrassingly wide margins. The two other Australian boats have already been eliminated, and at week's end, as the challenger selection continued in its fourth round, Australia had compiled a record of 42 wins and only five defeats. Its closest competitor, Victory...
...agents had been tracking the activities of a loosely organized gang of computer enthusiasts in and around Milwaukee who call themselves "the 414s" after that city's telephone area code. Using home computers connected to ordinary telephone lines, they had been breaking into computers across the U.S. and Canada, including one at a bank in Los Angeles, another at a cement company in Montreal and, ominously, an unclassified computer at a nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos...