Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teen-ager uses his home computer to gain access to the key U.S. military computer. Inspired by the film, a group of youths, including Explorer Scouts from a troop taught and sponsored by IBM in Milwaukee, used their home computers to penetrate a dozen computers in the U.S. and Canada. Included were Security Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles and the nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, N. Mex., both of which insisted that no real harm had been done. As of last week, all that the ten young people, ages...
Booked and released after posting a $500 bond, Winfield was suitably remorseful. "It is quite unfortunate," he said, "that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us." Nor is the case. After thinking it over, Toronto police dropped the charge...
...whole, this was not the best idea Bill Miner ever had. He may have been the first man ever to hold up a train in Canada, and to do it in an incongruously sweet manner. According to the film, Miner liked opera, was the tolerant and understanding lover of an abrasive early feminist-photographer and never hurt anyone in the course of his depredation. On the other hand, his takings were minuscule, his life as a fugitive mostly hard. And he managed to rile the lawmen of two countries, who quickly truncated his second career...
...Canadian government was less astonished than infuriated. More than any other nation, it has been scrupulously cooperative in complying with U.S. requests for the extradition of fugitives. Florida's failure to file the forms and cowboy-style tactics hardly seemed justified. Under a 1971 U.S.-Canada treaty, Florida Governor Robert Graham could have requested Jaffe's extradition. But Putnam County State Attorney Stephen Boyles never provided the Governor with the necessary documentation...
...that have been applied to easing poverty so far have been totally inadequate; whatever the failings of the U.S., it cannot be accused of profligacy toward Latin America. To its credit, the Reagan Administration came forward last year with the Caribbean Basin Initiative, a joint effort by the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Venezuela to promote trade, investment and aid to the region. It was conceived largely in response to Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga's call for a "mini-Marshall Plan...