Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spaso House residence, even he was astonished at the scene before him. Around the dinner table were two former U.S. Secretaries of Defense, two former CIA directors and one former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff mixed in with Soviet officials, including Victor Sukhodrev, deputy director for U.S.A.-Canada in the Soviet Foreign Ministry...
Bleary-eyed but triumphant at 5:40 a.m., Canada's ten provincial premiers and Brian Mulroney, the Federal Prime Minister, emerged from a 20-hour negotiating session last week and proclaimed that their country was finally one. Back in 1982, after 115 years of British stewardship, Canada's constitution had been given over to Ottawa's direct control. But the French-speaking province of Quebec refused to sign the charter, charging that then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was using the document to dilute French Canada. In April of this year, Mulroney and the provinces hammered out a delicate agreement recognizing...
...Policy Planning Staff in drafting the initiative, hoped that the Plan would be the first step toward a politically unified continental Europe. He envisioned French leadership of a continental federation, with a reunited and disarmed Germany serving as a buffer between East and West. Britain would join with Canada and the U.S. in an allied but separate political coalition. Eastern European states would be wooed into the neutral continental center, so the tripolar division would stabilize the international system and serve as a buffer in any East-West confrontation...
...Nothing ever materialized," says Perot. But eight months later, in January 1986, North phoned again and asked Perot for $100,000 to fund a new rescue attempt. Perot sent the money by courier to intermediaries of North's in Canada...
During his five days in Canada, Mitterrand went out of his way to be a good guest. He made it a point to arrive in Ottawa, the English-speaking federal capital, rather than Quebec, as De Gaulle had done. After meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, he gave a speech to a joint session of Parliament, concluding the address with some reverse symbolism. "Vive le Canada," he intoned. Talks on trade and a fishing dispute produced no new agreements. But both Mulroney and Mitterrand had reason to be pleased as the French President boarded his Concorde SST for the flight...