Word: canadas
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...Canadian government claims that diplomatic immunity exempts the Gotliebs from testifying. Contending that Canada waived that privilege when officials answered written questions last year, Seymour accused the government of "duplicitous behavior." Canadian External Affairs Secretary Joe Clark called Seymour's argument "irresponsible." The skirmish has quieted down temporarily: the judge presiding over Deaver's trial decided to postpone proceedings until the fall...
...make the kind of daring compromises demanded by a perilous imbalance in world trade and by the threat of global recession. Indeed, there are plenty of signs that a gondola ride through troubled waters lies ahead for the leaders of the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada when they gather in Venice for their 13th annual economic summit next week...
Every spring, billions of birds, increasingly restless from the secretion of seasonal hormones, mass into flocks, burst into the sky and pour up the great flyways across the U.S. and Canada. Millions of birders, just as restless but without hormonal justification, compulsively pour outdoors in search of vireos, tanagers, flycatchers, hawks and the stars of the season, brilliantly colored warblers...
...Basham, it is also about hunting and listing. He is currently at the top of the big-time birding tree, holder of the records for most species seen in a lifetime (777) and the most species seen in a single year (711) in the American Birding Association checklist area -- Canada, Alaska and the Lower 48 states. The world of listing is presided over by the approximately 8,000- member ABA and its magazine, Birding, which ranks birders by species seen, prints erudite articles on how to distinguish different birds in the field and sets rules for the listing game...
...stop them from casting their ballots in overwhelming numbers for parties advocating a . continuation of apartheid. Several recent events apparently combined to bring about the swing to the right. The white electorate was still shocked and angry over the economic sanctions imposed last year by the U.S., Canada and most West European countries. Whites were also worried about the current period of internal unrest, the most prolonged in the country's history. And though many were troubled by the government's handling of the eleven-month-old state of emergency, under which 20,000 people have been detained without trial...