Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South African Krugerrand was far and away the world's top-selling gold bullion coin for years. Then the U.S. banned imports of the item last October in protest against South Africa's racial policies, and Krugerrand sales fell so sharply that production was halted. Canada, Australia and China, among others, are trying to take up the slack. This October the U.S. will begin selling gold coins in $5, $10, $25 and $50 denominations, though the sale price will vary with the value of the metal...
...contenders are of great interest to Canada, whose Maple Leaf coins have become global best sellers, with 64% of the $1 billion market in 1985. The Canadians hope that a U.S. promotional blitz for the Liberty series will have a spillover effect and expand sales of the Maple Leafs as well...
...Hindu Tamils from Sri Lanka who had fled their strife-torn homeland to escape persecution at the hands of the Buddhist Sinhalese majority. They said they were students, businessmen and skilled ! workers, and claimed to have paid an Indian "agent" up to $3,000 each for passage to Canada. Then followed a month aboard a ship that had picked them up at the south Indian port of Madras. But five days before the fishermen found them, the refugees said, the ship's crew told them that they had paid only to be transported "near" Canada rather than...
...West German police had pieced together the probable course of events. Late last month at least 200 Sri Lankans arrived in the small port of Brake, about 60 miles west of Hamburg, from elsewhere in Germany. Each had paid nearly $2,500 in cash and valuables for passage to Canada, but only 155 were permitted to board a ship, where they were confined to the hold and fed boiled rice. They were reportedly warned that they or their relatives would be harmed if they told the truth about their trip...
...Tamils were victims of an international plot to make a profit by transporting refugees seeking asylum in North America. Hamburg police last week arrested two Tamils and a Turk on charges that included violating passport laws and "trafficking in humans." Police identified the vessel that brought the Tamils to Canada as the Aurigae, a 425- ton West German ship that flies the Honduran flag. The telltale clue: the Aurigae's owners had recently bought three lifeboats belonging to the cruise ship Regina Maris. Though attempts had been made to sand off the name, the words Regina Maris were faintly visible...