Word: canadas
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Present at the divisive Marlborough House summit, in addition to Gandhi and Kaunda, were Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada, Robert Hawke of Australia, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Sir Lynden Pindling of the Bahamas. On the second day of the meeting, Thatcher dropped her opposition to a proposed European Community ban on South African coal, steel and iron, and said she would accept "voluntary" restrictions on new British investment and the promotion of South African tourism. For the other six leaders present, this was nowhere near enough. Together they endorsed a set of sanctions proposed at a previous Commonwealth...
Blue Bell had previously spurned takeover efforts by Allegheny Ludlum Industries, the Bass brothers of Texas, and Canada's Belzberg family. But VF's $775 million offer, it seems, was just too comfortable to leave in the fitting room...
Outwardly unshaken by the failure of Howe's mission, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher intended to hold her lonely line against meaningful sanctions at a three-day meeting of leaders of six Commonwealth members (Australia, Canada, India, the Bahamas, Zambia and Zimbabwe). Arguing that sanctions will not work unless the industrial powers join in applying them, she hoped to buy time until at least mid-September, when foreign ministers of the European Community nations complete deliberations on the subject in Luxembourg. If Britain remains out of step on sanctions then, Thatcher's Cabinet seems likely to split sharply...
...Mulroney last year sold De Havilland Aircraft to Boeing for $113 million and was promptly attacked for making the deal at "fire-sale" prices. Retorted the Conservative leader: "I don't believe that government should do what private industry can do better." Mulroney may next take offers for Air Canada, the national airline, and may even entertain bids for Canada Post, the country's mail service...
...work on The Terminator. And, in fact, they do not have much in common in their backgrounds. The daughter of a well-to-do private investor, she was raised mainly in Palm Springs, Calif. A confessed academic overachiever, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford. He was born in Canada, the son of an electrical engineer, and ended up in Brea, Calif., where he spent five semesters at local colleges, dropping out and eventually drifting into Corman's orbit. As adolescents, she was a reader, while he was a drawer, often of fantastic sci-fi visions. She liked "film...