Word: canadianization
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Psychological Blow. The cost of moving or duplicating the U.S. and NATO presence now in France is variously estimated at from $300 million to more than $1 billion. Alternate port and supply facilities are readily available through the Low Countries and at North German ports. The U.S. and Canadian fighter groups could well be based in Britain; Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg are likely spots for relocating the command headquarters. The shift would be expensive and annoying, but the defense of Europe-including France-would ultimately be little affected, as De Gaulle well knows and in fact admits in wanting...
...Repeatedly accused by Tory Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker of mishandling national security matters, Justice Minister Lucien Cardin stood up in the House of Commons and fired back. "He is the very last person who can afford to give advice on the handling of security cases," charged the peppery French Canadian. So saying, he challenged Diefenbaker to "tell about his participation in the 'Monseignor case' when he was Prime Minister...
Ironically, the doomed 707 had just taxied out for its takeoff past the wreckage of Canadian Pacific's Hong Kong-to-Tokyo flight. On the night before, it circled fog-closed Tokyo International for nearly an hour, hoping for a break in the overcast. Finally, its pilot gave up and informed the control tower and his passengers that he was making for Taiwan, 1,300 miles to the southwest. At that moment, the visibility momentarily increased to five-eighths of a mile at the airport, just above the minimum safety standard, and the pilot elected to land instead...
...year to break even, was falling short of the mark. In Canada, with lower production costs, the make-money sales point was 20,000 cars a year, which ought to have been attainable. But it wasn't. Last week Studebaker announced that it was shutting down its Canadian motorcar assembly lines and would no longer make any cars...
Before 1953, as far as the Canadian government was concerned, the dominion's 12,000 Eskimos ranked about with caribou for concern and polar bears for utility. Strewn across millions of square miles of permafrost, they were a depleted and dying culture, helplessly locked in old patterns, too weak to accommodate new. That year Canada's conscience underwrote a radical new experiment to save the Eskimos by making them self-sufficient. Edith Iglauer's book tells of the leap, "literally for their lives," into the modern world...