Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election that will clear the way for more free trade worldwide, Canadian voters last week decided to return Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his Progressive Conservative Party to power. The final results showed the Progressive Conservatives getting 43 percent of the popular vote and 170 seats in the House of Commons, followed by the Liberal Party with 31.9 percent and 82 seats and the left-leaning New Democrats with 20.4 percent and 43 seats...
Gotlieb plans to resign from his post as ambassador in January, and will be replaced by Derek H. Burney, now chief of staff to the Canadian Prime Minister...
...received a subpoena to testify in the perjury trial of former White House aide Michael K. Deaver. The grand jury summoned Gotlieb and his wife Sondra in May, 1987, citing his close relationship with Deaver, who was accused of lying under oath about his lobbying contract with the Canadian government...
...subpoena led to a controversy about the extent of the Gotliebs' diplomatic immunity and the American court's apparent infringement on it. The State Department's Department of Protocol eventually sided with the Canadian government's protest over the subpoena...
Gotlieb is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School. He was also a Rhodes Scholar, and has held visiting professorships at several Canadian universities and The Hague Academy of International...