Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that may be only the beginning of video's move into the jet age. Coming soon from Air Video of Toronto is a small-screen computer-game unit built into a seat tray table. The system, which is expected to be offered on some Canadian Airlines flights this fall, will enable passengers to play two to three games, ranging from chess to variants...
...Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney would have preferred to talk about the just adjourned economic summit, at which he had successfully acted as host in Toronto. But the journalists crowded around him in the city's convention center last week were far more interested in a report, aired moments earlier by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., that Canada had uncovered a major Soviet | espionage ring. Mulroney confirmed that six days earlier Ottawa had expelled eight Soviet diplomats and declared nine others persona non grata for "improper and unacceptable behavior." That was a euphemism for what proved...
According to Canadian officials, the Soviet diplomats had sought to infiltrate the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, the country's civilian counter-espionage agency. But the most sensitive target was Montreal-based Paramax Electronics, a subsidiary of the U.S. defense contractor Unisys and the prime subcontractor on a frigate- building project for the Canadian navy. In that role, Paramax has access to highly classified American technology involving radar and sonar capabilities and computers that control shipboard weapons systems...
External Affairs Minister Joe Clark insisted that none of the Soviet espionage efforts succeeded in breaching Canadian security or that of the NATO alliance, of which Canada is a member. The Canadians evidently received the assistance of a Soviet citizen, Yuri Smurov, a translator at the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency based in Montreal. Smurov requested and is expected to receive asylum in Canada...
...granted Lefebvre's request for an audience (their only meeting) and repeatedly expressed his desire for peace. Lefebvre also seemed eager to heal the breach during his lifetime. After an extended fact-finding tour of Lefebvre's religious houses last year at the Pope's request, Canadian Edouard Cardinal Gagnon, a Vatican official highly sympathetic to traditionalists, sent John Paul a favorable report, typing it himself to keep the recommendations confidential. Lefebvre then put the pressure on, threatening for the first time to ensure his movement's future by naming schismatic bishops. The Pope directed Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican...