Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promote a cause. But today nearly everyone understands it as referring to distortions of the truth. That did not sway the U.S. Supreme Court last week. It ruled 5 to 3 that the Justice Department could invoke a World War II-era law to label as "political propaganda" three Canadian documentaries on acid rain and nuclear war, including a 1983 Academy Award winner. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens pointed out that the Foreign Agents Registration Act in 1942 defined propaganda in its broader sense, without designating it as true or false. Therefore, he said, the Government...
...would become Canada's largest corporate takeover, and it is already a political football. When the House of Commons returns to work this week from Easter recess, lawmakers may take up the proposed $3.9 billion buyout of Dome Petroleum by the Canadian arm of Chicago-based Amoco, fifth largest U.S. oil company. Dome's board, faced with $4.9 billion in debt, last week accepted the offer. But Toronto-based TransCanada PipeLines, which underbid Amoco by $600 million, vows to keep up the fight...
Shapiro, who has Canadian and U.S. dualcitizenship, attended McGill College and aftergraduating in 1956 ran a Chinese restaurant withhis twin brother Bernard, who later received adegree from Harvard's Graduate School ofEducation...
...Canadian officials seem overwhelmed by the illegal flood along the 3,987- | mile border. One reason is that thousands of vehicles pass border crossings daily, too many to check carefully. Another: the untold number of back roads and bays linking the two countries. Sighs Michael Crichton, a regional intelligence official for Canada Customs: "The odds are all on the smugglers' side...
...strong current of opinion in his country: "Zero option, yes. Double zero and triple zero, no." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, during her visit to Moscow three weeks ago, told Gorbachev that a "world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us." Canadian Foreign Minister Joe Clark said he had found "obvious differences" at the Brussels meeting, "not just between the U.S. and Europe but between Europe and Europe...