Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of that excitement comes with the territory. Angelo now deploys seven correspondents and a multitude of stringers up and down an area that extends from the northern suburbs of Washington to the Canadian border...
...upon two lifeboats packed with passengers. Realizing that he could not squeeze all of them onto his 55-footer, Dalton radioed two other fishing craft in the area. The three boats loaded up and headed for the provincial capital of St. John's. On the way they met a Canadian fisheries patrol boat, which took on the 146 men, four women and five children and brought them to shore...
...take Canadian officials long to discover major holes in the castaways' story. First of all, the Tamils were unable to provide the name or country of the mother ship or give any indication of the route it had followed. They had boarded and left the vessel at night, they said, and were kept in the hold throughout their 30-day odyssey. Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers noticed that the Tamils seemed remarkably hale after such an ordeal; they were not only healthy but clean and dry. Moreover, most of the refugees wore clothing with West German labels, and many carried...
...week's end Canadian and West German police had pieced together the probable course of events. Late last month at least 200 Sri Lankans arrived in the small port of Brake, about 60 miles west of Hamburg, from elsewhere in Germany. Each had paid nearly $2,500 in cash and valuables for passage to Canada, but only 155 were permitted to board a ship, where they were confined to the hold and fed boiled rice. They were reportedly warned that they or their relatives would be harmed if they told the truth about their trip...
Those tales may have some foundation. An estimated 8,000 Tamils have already settled in communities in Montreal and Toronto. While Canadian officials are clearly unhappy about the way the "boat people" entered their country, they indicated last week that the new arrivals will not be turned away. The Tamils have been issued work permits and granted permission to remain for at least a year. Immigration officers say they will not deport the castaways to Sri Lanka so long as civil strife continues. Says Canadian Immigration Consultant Dennison Moore: "It appears that under any circumstance, they're here to stay...