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...Prime Minister will continue pushing for a free-trade agreement with the U.S. despite opposition from Canadians who fear that free trade could compromise their country's cultural sovereignty by allowing big U.S. companies to gobble up Canadian book publishing and broadcasting. Mulroney's most urgent task, though, will be to convince his countrymen that he and his colleagues emerged from Lac Meech last week carrying a compass. --By Peter Stoler/Ottawa
...diplomacy for Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. Before meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Tokyo, he spent three days in Canada, ostensibly exploring how the two countries could work together to promote world trade. But there was another purpose for the visit. Nakasone wanted assurances that forthcoming U.S.-Canadian talks aimed at negotiating a free-trade agreement would not cut Japan off from its Canadian markets...
...Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney promised that any agreement reached with the U.S. would be made within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and thus would not have an adverse effect on Canada's other trading partners. Later, Nakasone, speaking in both French and English before the Canadian Parliament, decried what he saw as a rising tide of protectionism. Likening international free trade to "a fragile porcelain doll," the Prime Minister went so far as to concede that Japan should be more open to imports. Officials of both countries later revealed that Tokyo had agreed...
...walked in the first day," recalls Payton, "Mike was standing there with his arms folded. He nodded to [Assistant] Ted Plumb, who started calling roll. I thought, 'We're in the Army now.' "Ditka, 46, is from Aliquippa, Pa., and his people are from the Ukraine, Nagurski stock. A Canadian who has lived most of his rich life just across a frozen lake in Minnesota, Bronko, 77, once claimed to have no personal knowledge of summer. That's the Bear toughness. "Some teams are named Smith," Ditka says. "Some are named Grabowski." He bends his mustache into a snarling smile...
...party at Gracie Mansion, where Mayor Edward Koch and Poet Allen Ginsberg hummed a mantra, and a wall-to-wall reception in the vast Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Milling around the reconstructed Temple of Dendur, star watchers could search for the Santa Claus figure of Canadian Novelist Robertson Davies and eavesdrop on the exquisite ironies of Indian-born Novelist Salman Rushdie. Beside the reflecting pool, the gifted throng could contemplate the imaginations of two great states: a perfect theocracy that maintained its inflexible slave system even in the afterlife, and a permanently unfinished republic whose contentious...