Word: canadians
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Moscow's new appreciation of Carter was expressed last week by one of the U.S.S.R.'s most prominent experts on U.S. affairs, Georgi Arbatov, director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies. Sipping Georgian brandy in his spacious office several blocks from the Kremlin, Arbatov discussed key issues with a few U.S. newsmen, including TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden. Excerpts...
DIED. W. Garfield Weston, 80, Canadian "Barnum of Bread" who parlayed a small family business, George Weston, Ltd., into the world's largest bakery and one of the world's biggest international grocery chains; in Toronto...
...future of rock's bad, bad band has been in doubt ever since the Royal Canadian Mounted Police found 22 grams of heroin in the possession of Lead Guitarist Keith Richard 20 months ago. Out on $25,000 bail, Richard has been touring with the other Rolling Stones, but faced a possible seven-year jail term when he came to trial. Last week in Toronto he listened somberly as his lawyer described him as "a tragic person" with "a poor self image" who became a heroin addict but who has now kicked the habit. A sympathetic judge put Richard...
...protest vote, but not only that," said one back-room Liberal pol. "It was a personal defeat for Trudeau." Canadians are hopping mad at the state of their economy after ten years of his party's rule. Inflation is running at a rate of 8.6% annually; unemployment, at 8.5%, is at the highest level since 1940; and the value of the Canadian dollar has plummeted from $1.03 U.S. to a spindly 840 in the past 23 months. The federal government is running a deficit that is expected to reach at least $11.8 billion this year, and Canadians, like many...
...Canadians are increasingly conscious, however, of the Conservatives' Alberta-born leader, Joseph Clark, 39, as an acceptable alternative to Trudeau. Ridiculed by one Toronto paper as "Joe Who?" when he won the Tory leadership in 1976, Clark has a shrewd ability to capitalize on popular concerns. During the by-election campaign he proposed new Canadian tax laws allowing partial deductions for property taxes and mortgage interest from federal income taxes. Despite his party's traditional inability to win votes in Quebec, Clark confidently declared last week: "The Conservatives alone can form a national government. The Liberals have lost...