Word: canadians
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...most bizarre one concerns Alexander Peter Treu, 56, a German-born Canadian and former Luftwaffe pilot who heads Canalatin Consultants, a Montreal electronics firm. In the late 1960's and early '70's, he worked on the design of communications and surveillance systems that were built for NATO by a larger Canadian firm. In 1974 Mounties raided Treu's home and carted away 500 Ibs. of documents. In 1976, after a long investigation, he was charged under the Official Secrets Act with holding on to classified documents without official authorization and failing to take "reasonable care...
While Treu was being secretly tried this spring, the Canadian government used the Official Secrets Act for the first time against a newspaper, prosecuting the Toronto Sun for disclosing a top-secret Mountie report on Soviet espionage. Critics complain that the Sun, a persistent right-wing gadfly to the Trudeau government, is being charged not with spilling secrets but with revealing government ineptness at dealing with Soviet spies...
After considerable cajoling by his fellow summiteers, President Carter eased his stand against the export of nuclear fuel. He and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau agreed that their countries would be "reliable suppliers" of enriched uranium to the Western Europeans and Japanese, provided that those nations impose stricter safeguards against the spread of atomic weapons; they said they would...
...Canadian Ministry of Transport also tested the cars and reached the same general conclusion, but it had some reservations. The Canadians were concerned that when the Omni or Horizon is traveling at high speed, and the steering wheel is yanked sharply to one side, then released and allowed to swing free while the driver keeps his foot on the gas, the wheel oscillates back and forth. This characteristic was not a "defect" but was "undesirable," said the Canadian engineers, and they feel Chrysler should correct it. Added Peter Keith, head of the ministry's advanced-engineering department: "While this...
Apart from the New York metropolitan area, the most attractive areas for entrepreneurial immigrants are southern Florida and Southern California. In the city of Hollywood, north of Miami, two of every three real estate transactions in recent months have been made by French Canadians. Fearful of the economic chaos that could result from the possible secession of Quebec from the Canadian Confederation, some 10,000 Canadians (Anglos as well as French) have settled in southern Florida. The Miami area has also attracted a stream of Jamaicans who find life under Prime Minister Michael Manley's "democratic socialism" increasingly oppressive...