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...Denmark's center is basically a medical clinic, but in Toronto there are 20 volunteers who conduct research and guide victims to normal lives in the community. This includes helping them find jobs and homes and standing by to assist with advice on everything from eating to functioning in a new society...
Some bankers were initially hesitant. Lawrence Brainard, a former vice president of Chase Manhattan, remembers the day that the bank first faced the issue: "In early 1974 I joined a small group of senior bankers discussing a request by Denmark for a balance of payments credit. The key question in the meeting was whether private commercial banks had any business making unsecured loans to sovereign borrowers [governments]. After much soul searching, we turned down the request." Next day, however, a competitor stepped in to make the loan. "Within several months," recalls Brainard, "the resistance of my banking colleagues to sovereign...
...early 1900's in the U.S., astronomical sightings were handled primarily by the Harvard Observatory. In 1964, a leading Denmark observatory announced that it could no longer successfully operate the Bureau, and it transferred the program to the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. One year later, Professor of Astronomy Owen J. Gingerich assumed the directorship of the Bureau, and Marsden took over the reigns...
...four silvers, followed by the Canadians and the New Zealanders, who sailed away with three medals each. The men at the helms of these swift, finicky craft needed the cunning of a chess player, the agility of a gymnast. And experience counted too. The most weathered sailor was Denmark's Paul Elvstrom, 59, career winner of four Olympic gold medals, whose daughter Trine served as crew. With Trine flying on the boat-stabilizing trapeze, the gray-bearded Elvstrom raced to a fourth-place finish in the Tornado catamaran class. The U.S. had its own old salt, William Buchan...
...legend alive. "If one Bhindranwale dies," Sikhs at a New Delhi demonstration shouted, "a thousand are born." Two militants brandishing swords at tacked the Indian consulate in Vancouver, Canada, leaving it a shambles. Security was increased around Indian missions in the U.S., Canada, Britain, West Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark, where there are significant Sikh populations...