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Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb refused to waive diplomatic immunity to testify about a lunch he had with Deaver in January 1985 to discuss acid rain. Without evidence about the lunch, that section of the count was dismissed. The jury finally acquitted Deaver of the remaining charges involving acid rain...
Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb and his wife Sondra often wine and dine Washington's most glittering names. One figure they would rather not meet, however, is Whitney North Seymour Jr., the independent counsel attempting to prosecute former Reagan Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver for perjury. Last week Seymour tried to subpoena the Gotliebs to testify about Deaver's involvement in Canadian affairs while in the White House...
...Deaver affair has also raised some political ruckus in Canada, where opposition Liberal Party members suggested that Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government may have knowingly violated U.S. laws by hiring Deaver. In particular, they questioned the possible role played by Allan Gotlieb, Canada's highly regarded Ambassador to Washington, in recruiting Deaver. The House of Commons' External Affairs Committee will decide this week whether to launch a formal investigation...
...recommendations, or how the Midwest's beleaguered smokestack industries could be induced to pay their share. Still, Mulroney could claim symbolic achievement in getting Reagan to come down out of the clouds--and trees--on the problem. Before Reagan's turnabout, as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. Allan Gotlieb put it, "acid rain was dead in the water, just like the fish...
Unfortunately, news of Mulroney's success was all but overshadowed back home by some undiplomatic behavior at a diplomatic do. As a party honoring Vice President George Bush was getting under way at the Canadian embassy, Sondra Gotlieb, the Ambassador's wife, slapped her social secretary, Connie Connor. A dozen guests and members of the Canadian press corps looked on aghast. Washington was stunned by the uncharacteristic gaffe; the Gotliebs are considered one of the most popular and able diplomatic couples in the U.S. capital. The slap was apparently the result of tension over an important guest...