Word: montreal
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According to Canadian officials, the Soviet diplomats had sought to infiltrate the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, the country's civilian counter-espionage agency. But the most sensitive target was Montreal-based Paramax Electronics, a subsidiary of the U.S. defense contractor Unisys and the prime subcontractor on a frigate- building project for the Canadian navy. In that role, Paramax has access to highly classified American technology involving radar and sonar capabilities and computers that control shipboard weapons systems...
...none of the Soviet espionage efforts succeeded in breaching Canadian security or that of the NATO alliance, of which Canada is a member. The Canadians evidently received the assistance of a Soviet citizen, Yuri Smurov, a translator at the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency based in Montreal. Smurov requested and is expected to receive asylum in Canada...
...memory of cotton candy, has it that the circus never changes. That may be why a brash Canadian named Guy Laliberte says he hates the circus and why a colleague, Denis Lacombe, thinks clowns are boring. What makes their opinions worthwhile is that Laliberte is the founder of the Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil (Circus of the Sun), which hoists its 1,756-seat tent in New York City this week as part of a North American tour that has made it something of a cult attraction. And Lacombe is his star clown, who does a socko act conducting...
...Cirque will head next to Toronto, then Washington. Back in Montreal, a new, even more theatrical show is being planned. In the meantime, performers move in and out of the Cirque's cast as the show travels. The youngest so far is seven-year-old Annie Wagner-Bouthillier, one of 14 -- count them -- 14 riders in a bicycle balancing stunt. In Manhattan's Battery Park City, it should not be hard to recognize her. She'll be the one with the big smile...
...second blackout to affect a Bruins playoff game this year. The first one occurred at Montreal in the opener of the second-round series...