Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's usual foreign policy advisers, were Acting Transportation Secretary James Burnley and Federal Aviation Administration Chief J. Lynn Helms. The U.S. was already conferring with allies over possible joint moves at a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization to be held later this month in Montreal. Said one State Department official, referring to the Soviet national airline: "We want to do something that will affect the relations of Aeroflot to the rest of the world." One possibility: ground crews at international airports could refuse to clean Aeroflot cabins, stock its planes or refuel its empty tanks, effectively...
...tall, well-groomed Mulroney was elected Conservative leader without ever having won elective office. Because a Prime Minister must be a Member of Parliament, a Tory M.P. from rural Nova Scotia obligingly quit his seat, precipitating a by-election. Immediately announcing his candidacy, Mulroney moved his family from Montreal into a three-bedroom log cabin in Northumberland Strait, Nova Scotia, and forswore his Gucci shoes and expensive suits for moccasins and old sweaters. He stuck close to matters of local concern, such as improving harbors and providing financial aid for fishermen, and cannily refused to be drawn into defining...
...pair of Harvard baseballers moved up in the ranks during the summer. Mike Stenhouse '80 became the second Crimson graduate ever to make the major leagues (the other was Pete Varney '71) when the Montreal Expos called him up from the farm in August. He later returned to the minors. finishing as the American Association's MVP, with a .353 batting average; he's back with the Expos for September. Vinnie Martelli '83, a second-team All-American, signed with Cleveland; he's playing for the Indians' Midwest League team in Iowa...
...users can suffer crippling bone stunting and arrested sexual development. In women, steroids can lead to facial hair and deeper voices. In men, there is a danger of sterility or impotence. "Male athletes who use it take the chance of becoming eunuchs," says Dr. Robert Dugal, who runs a Montreal drug-testing...
...around Milwaukee who call themselves "the 414s" after that city's telephone area code. Using home computers connected to ordinary telephone lines, they had been breaking into computers across the U.S. and Canada, including one at a bank in Los Angeles, another at a cement company in Montreal and, ominously, an unclassified computer at a nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos...