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...year-old woman were Sikhs, members of a minority religious group in India. They were Canada's latest boat people, who arrived seeking to take advantage of the country's liberal refugee laws. Last August two lifeboats filled with 155 Tamils from Sri Lanka were found floating off Newfoundland, having paid for passage from West Germany...
...debated in a full Cabinet meeting. Even though he was in the midst of a hard-fought re- election campaign, Roosevelt felt compelled to consult Wendell Willkie, his G.O.P. rival. In cooperation with Winston Churchill, the Administration constructed a legal loophole: trading the destroyers for military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda and the West Indies. While the matter was still being debated, a legal brief supporting the President's position was published in the New York Times. Roosevelt also wrote a personal letter justifying the swap to Senator David Walsh, the leading congressional foe of aid to Britain. In the letter...
...unexpected victory for business interests against the forces of environmentalism. The Canadian government announced last week that it would allow the resumption of coastal seal hunting from ships north of Newfoundland. The annual spring hunt was abandoned in 1983 after environmentalists, horrified that hunters commonly clubbed seal pups to death for their prized white fur, persuaded the European Community to ban the importation of whitecoat pelts. The U.S. had barred them a decade earlier...
Canada authorized the new hunt to aid the struggling economy of Newfoundland, where unemployment is now 18%. But the prey will be limited to adult seals, which must be shot instead of clubbed. Even so, animal-rights activists are mulling a worldwide boycott of Canadian marine products...
...Northern Iowa; Robert O. Gjerdingen, Carelton College; Susan A. Keefe, Davidson College; Ellen F. Martin, Marymount Manhatten College; Carol J. Oja, Brooklyn College; Frederick S. Paxton, Connecticut College; Frances L. Restuccia, Boston College; Margaret Schabas, University of Colorado; Rhys F. Townsend, Clark University; Daniel Vickers, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Marc A. Weiner, Indiana University...