Word: ottawa
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Saving Not Building. Since his election, Pearson has been trying hard to repair the disunity. He has given French Canadians a stronger voice in Ottawa, has appointed a Royal Commission on Biculturalism, even modified a new federal, social-security-type pension plan to guarantee Quebec's participation. He conceives of a flag that all Canadians can salute as one more plank in the program, and for good measure, he hopes to substitute O Canada for God Save the Queen as the national anthem...
...Ottawa, Canada's capital, foreign correspondents are just about as rare as palm trees. There are only nine: one from Britain, five from Canada's next-door neighbor, the U.S.-and curiously, three from Russia. Why this heavy Soviet news focus on a government not regarded as of prime interest to Russian readers? If Ottawans wondered, last week Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson supplied an answer. He ordered one of Russia's three Ottawa-based newsmen expelled...
...Vasily Vasilievich Tarasov, 36, a blond, stubby correspondent for Izvestia. Canada accredited Tarasov after an urgent request that came straight from the Kremlin. After depositing his wife and young daughter in a modest apartment in Ottawa's Sandy Hill district, Tarasov scraped up an acquaintance with a minor government functionary...
...London, Rome, Paris, Bonn, Beirut, Oslo, Stockholm, Istanbul, Teheran, New Delhi, Nairobi, Salisbury, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Hong Kong, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Manila, Tokyo, Washington, Salt Lake City, Ottawa and Montreal...
...Dastardly!" cried Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker in Ottawa's House of Commons. He had just learned that a band of armed men had invaded a Quebec armory and made off with a truckload of Canadian army weapons. It was the third such raid in less than a month, and Diefenbaker asked what was being done to "protect our armed forces." Another Opposition speaker sarcastically demanded assurances that the RCAF's new Bomarc missiles would not be stolen as well. Embarrassed officials of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's government could only reply that security measures were being...