Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diefenbaker had only distrust. He privately called President Kennedy "that young fool," says Newman, and when Kennedy made a state visit to Ottawa in 1961, the welcome was chilly. At a breakfast meeting, Kennedy showed Diefenbaker a five-item U.S. "working paper" for the talks (samples: inviting Canadian support for the Alliance for Progress, more Canadian backing for foreign aid). Diefenbaker neatly wrote "no" beside each item. Later Kennedy misplaced the paper. Diefenbaker found and kept...
Mounties chase seaborne and lake-borne smugglers in 32 R.C.M.P. vessels, from zippy motorboats to oceangoing patrol craft. There is a Mountie air force of 18 planes and helicopters that acts as a search and rescue service. In their grey stone Ottawa headquarters, the Mounties have access to the most modern anti-crime laboratories, plus bank upon bank of filing cabinets filled with criminal identification data. Mounties serve as provincial police in eight Canadian provinces (all except Quebec and Ontario), are the municipal cops in 120 towns and villages, and nab thousands of speeders yearly on Canada's highways...
...weeks ago, a Soviet trade mission in Ottawa offered to buy some $200 million worth of U.S. wheat to ease the effects of a disastrous harvest. Czecho slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary weighed in with formal bids for another $60 million worth. First reaction in the U.S. was heavily favorable-even Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater said he was for it. But suddenly the whole thing seemed to bog down...
...million's worth from Australia. They also dropped broad hints that they wanted to buy from the U.S. With that, top U.S. wheat dealers formed a negotiating team whose spokesman was Burton Joseph, president of Minneapolis' big I. S. Joseph Co., Inc. The team went to Ottawa, got a bid from the same Soviet traders who had dealt with Canada. The Russians were in such a hurry that they wanted the U.S. wheat shipments to start...
With all the questions came a few second thoughts. Two of the biggest U.S. wheat dealers dropped out of the Ottawa negotiations at week's end, said they wanted to dicker separately with the Russians. Even enthusiastic supporters of the deal conceded that much more was needed to really solve the farm-surplus and the gold-outflow problems. But a big U.S. wheat sale would have some advantages. Most of all, it would dramatically demonstrate to all the world the sorry economic state of Communism in Russia. The evidence is already visible in Leningrad and other Russian cities, where...