Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extending their control over Canadian business. Among those most alarmed was Eric Kierans, 49, the bluntly outspoken president of the Montreal and Canadian stock exchanges, who thought the exchanges would be jeopardized. He got busy, worked up a scorching five-page letter to Gordon, and then set off to Ottawa to protest in person, with five of the exchanges' governors...
...Canadian newspapers bothered with the letter then, because a little checking made it look like a clumsy forgery. The original was probably put together from three photographs: a letterhead from the U.S. embassy in Ottawa, the text, and a facsimile of a Butterworth signature. The type in the text did not match the typewriters of the ambassador's secretaries, and the scale was out of proportion with the letterhead. Pearson's Rockcliffe address was misspelled "Rockliffe," and the occasion of Pearson's nuclear policy speech was misstated. Beyond this, the letter simply did not read like Butterworth...
...conferences on both sides of the Atlantic, the U.S. last week confronted the new, assertive Europe. At Geneva, the U.S. started to bargain for its future economic relations with the Common Market, which is just five years old and is already the world's biggest trading bloc. At Ottawa, in recognition of its allies' new strength, the U.S. initiated the slow, painful process of sharing with Europe control of NATO's nuclear armory. If neither conference produced dramatic results, both narrowly skirted breakdowns that might have gravely damaged the Atlantic partnership...
...Ottawa everyone knew what was in the egg, but no one knew what to call it. Well in advance of last week's semiannual NATO Council meeting, the U.S. and its allies had agreed on a new addition to NATO's alphabetical armory: IANF, meaning interallied nuclear force. A limited first step toward giving NATO its own nuclear deterrent. IANF now consists mainly of 180 British V-bombers and three Mediterranean-based U.S. Polaris submarines that the two nations will turn over to NATO command. While it also includes 60 French tactical bombers, for which the U.S. controls...
...purpose, of course, would be to accommodate West Germany's eagerness for a nuclear role commensurate with its economic and political power. But the U.S. will have to yield far more if it is to meet its allies' demands for control of their own nuclear defense. In Ottawa, as at Geneva, the dialogue had barely begun...