Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rose from $13 million to $24.5 million last year-a healthy jump, though still less than ½% of Canada's sales in world markets. Last week, as Washington moved to cut off Castro from the U.S. market entirely, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker made clear that Ottawa still intends to follow its own trading lights...
Earlier in the week, another Kennedy Frontiersman, passing through Canada, got himself on the bad side of Ottawa. In Vancouver en route to Tokyo, White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. declared in an airport interview that "anything that supports Castro threatens the prospects of democratic success in Latin America." Retorted Canada's External Affairs Secretary Howard Green in the Commons: "If it was made in the terms suggested, it was a most unusual and, I think, improper thing for an official of another country...
...altitude beam, then the higher one, providing a fix for computers to crank out its speed, direction, probable point of impact. Fifteen minutes before the missile could land, the combat operations center in Colorado Springs would be warned. The word would flash instantly to the White House, the Pentagon, Ottawa, regional air-defense commanders, the Strategic Air Command and Civil Defense officials...
Bundled against the Canadian chill, Britain's "Minister for Europe," Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, flew into Ottawa last week to batten down some Commonwealth hatches before Britain sails into the European Common Market. After the usual pleasantries in the airport VIP lounge, a newsman pushed a microphone at Heath: "Just say that you've come to assuage Canadian anxiety...
...warriors defected or died around him, and who himself was killed defending his lands. The obscure Pueblo medicine man Popé led an uprising against the Spanish (and the church) in the Southwest in 1680, reconquered the New Mexico territory and held it for twelve years. The savage Ottawa chief Pontiac successfully took all but two British posts in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region; the Shawnees' great Tecumseh envisioned a united Indian nation that would sweep all white men into the seas and died leading his men against General William Henry Harrison near Lake Erie...