Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book rather than the gun. They would seem to have little in common, yet by the time Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau ended a three-day visit to Fidel Castro's Cuba last week, an obvious rapport had developed between the two leaders. As TIME's Ottawa bureau chief William Mader, who accompanied Trudeau, reported, the airport farewell ceremonies turned into a kind of emotional family affair as Castro embraced Trudeau, kissed his wife Margaret and cuddled their four-month-old baby. When asked at a Havana press conference what he thought of Castro, Trudeau positively gushed...
During his 21 months as Washington's Ambassador to Ottawa, William Porter, 61, earned the respect of many Canadians as a concerned professional envoy. He traveled frequently through the country, mixed easily with its citizens, gave thoughtful and discreet talks about issues that jointly affect Canada and the U.S. But last week, as Porter left Ottawa to take up a new post as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau angrily told a cheering House of Commons that Porter had gone beyond "the acceptable bounds within which an ambassador should stay." In a singular diplomatic snub, ministers...
...Colony. Such is the prickly mood in Ottawa that the government spied insult where none, clearly, was intended. Responding to questions in Parliament, Trudeau said that he was "surprised that an experienced diplomat like Mr. Porter would not find other channels for expressing [his] views." After Trudeau brought down the House by declaring "we are not a colony of the U.S.," New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent proposed that the Prime Minister advise Washington that Porter's "kind of behavior is totally unacceptable to Canada...
Trudeau ignored the fact that Ottawa's ambassadors to Washington have periodically talked about the difficulties between the two neighbors in much the way that Porter did. By and large, Canadian editorial opinion endorsed Porter's candor. Describing Trudeau's remarks as "stunning brutality," the Toronto Globe & Mail editorialized: "Mr. Porter has made no attempt to tell Canada what to do. He merely told reporters of American concerns, most of which he had taken up with the Canadian government. Which is precisely what he was sent to Ottawa to do." Added the Ottawa Journal: "For his warning...
...than in his days as a teen-age idol. A glance at the young Anka hardly explains his durability in show business: could that chubby kid with the wet look who dated pubescent Mousketeer Annette Funicello really have been smart? Paul was the son of a Lebanese restaurateur in Ottawa, but he was only hungry for success. At 14, he won a three-day trip to Manhattan in an IGA soup contest ("I collected the most labels"). One bite of the Big Apple made him want more. Within two years Paul was back, with $100 from his father...