Word: ottawa
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CANADA is acutely vulnerable to Washington's economic twitches. Fully 13% of Canada's nearly $90 billion gross national product depends on exports to the U.S. Ottawa estimates that the 10% surcharge, if it is maintained for a year, will cost the country $900 million in exports and 90,000 jobs-the equivalent of 900,000 in the U.S. Yet unemployment was already running at 6.5% or 455,000 jobs, a higher rate than in the U.S. In Trudeau's words, Canada stands to be "more hurt than any other country" by Washington's trade moves...
...demand for health care is rising faster than the supply-that has long been obvious. Now the dimensions of the gap have been measured, and found to be immense, by a leading South African medical educator. In a book to be published this week in time for the Ottawa meeting of the World Medical Association, Professor Isador Gordon of the University of Natal concludes that present efforts to meet the crisis merely by training more doctors are likely to fail...
...knocked the pins out from under the non-Communist world's monetary system. Foreign government leaders, many of whom were on vacation, went scrambling to salvage some order out of the enveloping chaos. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau broke off a holiday cruise off Yugoslavia and returned to Ottawa to assess the impact of the Nixon moves. On the French Riviera, French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou cut short his vacation to hurry back to Paris for emergency meetings. In Tokyo, hasty phone calls summoned traveling Japanese Cabinet members back...
...Europe. "I would never have believed I'd stay so long," she says, "but everyone here has been so nice." I'm luckier: on the fourth day, I get a lift west out of Butler (though other rides were offered to Boston, Ottawa, Wilmington and Pittsburgh...
...deserted airfield on the outskirts of Peking. They were met by Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, a high-ranking Politburo member and two Foreign Office officials. Also on hand was Huang Hua, one of Peking's top experts on U.S. affairs, whose move to Canada as Ambassador to Ottawa had been delayed because of the Kissinger trip. The group drove to a handsome villa on a small lake outside Peking and sat down to a sumptuous Chinese lunch. While the rest of the U.S. delegation, adjusting to their environment, ate with chopsticks, Kissinger stuck to knife and fork...