Word: ottawa
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With all the hoopla of a midwestern provincial fair, Canada's ruling Liberal Party held a convention in Ottawa last week to choose a successor to Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who has led the country for 15 of the past 16 years. Seven candidates tried to woo the party's 3,500 delegates with barbecued ribs and chicken, corned-beef sandwiches, chips and plenty of suds, rock bands and sightseeing boats. But in the end, after three days of speeches and revelry, the delegates Saturday evening elected on the second ballot the candidate who had been the front runner...
...Gregory Weston--political reporter with The Citizen, Ottawa, Canada...
Police later arrested Corporal Denis Lortie, 25, a supply technician attached to a Canadian Armed Forces installation near Ottawa. Canadian authorities have not speculated on Lortie's motives. But the tape left by the man at CJRP threatened to "destroy" the provincial government, which has espoused separation from the rest of Canada. The recording railed against the ruling Parti Québécois 's pro-French language policies, declaring: "I [have] waited for just the right moment. It's at hand now. The government will be destroyed...
...member of the Church of the Nazarene. Some stories have depicted her as severe and neurasthenic and have dwelt on her habit of moving the family frequently. Hart noted emphatically that his family had been poor; fixing up and reselling modest houses in their home town of Ottawa, Kans., he insisted, was a way of making ends meet. "My parents," he went on, "were mainly interested in loving us, in giving us the best start they could, in letting us be whatever we could...
...million on acid-rain research, and, if Congress approves, that will rise to $55.5 million this year. By contrast, Budget Director David Stockman puts the cost of eliminating acid rain at $21 billion, a sum that he has cavalierly translated as $6,000 for every fish saved. The Ottawa agreement, said Environmental Protection Agency Official Fitzhugh Green, "may add some heat, but it won't add much light...