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...Golden State's. Furthermore, 24% of the relatively small pool of Canadian assets is already owned by foreign investors. Americans alone own 45% of Canada's oil and gas industry and 29% of its manufacturing sector. Says Ted Zahavich, director of research for Investment Canada, a federal agency in Ottawa that fosters foreign investment: "The U.S. is attractive to Canadian investors because there are limited opportunities in Canada for the big players. They've outgrown the playpen...
...Damascus to underscore its endorsement of the diplomatic cutoff. "We support the British decision," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes. "In the coming days we will be in close consultation with Her Majesty's government and other allies regarding additional steps that we and others will take." In Ottawa, Minister of External Affairs Joe Clark announced that Canada was also calling home its Ambassador...
...decision will mainly benefit lumber companies in the American Northwest, which have chafed as the Canadian share of the U.S. softwood lumber market has risen from 19% in 1975 to 33%. But the tariff announcement stirred resentment in Ottawa, where it was pointed out that the U.S. Commerce Department three years ago found the same Canadian export practices to be acceptable. Canadian International Trade Minister Patricia Carney said the latest decision "cannot be justified" and added that her government would "pursue all avenues available to us to argue against this determination." There were worries that the softwood-tariff announcement would...
With both the U.S. Secretary of State and the Soviet Foreign Minister at U.N. sessions in New York City, the Daniloff discussions grew urgent against the informal deadline of Shevardnadze's scheduled departure for Ottawa on Tuesday of this week. "If we miss (that date), both sides would be the worse," said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov. "We don't want that." But the two sides appeared to be unwilling to yield on critical points. "Obviously we desire a settlement as soon as possible," said Shultz, "if it can be settled on the right basis." For the U.S. that means...
Willis Smith of Ottawa Lake, Mich., is selling photographs of the image, a set of four for $2. He has sold 700 sets. Since the image photos are so popular, he thought he would show people his other pictures, so he keeps his family album in his car. People are now ordering prints out of his family album, vacation shots with crooked horizons, backyard snaps. "I've turned pro in two weeks," he says. "I'm getting calls from all over the United States...