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...week it brought jubilation to the organization's supporters and outrage to just about everyone else. The Rev. Ian Paisley, the militant Protestant leader, called for the resignation of Nicholas Scott, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Northern Ireland Office. Said British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in Ottawa at the start of a visit to Canada and the U.S.: "It is the gravest [breakout] in our present history, and there must be a very deep inquiry." An embarrassed James Prior, Britain's seasoned, avuncular Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, immediately announced a high-level inquiry headed...
...analysts have gleaned from the Korean jet incident is that the Soviet air defense force is apparently far less competent than thought. The first group of interceptors that scrambled over the Kamchatka Peninsula never could find Flight 007. Military officials attending the International Institute for Strategic Studies meeting in Ottawa last week commented on the "juvenile" level of radio chatter by the Soviet pilots and their apparent confusion about what they should do. "The question arises," said Stephen Larrabee, a member of the Institute for East-West Security Studies, "whether the finger on the nuclear trigger is equally uncertain...
...Mulroney goes to Ottawa...
Trudeau's confidence could not conceal the deepening malaise within his Liberal Party. Mulroney's rise to the Conservative leadership, combined with widespread public dissatisfaction over Trudeau's 15-year tenure in Ottawa, has given the Tories an unprecedented 55%-to-27% edge over the Liberals in recent polls. Says former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Walter Baker: "We smell power...
...three days, eight candidates for leadership of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party pressed the flesh and corralled supporters in Ottawa's cavernous Civic Center. Most party insiders were predicting a victory for former Prime Minister Joe Clark. But by late afternoon, rumors of an upset were rife. Sure enough, after balloting stretched into Saturday night, the weary conventioneers finally rejected Clark in favor of Brian Mulroney, 44, a Quebec lawyer and business executive long active in party affairs. Mulroney has never run for office, but he will lead the Tories against the ruling Liberal Party in national elections...