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...trip was U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz's first formal visit abroad, and also a chance for a college reunion. For six hours Shultz closeted himself in Ottawa's Lester B. Pearson Building with a fellow student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Canadian External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen. When they emerged from their meeting, the atmosphere was almost chummy. The two men agreed that they would henceforth consult four times a year, and they tried to make some progress in resolving the deadlocked cross-border dispute over "acid rain," industrial pollution that destroys life in lakes...
Abdolhossein M. Kafai Ottawa...
...space age, the help came. On its regular sweep over western Canada, a Soviet satellite, equipped with special electronic "ears" to hear the beeps of small planes or ships in distress, picked up the downed aircraft's automatic emergency beacon and relayed the signals to an antenna outside Ottawa. There a computer quickly used them to obtain a navigational "fix" on the crash site. Within hours, a helicopter plucked the three men out of the wilderness, injured but alive...
...Toronto Exchange down 44.36 points. The Canadian dollar briefly dipped to an alltime low of 76.80 against the U.S. greenback. Union leaders representing Canada's public servants vowed to fight the new wage guidelines. When Trudeau summoned the premiers of Canada's ten provinces to Ottawa in a bid to sell them his economic plan, they responded by saying they would think about...
DIED. Igor Gouzenko, 63, cipher expert in the Soviet Union's Ottawa embassy whose defection in 1945 defused a major North American Soviet spy ring bent on extracting Western atomic bomb secrets; of a heart attack; in Mississauga, Ont. The information that Gouzenko brought with him exposed for the first time the extent of the Soviet intelligence web in the U.S. and Canada. Hypersensitive to personal danger, Gouzenko thereafter never appeared in public without disguising himself or covering his head with...