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Howard Sands set the pace at first singles, easily dispatching Martin Wostenholme, 6-1, 6-4. Sands' precise groundstroking highlighted the match as he successfully thwarted Wostenholme's attempts to alter the game's speed. Wostenholme, a freshman from Ottawa, is currently ranked among the top ten in the world on the junior tournament circuit...
...agricultural and consumer policies and its plans for the province's economic development. His folksy, fast-talking style on the stump also provided an effective contrast to Liberal Ryan's relatively restrained and cerebral campaign discourses on the benefits of closer economic ties with the federal government in Ottawa...
Twenty-two scarlet-uniformed Royal Canadian Mounted Police on matched chestnut horses flanked the motorcade. An exaltation of fighter jets swooped in low against a snow-flecked sky. Demonstrators on the gracious lawns of Ottawa's Parliament Hill waved signs protesting a variety of U.S. policies. With all the requisite pomp, pageantry and protest, Ronald Reagan began his first state visit, a trip to America's No. 1 trading partner. Standing before the Gothic tower of Parliament, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau welcomed him: "Our long relationship has been based on more than neighborhood. It has been based...
...apportion fishing rights in the rich Georges Bank fishery off the East Coast. Canada is also dismayed about the "acid rain" that results from some 6 million tons of sulfur dioxide drifting north from U.S. industries-a problem that could be exacerbated if U.S. pollution laws are relaxed. The Ottawa government has also been pushing for faster U.S. action on plans for the joint construction of a gas pipeline from Alaska across the Canadian West into the U.S. And the U.S. is worried about Canadian proposals to make American firms reduce their ownership in Canada's energy-related industries...
Eleanor and Franklin had done it. Bess and Harry too, along with every First Couple since. So, in keeping with a four-decade tradition, Jimmy and Rosalynn agreed to pose for Yousuf Karsh's camera. The Carters, says the famed Ottawa lensman, were "very cordial, warm and cooperative" as subjects. So was Amy's pet, Misty Malarkey, a copycat who insisted on being included in Rosalynn's portraits, taken in the Yellow Oval Room. The President, who had generously allowed two hours for his session in the Oval Office, proved especially understanding when asked to pose again...