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Although the military interest was paramount, the concern in both Washington and Ottawa over the hazards from runaway space vehicles was also genuine. At his press conference last week, President Carter said he would take up with Moscow his idea that nations using earth-orbiting nuclear-powered satellites should either agree to install "much more advanced safety precautions" or simply stop launching them...
...unity and perhaps even the survival of Canada. The bomb comes in the form of a threat by the separatist government of Quebec to seek independence for the country's largest province. Next week, at an extraordinary three-day meeting, Canada's national and provincial leaders will gather in Ottawa to discuss means of righting the country's grave economic problems, which include a galloping 8.5% unemployment and 9.5% inflation. But underlying the talks will be a nervous awareness that Canada's 111-year-old confederation is in danger and that, as Montreal Novelist Hugh MacLennan puts it: "This country...
...people of other provinces do?" asks Carrol Potter, a retired Canadian armed forces veteran in tiny Middleton, N.S. "We have a French Canadian Governor-General [who represents Queen Elizabeth II], a French Canadian Prime Minister and a lopsided number of French Canadians in the federal Cabinet in Ottawa [twelve out of 33]. Yet we are told that the French Canadian is still dissatisfied...
Trudeau first got the word at his home on the Ottawa River when Jimmy Carter called at 7:15 a.m., E.S.T., just 22 minutes after the satellite came down. The Prime Minister had known about the possibility of a Canadian landing at least since the weekend...
Understandably, Soviet officials informed both Washington and Ottawa that they would be more than willing to join the search. U.S. officials properly let the Canadians deal with the offer-and Trudeau obviously was in no hurry to accept Russian help. Plainly, the U.S. and Canadians wanted some time to study any recovered fragments. Western scientists could learn a lot about Soviet space engineering, its radar capability, and just how close the Russian spy satellites had come to being able to distinguish the movement of U.S. submarines in the oceans' depths...