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...between the Parti Quebecois and Trudeau, the threat of civil war seems remote after considering the results of a recent Gallup Poll by the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion. The poll showed that only 18.7 per cent of the 1043 English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians interviewed thought that "Ottawa should use force to prevent Quebec's separation...
...Ghorbal, 51, a physical Lilliputian at only inches over five feet but a man of imposing intelligence, wit and charm. One of Washington's most respected diplomats, he is a totally cosmopolitan figure; previous posts include Paris, London, Geneva and Ottawa. He holds both a master's and doctorate from Harvard...
...proposed ban, expected to go into effect in July, is based on a study by the Canadian government's health-protection laboratory in Ottawa. For three years, researchers fed rats daily doses of saccharin that amounted to 5% of their diet by weight. In the first generation of rodents, seven out of 38 developed bladder tumors, three of them malignant. In the second generation of rats-which had developed in the wombs of saccharin-fed mothers, were nursed on their milk and later given the chemical themselves-twelve out of 44 had tumors; eight of them were malignant. That...
...performances by that bad, bad band at Toronto's El Mocambo and mingle with the boys afterward. Trouble was, the first show coincided with the sixth anniversary of Margaret's wedding to Canada's Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 57. Leaving husband and three children in Ottawa, Margaret, 28, had checked in at the Stones' hotel and stayed up with the group into the early-morning hours. That was enough to set tongues and typewriters clacking. Margaret apparently had a grand time, though, and only Stones Guitarist Keith Richard seemed to feel a little the worse...
...arrived at the ballet to watch Mikhail Baryshnikov dance. All the frenzy, said Margaret, was nonsense. Said she: "Look, I'm a married lady. I love my husband and I love music." Her New York trip, she added, was a vacation devoted to photography. Said Trudeau, back in Ottawa: "This has been planned for some time." An aggrieved Jagger added his own disclaimer. From the Manhattan town house where he was staying with his wife Bianca and their ailing five-year-old daughter, the Prince of Rock declared that hints of dalliance with Margaret were "insulting...