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...Canada is the only Western industrial nation that is self-sufficient in energy, and it has not been hesitant about asserting its new-found strength, sometimes to the discomfiture of the U.S. Without the courtesy of consulting Washington, as it often did in the past on such matters, the Ottawa government last year increased the tax on its oil exports to the U.S. from 40? per bbl. to $5.20, thereby making Canadian oil, which accounts for 20% of all U.S. imports, the most expensive crude on the Chicago market. In a subsequent move, Canada announced a 60% price increase...
...tier states and the Midwest, accounting for 20% of U.S. imports, about equal to inflow from Nigeria. Last week the Canadian National Energy Board issued a report showing that the country could lose self-sufficiency by the early 1980s if exports to the U.S. continued at present levels. Accordingly, Ottawa's Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Donald S. Macdonald, announced that exports to the U.S. would be cut by 100,000 bbl. by Jan. 1, even more later in the year, and would possibly be phased out altogether by the 1980s unless Canadian production was increased...
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...moment, one of Pope Paul Vl's usually sedate audiences became a papal powwow. Among a group of 250 Gaylord, Mich., Catholics visiting the Pontiff at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo last week were four Ottawa Indians outfitted in full tribal regalia. The four presented Paul with an Ottawa war bonnet, which he obligingly put on. Then one of the Indians, Alvina Anderson, proposed a quid pro quo. "I asked the Pope to pray for peace be tween the U.S. and the Indians," she said later. "I told him that the U.S. had not honored...
...even a movie film to back up their contention that a Canadian landed immigrant had been seized on Canadian soil. After five days, the U.S. Customs Service finally acknowledged that Anderson had indeed been captured "a few yards" across the border. At week's end, after the Ottawa government complained that the seizure had been a violation of Canadian sovereignty, the State Department returned Anderson to Canada...