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...star-shaped scallion pancakes he was evidently persuaded to bar the C.N.A. correspondents so that Yeh Chih-hsiung of Peking's official Hsinhua agency could cover the U.N. with a clear conscience. Peking does not want its reporters taking part in organizations that allow Taiwanese participation. In Ottawa, Hsinhua has refused to join the Parliamentary Press Gallery because its members will not expel the C.N.A...
...Canadians claimed a victory by announcing that their dollar, alone among major currencies, will continue to float against the U.S. dollar. In the 19 months since Ottawa set its currency afloat, the Canadian dollar has risen about 8%, probably less than the rise that would have been required of Canada in a formal revaluation. As expected, a number of Latin American nations and others whose principal trade is with the U.S. followed Washington in devaluing, thereby keeping their currencies on a par with that of their biggest customer. The move should also increase the competitiveness of their exports in trade...
Born. To Pierre Trudeau, 52, Prime Minister of Canada, and Margaret Trudeau, 23, daughter of former Fisheries Minister James Sinclair: their first child, a boy; in Ottawa, on Christmas...
Neither can Jack Gotta, coach of the Ottawa Rough Riders in the Canadian Football League, who would like to draft Wichard but admits that "we'd have to offer him everything short of the Houses of Parliament and the Bank of Canada." The Baltimore Colts, eager to groom a replacement for Johnny Unitas and Earl Morrail, are also interested. For Gary, who once worried that the pros "wouldn't find me," the attention is reassuring. Now, all but certain of being snapped up in the first or second round of the pro draft, he says: "If they want...
Whom would Peking send to the U.N.? Conceivably, Chou himself might want to make the grand entrance. Huang Hua, Peking's Ambassador to Ottawa and one of its foremost American watchers, is a likely candidate for the delegation, but not for its leadership. Urbane, soft-spoken Chang Wen-chin, who heads the Peking Foreign Ministry's department of Western European and U.S. affairs, could be the man. But at week's end the leading possibility seemed to be Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Chiao Kuan-hua, a onetime journalist who speaks fluent English. Chiao has most recently been in charge...