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...trading world. Foreigners were increasingly angered by what they perceived to be brutally nationalistic U.S. policies-the 10% surtax on most imports, the proposed "buy American" investment credit at home, and the demand that other nations revalue their currencies upward against the dollar. A Canadian diplomat complained in Ottawa: "America seems to have acted without considering the wider implications, without a clear plan or purpose for the future...
...even violence by members of extremist Yugoslav émigré groups. Of the estimated 1.5 million Americans of Yugoslav origin, only a few hundred belong to fanatical Tito-baiting political organizations, some with direct spiritual links to Hitler. Still, as Premier Aleksei Kosygin's close call in Ottawa last week demonstrates, the security problem is not merely a matter of numbers. State Department representatives have been meeting with members of Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian exile groups to explain to them why good relations with the present Yugoslav government are in the national interest of the U.S. There...
Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau has made it his policy to counter the "overpowering presence" of the U.S. by underscoring Ottawa's political independence, particularly in foreign affairs. Last year he cut Canada's NATO contingent in Europe in half and established diplomatic relations with Peking, and last May he signed a protocol in Moscow providing for annual consultation with the Soviet Union...
...Hill. If he comes, he'll have to expect a good deal of that." He was putting it mildly. Almost from the moment he arrived, the Soviet Premier was beset by demonstrators from among Canada's 173,000 Jews, 473,000 Ukrainians and various Eastern European minorities. Ottawa police found a bomb near the Soviet embassy and eleven Molotov cocktails in a nearby park. More than 7,000 Canadian Jews marched through Ottawa demanding free emigration for Soviet Jews...
...against a Mountie. The protester was quickly hauled away and charged with common assault. Though Trudeau observed that Kosygin "is a pretty hard-nosed guy," the Soviet Premier was evidently shaken. He showed up nearly an hour late for dinner, and omitted some prepared remarks thanking the citizens of Ottawa for "the hospitality they have shown us." Later, Kosygin was carefully cocooned by security men as he toured a research center and a pulp factory outside Ottawa, and met with businessmen in Montreal before flying off to Vancouver and Edmonton for some high-level tourism...