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...Behind Tsarapkin's words was a warning: any further tightening of the profitable West German-Chinese trade links would be most unwelcome to the Russians. In Paris, Rome and Tokyo, Tsarapkin's colleagues were giving the French, Italian and Japanese Foreign Ministers roughly the same message. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau also got the word. The intent was clear: China, no longer a brotherly socialist nation but instead a dangerous foe, should be expelled from the ranks of civilized nations...
...incomparable painter after another-Vermeer and Rembrandt in Holland, Rubens and Van Dyck in Flanders. As a result, Jordaens passed into history as something of an also-ran. Now, thanks to a splendrous 315-work display of paintings, tapestries, drawings and prints at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Jordaens is finally getting the kind of full-beam spotlight necessary to illuminate his artistic individuality in all its flaws and triumphs...
Down Mexico Way. By virtue of propinquity, Canada and Mexico are meccas for questionable healers seeking across-the-border trade. But Canada's drug laws are about as strict as the U.S. code, and the Ottawa government forbids the distribution of a dubious cancer drug, "Laetrile." It also forbids shipments between provinces of "Liefcort," a hormone preparation for arthritis dispensed by Dr. Robert Liefmann in Montreal. Liefmann is now appealing in the Quebec courts against a medical board decision suspending him from practice for five years, for allowing unlicensed assistants to give his treatment...
...Mafia." French-speaking ministers, long confined to portfolios with more prestige than power, now for the first time command important economic offices. Partly as a result of Trudeau's drive to give them a fair share of power, French-speaking intellectuals are beginning to turn their attention to Ottawa, rather than to Quebec City, and militant French Canadian separatists are becoming rebels with a less appealing cause...
...among customs officials at Lagos airport to help him past the red tape and get him on a flight to Enugu, former capital of the Eastern Region, for an eyewitness report of relief operations. also had valuable background files from TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold and Ottawa Bureau Chief Alan Grossman. During two years in West Africa, Grossman covered the Ibo massacres that led to the present civil war. Among his more vivid memories, Grossman recalled walking along the platform at the Kano railroad station, "a handkerchief clasped to my nose to dull the lingering stench...