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...free trade could compromise their country's cultural sovereignty by allowing big U.S. companies to gobble up Canadian book publishing and broadcasting. Mulroney's most urgent task, though, will be to convince his countrymen that he and his colleagues emerged from Lac Meech last week carrying a compass. --By Peter Stoler/Ottawa
...prizewinner was starting a three-week, coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. to raise money, and it was only natural that he should join the demo, which has been going on intermittently for more than a year and on this day featured the singing of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. The rally left Tutu in obvious good spirits. "We will be free. There's no doubt about that. We don't say if," he added. "We say when, when, when...
...shows up, more or less playing himself--just as Mr. T does every week. It seems Mr. T has long been a fan of the flamboyant singer. "He admires Boy's style of telling it like it is and that he does his own thing," explains T's agent, Peter Young. "The two are alike in that." Not to mention a shared taste in unconventional coifs...
...that may appear in it. I therefore take the occasion, in writing to you out of Africa, to say that your review of the new film Out of Africa [CINEMA, Dec. 16] is wrong in saying that Karen Blixen never mentions her husband in her book. She does, twice. Peter S. Bridges U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Mogadishu...
...proposals are certain to run into trouble when they reach Congress. There has been growing public concern that the merger wave has already gone too far, and that sentiment is likely to be reflected among legislators. Peter Rodino, a New Jersey Democrat and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, predicted last week that his panel will not support "substantial or precipitous changes in the antitrust laws." The overhaul should receive a warmer greeting in the Senate, where South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, who heads the Judiciary Committee, plans to give it careful consideration. An aide described Thurmond as a longtime...