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...steps to curb sulfur-dioxide emissions from U.S. coal-burning factories has been a persistent source of friction between the two nations. The President and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney agreed last winter that Drew Lewis, former U.S. Transportation Secretary, and William Davis, former premier of Ontario, should suggest a course of action before the next U.S.-Canada summit, scheduled for March. Presented last week, their report urges that the U.S. spend $5 billion over five years to devise ways to burn coal more cleanly...
...polls suggest, Canadians who were willing to take a wait-and-see attitude after Mulroney's early mistakes are becoming impatient and increasingly question whether their Prime Minister can lead the country ably. According to a poll last month in Maclean's, a Canadian newsweekly, only 37% are satisfied with the Prime Minister's performance, vs. nearly 60% a year earlier, when he had been in office only three months. "The biggest challenge facing the government is classical leadership, to define where the government wants to go," says Allan Gregg, whose Decima Research, Ltd., conducted the Maclean's poll...
Several controlled studies of the merits of endarterectomy are in the planning stages. But for now, doctors suggest, candidates for such surgery should get a second opinion. Then if they decide to go ahead, they should choose an experienced surgeon at a major medical center...
...sees itself as "a dynamic moral force on a global level." At its frequent best, PEN has indeed aided the release of writers imprisoned for their works, tried to lessen censorship, and helped to establish an international forum for national literature. But at its most portentous, the group can suggest a second-rate graduate school, where the lecturers outnumber the students. Even some of the much honored guests seemed resigned to unending seminars filled with such marrow-chilling words as alienation and creativity...
...recital was televised the same day across Europe and the U.S. and was recorded for possible later broadcast by Soviet television as well. But TV could only begin to suggest what the 1,800 foreign diplomats, Soviet film stars, composers, musicians and ordinary Russians witnessed on an extraordinary afternoon. At 4 p.m. Horowitz emerged from the wings to thunderous applause, cut it short with an impatient gesture, sat down at his personal 9-ft. Steinway, which had been flown in for the occasion, and for two hours held everyone spellbound...