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SETTLING into the free-form suede couch in Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's newly decorated Ottawa office, Richard Nixon observed how relaxed the two leaders were in their talks. "With ongoing negotiations, it is easy for us to get together," he said. "We are up on our differences and we don't face the uncertainties of new positions...
...economic concessions; notably a revision of the 1965 Canada-U.S. auto pact, giving Canada a bigger share of joint car production. So far, Ottawa has refused to budge, and talks have bogged down in ill feeling. American negotiators speak disparagingly of Ottawa's "bush-league mandarins." Trudeau has cracked that "with friends like Secretary Connally, who needs enemies...
...both sides rushed to complete one important document in time: the five-year Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement that commits both governments to initiate programs by 1975 which would "restore and enhance" polluted waters from Lake Superior to the St. Lawrence River. Expanding on the theme, Nixon and Trudeau raised the possibility of a similar agreement covering all the waters along the border -which would be more than ample reason for another presidential visit, if and when both men are reelected...
Despite the vast differences in their political and personal styles, Nixon and Trudeau have always been at ease with each other intellectually. In private talks, they agreed to press their negotiators to reopen talks-stalled since last December-on the economic issues. They also traded travelers' notes-Nixon on Peking, which has invited Trudeau for a visit, and Trudeau on Moscow, where he met Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev last spring...
...year-old Prime Minister paused, then icily informed the House: "I am not the right honorable lady's dear boy." Blushing to the roots of her red hair, Mrs. Castle sat down. It was also gaffe time in Ottawa's Parliament: Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau referred on the floor to the opposition leader's "goddamned question." Two days later he apologized on an open-line radio program. "I agree that one shouldn't use profanity," he told a shocked lady who called in. "I'm sure my grandmother wouldn't like...