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...automotive agreement. In seven years, the pact has helped turn a $658 million U.S. auto-trade surplus with Canada into an annual deficit of close to $200 million. Washington wants to renegotiate in order to aid the awful U.S. balance of payments situation, but the government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau steadfastly refuses. In consequence, economic relations between the two countries may be headed for a crisis...
Born. To Pierre Trudeau, 52, Prime Minister of Canada, and Margaret Trudeau, 23, daughter of former Fisheries Minister James Sinclair: their first child, a boy; in Ottawa, on Christmas...
...summits with the leaders of four key allies-Britain, West Germany and Japan, as well as France-the result was something like a global diplomatic stampede. Governments in Latin America, Asia and even Africa began sounding out their chances of making the list. Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau demanded an invitation by telex -and got the White House O.K. within an hour. Italy's Premier Emilio Colombo also got Nixon's nod. Portugal's Premier Marcello Caetano made the list only because the Azores is Portuguese territory. When Brazil's President Emilio Garrastazu Medici...
...could Canada's Pierre Trudeau. The 10% import surcharge that Washington sprang on its trading partners last August has hurt Trudeau; his political standing has been damaged by Canadian unemployment, hovering stubbornly at 6.6%, and by a steadily growing anti-American opposition. During his day of talks and dinner with Nixon last week, Trudeau's basic question, as one of his aides put it, was: "Are you going to push our heads under water each time we manage to surface?" Trudeau got presidential assurances that the surcharge was not permanent. Nixon compared Canadian dependence on U.S. capital...
...historic currency realignment remain to be hammered out in another Group of Ten conference in Washington at the end of next week, and probably also in a long series of talks between heads of government. Over the next five weeks, Nixon will be meeting separately with Canada's Trudeau, France's Pompidou, Britain's Heath, Germany's Brandt and Japan's Sato. Last week Pompidou and Brandt met in Paris to work out plans for discussing issues with the President "in a coordinated manner...