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...doubt about it, Dick Davenport is plenty steamed. Husband of Congresswoman Lacey Davenport in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip, he discovered last week that U.S. Secretary of the Interior James Watt plans to open Davenport's beloved Matagorda Island Wildlife Refuge in Texas to developers. "Watt can't do that!" fumes the courtly Davenport, his straw boater slightly askew. "It's outrageous and unconscionable!" So furious is he that, "as secretary of the Maryland Audubon Society, I'm seriously thinking of demanding Watt's resignation in our next newsletter...
...Canada this summer, federally employed postal workers went on strike, delaying mail for more than two months and imperiling several small businesses. The postal employees have a legal right to strike, but Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau came under fire for not dealing with the dispute as "strongly" as Reagan dealt with PATCO...
While Conservative Joe Clark, leader of the federal opposition, urged Trudeau to take drastic action to end the postal strike, the prime minister stood by the right to strike even as government negotiators took a hard-line approach at the bargaining table. Trudeau believes in the need to compromise in a federal system, but hsi hands-off attitude toward the postal strike helped cause a significant summer by-election defeat in a traditional Liberal stronghold...
...think that it is natural that Canadians want to control their own resources. But the way that the Trudeau government is going about this is totally wrong and does not promote good neighbor relations...
American oilmen argue that the Trudeau policy has depressed the stock prices of U.S.-owned Canadian companies, including Gulf Canada Ltd. and Texaco Canada Ltd., forcing down their values by an average of 15% during the first month alone after the program was announced. Moreover, Canadian companies, in cooperation with Canadian banks, have hit upon a technique for forcing the U.S. companies to sell out at the depressed market prices. Flush with seemingly inexhaustible credit from the banks, the Canadian companies have been buying up big blocks of stock in American firms, then offering them back to the U.S. companies...