Word: impounded
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...final $26,000 invoice for the printing order. When Edwards approached the Canadian Department of External Affairs for some needed muscle, he was informed that he would have little luck in collecting the debt. "They told me," says Edwards, "the Russians had immunity." Undeterred, Edwards considered trying to impound the ice skates of the visiting Soviet hockey team. In 1973 he persuaded a local court to order the seizure of a Soviet airliner, but that endeavor fizzled under pressure from a number of less determined Canadian government agencies...