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DIED. Igor Gouzenko, 63, cipher expert in the Soviet Union's Ottawa embassy whose defection in 1945 defused a major North American Soviet spy ring bent on extracting Western atomic bomb secrets; of a heart attack; in Mississauga, Ont. The information that Gouzenko brought with him exposed for the first time the extent of the Soviet intelligence web in the U.S. and Canada. Hypersensitive to personal danger, Gouzenko thereafter never appeared in public without disguising himself or covering his head with...
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...Historian Ralph Allen describe the deadly mist of chlorine gas that ravaged the Canadian First Division at Ypres in 1915. Last week, as Canada celebrated Remembrance Day-the 61st anniversary of the end of World War I-fear of another kind of chlorine gas attack forced the evacuation of Mississauga...
...largest evacuation in Canadian history; with surpassing smoothness, and little panic, most of the city's inhabitants moved to temporary quarters in auditoriums, school halls and churches in the Toronto area. At week's end, a leak in the chlorine tanker had been patched and all of Mississauga's citizens had returned, albeit nervously, to their homes. Proud of her people's calm response to the emergency, Mayor Hazel McCallion said: "There wasn't a bit of trouble...
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