Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the military interest was paramount, the concern in both Washington and Ottawa over the hazards from runaway space vehicles was also genuine. At his press conference last week, President Carter said he would take up with Moscow his idea that nations using earth-orbiting nuclear-powered satellites should either agree to install "much more advanced safety precautions" or simply stop launching them...
Trudeau first got the word at his home on the Ottawa River when Jimmy Carter called at 7:15 a.m., E.S.T., just 22 minutes after the satellite came down. The Prime Minister had known about the possibility of a Canadian landing at least since the weekend...
Understandably, Soviet officials informed both Washington and Ottawa that they would be more than willing to join the search. U.S. officials properly let the Canadians deal with the offer-and Trudeau obviously was in no hurry to accept Russian help. Plainly, the U.S. and Canadians wanted some time to study any recovered fragments. Western scientists could learn a lot about Soviet space engineering, its radar capability, and just how close the Russian spy satellites had come to being able to distinguish the movement of U.S. submarines in the oceans' depths...
...nasty, you thought the ECAC was close last year? Well hang on to your zambonis because it's going to be even tighter this year. Aside from B.U., who wooed every top high school player East of Oshkosh, and Cornell, who has some sort of deal going with the Ottawa high school system, the race for the other six playoff spots should resemble a Bruno Sanmartino-George Steel Texas Death Match...
...Ottawa, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was seriously embarrassed by the disclosure of illegal behavior by the Security Service of the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police. All of the incidents went back to 1972-73, when the Mounties were still smarting over the failure of their intelligence during Québec's terrorist crisis of 1970. Then two cells of the Front de Libération du Québec kidnaped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and murdered Québec's Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. According to evidence now be ing heard...