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CANADA. In a startling discovery, health officials found that Ottawa rains carried six times as much radioactive iodine as is considered acceptable for drinking water. But experts said the finding posed no danger to Canadians, since standards are based on the risks over a lifetime's exposure. Meanwhile, federal officials have required all shipments of European fruit, vegetables and herbs to be held and tested. Canada also warned travelers to Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and parts of the Mediterranean to wash all fruit and vegetables and avoid drinking fresh milk...
...Accidental removal of four control rods at an experimental nuclear power reactor at Chalk River, Canada, near Ottawa, led to a partial meltdown of the reactor's uranium fuel core. A million gallons of radioactive water accumulated inside, but there were no accident-related injuries. Although negligible in comparison with last week's Soviet accident, it was the first known major malfunction of a nuclear power plant...
Unlike many previous world's fairs, including the poorly attended 1984 New Orleans fair, which filed for bankruptcy, the Vancouver exposition seems to be soundly financed, thanks largely to substantial government backing. British Columbia has invested $578 million in Expo 86, and the federal government in Ottawa has provided $180 million more. The fair's 34 corporate sponsors, including Coca-Cola, Eastman Kodak, General Motors and Xerox, have kicked in an additional $114 million...
...loose after Columnist Drew Pearson blasted Aide Harry Vaughan; Pearson promptly promoted a new fraternity, "Sons of Brotherhood." Kennedy, SOBing during the 1962 steel crisis, blamed his father for having told him that big steelmen fit the description. Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker stirred some trouble after an Ottawa meeting when his staff claimed that notes Kennedy left behind revealed that the President had SOBed Diefenbaker in the margin. Kennedy claimed he couldn't have done that because he did not know until that very moment that Diefenbaker was the real article...
...replacement as chief of correspondents and new assistant managing editor is Henry Muller, 39. Brought up in Switzerland and San Francisco, Muller first worked for TIME as a campus stringer at Stanford, from which he graduated in 1968. After joining Time Inc. in 1970, he became a correspondent in Ottawa, Vancouver and Brussels successively and served as Paris bureau chief from 1977 to 1981, when he returned to New York City and became senior editor of the World section. Since then he has supervised TIME's past three Man of the Year cover stories and the special 1985 issue...