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...dropping from existence; there are new electronic microchip jobs that automatically produce a thousand individually addressed love letters while the author snorkels in Cancún. Nor is there a great heaving nostalgia attached to the old machine. The history of its growth reads as excitingly as politics in Ottawa. Besides, people these days show far too much reflex yearning for the snows of yesteryear. Let the thing go. Indeed, one can briefly sum up the reasons for looking back with moderate affection on the manual typewriter and still not feel that the world is about to lose a piece...
...missiles in Western Europe has caused on the other side of the Atlantic. Few Americans, however, expected the controversy to excite passions in a NATO country that is thousands of miles from the planned deployment sites. But, as Vice President George Bush learned during a 14-hour visit to Ottawa last week, the decision to deploy missiles in Europe has become a highly emotional issue in Canada, too. Although Bush had come prepared to talk about bilateral problems ranging from trade to tourism, the nuclear debate overshadowed all other matters. Demonstrators spattered the Vice President's limousine with eggs...
Many Canadians oppose the missile idea. A January Gallup poll showed 52% against cruise testing, and only 37% in favor. In Ottawa, 15,000 demonstrators marched at an anticruise rally in October. Operation Dismantle, one of Canada's largest antinuclear groups, claims to have tripled its membership, to 2,000, in the past year. The 2 million-member Canadian Labor Congress pledged last week to support the anticruise movement, while last December leaders of five major national churches met with Trudeau to express their "deep concern" over the idea of bringing the missiles to Canada. Some of the protests...
...Soviet agents in Ottawa, one Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, who remains anonymous, seemed an ideal "mole" for penetrating the Canadian security service. They wooed him assiduously. Details for secret meetings were passed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. A piece of colored tape strategically placed on a pillar in a shopping center would also signal a rendezvous. Over a nine-month period the Mountie received $30,500; then Canadian police blew the whistle. The case proved to be a classic counterespionage sting. After the Soviets tried to recruit him, the Mountie...
...graying, impeccably attired Hambleton was apparently recruited by the KGB during the late 1940s in Ottawa, then trained in espionage methods and cultivated as a Soviet agent while he studied in France and Britain. For reasons that remain unclear, Hambleton resigned from NATO in 1961. He returned to study in London and later joined Quebec's Laval University in 1964 to teach economics...