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Canadians were disturbed enough when their traditional two parties fractured into four in 1962's general elections, and the two splinter parties gained enough strength to inaugurate a siege of minority government. Last week Ottawa got a fifth political party when one of the splinters splintered. Le Ralliement des Creditistes the new party was christened, and its founding father was Real Caouette, the firebrand Quebec Chrysler dealer who has been the leader of the French-Canadian branch of the prairie-based, funny-money Social Credit Party. In last April's national elections, Caouette and his fellow French-Canadians...
...Pakistan, even as U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball was objecting to President Mohammed Ayub Khan's new commercial air pact with Peking, Pakistani and Red Chinese diplomats were negotiating a barter agreement last week. A Soviet mission flew into Ottawa to draw up an expanded trade treaty; last month Canada signed a $360 million wheat export deal with Red China. This month West Germany begins negotiating a trade treaty with Hungary...
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...Happened. There was no doubt that the Russians now wanted a test ban agreement. The U.S. had first suggested the limited ban at Geneva last year, and the Russians turned it down flat. In May, when Secretary of State Dean Rusk returned from a NATO meeting in Ottawa, he received an urgent call from Russian Ambassador. Anatoly Dobrynin, asking to see him. The two men spent the afternoon in a launch floating down the Potomac; it was then that Dobrynin hinted at Russian readiness for serious test ban talks...
...extending their control over Canadian business. Among those most alarmed was Eric Kierans, 49, the bluntly outspoken president of the Montreal and Canadian stock exchanges, who thought the exchanges would be jeopardized. He got busy, worked up a scorching five-page letter to Gordon, and then set off to Ottawa to protest in person, with five of the exchanges' governors...