At 06:21 PM 2/18/96 -0700, Sean Morgan wrote:
This is not an idle threat. When Pierre Trudeau was elected prime minister of Canada (1969?) there was some scrambling in the US to get him off the _persona non grata_ list. Seems that in his student days he had been busted for trying to kayak from Florida to Cuba. Canadian author Farley Mowatt (sp?) was turned back at the border for imagined pinko associations (best guess was that it was because he had traveled to the USSR to research _Sibir_).
Farley Mowat (author of such pinko-Canadian books as "Never Cry Wolf") had also "violently attacked" the US Air Force. He was annoyed at them for flying nuclear bombers and such on training runs over Canada, and shot at them with a small rifle (I think it was a .22 or something equally dangerous to airplanes at 35000 feet...) They didn't like it. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com / billstewart@attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs Pager +1-408-787-1281 ! Frank Zappa for President !