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When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.

Leonard Woodcock

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Leonard Woodcock
Age: 89 †
Born: 1911
Born: February 15
Died: 2001
Died: January 16
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Trade Unionist
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Rhode Island
Leonard Freel Woodcock
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