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...Canadian drama indicates that today's urban guerrillas merely bring new techniques to old battles???atavistic tribal struggles that would hardly be noticed except in a world shrunken by communications satellites and other electronic marvels. Quebec's F.L.Q. dates only from 1962, but French-Canadian nationalism goes back two centuries. Pierre Trudeau himself was close to Quebec radical movements in the 1950s, but he later decided that what separatism really meant was simply a long step back to Quebec's feudal past. In a tough 1964 essay, Trudeau let the Quebec separatists have it. "The truth is," he wrote, "that...
...years an ever graying, ever dwindling host has held annual "encampments" in various sections of the U. S. As surely as August rolled around, so sure ly have the veterans of more than three score battles???and now of three score years?assembled and somehow marched, in spite of old wounds and infirmities...
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