Word: bec
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Dirty tricks in Québec...
...first pilgrimage to Paris since the election of his secessionist Parti Québ&3233;cois a year ago, Québec's Premier Rene Lévesque was embraced last week with rare homage. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing invested Lévesque, to his surprise, as a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and assured him of France's "understanding, confidence and support," whatever Québec's future course. At the National Assembly, Lévesque's arrival was via the Napoleon steps, an entrance last used by Louis...
...vesque claims he arrived at separatism "bit by bit, without even noticing." But his breaking point with the Liberals came in 1967, shortly after Charles de Gaulle outraged Ottawa with his famous cry of "Vive le Québec libre!" Lévesque was squashed by the party after he presented a plan for more social, economic and political autonomy for Quebec within an altered Canadian union...
Tour: JVH, tour de Québec. Autorisé à décoller...
Pilote: Tour de Québec, JVH vent arri...