Word: bec
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...potent political force. In the 1970 election, the péquistes (for the initials P.Q. in Parti Québécois) won 23.7% of the vote and seven seats in the assembly. In 1970 a separatist terror organization called the Front de Libération du Québec (F.L.Q.) kidnaped the British trade commissioner and murdered Pierre Laporte, the Liberal Party's Labor Minister. Ottawa's response was blunt: it imposed near martial law under the War Measures Act, and the Montreal streets were patrolled by helmeted troops...
Members of the French Canadian Front de Libération du Québec train in the Middle East, where among other things they learn assassination tactics. The bodies of an Eritrean and a Turk have been found among those of Palestinian guerrillas ambushed by the Israelis in the Jordan River valley; presumably they were on patrol as part of their training for eventual operations at home...
...bitter over De Gaulle's support of the breakaway state of Biafra; and Canadian Prime Minster Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It was impossible to know whether Trudeau, a staunch Canadian federalist, stayed away because he was still furious over De Gaulle's famous cry "Vive la Québec libre!" during a 1967 visit there, or simply too burdened by the emergency caused by separatist terrorism. The former seems probable...
...disease has struck nowhere more dramatically than it has in Canada. Climaxing a long series of bombings and bank robberies, the French-Canadian separatist group known as the Front de Libération du Québec (F.L.Q.) kidnaped two high officials: James R. Cross, British trade commissioner in Montreal and, later, Quebec Labor Minister Pierre
...vesque and his colleagues are moderates committed to electoral democracy. At the same time that his ideas were gaining prominence a different breed of separatist was developing: disaffected radicals committed to violent action. In 1962, these activists created the Front de Libération du Québec. They systematically began planting bombs in mailboxes, robbing banks, setting fire to government buildings. Kidnaping is their latest weapon. "There is no difference between the F.L.Q. and the liberation movement of Palestine, of Viet Nam, of Black Power," says F.L.Q. Leader Charles Gagnon...