Word: bec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical separatist feelings, embodied by the tiny Quebec Liberation Front (F.L.Q.). Terrorist F.L.Q. members planted bombs in mailboxes outside homes in Montreal's affluent Anglophone suburb of Westmount. Separatism received a huge burst of publicity in 1967, when the late Charles de Gaulle gave his notorious "Vive le Québec libre!" speech at Montreal's city hall. Around the same time, portions of Quebec's 850,000-member union movement turned to Marxist ideology, launching widespread strikes and demonstrations. In 1969, when Montreal police and firemen went on a 16-hour strike for higher pay, hundreds of thugs and militant...
...culture should "naturally" form a nation-state. That conviction has been nourished by a sudden, popular expansion of French pride, in which Quebec became, if not a political state, most certainly a state of mind. It is summarized in a provincial-government slogan: "De plus en plus en Québec, c 'est en français que ça se passe " (More and more in Quebec, it's in French that things are happening). Quebec has sprouted dozens of novelists, playwrights and chansonniers who sing their culture's praises?and bewail their unhappy history as a conquered people...
...Bec. 10-21-20 win vs. UMass...
...Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was seriously embarrassed by the disclosure of illegal behavior by the Security Service of the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police. All of the incidents went back to 1972-73, when the Mounties were still smarting over the failure of their intelligence during Québec's terrorist crisis of 1970. Then two cells of the Front de Libération du Québec kidnaped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and murdered Québec's Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. According to evidence now be ing heard by a Québec government inquiry...
...fact, it is still far from certain that Lévesque will be able to persuade his 6 million fellow Québeckers to vote for his formula of independence - a "sovereign" Québec in a new economic association with Canada - in a plebiscite that is likely to be held in 1979. But, while basking in the glow of his Paris reception, Lévesque came in for an unlikely political windfall at home...