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When the government of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau declared a state of martial law in Canada last Friday, it announced that the sole purpose of the emergency action was to crack down on the underground separatist Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ...
...overwhelming effect of the legislation thus far has been to decimate a large number of leftist opposition parties and organizations that are connected only peripherally with the methods or activities of the FLQ...
...number of arrests mounted above 200 yesterday, the fourth day of the War Measures Act, it became increasingly evident that the only opposition group which government forces have failed to move against is the FLQ itself, which operates in closely knit, highly disciplined and completely autonomous cells of four to six members...
...government outlawed the FLQ after the group had made two political kidnappings. Membership in the FLQ or support for its tactics or goals now carries a five-year prison term. Following the announcement of the law, the FLQ killed one of the hostages, Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte...
Instead, police have seized many of the government's critics who are not otherwise associated with the FLQ...