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...vesque became Minister of Natural Resources within a year. He earned the nickname "Reneé the Red" in conservative, English-speaking business circles by pushing through a controversial nationalization of Quebec's hydroelectric industry. One friend with whom Lévesque spent many heated nights discussing the hydro scheme was Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then a law professor at the University of Montreal...
...vesque frequently displays a fierce temper. In one encounter with hydro executives, he slammed his fist through a glass desktop. What Lévesque's fellow Liberals found even more unsettling was his increasingly outspoken contempt for Canada's federal system. Said Lévesque: "I am first a Québécois and secondly-with rather growing doubt -a Canadian...
...since her unusual design became known. "I hope she does not work," said one rival designer, "or I will have to forget everything I ever learned." Even Mariner's supporters had fears. Skipper Ted Turner thought the boat "did not look right" when he first saw her. M.I.T. Hydro-dynamicist Jerome Milgram, who did preliminary consulting for Chance, had warned in a 1972 article that promising test-tank readings might not be reliable...
...will probably have about doubled its present energy consumption. Domestic oil and natural gas, which today account for two-thirds of the nation's energy, will be able to meet only 40% of demand. Nuclear, hydro, solar, geothermal and other nonfossil fuel sources will take care of another 20%. To fill the remaining 40% gap, the nation faces two likely choices. It can import much more oil and gas-and pay heavily in terms both of balance of payments and political dependence on foreign countries. Or it can turn to coal, which now provides 20% of U.S. energy...
...million to a Gulf Oil subsidiary in the U.S. Last month the Tokyo government granted permission to three Japanese securities houses to underwrite bond issues totaling $90 million for three U.S. firms: North American Rockwell, International Utilities Overseas Capital Corp., and General Cable Overseas Inc. Canada's Hydro-Quebec and the governments of Australia and Mexico are shopping in Tokyo for bond loans...