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...Quebec and French Canadian nationalism. In the Forum, one finds Les Canadiens de Montreal defending their National Hockey League championship in a setting that proclaims élan. Forum announcements on goals are bilingual. Always the French-"Montréal but par Yvan Cournoyer "-comes first. Watching Canadiens named Guy Lafleur and Jacques Lemaire outskate visiting players named Cameron and Maloney, bringing a certain sense of history to the place, one can confuse a hockey team with a political movement. That makes as much sense as confusing war in Viet Nam with the Cotton Bowl, which may be what Lyndon Johnson...
...Lafleur's goal in the third period broke a 3-3 tie and powered the Montreal Canadiens to a 5-3 triumph over the defending champion Philadelphia Flyers and a four-game sweep of the Stanley Cup finals...
...Lafleur's score came off a pass from Peter Mahovlich at the right boards. Mahovlich, who had two assists in the game, notched an insurance goal less than a minute after Lafleur's game winner...
Terry O'Reilly sent the Bruins out in front at 8:52 of the first period on the power play. Peter Mahovlich tied the game in the second before Johnny Bucyk put Boston out in front again in the third. Montreal's Guy LaFleur deadlocked the game at 13:00 of the final stanza...
...Cleveland Junior High School Teacher Jo Carol LaFleur was pregnant and due to give birth in late July. She wanted to finish out the school year, but school board officials forced her to begin an unpaid maternity leave in March because of a standing rule that pregnant women must leave work five months before the baby is due. Such rules are vestiges of a time when skittish school boards were determined to keep visibly pregnant teachers out of the sight of schoolchildren. Now the boards contend that the rules are necessary to protect the health of mother and child...