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...proved willing to use force if reason failed. In 1970 Trudeau became the first Prime Minister in history to invoke Canada's War Measures Act in peacetime, sending the army into the streets of Montreal and Quebec City to deal with terrorist kidnapings by the separatist Front de Libération du Québec By 1975 Trudeau's reputation as a powerful leader had dimmed. In the 1979 election his Liberals lost to the Conservatives; six months later he announced that he was stepping down as Liberal leader, declaring that he "was not the man to rebuild...
Repeatedly she refused to accept last-minute changes in scripts. To one importunate composer she snapped: "Call me Miss Birds Eye. It's frozen." Yet she could ad-lib with the best. During a performance of Annie Get Your Gun, a prop rifle misfired but, on cue, a bird fell from the rafters. Without missing a beat, Merman held up the dead bird and remarked, "What do you know? Apoplexy...
...When our flight connected in Zagreb," says Sandra Knapp of Indianapolis, "eight of us with the U.S.O.C. went to change money, and the banker made us all come to his office for cheese and brandy. The men are so gracious. I'll tell you what, women's lib hasn't hit here. I've never felt so feminine." However, the black-bearded driver Alex, while helping a British woman carry her groceries, says aside, "I would never do this for my wife." For all the little cars darting about the streets, occasionally having to swerve around...
Democratic Front Runner Walter Mondale had expected to open the 1984 election year with a media blitz. He would attack Ronald Reagan's "ad-lib foreign policy" and outline his own supposedly more cohesive alternatives in a hard-hitting speech to the National Press Club in Washington, B.C. Then, in a DC-9 loaded with reporters, he would aggressively tour the South, where he hopes to wrap up his party's presidential nomination by mid-March. But when he stepped to the microphone in Washington, Mondale joined a media blitz for another candidate. "All of us are proud...
...action exacerbated already crackling tensions between Greece and Turkey, two NATO allies, it threatened further disruption on the alliance's southern flank at the very moment that NATO faces the volatile issue of deploying U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Groused the left-leaning Paris daily Libération: "The storm surrounding the Euromissiles wasn't enough. Cyprus had to be thrown in as well...