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Although Trudeau built a reputation as a civil libertarian, he also 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...
...least a third of the homeless are mentally ill. Most have been released from state asylums during the past two decades as part of a well-intended campaign to free patients whose disorders can be controlled with drugs. "It was a good civil libertarian idea," says Dr. John Talbott, presidentelect of the American Psychiatric Association. "The trouble was that city and state governments failed to set up a safety net for those who don't cope well." On Los Angeles' Skid Row, says Social Worker Herb Lester, "I get a lot of people who say, 'They gave...
...meager one-hour-a-week TV watcher, Fowler, 42, came by his libertarian philosophy gradually. The son of a Toronto tobacco wholesaler, he moved to the U.S. at ten and later went to college and law school at the University of Florida. During those years, he supported himself as a disc jockey and program director for small-market radio stations. In 1968 he traveled to Indiana to work on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. Later, moving to Washington to join the city's busy network of communications lawyers, he came to the conclusion that the complex FCC rules...
...resounding phrases sounded gloriously libertarian four years ago. But by last week French President Fracçois Mitterrand must surely have regretted the words he spoke as an opposition leader in 1979. In an effort to help cure an increasingly ailing economy, his government had laid a heavy official hand on one of the most hallowed of French traditions, the vacation...
...senior senator's Republican opponent, Walpole businessman Raymond Shamie, pulled 37.30 percent: Libertarian Howard Katz got 90 percent, and 2.52 percent of the voters in the general election declared no preference...