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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...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Canadian Arrests Reduce Many Opposition Parties | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

MONTREAL, Quebec-The largest city in Canada, haunted by two political kidnappings and now under martial law, grew measurably tenser yesterday as a small group of radical terrorists raised the stakes in the struggle with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLQ Kills Official; More Troops Airlifted Into Tense Quebec | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...students-mostly French-Canadians-seized one building and turned the administration into an information center. After the enactment of martial law, police broke up the information center without making arrests. One building is still occupied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLQ Kills Official; More Troops Airlifted Into Tense Quebec | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...accident that he changed his mind last week, roughly six months since the chaotic days following Sihanouk's ouster and the subsequent American-South Vietnamese invasion. Cambodia is hardly a model of stability and permanence today, and martial law still prevails. But Lon Nol seems to have impressed many of his countrymen with his honesty and courage. Deputy Premier Sisowath Sirik Matak has won respect as a shrewd and sophisticated politician, and the government is no longer seen as a here-today, gone-tonight proposition. Particularly noteworthy is the support it enjoys among Cambodia's embryonic professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: Birth of a Republic | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

Invoking the War Emergency Act-an authorization of martial law-the Canadian government sought to cripple the increasingly militant activities of the FLQ. Thirteen days ago, secessionists kidnapped British diplomat James Cross; seven days ago, Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte was abducted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prime Minister Trudeau Proclaims Martial Law, Raids Quebec Separatists | 10/17/1970 | See Source »

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