Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fortnight, the first-floor flat in the working-class suburb of Montreal North had been under tense surveillance. Only when police were completely satisfied with the accuracy of their tips and leads did they swing into action. They routed the residents out of a four-block area. Hundreds of policemen, Mounties and troops in battle dress were rushed in to encircle the stark apartment building at 10945 Des Recollets Avenue. The electricity was cut off. A nearby school was closed so that it could be used as a helicopter pad. Finally, two hours after the siege began, a lead pipe...
That Cross could be kept hidden in an ordinary apartment just ten miles from downtown Montreal for two solid months suggested that the Canadian police were rather sorry sleuths. They also did badly in one of thousands of raids carried out under the 1914 wartime-security act. Police searching for an F.L.Q. suspect named Gerard Pelletier stormed into the rambling Montreal residence of Canadian Secretary of State Gerard Pelletier...
Only once did Cross fear that he too might be killed. In one of the letters dictated to him by his captors, he intentionally misspelled the two words prisonners and questionned, intending the extra ns to indicate that he was in Montreal North. When the kidnapers realized what he had done, they went into a rage and screamed that he was "a dirty son-of-a-bitch...
...Montreal...
Earlier in the afternoon, Colin Adair of Montreal and Larry Terrell, former Harvard Ace and last year's U.S. Intercollegiate champion, met in the finals of the consolation round. Adair, the present Canadian and former U.S. national champion, surged back from a two-game deficit to defeat Terrell 5-15, 8-15, 15-11, 15-9, 15-14 in a very tense and emotional contest...