Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish the airlines would abolish all bargain fares. They could then lower the exorbitant regular fares to more reasonable levels, thus sparing themselves the ill will of disgruntled would-be passengers. Margaret Piton Montreal...
Number one honcho--subject to some debate--is one Robert Hackett, an All-American swimmer who as a freshman last year launched a one-man crusade against the Harvard record book. One more thing: before coming to Harvard, Bobby won a silver medal at the Montreal Olympics. He's not a bad bet to take a gold or two at Moscow, either...
...shoot Martin Luther King," Ray insisted in his statement. Instead of revealing new evidence of a plot to kill King, Ray stuck to his claim that he had been framed by an elusive stranger named Raoul, whom he had met in a Montreal bar after escaping from a prison in Jefferson City, Mo., on April 23, 1967. It was Raoul, Ray insisted, who asked him to buy a telescopic-sighted rifle in Birmingham and a pair of binoculars in Memphis-and it was Raoul who must have left them near the scene of the shooting, well marked with...
...most bizarre one concerns Alexander Peter Treu, 56, a German-born Canadian and former Luftwaffe pilot who heads Canalatin Consultants, a Montreal electronics firm. In the late 1960's and early '70's, he worked on the design of communications and surveillance systems that were built for NATO by a larger Canadian firm. In 1974 Mounties raided Treu's home and carted away 500 Ibs. of documents. In 1976, after a long investigation, he was charged under the Official Secrets Act with holding on to classified documents without official authorization and failing to take "reasonable care...
...spelled out in the charge. Treu himself is not allowed to say; if he does, he will go to jail. He is likely to be imprisoned anyway because he has been found guilty. On what evidence? No one is allowed to explain that either. His year-long trial at Montreal's Palais de Justice, which concluded last April, was conducted in secret. All that has been revealed is his sentence: two years in jail...