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...staff had compared Brooke's checkbook with other records and found that a number of entries had been obliterated or changed. One of them concerned an Oct. 4, 1972, bank deposit for $27,500 that was originally recorded in the checkbook as a loan from the Bank of Montreal. But when Brooke's lawyers submitted his checkbook to the Ethics Committee, the $27,500 was listed as a return of capital on an investment. Brooke and his lawyers claim that the alteration was made to correct a clerical error...
After ten years in power, Trudeau also suffers from chronic overexposure. In 1976 his popularity soared, following the election of Separatist Premier Rene Levesque in predominantly French-speaking Quebec. Anglophone Canadians then felt that Trudeau, a bilingual Quebecois from Montreal, was uniquely qualified to fight the breakaway movement in the country's largest province (pop. 6 million). Since then, Levesque has cannily soft-pedaled his political line. As a result, the urgency of the separatist threat to Canada's 111-year-old confederation has worn off outside Quebec...
Philadelphia 5, Montreal...
...Montreal 3, Philadelphia...
...Philadelphia Phillies reduced their magic number to four in the National League East last night when Larry Bowa singled home the winning run in a 3-2, 12-inning victory over Montreal...