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...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...
...mutilated body of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte was found early yesterday morning in the trunk of a car parked at an Air Force base 30 miles southeast of Montreal. A member of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ), the group which kidnapped Laporte eight days ago, had earlier phoned a radio station here and given word of the killing...
Throughout the early hours of yesterday morning, rumors flooded television and radio networks that British Trade Commissioner James R. Cross-seized by the FLQ at his Montreal home two weeks ago-was also dead. But police received written word from Cross several hours later stating he was alive...
Hundreds of troops and police took part in fencing off parts of Montreal yesterday, while additional hundreds made arrests of FLQ members and sympathizers...
...search began when two young brothers, aged two and four, were admitted to a Montreal hospital with acute lead poisoning. The younger boy died three days later; his brother survived. In tracing the source of the poison, doctors learned that both boys had recently been drinking large quantities of apple juice from a handcrafted earthenware jug. Glazed with a compound containing a high lead content, the jug poisoned the apple juice at a prodigious rate. Within three hours, juice stored in the jug had a lead content of 157 parts per million. The maximum allowed by the U.S. Food...