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...opposing views clashed head-on late last month at a nationally televised conference of Trudeau and provincial premiers in Ottawa. Both sides voiced strong arguments. For its part, eastern Canada is suffering from shortages and high prices. A gallon of regular gasoline costs 69? in Montreal, compared with only 47? in much of the West. A temporary compromise on oil export taxes was hammered out at the Ottawa meeting. Half of the tax revenues will go to the oil-exporting provinces and half to the federal government, which will use its share to subsidize lower gas prices in the East...
...Egyptian-Israeli talks. But Kissinger, for the next month at least, is booked for Western Hemisphere consultations, including discussions with Panama on the status of the Panama Canal, a meeting with Western Hemisphere foreign ministers in Mexico City to discuss mutual problems and talks on oil in Ottawa with Canadian officials. It will be difficult for the Secretary to return to Middle East matters until early March, by which time the thing that Kissinger fears most, a loss of momentum in negotiations, may have occurred...
...second time in three Christmases, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau received the same present from his wife Margaret; a son. On Christmas Day 1971 Justin Pierre was born. This Christmas Day Alexandre Emmanuel arrived. Two days after taking Justin to the hospital in Ottawa to see his brother, Trudeau announced the name of his newborn son. He said he had selected Emmanuel (Hebrew for God with us), while his wife had chosen Alexandre, "after the saint, the Czar or the Pope-take the one you want," joked Trudeau, adding that the baby would be known simply...
Representing the West will be either the Saskatchewan Roughriders, built around a strong running attack and Canada's senior quarterback Ron Lancaster, or the Edmonton Eskimos, a tough defensive team featuring the league's top receiver. For the East it will be the veteran Ottawa Rough Riders banking on a terrorizing defensive front four, or the Montreal Alouettes, led by N.F.L. Dropout George Mira. Whichever two survive the divisional finals, the style of play promises to be untamed...
...cois) won 23.7% of the vote and seven seats in the assembly. In 1970 a separatist terror organization called the Front de Libération du Québec (F.L.Q.) kidnaped the British trade commissioner and murdered Pierre Laporte, the Liberal Party's Labor Minister. Ottawa's response was blunt: it imposed near martial law under the War Measures Act, and the Montreal streets were patrolled by helmeted troops...