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...people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed . . . It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people . . . Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power...
THROUGH the week Canada's Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, pondered the most difficult decision of his career. On the surface, the threat that confronted Canada, hardly seemed to merit the label "parallel power." Still, the terrorists of the minuscule Quebec Liberation Front (F.L.Q.), with about 100 hard-core members, had openly defied the government by kidnaping two high-ranking officials and threatening to execute them. First, Trudeau called out thousands of armed troops to stand guard in major cities. Then, because he feared that the Quebec separatist movement (see box following page) would be significantly strengthened and federalism...
...relief sewage system, which will be built parallel to existing pipes, will eliminate overflow into the river. Together the sewers will carry 15 times the present dry weather flow. During rainstorms there are now at least six overflowing outlets in the Harvard area draining raw sewage into the Charles...
...ease the situation, President Nguyen Van Thieu last week decreed a package of reforms aimed at cutting inflation to 15% next year-a dubious proposition. His most significant move was to devalue the piaster-sort of. He established a "parallel rate" structure under which his country's currency will still be valued at 118 piasters to the dollar rate for "necessity" imports, but 275 to the dollar for luxury imports. A canny political device, the parallel rate will increase prices-and government revenues-on such imports as TV sets and refrigerators, while keeping prices down on essential imports...
...more worried now about the prospects for a nuclear arms limitations agreement with the Russians in the resumed SALT sessions at Helsinki next month. Yet if the Kremlin operates as realistically on its assessment of self-interest as in the past, Soviet behavior at Suez need not inevitably parallel Soviet behavior elsewhere. The U.S.S.R., after all, had flatly lied to President John Kennedy about its strategic missiles in Cuba in 1962, claiming that there were none and touching off a superpower confrontation. Yet a year later, the two nations were able to agree on a limited nuclear testing pact that...