Word: partied
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WHAT TRUDEAU challenged, in effect, was a separatist movement in Quebec that had begun in the early '60's and was rapidly gaining strength and respectability in electoral circles as well as in terrorist cliques. One of the early groups, the Parti Quebecois, had attracted a significant province-wide following and won nearly 25 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's elections last April. Another party, the two-year-old Front d'Action Politique, had been threatening to topple the administration of Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau in the municipal elections last Sunday...
Early in the 1960s, Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage vowed to make Quebeckers the maîtres chez nous (masters in our own house) within the Federation. By 1968, René Lévesque, once a member of Lesage's Cabinet, helped found the Parti Québecois, which demanded political separation from Canada. Last spring, Lévesque's party won 24% of Quebec's vote in provincial elections...
Many of the remaining prisoners are members of the following groups: the Parti Quebecoise, a separatist party which won 23 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's parliamentary election last April; the Comites des Ouvriers, a collection of citizens' committees which have been organizing pro-separatist campaigns in voter districts around Montreal; and the American Draft Resisters' Committee...
Many of those arrested have been members of the Parti Quebecois, a separatist political party which won 23 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's parliamentary election last April...
...kidnapers espouse a cause that has inspired Quebeckers ever since General Wolfe's redcoats defeated Montcalm's French army on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and imposed British rule. In last April's provincial elections, René Levesque's Parti Québecois, which demands an independent Quebec free of political ties to Canada, won 24% of the vote. But while most separatists seek their goals by peaceable means, a number seek to turn their fight for French separatism into full-scale urban guerrilla war. The Liberation Front, which probably numbers no more than...