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...trips with Pierre, caring for their sons Justin, 2½, and Sacha, six months-but decided after Trudeau's near-defeat in 1972 that this time she should take a more active campaign role. Lately Margaret, with her elfin smile and insouciant ways, has been wowing crowds from Quebec to British Columbia-delivering informal talks in English and French, balancing on stilts for delighted children, and frolicking in a bikini for photographers at a motel pool. At a salmon barbecue in Vancouver, she introduced her husband to 1,500 whooping partisans as "a beautiful guy, a very loving human...
...decline has been his own political performance. Since he was first elected in 1968, the Prime Minister has managed to dissipate much of the popular enthusiasm-"Trudeaumania"-that for a time made him seem like a Canadian Kennedy. His coolness under pressure helped quench the fires of Quebec separatism that threatened Canadian unity at one time. But his unswerving determination to make Canada truly bilingual, his trendy ways and his flights of arrogance annoyed many English-speaking traditionalists. His seeming indifference to the problems of the Western provinces made him appear to some a spokesman for the hated Montreal-Toronto...
...this weekend's championship match, eight teams will participate, including the Quebec All-Stars and Mexico's national champion Olympic team, which won the tourney last year...
Tough Stand. The Canadian solution after the two kidnapings in Quebec in 1970 was a massive show of police and military strength, ordered by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Many government officials were given round-the-clock protection by police or soldiers, and some wealthy families spent sizable sums to hire private guards. Police were empowered to hold suspected terrorists without formal charges for 21 days. Hundreds of Quebeckers - most of them French-speaking separatists, but not terrorists - were arrested in nighttime raids. Canadians endured a state of near-martial law for two months, and polls showed that a large majority...
Canada's large-scale crackdown cannot, of course, serve as any kind of model for the U.S., nor would most Americans support the abrogation of the traditional American concepts of civil rights. The U.S. has no terrorist groups of any size or popular support like those of Quebec, Argentina and Uruguay. The only way to cope with U.S. terrorist kidnapers may be simply to deal with each case individually and patiently. "Talk, talk, talk and never give in," says Norval Morris, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. "Every contact with kidnapers...