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...from which the nation has until now seemed mercifully immune. For years political abductions have plagued Latin America, and the victims have included U.S. diplomats and businessmen stationed there. Occasionally the virulence has struck spectacularly elsewhere in the world, as in the 1970 kidnapings by French-Canadian separatists of Quebec Minister of Labor Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross. But in the U.S., political extremism has taken other forms, though the Berrigan brothers and their friends did kick around an almost comic-opera scenario to kidnap Henry Kissinger as part of their antiwar activities...
...Plimpton '48, B.F. Skinner, Walter Jackson Bate '39, Leonard Bernstein '39, Derek Bok, Daniel Steiner '54, Burris Young '55, Alan Heimert, and Alfred Hitchcock (who is rear-projected--he's not really there). And the locations--inside the Library of Congress, the Fogg Museum, Grand Central Station, Harvard courtyards, Quebec City, the Plaza Hotel in New York, the New England Aquarium...
...guests at a winter-games party thrown in their honor by Canadian Governor General Jules Leger at Ottawa's Governmenl House. Obviously enjoying their second official visit abroad together, the Phillipses even made a little history. Where Anne dropped the puck at a hockey game in Hull, Quebec, it marked the first royal visit to the French Canadian province since the 1964 separatis demonstrations against Queen Elizabeth. She scored a success with Hull Mayor Jean-Marie Seguin, who remarked, "She speaks better French than most French Canadians...
Sigh of Relief. Separatism, warned Bourassa, would force Quebec to create a new currency, which would immediately lose value in relation to the Canadian dollar. This was the single most devastating attack against the Parti Québécois. The Liberals were also helped by their undeniably good economic record. In Bourassa's 3½ years as Premier, his government had created a vast social welfare program-including free medical and dental care-without raising taxes. New industries were blossoming, and unemployment had dropped from 10% to less than...
...Outside Quebec, politicians, regardless of party affiliation, heaved a sigh of relief when returns indicated a resounding defeat for the Parti Québécois. Said a satisfied Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who heads the national Liberal Party: "Quebeckers prefer Canada to separatism...