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...squared concrete tubes, cantilevering in all directions above a five-sided pool, it was designed by Canadian Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, 38, who won the commission in a competition judged by Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin. To cap it all, on the eve of dedication day last week some vandal stenciled QUEBEC LIBRE in red paint on the fountain...
...ripple, a movement, a collective rush to the pool. For there, stomping about waist-deep in the water, was the vandal of the night before: black sweater and beard, dark hair hanging below his shoulders and a new can of red paint, with which he was vigorously stenciling another QUEBEC LIBRE on the fountain. He was not arrested. He was, as it turned out, none other than the artist himself, Armand Vaillancourt...
Canada's government took a slightly different approach last fall when British Trade Commissioner James R. Cross and Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte were kidnaped by two different groups of French-Canadian extremists. The government offered the kidnapers free passage to Cuba, but little else. Cross's captors accepted; Laporte's abductors strangled him. One of them, Paul Rose, 27, was convicted of murder last week and sentenced to life imprisonment; three other suspects have still to face trial. Was the government right in refusing to yield to the kidnapers' demands? According to a Gallup poll...
...rally will begin at 4 p. m. with speeches by Paul Coumin, an antiwar activist and draft resister, and representatives of the Black Panther Party and the Federation for the Liberation of Quebec...
...Against Quebec, the Crimson won at four and five. Both Ed Atwood and Alan Quasha beat their respective opponents in four games...