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Monsieur J. Cross is British Trade Commissioner to Quebec James Richard ("Jasper") Cross. The defiant note was the last truculent gasp from the Quebec Liberation Front fanatics who had held Cross-and Canada-in fear, anger and uncertainty for 59 days. When the F.L.Q. members finally freed Cross last week, their price had come down considerably: a safe-conduct to Cuba for four terrorists and three of their relatives...
...Acting with unflinching determination, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected the terrorists' initial extravagant demands for Cross' release: $500,000 in gold bullion, plus transport and safe conduct for 23 jailed F.L.Q. thugs to Cuba or Algeria. After the ransom was denied, another group of kidnapers then abducted Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte, prompting Trudeau to crack down really hard. Under a little-used World War I security measure, the Prime Minister invoked emergency police powers -something that had never been done in peacetime in tolerant, democratic Canada-and sent battalions of special police and troops into Quebec...
...photo "Frisking Quebec Girl" [Nov. 2] should be mailed to everyone howling about suppression of civil rights by the War Measures Act in Canada. The soldier appears more embarrassed and intimidated than the victim, who manages to look more relaxed, charming and feminine than Raquel Welch in the same issue. Reckless and arbitrary suspension of civil rights? My ascot...
Testifying before a coroner's court Saturday, Lortie confessed to the kidnapping of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte last Oct. 10. He also confirmed that three of the four prime suspects now being sought in connection with the case are members of the Chernier cell and that they too took part in Laporte's abduction...
Fortunately for the film, the girl is played by his wife, Geneviève Bujold. Martha Hayes is a young girl from rural Quebec who becomes a companion and governess to the eleven-year-old son of a lonely, cultured Montreal widow (Monique Leyrac). She divides her attentions between young Russ (Bill Mitchell) and singing in the choir of the nearby Anglican church. Otherwise her thoughts are confined to romantic musings about herself and her relationship with God. They are, that is, until she discovers the Augustinian monk (Donald Sutherland) who temporarily takes over as choir director...