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Students and faculty at the University of Quebec in Montreal voted the day before Trudeau's announcement to close their institution until the Quebec government met the demands...
...massive search-and-arrest campaign has all but ended peaceful political organizing by those who believe that Quebec, with its 85 per cent French population, should be separated from the nation whose political and economic apparatus is dominated by Canadians of English descent...
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...
...morning last week, two men rang the doorbell at the fashionable Montreal home of James R. ("Jasper") Cross, who directs the British trade office in Quebec. "A present for Mr. Cross," said one of the men, displaying a gaily wrapped package. Since her employer had celebrated his 49th birthday only six days earlier, the Portuguese maid unchained the door. With that, one of the men whipped out a revolver and the other pulled an M-1 rifle out of the package...
...rushed upstairs and surprised Cross, who was dressing; his wife Barbara was still in bed. After identifying themselves as members of the Quebec Liberation Front, a small terrorist outfit, the men handcuffed Cross and hustled him into a waiting taxi...