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MONTREAL, Quebec-The largest city in Canada, haunted by two political kidnappings and now under martial law, grew measurably tenser yesterday as a small group of radical terrorists raised the stakes in the struggle with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's government...
...mutilated body of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte was found early yesterday morning in the trunk of a car parked at an Air Force base 30 miles southeast of Montreal. A member of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ), the group which kidnapped Laporte eight days ago, had earlier phoned a radio station here and given word of the killing...
Additional troops were air lifted from outlying provinces into Quebec yesterday as riot-equipped city police patrolled the streets of Montreal and cordoned off several blocks of municipal office buildings in the downtown area. There are now an estimated 8000 troops ready to move on the city...
Laporte's murder came less than two days after Trudeau-acting at the request of Quebec premier Robert Bourassa and with the approval of his own cabinet-invoked Canada's War Measures Act, outlawing the FLQ and stripping the country of all civil liberties...
...days before the proclamation of the Act-never before used in peace time-support had been growing in Quebec's political and intellectual circles for the goals of the FLQ, which advocates a nationally independent Quebec and the overthrow of its capitalist economy...