Word: ren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farewell statement to the nation, Trudeau declared: "Wherever I am or whatever I do, I will continue to work and fight for our country." That referred to his bitter opposition to the long postponed referendum in which Quebec's Separatist Premier René Lévesque will ask for a mandate to negotiate a vaguely defined "sovereignty-association" for his province with the rest of Canada...
...Palace, in fact, while trying to minimize what it called the "nature and value" of the gifts, did not deny that a "traditional exchange" had taken place. Bokassa also gave diamonds, the weekly said, to Cabinet Ministers Robert Galley and Yvon Bourges, and Giscard's top adviser, René Journiac. Other alleged recipients: Giscard's brother, Business Consultant Olivier, and two of their cousins, Banker François and Finance Official Jacques. Unlike the President, his relatives all denied the allegations...
...which was founded in 1778 and is owned by the Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that exodus well. But during the strike, circulation at the newly lively Gazette soared to roughly what the Star's had been before the dispute...
...Henri René Pacific Grove, Calif...
...barnyard of impish figures to add humor to the story of "Charlie" Marx ("Wasn't he one of the Marx Brothers?"one character asks early on). The book dances quickly through a field as woolly as the history of philosophy prior to Marx. For example, France's René Descartes "introduces us to a mechanistic concept of the world," observes a whimsical bird in one cartoon panel, adding: "Later, we'll see what this is and whether it's edible." In a playful hand-lettered preface, del Rio says that a "reason for trying to take...