Word: ren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possibility of degradation along with the joy of sex. The question is, will one or the other of them meet with murder (or just incredibly bad luck) after conjoining with her? The answer is, who cares?, especially as she is played with a placid lack of threat by Renée Sontendijk...
...gunman's timing, however, was fortunately poor. Quebec Premier René Lévesque and his Cabinet were not due in the Salon Bleu until that afternoon. Some ministers were having a late breakfast, though, and they quickly barricaded themselves in the legislature's restaurant. But Assembly employees had no protection. "I'm sorry for wounding you," the assailant reportedly told a worker shot in the arm during the fracas, "but that's life...
...hero of the day was the Assembly's sergeant at arms, René Jalbert, 63, a retired army major who helped convince Lortie that he should give himself up. Approaching the man as he sat in the Speaker's throne, Jalbert offered him coffee and a cigarette and coolly remarked: "I see you're an army man. I'm an army man myself." Jalbert took him to his downstairs office, where, four hours later, a Quebec police negotiator persuaded Lortie by telephone to surrender. (He later pleaded not guilty to three charges of first-degree murder...
...village of San Esteban Catarina, in San Vicente, about 25 miles from the capital. When I arrived there, prayers were being offered in the church for the return of 70 youths-between 13 and 21 years of age-who were carried off by the guerrillas. The local priest, Father René Valle, and several mothers tried to stop the guerrillas from taking the boys. "Before, they had many supporters here, and they didn't need to recruit people by force. Things have changed," says a villager. "I was one of those who opposed installation here of a barracks...
...short-lived decision. When the government of Tory Prime Minister Joe Clark fell soon thereafter, the phoenix-like Trudeau was back in power again. In short order he defeated efforts by Quebec Premier René Lévesque to win a referendum on negotiations toward independence for the province. Then, in what may prove to be his most profound achievement, Trudeau overrode powerful opposition from several provincial factions to win a revamping of Canada's constitution, including the addition of a charter of civil rights. More recently, he embarked on a well-meant but unsuccessful campaign to ease East...