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...Palestinian problem is not just a refugee problem as Turki makes quite clear; it is a national problem. The Palestinian refugees have never wanted to be resettled in Lebanon or Syria or Jordan. They feel separate, they want their own homeland and a self-determined destiny. As Eric Rouleau, the distinguished Middle East correspondent of Le Monde, pointed out earlier this year when speaking at Harvard in response to an Israeli Jewish questioner, the Palestinian situation is almost a mirror image of the Jewish situation before the creation of the State of Israel. There now exists a Palestinian diaspora with...
Disdaining the complaints, Pearson announced a Cabinet reshuffle that was designed to look like reform but was at best a halfway housecleaning. To his credit, Pearson did take care of one little problem that was hanging fire. Guy Rouleau, the P.M.'s own parliamentary secretary, had been involved in the case and had resigned; now Pearson drummed Rouleau out of the House of Commons and the party altogether...
...Offer. The Favreau incident has been festering since last summer when Montreal Lawyer Pierre Lamontagne, 30, went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with a story that four highly placed Liberals-Raymond Denis, 32, then executive assistant to the Immigration Minister; Guy Rouleau, 42, Pearson's own parliamentary secretary; Andre Letendre, 34, Favreau's executive assistant; and Guy Lord, 26, a former special assistant to Favreau-were pressuring him to take it easy in an extradition case. Lamontagne was working for the U.S. Justice Department, which sought the extradition of one Lucien Rivard, a Montreal racketeer wanted...
Pearson seemed surprised by the fuss. Denis had already quietly resigned; Pearson now accepted Guy Rouleau's resignation and appointed Chief Justice Dorion as a one-man commission of public inquiry. To make matters worse, in the midst of the investigation Racketeer Rivard escaped from Montreal's Bordeaux Jail, has not been seen since...
...Rouleau, however, does far better as a director. In a series of remarkably effective close-up shots he manages to dramatically convey the tension, uncertainty, and fear of the people of Salem. Except for an overly chaotic courtroom scene, the picture is smoothly and intelligently handled. (George Auric's score, incidentally, masterfully underlines the terror of the townspeople...