Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago, while covering the Cross-Laporte case, Montreal Correspondent Vincent Carlin discovered that his best sources were disappearing behind bars. Last week he interviewed Pierre Bourgault, a nonviolent Quebec separatist who had been picked up, interrogated and released twice in one day. Our correspondents in Latin America have been covering the recurring story of kidnaping and terrorism for many months. Searching out Uruguay's Tupamaros is particularly trying, says Montevideo Stringer Eugenio Hintz. "You know all the time that they are around you, and you might be speaking with one without knowing it. You get the confirmation only...
...disease has struck nowhere more dramatically than it has in Canada. Climaxing a long series of bombings and bank robberies, the French-Canadian separatist group known as the Front de Libération du Québec (F.L.Q.) kidnaped two high officials: James R. Cross, British trade commissioner in Montreal and, later, Quebec Labor Minister Pierre
WHAT TRUDEAU challenged, in effect, was a separatist movement in Quebec that had begun in the early '60's and was rapidly gaining strength and respectability in electoral circles as well as in terrorist cliques. One of the early groups, the Parti Quebecois, had attracted a significant province-wide following and won nearly 25 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's elections last April. Another party, the two-year-old Front d'Action Politique, had been threatening to topple the administration of Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau in the municipal elections last Sunday...
...vote for the Parti Quebecois in the April parliamentary elections indicated strong support for the goals, if not the methods, of the FLQ; and the separatist Front d'Aotion Politique was thought to have strong backing in the Montreal city elections. And yet, even as the government felt the threat of increasing secessionist tendencies among Quebec's electorate, the FLQ was tiring of the ballot box as a means of achieving power: the April vote had yielded the PQ only seven out of 108 National Assembly seats, and the temper of the underground group was wearing rather thin...
...QUEBEC separatist movement has been dealt a stunning blow, and Montreal, the eye of the storm, is now gripped with a mood that borders on quiet desperation. The military stalks the streets; the police refuse to disclose arrests or charges; political activity is at a complete standstill; the students have obediently gone back to school. Most American media, of course, have portrayed the crisis as something which affects only a small number of irrelevant people; if you've read your New York Times, then you are aware that the average Canadian is unmoved by the spectacle and continues undisturbed...