Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minuscule Quebec Liberation Front (F.L.Q.), with about 100 hard-core members, had openly defied the government by kidnaping two high-ranking officials and threatening to execute them. First, Trudeau called out thousands of armed troops to stand guard in major cities. Then, because he feared that the Quebec separatist movement (see box following page) would be significantly strengthened and federalism gravely weakened, he decided to move even more forcefully. At week's end, he declared all-out war on the terrorists...
When the government of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau declared a state of martial law in Canada last Friday, it announced that the sole purpose of the emergency action was to crack down on the underground separatist Front de Liberation du Quebec...
Many of the remaining prisoners are members of the following groups: the Parti Quebecoise, a separatist party which won 23 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's parliamentary election last April; the Comites des Ouvriers, a collection of citizens' committees which have been organizing pro-separatist campaigns in voter districts around Montreal; and the American Draft Resisters' Committee...
Many of those arrested have been members of the Parti Quebecois, a separatist political party which won 23 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's parliamentary election last April...
...damned radical, damned revolutionary" plot involving more than the five suspects. Others questioned the greater-conspiracy theory, but suggested that three of the bank robbers were bent on using the loot to finance their radical cause. Though novel in the U.S. today, the idea is not entirely new. Quebec separatist terrorists have long been suspected of robbing Montreal banks in order to support their movement. Some South American revolutionaries have tried similar capers. But if the plot theory is correct, it could represent a basic departure in radical tactics. Fire-bombing banks and other capitalist institutions to tear down...