Word: trudeau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau will arrive in China on October 10 for a week-long state visit, with the usual wining, dining and sightseeing. That is a considerably friendlier prospect than the Prime Minister has been facing back home in Canada...
...Trudeau is beset by serious political and economic woes. Despite all his efforts, Canada is reeling from growing inflation and rising unemployment. Quebec separatists regard the Official Languages Act-which makes French along with English the official language of government-as tokenism. The western provinces growl that the government is ignoring their problems...
...distinguished scholars have included Bertrand Russell, Arnold Toynbee and Harold Laski. Among its students have been several foreigners who went on to become heads of state, including John F. Kennedy, Jomo Kenyatta and Pierre Trudeau. Now a foreigner has been chosen, for the first time, to become head of the L.S.E...
...years, Margaret Trudeau, 24, the pretty wife of the Canadian Prime Minister, has been more seen than heard from. But when she gave her first full interview as First Lady to the Toronto Star, Margaret turned out to be very much her own woman: "Even now that we're married, we still don't feel we possess one another. Pierre doesn't have any expectations for me to always be at his side, and I don't have any expectations of him to always be at mine." For now, however, Margaret's expectations center...
Margaret was less positive about other subjects, especially politicians. After Trudeau's liberal caucus canceled plans for group yoga because of fears of adverse publicity, Margaret commented, "It would probably have cleared some dust out of their heads...