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They pulled up to the United Nations' glassy Manhattan headquarters by the limousine load-President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France, Premier Thorbjörn Falldin of Sweden, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada. All together, 20 heads of state or government were scheduled to drop in on the five-week-long proceedings. The occasion that brought them: an unprecedented session of the 149-member General Assembly devoted solely to disarmament, the largest group ever convened in an attempt to reverse the world's steady accumulation of ever more and deadlier weapons...
Readers who try to decipher her fullpage, many-framed scratchings may think she has a point there. Bretécher's comic strips, not exactly thigh-slappers, suggest the wry, nervous humor of Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau. Her typically flabby, potato-nosed men, women and children often discourse eloquently on feminism, Freudianism, environmentalism, Marxism or some other millstone of doctrine, only to betray their soaring words with some bourgeois inconsistency. There is, for example, the porn-film producer who denounces his working class audience as "pigs" and says he panders to them only to help finance the kind...
...Commons installed television cameras and started recording its proceedings for the tube last fall, the tailors and barbers of Ottawa found themselves with an unexpected rush of parliamentary business. Members bought pastel-colored suits to brighten their images on the air. They had their hair styled. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau reverted to the Caesar cut that he wore in his triumphant 1968 campaign...
...trying to meet that ideal, Trudeau, in one of his first major steps, elevated French to equal status with English, at least insofar as the federal government could. His 1969 Official Languages Act provided that French could be used in federal courts across Canada and in any dealings with the government. He raised the number of French-speaking employees in Canada's 330,000-member civil service from 9% to 27%, roughly their proportion of the population. Trudeau warned English-speaking bureaucrats that they would need fluency in both languages for many jobs, and had language courses instituted for them...
...Trudeau's $750 million bilingualism program upset many bureaucrats. In the Western provinces, it was felt