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...ranked among the least surprising social announcements of the year. In a terse, yet poignantly personal four-sentence message, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 57, and his aspiring-photographer wife Margaret, 28, last week declared that they are formally separating. The statement issued by the Prime Minister's Ottawa office said that "because of Margaret's wishes" to "leave the marriage and pursue an independent career" the couple "will begin living separately and apart." According to the announcement, "Pierre will have custody of their three children [Justin, 5, Alexandre, 3, and Michel, 1½], giving Margaret generous access...
...bilingual bachelor of 48 and the occasional companion of Barbra Streisand. Margaret, then 19, was the beautiful, free-spirited daughter of a British Columbia industrialist and former Canadian Cabinet member, James Sinclair. Canadians learned of the couple's ultra-private wedding ceremony in March 1971, three years after Trudeau was elected Prime Minister for the first time; the rejoicing was akin to that for a royal coronation. After Trudeau successfully fought his third national election campaign in 1974, Margaret's cool yet sprightly presence on the hustings was judged to be a significant political asset...
...Pierre Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. A notable absentee: French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who boycotted the dinner. Reason: he was piqued that British Laborite Roy Jenkins had been invited to both Callaghan's dinner and some of the summit sessions in his capacity as president of the European Community's Brussels-based commission. Like his predecessors, Giscard is determined to keep the Common Market and its representatives from getting too uppity...
...quite clearly, the strategy of his-and-her vacations, so often recommended for, and sometimes even beneficial to, marriages in distress. There was Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau slipping down the snowy slopes and flipping off the diving board at Utah's Snowbird mountain resort. And there was Wife Margaret, tripping through Boston's Logan Airport, her three young children in tow, on a visit to her sister in Winchester, Mass. Earlier, the P.M. had made a pilgrimage to that shrine sought by every world statesman-California's Disneyland. "My kids would have loved to see this...
Despite disagreements between the Parti Quebecois and Trudeau, the threat of civil war seems remote after considering the results of a recent Gallup Poll by the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion. The poll showed that only 18.7 per cent of the 1043 English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians interviewed thought that "Ottawa should use force to prevent Quebec's separation...