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...brink of civil war? To say so would be an exaggeration, although hostilities have already developed between the federal and provincial levels. Jacques Y. Morin, Quebec Education Minister and Marcel Leger, Quebec Environment Minister, recently startled international conferences by stating that they spoke for Quebec, not Canada. Trudeau responded with a threat to ban Quebec representatives from future international conferences if such situations recurred...
...legislature and the courts in Quebec. Section 133 of the British North America Act guarantees the use of both English and French in Quebec courts and legislature. If the Parti Quebecois passes these recommendations as law, it could face a determined federal opponent in Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau...
...Walker Percy graduated from the College of Physicians at Columbia, and as an intern caught pulmonary tuberculosis from one of the many bodies on which he performed autopsies. America was just entering the war. While waiting to be admitted to the famous Trudeau sanitarium in Saranac Lake, Percy lived in a boarding house, all alone, reading and beginning to write. He says now, 'TB liberated...
...wonder that this relationship is a very sensitive one. Mexico feels any hardening of policies severely. Or, as Canada's Premier Trudeau described it, it is like having a honeymoon with an elephant: the slightest change in position is enough to crush the poorer country. And it was due to Mexico's past policies that the elephant turned just enough to make its weight felt...
...women arrived at the ballet to watch Mikhail Baryshnikov dance. All the frenzy, said Margaret, was nonsense. Said she: "Look, I'm a married lady. I love my husband and I love music." Her New York trip, she added, was a vacation devoted to photography. Said Trudeau, back in Ottawa: "This has been planned for some time." An aggrieved Jagger added his own disclaimer. From the Manhattan town house where he was staying with his wife Bianca and their ailing five-year-old daughter, the Prince of Rock declared that hints of dalliance with Margaret were "insulting...