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...Garry Trudeau, the New Haven, Conn. cartoonist who draws Doonesbury, said yesterday that individual strips have been cancelled in various newspapers several times in the two years Doonesbury has been syndicated, but that this is the first time the Post and the Globe have refused...
...Trudeau said the Post decided to cancel the Mitchell strip about two weeks before it was scheduled to run. The Globe's decision, he said, came after it learned of the Post's plans. "Since the Post is sort of the flagship of the Watergate press, the Globe thought it would be OK not to run the strip if the Post wasn't going to," Trudeau said...
About 1,200 Canadian Liberal Party workers and their wives went wild for the drummer who sat in with the Renaissance rock group at Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel. Flailing away at the snares, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau managed to make his own music. Said Jean-Guy Morin, the regular Renaissance drummer, "His left hand wasn't all that good, but then his right hand wasn't much either." After Trudeau had returned to the dance floor, Morin had another thought: "Maybe if I practice, I could be Prime Minister...
...Liberals recognize the perils. Close associates have been warning Trudeau in recent weeks not to allow himself to be provoked into one of his legendary outbursts of profanity. In fact, the former swinger of the Western political world has at times seemed more than somewhat subdued. During the visit that Trudeau made to Britain in December, the Times of London was moved to observe: "Being Prime Minister of Canada for four years has dulled him nearly beyond recognition...
Flashes of Fire. There are still, however, flashes of the old fire. In one of his first sessions of the new Parliament, Trudeau hotly accused Tory members of trying to "divide Canada" in the election campaign-a reference to the effort by some Tories to capitalize on anti-Quebec feelings generated among English-speaking voters. But Trudeau's charge was so ill-timed and ill-tempered that it left some of his party colleagues shaking their heads in dismay. Stanfield, normally a dull public speaker, shone by comparison. When a fellow Tory heckled Trudeau about trying to change...