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PEIRRE Elliott Trudeau is the dashing, elegant, liberal Prime Minister of Canada. He dates Barbra Streisand, wears wxhite carnations on his pin-striped lapels, and kisses girls as well as babies when he shows himself in public...
...only side, of course. When Trudeau first ran for Prime Minister three years ago, he was regarded by many Canadians as something of an enfant terrible; brash, controversial, a dilettantish leftist who had even visited Communist China. But gradually, he oozed his way to the core of the political establishment, promising the nation that he would deal with Quebec's blossoming separatist movement in a way that would unify Canada, not rend it apart...
Laporte's execution is certain to inspire revulsion throughout Canada and the rest of the world toward the terrorists. Trudeau's hand will be immeasurably strengthened as a result, and he has demonstrated that he will not hesitate to use his power. The last play of the week belonged to the terrorists, who by their senseless savagery forfeited what little sympathy they had ever commanded. The next play will be Trudeau's, and it is not likely to be a gentle...
Last week the Chinese scored a major success in that strategy. After 20 months of negotiation in Stockholm initiated by Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Peking and Ottawa announced that they would establish diplomatic relations immediately. Trudeau had also agreed to break off relations with Nationalist China, but Taipei beat him to the punch. Just before the new Peking-Ottawa link was announced, Taiwan's Ambassador Hsueh Yu-chi severed his country's diplomatic ties with Canada and took leave of the country in a tearful farewell scene...
...partner. Exports during the first seven months of 1970 totaled $100,729,000. Because Canada buys little but peanuts and cotton pants in return, the trade accounted for an $89 million balance of payments surplus. It could grow larger if the Chinese would begin buying Canadian newsprint and potash. Trudeau, who visited China in 1960 with Jacques Hébert and co-authored a book called Two Innocents in China, has advocated recognition since before his election in 1968. "It is a fact that there is a very large and populous country which is governed [from] Peking," he says...