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...Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the trouble in Montreal was "part of a total society which is running amok . . . I am not saying the upsurge of violence is a Montreal phenomenon. It is a modern-day phenomenon." On Montreal's Black Tuesday, however, it was a relatively small band of thugs, militant students and separatists that caused most of the damage. Only when the looting began did other, less committed opportunists join in. Ordinary citizens amused themselves chiefly by running red lights-but nothing more...
Encouraged by the favorable reactions to his European trip last winter, Richard Nixon has been eager to embark on another venture in person-to-person diplomacy. Last week he flew to Canada to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and the only real question was where he would go next. The answer: Nearly everywhere. Late this month, the White House announced, Nixon will begin an approximately eleven-day trip around the world that will take him to five Asian countries and the Eastern European state of Rumania -marking the first...
Though so extensive a pullback was not expected, the fact that Canada was taking an entirely fresh look at the Atlantic alliance was no secret. Trudeau, who tends to govern his country almost as if he were conducting a leisurely seminar, has devoted his first year in office more to tossing problems to task forces for study than to providing any new directions for Canadian policies. None of Trudeau's task-force assignments have provoked livelier discussion at home, or greater misgivings abroad, than his question whether the time had come to bring home the troops...
Exercise of Independence. Trudeau's decision does not mean that he plans a retreat to Fortress Canada. Rather it reflects Canada's uncertainty over how it may contribute to collective security while retaining a capacity for independence in the shadow of the U.S. Trudeau is determined to exercise that independence, though he is well aware of its limitations. "Obviously," he recently remarked, "we couldn't under any circumstances have a foreign policy that was completely contrary to the interests of the United States. I just don't think they would allow...
...leaving vague the details and intentions of his policy, Trudeau infuriated many Canadians. For the socialist New Democrats, who favor an immediate pullout, Deputy Leader David Lewis denounced the decision as "meaningless, imprecise, nothing short of scandalous." Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield complained that Canada was failing to live up to the defense obligations that it helped shape as a founding member of NATO. The NATO allies are also certain to be disappointed. Canada's six squadrons of CF-104 Starfighters and the 5,000-man armored brigade in West Germany have been a valuable part of the NATO shield...