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...Trudeau resigns as Liberal Party leader...
...directed Harvard's Summer International Seminar--a program that brought to Harvard rising stars in foreign policy and political, cultural and literary life from Europe and Asia to school them in American foreign policy and, within certain bounds, to promote "freedom of exchange." Men on the order of Pierre Trudeau and Valerie Giscard D'Estaing--who were then on the verge of international prominence--attended the seminar, discussed world affairs with foreign ministers from India and Pakistan, and heard lectures from American intellectual heavyweights like David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger...
Much of this issue was absurd and distasteful, especially from a woman's point of view. Faludi and Devall's articles, about playwright Arthur Miller and feminist Garry Trudeau respectively, relegated to the back of the Arts Supplement, did something to antidote the miasmal matter of the first half. Their writing and those about whom they chose to write reassured me that indeed, unlike most of this week's Crimson Arts Supplement, some art does serve the end of social liberation. Sincerely, Mary Holland...
...ideology and policy of Maoism as deeply hostile to Marxism-Leninism, the interests of socialism and the cause of peace." In Peking, Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping similarly put a damper on the Moscow meeting in remarks to a foreign visitor, Canada's ex-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Reported Trudeau: "He made it quite clear that in his mind the differences between Moscow and Peking have their origin in Russian chauvinism that is worse, as he put it, than in Czarist days...
This sometimes led to absurdities. On a state visit to Ottawa in 1972, an advance man decided that the tan furniture in Pierre Trudeau's office would not flatter Nixon on television and took it upon himself to redecorate the Prime Minister's private office with blue-covered sofas. He was stopped at the last minute by an incredulous associate of Trudeau almost incoherent with rage...