Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Monsieur J. Cross is British Trade Commissioner to Quebec James Richard ("Jasper") Cross. The defiant note was the last truculent gasp from the Quebec Liberation Front fanatics who had held Cross-and Canada-in fear, anger and uncertainty for 59 days. When the F.L.Q. members finally freed Cross last week, their price had come down considerably: a safe-conduct to Cuba for four terrorists and three of their relatives...
...friends. So eager was Cross to leave Montreal, where he had lived since 1967, that he passed up Trudeau's invitation to dinner. "It may be difficult for me to return," he said at the airport. "It's a bit sad that we ended up on this note...
...contrast there was a chiding note in the Pope's major address to some 200,000 worshipers at Sydney's Randwick Racecourse later in the week. Though he praised the "characteristic dynamism" of the "young country," the Pope questioned whether "pride in having built a prosperous Australia is enough for you." He warned of "the temptation to be satisfied when material needs are fulfilled ... to forget life's moral and spiritual dimension ... to fill its place with counterfeits, some of which lead in the end to contempt for man." One symptom of such contempt, the Pope seemed...
...joblessness or a zero rate of price hikes, let alone both together. Still, the U.S. could take a number of steps that hold some hope of reducing both. The goal might be set at 4% unemployment and 3% inflation. That would add up to 7%, which, as economists note, would be exceedingly good?far better than October's jarring 12.8% total...
...political realism painfully lacking in the past. In their efforts to create a constituency larger than just suburban liberals, through emphasizing issues such as unemployment and inflation, and in attempting to beat the opposition at a game it very often knows very little about, organization, a much-needed note of reality was injected into the new politics...