Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson at the height of the French Canadian separatist terrorism in 1963, the commission dug back into Canadian history, traveled all across the country interviewing hundreds of organizations and more than 11,000 individuals. It reported that while English-speaking Canadians are basically satisfied with their lives, French Canadians are not and are in an increasingly dangerous mood about...
...installations. Early this month, Collier and Wood went to Canada to make final arrangements for bringing in 30 sticks of dynamite. A frowsy, 6-ft. blonde named Michelle Duclos, 26, was to bring the dynamite from Montreal to New York in her car. She is a member of the separatist Rassemblement pour l'lndépendance Nationale, is a sometime performer on Montreal's French-language television station CFTM, and a frequent visitor to New York for dates with African representatives...
...next battleground. The Communists have already set up a radio station that broadcasts propaganda to Thailand and they have infiltrated several northern provinces. Withdrawal will thus simply change the battlefield. Most of Thailand is loyal and committed to freedom in the Western sense; but one province has always been separatist and will provide the basis for an attack which the Thai people do not want. But it does no good to prolong the agony in Vietnam if we do nothing to strengthen Thailand...
...approached Quebec last week, ominous letters and telephone calls poured into newspapers. Police seized 14,000 "hate" pamphlets ("First-class funeral for Confederation-the Queen's visit"). And in downtown Quebec City the night before her arrival 1,000 members of the separatist Le Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale staged a silent protest march until police broke it up. "This is an example of the democracy we live in," snarled Separatist Leader Pierre Bourgault. Officials were haunted by thoughts of the assassination of President Kennedy...
...Montreal separatist organization operates more or less openly, with an estimated membership of 7,000. Small, shadowy bands of fanatics have bombed army installations, destroyed mailboxes and raided armories, stealing rifles, sub machine guns, antitank bazookas and any other weapons they could cart away. Fortnight ago, five terrorists looted a firearms store in Montreal and killed an employee before police swooped down to capture them...