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...early '60s that resentment against Anglophone domination led to the first stirrings of radical separatist feelings, embodied by the tiny Quebec Liberation Front (F.L.Q.). Terrorist F.L.Q. members planted bombs in mailboxes outside homes in Montreal's affluent Anglophone suburb of Westmount. Separatism received a huge burst of publicity in 1967, when the late Charles de Gaulle gave his notorious "Vive le Québec libre!" speech at Montreal's city hall. Around the same time, portions of Quebec's 850,000-member union movement turned to Marxist ideology, launching widespread strikes and demonstrations. In 1969, when Montreal police and firemen went...
...Writer Robert Hughes, who is writing about the colonization of Australia by convicts in the 18th century. Correspondent Neil MacNeil turned to history in a recent monograph, The President's Medal, 1789-1977. For others, contemporary events have provided subjects: Associate Editor David Tinnin's forthcoming I, Terrorist examines the motivations of terrorists; Correspondent James Willwerth's new Badge of Madness is about the breakdown of one New York policeman...
Police last year seized 11,441 small arms, 937,711 bombs of various kinds and almost 15,000 lbs. of explosives. They also made 590 arrests throughout the year in connection with terrorist acts. These ranged from murder to a spate of leg shootings of journalists, lawyers and businessmen -including, in separate attacks, seven employees of the Fiat automobile company. Industrial sabotage and arson caused more than $55 million worth of damage to factories, not counting numerous minor bombings of public buildings, government offices and party clubs all over the country...
...OPEC ministers met in the atmosphere of an armed camp. Fearful of another foray by Carlos, the Venezuelan-born terrorist who two years ago led the kidnaping of the same oil ministers in Vienna, the Venezuelan government set armored personnel carriers to guard roads leading to the conference, while soldiers toting Uzi machine guns patrolled the black sandy beaches. Even aging patrol boats were brought out to cruise the warm Caribbean waters in case Carlos tried an amphibious assault...
...other branches of journalism, such an idea most resembles life at the Associated Press, where, in the words of General Manager Keith Fuller, "neutrality is our bag." The A.P. constantly scrubs its language; lately, for example, it has instructed its reporters that one should say a terrorist group claimed "responsibility" for a bombing, instead of "credit" for it, "leaving it to others to judge whether it is an act to be 'credited' or not." In such tamped-down language, controversial becomes almost the strongest pejorative that can be hung on someone-and practically impossible to shake (Andrew Young...