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...than 375 prisoners, it became clear that the government was carrying out a well-coordinated strategy of political terror. Very few of those arrested could be directly linked to the FLQ; most were a broad assortment of politicians, labor leaders and other public figures who sympathized with the underground terrorist group but did not endorse its activities...
WHAT TRUDEAU challenged, in effect, was a separatist movement in Quebec that had begun in the early '60's and was rapidly gaining strength and respectability in electoral circles as well as in terrorist cliques. One of the early groups, the Parti Quebecois, had attracted a significant province-wide following and won nearly 25 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's elections last April. Another party, the two-year-old Front d'Action Politique, had been threatening to topple the administration of Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau in the municipal elections last Sunday...
...front" that provided "moral support" for the FLQ. He also charged that the underground group was planning to disrupt the municipal elections "by explosions of all kinds and by further kidnappings or even shooting people." Mayor Drapeau joined in the condemnation, claiming that FRAP was "bringing together all the terrorist and revolutionary elements in Montreal." He also stated that "blood would flow in the streets if a party based on socialism were to be elected...
...Quebeckers complain, is concentrated in English-controlled Ontario, where roughly one-third of Canada's manufacturing industries are situated. There is doubt, however, that Quebec could develop its bountiful natural resources quickly enough to go it alone at any time in the immediate future. Still, as a recent terrorist manifesto put it, "We have had our fill of promises of jobs and prosperity while we always remain the cowering servants and bootlickers of the big shots." The moderates might agree with the sentiment, but their similarity to the terrorists ends at that point. The ballot box may be discouragingly...
...discovered a bungalow hideout in a Montreal suburb yesterday where they believe the FLQ held Laporte before killing him. But the discovery of the alleged hideout yielded no new information concerning the three FLQ members now being sought in connection with the kidnappings or any others in the radical terrorist group...