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Canadian Separatist Movement Gathers Steam France's President Giscard d'Estang rolled out the red carpet for the visiting separatist premier of Quebec. Rene Levesque. Levesque was given treatment unusually reserved for heads of government! full honor guard at the airport, lunch at Elysee Palace with the entire French cabinet, the award of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Officials in Ottawa were incensed at the VIP treatment. They feel the French government has now moved from beyond neutral "understanding" for the Quebec separatist movement to an open display of favoritism for it. Coming on the heels of disclosures of recent "dirty tricks" engaged in by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, times are rough for P.M. Trudeau, who thought his long private conversation with Giscard last May in Paris had insured French noninvolvement in Canadian affairs.

—Gene Hogberg. News Bureau

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Pastor General's ReportNovember 14, 1977Vol 1 No. 2