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Some former extremists, including a judge and a senior Quebec bureaucrat, have blended too well its ex-members HUBERT BAUCH exile in 1979 to a three-year sentence Sl'Hl'lU'M for the Cross kidnapping. Released af- MONTREAL tera year's detention, he built a career In the Quebec book industry. containment, either by cold "We were romantics," he said in an type or cold reason. Interview on last year's 25th October I The lettersJn the FLQ mind's somehow eye they aredefy Crisis anniversary. "Wesawourseh-es . typically rendered far more vividly — as going off to war, even though we in slashing brushstrokes on the wall of didn't really know what we were do¬ a federal building; in a defiant spray- ing." can scrawl on the base of amonument The first of the Liberation Cell exiles, with Anglo-Saxon overtones, or to brave Judgment back home were scratched on a Westmount mailbox Loube and Jacques Cossette-Trudel. rigged to explode. They were sentenced to two years in The very mention of the Front de prison and paroled after eight months Liberation du Quebec, more than a after their return to Quebec in late quarter-century after its calnmitous 1978. They were divorced three years flameout in the 1970 October Crisis, later. still triggers such visceral emotions Loube, who is Jacques Lanctot's sis¬ ar\d disturbing memories that it's a ter, now runs a photocopying and doc¬ stretch for some who experienced the PAUL ROSE: still a committed social¬ FRANCIS SIMARD: works In film In¬ JACQUES ROSE: constructkKi firm ument-processing service, A decade FLQ heyday to imagine yesteryear's ist, he campaigned as NOP candidate dustry and discourages prying owner raised furore at PQ convention ago she published a bitter memoir of terrorist monsters recycled as today's her FLQ experience. model citizens. Their faces and vitals were splashed In South Shore Marie-Vlctorin riding Carbonneau, now, at 63, on the brfnlt, Her former husband, Jacques, like But this is what they have-become on wanted posters all over town, iden- until chief electoral officer Pierre Cote, ofseniordtizenship. In 1970, he got a her now 47, has become a communi¬ for the most part. If not model citi¬ rilying them as the leading suspects in ruled him ineligible 10 days before freepasstoCubawithfourother cations consultant In an article in the zens. at least peaceable, taxpaying the kidnappings of British trade com¬ the vote. members ofhlsFLQ "Liberation Cell" magazine Libenarion hedismbsedthe members ofsociety. Apart from the missioner James Cross and Quebec la¬ Sdll apassionately committed so¬ after they released their hostage. like Laporte kidnappers as grandstanders odd moving vioiarion, none of the es¬ bor minister Pierre La porte, and in La- cialist, Rose soldiers on at the political theothers—Jacques Lanctpt, Yves for claiming they"executed" the min¬ timated 200 or so former felquistes porte's subsequent murder. A com- fringe as leaderofwhat he now.calls Langlois, Louise Cossette-Trudel arid ister when, as Cossette-lYudel still living in Quebec h£s run afoul of . mon sentiment at the time was that the Parti deJa Democratie Sodaiiste, her then-husband, Jacques-r-he.soon claimed, they actually strangled him the law after acquitting their sen¬ hanging was too good for them. which makes no headlines and does¬ found life in Cuba cured his revolu¬ accidentally. tences forterrprist activities. Yet Paul Rose, whose crooked-eyed n't register in the polls. tionary fever. From the current furore, it would In fact, everyone everconvicted of scowl and unrepentant courtroom Hisyounger brother, Jacques, 50, All of them eventually decamped to seem that the really troublesome ex- FLQ-related activil ies has been at lib¬ rants got him cast in the public eye as . was convicted only of being an accom¬ France, andallofthemeventuaJiy: felqubtes are those who have taken erty for more than a decade now. If the baddest of the bad, has been back plice after the fact in Laporte's kid¬ came back home to face the music. the straight and narrow too far. It'has anything, some have blended in too on the streets since he was paroled in napping, and served five years of an Carbonneau came back in May 198.1 raised serious questions about provin-. well for some people's comfort. The 1982, after serving 11 years of his life eight-year sentence. Three years after and served a 20-month prison term, cial-government hiring standards, but current furore over the appointment sentence for La porte's murder. In re¬ his parole, he made a splash at the after which he went Into the renova¬ also countercharges that the opposi- of two formerteenage felquistes, cent years he has been working on a 1981 Parti Quebecois convention, ris¬ tion business. • tion is trying to smear the PQ govern- •, Richard Tberrien and Gaeran doctorate in sociology at the Univer- ing to presenta motion asking thatall Frauds Simard, a 23-year-old ap¬ mentwith a fefquiste taint, and fears Desrosiers, the former as a judge and site du Quebec at Rimouski. FLQ prisoners still incarcerated at the prentice electridan In 1970, has of a witchhunt that could see people the latter an associate deputy minis¬ Now 53, Paul Rose is one of the few time be transferred to provincial jails. worked in the Quebec film Industry houndedoutofjobstheyholdonthe ; ter, has raised the question whether ex-felquistes who still goes out of his He was accorded a thunderous stand¬ for most of the time since his 1981 pa¬ merit of their rehabilitation. this is redemption carried past a cer¬ way to call public attention to himself. ing ovadon. An appalled Rene role from a life sentence for Laporte's This is the broad consensus among tain line. In the last provincial election Rose Levesque later called it an outbreak of murder. former FLQ members of all current At the height of the October Crisis it headed a left-wing gaggle that took delirium. Now a father of two, he has settled persuasions who spoke out this week. was hard to imagine that the likes of over the Quebec NDP franchise, Since then, the younger Rose has into a respectable family state near From their point of view, they're being' Paul and Jacques Rose, Francis which by then existed in name only settled in the Laurendans, where he trols-Rivieres. made to pay for their impulsive youth¬ Simard and MarcCarbonneau would and had long been disowned by the runs a thriving construction and Perhaps the most socially promi¬ ful crimes above and beyond the dic¬ ever see daylight again once they national party. He campaigned to home-renovation business. nent former FLQ front-liner is Jacques tates of justice. were caught. scant attention as the NDP candidate The same Is true of Cross kidnapper Lanctot, nowSl, who returned from MontrealOazelle 'Domtar workere in East Angus Province, where thousands and stock exchange stands?); by the THE OCTOBER CRISIS TWENTY YEARS LATER • and Windsor know them well. And thousands of square miles of for¬ payments to reimburse Household The FLQ Manifesto the workers at Squibb and Ayers, ests, full of game and well-slocked Finance; by the publicity of the and the men at the Liquor Board lakes, are the exclusive preserve of grand masters of consumption like and those at Seven-Up and Victo¬ the powerful twentieth century Eaton. Simpson, Morgan, ria Precision, and the blue collar seigneurs. Steinberg, and General Motors. On Octobers, 1970, the From tie ers (banks, finance companies, the North Shore, the miners of the workers in Laval and Montreal We have had our fill of the We are terrorized by the Liberation du Quebec kidnapped etc—) Iron Ore Co., Quebec Crtrt&r Min¬ and the Lapalme boys know those hypocrite Bourassa who re-en- closed circles of science and cul¬ James Cross, the British Trade "The money power of die sta¬ ing, and Noranda also know these reasons well forccs himself with Brinks armor, ture which are the universities and Commissioner. In exchangefor his tus quo, the majority of the tradi¬ reasons. And the brave woikets in The Dupont of Canada work¬ the veritable symbol of the foreign by their monkey directors like safe return, the FLQ demanded, tional teachers of our people, have Cabano know all the reasons. ers know them as well, even if occupation of Quebec, to keep the Gaudry and Darais and by the sub- among other things, that lis mani¬ obtained the reacdcn they hoped Yes, there are reasons that soon iliey will only be able to ex¬ poor natives of Quebec in the fear monkey Robert Shaw. festo be broadcast publicly. The for a backward step rather than you, Mr. Tremblay of Panel St., press them in English (thus assim¬ of misery and unemployment in The number of those who are CBC, at first reluctant to do so, the change for which we have and you, Mr. Goutier, who work ilated, they will enlarge the which they are accustomed to liv¬ realizing the oppression of this eventually complied with the Gov¬ worked as never befcre, for which in construction in SL Jdrome, that number of immigrants and Neo- ing. terrorist society are growing and ernment request and on Octobers we will continue to work." you cannot pay for "vasseaux Quebeckers, favored children of We have had our fill of taxes the day will come when all the the "Teste du Monifeste FLQ" Ren* Uvesque, April 1970 d'or" with all the "zizique" and Bill 63). which the Ottawa reprcsemative Wesanounts will disappear from was read on the air. The following the "fling-fiang" as does Drapeau And the Montreal policemen, to Quebec wants to give to the the map.