European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday september 30, 1977 break off of Quebec Analysed Montreal a More then a Mil lion of Quebec s 6 million residents would leave the province if it broke away from the rest of Canada an opinion Survey published thursday indicates. The Survey based on interviews with 1, 924 canadians by Goldfarb consultants Ltd. Of Toronto also indicated that up to 750,000 people in other provinces would leave Canada if Quebec becomes Independent. Quebec Independence is the goal of the parti quebecois which came to Power in French speaking Quebec last november and Premier Rene Levesque says he will hold a referendum at some future Date. The Quebec legislature approved Legisla Tion aug. 25, making French the Only offi Cial language of the province although there Are More than a million English speaking residents. A future elsewhere the Survey sponsored by Southam press Ltd., found that if Quebec separated from Canada 18 per cent of its citizens would seek to build a future elsewhere. In other parts of the country five per cent of those questioned said they would rather leave Canada than remain. Sociologist Martin Goldfarb said the Survey suggests that the Unity debate has hardly begun and has a great Deal of devel Oping to he said the results indicated that two in five canadians appear to have Given Little thought to the separatist Issue. Citizens of Quebec Are also undecided about the future of the province the Survey concluded. While the largest portion would Hope for some form of economic ties with Canada one in three Quebe cers do not know what they want while another one in 10 feel they would make no demands of Canada Goldfarb said. Chinese gets death for attack on . Citizen Paris up the chinese who knifed and seriously wounded american business Man Richard Talmadge in peking earlier this month was executed monday the Paris daily be Monde reported wednes Day. It published a dispatch from its own Cor respondent in peking quoting diplomatic sources. Be Monde said the attacker s name was not made Public nor was the Mode of exe cution revealed. Be Monde remarked it was the second execution in peking for a similar offence in two years. On april 11, 1975 the authorities executed a chinese who attacked and injured the wife of a French embassy employee the paper said. Talmadge who was in peking with american actor William Holden is reported recovering. The attack first came to Public attention when Holden notified peking based correspondents of Western news Media. By All accounts attacks on foreigners in peking Are extremely rare. Navy ends sub crash probe new London Conn. Up the Navy has investigated the Stern to Stern collision of two nuclear attack submarines. No injuries or serious structural damage was reported in the Accident. The Stern diving planes of the Archer fish crashed into the Stern planes of the Philadelphia As the Archer was being guided by tugs to the state pier the Navy said. The soul group Hodges James and Smith is a big Success at London s cafe Royal. Pat Hodges Denita James and swinging soul Sisters Jessica Smith left to right met at a record company office. The american Trio won the most promising group of 1976 award at the first rhythm and blues awards before they scored a big hit with a photo problems. But Betty keeps Cool Moscow up Betty Ford sat in the Small theater Box dwarfed by the magnificence of the Bolshoi As she chatted with a translator seated beside her. Mrs. Ford the shout echoed through the near empty theater mrs. Ford could you please look at the camera. That s right look into the mrs. Ford s visit to Moscow has been somewhat less than relaxing for the former first lady. It s been a nonstop adventure into the structured almost painful boredom of television taping. She is being paid in the area of $75,000" to act As narrator for an Abc television taping of the Bolshoi Ballet performance of the Nutcracker which will be presented in the . At Christmas. She is travelling with an entourage of Public relations people and secret service men As Well As Bob Barrett a spokes Man who moved with the family from the White House to Colorado when Gerald Ford lost the presidency. Barrett has been running around Moscow like a general searching for his troops trying to contend with a demanding american press corps that has noted that Ford has not been Able to keep a single appointment. It s not her fault. For the few minutes she will be seen on american television wearing a peach col ored formal evening gown and flashy Ken Neth j. Lane earrings she has spent hours and hours and hours taping. The problem apparently lies some where Between american directors in their Madison Avenue suits and non English speaking soviet directors and television Crews in their leather jackets and baggy pants. Now camera two shouted a director during a tuesday taping session. There was a pause painfully Long by television standards then a soviet director raised his hand and shouted Eva and the camera switched on. As the tuesday session progressed advancing from the Brief period expected into a Long tedious afternoon Ford retained her Calm and Grace which was More than could be said for the reporters who waited for a promised interview. Finally the introduction was perfected on film and Ford took a Short rest before she faced the press. She said she has done some shopping and sightseeing in Moscow purchasing gifts for a few close friends. She did not buy her husband the Stan Dent Leonid Brezhnev gave him a fur coat Dard soviet gift a Fluffy Shapka the and Shapka during his 1974 visit to Vlad furry hat russians Wear As Protection Vostok. Against the Winter. Ford arrived in Moscow saturday for that s probably because the former the taping and she was to depart Early president already has one. Soviet presi Friday. The of croat and safety i not 60in to make it / speeding of 1 n think to think think m \ this is a stars and stripes Public service advertisement
