In the autumn of 1970, as North American radical chic reached its fashionable peak, a ragtag band of French-Canadian terroristes kidnapped two politicians.
On Oct. 5, they grabbed James Cross, 49, the British trade commissioner for Canada, outside his home in the Westmount section of Montreal -- an area populated largely by wealthy Anglos. Five days later, they abducted Pierre Laporte, also 49, the Quebec minister of labour, as he played touch football with his family in Saint-Lambert, just across the St. Lawrence from Montreal's central city.
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