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A six-week trip taken by this leader is recounted in the memoir Two Innocents in Red China. Goals like “[ensuring] a harmonious natural environment” were included in a set of pamphlets issued by this leader simply titled Foreign Policy for [his countrymen]. Helmut Schmidt stated “no tanks, no trade” in order to convince this leader to keep up NATO spending. This leader granted passage to the tanker SS Manhattan. Peter Lougheed (“LAW-heed”) opposed this leader’s (10[1])National Energy Program, (10[4])which (10[1])fixed prices after his (10[1])country weathered (10[1])two oil crises. (10[1])This leader promised to rework his country’s constitution if a 1980 (10[1])referendum promoted by René Lévesque (-5[1])(“lay-VECK”) failed. After ambassador (10[1])James Cross was (10[1]-5[1])kidnapped, (10[2])this (10[1])leader (10[1])declared (10[3])“Just watch me.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this leader who invoked the War Measures Act to deal with (10[1])Québécois separatists. ■END■

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