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Article: Trudeau Returns to Parliament Hill;Canada's Retired Crowd Pleaser Defends His Constitution
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- The Washington Post
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- August 29, 1987
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Seventeen-year-old Kirsten Tollestrup suggested after seeing
Pierre Elliott Trudeau speak last night that it was like being
rocketed back to the 1960s in a time machine. "He's mysterious," said
the college freshman of the ex-prime minister, still jaunty at 67.
"Nobody really knows him. He's like the Beatles."
Trudeau, in his first speech on Parliament Hill since he retired
three years ago, kept a packed hearing room spellbound for 2 1/2
hours last night as he taunted, teased, cajoled and sparred with
members of a committee considering amendments to the Canadian
Constitution of which he was the principal author.
A schoolmate of Tollestrup's at Carleton University here, Cyrus
Reporter, 19, ...