CANADA: End of a Storybook Romance

It ranked among the least surprising social announcements of the year. In a terse, yet poignantly personal four-sentence message, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 57, and his aspiring-photographer wife Margaret, 28, last week declared that they are formally separating. The statement issued by the Prime Minister's Ottawa office said that "because of Margaret's wishes" to "leave the marriage and pursue an independent career" the couple "will begin living separately and apart." According to the announcement, "Pierre will have custody of their three children [Justin, 5, Alexandre, 3, and Michel, 1½], giving...

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