EXPATRIATES: No Tears

President Nixon's declaration that "those few hundred who went to Canada or Sweden or someplace else" must now "pay their price" for "deserting their country" caused little surprise among the "few hundred" themselves (actually some 68,000) who are now living outside the boundaries and the laws of the U.S. TIME correspondents interviewed American expatriates last week in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, and found them not only resigned to the prospect of no amnesty in the near future but in most cases quite content to stay in Canada indefinitely.

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