Madness in Montreal

Montreal Athletes' village

In 1976, BD’s man in Montreal, Peter Marsh, reported on the shambles surrounding the 21st Olympiad - a story of soaring costs, police investigations, fire risks, top security to ward off the terrorists, and a hectic, sometimes fatal, race against time

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