The Secret Sextet.

This is an article discussing Canadian politics and the outcome of elections for prime minister that were won by Liberal candidate Paul Martin. He announced self-contradictory policies, such as his opposition to the American-sponsored "weaponization of space," yet suggested that Canada would probably join the Bush anti-missile shield which, of course, is based on the militarization of the stratosphere. Determined to mount a rescue mission to rouse Martin out of his slide, the party's brain trust, as opposed to campaign managers (who didn't deserve that title), met for dinner in Toronto on June 9, about halfway through the campaign. These Trudeau-era apparatchiks couldn't credit the notion that a new political movement only eight months old appeared to be clobbering Canada's Natural Governing Party. The ginger group included Senator Jerry Grafstein, who had prepared a similar wake-up memo for John Turner when he succeeded Pierre Trudeau as prime minister in 1984. Dorothy Davey (the wife of former Senator Keith Davey, who invented the modern Liberal Party).