McTaggart, David

McTAGGART, David, environmentalist (b 24 June 1932; d 23 Mar 2001, near Perugia, Italy). Raised in VANCOUVER, he first attracted attention as Canadian national BADMINTON champion in the 1950s. He was back in the headlines in 1972, this time as an environmental protestor, when he sailed his boat deliberately into a French nuclear testing zone and was rammed by French authorities. When he repeated the act a year later, members of the French military boarded his boat and assaulted him. He became...

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