Former Quebec Premier Rene Levesque, right, laughs with fomer Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau ata meetin held to announce a government-financed research centre in Montreal, on Jan. 27, 1984. Drapeau, the autocratic mayor with the common touch who ruled Montreal for 29 years and whose crowning achievement was Expo 67, died Thursday, August 12, 1999 at 83. (CP FILE PHOTO/Doug Ball - stf)