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...Manitoba time to complete its ratification. The maneuver had the opposite result. The premier of the other dissenting province, Newfoundland's Clyde Wells, complaining bitterly of the "fabricated precipice" of the June 23 deadline, then called off his own legislature's vote. Murray announced an hour later that the accord had expired...
What next? The entire point of the Meech Lake accord was to bring Quebec into the reformed 1982 constitution the province had refused to sign. Another goal was to short-circuit Quebec's up-and-down aspirations to break away from confederation in favor of separate nationhood. To those ends, Mulroney and Bourassa had supported the "distinct society" clause as the means to preserve Quebec's French language and culture, a deep concern among the province's 6.5 million residents. Seven other provincial premiers agreed, with varying degrees of reluctance...
...damage looked to be lasting. Even before the accord collapsed, polls showed that 63% of French-speaking Quebeckers supported some form or other of separation from the rest of Canada. The stage was set for a demonstration of that unhappy feeling as the province prepared for its "national" holiday, St. Jean Baptiste Day, on June 24. It augured to be one of the most fervent expressions of nationalist sentiment that Quebec had seen for decades. Such passions may not fade easily. Last week it was difficult to see through the shattered accord how Canada might put the pieces back together...
...Bush wants a bipartisan budget agreement to get himself off the hook of his most famous campaign pledge: to cut the deficit without raising taxes. Yet his renewed donkey bashing makes some Democrats wonder whether they may be blamed for the bitter medicine that could emerge from any budget accord...
...dream of a border-free Europe took a step toward reality last week. Aboard a cruiser sailing down the Moselle River past the village of Schengen, representatives of France, West Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed an agreement to abolish border checks for travelers and their luggage. The accord will go into effect in 1992. When it does, the internal frontiers shared by the five countries, including a newly unified Germany, will be partly dissolved, creating a 373,766-sq.-mi. passport-free territory informally dubbed Schengenland...