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...countless contributions to American culture, African studies is woefully neglected at Harvard. At the start of the proposed $2.5 billion fund drive that will set the research priorities of the university for years to come, we continue to urge the administration to look beyond the lure of lucre and accord proper recognition to non-traditional fields that are not as popular with the deep-pockets...
Three provinces reject it, in part because they claim it would grant special status to Quebec. Unless something happens to resolve the disagreement by the June 23 deadline for the accord's final approval, Canadians will have to face the possibility of a national rupture. They were jolted by a small sample of it last week when Mulroney's most important ally from Quebec, Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard, resigned from the government over what he sees as English-Canadian intransigence, saying, "This country doesn't work anymore. We have to remake...
Canada tried to do that when it rewrote its constitution in 1982 to add a bill of rights, but the then separatist government of Quebec refused to endorse the new document. The Meech Lake accord, based on proposals put forward by Quebec's Premier Robert Bourassa, was designed to overcome the province's opposition. Since then, however, newly elected governments in Manitoba, New Brunswick and Newfoundland have refused to ratify it. The holdouts argue that the accord grants Quebec special legislative powers over language and culture that other provinces do not have, and could endanger the civil rights...
...party committee in Ottawa's House of Commons two weeks ago tried to break the stalemate by suggesting the House pass both the accord and a "companion resolution" that would take account of the three provinces' objections...
That proposal brought on the resignations of Bouchard and two Quebec backbenchers from the ruling party, who insist that the accord should be passed untouched and undiluted by legislative interpretations. Bouchard now says he thinks the much discussed but still vague idea of a Quebec that is / politically sovereign but retains economic links with Canada "makes sense." Quebec, he complains, "is dying of ambiguity." Mulroney replaced Bouchard as his political lieutenant in Quebec with Industry Minister Benoit Bouchard (no relation), who said on national television that Quebec is "tired of being misunderstood." He warned, "What we have to understand...