Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political life. The new Parliament is more regionally Balkanized than at any other time in the country's 130-year history. The Reform Party nearly swept the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia but failed to pick up a single seat east of the Prairies. In Quebec the separatist Bloc Quebecois took a majority of the 75 seats in its home province. And even Chretien's Liberals depended for two-thirds of its majority on a single province, Ontario. The new fault lines could not come at a worse time. Quebec separatist leaders have sworn to hold a referendum...
...made Liberal solution to such nagging problems as Qu?bec separatism, growing unemployment and a sagging national health care system. Taking up the position of chief opposition party is the Alberta-based Reform Party, whose right-wing, populist agenda dominated in the West. That was enough to push the separatist Bloc Qu?becois, the Reform Party's diehard foe, into the number two government heckler slot, further muddying the chances for a national referendum on Qu?bec independence. The Liberals now face a House of Commons sharply divided along regional lines, with two smaller opposition parties, the right-wing Progressive Conservatives...
...anti-communist bloc is elected to the leadership of the Harvard Liberal Union, ousting four students allegedly tied to the Youth Communist League...
...time to kick an opponent than when he's down? Russia is weak; the new Eastern and Central European democracies are fragile; Russia has the resources and, historically, the inclination to rise and threaten again. So now is the time to shelter those nervous fledglings of the former Soviet bloc so they can thrive under NATO's protective wing. As an added benefit, supervised membership may even ease regional hostilities that have destabilized Central Europe for generations. Then, if Russia keeps democratizing and ultimately proves to be no menace, it might join and form an undivided Europe...
...Director's Bloc: Harumpf...