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...member of the legislative assembly, repeatedly blocked debate on the same ratification issue. The clock was ticking: if either legislature fails to approve the agreement by June 23, a delicate compromise over Quebec's place in Canada could shatter, leading, in the direst of scenarios, to the country's breakup...
...long, hot summer for Governor Jim Blanchard of Michigan. Although the Democrat is locked in a tight race against Republican John Engler, the greatest damage to his campaign is expected to come from his ex-wife. Paula Blanchard has penned 'Til Politics Do Us Part, an account of the breakup of their 21-year marriage that the publisher says will < be "painfully honest." The book, which will be excerpted in the state's largest newspaper, deals with Jim Blanchard's rumored affair with former staff member Janet Fox, whom he married last year. Opponent Engler has better luck...
Yeltsin's proposals -- and they are still no more than that -- include the creation of a confederation of "sovereign" republics that would grant only limited powers to the central government. When Gorbachev charges that this amounts to "a call for the breakup of the Soviet Union," he does not | overstate the case by much. Under the Yeltsin concept, every republic's laws would supersede Soviet statutes, and the republics would regulate relations among themselves and with the Kremlin by formal treaties. Private property would be restored, and republics would have total control of their own economies, finances and resources...
...squabble has broken out in Washington between resident Soviet casuists and American cheerleaders for the breakup of the evil empire...
...INVITE LECH AND TADEUSZ TO THE SAME PARTY. Most Poles realize that Solidarity cannot go on being all things to all people: trade union, political party, shaper of the country's future. But hopes that the breakup would be amicable now look unlikely. The problem stems from an old hero. Lech Walesa wants to be President by forcing an early election. But most Solidarity legislators seem to prefer remaining in government and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Even though his drastic economic reforms have cut living standards as much as 40%, polls of Poles show that he is more popular than...