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...will allow the U.S. greater input in Hashimoto's attempt to deregulate a number of his nation's industries, including telecommunications. Among those expected to attend the 23rd annual meeting, renamed the Summit of Eight to account for Russia, will be Russian President Boris Yeltsin, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi...
...will allow the U.S. greater input in Hashimoto's attempt to deregulate a number of his nation's industries, including telecommunications. Among those expected to attend the 23rd annual meeting, renamed the Summit of Eight to account for Russia, will be Russian President Boris Yeltsin, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi...
...with U.S. officials in their investigation of last year's Dhahran, Saudi Arabia bombing. U.S. officials believe Sayegh drove the look-out car during the June 1996 attack that killed 19 U.S. Airmen and injured 500 others. His extradition today to the U.S. ends a messy diplomatic problem for Canadian authorities who had feared embarrassment at home if Sayegh had been returned to Saudi Arabia, where he likely would have been executed in an area next to a Riyadh mosque unofficially known as "chop-chop square." --Mark Coatney
...last week's election dramatized a new deterioration in Canadian 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...
Prime Minister Chretien is already blamed by opponents for coming within 50,000 votes of "losing the country" in the last referendum, in 1995. His government has attempted to promote the idea of Canadian unity in Quebec and has tried to persuade the country's provincial leaders to recognize Quebec as a "distinct society" in the country's constitution. "It's a question of dignity," Chretien told TIME last week. "The fact that 85% of Quebeckers speak French is not a concept. It's a reality...