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...latest episode ended last week in another triumph for the workers. At issue was the charter of Solidarity, the umbrella group representing some 50 Polish labor unions and 10 million workers. A lower court had inserted a provision into the charter recognizing the "leading role" of the Communist Party. Claiming that its independence had been compromised, Solidarity threatened a series of strikes unless the authorities agreed to put the supremacy clause in an annex. In the predawn hours last Monday, government negotiators finally caved in to their Solidarity counterparts; later that day, the supreme court overturned the lower court...
...most nettlesome amendment that Trudeau has in mind for the constitution is a U.S.-style "Charter of Rights" that would take precedence over any bills of rights enacted by the individual provinces. Among other freedoms, the charter would guarantee minority-language education. In Canada, education is almost entirely a provincial responsibility. The significance of Trudeau's charter is that it would guarantee French-speaking children the right to be educated in their own language in any province where "numbers warrant," a determination that would be made by the courts. Trudeau regards this language-rights provision...
...Ontario and New Brunswick have promised their backing. Other premiers, including Alberta's Lougheed, are planning court challenges of the Trudeau patriation bill, arguing that it illegally infringes on provincial rights. Quebec Premier René Lévesque is bitterly opposed to the language-rights provision of the charter because it might restrict his province's legislative powers over education. In his view, Trudeau is "erecting a monument to himself on the tombs of our aspirations and rights...
...Harvard's St. Louis and Joan Elliott were named to the first team All-Ivy squad, and four Crimson players--Gregg, Kelly Gately, Jeannie Piersiak and Laura Mayer--received second team mention. For St. Louis, she earned her third straight All-Ivy selection, which makes her a full-fledged charter member. And Elliott was one of just two freshmen named to the number one squad...
...view of literary power brought the Bartlett's debuts of Dostoevsky, Blake, Conrad and T.S. Eliot, along with four columns of quotes from Morley's own forgettable works. World War II, in turn, made literary power yield to political power. Enter Churchill, Hitler, Douglas MacArthur and the Charter of the United Nations...