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...most severe test will come not on foreign policy, but over the question of the status of French Canada within the Canadian Confederation. Trudeau has taken a hard-line stance on demands by French Canadian nationalists--notably Quebec's Premier Daniel Johnson--that Canada's constitution be rewritten to confer a special status on Quebec transferring Quebec a wide range of powers now held by the Federal government in Ottawa. By opposing all such demands, Trudeau runs the risk of losing much of his remaining support among French Canadians--an ironic predicament for a French Canadian Prime Minister...
...moment, the new Prime Minister's chief concerns are Charles De Gaulle and his own popularity. In the past few days, Canada narrowly avoided breaking diplomatic relations with France after Quebec was invited to a Paris conference of French-speaking education ministers; Ottawa saw the invitation as an attempt by deGaulle to confer national status on the provincial government in Quebec. A last-minute compromise may have saved the situation for now, but with the French President showing no signs of discontinuing his political support of Quebec nationalism, further De Gaulle-Trudeau clashes appear imminent...
...ONLY does it bother Sontag that everybody takes pictures, it also bothers her that anything, anybody, can seem to have importance when photographed. "To photograph is to confer importance," she writes. But there is a different formulation of the relationship of photography to importance, a formulation that Sontag herself mentions at one point--namely, that photography does not confer importance, only discovers and communicates it. Between the two concepts lies a world of difference. If photography confers importance, this implies an importance inherent in the camera, rather than in the subject. It implies an already existing, hierarchical notion of what...
...banks-Credit Suisse, Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corp.-have formed a joint gold pool to share purchases, sales and profits. In place of the London dealers' twice-daily meetings (10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.) to fix the price of gold, the Swiss-bank traders confer about prices every few minutes throughout the day over direct phone lines. Instead of collecting a commission, the Swiss charge buyers of gold more than they pay sellers. That "spread" started out as high as $3 per oz. in the first days after the London gold pool's demise...
...Czechoslovakia gathered such force, in fact, that at week's end they produced a sort of Communist summit. Seeking to calm the fears of his Communist neighbors that his re forms might go too far and produce another Hungary, Dubcek traveled to Dresden in East Germany to confer with Communist leaders. The meeting was attended by East German Boss Walter Ulbricht, who is openly concerned by his neighbor's new course, and by Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka. Hungarian Communist officials also showed up. Finally, as an indication of the meet ing's importance, both Soviet Premier...